On this day in television history - Six Feet Under (2001 - 2005)

Six Feet Under

created by Alan Ball,

was first aired in the United States on June 3, 2001, and ran for five seasons.

The final episode aired on August 21, 2005.

 

Cast:

Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, Rachel Griffiths, Jeremy Sisto, James Cromwell, Justina Machado, Richard Jenkins, Joanna Cassidy, Giancarlo Rodriguez, Tim Maculan, Eric Balfour, Robert Foxworth, Ed O’Ross, Marina Black, David Norona, Gary Hershberger, Ed Begley, Jr., Illeana Douglas, Dina Waters, Patricia Clarkson, Lili Taylor, Melissa Marsala, Aysia Polk, John Paul Pitoc, Kellie Waymire, Nicki Micheaux, Julie White, Kathy Bates, Peter Macdissi, Ben Foster, Brenna Tosh, Rainn Wilson, Justin Theroux, Idalis DeLeón, Catherine O’Hara, Sprague Grayden, Peter Facinelli, Mena Suvari, Michael Weston, Tina Holmes, Matt Malloy, Julie Dretzin, Jeff Yagher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Messina, Kendré Berry, C. J. Sanders, Anne Ramsay.

On this day in movie history - Animal Kingdom (2010)

Animal Kingdom

directed and written by David Michôd,

was released in Australia on June 3, 2010.

Music by Antony Partos.

Cast:

James Frecheville, Guy Pearce, Bryce Lindemann, Paul Smits, Jacki Weaver, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Mirrah Foulkes, Anthony Ahern, Justin Rosniak, Michael Valamios, Chris Weir, Laura Wheelwright, Sarah Nguyen, Lucia Cai, Ben Mendelsohn, Ann Michôd, Susan Prior, Clayton Jacobson, Tim Phillipps, Josh Helman, Michael Cody, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Anthony Hayes, Jack Heanly, Dan Wyllie, Andy McPhee, Christina Azucena, Jacqueline Brennan, Ben Ouwehand, Bert LaBonté, James Saunders, Dom Phelan, Brenda Palmer, Anna Lise Phillips, Tom Noble, Daniel Roche, David Michôd, Adam Arkapaw, Brendan Bacon, Andrew Day, Luke Doolan, Cameron Ewart, Stephen Hannah, George Iskander, Rick James, Paul Rochford, Mat Stevenson.

Thomas Jefferson, on books:

I cannot live without books.

- Thomas Jefferson.

Recommended reading - Meet Me at the Morgue

Meet Me at the Morgue

by Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
First published 1953.

ISBN-10: 0307740773
ISBN-13: 9780307740779
 
Description:
 

“My favorite . . . [Macdonald] is first among those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious literature.” – P.D. James, from Talking About Detective Fiction.

“[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.” – New York Times Book Review.

“Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction.  He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.

“Most mystery writers merely write about crime.  Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic.

“Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.”  –  Anthony Boucher.

“[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.”

– The Guardian (London).

“[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.
 

Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle – a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.

Born on this day – Memphis Minnie:

Memphis Minnie

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973

Credits:

Songs:

A Little Too Late; After While Blues; Ain't No Use Tryin' to Tell On Me (I Know Something on You); Ain't Nobody Home but Me; Bad Outside Friends; Ball and Chain Blues; Banana Man Blues; Beat It Right; Black Cat Blues; Black Rat Swing; Black Widow Stinger; Blue Monday Blues; Blues Everywhere; Botherin' That Thing; Boy Friend Blues; Broken Heart; Bumble Bee; Call the Fire Wagon; Can I Do It for You; Can't Afford to Lose My Man; Caught Me Wrong Again; Cherry Ball Blues; Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing); Conjur Man; Crazy Cryin' Blues; Daybreak Blues; Dirty Dauber Blues; Dirty Mother for You; Doctor, Doctor Blues; Don't Lead My Baby Wrong; Don't Turn the Card; Don't Want No Woman; Down by the Riverside; Down Home Girl; Down in New Orleans; Down in the Alley; Dragging My Heart Around; Drunken Barrel House Blues; Ethel Bea; Fashion Plate Daddy; Fingerprint Blues; Fish Man Blues; Fishin' Blues; Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool); 'Frisco Town; Garage Fire Blues; Georgia Skin; Give It to Me in My Hand (Can I Go Home with You); Goin' Back to Texas; Good Biscuits; Good Morning; Good Soppin'; Got to Leave You No. 1; Got to Leave You No. 2; Grandpa and Grandma Blues; Has Anyone Seen My Man?; He's in the Ring (Doing That Same Old Thing); Hold Me Blues; Hole in the Wall; Hoodoo Lady; Hot Stuff; Hustlin' Woman Blues; I Am Sailin'; I Called You This Morning; I Don't Want No Woman I Have to Give My Money To; I Don't Want That Junk Outa You; I Don't Want You No More; I Got To Make a Change Blues; I Hate to See the Sun Go Down; I Hope Love Will Change Some Day; I Never Told a Lie; Ice Man Blues; Ice Man (Come On Up); I'd Rather See Him Dead; If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home); I'm a Bad Luck Woman; I'm a Gambling Woman; I'm Going Back Home; I'm Going Don't You Know; I'm Gonna Bake My Biscuits; I'm Not a Bad Gal; I'm So Glad; I'm Talking About You; I'm Waiting On You; I'm Wild About My Stuff; In Love Again; In My Girlish Days; It Was You, Baby; It's Hard to Be Mistreated; It's Hard to Please My Man; I've Been Treated Wrong; Jailhouse Trouble Blues; Jockey Man Blues; Joe Louis Strut; Joliet Bound; Jump Little Rabbit; Keep It to Yourself; Keep On Eatin'; Keep On Goin'; Keep On Sailin'; Keep Your Big Mouth Shut; Kid Man Blues; Kind Treatment Blues; Killer Diller Blues; Killer Diller from the South; Kissing in the Dark; Lake Michigan; Lean Meat Won't Fry; Let Me Ride; Let's Go to Town; Living the Best I Can; Long As I Can See You Smile; Look What You Got; Looking the World Over; Lonesome Shack Blues; Love Come and Go; Low Down Man Blues; Ma Rainey; Man, You Won't Give Me No Money; Me and My Chauffeur Blues; Mean Mistreater Blues; Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues; Meningitis Blues; Million Dollar Blues; Moaning the Blues; Moonshine; Mr. Tango Blues; My Baby Don't Want Me No More; My Black Buffalo; My Butcher Man; My Gage Is Going Up; My Man Is Gone Again; My Mary Blues; My Strange Man; My Wash Woman's Gone; New Bumble Bee Blues; New Caught Me Wrong Again; New Dirty Dozen; New Orleans Stop Time; Night Watchmen Blues; North Memphis Blues; Nothing in Rambling; Oh, Believe Me; Out in the Cold; Pickin' the Blues; Pig Meat on the Line; Pile Driving Blues; Please Don't Stop Him; Please Set a Date; Plymouth Rock Blues; Poor and Wandering Woman Blues; Preacher's Blues; Reachin' Pete; Remember Me Blues; Running and Dodging Blues; Selling My Pork Chops; She Put Me Outdoors; She Wouldn't Give Me None; Shout the Boogie; Soo Cow Soo; Squat It; Stinging Snake Blues; Stop Lying to Me; Sweet Man; Sylvester and His Mule Blues; That Will Be Allright; The Man I Love; The Saint; This Is Your Last Chance Baby; Three Times Seven Blues; Today Today Blues; Tonight I Smile with You; Too Late; True Love; Walking and Crying Blues; Wants Cake When I'm Hungry; Weary Woman's Blues; Western Union; What a Night; What Fault You Find of Me? Part 1; What Fault You Find of Me? Part 2; What's the Matter with the Mill?; When My Man Comes Home; When the Levee Breaks; When the Saints Go Marching Home; When the Sun Goes Down; When You Love Me; When You're Asleep; Where Is My Good Man; Why Did I Make You Cry; World of Trouble; Worried Baby Blues; You Can't Give It Away; You Got to Get Out of Here; You Got to Move; You Need a Friend; You Wrecked My Happy Home.

Albums:

"The Queen of the Blues": 1929–1941; 1930–1941; 1934–1941; 1941–1949; Blues Classics by Memphis Minnie; Complete Recorded Works 1935–1941 in Chronological Order, vol. 1, 10 January to 31 October 1935; Early Recordings with Kansas Joe McCoy, vol. 2; Hoodoo Lady (1933–1937); Hot Stuff: 1936–1949; I Ain't No Bad Gal; In My Girlish Days; In My Girlish Days: 1930–1935; Let's Go to Town; Love Changin' Blues: 1949, Blind Willie McTell and Memphis Minnie; Me and My Chauffeur Blues; Moaning the Blues; Night Time Blues, Ma Rainey and Memphis Minnie; Pickin' the Blues; Queen of the Blues; The Rough Guide to Memphis Minnie - Queen of the Country Blues; World of Trouble.

Born on this day – Ted Tetzlaff:

 

Ted Tetzlaff

Cinematographer

Director

June 3, 1903 – January 7, 1995

Born on this day – Paulette Goddard:

 

Paulette Goddard

Actress

June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990

Born on this day – Marcel Blistène:

 

Marcel Blistène

Director

Writer

Film journalist

June 3, 1911 – August 2, 1991

Born on this day – Lucille Lund:

 

Lucille Lund

Actress

June 3, 1913 – February 15, 2002

Credits:

Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); I Used to Be in Pictures (2000); Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997); The Awful Goof (1939); There's That Woman Again (1938); Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938); Start Cheering (1938); The Big Squirt (1937); It Happened in Hollywood (1937); Calling All Doctors (1937); A Fight to the Finish (1937); The Devil Is Driving (1937); Girls Can Play (1937); What Price Vengeance (1937); Criminals of the Air (1937); Back to the Woods (1937); Blake of Scotland Yard (1937); The Cowboy Star (1936); Prison Shadows (1936); Rio Grande Romance (1936); Panic on the Air (1936); Don't Get Personal (1936); Timber War (1935); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Folies Bergère de Paris (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. B-13 (1934); Range Warfare (1934); Young and Beautiful (1934); Fighting Through (1934); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); The Black Cat (1934); Pirate Treasure (1934); Saturday's Millions (1933); Horse Play (1933).

Born on this day – Buster Pickens:

Buster Pickens

Blues pianist

June 3, 1916 – November 24, 1964

Credits:

Albums:

Buster Pickens (1960).

Track listing:

Santa Fe Train; Rock Island Blues; Ain't Nobody's Business; Colorado Springs Blues; She Caught the L & N; Remember Me; Women in Chicago; The Ma Grinder, No. 2; You Better Stop Your Woman (From Ticklin' Me Under the Chin); Jim Nappy; Mountain Jack; D.B.A. Blues; Hattie Green; Backdoor Blues; Santa Fe Blues".

With Lightnin' Hopkins:

Lightnin' and Co. (1962); Smokes Like Lightning (1963); Walkin' This Road by Myself (1962).

Born on this day – Colleen Dewhurst:

Colleen Dewhurst

Actress

June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991

Credits:

13 Stars for Channel 13 (1970); A Bend in the Road (2018); A Few Days in Weasel Creek (1981); A Fine Madness (1966); A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975); A Perfect Match (1980); A Show of Concern: The Heart of America Responds (1987); A.D. (1985); Accent on an American Summer (1962); All the World's a Stage / A Long Day's Journey into Night (1984); Almos' a Man (1976); American Masters (1986–1991); And Baby Makes Six (1979); Anne of Avonlea (1987); Anne of Green Gables (1985); Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008); Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000); Annie Hall (1977); As Is (1986); Avonlea (1990 / 1992); Avonlea: A Rustic Paradise (2020); Baby Comes Home (1980); Bed & Breakfast (1991); Ben Casey (1961); Between Two Brothers (1982); Between Two Women (1986); Camera Three (1958–1963); CBS This Morning (1989); Day at Night (1974); Death Penalty (1980); Decoy (1957); Dinah! (1975); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dying Young (1991); East Side/West Side (1964); Escape (1980); Festival (1965); Final Assignment (1980); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); Focus (1962); Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); Great Performances (1983–1984); Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hitting Home (1988); How Do Your Children Grow? (1972); Ice Castles (1978); Ingrid (1984); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); John Wayne Standing Tall (1989); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); Johnny Bull (1986); Kaleidoscope (1990); Kevin Sullivan's Classic (2006); Kraft Theatre (1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1959–1963); La tele de tu vida (2007); Lamp Unto My Feet (1956–1959); Lantern Hill (1989); Legend in Granite (1973); Man on a String (1960); Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith (1979); McKellen: Playing the Part (2017); McQ (1974); Moonlighting (1989); Murphy Brown (1989–1990); Murphy Brown (1991); NET Playhouse (1967); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); One Man's Fight for Life (1983); Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974); Play of the Week (1959–1961); Portrait of an Actor (1971); Quincy M.E. (1982); Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story (1979); Simple Gifts (1977); Sometimes I Wonder (1983); Split Cherry Tree (1982); Startime (1960); Studio One (1957); Studs Lonigan (1979); Sword of Gideon (1986); Tennessee Williams' South (1973); Termini Station (1989); The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (1968); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 27th Annual Tony Awards (1973); The 28th Annual Tony Awards (1974); The 31st Annual Tony Awards (1977); The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 42nd Annual Tony Awards (1988); The 43rd Annual Tony Awards (1989); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Annual Theatre World Awards (1976); The Big Valley (1966); The Blue and the Gray (1982); The Boy Who Could Fly (1986); The Civil War (1990); The Cowboys (1972); The Crucible (1967); The David Frost Show (1971); The David Susskind Show (1964); The Dead Zone (1983); The Dick Cavett Show (1977); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958–1959); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The Ed Sullivan Show (1960–1968); The Eleventh Hour (1962); The Exorcist III (1990); The F.B.I. (1966); The Foxes (1961); The Glitter Dome (1984); The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1984); The Hands of Cormac Joyce (1972); The Investigator (1958); The Jolly Corner (1975); The Last Run (1971); The Love Boat (1984); The Magical World of Disney (1987); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Mike Douglas Show (1970–1974); The Music School (1974); The Nun's Story (1959); The Papp Project (2001); The Price (1971); The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974); The Third Walker (1978); The Tonight Show (1962); The Twilight Zone (1988); The Virginian (1962); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The Women's Room (1980); Those She Left Behind (1989); Today (1974–1980); Tom Cottle: Up Close (1982); Tribute (1980); When a Stranger Calls (1979); Woman in the Wind (1988).

Born on this day – Tony Curtis:

 

Tony Curtis

Actor

Painter

June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010

Born on this day – Chuck Barris:

 

Chuck Barris

Game show creator

Producer

Host

Writer

June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017

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On this day in movie history - Cinderella Man (2005)

Cinderella Man

directed by Ron Howard,

written by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman,

story by Cliff Hollingsworth,

based on the life of James J. Braddock,

was released in the United States on June 3, 2005.

Music by Thomas Newman.

Cast:

Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine, Bruce McGill, David Huband, Connor Price, Ariel Waller, Patrick Louis, Rosemarie DeWitt, Linda Kash, Nicholas Campbell, Gene Pyrz, Chuck Shamata, Ron Canada, Alicia Johnston, Troy Amos-Ross, Mark Simmons, Art Binkowski, David Litzinger, Matthew G. Taylor, Rance Howard, James Ritz, Fulvio Cecere, Clint Howard, Gerry Ellison, Bill Mackie, Ray Marsh, Fernand Chretien, Dave Dunbar, Ken James, Rufus Crawford, Angelo Dundee, Lou Eisen, Wayne Gordon, Wayne Flemming, Nick Alachiotis, Christopher D. Amos, Nick Carusi, Keith Murphy, Everton McEwan, John Kalbhenn, David Georgieff, Wayne Bourque, Paul Ryan, Sean Gilroy, Michael McNamara, Billy Wine, Richard Bachynsky Hoover, Michael Chin, Stewart Lunn, Richard Lewis, Peter Wylie, Thomasz Kurzydlowski, Stuart Clark, Julian Lewis, Eric Fink, Sergio Di Zio, Gavin Grazer, Boyd Banks, Daniel Kash, Judah Katz, Angelo Tsarouchas, Rob Smith, Craig Warnock, Aaron Abrams, Duff MacDonald, Andrew Stelmack, Christopher Crumb, Gerry Quigley, Peter MacNeill, Darrin Brown, John Healy, Peter Didiano, James Kirchner, Michael Langlois, Magdalena Alexander, Nola Augustson, Gino Marrocco, Mark Taylor, Sharron Matthews, Alec Stockwell, Chick Roberts, Isabella Fink, Beau Starr, Philip Craig, Roman Podhora, R.D. Reid, Michael Dyson, Sam Malkin, Tony Munch, Conrad Bergschneider, Richard Binsley, Ramona Pringle, Katrina Matthews Swain, Cooper Bracken, Jacob Bracken, Alon Nashman, Dominic Cuzzocrea, Neil Foster, Brian Jagersky, Ray Kerr, Tim Eddis, Dave Arkell, Debra Sherman, Joanne Ritcey, Alex Cairns, George Duff, Tom Anastasios, Timothy Burd, Krysta Carter, Rick Cordeiro, James Donohue, Mark Falvo, Conor Gomez, Carlos Henriques, Riva Lombardi, Robert-William McAlpine, Kennedy McGuckian, Liam McGuckian, Robert Morse, Michael C. Newsome, Andrew Martin Priestman, Riley Raymer, Jake Richards, Jason Ruta, Michael Sercerchi, John Shannon, Nick Smith, Nick Smyth, Michael Stevens, Derek Sypniewski, Egidio Tari, Marcello Tulipano, Nancy E.L. Ward.