Thursday, July 18, 2024
On this day in movie history - The Banana Splits Movie (2019)
On this day in movie history - Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
On this day in movie history - Aliens (1986)
Born on this day – Hunter S. Thompson:
Credits:
Books:
Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas (1971); Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
(1973); Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone (2009); The Proud Highway (1997);
Fear and Loathing in America (2000); The Mutineer (2012); The Great Shark Hunt
(1979); Generation of Swine (1988); Songs of the Doomed (1990); Better Than Sex
(1994); The Gonzo Papers Anthology (2007); Gonzo: An Oral History (2007);
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom (with Anita Thompson) (2009); The Rum Diary (1998);
Screwjack (2000); Hell's Angels (1966); The Curse of Lono (1983); Kingdom of
Fear (2003); Hey Rube (2004); Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson (2005); Exquisite
Corpse Annual, No. 2, 2010 (2010).
Movies and television:
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021); 90 Minutes Live (1977); Adrenochrome (2017); American Masters (2006); Anderson Cooper 360° (2015); Animals, Whores & Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter Vol. 2 (2010); Anthem (1997); Breakfast with Hunter (2003); Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006); Charlie Rose (1997–2003); Come on Down: Searching for the American Dream (2005); Culture Prophet – Hustler (2009); Dans les yeux de Johnny Depp (2022); Dem Tinseltown Homiez, the Hollywood Guys (2023); ESPN 25: Who's #1? (2005); ESPN SportsCentury (2003); Fear & Loathing Through the Camera Lens (2012); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998); Final 24 (2006); For No Good Reason (2012); Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020); Free Lisl! (2007); Fuck (2005); Gonzo (2008); High There (2014); History's Mysteries (1998); Hunter Goes to Hollywood (2003); Hunter S. Thompson talks about Hells Angels (1967); In Search of History (1999); In the Blink of an Eye (2005); Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1997–2009); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1988); Late Show with David Letterman (1998); Muhammad Ali (2021); Nash Bridges (1996–2001); Nexus Vegas (2013); Omnibus (1978); Origins of High Times Magazine (2024); Outlaw Poet: The Legend of Ron Whitehead (2020); Outside Providence (1999); Road to Hunter (2006); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021); Some Jerk with a Camera (2011); Stuntmen (2009); The Beat with Ari Melber (2022); The Crazy Never Die (1988); The Curse of Blanchard Hill (2006); The Libertine (2004); The Rum Diary (2011); The South Bank Show (1994); The Theta Girl (2017); The War Room (1993); The Wild Ride of Outlaw Bikers (1999); This Week (1970); To Tell the Truth (1967); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1973); Tripping (1999); TVTV Meets Rolling Stone (1973); TVTV: Video Revolutionaries (2018); Vanity Fair Confidential (2015); enus Blue (1998); Where the Buffalo Roam (1980); Woman Found Dead in Elevator (2000).
Born on this day – Margaret Laurence:
Credits:
Born on this day – Irene Winston:
Credits:
Bury Me Dead
(1947); Carrie (1952); Chevron Theatre (1952); Cheyenne (1961); Dear Brat
(1951); Dr. Kildare (1963–1964); Gang Busters (1952); Gone to Earth (1950);
Maverick (1961–1962); My Son John (1952); Passport to Danger (1956); Rear
Window (1954); Rheingold Theatre (1956); The Bigelow Theatre (1950); The
Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Silver Theatre
(1950); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Valentine's Day (1964).
Born on this day – Phyllis Brooks:
Credits:
Ali Baba Goes
to Town (1937); Another Face (1935); Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938); Charlie
Chan in Reno (1939); City Girl (1938); Dangerous Passage (1944); Dangerously
Yours (1937); Follow the Fleet (1936); Foolish Hearts (1935); Hi Ya, Sailor
(1943); High Powered (1945); In Old Chicago (1938); I've Been Around (1935);
Lady in the Dark (1944); Lady Tubbs (1935); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Lucky
to Me (1939); McFadden's Flats (1935); No Place for a Lady (1943); One Exciting
Adventure (1934); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938); Screen Snapshots Series
18, No. 4 (1938); Silver Spurs (1943); Slightly Honorable (1939); Straight
Place and Show (1938); Strange Wives (1934); Sunday Night at the Trocadero
(1937); Suspense (1952); The Flying Squad (1940); The Man Who Reclaimed His
Head (1934); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); The Unseen (1945); To Beat the Band
(1935); Up the River (1938); Walking Down Broadway (1938); Wilson (1944); You
Can't Have Everything (1937).
Born on this day – Harriet Nelson:
Credits:
A Christmas
for Boomer (1979); ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978); Aloha Paradise
(1981); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Biography
(1998); Bridget Loves Bernie (1973); Canal Zone (1942); Cocoanut Grove (1938);
Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941); Death Car on the Freeway (1979); Dinah!
(1976–1977); Disneyland '59 (1959); Fantasy Island (1978); Fatal Confession: A
Father Dowling Mystery (1987); Follow the Fleet (1936); Follow the Fleet: The
Origins of Those Dancing Feet (2005); Gals, Incorporated (1943); Glitter
(1985); Happy Days (1982); Harem Scarem (1932); Here Come the Nelsons (1952);
Hi, Buddy (1943); Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944); High School U.S.A. (1984); History
of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Honeymoon Lodge (1943);
It's Your Bet (1970); Juke Box Jenny (1942); Love, American Style / Segments:
Love and the Unmarriage; Love and the Only Child; Love and Take Me Along
(1969–1973); Musical Justice (1931); My Music: Starlight Ballroom (2015); NBC
Special Treat (1977); New Faces of 1937 (1937); Night Gallery / Segment: You
Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan (1972); Once an Eagle (1976); Our World (1987);
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (1943); Ozzie's Girls (1973); Perry Como's Kraft
Music Hall (1956); Pioneers of Television (2014); Rick Nelson: A Brother
Remembers (1987); Ricky Nelson & Fats Domino: Live at the Universal
Amphitheatre (1985); Ricky Nelson Sings (2005); Rockin' Ricky (2023); Screen
Snapshots Series 34, No. 6: Hollywood Shower of Stars (1955); Screen Snapshots:
Hollywood on a Sunday Afternoon (1952); Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976); Stu's
Show (2021); Super Duper Bloopers and Silly Shorts (1986); Sweetheart of the
Campus (1941); Swingtime Johnny (1943); Take It Big (1944); Television (1988); Television:
The First Fifty Years (1999); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1953–1962);
The Andy Williams Show (1971); The Barbara McNair Show (1969); The Campus
Mystery (1932); The David Frost Show (1969); The Falcon Strikes Back (1943);
The First Time (1982); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1973); The Joey Bishop
Show (1968); The Kid with the 200 I.Q. (1983); The Life of the Party (1937);
The Love Boat (1977); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1982); The Mike Douglas Show
(1966–1973); The Red Skelton Hour (1967 / 1968); The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson (1969–1973); This Is Your Life (1953); Time Out for Dad (1987);
Uncle Tom (2020); What's My Line? (1956 / 1973).
Born on this day – Lupe Vélez:
Credits:
Arena (1991);
Death Scenes (1989); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); East Is West (1930);
Ernesto Alonso: Estrella de estrellas (2007); Fashion News (1930); Gypsy Melody
(1936); He Loved an Actress (1938); Hell Harbor (1930); High Flyers (1937);
Hollywood on Parade (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933); Hollywood
Party (1934); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Snapshots #11
(1929); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hombres de mi vida (1932); Honolulu
Lu (1941); Hot Pepper (1933); Kongo (1932); La zandunga (1938); Ladies' Day
(1943); Lady of the Pavements (1929); Laughing Boy (1934); Los que hicieron
nuestro cine (1983–1985); Mexican Spitfire (1939); Mexican Spitfire at Sea
(1942); Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940); Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942);
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943); Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942);
Mr. Broadway (1933); Naná (1944); Oriente es Occidente (1930); Palooka (1934);
Perdida (2009); Playmates (1941); Recordar es vivir (1941); Redhead from
Manhattan (1943); Resurrección / Resurrection (1931); Sailors, Beware! (1927);
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1
(1934); Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (1941); Stand and Deliver (1928);
Strictly Dynamite (1934); That's Entertainment! III (1994); The Big Parade of
Comedy (1964); The Broken Wing (1932); The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the
Latino Image in American Cinema (2001); The Casting Couch (1995); The Cuban
Love Song (1931); The Gaucho (1927); The Girl from Mexico (1939); The
Half-Naked Truth (1932); The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941); The Morals of
Marcus (1935); The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan (2004); The Squaw Man (1931);
The Storm (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Voice of Hollywood
No. 13 / Second Series (1932); The Voice of Hollywood, Series 1, No. 2 (1930);
Tiger Rose (1929); What Women Did for Me (1927); When the Applause Died / Death
in Hollywood (1990); Where East Is East (1929); Wolf Song (1929).
Born on this day – William Makepeace Thackeray:
Credits:
Books:
A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing (2013); A Little Dinner at Timmin's (2001); A Shabby Genteel Story (1985); Ballads (1855); Burlesques (1856); Catherine (1840); Christmas Books (1868); Contributions to the Morning Chronicle (1955); Cox's Diary (2004); Denis Duval (1864); Doctor Birch and His Young Friends (2004); Early and Late Papers (2019); Eastern Sketches (1846); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Essays on Goldsmith by Scott, Macaulay, and Thackeray, and Selections From his Writings (2016); George Cruikshank (1840); Jeames's Diary (2016); Legend of the Rhine (1845); Letters to an American Family (2003); Little Travels and Roadside Sketches (1879); London Stories (2013); Loose Sketches (2007); Lovel the Widower (2018); Men's Wives (1852); Miscellanies (2015); Mr. Brown's Letters to a Young Man about Town (2002); Mrs. Perkins's Ball (2004); Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846); Novels By Eminent Hands (2004); Our Street (1848); Reading a Poem (2015); Rebecca and Rowena (1850); Roundabout Papers (1863); Selected Letters Of William Makepeace Thackeray (1996); Sketches and Travels in London (2018); Some Roundabout Papers (1863); Stories of Comedy (2017); Sulton Stork (1887); Thackerayana (1970); The Adventures of Philip (1862); The Awful History of Bluebeard (2019); The Bedford-Row Conspiracy (1856); The Book of Snobs (1848); The Bridgerthonian Novels (2022); The English Humorists Of The Eighteenth Century (2019); The English Humourists (1861); The Fatal Boots (2001); The Fitz-Boodle Papers (1842); The Four Georges (2019); The Great Hoggarty Diamond (1848); The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance (2023); The Heroic Adventures of M. Boudin (1984); The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (1852); The History of Pendennis (1848); The History of Samuel Titmarsh (2017); The Hitherto Unpublished Contributions of W.M. Thackeray to Punch (1971); The Irish Sketch-Book (1843); The Letters And Private Papers Of William Makepeace Thackeray (1980); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844); The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush (1837); The Newcomes (1855); The Notch On The Ax (2004); The Paris Sketch Book (1840); The Rose and the Ring (1855); The Second Funeral of Napoleon (1841); The Story of Mary Ancel (1840); The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan (1855); The Virginians (1859); Vanity Fair (1847).
Movies and television:
Aus dem
Bücherschrank geholt (1962); Barry Lyndon (1975); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
(1950); Becky Sharp (1935); CBS Television Workshop (1952); De broodwinning van
Frederic Altamont (1962); George Warrington's Escape (1911); Hora once (1971);
Jackanory (1975); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); La
feria de las vanidades (1975); La fiera della vanità (1967); Novela (1963); One
Woman's Story (1953); Pendennis (1916); Pierscien i róza (1987); Poetry
fugacious (2019); Ruze a prsten (1971); Secrets from the Asylum (2014);
Television Theater (1956); Tense Moments with Great Authors / Segment: Vanity
Fair (1922); The Rose and the Ring (1953 / 1979); Vanity Fair (1911 / 1915 /
1922 / 1923 / 1932 / 1961 / 1967 / 1976 / 1987 / 1998 / 2004 / 2018); Vanity
Fair / TV Series (1956–1957); Your Favorite Story (1954).
Lucy Maud Montgomery, on writing: