Andy Warhol
Artist
Director
Producer
August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Born on this day – Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987)
Andy Warhol - Artist, Director, Producer, and fellow Pittsburgh native and child of Austria-Hungary Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants was born on this day in 1928.
When he was alive, I wasn't the biggest fan...found his art too 'pop-y' for me.
I've come to appreciate his life and legacy through many visits to The Andy Warhol Museum when I'm home in Pittsburgh.
If you have a chance when you're in the 'Burgh - visit!
My favorite parts of the museum are his self-portraits, the Cloud Room, and his Archive boxes.
#AndyWarhol #AndyWarholMuseum #Pittsburgh #AustriaHungary #ByzantineCatholic #Clouds #CarpathoRusyn
On this day in music – Bela Lugosi’s Dead released by Bauhaus (1979)
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Bela Lugosi's Dead
by Bauhaus
was released on August 6, 1979.
Bauhaus performed this song in the opening titles scene of The Hunger, a stylish vampire-themed horror movie, directed by Tony Scott and released in 1983.
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#Bauhaus #BelaLugosisDead #TheHunger #PeterMurphy
Recommended reading – The Cocktail Waitress (2012)
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The Cocktail Waitress
by James M. Cain.
Published posthumously.
Hardcover.
First edition.
ISBN-13: 978-1781160329
day Joan Medford buried her husband was a
fateful one – because before the day was out she’d meet the two men who would
change her life forever. Forced to take a job waitressing yo support herself
and her child, Joan finds herself caught between the handsome young schemer
whose touch she comes to crave and the wealthy older man whose touch repels her
… but who otherwise would make a tempting husband number two. It’s a classic
Cain triangle – brutal sexual and stark – that can only end in death. But for whom,
the guilty … or the innocent?
The final novel written by James M. Cain and
never before published, The Cocktail Waitress is a testament to the enduring
power of one of the most acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century. The
author of unforgettable noir classics such as Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce,
and The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain’s work remains as impossible to put
down today as when first written, and will leave even jaded modern readers
breathless. Featuring an afterword by Edgar and Shamus Award-winning editor Charles
Ardai. One of the most celebrated and notorious crime writers of all time,
James M. Cain launched his career with the publication of two back-to-back
masterpieces – The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity – selling
millions of copies worldwide and inspiring classic movies. Cain continued with
an unmatched run of noir novels including Mildred Pierce which inspired both
the Academy Award-winning film starring Joan Crawford and the Emmy-winning HBO
miniseries starring Kate Winslet. Cain died in 1977. And that’s where everyone
thought the story ended. But James M. Cain had one more story to tell – one
last blistering tale of sex and greed, betrayal and deception, written at the
end of his life but never published – The Cocktail Waitress. Destined to take
its place alongside his other classics, The Cocktail Waitress is Cain at his
brutal and seductive best.
"Here, long after anyone would have
expected it, is the voice of James M. Cain, as fresh and as relevant as ever.
The Cocktail Waitress will involve you, and then shock you with an ending
you'll never forget. A true rarity: a reader’s novel that’s also a literary
event." – Stephen King.
Born on this day – Alfred Tennyson:
Alfred Tennyson
Writer
August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892
Credits:
Poems:
A Farewell; Ask Me No More; Break, Break, Break; Charge of the Light Brigade; Circumstance; Cradle Song; Crossing the Bar; Early Spring; England and America in 1782; Far-far-away (For Music); Flower in the Crannied Wall; From The Palace of Art; In Memoriam, VII; Lady Clare; Of Old Sat Freedom; Ring Out, Wild Bells; Strong Son of God, Immortal Love; Sweet and Low; Tears, Idle Tears; The Blackbird; The Brook; The City Child; The Death of the Old Year; The Deserted House; The Dying Swan; The Eagle; The Flower; The Kraken; The Lady of Shalott; The May Queen; The Mermaid; The Oak; The Owl; The Poet's Song; The Sea-Fairies; The Shell; The Splendor Falls; The Tears Of Heaven; The Throstle; Will.
Movies and television:
A Day That Is Dead (1913); A Dream of Fair Women
(1920); After Many Years (1908); Balaclava (1928); Becket (1923); Break, Break,
Break (1914 / 2019); Catalogue of Ships (2008); De glada åren (1946); Dora
(1909 / 1910 / 1912 / 1915); Enoch Arden (1914 / 1915); Enoch Arden: Part I
(1911); Enoch Arden: Part II (1911); Facing the Music (1933); Gunsmoke (1960);
Holding Back the Years (2018); Jack Buchanan with the Glee Quartet (1930); Lady
Clare (1912); Lady Godiva (1911 / 1921); Last of the Summer Wine (1988); Lauzon
Lauzone (2001); Leolo (1992); Les maris, les femmes, les amants (1989); Maud
(1911); Montenegrins: The Mighty Race of the Mountaineers, Says Lord Tennyson
(2013); My Favorite Wife (1940); Naked Hearts (1916); Project Green Gables
(2016); Sweet and Low (1914); The Arthur Haynes Show (1962); The Brook (1917);
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1914 / 1936); The Gardener's Daughter (1913 /
1914); The Golden Supper (1910); The Lady Clare (1919); The Lady of Shalott
(1912 / 1915); The May Queen (1914); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1972); The
Stefan University (2019); The Vanishing Hand (1928); Tolvslaget på Skansen
(1977); V. Alexander Stefan in V. Alexander Stefan: My Passion (2018); Vanity
Fair (2004); Your Favorite Story (1954).
Born on this day – Lillian Albertson:
Lillian Albertson
Actress
Theatrical producer
August 6, 1881 – August 24, 1962
Credits:
AFI Life
Achievement Award (1980); Fireside Theatre (1951–1953); Racket Squad
(1952–1953); Storm Warning (1950); Summer Theatre (1953); The Blue Veil (1951);
The Cisco Kid (1953–1955); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); The Ten
Commandments (1956); Your Favorite Story (1953–1954).
Born on this day – Willie Lee Brown:
Willie Lee Brown
Blues
singer
Guitarist
August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952
Credits:
Albums:
Tell Me Why
Love Don't Last / EP (2015); Two Men on Fire - The Blues Brothers of the Delta
(2025); Voice Throwin' Blues (2022).
Songs:
Cadillac
Boogie; Camp Hollers; Cut It Out; Do It Like That; East St. Louis Blues; Fever;
Fo' Clock Blues; Four O'clock Flower Blues; Future Blues; Going to Fishing;
Gonna Make It On Back; Gonna Make on Back; Government Fleet Blues; Korea Blues;
Levee Camp Blues; Love That Stranger; M & O Blues; M and o Blues; Make Me a
Pallet on the Floor; Mississippi Blues; Ragged and Dirty; Sleep; So Gorgeous;
Take My Love; Talk To Me, Talk To Me; Tell Me Why Love Don't Last Always;
Together; Together Intrumental; Walkin' Blues; Walking Blues.
Movie:
Crossroads (1986).
Born on this day – Jacqueline Laurent:
Jacqueline Laurent
Actress
August 6, 1918 – December 18, 2009
Credits:
Addio, amore!
(1943); Dawn Over France (1935); Judge Hardy's Children (1938); L'abito nero da
sposa (1945); Le coup de grâce (1965); Le Jour Se Leve (1939); Le vie del
peccato (1946); Les deux timides (1943); L'homme qui joue avec le feu (1942);
Sarati, le terrible (1937); Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1941); Un Français
nommé Gabin (2017).
Born on this day – Ella Raines:
Ella Raines
Actress
August 6, 1920 – May 30, 1988
Credits:
A Dangerous
Profession (1949); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Brute Force
(1947); Corvette K-225 (1943); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Enter Arsene Lupin (1944);
Fighting Coast Guard (1951); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Here's Lucy: On
Location (2009); Impact (1949); Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954–1955);
Lights Out (1950); Matt Houston (1984); Phantom Lady (1944); Pulitzer Prize
Playhouse (1950); Rheingold Theatre (1956); Ride the Man Down (1952); Robert
Montgomery Presents (1950); Singing Guns (1950); Stump the Stars (1950); Tall
in the Saddle (1944); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The
Christophers (1955); The Ed Wynn Show (1950); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The
Laraine Day Show (1951); The Man in the Road (1956); The Runaround (1946); The
Second Face (1950); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Strange Affair of
Uncle Harry (1945); The Suspect (1944); The Walking Hills (1949); The Web
(1947); Time Out of Mind (1947); White Tie and Tails (1946); Wonderful Town,
U.S.A. (1951); Your Show of Shows (1952).
Born on this day – Ella Jenkins:
Ella Jenkins
Singer
Writer
Composer
August 6, 1924 – November 9, 2024
Credits:
Albums:
Movies and television:
Albums:
A Life of Song (2011); A Long
Time (1970 / 1992 / 2024); Adventures in Rhythm (1959 / 1989 / 1992);
African-American Folk Rhythms (1960 / 1998); And One And Two & Other Songs
for Pre-School and Primary Children (1971 / 1990); Call-and-Response Rhythmic
Group Singing (1957 / 1990); Camp Songs with Ella Jenkins and Friends (2017);
cELLAbration: A Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2004); Come Dance by the Ocean (1991);
Counting Games & Rhythms for the Little Ones (1969 / 1990); Early Early
Childhood Songs (1982 / 1996); Ella Jenkins and A Union of Friends Pulling
Together (1999); For the Family (1991); Get Moving with Ella Jenkins (2012);
Growing Up With Ella Jenkins (1976 / 1990); Holiday Times (1996); Hopping
Around from Place to Place Vol. 1 (1983 / 1999 / 2015); Hopping Around from
Place to Place Vol. 2 (1983 / 2000 / 2015); I Know the Colors of the Rainbow
(1981); Jambo and Other Call and Response Songs and Chants (1974 / 1996);
Little Johnny Brown with Ella Jenkins and Girls and Boys from
"Uptown" (Chicago) (1972 / 1990); Live at the Smithsonian (1991);
Looking Back and Looking Forward (1981); More Multicultural Children's Songs
(2014); Multicultural Children's Songs (1995); My Street Begins at My House
(1971 / 1989); Nursery Rhymes: Rhyming & Remembering for Young Children
& for Older Girls & Boys with Special Language Needs (1974 / 1990);
123s and ABCs (2014); Play Your Instruments & Make a Pretty Sound (1968 /
1994); Rhythm & Game Songs for Little Ones (1964 / 1991); Rhythms of
Childhood (1970 / 1989); Seasons for Singing (1970 / 1990); Sharing Cultures
With Ella Jenkins (2003); Songs and Rhythms From Near and Far (1964 / 1997);
Songs Children Love To Sing (1996); Songs, Rhythms And Chants for the Dance
(1977 / 1982 / 2000); This is Rhythm (1961 / 1994); This-A-Way That-A-Way (1973
/ 1989 / 1992); This-a-Way-That-a-Way (1961 / 1989); Travellin' with Ella
Jenkins: – A Bilingual Journey (1979 / 1989); We Are America's Children (1976);
You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song (1966 / 1989).
Barney & Friends (1993);
Cellabration Live! a Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2007); Fargo (2020); Harriet
Tubman: Visions of Freedom (2022); Kidding (2018); Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
(1974–1992); Roadtrip Nation (2012); Sunday Today with Willie Geist (2024).
Born on this day – Barbara Bates:
Barbara Bates
Actress
Singer
August 6, 1925 – March 18, 1969
Credits:
A Scandal in
Paris (1946); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); All About Eve (1950); All Ashore
(1953); Always Together (1947); Apache Territory (1958); April Showers (1948);
Becoming Marilyn (2022); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Camera Angles (1948);
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Present Their
Television Party for Muscular Dystrophy (1953); I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
(1951); It's a Great Life (1954–1955); Johnny Belinda (1948); June Bride
(1948); Lady on a Train (1945); Let's Make It Legal (1951); Men in Her Diary
(1945); Night in Paradise (1946); One Last Fling (1949); Quicksand (1950);
Rhapsody (1954); Romance on the High Seas (1948); Salome, Where She Danced
(1945); Studio 57 (1955); The Caddy (1953); The Crimson Canary (1945); The Dean
Martin and Jerry Lewis Double (1982); The Fabulous Joe (1947); The Hal Roach
Comedy Carnival (1947); The House Across the Street (1949); The Inspector
General (1949); The Millionaire (1955); The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952); The
Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Saint (1962); The Secret of Convict Lake
(1951); This Love of Ours (1945); Town on Trial (1957); Triple Deception
(1956); Your Play Time (1954).
On this day in movie history - Pushover (1954)
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Pushover
directed by Richard Quine,
written by Roy Huggins,
was released in the United States on August 6, 1954.
Based on the novels The Night Watch by Thomas Walsh and Rafferty by William S. Ballinger.
Music by Arthur Morton.
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Cast:
Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone, E.G. Marshall, Allen Nourse, James Anderson, Joe Bailey, Tony Barrett, Walter Beaver, Richard Bryan, Robert Carson, Phil Chambers, Dick Crockett, John De Simone, Alan Dexter, Don C. Harvey, Anne Loos, Mort Mills, Ann Morriss, Paul Picerni, Murray Pollack, Paul Richards, Marion Ross, K.L. Smith, Robert Stevenson, Hal Taggart, John Tarangelo, Mel Welles, Jack Wilson.
On this day in movie history - Human Desire (1954)
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Human Desire
directed by Fritz Lang,
written by Alfred Hayes,
based on the novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola,
was released in the United States on August 6, 1954.
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Cast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case, Peggy Maley, Diane DeLaire, Grandon Rhodes, Benjie Bancroft, Paul Brinegar, Minta Durfee, Jean Engstrom, Victor Hugo Greene, Don C. Harvey, Carl Lee, John Maxwell, John Pickard, Dan Riss, Scott Seaton, Allen D. Sewall, Dan Seymour, Olan Soule, Hal Taggart, John Zaremba.
On this day in movie history - The Fugitive (1993)
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The Fugitive
directed by Andrew Davis,
written by Jeb Stuart and David Twohy, and based on a story by David Twohy,
was released in the United States on August 6, 1993.
Also based on the TV series The Fugitive, starring David Janssen and created by Roy Huggins,
that ran for four seasons from 1963 to 1967.
Music by James Newton Howard.
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Cast:
Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Andreas Katsulas, Jeroen Krabbé, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood, L. Scott Caldwell, Johnny Lee Davenport, Julianne Moore, Ron Dean, Joseph Kosala, Jane Lynch, Dick Cusack, Andy Romano, Nick Searcy, Eddie Bo Smith, Neil Flynn, Richard Riehle, Kirsten Nelson, David Darlow, Frank Ray Perilli, Lester Holt.
On this day in movie history - Collateral (2004)
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Collateral
directed by Michael Mann,
written by Stuart Beattie,
was released in the United States on August 6, 2004.
Music by James Newton Howard.
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Cast:
Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Irma P. Hall, Barry Shabaka Henley,
Richard T. Jones, Klea Scott, Bodhi Elfman, Debi Mazar, Javier Bardem, Emilio
Rivera, Jamie McBride, Ken Waters, Charlie E. Schmidt, Michael Bentt, Ian
Hannin, Robert Deamer, David Mersault, Anthony Ochoa, Edgar Sánchez, Cosme
Urquiola, Thomas Rosales Jr., Wade Williams, Paul Adelstein, Jessica Ferrarone,
Troy Blendell, Inmo Yuon, Howard Bachrach, Chic Daniel, Corinne Chooey, JoNell
Kennedy, Steven Kozlowski, Roger Stoneburner, Rodney Sandberg, George Petrina,
Donald Dean, Elliott Newman, Trevor Ware, Bobby English, Auggie Cavanagh, Ronald
Muldrow, Peter McKernan, Ivor Shier, Daniel Luján, Eddie Diaz, Joey Burns, John
Convertino, Josh Cruze, Martin Flores, Rick Garcia, Larry G. Goldman, Maurilio
Pineda, Dan Sistos, Jacob Valenzuela, Luis Villegas, Yussi Wenger, Jason
Statham, Angelo Tiffe, Ismeal Vidrio, Ron Eckert, Manuel Urrego, Jessie
Bernard, Luis Moncada, Dyna Teal, Sandi Schroeder, Michael-John Wolfe, Addie
Yungmee, J.D. McElroy, Megan Hiratzka, Kate Gopacco, Christy Yi, Lisa Marie
Basada, Wilson Wong, Mark Stainbrook, Brandon Molale, Marianne M. Arreaga,
Spike Silver, Ben Mihm, Niles Roth, Linda Asuma, Esther K. Chae, Danny Del
Toro, Tara Erickson, Melissa Gomez, Annabella Gutman, Janet Linn, Gino
Montesinos, Janessa Mun, Masami Okada, Janice Paik, Neil Patil, Gary Rodriguez,
Erina Sako, Emily VanSonnenberg, Emily Ming-An Wang, Michael Waxman, Henry T.
Yamada.
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