Impact premiered

April 1, 1949 –
The film noir drama Impact, directed by Arthur Lubin, and starring Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong, Tony Barrett, and William Wright, went into general release in the U.S. on this date.

Helen Walker and Ella Raines, who were born less than a month apart, were 19 years younger than Brian Donlevy. Walker was only four years younger than Tony Barrett. In a case of life mirroring art, Donlevy, though older than Barrett, outlived him. Barrett died in 1974 at age 58 from cancer, while Donlevy died in 1972 at age 71 from throat cancer. Walker also died from cancer at a young age, 47, in 1968. Raines lived to age 68, passing away in 1988. Like Donlevy, she died from throat cancer.