Born on this day – Florence Eldridge:

Florence Eldridge

Actress

September 5, 1901 – August 1, 1988

Credits:

A Modern Hero (1934); A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts (1963); An Act of Murder (1948); Another Part of the Forest (1948); Charming Sinners (1929); Christopher Columbus (1949); Dangerously Yours (1933); First, You Cry (1978); Inherit the Wind (1960); Les Misérables (1935); Lux Video Theatre (1951–1952); Mary of Scotland (1936); Person to Person (1955); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Six Cylinder Love (1923); The Divorcee (1930); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957–1958); The Eligible Mr. Bangs (1929); The Great Jasper (1933); The Greene Murder Case (1929); The Matrimonial Bed (1930); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Studio Murder Mystery (1929); Thirteen Women (1932).

On this day in movie and book history - The Greene Murder Case (1929)

The Greene Murder Case

directed by Frank Tuttle,

written by Louise Long and Richard H. Digges Jr.,

based on the novel by S. S. Van Dine,

was released in the United States on August 11, 1929.

Music by Karl Hajos.

Cast:

William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Jean Arthur, Eugene Pallette, E. H. Calvert, Gertrude Norman, Lowell Drew, Morgan Farley, Brandon Hurst, Augusta Burmeister, Marcia Harris.

Recommended reading:

The Greene Murder Case

by S.S. Van Dine.

Filmed as The Greene Murder Case (1929), directed by Frank Tuttle.

Published by American Mystery Classics.

First published 1928.

ISBN-10: 1613165692

ISBN-13: 9781613165690

Description:

Philo Vance’s ultimate case. – Kirkus.

With his highbrow manner and his parade of encyclopedic learning, Philo Vance is not only a detective; he is a god out of the machine. – New York Times.

The perfect sleuth for the Jazz Age. – CrimeReads.

Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance – the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest (and did we mention handsome?) amateur sleuth – uses his detective skills to unravel the murders.