Saturday, June 22, 2024
On this day in movie history - Astronaut (2019)
On this day in movie history - The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
On this day in movie history - Race Street (1948)
Born on this day – Octavia E. Butler:
Books:
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000); A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay (2024); Adulthood Rites (1988); After the Rain (2021); Black Panther: Long Live the King (2018); Bloodchild (1984); Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995); Chrysalis 4 (1979); Clay's Ark (1984); Comic Arts Against Erasure (2022); Crucified Dreams (2011); Dawn (1987); Fledgling (2005); Imago (1989); Invaders! (1993); Kindred (1979 / 2017); Marvel-Verse: Shuri (2022); Mind of My Mind (1977); Nebula Awards 35 (2001); Parable of the Sower (1993 / 2020); Parable of the Talents (1998); Patternmaster (1976); Shuri, Vol. 2 (2019); Shuri: Wakanda Forever (2020); Sisters of the Revolution (2015); Survivor (1978); The Hole (2008); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985); Unexpected Stories (2014); Wakanda Forever (2018); Wild Seed (1980).
Movies and television:
Brave New
Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Charlie Rose (2000); Chisholm
'72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004); Closer to Truth (2000); Kindred (2022);
Masters of Fantasy (1998); Science Future Science Fiction (2002); See It Loud:
The History of Black Television (2023); Self-Potrait (2022); The 20th Century:
Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999); The Last Angel of History (1996); The Space Race
(2023).
Born on this day – Dorothy Devore:
Credits:
Slapstick
Encyclopedia, Vol. 3: Funny Girls (1998); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); Miracle
on Main Street (1939); Take the Heir (1930); Auntie's Mistake (1929); Misplaced
Husbands (1928); Companionate Service (1928); Rah! Rah! Rah! (1928); Circus
Blues (1928); Cutie (1928); The Little Rube (1927); Kilties (1927); Better Days
(1927); Up in Arms (1927); Mountains of Manhattan (1927); The Wrong Mr. Wright
(1927); The First Night (1927); Money to Burn (1926); No Babies Wanted (1926);
Senor Daredevil (1926); The Social Highwayman (1926); The Gilded Highway
(1926); The Man Upstairs (1926); The Midnight Flyer (1925); Three Weeks in
Paris (1925); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Fighting the Flames (1925); How
Baxter Butted In (1925); A Broadway Butterfly (1925); The Prairie Wife (1925);
Who Cares (1925); The Narrow Street (1925); The Tomboy (1924); Hold Your Breath
(1924); Getting Gertie's Goat (1924); Stay Single (1924); Kidding Katie (1923);
When Odds Are Even (1923); Navy Blues (1923); Pick and Shovel (1923); Winter
Has Came (1923); Babies Welcome (1923); Hazel from Hollywood (1923); Chop Suey
(1922); Let 'Er Run (1922); Mile-a-Minute Mary (1922); Fair Enough (1922); One
Stormy Knight (1922); Saving Sister Susie (1921); Paying Patients (1921);
Nothing Like It (1921); Sneakers (1921); The Magnificent Brute (1921); Naughty
Mary Brown (1921); The Reckless Sex (1921); Man vs. Woman (1921); Mind Your
Business (1921); Movie Mad (1921); Call a Cop (1920); Should Husbands Dance
(1920); 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920); Seven Bald Pates (1920); Biff Bang
Bomb (1920); A Home Made Hero (1920); Her Perfect Husband (1920); Should a Wife
Come Back? (1920); Neat But Not Gaudy (1920); All Jazzed Up (1920); No Babies
Allowed (1920); Nearly Newlyweds (1920); It Takes a Crook (1920); Should a
Husband Tell? (1920); Twas Midnight (1919); Her Bear Escape (1919); A Flirt
There Was (1919); Love in a Hurry (1919); Anybody's Widow (1919); A Cheerful
Liar (1919); A Full House (1919); All in the Swim (1919); Kiss the Bride
(1919); Oh, Susie, Be Careful (1919); Too Many Wives (1919); Lost: A Bridegroom
(1919); Marrying Molly (1919); Brides for Two (1919); Oh, What a Night! (1919);
Bobby Comes Marching Home (1919); Welcome Home (1919); Four of a Kind (1919);
Salvation Sue (1919); The Girl Dodger (1919); You Couldn't Blame Her (1919);
Marry My Wife (1919); Good Gracious, Bobby (1919); Sing, Rosa, Sing! (1919);
How's Your Husband? (1919); Know Thy Wife (1918); Swat the Flirt (1918); String
Beans (1918); Camping Out (1918); Maid Wanted (1918); The Price of a Rotten
Time (1918); Frenzied Film (1918); Please Hit Me (1918); The Law of the North
(1918); The Extra Bridegroom (1918); The House Cleaning Horrors (1918).
Born on this day – H. Rider Haggard:
Credits:
Books:
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); A Farmer's Year (1899); A Gardener's Year (1905); A Tale of Three Lions (1887); A Winter Pilgrimage (1901); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); After the War Settlement and Employment of Ex-service Men (1916); Allan Quatermain (1887); Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods (1927); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1999); Allan Quatermain's Wife (1887); Allan's Wife (1887); Allan's Wife, with Hunter Quatermain's Story (1980); Ayesha (1905); Beatrice (1890); Belshazzar (1930); Benita / The Spirit of Bambatse (1906); Black Heart and White Heart (1900); Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1882); Child of Storm (1913); Cleopatra (1889); Colonel Quaritch, V.C. (1888); Diary of an African Journey (1914); Doctor Therne (1898); Elissa (1900); Fair Margaret (1907); Finished (1917); Heart of the World (1895); Heu Heu (1924); Holy Flower (1915); Jess (1887); Joan Haste (1895); King Solomon's Mines (1885); Love Eternal (1918); Lysbeth (1901); Maiwa's Revenge (1888); Marie (1912); Mary of Marion Isle (1929); Montezuma's Daughter (1893); Moon of Israel (1918); Morning Star (1910); Mr. Meeson's Will (1888); Nada the Lily (1892); Pearl-Maiden (1903); Queen of the Dawn (1925); Queen Sheba's Ring (1910); Red Eve (1911); Regeneration (1910); Rural Denmark and Its Lessons (1911); Rural England (1902); Saga of Eric Brighteyes / Eric Brighteyes (1891); She (1886); She and Allan (1921); Smith and the Pharaohs (1920); Stella Fregelius (1903); Swallow (1898); Tales Before Tolkien (2003); Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others (2002); The Ancient Allan (1920); The Brethren (1904); The Days of My Life (1926); The Ghost Kings (1908); The Ivory Child (1916); The Lady of Blossholme (1909); The Last Boer War (1899); The Mahatma and the Hare (1911); The missionary and the witch-doctor (1920); The People of the Mist (1894); The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 (1980); The Spring of a Lion (1899); The Virgin of the Sun (1922); The Wanderer's Necklace (1914); The Way of the Spirit (1906); The Witch's Head (1885); The Wizard (1896); The World's Desire (1890); The Yellow God (1908); Treasure of the Lake (1926); When the World Shook (1919); Wisdom's Daughter (1923).
Movies and television:
Allan
Quatermain (1919); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986); Allan
Quatermain and the Spear of Destiny (2023); Allan Quatermain and the Temple of
Skulls (2008); Cleopatra (1917); Dawn (1917); Haggard's She: The Pillar of Fire
(1899); Heart and Soul (1917); High Adventure (2001); Jess (1912 / 1914); King
Solomon's Mines (1919 / 1937 / 1950 / 1985 / 1986 / 2004); King Solomon's
Treasure (1979); Mr. Meeson's Will (1915); O Trapalhão nas Minas do Rei Salomão
(1977); She (1908 / 1911/ 1916 / 1917 / 1925 / 1935 / 1965 / 1984 / 2001);
Stella (1921); Swallow (1922); The Grasp of Greed (1916); The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Moon of Israel (1924); The Mystical Flame
(1903); The Stronger Passion (1921); The Vengeance of She (1968); Watusi
(1959).
Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (2001)
ISBN-13: 978-0786708864