Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2:

 

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2

This is the second in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

Music credit:

Ambiance#5 by Lilo Sound.

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Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1:

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1

This is the first in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

 

Themes:

art, artwork, poster, painting, acrylic, abstract, fluid painting, Kathleen Jane Kost, showreel, video, MP4

 

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

 

Music credit:

Ambiance#5

by Lilo Sound.

Raymond Chandler, on writing:

The most durable thing in writing is style,

and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

It pays off slowly,

your agent will sneer at it,

your publisher will misunderstand it,

and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

- Raymond Chandler.

Born on this day – Lloyd Bacon:

Lloyd Bacon

Actor

Director

December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955

Credits:

3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); 42nd Street (1933); 50 Million Frenchmen (1931); 6 Day Bike Rider (1934); A Child Is Born (1939); A Christmas Revenge (1915); A Dark Room Secret (1917); A Hotel Disgrace (1917); A Jitney Elopement (1915); A Night in the Show (1915); A Notorious Affair (1930); A Playwright's Wrong (1918); A Prodigal Bridegroom (1926); A Quiet Little Game (1915); A Rainy Knight (1925); A Safe Proposition (1916); A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927); A Sea Serpent's Desire (1918); A Slight Case of Murder (1938); A Very Honorable Guy (1934); A Waiting Game (1916); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Affectionately Yours (1941); Afraid to Be False (1917); Alias the Doctor (1932); An Innocent Affair (1948); Behind the Screen (1916); Boy Meets Girl (1938); Brass Knuckles (1927); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926); Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp (1915); Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber (1915); Broncho Billy and the Lumber King (1915); Broncho Billy and the Posse (1915); Broncho Billy Begins Life Anew (1915); Broncho Billy Evens Matters (1915); Broncho Billy Misled (1915); Broncho Billy Steps In (1915); Broncho Billy's Brother (1915); Broncho Billy's Cowardly Brother (1915); Broncho Billy's Greaser Deputy (1915); Broncho Billy's Love Affair (1915); Broncho Billy's Marriage (1915); Broncho Billy's Protégé (1915); Brother Orchid (1940); Butter Fingers (1926); Cain and Mabel (1936); Call Me Mister (1951); Captain Eddie (1945); Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938); Crooner (1932); Devil Dogs of the Air (1935); Don't Fail (1924); Easy Street (1917); Empty Heads (1924); Espionage Agent (1939); Ever Since Eve (1937); Extra! Extra! (1923); F.O.B. (1923); Finger Prints (1927); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Footlight Parade (1933); Footsteps in the Dark (1941); Frisco Kid (1935); Give My Regards to Broadway (1948); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Gold Dust Gertie (1931); Golden Girl (1951); Good Morning (1924); Good Morning, Madam! (1925); Good Morning, Nurse (1925); Hands Off! (1921); He Was Her Man (1934); He Who Gets Smacked (1925); Hearts and Masks (1921); Her Lesson (1916); Here Comes the Navy (1934); His Fatal Move (1917); His Regeneration (1915); His Taking Ways (1917); His Thankless Job (1917); Home, Sweet Homicide (1946); Honeymoon for Three (1941); Honky Tonk (1929); Honor of the Family (1931); Hurry, Doctor! (1925); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); In Caliente (1935); In the Park (1915); Indianapolis Speedway (1939); Invisible Stripes (1939); Isn't Love Cuckoo? (1925); It Happened in Snakeville (1915); It Happens Every Spring (1949); Kill the Umpire (1950); Killing Time (1924); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Larceny, Inc (1942); Love's Languid Lure (1927); Manhattan Parade (1931); Marked Woman (1937); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Meet My Girl (1926); Merrymakers (1925); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); Miss Nobody (1920); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Moby Dick (1930); Mother Is a Freshman (1949); Navy Blues (1941); No Defense (1929); No Luck (1923); Pay as You Enter (1928); Pearls and Perils (1917); Picture Snatcher (1933); Private Izzy Murphy (1926); Racket Busters (1938); Radio Romeo (1923); San Quentin (1937); Say It with Songs (1929); She Couldn't Say No (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1953); Silver Queen (1942); Sit Tight (1931); Smith's Customer (1927); Smith's Vacation (1926); Smudge (1922); Snakeville's Champion (1915); So Long Letty (1929); Son of a Sailor (1933); Sons o' Guns (1936); Square Deal Sanderson (1919); Stark Mad (1929); Submarine D-1 (1937); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); Take Your Time (1925); Taking the Count (1916); The Bachelor's Burglar (1915); The Bank (1915); The Blue Bonnet (1919); The Book Agent's Romance (1916); The Broken Gate (1920); The Burglar's Godfather (1915); The Champion (1915); The Convict's Threat (1915); The Educator (1922); The Escape of Broncho Billy (1915); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Feud (1919); The Fighting Sullivans (1944); The Fireman (1916); The Floorwalker (1916); The French Line (1953); The Frogmen (1951); The Fuller Brush Girl (1950); The Funnymooners (1926); The Girl in the Rain (1920); The Good Humor Man (1950); The Grave Undertaking (1917); The Great Sioux Uprising (1953); The Greater Profit (1921); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Host (1923); The House of Intrigue (1919); The I Don't Care Girl (1953); The Irish in Us (1935); The Kentucky Colonel (1920); The Lion and the Mouse (1928); The Midlanders (1920); The Mills Brothers in Broadway Gondolier (1935); The Night That Sophie Graduated (1915); The Office Wife (1930); The Oklahoma Kid (1939); The Optimist (1923); The Optimist (1923); The Other Tomorrow (1930); The Question of Today (1928); The Raspberry Romance (1925); The Rink (1916); The Road Demon (1921); The Singing Fool (1928); The Speeder (1922); The Tramp (1915); The Vagabond (1916); The Wild Goose Chaser (1925); The Window Dummy (1925); There He Goes (1925); Two Laughs (1917); Two Lips in Holland (1926); Uneasy Feet (1923); Vagabond Luck (1919); Versus Sledge Hammers (1915); Wagon Tracks (1919); Wake Up and Dream (1946); Walking My Baby Back Home (1953); Wedding Showers (1924); When Snakeville Struck Oil (1915); White Flannels (1927); Wide Open Faces (1926); Wine, Women and Song (1915); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Wings of the Navy (1939); Women They Talk About (1928); Wonder Bar (1934); You Said a Mouthful (1932); You Were Meant for Me (1948). 

Born on this day – Vedah Bertram:

Vedah Bertram

Actress

December 4, 1891 – August 26, 1912

Born on this day – Cornell Woolrich:

Cornell Woolrich

Writer

December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968

Credits:

Books:

Cover Charge (1926); Children of the Ritz (1927); Times Square (1929); A Young Man's Heart (1930); The Time of Her Life (1931);  Manhattan Love Song (1932); The Bride Wore Black (aka Beware the Lady) (1940); The Black Curtain (1941); The Black Alibi (1942); Phantom Lady (1942); The Black Angel (1943); The Black Path of Fear (1944); Deadline at Dawn (1944); Night has a Thousand Eyes (1945); Waltz into Darkness (1947); I Married a Dead Man (1948); Rendezvous in Black (1948); Fright (1950); Savage Bride (1950); Marihuana (1951); Strangler's Serenade (1951); You'll Never See Me Again (1951); Hotel Room (1958); Death is my Dancing Partner (1959); The Doom Stone (1960); Into the Night (1987); Nightmare (1956); Violence (1958); Beyond the Night (1959); The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich (1965); The Dark Side of Love (1965); Nightwebs (1971); Angels of Darkness (1978); The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich (1981); Four by Cornell Woolrich (1983); Rear Window (1984); Vampire's Honeymoon (1985); Blind Date With Death (1985); Darkness at Dawn (1985); Night and Fear (2003); Tonight Somewhere in New York (2005); Love and Night (2011); Death in the Air (2020); Senor Flatfoot (2020); All at Once, No Alice (2020); The Drugstore Cowboy (2020); Hot Water (2020); Dilemma of the Dead Lady (2020); The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus (1998); Four Novellas of Fear (2010); Speak to Me of Death (1935); The Screaming Laugh (1938); Through a Dead Man's Eye (1939); Somebody's Clothes-Somebody's Life (1958).

Movies and television:

A Intrusa (1962); Aa bakudan (1964); Actor's Studio (1949); Akai shisen (1980); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1986); Arde, María, arde (1978); Armchair Theatre (1959); Bire on vardi (1963); Black Angel (1946); Children of the Ritz (1929); Climax! (1956); Cloak & Dagger (1984); Colgate Theatre (1950); Convicted (1938); Corsa in discesa (1989); Darkroom (1982); Deadline at Dawn (1946); Die Unschuld der Krähen (1998); Dro itsureba gantiadisas (1965); El ojo de cristal (1956); El pendiente (1951); Escapade (1957); Fall Guy (1947); Fallen Angels (1993–1995); Fear in the Night (1946); Fearful Dream (1966); Ficciones (1974); Four Star Playhouse (1956); General Electric Theater (1957); Gran Teatro (1960); Grande Teatro Tupi (1956); Gun Moll (1975); Hanayome wa nemurenai: Gôu no naka no shussan (1987); Histoires insolites (1979); Hit List (2009); House of Horror (1929); I Married a Shadow (1983); I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948); If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952); I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990); Intrigues (1985); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Journey to the Unknown (1968); Kamen no hanayome - Kurayami e no waltz (1981); Kuroi kâten (1982); La huella de unos labios (1952); La noche al hablar (1964); Les yeux qui hurlent (1973); Lights Out (1952); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1957); Manhattan Love Song (1934); Manhunt (1951); Martha (1974); Mississippi Mermaid (1969); Moment of Fear (1960); Mrs. Winterbourne (1996); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Never Open That Door (1952); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948); Nightmare (1956); No Man of Her Own (1950); Obsession (1954); Original Sin (2001); Phantom Lady (1944); Playhouse 90 (1956); Polis 3 (2001); Primera fila (1965); Rear Window (1954 / 1998); Rendez-vous en noir (1977); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1951); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); She's No Angel (2002); Shisha to no kekkon (1960); Sít na bludicku (1983); Stage 7 (1955); Street of Chance (1942); Studio 57 (1957); Suspense (1949–1950); Suspicion (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Best in Mystery (1954); The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse (1949); The Boy Cried Murder (1966); The Bride Wore Black (1968); The Chase (1946); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Guilty (1947); The Haunted House (1928); The Hunger (1997–2000); The Leopard Man (1943); The Mark of the Whistler (1944); The Mask (1954); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Return of the Whistler (1948); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Silver Theatre (1949); The Web (1957); The Window (1949); Théâtre d'une heure (1966); Thriller (1961); Tras la puerta cerrada (1964–1965); TV de Vanguarda (1954); TV Teatro (1959); Union City (1980); Vikno navproti (1991); Yoru no wana (1967); You'll Never See Me Again (1973 / 1986); Your Play Time (1954).

Recommended reading:

 

Four Novellas of Fear

by Cornell Woolrich.
 
Paperback.
First published 2010.
Published by A. J. Cornell Publications.

ISBN-10: 0972743987
ISBN-13: 978-0972743983
 
Contents: Eyes That Watch You, The Night I Died, You'll Never See Me Again, Murder Always Gathers Momentum.
 
Description:
 

Cornell Woolrich, best known as the author of "Rear Window," is unsurpassed in his ability to create and sustain sheer suspense. In his tales of terror, ordinary people find themselves in the most extraordinary circumstances and, as readers, we share their spine-tingling tension every step of the way. Here, collected for the first time, are four of his most nail-biting novellas.

 

Eyes That Watch You

Greedy Vera Miller plots her husband’s murder right under the nose of her mute, paralyzed mother-in-law. After all, the old lady won’t be able to tell anyone about the crime. Or will she?

 

The Night I Died

Nice guy Ben Cook, goaded by his scheming common-law wife, fakes his own suicide and moves to another town all to trick his life insurance company into making a large payout. No one en route or at the new address will recognize him, will they?

 

You’ll Never See Me Again

Ed Bliss’s new bride, miffed by her husband’s insults about her biscuits, promises that Ed will never have to see her again and storms out! When she doesn t return within a few days, Ed begins to suspect foul play but when he reports the crime to the police, he’s the first one they suspect!

 

Murder Always Gathers Momentum

For his wife’s sake, Dick Paine approaches a former employer for back wages he is owed but things go terribly wrong and the old boss ends up dead. Now the guilt-ridden Paine, who’d never before committed a crime, is convinced that people will figure out what happened. As his paranoia gathers momentum, anyone he meets is at risk of becoming his next victim.

Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir

by Thomas C. Renzi

Published 2006.

Published by McFarland.

Illustrated edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 078642351X

ISBN-13: 978-0786423514

Description:

Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A contemporary of Hammett and Chandler, he competed with them for notoriety in the pulps and became the single most adapted writer for films of the noir period. Perhaps the most famous film adaptation of a Woolrich story is Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954). Even today, his work is still onscreen; Michael Cristofer’s Original Sin (2001) is based on one of his tales.

This book offers a detailed analysis of many of Woolrich’s novels and short stories; examines films adapted from these works; and shows how Woolrich’s techniques and themes influenced the noir genre. Twenty-two stories and 30 films compose the bulk of the study, though many other additions of films noirs are also considered because of their relevance to Woolrich’s plots, themes and characters. The introduction includes a biographical sketch of Woolrich and his relationship to the noir era, and the book is illustrated with stills from Woolrich’s noir classics.

Born on this day – Deanna Durbin:

Deanna Durbin

Actress

Singer

December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013

Born on this day – Andréa Parisy:

Andréa Parisy

Actress

December 4, 1935 – April 27, 2014

Born on this day – Tony Todd:

Tony Todd

Actor

Producer

Director

December 4, 1954 – November 6, 2024

Credits:

21 Jump Street (1987); 24 (2004–2009); 24 in 24 (2009); 24: Redemption (2008); 84 Charing Cross Road (1987); A Night at the Silent Movie Theater (2012); Actors Entertainment (2015); Adam Green's Scary Sleepover (2016); Agoraphobia (2015); All Gone Wrong (2021); American Conjuring (2016); Andromeda (2002); Angel (2000); Are You Scared 2 (2009); Army of the Damned (2013); Artifact (2018); Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999); Back 4 Blood (2021); Bad Manners (2020); Badland (2019); Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2009); Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (2017); Be My Victim (2018); Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996); Beg (2011); Behind the Monsters (2021); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1996); Beyond the Game (2016); Bird (1988); Bitch Ass (2022); Bizarre Transmissions from the Bermuda Triangle (2016); Black Fox (1995); Black Fox: Good Men and Bad (1995); Black Fox: The Price of Peace (1995); Bleeding Hearts (2015); Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001); Boston Legal (2007); Boston Public (2000); Bravest Warriors (2014); Broken Cross (2016); Bryan Loves You (2008); Bulletproof 2 (2020); Burnzy's Last Call (1995); Butter (1998); Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012); Candy Corn (2019); Candyman (1992 / 2021); Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999); Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995); Catfish Christmas (2022); Caught Up (1998); Celebrity Chatter and Things that Matter with Elijah (2023); Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures (2024); Central Bark (2020); Changing the Game (2012); Charmed (2002); Checking Out (2005); Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007); Chiller 13: The Decade's Scariest Movie Moments (2010); Chuck (2007–2011); Cold Case (2008); Colors (1988); Contamination: A Convention Story (2012); Control Factor (2003); Cop Rock (1990); Cowboy's Girl (2016); Criminal Justice (1990); Criminal Minds (2005); Crossing Jordan (2002); CSI: Miami (2002); Dark Assassin (2005); Dark Reel (2008); Dead in Love (2009); Dead Meat Horror Awards 2022 (2022); Dead of Summer (2016); Dead of the Nite (2013); Death House (2017); Destination Marfa (2021); Devilreaux (2023); Digging Up the Marrow (2014); Disciples (2014); Dixieland (2023); Dockweiler (2008); Dota 2 (2013); Dota Underlords (2020); Dota: Dragon's Blood (2021–2022); Double Toasted (2022); Dream in American (2011); Drive Me to Vegas and Mars (2018); Driven (1996 / 2015); Dust of War (2013); Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018); Enemy Territory (1987); Entertainment Tonight (2022); Excessive Force (1993); Falling Away (2012); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1991); Fate Upside Down (2019); Film Pigs (2014); Final Destination (2000); Final Destination 2 (2003); Final Destination 3 (2006); Final Destination 5 (2011); First Look: Hatchet II (2011); Frankenstein (2015); FRO Thizzle Reviews (2022); From Jennifer (2017); Game Shop (2012); GeekRockTV (2019); Greatest Ever 80s Movies (2007); Greatest Ever Disaster Movies (2007); Greatest Ever Scary Movies (2006–2007); Groovey.TV's Celebration of Badassery Interview Series (2014); H.P. Lovecraft's Celephaïs (2023); Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007); Half-Life: Alyx (2020); Halloween Wars (2013); Hatchet (2006); Hatchet II (2010); Hatchet II: Behind the Screams (2011); Hatchet II: Meet the FX Team (2011); Hawaii Five-0 (2012); Heads Will Roll (2019); Heart of the Beholder (2005); Hell Fest (2018); Hellblazers (2022); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1998); Holliston (2012); Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); Horror Noire (2021); Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019); Horrors of the Zone (2009); House of Grimm (2005); HypaSpace (2005); I Am Fear (2020); I.O.U (2005); Immortal (2019); IMTK (2018); iMurders (2008); Inglorious Treksperts (2023); Insight (2021); Invisible Threads - From Wireless to War (2021); Ivory Hunters (1990); Jack the Reaper (2011); Jake and the Fatman (1990–1991); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1995); Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020); Karma's a Bitch (2024); Kate & Allie (1989); Keeper of the City (1991); Kill Her, Not Me (2013); Law & Order (1994); Layers of Fear 2 (2019); Lean on Me (1989); Leap of Faith (2019); Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League (2015); Lego DC Super Heroes: Justice League - Attack of the Legion of Doom! (2015); Live Evil (2015); Love and Curses... And All That Jazz (1991); MacGyver (1989); Made in Hollywood (2018); Marvel Super Hero Squad Online (2011); Masters of Horror (2006); Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021); Masters of the Universe: Revolution (2024); Matlock (1990); Mercy Street (2006); Minotaur (2006); Murder, She Wrote (1996); Murder-Set-Pieces (2004); New York Undercover (1996); Night Court (1989); Night Night (2021); Night of the Living Dead (1990); Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015); Night Stalker (2005); Nite Tales: The Movie (2008); No me olvidaré de ti (2019); Norman's Corner (1988); NYPD Blue (1997); One for the Fire: The Legacy of 'Night of the Living Dead' (2008); Overdue Rentals (2022); Penance (2009); Peng! Du bist tot! (1987); Platoon (1986); Platoon: Brothers in Arms (2018); Prelude to Axanar (2014); Psych (2009); Radio Nowhere (2024); Realm of Shadows (2024); Red Carpet Report (2012); Reign of the Supermen (2019); Requiem (2018); Riverdale (2017); Room 104 (2017); Sabotage (1996); Sabotage: A Conversation with Tony Todd (2024); Sam Dew: Gone (2020); Scarecrow Slayer (2003); Scary Stories: Dark Web (2020); Scream at the Devil (2015); Scream Awards 2006 (2006); Scream Awards 2007 (2007); Scream Queen Stream (2016–2017); Scream: The TV Series (2019); Shadow Builder (1998); Shadow Puppets (2007); Shadow: Dead Riot (2006); Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel! (2024); Silence (2002); Simon & Simon (1987); Sky Sharks (2020); Sleepwalk (1986); Smallville (2001); Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini (2015); Só Visto (2009); Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997); Spider-Man 2 (2023); Splatter (2009); Standing in the Shadows of Shadow (2006); Star Trek Online (2010); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995–1996); Star Trek: Elite Force II (2003); Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard (1998); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990–1991); Star Trek: Voyager (1995); Stargate SG-1 (2005–2006); Stir (1997); Stoker Hills (2020); Stream (2024); Sunset Heat (1992); Sushi Girl (2012); Sushi Girl: A Documentary (2013); Svengoolie (2006); Sweets to the Sweet: The Candyman Mythos (2004); Sym-Bionic Titan (2010); Tales from the Hood 3 (2020); Ten Dead Men (2008); Terrordrome: Rise of the Boogeymen (2015); The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004); The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time (2022); The Absence of Light (2006); The Activated Man (2023); The Angry Geeks Show (2016); The Bride in Black (1990); The Bunker (2024); The Candyman Legacy with Tony Todd (2015); The Changed (2021); The Crow (1994); The Debt Collector (2018); The District (2002–2003); The Dogwalker (1999); The Eden Formula (2006); The Event (2010); The Eyes of Samir (2007); The Family (2011); The Final Wish (2018); The Flash (2015–2023); The Graves (2009); The Horrorhound (2007); The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 (2021); The Legend of Dragoon (1999); The Lockdown Hauntings (2021); The Man from Earth (2007); The Mannsfield 12 (2007); The Nana Project (2023); The Oath: Outbreak (2024); The Orange Box (2007); The Orville (2019); The Pandora Project (1998); The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005); The Quiet Ones (2010); The Reenactment (2021); The Rock (1996); The Secret (2000); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006); The Sun Devil and the Princess (2014); The Thirst: Blood War (2008); The X-Files (1994); The Young and the Restless (2013); Them (1996); Three Chris's (2010); Tom Cool (2009); Tournament of Dreams (2007); Transformers Prime (2012); Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009); Traveling Light (2021); True Women (1997); Turntable (2005); Two Faced (2017); UC: Undercover (2001); Underground Entertainment: The Movie (2011); Univers'l (1997); Vampire in Vegas (2009); VANish (2015); VH-1 Where Are They Now? (1999); Victor Crowley (2017); Voodoo Dawn (1990); Werewolf (1987); West of Hell (2018); Winnie Taylor's 4th & Inches (2024); Wishmaster (1997); Without a Trace (2007); Without Your Head (2020); Worth (2018); Xena: Warrior Princess (1997); Young Justice (2012–2013); Zombie Family (2012); Zombies (2016).

On this day in movie history - Armored (2009)

Armored

directed by Nimród Antal,

written by James V. Simpson,

was released in the United States on December 4, 2009.

Music by John Murphy.

Cast:

Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Fred Ward, Milo Ventimiglia, Skeet Ulrich, Columbus Short, Andre Jamal Kinney, Andrew Fiscella, Nick Jameson, Glenn Taranto, Lorna Raver, Garry Guerrier, Robert Harvey, Shawn Devorse, Gerry Carbajal, Mike Cochrane, Rebeca Cristian, Paul Grace, Elizabeth Rivera, Richie Varga.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959)

M Squad
Season 3. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Voice from the Grave.

Released December 4, 1959.

Directed by Francis D. Lyon.

Written by Stuart Jerome, Irwin Winehouse and A. Sanford Wolfe.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Carole Mathews, Nan Leslie, Robert Karnes, Lyle Latell, Ed D. Cramer, Edward Kramer.

Born on this day – Joseph Conrad:

Joseph Conrad

Writer

December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924

Credits:

The Lingard Trilogy: Almayer's Folly (1895), An Outcast of the Islands (1896), The Idiots (1896); An Outpost of Progress (1897); Tales of Unrest (1898); Typhoon (1902); Youth, a Narrative (1902); The Tale (1919); The Rescue (1920); The Shifting of the Fire (1892); Lord Jim (1900); Romance (1900); The Inheritors (1901); Heart of Darkness (1902); Nostromo (1904); One Day More (1905); The Mirror of the Sea (1906); The Secret Agent (1907); The Point of Honor (aka The Duel) (1908); A Set of Six (1908); The Brute (1908); The Nature of Crime (1909); The Secret Sharer (1910); The Smile of Fortune (1911); Under Western Eyes (1911); 'Twixt Land and Sea (1912); A Personal Record (1912); Some Reminiscences (1912); Chance (1913); The Inn of the Two Witches (1913); Victory (1915); Within the Tides (1915); The Shadow Line (1917); The Arrow of Gold (1919); The Black Mate (1922); The Rover (1923); Laughing Anne and One Day More (1924); Tales of Hearsay (1925); Suspense (1925); Last Essays (1926); Letters: Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle (1928); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Tremolino (1942); And the Darkness Falls (1946); Heart of Darkness / The Secret Sharer (1950); Tales of Land and Sea (1953); Twentieth Century Short Stories (1959); The Portable Conrad (1961); Conrad's Manifesto (1966); Points of View (1966); The 4th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1969); Great British Short Stories (1974); Kurt Singer's Gothic Horror Book (1974); A Little Night Reading (1974); A Century of Short Stories (1977); Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces (1978); Favourite Spy Stories (1981); The World's Library of Best Books Volume One (1988); The Return (2004); Youth / Heart of Darkness / End of the Tether (2010); The Heart of Darkness & Other Stories (2018); An Outpost of Progress and Other Stories (2019); The End of the Tether: and Other Tales (2022); The Lagoon (2023).

Movies and television:

Almayer's Folly (2011); An Outpost of Progress (1982 / 2016); Apocalypse Now (1979); Apocalypse Oz (2006); Art Carney Special (1960); Au bout du rouleau (1973 / 2002); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950); Caracas (2024); Centre Play (1975); Cineficción Radio (2020); Con gli occhi dell'occidente (1979); Conrad (1994); Dangerous Paradise (1930); Dans une île perdue (1931); Der heimliche Teilhaber (1965); Devil's Paradise (1987); El corazón del bosque (1979); Face to Face (1952); Farornas paradis (1931); Film socialisme (2010); Folio (1957); Freya des sept îles (1973); Gabrielle (2005); Grossesse nerveuse (1993); Hadí plyn (2023); Heart of Darkness (1993 / 2019 / 2023 / 2024); Il Corsaro (1985); ITV Play of the Week (1959); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); Jej powrót (1975); Joseph Conrad's the Return (2014); La folie Almayer (1973); La ligne d'ombre (1973); La riva dei bruti (1931); L'agente segreto (1978); Laughing Anne (1953); Le roman du samedi (1981); Lone Wolf (2021); Lord Jim (1925 / 1965); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Nachricht aus Colebrook (1971); Naufragio (1978); Niebezpieczny raj (1931); Nostromo (1996–1997); Outcast of the Islands (1951); PaulWesNick (2019); Playhouse 90 (1958); Road Book (2021); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1956); Sabotage (1936); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Secret Sharer (2014); Siesta Z (2017); Spec Ops: The Line (2012); Star Tonight (1955); Startime (1959); Sutra (1967); Swept from the Sea (1997); Tajný agent (2020); Teatr Polskiego Radia / Podcast Series (2004–2024); Teledrama (1957); Television Theater (1958–2017); The Duellists (1977); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950–1951); The Golden Twenties (1950); The Lost Valley (2017); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963); The Rescue (1929); The Road to Romance (1927); The Rover (1967); The Secret Agent (1967 / 1975 / 1992 / 1996 / 2016); The Secret Sharer (1973); The Shadow Line (1976); The Silver Treasure (1926); The Young One (2016); Tropennächte (1931); Un reietto delle isole (1980); Under Western Eyes (1936 / 1962 / 1975); Victory (1919 / 1940 / 1945 / 1996); Windigo (1994).

Recommended reading: 

 

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad.
 
Mass Market Paperback
First published 1899.
Published by Penguin Books.

ISBN 13: 9780140431681
ISBN 10: 0140431683
ASIN: B001KTM47C
 
Author Joseph Conrad based this novella on his own personal experiences, during a voyage up the Congo River in 1890.
 
This novella was the inspiration for the movie Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
 
Description:
 
Written in the last year of the nineteenth century, Heart of Darkness can be seen in many ways as the first twentieth-century novel.
 
Its climate of doubt and vagueness, its loss of moral confidence and its need for belief in the midst of spiritual wilderness, its exploration of the subconscious and its affirmation of individual freedom are all themes that were to have an influence on writers such as Orwell, Godling Céline, Borges and Eliot.
 
In Heart of Darkness Conrad unfolds the story of Marlow’s search for Mr Kurtz, the company agent whose ‘unlawful soul’ has been ‘beguiled beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations’ in his dealings with the natives of the Belgian Congo. Marlow’s adventure involves him in a crucial reappraisal of his own values. It is Kurtz, however, who attains to a vision of the inexpressible, terrifying reality of the heart in this extraordinary exploration of human savagery and despair.
 
Book cover image: The Steamer Stanley, by F. Hens.

Patricia A. McKillip, on books:

 

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

– Patricia A. McKillip.

Born on this day – Roger Richebé:

Roger Richebé

Director

Writer

Producer

December 3, 1897 – July 10, 1989

Credits:

American Love (1931); Angels of Sin (1943); Baby's Laxative (1931); Clara de Montargis (1951); Crimson Dynasty (1935); Der Zarewitsch (1954); Der Zarewitsch (1954); Domino (1943); Élisa (1957); Fanny (1932); Fantômas (1932); Forfaiture (1937); Gibier de potence (1951); Girl on the Third Floor (1955); Hommage à Raimu (1976); J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (1931); J'ai une idée (1934); Jean de la Lune (1949); La donna di una notte (1931); La femme d'une nuit (1930); La fugue de Monsieur Perle (1952); La grande Maguet (1947); La peau d'un homme (1951); La tradition de minuit (1939); L'amant de Madame Vidal (1936); Le collier (1931); Le fantôme (1936); Le mort en fuite (1936); Le salaire du péché (1956); Les amants de minuit (1953); Les J3 (1946); Les quatre jambes (1931); L'habit vert (1937); L'homme qui assassina (1931); Madame Sans-Gêne (1941); Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931); Marked Girls (1938); Midnight in Paris (1942); Minuit... place Pigalle (1934); Monseigneur (1949); Que les hommes sont bêtes (1957); Romance à trois (1942); The Battle of Austerlitz (1960); The Bitch (1931); The Death Agony of the Eagles (1933); The Secret of Polichinelle (1936); The Story of the Fox (1937); Två kvinnor (1947); Un déjeuner de soleil (1937); Voyage sans espoir (1943).

Born on this day – Virginia Kellogg:

Virginia Kellogg

Writer

December 3, 1907 – April 8, 1981

Credits:

Caged (1950); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Meet the People (1944); Screaming Eagles (1956); Stolen Holiday (1937); The Road to Reno (1931); T-Men (1947); TV de Vanguarda (1953); We, the People (1950); White Heat (1949).

Born on this day – Marion Schilling:

Marion Schilling

Actress

December 3, 1910 – November 6, 2004

Credits:

A Man's Land (1932); A Parisian Romance (1932); A Shot in the Dark (1935); Beyond Victory (1931); Blazing Guns (1935); Captured in Chinatown (1935); Cavalcade of the West (1936); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Curtain at Eight (1933); Easy to Get (1931); Elinor Norton (1934); Fighting to Live (1934); Forgotten Women (1931); Gigolettes (1932); Gun Play (1935); Gun Smoke (1935); I Used to Be in Pictures (2000); Idaho Kid (1936); I'll Name the Murderer (1936); Inside Information (1934); June First (1931); Lord Byron of Broadway (1930); Niagara Falls (1932); On Your Back (1930); Only Men Wanted (1932); Rio Rattler (1935); Romance Rides the Range (1936); Rule 'Em and Weep (1932); Screen Snapshots (1932); Shadow of the Law (1930); Shop Angel (1932); Society Fever (1935); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Sundown Trail (1931); Take 'em and Shake 'em (1931); The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936); The Common Law (1931); The County Fair (1932); The Heart Punch (1932); The Keeper of the Bees (1935); The Red Rider (1934); The Swellhead (1930); The Westerner (1934); Thunder Over Texas (1934); Wise Girls (1929); Young Donovan's Kid (1931).

Born on this day – Nino Rota:

Nino Rota

Composer

Pianist

Conductor

December 3, 1911 – April 10, 1979

Born on this day – Len Lesser:

Len Lesser

Actor

December 3, 1922 – February 16, 2011

Born on this day – Sven Nykvist:

Sven Nykvist

Cinematographer

December 3, 1922 – September 20, 2006

Credits:

Nova (2001); Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000); It All Came True (1998); Celebrity (1998); Private Confessions (1996); Lumière and Company (1995); Kristin Lavransdatter (1995); Something to Talk About (1995); Mixed Nuts (1994); Only You (1994); With Honors (1994); What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993); Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Chaplin (1992); The Ox (1991); Buster's Bedroom (1991); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); New York Stories (1989); Another Woman (1988); Ved vejen (1988); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); The Sacrifice (1986); Nobody's Child (1986); Dream Lover (1986); Agnes of God (1985); After the Rehearsal (1984); Swann in Love (1984); La tragédie de Carmen (1983); Fanny and Alexander (1983); Star 80 (1983); Fanny and Alexander (1982); Cannery Row (1982); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981); Willie & Phil (1980); From the Life of the Marionettes (1980); Marmalade Revolution (1980); Starting Over (1979); Hurricane (1979); King of the Gypsies (1978); Autumn Sonata (1978); One and One (1978); Pretty Baby (1978); The Serpent's Egg (1977); De fördömda kvinnornas dans (1976); The Tenant (1976); Face to Face (1976); Black Moon (1975); Monismanien 1995 (1975); Nouvelles d'Henry James (1974); The Magic Flute (1975); The Terrorists (aka Ransom) (1974); Scenes from a Marriage (1974); The Dove (1974); Das blaue Hotel (1973); Kallelsen (1973): Scenes from a Marriage (1973); Cries & Whispers (1972); Siddhartha (1972); A Free Woman (1972); Lockfågeln (1971); The Last Run (1971); The Touch (1971); Karpfs Karriere (1971); One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970); First Love (1970); Fårö Document (1970); The Passion of Anna (1969); The Rite (1969); An-Magritt (1969); Shame (1968); Hour of the Wolf (1968); Bränt barn (1967); Roseanna (1967); Persona (1966); Transit (1965); Lianbron (1965); Loving Couples (1964); Klänningen (1964); To Love (1964); All These Women (1964); Prins hatt under jorden (1963); The Silence (1963); Liebe will gelernt sein (1963); Winter Light (1963); Schneewittchen und die sieben Gaukler (1962); The Magical World of Disney (1962); Africa and Schweitzer (1961); Lita på mej älskling (1961); Murder Party (1961); Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi (1961); Domaren (1960); A Matter of Morals (1960); Lampenfieber (1960); The Virgin Spring (1960); Får jag låna din fru? (1959); Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte (1959); Make Way for Lila (1958); Damen i svart (1958); Synnöve Solbakken (1957); Gäst i eget hus (1957); En drömmares vandring (1957); Den tappre soldaten Jönsson (1956); Flickan i frack (1956); Nattbarn (1956); Gorilla Safari (1956); Blånande hav (1956); Ett kungligt äventyr (1956); Sista ringen (1955); Älskling på vågen (1955); Den underbara lögnen (1955); Salka Valka (1954); Karin Månsdotter (1954); Storm över Tjurö (1954); Sawdust and Tinsel (1953); Vägen till Klockrike (1953); Barabbas (1953); Under södra korset (1952); När syrenerna blomma (1952); Rågens rike (1950); Loffe blir polis (1950); Bohus bataljon (1949); Lång-Lasse i Delsbo (1949); Sjösalavår (1949); Hin och smålänningen (1949); Maj på Malö (1947); Lata Lena och blåögda Per (1947); Där lägereldarna brinna (1946); Saltstänk och krutgubbar (1946); 13 stolar (1945); Barnen från Frostmofjället (1945); Gomorron Bill! (1945); I mörkaste Småland (1943); En Stockholmssilhuett (1943).

Born on this day – Jean-Luc Godard:

 

Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Writer

December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022