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Cat People opens (1982). Director Paul Schrader's graphic update of the subtle 1942 classic stars Nastassja Kinski, who plays a virginal young woman who visits her brother in New Orleans, only to discover that they are both afflicted with a curse that transforms them into murderous panthers when sexually aroused. Meanwhile, as a wild cat ravages the nighttime streets of the Big Easy, Kinski finds herself falling for (of all things) a zoo curator. Can his love save her from the feline curse? The cast also includes John Heard (C.H.U.D.), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), and Annette O'Toole (Stephen King's It).

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Linda Hunt is born (1945). This diminutive Oscar winner, respected for her work on stage and screen, played Shadout Mapes in David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. Her other genre credits include The Relic (1997) and providing the voice of Commander Chennault for television's Space Rangers (1993). Linda was born in Morristown, New Jersey.

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Alec Guinness is born (1914). This accomplished actor and Oscar winner gained genre immortality when he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (1977) as well as in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Alec also starred as a blind butler in Murder by Death (1976), as Jacob Marley's ghost in Scrooge (1970), as Sigmund Freud in the romantic fantasy Lovesick (1983), and was featured in Steven Soderbergh's eerie Kafka (1991). Alec, who died in 2000, was born in London, England.

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