"Directed by Ida Lupino: Macabre Television."

Ida Lupino.

On June 24 at the Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Film & Television Archive will salute some of Ida Lupino's directing contributions to TV mystery and horror through the program "Directed by Ida Lupino: Macabre Television," showing the episodes "A Crime for Mothers" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents),  "Guillotine" (Thriller; screenplay by Charles Beaumont, based on a story by Cornell Woolrich), and "The Masks" (Twilight Zone).

Happy birthday, Charles Beaumont.

Ida Lupino in
"Masquerade" (writ.
Charles Beaumont, Four
Star Playhouse, 1954)

Writer Charles Beaumont, best known for his scripts for Twilight Zone, was born today in Chicago in 1929. He also wrote for numerous other TV series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, One Step Beyond, Richard Diamond: Private Detective, and Wanted: Dead or Alive. He died in 1967.