On this day in music history - Space Oddity, by David Bowie (1969)

Space Oddity

by David Bowie

was released on July 11, 1969.

On this day in movie history - Dredd (2012)

 

Dredd

directed by Pete Travis

written by Alex Garland

based on the comic book character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra

was released at the San Diego Comic-Con in the United States on July 11, 2012.

Music by Paul Leonard-Morgan.

Cast:

Karl Urban, Rachel Wood, Andile Mngadi, Porteus Xandau, Jason Cope, Emma Breschi, Olivia Thirlby, Rakie Ayola, Lena Headey, Tamer Burjaq, Warrick Grier, Wood Harris, Shoki Mokgapa, Yohan Chun, Eden Knowles, Desmond Lai Lan, Deobia Oparei, Patrick Lyster, Travis Snyders, Chad Phillips, Domhnall Gleeson, Joe Vaz, Scott Sparrow, Marty Kintu, Nicole Bailey, Daniel Hadebe, Francis Chouler, Junior Singo, Luke Tyler, Langley Kirkwood, Edwin Perry, Karl Thaning, Michele Levin, Allen Irwin, Brandon Livanos, Owen Llewelyn, Marc Pleass, Santi Scinelli, Julie Summers.

Margaret Atwood, on reading:

 

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
– Margaret Atwood.

Recommended reading - The So Blue Marble

The So Blue Marble

by Dorothy B. Hughes.

Introduction by Otto Penzler.

Published by American Mystery Classics.
First published 1940.

ISBN-10: 1613161050
ISBN-13: 9781613161050

Description:

The debut by one of the great American suspense writers will suck you in even as it makes you keep asking, "Did I just read that?" – Kirkus.

Nonstop action, with menace and daring exploits bursting through the smooth veneer of upper-class life.. Readers new to this forgotten classic are in for a treat. – Publishers Weekly.

You will have to read [The So Blue Marble] for yourself, and if you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don’t say we didn’t warn you. – The New York Times Book Review.

Extraordinary . . . [Hughes’s] brilliant descriptive powers make and unmake reality. – The New Yorker.

The society pages announce it before she even arrives: Griselda Satterlee, daughter of the princess of Rome, has left her career as an actress behind and is traveling to Manhattan to reinvent herself as a fashion designer. They also announce the return of the dashing Montefierrow twins to New York after a twelve-year sojourn in Europe. But there is more to this story than what’s reported, which becomes clear when the three meet one evening during a walk, and their polite conversation quickly takes a menacing turn. The twins are seeking a rare and powerful gem and they believe it’s stashed in the unused apartment where Griselda is staying. Baffled by the request, she pushes them away, but they won’t take no for an answer. When they return, accompanied by Griselda’s long-estranged younger sister, the murders begin...

Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the New York elite, The So Blue Marble is a perfectly Art Deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. While different in style from her later books, Dorothy B. Hughes’s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author, rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today.

Born on this day – Howard Estabrook:

 

Howard Estabrook

Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

July 11, 1884 – July 16, 1978

Credits:

A Bill of Divorcement (1932); Are These Our Children (1931); Behind the Make-Up (1930); Cattle Queen of Montana (1954); Chasing Choo Choos (1927); Cimarron (1931); Dakota (1945); David Copperfield (1935); Double Cross Roads (1930); Dressed to Kill (1928); El hombre malo (1930); Forgotten Faces (1928); Four Feathers (1915); Giving Becky a Chance (1917); Heavenly Days (1944); Hell's Angels (1930); International Lady (1941); Kismet (1930); Lone Star (1952); Lopez, le bandit (1930); Maid of Salem (1937); Maquillage (1932); M'Liss (1915); New Wine (1941); North Star (1925); Officer 666 (1914); Orchids to You (1935); Passion (1954); Play Safe (1927); Roar of the Dragon (1932); She Goes to War (1929); Slightly Scarlet (1930); Street of Chance (1930); Sweepings (1933); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Adventurous Sex (1925); The Bad Man (1930); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Bowery (1933); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944); The Butterfly (1915); The Closing Net (1915); The Conquerors (1932); The Corsican Brothers (1941); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Devil's in Love (1933); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Four Feathers (1929); The Girl from Manhattan (1948); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Human Comedy (1943); The Masquerader (1933); The Master Smiles (1916); The Millionaire (1957–1958); The Mysteries of Myra (1916); The Port of Missing Girls (1928); The Price of a Party (1924); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The Virginian (1929 / 1946); The Wild Girl (1917); The Woman Between (1931); Varsity (1928); Way Down East (1935); Wells Fargo (1937); Woman Hungry (1931).

Born on this day – Alfred E. Green:

 

Alfred E. Green

Director

July 11, 1889 – September 4, 1960

Credits:

20,000 Men a Year (1939); A Dip in the Briney (1913); A Double-Dyed Deceiver (1920); A Lost Lady (1934); A Thousand and One Nights (1945); A Western Romance (1913); Adventure in Washington (1941); Appointment in Berlin (1943); As the Earth Turns (1934); Baby Face (1933); Back Home and Broke (1922); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Blind Youth (1920); Central Airport (1933); Colleen (1936); Come on Over (1922); Come to My House (1927); Copacabana (1947); Cover Up (1949); Daddy-Long-Legs (1919); Dangerous (1935); Dark Hazard (1934); Disraeli (1929); East of the River (1940); Ella Cinders (1926); Flowing Gold (1940); For Reward of Service (1917); Four Faces West (1948); General Electric Theater (1953–1954); Gentlemen Are Born (1934); Grand Slam (1933); Here's to Romance (1935); Hollywood (1923); Honor Bound (1928); Housewife (1934); I Loved a Woman (1933); Impulse! (1952); In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924); In Old Kentucky (1919); Inez from Hollywood (1924); Invasion, U.S.A. (1952); Irene (1926); Is Zat So? (1927); It Must Be Love (1926); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Just Out of College (1920); King of the Turf (1939); Ladies at Play (1926); Let's Get Married (1937); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Little Lost Sister (1917); Lost and Found (1917); Making the Grade (1929); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Men of the Sky (1931); M'Liss (1918); More Than a Secretary (1936); Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937); Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944); Northern Hearts (1913); Old English (1930); On the Breast of the Tide (1914); Our Leading Citizen (1922); Parachute Jumper (1933); Paris Model (1953); Pied Piper Malone (1924); Pierre of the North (1913); Pride of the Range (1910); Ride a Crooked Mile (1938); Sally (1925); Shooting High (1940); Side Streets (1934); Sierra (1950); Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920); Silver Dollar (1932); Smart Money (1931); South of Pago Pago (1940); Strange Affair (1944); Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930); Sweet Music (1935); Tars and Spars (1946); The Auctioneer (1927); The Baby Spy (1914); The Bachelor Daddy (1922); The Crisis (1916); The Dark Horse (1932); The Duke of West Point (1938); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Fabulous Dorseys (1947); The Friendship of Beaupere (1917); The Garden of Allah (1916); The Ghost Breaker (1922); The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935); The Girl from Manhattan (1948); The Girl from Montmartre (1926); The Golden Arrow (1936); The Goose and the Gander (1935); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939); The Green Goddess (1930); The Jackie Robinson Story (1950); The Jolson Story (1946); The Lad and the Lion (1917); The League of Frightened Men (1937); The Lone Wolf (1954–1955); The Man from Blankley's (1930); The Man Who Found Himself (1925); The Man Who Had Everything (1920); The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922); The Mayor of 44th Street (1942); The Merry Frinks (1934); The Millionaire (1955–1958); The Narrow Corner (1933); The Ne'er Do Well (1915 / 1923); The Princess of Patches (1917); The Reformation of Dad (1913); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Road Is Open Again (1933); The Road to Singapore (1931); The Spoilers (1914); The Talker (1925); The Temptation of Adam (1916); The Tree and the Chaff (1913); The Unpardonable Sin (1919); The Web of Chance (1919); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); They Met in a Taxi (1936); Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937); Through the Back Door (1921); Top Banana (1954); Trials and Tribulations (1917); Two Gals and a Guy (1951); Two Girls Wanted (1927); Two in a Crowd (1936); Union Depot (1932); Until the Sea... (1913); Woman-Proof (1923); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).

Born on this day – Amleto Palermi:

 

Amleto Palermi

Director

Writer

July 11, 1889 – April 20, 1941