Happy Bastille Day!

To Do List - 14 Juillet (July):

• Buy baguette.
• Debate existential concepts.
• Storm the Bastille.
• Nap.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world

and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.

On this day in movie and book history - Midnight Alibi (1934) and The Damon Runyon Omnibus

Midnight Alibi

directed by Alan Crosland,

written by Warren Duff,

based on the short story The Old Doll’s House by Damon Runyon,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1934.

Music by Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler, Helen Lowell, Henry O’Neill, Robert Barrat, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Harry Tyler, Paul Hurst, Arthur Aylesworth.

Recommended reading:

Damon Runyon Omnibus

Includes the short story The Old Doll’s House.

Filmed as Midnight Alibi (1934), directed by Alan Crosland.

Published by Must Have Books.
Published 2019.

ISBN-10: 1773236245
ISBN-13: 9781773236247

Description:

A collection of stories by Damon Runyon made about Broadway in New York City. This is a trilogy comprising three books: More than Somewhat, Furthermore, and Take it Easy.

Born on this day – Edythe Elliott:

 

Edythe Elliott

Actress

July 14, 1886 – April 9, 1978

Credits:

A Sporting Chance (1945); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); All That I Have (1951); Bachelor Mother (1939); Belle Le Grand (1951); Beware Spooks! (1939); Blondie for Victory (1942); Blondie in Society (1941); Bullets for Bandits (1942); Casanova in Burlesque (1944); Condemned Women (1938); Cowboy Canteen (1944); Crashing Hollywood (1938); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Death Valley Days (1953); Dick Tracy (1945); Double Danger (1938); End of the Road (1944); Father Takes a Wife (1941); Fixer Dugan (1939); Flight Lieutenant (1942); Four Star Playhouse (1956); Freddie Steps Out (1946); Gangway for Tomorrow (1943); Ginger (1946); Girls of the Big House (1945); Gone with the Wind (1939); Harmon of Michigan (1941); Her Husband's Affairs (1947); High School Hero (1946); Hit Parade of 1951 (1950); Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (1947); House by the River (1950); I Married a Doctor (1936); Junior Army (1942); Kill the Umpire (1950); Let's Go Steady (1945); Life with Blondie (1945); Lucky Jordan (1942); Messenger of Peace (1947); Moron Than Off (1946); Nobody's Children (1940); One Mysterious Night (1944); Personality Kid (1946); Racket Squad (1953); Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952); Redhead from Manhattan (1943); Rose of Cimarron (1952); Santa Fe Uprising (1946); Scotland Yard Investigator (1945); Show Them No Mercy! (1935); Simon Peter, Fisherman (1948); Stand by All Networks (1942); Stars on Parade (1944); Stella Dallas (1937); Stories of the Century (1955); That Brennan Girl (1946); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Fabulous Texan (1947); The Girl on the Front Page (1936); The Great Mike (1944); The Iron Claw (1941); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); The Madonna's Secret (1946); The Man Who Returned to Life (1942); The Medico of Painted Springs (1941); The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945); The Power of God (1942); The Power of the Whistler (1945); The Richest Man in Town (1941); The Rookie Cop (1939); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Son of Rusty (1947); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Stork Pays Off (1941); The Undercover Woman (1946); Vacation Days (1947); Valley of Hunted Men (1942); Web of Danger (1947).

Born on this day – Martha Mansfield:

 

Martha Mansfield

Actress

July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923

Credits:

A Man of Stone (1921); A Social Sleuth (1920); Broadway Bill (1918); Civilian Clothes (1920); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920); Fog Bound (1923); Gilded Lies (1921); His Brother's Keeper (1921); Is Money Everything? (1923); Little Red School House (1923); Max Comes Across (1917); Max in a Taxi (1917); Max Wants a Divorce (1917); Mothers of Men (1920); Potash and Perlmutter (1923); Queen of the Moulin Rouge (1922); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); Society Snobs (1921); Some Mind Reader (1920); The Hand Invisible (1919); The Last Door (1921); The Leavenworth Case (1923); The Passion of Jekyll & Hyde (2019); The Perfect Lover (1919); The Silent Command (1923); The Spoiled Girl (1918); The Warrens of Virginia (1924); The Woman in Chains (1923); The Wonderful Chance (1920); Till We Meet Again (1922); Women Men Love (1921); Youthful Cheaters (1923).

Born on this day – Irving Stone:

 

Irving Stone

Writer

July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989

Credits:

Books:

Adversary in the House (1947); Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949); Dear Theo (1958); Depths of Glory (1985); Drawings of Michaelangelo (1960); Earl Warren (1948); From Mud-Flat Cove to Gold to Statehood: California, 1840-1850 (1999); Immortal Wife (1950); Love Is Eternal (1955); Lust for Life (1934); Mary Todd Lincoln, A Final Judgement? (1973); Men to Match My Mountains (1956); Sailor on Horseback (1938); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961); The Greek Treasure (1975); The Irving Stone Reader (1971); The Origin (1980); The Passionate Journey (1950); The Passions of the Mind (1971); The President's Lady (1952); There Was Light (1970); They Also Ran (1966); Those Who Love (1966).

Movies and television:

Arkansas Judge (1941); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Clarence Darrow (1974); Climax! (1955); Day at Night (1974); General Electric Theater (1955); Gypsy (1966); Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (1978); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lust for Life (1956); Magnificent Doll (1946); Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965); The David Frost Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The President's Lady (1953); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971).

Born on this day – Zita Johann:

Zita Johann

Actress

July 14, 1904 – September 20, 1993

Credits:

American Masters (1993); Bones (2009); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007–2013); Coming Soon (1982); Grand Canary (1934); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989); Luxury Liner (1933); Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (1999); Raiders of the Living Dead (1986); The Man Who Dared (1933); The Mummy (1932); The Mummy's Hand (1940); The Sin of Nora Moran (1933); The Struggle (1931); Tiger Shark (1932).