Sunday, August 25, 2024
On this day in movie history - Smog (1962)
On this day in movie history - Madame Bovary (1949)
On this day in movie history - The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
directed by H. Bruce Humberstone,
written by F. Hugh Herbert, Robert N. Lee and Rian
James,
and based on the novel by S. S. Van Dine,
was released in the United States on August 25,
1934.
Music by Bernhard Kaun.
Born on this day – Alice White:
Credits:
3-Ring
Marriage (1928); A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935); A Very Honorable Guy
(1934); A Woman of the Sea (1926); Annabel Takes a Tour (1938); Big City
(1937); Breakfast at Sunrise (1927); Broadway Babies (1929); Broadway
Highlights No. 2 (1935); Coronado (1935); Cross Country Cruise (1934);
Employees' Entrance (1933); Fashion News (1930); Flamingo Road (1949);
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928); Gift of Gab (1934); Girls' Town (1942); Girls
Will Be Boys (1929); Harold Teen (1928); Hollywood and the Stars (1963);
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933);
Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 (1934); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical
History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hot Stuff
(1929); Jimmy the Gent (1934); King for a Night (1933); King of the Newsboys
(1938); Lingerie (1928); Luxury Liner (1933); Mad Hour (1928); Naughty Baby
(1928); Picture Snatcher (1933); Playing Around (1930); Secret of the Chateau
(1934); Show Girl (1928); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Show of Shows (1929);
Sweet Mama (1930); Sweet Music (1935); Sweethearts on Parade (1930); Telephone
Operator (1937); The American Beauty (1927); The Ann Sothern Show (1958); The
Big Noise (1928); The Dice Woman (1926); The Dove (1927); The Girl from
Woolworth's (1929); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Naughty Flirt (1930);
The Night of January 16th (1941); The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927); The
Satin Woman (1927); The Sea Tiger (1927); The Widow from Chicago (1930).
Author humor:
Is it any good?
I can't put it down.
Recommended reading - Double Indemnity (1943)
Double Indemnity (1943).
by James M. Cain.
Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 9780679723226
ISBN-13: 978-0679723226
Description:
“An American masterpiece.” – Ross Macdonald.
Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
“No one has ever stopped reading in the middle
of one of Jim Cain’s books.” – Saturday Review of Literature.
Recommended reading - The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960 (2018)
Illustrated edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-1476669489