Born on this day – Margot Grahame:

 

Margot Grahame

Actress

February 20, 1911 – January 1, 1982

Credits:

A Letter of Warning (1932); Black Magic (1949); Broken Journey (1948); Compromised (1930); Counterfeit (1936); Crime Over London (1936); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Easy Money (1934); Eight to a Bar (1952); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Forever Amber (1947); Forging Ahead (1933); Glamour (1931); Hotel Imperial (1958); House of Dreams (1934); I Adore You (1933); Illegal (1932); ITV Television Playhouse (1959); King's Rhapsody (1957); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1956); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Naughty Arlette (1949); Night Waitress (1936); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Orders Are Orders (1954); Postal Orders (1932); Prince of Arcadia (1933); Rheingold Theatre (1956); Saint Joan (1957); Sorrell and Son (1933); Stamboul (1931); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); The Arizonian (1935); The Assassin (1952); The Beggar's Opera (1953); The Buccaneer (1938); The Crimson Pirate (1952); The Fabulous Joe (1947); The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947); The Inch Man (1951); The Informer (1935); The Limping Man (1931); The Love Habit (1931); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1958); The Rosary (1931); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Three Musketeers (1935); Timbuctoo (1933); Trouble Ahead (1934); Two in the Dark (1936); Uneasy Virtue (1931); Vagabond Violinist (1934); Whacko! (1957); Why Saps Leave Home (1932); Without You (1934); Yes, Mr. Brown (1933).

On this day in movie and book history - Two in the Dark (1936) and Two O'clock Courage (1934)

Two in the Dark

directed by Benjamin Stoloff,

written by Gelett Burgess, Willis Goldbeck and Seton I. Miller,

based on the novel Two O'clock Courage by Gelett Burgess,

was released in the United States on January 10, 1936.

Music by Alberto Colombo.

Cast:

Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick, Alan Hale, Leslie Fenton, Eric Blore, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Erik Rhodes, J. Carrol Naish, Jack Randall, Ernie Alexander, Ward Bond, Harry Bowen, Nora Cecil, James Conaty, Fern Emmett, Gaston Glass, Russell Hicks, Richard Howard, Arthur Hoyt, Frank Mayo, Tom McGuire, Hector V. Sarno, C. Montague Shaw, Pierre Watkin, Thelma White.

Recommended reading:

 

Two O’clock Courage

by Gelett Burgess.
 
Filmed as Two in the Dark (1936), directed by Benjamin Stoloff.
 
ASIN: B005D2SGQU
Published by Surinam Turtle Press.
Published 1934.
Hardcover.
 
Description:
 

This 1934 thriller is the third book under Richard A. Lupoff's Surinam Turtle imprint. A man wakes up in a park and can't remember who he is. But thanks to the help of a couple of intriguing women, he manages to remain free from arrest for a murder he MAY have committed. But he simply must figure out his identity before the cops -- or the murderer -- catch up with him. The story was made into a film called TWO IN THE DARK and the plot has been used in later films and books (notably Evan Hunter's BUDDWING and a British film called HYSTERIA) but no one has done it with the skill and style of Gelett Burgess.