Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Born on this day – Mark Twain:

Mark Twain


Writer

November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

Credits:

20 Mule Team (1940); A Borrowed Identity (1913); A Buckaroo Broadcast (1938); A Child of the Paris Streets (1916); A Front Page Story (1922); A Gambler's Way (1914); A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941); A House Divided (1931); A Lady to Love (1930); A Law Unto Himself (1914); A Man to Remember (1938); A Modern Melnotte (1914); A Night on the Road (1914); A Princess of Destiny (1929); A Romance of the Hills (1913); A Western Sister's Devotion (1913); A Western Welcome (1938); Adventures of Red Ryder (1940); Adventures of Rusty (1945); American Aristocracy (1916); An Old Fashioned Young Man (1917); Ann's Finish (1918); Arizona Nights (1927); Army Surgeon (1942); At the Postern Gate (1915); At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922); At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922); Aurora of the North (1914); Bad Man from Red Butte (1940); Bad Man of Deadwood (1941); Bandit Ranger (1942); Battle of Greed (1937); Be Neutral (1914); Beauty Parlor (1932); Beggars in Ermine (1934); Betty's Bandit (1912); Between Men (1935); Biff Bang Buddy (1924); Billy the Kid Returns (1938); Blazing Guns (1943); Blonde Trouble (1937); Blondie Johnson (1933); Bombardier (1943); Bonnie of the Hills (1913); Branded a Coward (1935); Broncho Billy and the Western Girls (1913); Broncho Billy Reforms (1913); Broncho Billy, Guardian (1914); Broncho Billy's Capture (1913); Broncho Billy's Elopement (1913); Broncho Billy's Strategy (1913); Burning Gold (1936); Cactus Capers (1942); Captain Calamity (1936); Captains Courageous (1937); Casey at the Bat (1916); Charity Castle (1917); Circumstantial Evidence (1935); City of Missing Girls (1941); Code of the Streets (1939); Colorado (1940); Common Clay (1930); Conflict (1936); Contented Calves (1934); Cornered (1932); Courage (1915); Crime Takes a Holiday (1938); Cyclone on Horseback (1941); Dangerous Intruder (1945); Dark Command (1940); Destry Rides Again (1939); Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939); Dog-Gone (1939); Don Mike (1927); Don Mike (1927); Don't Get Excited (1929); Drum Taps (1933); Dude Cowboy (1941); Dulcy (1940); East Side of Heaven (1939); Empty Saddles (1936); Enemy Agent (1940); Everyman's Law (1936); Fast and Furious (1931); Fighting to Live (1934); First Comes Courage (1943); For the Honor of Bettina (1915); Forgotten Girls (1940); Frontier Feud (1945); Frontier Gal (1945); Frontier Justice (1935); Get That Girl (1932); Ghost Patrol (1936); Git Along Little Wifie (1933); Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936); Going Up (1923); Greed for Gold (1913); Gun Law (1938); Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937); Gun Packer (1938); Gun Smoke (1935); Gunman's Code (1946); Hearts and Fists (1926); Hearts in Bondage (1936); Heavenly Days (1944); Her Country's Call (1917); Highways by Night (1942); Hollywood, ciudad de ensueño (1931); Home Boner (1939); Hoodoo Ann (1916); Hot Rhythm (1944); I Love That Man (1933); I Stole a Million (1939); I Was a Convict (1939); I'll Tell the World (1934); Impossible Susan (1918); In Love with Life (1934); In Name Only (1939); Intolerance (1916); Invisible Ghost (1941); Isle of Destiny (1940); It's in the Bag! (1945); Jesse James (1927); Jesse James at Bay (1941); Jilted Janet (1918); Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921); Kit Carson (1928); Lavender and Old Lace (1921); Lawless Empire (1945); Leave It to Dad (1933); Legion of Terror (1936); Legion of the Lawless (1940); Let's Be Fashionable (1920); Lightnin' Crandall (1937); Little Men (1940); Love Affair (1939); Love and the Law (1913); Love and Water (1914); Love on a Bet (1936); Love Your Landlord (1944); Lover Come Back (1946); Lucky Partners (1940); Madison Square Garden (1932); Mammy (1930); Man from Music Mountain (1938); Man's Desire (1919); Marry the Poor Girl (1921); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Mary's Ankle (1920); Melody Ranch (1940); Merrily Yours (1933); Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942); Midnight Molly (1925); Miss Jackie of the Army (1917); Missing Girls (1936); Mister Antonio (1929); Modern Times (1936); Molly Go Get 'Em (1918); Montana Moon (1930); Morning Glory (1933); Mr. Lucky (1943); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Murder in Times Square (1943); My Lady Friends (1921); My Little Chickadee (1940); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931); Never Too Late (1935); Night Parade (1929); Nina, the Flower Girl (1917); No More Women (1924); Northern Frontier (1935); Officer Thirteen (1932); Oh, Doctor (1937); Oh, What a Night! (1926); Oklahoma Frontier (1939); Old Dad (1920); On Probation (1935); On the Border Line (1912); One Man's Journey (1933); One More Spring (1935); Our Daily Bread (1934); Outlaws of Cherokee Trail (1941); Painted Desert (1938); Paper Bullets (1941); Park Avenue Logger (1937); Partners of the Trail (1944); Peck's Bad Boy (1934); Peggy Leads the Way (1917); Petticoat Larceny (1943); Phantoms, Inc. (1945); Pioneer Scout (1928); Pony Post (1940); Prairie Law (1940); Prairie Papas (1938); Prairie Spooners (1941); Pride of the Bowery (1940); Prison Break (1938); Prison Shadows (1936); Race Suicide (1938); Racing Blood (1936); Rainbow Valley (1935); Range Law (1944); Red River Robin Hood (1942); Red River Valley (1936); Red Skins and Red Heads (1941); Reformatory (1938); Reno (1939); Revenge at Monte Carlo (1933); Rhythm Wranglers (1937); Riders of the Dawn (1937); Roarin' Guns (1936); Robbers of the Range (1941); Rogue of the Range (1936); Roll Along, Cowboy (1937); Rosemary Climbs the Heights (1918); S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939); San Diego I Love You (1944); Sarong Girl (1943); Scaramouche (1923); Second Hand Rose (1922); Shine on Harvest Moon (1938); Ship Cafe (1935); Silent Men (1933); Silver Comes Through (1927); Silver Comes Through (1927); Sing Sing Nights (1934); Single Handed (1914); Sinister Hands (1932); Sister Kenny (1946); Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934); Slave Girl (1947); Slightly Married (1932); Snakeville's New Doctor (1914); So Long Letty (1929); So Red the Rose (1935); So This Is Washington (1943); Social Error (1935); Soft Shoes (1925); Son of Roaring Dan (1940); Song of the Eagle (1933); Songs and Saddles (1938); Sons of Steel (1934); Souls in Pawn (1940); Springtime in Texas (1945); Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942); Stars Over Arizona (1937); State's Attorney (1932); Stormy Trails (1936); Stranded (1916); Street of Missing Men (1939); Strictly in the Groove (1942); Sudan (1945); Sundown Saunders (1935); Sutter's Gold (1936); Swede Larson (1914); Swing, Sister, Swing (1938); Take the Heir (1930); Ten Laps to Go (1936); Tennessee Johnson (1942); Texas Gun Fighter (1932); That's the Spirit (1945); The Amazing Impostor (1919); The Arm of Vengeance (1914); The Atonement (1914); The Avenging Rider (1943); The Awakening (1914); The Barnstormers (1914); The Beauty Prize (1924); The Belle of Siskiyou (1913); The Big Shot (1937); The Border Patrolman (1936); The Boss of Big Town (1942); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Bridge of Sighs (1936); The Broken Parole (1913); The Broken Parole (1913); The Caravan Trail (1946); The Cheaters (1945); The Chef's Revenge (1915); The Children Pay (1916); The Chorus Lady (1924); The Conquest of Man (1914); The Cowboy Millionaire (1935); The Cowboy Samaritan (1913); The Crusader (1932); The Curtain Falls (1934); The Dance at Eagle Pass (1913); The Danger Point (1922); The Day the Bookies Wept (1939); The Desert Hawk (1944); The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949); The Dude Ranger (1934); The Edge of Things (1913); The Emerald Brooch (1915); The Episode at Cloudy Canyon (1913); The Eyes of Julia Deep (1918); The Feud Maker (1938); The Flying Irishman (1939); The Fox (1914); The Fox Woman (1915); The Galloping Fish (1924); The Gambling Terror (1937); The Ghost Rider (1935); The Girl in the Taxi (1921); The Gladiator (1938); The Gold Ghost (1934); The Great Meadow (1931); The Green Archer (1940); The Grim Messenger (1915); The Headline Woman (1935); The Heart of a Magdalene (1914); The Hills of Peace (1914); The Hired Girl (1915); The Honeymooners (1914); The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935); The House of Bentley (1915); The House of Intrigue (1919); The Intrusion of Isabel (1919); The Iron Claw (1941); The Jailbird (1920); The Kid Sheriff (1913); The Lady Who Dared (1930); The Last of the Duanes (1930); The Lawless Nineties (1936); The Lightning Rider (1924); The Little Liar (1916); The Lonely Trail (1936); The Lost Jungle (1934); The Man Who Walked Alone (1945); The Marshal of Mesa City (1939); The Merry Monahans (1944); The Midnight Warning (1932); The Milky Way (1936); The Missing Links (1916); The Musical Bandit (1941); The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943); The Naming of the Rawhide Queen (1913); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Nutcracker (1926); The Old Swimmin' Hole (1940); The Padrone's Ward (1914); The Perfect Clue (1935); The Phantom of Paris (1931); The Phantom Plainsmen (1942); The Primitive Woman (1918); The Rainbow Man (1929); The Ranger and the Lady (1940); The Rider of the Law (1935); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Rustler's Step-Daughter (1913); The Sable Lorcha (1915); The Savage Horde (1950); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Shadow (1940); The Sheriff of Cochise (1913); The Silver Bullet (1942); The Singing Cowgirl (1938); The Spanish Jade (1915); The Spoilers (1930); The Spoilers (1942); The Square Deal (1918); The Storm (1938); The Story of the Old Gun (1914); The Sunset Legion (1928); The Talkies (1929); The Three Gamblers (1913); The Trail of the Snake Band (1913); The Veiled Woman (1922); The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936); The Warning (1914); The Weaker's Strength (1914); The Widow in Scarlet (1932); The Wise Virgin (1924); The World Accuses (1934); The World Gone Mad (1933); The Zero Hour (1939); There Goes My Heart (1938); Thirteen Women (1932); This Is the Life (1914); This Land Is Mine (1943); Three Legionnaires (1937); Through Trackless Sands (1914); Thunder Mountain (1935); Thundering Hoofs (1942); Timber War (1935); Timber! (1942); Time Out of Mind (1947); Today I Hang (1942); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Too Much Beef (1936); Trail of Terror (1935); Trail of the Vigilantes (1940); Tramp Trouble (1937); Trigger Tom (1935); Triple Justice (1940); Trouble in Sundown (1939); Truth Aches (1939); Twin Beds (1920); Undercover Man (1936); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Untamed (1929); Valley of the Sun (1942); Vivacious Lady (1938); Wagon Train (1940); Water Rustlers (1939); West of Sonora (1948); West of the Rio Grande (1944); Westward Ho (1935); What Came to Bar Q (1914); What's Your Husband Doing? (1920); When the Daltons Rode (1940); Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County (1913); Wide Open (1930); Winds of the Wasteland (1936); Wives and Other Wives (1918); X Marks the Spot (1931); You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939).


Friday, June 7, 2024

Mark Twain, on books:


In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

- Mark Twain.


Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Mark Twain, on reading:

 

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain.