Today is the birthday of American crime writer Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968), the author of such classica works of suspense as "Rear Window" (originally published as "It Had to Be Murder," 1942, as by Woolrich; often reprinted as by "William Irish"), The Bride Wore Black, Waltz Into Darkness (as "William Irish"), Phanton Lady (as "William Irish), and The Black Path of Fear.
To mark his birthday, here's a movie based on one of his most popular short stories, "And So to Death" (1941, first published under his own name, then published under the better-known title of "Nightmare" under the "William Irish" pseudonym. It was the title story in a 1966 collection Nightmare published under Woolrich's own name.
Nightmare (1956), starred Edwerd G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, and Connie Russell. It was directed by Maxwell Shaw, who had previously filmed the story as "Fear in the Night" ten years earlier.
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