Lemmy Kilmister, on books and reading:

 
There are a lot of good books around.
People don't read anymore.
It's a sad state of affairs.
Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
- Lemmy Kilmister.

Recommended reading - The Ivory Grin, by Ross MacDonald (1952).

 

The Ivory Grin, a.k.a. Marked for Murder 

by Ross MacDonald.

 
ISBN-10: 0307278999
ISBN-13: 978-0307278999
 
Back cover description:
 

“Archer-Macdonald are working together at their peak, piecing together a most modern American Tragedy, making literature out of the thriller form, gazing more clearly than ever into the future as it rolls through the smog.” – Newsweek.

 

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who's mysteriously gone missing.

Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever.

 
“Ross Macdonald must be ranked high amongst American thriller writers.” – The Times Literary Supplement.

Born on this day – Yvonne Howell:

 

Yvonne Howell

Actress

July 31, 1905 – May 27, 2010

Credits:

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Working Girls (1931); Take Me Home (1928); The Junior Year (1928); Hop Off (1928); The Great Mail Robbery (1927); Somewhere in Sonora (1927); Fashions for Women (1927); The Knight Before Christmas (1927); The Lady of Lyons, N.Y. (1926); A Fraternity Mixup (1926); Flaming Flappers (1925); Transients in Arcadia (1925); Harem Follies (1924).

Born on this day – Mario Bava:

Mario Bava

Director

Cinematographer

Special Effects

July 31, 1914 – April 27, 1980

Credits:

A Bay of Blood (1971); A Dog's Life (1950); Amor non ho! Però, però.. (1951); Anfiteatro Flavio (1947); Anthony of Padua (1949); Asesinato desde la Roja Oscuridad (2019); Attack of the Normans (1962); Balocchi e profumi (1953); Barber of Seville (1947); Baron Blood (1972); Beautiful But Dangerous (1955); Ben-Hur (1959); Black Sabbath (1963); Black Sunday (1960); Blood and Black Lace (1964); Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955); Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959); Canzone di primavera (1951); Capitan Tempesta (1942); Capriccio musicale (1950); Città di notte (1957); Cops and Robbers (1951); Cose da pazzi (1954); Danger: Diabolik (1968); Deducoria (2018); Doctor Stein (2019); Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966); Dream House (2009); È arrivato il cavaliere! (1950); Ecco la felicità (1940); Elixir of Love (1947); Erik the Conqueror (1961); Esther and the King (1960); Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970); Four Times That Night (1971); Gladiators 7 (1962); Gli eroi della domenica (1952); Goya (1950); Grass Hook Massacre (2019); Graziella (1955); Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970); Hercules (1958); Hercules and the Captive Women (1961); Hercules in the Haunted World (1961); Hercules Unchained (1959); High School (1954); Il bacio dell'Aurora (1953); Il leone di Damasco (1942); Il tacchino prepotente (1939); Il viale della speranza (1953); Incubo per una mosca bianca (2015); Inferno (1980); It Happened in the Park (1953); Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966); King Ripple (2015); Knives of the Avenger (1966); La compagnia della teppa (1941); La famiglia Passaguai (1951); La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952); La Venere d'Ille (1979); La vispa Teresa (1939); L'avventura di Annabella (1943); Legenda Sinfonica (1947); Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972); Lisa and the Devil (1973); L'orecchio (1946); L'ospedale del delitto (1950); Love of a Clown - Pagliacci (1948); Lust of the Vampire (1957); Mad About Opera (1948); Mario Bava speaks (2006); Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre (2000); Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004); Masks (2011); Minnesota Clay (1964); Miss Italia (1950); Morgan the Pirate (1960); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); Moxina (2012); Mysteria (2016); Naked You Die (1968); Natale al campo 119 (1947); Nero's Mistress (1956); Non c'è amore più grande (1955); Odissea (1968); Orlando e i Paladini di Francia (1956); Papà diventa mamma (1952); Perdonami! (1953); Planet of the Vampires (1965); Rabid Dogs (1974 / 2015); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (1970); S.O.S. Submarine (1941); Santa notte (1947); Sant'Elena, piccola isola (1943); Savage Gringo (1966); Scream Creek (2024); Shock (1977); Silver Slime (1981); Sins of Casanova (1955); Son of Samson (1960); Spartaco (1953); Suspiria (1977); The Day the Sky Exploded (1958); The Evil Eye (1963); The Giant of Marathon (1959); The House of Exorcism (1975); The Last Days of Pompeii (1959); The Last of the Vikings (1961); The Old Man in the Rocking Chair (2022); The Road to Fort Alamo (1964); The Taming of Dorothy (1950); The Whip and the Body (1963); The White Ship (1941); The White Warrior (1959); The Wonders of Aladdin (1961); Two Guns and a Coward (1968); Ulysses (1954); Uomini e cieli (1947); Variazioni sinfoniche (1949); War of the Zombies (1964); Waterloo (1970); We Stole a Tram (1954); Winchester Jack (1970); Yellow (2006).

Born on this day – Gerald Butler:

 

Gerald Butler

Writer

July 31, 1907 – February 1, 1988

Credits:
 
Books:
 

Choice of Two Women (1951); Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1940); Mad with Much Heart (1945); Slippery Hitch (1948); Their Rainbow Had Black Edges (1943); There Is a Death, Elizabeth (1972); They Cracked Her Glass Slipper (1941).

 

Movies and television:
 
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948); On Dangerous Ground (1951); The Fatal Night (1948); Third Time Lucky (1949).

Born on this day – Barbra Fuller:

Barbra Fuller

Actress

July 31, 1921 – May 15, 2024

Credits:

Adventures of Superman (1953); Alias the Champ (1949); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951); City of Bad Men (1953); Colgate Theatre (1958); Daniel Boone (1970); Flame of Youth (1949); Four Star Playhouse (1955–1956); Harbor of Missing Men (1950); Lassie (1965); Lonely Heart Bandits (1950); Medic (1955); My Three Sons (1960); Perry Mason (1960–1964); Rock Island Trail (1950); Singing Guns (1950); State Trooper (1958); Tarnished (1950); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1958); The Lineup (1955); The Millionaire (1956); The Red Menace (1949); The Roommates (1973); The Savage Horde (1950); Trackdown (1958); Trial Without Jury (1950); U.S. Marshal (1960); Unmasked (1950); Visiting... with Huell Howser (1994); Women from Headquarters (1950); World of Giants (1959).

Born on this day – Mary Munday:

 

Mary Munday

Actress

July 31, 1926 – September 30, 1997

Credits:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Arrest and Trial (1963); Black Saddle (1959); Bonanza (1959); Breezy (1973); Cain's Hundred (1961); Coronado 9 (1961); Death Valley Days (1959); Diana (1973); East Side/West Side (1964); First Monday in October (1981); Ghost Dad (1990); Gunsmoke (1961); Harry O (1975); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961–1962); Kraft Mystery Theater (1962); M Squad (1958–1960); Magic (1978); Marian Rose White (1982); McCloud (1974); Norma Rae (1979); Outlaws (1961); Perry Mason (1963); Peter Gunn (1961); Philip Marlowe (1960); Police Story (1974–1975); Pressure Point (1962); Quincy, M.E. (1979); Route 66 (1963); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Serpent Island (1954); State Trooper (1958); Stoney Burke (1962); The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970); The Defenders (1964); The Deputy (1961); The Detectives (1960); The F.B.I. (1970); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Golden Horde (1951); The Hawaiians (1970); The Loretta Young Show (1958–1960); The Outsiders (1990); The Rockford Files (1980); The Twilight Zone (1963); Today's F.B.I. (1982); True Confessions (1981); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960).

Born on this day – Geoffrey Lewis:

 

Geoffrey Lewis

Actor

July 31, 1935 – April 7, 2015

Credits:

10 to Midnight (1983); 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); 30 Days in Hell: The Making of 'The Devil's Rejects' (2005); A Light in the Darkness (2002); A Man Called Sloane (1979); A Painted House (2003); A Woman's Guide to Firearms (1987); AfterMASH (1983); Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972); Alice (1976); Amazing Stories (1986); American Masters (2000); American Perfekt (1997); An Occasional Hell (1996); Annihilator (1986); Any Which Way You Can (1980); Arena (2000); Ark II (1976); At My Place (1990); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); B.J. and the Bear (1980); Bad Company (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973–1980); Belle Starr (1980); Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (1976); Better Angels (2011); Biography (2003); Blue Thunder (1984); Bonanza (1970); Brazilian Brawl (2003); Bret Maverick (1982); Bronco Billy (1980); Brothers Broken: The Story That Stopped the Music (2023); Cade's County (1971); Cannon (1972); Catch Me If You Can (1989); CBS Summer Playhouse (1988); Centennial (1979); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009–2019); City of Angels (1976); Cold Case (2004); Cold Ones (2007); Criminal Minds (2006); Dallas: The Early Years (1986); Dan August (1970); Dawson's Creek (2003); Day of Reckoning (1994); Desert Rats (1988); Designing Women (1987); Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989); Dillinger (1973); Disturbed (1990); Double Impact (1991); Down in the Valley (2005); Easy Street (1987); Every Which Way But Loose (1978); Falcon Crest (1984); Fat Actress (2005); Fingerprints (2006); Fingerprints: Scariest Moments Interviews (2008); Five Aces (1999); Fletch Lives (1989); Flo (1980–1981); Freedom (1970); Gambler V: Playing for Keeps (1994); Greatest Hits on Ice (1994); Gun Shy (1983); Gunsmoke (1972); Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990); Harry O (1975); Hawaii Five-O (1977); Heaven's Gate (1980); High & Outside: A Baseball Noir (2017); High Plains Drifter (1973); Highway 395 (2000); Highway to Heaven (1984); Hizzonner (1979); Honky Tonk (1974); Hot Pursuit (1984); House (2007); Human Experiments (1979); Hunter (1977); I, the Jury (1982); In the Heat of the Night (1990); J.J. Starbuck (1987); Joshua Tree (1993); Kansas (1995); Kung Fu (1973); Land's End (1995–1996); Las Vegas (2004); Last Resort (1994); Laverne & Shirley (1977); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2004); Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982); Little House on the Prairie (1976–1983); Longstreet (1971); Lou Grant (1977–1980); Lucky Lady (1975); Lust in the Dust (1984); MacGyver (1986); Macon County Line (1974); Macon County Line: 25 Years Down the Road (2000); Magnum, P.I. (1984–1986); Mama's Family (1983); Mannix (1971–1972); Mathnet (1988); Matlock (1988); Matters of the Heart (1990); Maverick (1994); Maximum Security (1984–1985); May Day (2003); McCloud (1976); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997); Mind Games (2003); Miss Nobody (2010); Mission: Impossible (1972); Mod Squad (1973); Mommy's Little Monster (2012); Monster Squad (1976); Moon of the Wolf (1972); Mork & Mindy (1978); Moving McAllister (2007); Murder, She Wrote (1987–1996); My Life with Men (2003); My Name Is Earl (2006); My Name Is Nobody (1973); NFL Films Presents / American Film Institute Comedy Special / Segment: Blue Suits (1987); Night of the Comet (1984); Nip/Tuck (2003); Odyssey 5 (2002–2003); Old Man Music (2005); Only the Strong (1993); Out of the Dark (1988); Pancho Barnes (1988); Paradise (1989); Patients (2004); Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008); Pensacola: Wings of Gold (2000); Pickin' & Grinnin' (2010); Pink Cadillac (1989); Plainsong (2004); Point of No Return (1993); Police Woman (1975–1976); Quark (1978); Renegade (2004); Retreat! (2016); Rough Riders (1997); S.W.A.T. (1975); Salem's Lot (1979); Samurai (1979); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1985); September Gun (1983); Seven Stories (2003); Shades of LA (1991); Shadow Chasers (1985); Shoot the Sun Down (1978); Sidekicks (1986); Silver Saddle (1978); Skyward Christmas (1981); Smile (1975); Social Guidance (2005); Song of the Vampire (2003); Spenser: For Hire (1985); Spot Marks the X (1986); Square One Television (1988); Starsky and Hutch (1975); Stitches (1985); Stormin' Home (1985); Sunstorm (2001); Tango & Cash (1989); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The Amazing Spider-Man (1979); The A-Team (1984–1985); The Baggs (1973); The Butcher (2009); The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972); The Deadly Triangle (1977); The Defenders (1963); The Devil's Rejects (2005); The Directors (1997–2008); The Dragon Gate (1994); The Fall Guy (1985); The Fat Black Pussycat (1963); The Golden Girls (1987); The Great Houdini (1976); The Great Ice Rip-Off (1974); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Guardian (2003); The Gun and the Pulpit (1974); The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009); The High Chaparral (1970); The Hunted Lady (1977); The Huntress (2001); The Janitor (1995); The Jericho Mile (1979); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2009); The Lawnmower Man (1992); The Man Without a Face (1993); The Mountain (2004); The Name of the Game (1971); The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1976); The New Guy (2002); The Oldest Rookie (1987); The Prophet's Game (2000); The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976); The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983); The Rookies (1976); The Shadow Riders (1982); The Six Million Dollar Man (1977); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1988–1989); The Story of Book One (1987); The Streets of San Francisco (1975); The Terror Has Awakened. (2005); The Todd Killings (1971); The Underworld (1997); The Waltons (1974); The Way of the Gun (2000); The Wind and the Lion (1975); The X-Files (1999); The Yellow Rose (1984); The Young Lawyers (1970); Then Came Bronson (1970); Thieves (2001); Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); Tilt (1979); Time Out (1988); Titus (2001); Tom Horn (1980); Travis McGee (1983); Trilogy of Terror II (1996); Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010); Voodoo Moon (2006); Walker, Texas Ranger (1994); Webster (1988); Welcome Home Soldier Boys (1971); When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978); When the Dark Man Calls (1995); White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994); Wicked Little Things (2006); Wild Hearts (2006); Wildside (1985); Wishman (1992).

Born on this day – Stanley R. Jaffe:

 

Stanley R. Jaffe

Director

Producer

July 31, 1940 – March 10, 2025

Credits:

Bad Company (1972); Black Rain (1989); Black Rain: Making the Film - Part 2 (2006); Black Rain: Post-Production (2006); Black Rain: The Script, the Cast (2006); Bravo Profiles (2002); Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003); Fatal Attraction (2023); Fatal Attraction: Visual Attraction (2002); Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (2001); Firstborn (1984); Forever Fatal: Remembering 'Fatal Attraction' (2002); Goodbye, Columbus (1969); HBO First Look (2000); I Dreamed of Africa (2000); I Start Counting (1970); Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); Madeline (1998); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Racing with the Moon (1984); Racing with the Moon: The Story - The People (2004); Racing with the Moon: The Story Goes On (2004); School Ties (1992); Taps (1981); The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980); The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988); The Accused (1988); The Bad News Bears (1976); The Four Feathers (2002); The Making of 'Racing with the Moon' (2004); Without a Trace (1983).

Born on this day – Pat Finn:

Pat Finn

Actor

July 31, 1965 – December 22, 2025

Credits:

2 Broke Girls (2016); 25 Years of Improv Comedy (2005); 3rd Rock from the Sun (1998–2001); A.D.D. Comedy with Dave Razowsky (2012); According to Jim (2002); Bella and the Bulldogs (2016); Biography (2002); Biography: Chris Farley - Anything for a Laugh (2019); Boys & Girls (1996); Brother's Keeper (1999); Caroline in the City (1996); Celebrity Family Feud (2021); Chiaspora (2020); Cloud 9 (2006); Comics Come Home 6 (2000); Committed (2005); Complete Savages (2005); Creating America's Next Hit Show (2013); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2005); Dads in Parks (2017); Dealin' with Idiots (2013); Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997); Diamond in the Rough (2022); Dude, Where's My Car? (2000); Ed (2001–2002); Factory (2008); Family Ornaments (2023); Fast Facts Live (2020); Friends (2000); Funky Monkey (2004); Funny Money (2006); Funny Thing About Love (2021); Gorditx (2022); Grown-Ups (1998); Hollywood Museum Squares (2021); Hollywood Vice (2005); Home & Family (1996); House (2010); How High (2001); Humor Me (2004); I Am Chris Farley (2015); I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009); It's Complicated (2009); Jazz Freddy (1992–1993); Kickin' It (2014); Las Vegas (2003); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995); Less Than Perfect (2002); Lost on Earth (1997); Love & Support (2001); M.Y.O.B. (2000); Marvin Marvin (2012–2013); Murphy Brown (1995–1997); My Boys (2006–2007); Nobody Knows Anything! (2003); Oliver Beene (2003); Out of Jimmy's Head (2007); Pee Shy (2004); Prairie Dogs (2001); Red Carpet Report (2019); Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups (2012); Seinfeld (1998); Selfie Dad (2020); Space Buddies (2009); Spooky Buddies (2011); Tampa Bay Podcast Archive (2025); Tanat736: The Benis Kingdom (2024); Tangles (2026); That '70s Show (1999); The Bachelor (1999); The Bernie Mac Show (2006); The Drew Carey Show (1998–2003); The George Lucas Talk Show (2021); The George Wendt Show (1995); The Goldbergs (2019); The King of Queens (2000); The Middle (2011–2018); The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show (2007); The Real O'Neals (2016); The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2007); The Sweet Spot (2002); The Thundermans (2018); Three Sisters (2001); Unconditional Love (2002); Unexpected (2023); Unhitched (2008); With You in Spirit (2003); Wizards of Waverly Place (2009); Yes, Dear (2005).

Born on this day – Kara Hamilton:

Kara Hamilton

Actress

July 31, 1975 – July 3, 2017

Credits:

The Awakened (2012); Secret Millionaires (2011); The Last Request (2006); Just Like Heaven (2005); Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003); Late Show with David Letterman (2003); Fighting Irish (2003); Smoking Herb (2002); So, What Do You Think? (2000); Forces of Nature (1999).

On this day in music history - Winter & Christmas, Medicine Melodies, Soul Espanol:

Winter & Christmas by Amy Lauren (2008)

Medicine Melodies: Songs the Healers Hear by Silvia Nakkach & Christopher Eickmann (2012)

Soul Espanol by Sherry Finzer & Chris B. Jàcome (2020)

 

Winter & Christmas

Album by Amy Lauren,

released July 31, 2008.

Track list: Ice Dance; The Holly and the Ivy; Everything Magical; Eve of Winter; November; Greensleeves; December Song; I Saw Three Ships; Midnight Snow; Away in a Manger; Silent Night; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; Northern Sunrise; We Three Kings; There is Peace; Jolly Old St. Nicholas.

 

Medicine Melodies: Songs the Healers Hear

Album by Silvia Nakkach & Christopher Eickmann,

released on July 31, 2012.

Track list: Firefly Call; Icaro del Silbido (Whistling Icaro); Icaro Madresita (Dear Mother Icaro); Shaman Journey; Canto da Mulher (Woman Song); Spirit Clamors; Tudo Bem Bem (All is Good, Good); Wind Chant; Monk Invocation; Reza (Prayer); Oxum Dream; Yemanja for Two; Nana Maia (Lullaby to Illusion); Morning Melody; Twameva Mata; Sri Narayani Amma; Hymn to Saraswati; Val Song; Sound Forest.

Soul Espanol

Album by Sherry Finzer & Chris B. Jàcome,

released July 31, 2020.

Track list: Mediterranean Meditations; Ondas; Sea of Tranquility; Reflections.

Ann Patchett, on reading fiction:

 

Reading fiction is important.

It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

- Ann Patchett.

Recommended reading - The Bee Book (2016)

 

The Bee Book
The Wonder of Bees. How to Protect Them. Beekeeping know-how.

Authors: Fergus Chadwick, Steve Alton, Emma Sarah Tennant, Bill Fitzmaurice, Judy Earl.

Published by DK.

Hardcover.

First Edition.

ISBN-13: 978-1465443830

 
Back cover description:
 
Bees are vital to the future of the planet, yet they are under threat and in decline.
The Bee Book offers remarkable insights into their world and shows how we can support and enjoy them in our daily lives.

What makes bees such perfect pollinators?

How can we adapt our outdoor spaces to feed and attract the widest variety of bees?

How is honey harvested?

Find answers to these questions and so much more in this beautiful celebration of bees.

On this day in book history:

July 30, 1935.

Penguin Books published their first series of paperback books with the following 10 titles:

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

Ariel by André Maurois.

Carnival by Compton Mackenzie.

Gone to Earth by Mary Webb.

Madame Claire by Susan Ertz.

Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie.

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Twenty-Five by Beverley Nichols.

William by E.H. Young.

Born on this day – Emily Brontë:

 

Emily Brontë

Writer

July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848

Credits:

Books: 

Collected Poems (2019); Emily Bronte: Poems (1996); Gondal's Queen (1973); No Coward Soul Is Mine (1993); The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte (1941); The Darker Sex (2009); The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981); Women Who Wrote (2020); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Wuthering Heights (1847).

Movies and television:

Bad Music Video Theatre (2021); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); Cime tempestose (1956); Cumbres borrascosas (1963 / 1964 / 1976 / 1978 / 1979); De woeste hoogte (1966); El gharib (1956); Encounter (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952–1963); Guiding Light (1982); Heathcliff (1997); Hun gui li hen tian (1957); Hun Gui Lihentian (1940); I riassuntini (2018); I Will Wait for You in Heaven (1991); Kraft Theatre (1948); La Hora Fate (1960–1962); Las grandes novellas (1971); Les hauts de Hurlevent (1968); Mastura (1998); Matinee Theatre (1955–1957); Monodrama Theater (1953); Novela (1974); O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes (1967); Ocho estrellas en busca del amor (1964); Ölmeyen ask (1966); One Man's Story (1953); Sparkhouse (2002); Spellbound (2021); Spotlight (1954); Studio One (1950); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958); The Promise (2007); The Wrong Boyfriend (2015); Vendaval (1973); Wichrowe Wzgórza / audioplay (2022); Wuthering Heights (1920 / 1939 / 1948 / 1954 / 1959 / 1962 / 1967 / 1970 / 1978 / 1985 / 1988 / 1992 / 1998 / 2003 / 2004 / 2009 / 2011 / 2018 / 2020 / 2022); Zoe and the Astronaut (2018).

Born on this day – Milton Holmes:

 

Milton Holmes

Writer

Actor

Producer

July 30, 1907 – September 19, 1987

Credits:

A Matter of WHO (1961); A Ship Comes In (1928); Boots Malone (1952); Grand Hotel (1932); Johnny O'Clock (1947); Mr. Lucky (1943); Mr. Lucky (1959–1960); Mr. Soft Touch (1949); Salty O'Rourke (1945); The Barber's Daughter (1929); The Constabule (1929); The Godless Girl (1928); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Lunkhead (1929); The Naked Earth (1958); The Spy (1931); The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927).

Born on this day – Anne Ridler:

Anne Ridler

Writer

July 30, 1912 – October 15, 2001

Recommended reading:

Anne Ridler: Collected Poems

by Anne Ridler.

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd.

Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 1857541162

ISBN-13: 978-1857541168

Description:

Anne Ridler's first book, Poems, was published in 1939. Her poetry developed in the light and shadow of the poets of the day - MacNeice and Auden, but also Durrell and Watkins. As important is a deep affinity with the secular and devotional writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ambitious for her poems, she was never ambitious for reputation. Like that of her friend E.J. Scovell, her work has not received proper recognition until now.

She has published ten collections of poems, original and translated opera libretti, including Monteverdi's Orfeo. She is the author of verse plays which have been performed in Oxford and London. This collection contains all that she wishes to preserve from her volumes of lyric poetry, together with the choruses from the play, The Trial of Thomas Cranmer, and a masque for music by Elizabeth Maconchy, The Jesse Tree.

Born on this day – Peter Bogdanovich:

Peter Bogdanovich

Director

Writer

Actor

Producer

Critic

Film historian

July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022

Credits:
 
Books:
 

A Moment with Miss Gish; A Year and a Day Engagement Calendar 1992: A Desk Diary Adapted From the Works of Robert Graves; All I Wanna Do is Direct: My First Picture Shows 1965–1971; Fritz Lang in America; John Ford; Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week; Pieces of Time: Peter Bogdanovich on the Movies; The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock; The Cinema of Howard Hawks; The Cinema of Orson Welles; The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960–1980; This is Orson Welles; Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors; Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors.

 

Movies and television:
 

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story (2011); 20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders (2006); 20/20 (2019); 3D: A Brief History (2004); 54 (1998); 78/52 (2017); 8 Simple Rules (2004); A Constant Forge (2000); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovitch on Red River (2014); A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making (2018); Abandoned (2010); Above Suspicion (2019); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1975); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002); Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster (2008); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (2010); America This Morning (1988); American Experience (1996–2013); American Masters (1990–2011); Anatomy of a Scene (2001–2004); Apropos Film (1973); Are You Here (2013); Arena (1982); Argentina, 1985 (2022); Asking for the Moon (2003); Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm (2006); At Long Last Love (1975); Backstory (2000–2001); Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996); Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2023); Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock (2004); Behind Closed Doors (2018); Bella Mafia (1997); Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996); Between Us (2016); Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film (2000); Biography (1987–2005); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017); Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021); Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (2016); Broken English (2007); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Budd Boetticher: An American Original (2005); By Bogdanovich (2011); Camera Three (1971–1976); Carl Laemmle (2019); Casting By (2012); CBS Mornings (1988); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); Century of Cinema (1995); Charlie Rose (1997–2006); Cinema (1975); Cinéma! Cinéma! 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Born on this day – John Masius:

John Masius

Writer

Producer

July 30, 1950 – September 13, 2025

Credits:

Back from the Dead: Resurrecting 'Dead Like Me' (2009); Biography (2010); Bittersweet Love (1976); Brooklyn Bridge (1991–1992); Chestnut Hill (2001); Dead Like Me (2003–2004); Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009); Dolphin Cove (1989); Ferris Bueller (1990–1991); Hawthorne (2009–2011); L.A. Law (1992–1993); Las Vegas Lady (1975); Nick & Hillary (1988–1989); Providence (1999–2002); St. Elsewhere (1982–1988); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The Single Guy (1995–1997); The Visitor (1997–1998); The White Shadow (1979–1981); Touched by an Angel (1994–2003); Tracks (1976).

On this day in movie history - Roadblock (1951)

Roadblock

directed by Harold Daniels,

written by George Bricker and Steve Fisher,

based on a story by Richard H. Landau and Daniel Mainwaring,

was released in the United States on July 30, 1951.

Music by Paul Sawtell.

Cast:

Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore, Louis Jean Heydt, Milburn Stone.

On this day in movie history - Get Low (2010)

Get Low

directed by Aaron Schneider,

written by Chris Provenzano, C. Gaby Mitchell and Scott Seeke,

was released in the United States on July 30, 2010.

Music by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek.

Inspired by the true story of Felix Bushaloo Breazeale.

Cast:

Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Scott Cooper, Lori Beth Sikes, Linds Edwards, Andrea Powell, Chandler Riggs, Danny Vinson, Blerim Destani, Tomasz Karolak, Andy Stahl, Marc Gowan, Arin Logan.

I love to read.

 

I love to read.

That doesn’t mean I don’t have a life.
It doesn’t mean I’m a nerd.
I only love the feeling that, even when you’re back in reality, you still feel like you’re in a different world.
- Author Unknown.

Recommended reading - La Jetée: Ciné-Roman, by Chris Marker (1992)

La Jetée: Ciné-Roman

by Chris Marker 

Zone Books

Distributed by The MIT Press.

ISBN-10: 0942299663

ISBN-13: 978-0942299663

The inspiration for the movie 12 Monkeys (1995), directed by Terry Gilliam.

Description:

In the aftermath of World War III, both the earth’s surface and all of history – everything ever dreamed or known – lies irretrievably buried in a heap of radioactive devastation. Space has become off-limits, and the war’s few remaining survivors, huddled underground in the dank galleries beneath Chaillot, seek desperately an alternative path to survival – one perhaps that passes through Time. At the expense of madness, death, and unspeakable cruelty, they begin a set of experiments whose purpose will be to launch emissaries, in search of food, medicine and energy, through a hole in Time. A man is chosen for his unique quality of having retained a single clear image from pre-war days; no more than an ambiguous memory fragment from childhood – a visit to the jetty at Orly airport, the troubling glance of an unknown woman, the crumbling body of a dying man. These elements become crucial hinge-points in the ensuing narrative, thickening and accumulating nuance with each successful expedition into the historical past. The image of a woman, increasingly suffused with the time – and eros – bestowing capacities of a deep and impossible love, provides both the kernel for the recovery of the dimension through which humankind and history will be saved, as well as the tragic abyss into which both the hero and the narrative inexorably fall.

Although Chris Marker’s legendary film is no more than 29 minutes long and contains but a single moving image, perhaps no other film has matched its combination of devastating emotional power, former brilliance and philosophical complexity. The story marker tells – a stunning parable of our modern fate – is about the death of the world, about loss, memory, hope, and the indomitable power of love.

“This strange and poetic film, a fusion of science fiction, psychological fable, and photomontage … creates its own conventions from scratch. It triumphantly succeeds where science fiction invariably fails.” – J.G. Ballard. 

Born on this day – Theda Bara:

Theda Bara

Actress

July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955

Credits:

Madame Mystery (1926); The Unchastened Woman (1925); The Prince of Silence (1921); Lure of Ambition (1919); La belle Russe (1919); Kathleen Mavourneen (1919); A Woman There Was (1919); The Siren's Song (1919); When Men Desire (1919); The Light (1919); The She Devil (1918); When a Woman Sins (1918); Salome (1918); Under the Yoke (1918); The Soul of Buddha (1918); The Forbidden Path (1918); Madame Du Barry (1917); The Rose of Blood (1917); Cleopatra (1917); Camille (1917); Heart and Soul (1917); Her Greatest Love (1917); The Tiger Woman (1917); The Darling of Paris (1917); The Vixen (1916); Romeo and Juliet (1916); Her Double Life (1916); Under Two Flags (1916); East Lynne (1916); The Eternal Sappho (1916); Gold and the Woman (1916); The Serpent (1916); Siren of Hell (1915); Destruction (1915); The Galley Slave (1915); Carmen (1915); Sin (1915); The Two Orphans (1915); Lady Audley's Secret (1915); The Devil's Daughter (1915); The Clemenceau Case (1915); Kreutzer Sonata (1915); A Fool There Was (1915); The Stain (1914).