Lloyd Alexander, on reading:

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

- Lloyd Alexander.

Born on this day – Frances Marion:

Frances Marion

Writer

Director

November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973

Credits:

Dinner at Eight (1989); The Champ (1979); The Clown (1953); The Pirate (1948); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); Miss Susie Slagle's (1946); Molly and Me (1945); Without Love (1945); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Tish (1942); Northwest Passage (1940); Green Hell (1940); Rosalie (1937); Knight Without Armor (1937); Maytime (1937); A Night of Terror (1937); The Good Earth (1937); Camille (1936); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Riffraff (1935); Going Hollywood (1933); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); Dinner at Eight (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); Peg o' My Heart (1933); The White Sister (1933); Secrets (1933); Cynara (1932); Smilin' Through (1932); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Emma (1932); Menschen hinter Gittern (1931); Big House (1931); Daybreak (1931); The Secret 6 (1931); The Bachelor Father (1931); Forever Yours (1930); Anna Christie (1930); Min and Bill (1930); El presidio (1930); Wu Li Chang (1930); Good News (1930); Let Us Be Gay (1930); The Big House (1930); In Gay Madrid (1930); Anna Christie (1930); The Rogue Song (1930); Their Own Desire (1929); The Pagan (1929); The Bellamy Trial (1929); The Masks of the Devil (1928); The Awakening (1928); The Wind (1928); Excess Baggage (1928); The Mysterious Lady (1928); Kit Carson (1928); The Cossacks (1928); The Sunset Legion (1928); Bringing Up Father (1928); Pioneer Scout (1928); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Jesse James (1927); Madame Pompadour (1927); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); Silver Comes Through (1927); Mr. Wu (1927); The Red Mill (1927); Don Mike (1927); The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926); Lone Hand Saunders (1926); The Scarlet Letter (1926); The Son of the Sheik (1926); The Two-Gun Man (1926); Hands Across the Border (1926); Paris at Midnight (1926); Partners Again (1926); The Tough Guy (1926); The First Year (1926); Stella Dallas (1925); Simon the Jester (1925); Lazybones (1925); Thank You (1925); Ridin' the Wind (1925); The Dark Angel (1925); Graustark (1925); Lightnin' (1925); Zander the Great (1925); His Supreme Moment (1925); The Lady (1925); A Thief in Paradise (1925); Sundown (1924); Thundering Hoofs (1924); In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924); Tarnish (1924); Cytherea (1924); Secrets (1924); Galloping Gallagher (1924); The Mask of Lopez (1924); The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924); Through the Dark (1924); The Song of Love (1923); Potash and Perlmutter (1923); The French Doll (1923); Dulcy (1923); The Love Piker (1923); The Eagle's Talons (1923); Within the Law (1923); The Nth Commandment (1923); The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923); The Voice from the Minaret (1923); Minnie (1922); The Toll of the Sea (1922); East Is West (1922); The Eternal Flame (1922); Sonny (1922); The Primitive Lover (1922); Back Pay (1922); Just Around the Corner (1921); Straight Is the Way (1921); The Love Light (1921); The Restless Sex (1920); The World and His Wife (1920); Go and Get It (1920); Humoresque (1920); The Flapper (1920); Pollyanna (1920); The Cinema Murder (1919); Anne of Green Gables (1919); A Regular Girl (1919); The Dark Star (1919); The Misleading Widow (1919); Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919); The Temple of Dusk (1918); Johanna Enlists (1918); The Goat (1918); He Comes Up Smiling (1918); The City of Dim Faces (1918); How Could You, Jean? (1918); M'Liss (1918); Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918); Stella Maris (1918); A Little Princess (1917); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917); The Amazons (1917); Beloved Adventuress (1917); The Divorce Game (1917); The Stolen Paradise (1917); The Crimson Dove (1917); Forget-Me-Not (1917); As Man Made Her (1917); The Social Leper (1917); The Web of Desire (1917); The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917); A Girl's Folly (1917); A Square Deal (1917); A Hungry Heart (1917); Tillie Wakes Up (1917); On Dangerous Ground (1917); A Woman Alone (1917); The Rise of Susan (1916); All Man (1916); Bought and Paid For (1916); The Heart of a Hero (1916); The Hidden Scar (1916); The Gilded Cage (1916); The Revolt (1916); Friday the 13th (1916); The Summer Girl (1916); A Woman's Way (1916); The Crucial Test (1916); La vie de Bohème (1916); Tangled Fates (1916); The Battle of Hearts (story: Woman Against the Sea (1916); The Feast of Life (1916); The Social Highwayman (1916); Then I'll Come Back to You (1916); The Yellow Passport (1916); A Circus Romance (1916); The Foundling (1916); Camille (1915); A Daughter of the Sea (1915); Esmeralda (1915); The Foundling (1915); Rags (1915); A Sister's Burden (1915); Fanchon, the Cricket (1915); The Wild Girl from the Hills (1915); The Jest of Jealousy (1915); A Girl of Yesterday (1915); The New York Hat (1912).

Born on this day – Irvin Willat:

Irvin Willat

Director

November 18, 1890 – April 17, 1976

Credit:

A Daughter of the Wolf (1919); All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923); Always in the Way (1915); America (1914); Back to God's Country (1927); Behind the Door (1919); Below the Surface (1920); Civilization (1915); Damaged Love (1931); Down Home (1920); Fifty Candles (1921); Fog Bound (1923); In Slumberland (1917); Luck of Roaring Camp (1937); North of 36 (1924); Old Louisiana (1937); On the High Seas (1922); One of Millions (1914); Paradise (1926); Partners of the Tide (1921); Pawned (1922); Rugged Water (1925); Rustling a Bride (1919); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 19 (1921); Submarine (1928); The Air Mail (1925); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Cavalier (1928); The Covered Wagon (1923); The Enchanted Hill (1926); The Face of the World (1921); The False Faces (1919); The Grim Game (1919); The Guilty Man (1918); The Heritage of the Desert (1924); The Isle of Lost Ships (1929); The Law of the North (1918); The Michigan Kid (1928); The Midnight Patrol (1918); The Siren Call (1922); The Story Without a Name (1924); The Toss of a Coin (1911); The Zeppelin's Last Raid (1917); Three Miles Out (1924); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914); Under Strange Flags (1937); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924); Yellow Men and Gold (1922).

Born on this day – H. Bruce Humberstone:

H. Bruce Humberstone

Director

November 18, 1901 – October 11, 1984

Born this day – Georgia Carroll:

Georgia Carroll

Singer

Model

Actress

November 18, 1919 – January 14, 2011

Credits:

Around the World (1943); Carolina Blues (1944); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Cover Girl (1944); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); G.I. Journal (1944); Girl Crazy (1943); Maisie Was a Lady (1941); eet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival (1940); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941); Navy Blues (1941); Play Girl (1941); Screen Snapshots 2856: It Was Only Yesterday (1950); Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (1948); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Off the Air (1947); The Falcon's Brother (1942); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941); The Playgirls (1942); Thousands Cheer (1943); Unusual Occupations (1947); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); You're in the Army Now (1941); Ziegfeld Girl (1941).

Born on this day – Jocelyn Brando:

Jocelyn Brando

Actress

Writer

November 18, 1919 – November 27, 200

Credits:

87th Precinct (1961); A Question of Love (1978); Actor's Studio (1948–1949); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959–1961); Arrest and Trial (1963); Buckskin (1959); Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965); Checkmate (1961); China Venture (1953); Combat Fatigue Irritability (1945); Coronado 9 (1960); Dallas (1979); Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981); Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Darkroom (1981); Dr. Kildare (1963); Frontier Circus (1961); General Electric Theater (1956–1960); Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979); Here's Hollywood (1962); Ironside (1969); Kojak (1977); Kraft Theatre (1951); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1956); Laramie (1960–1961); Little House on the Prairie (1975); Love of Life (1951–1980); Lux Playhouse (1959); M Squad (1959); Markham (1960); Mommie Dearest (1981); Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On (2006); Movie Movie / Segments: Dynamite Hands / Baxter's Beauties of 1933 (1978); My Three Sons (1964); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Nightfall (1956); Official Detective (1957); Omnibus / Segment: The Gold Dress (1953); One Step Beyond (1959); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1958); Riverboat (1960); Shotgun Slade (1961); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); State Trooper (1959); Step Down to Terror (1958); Studio 57 (1955); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Ten Wanted Men (1955); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Big Heat (1953); The Chase (1966); The Explosive Generation (1961); The Major and the Minor (1958); The Millionaire (1958); The Rebels: Marlon Brando (1981); The Tall Man (1961); The Ugly American (1963); The Virginian (1963–1969); The World of Mr. Sweeney (1955); Thriller (1960–1962); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Why Would I Lie? (1980).

Born on this day – David Hemmings:

David Hemmings

Actor

Director

Producer

Singer

Songwriter

November 18, 1941 – December 3, 2003

On this day in movie history - A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

A Woman Under the Influence

directed and written by John Cassavetes,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1974.

Music by Bo Harwood.

Cast:

Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Labyorteaux, Matthew Cassel, Christina Grisanti, George Dunn, Mario Gallo, Eddie Shaw, Angelo Grisanti, Charles Horvath, James Joyce, John Finnegan, Cliff Carnell, Frank Richards, Hugh Hurd, Leon Wagner, Dominique Davalos, Xan Cassavetes, Pancho Meisenheimer, Sonny Aprile, Ellen Davalos, Joanne Moore Jordan, John Hawker, Sylvester Words, Elizabeth Deering, Jackie Peters, Elsie Ames, N.J. Cassavetes.

On this day in movie and novel history - A Christmas Story (1983)

A Christmas Story

directed by Bob Clark,

written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark,

based on the book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, by Jean Shepherd,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1983.

Narrated by Jean Shepherd.

Music by Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer.

Cast:

Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz, Jean Shepherd, Ian Petrella, Tedde Moore, R.D. Robb, Zack Ward, Yano Anaya, Jeff Gillen, Peter Billingsley, Fox, Paul Hubbard, Leslie Carlson, Jim Hunter, Patty Johnson, Drew Hocevar, David Svoboda, Dwayne McLean, Helen E. Kaider, John Wong, Johan Sebastian Wong, Fred Lee, Dan Ma, Rocco Bellusci, Tommy Wallace, Court Benson, Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, Giada Dobrzenska, Dave Duff, Don Geyer, Kathryn Hayzer, Gary Jones, John Kennedy, Bill Kravitz, Jordan-Patrick Marcantonio, Julie Matthews, Christine Powrie, Quinn Smith, Kristephan Warren-Stevens.

This is one of my favorite Christmas movies…much more enjoyable when I get to catch a showing or two on Christmas Day.

We had the opportunity to visit the Christmas Story house in Cleveland a few years back – fun!

**

Recommended reading:

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

by Jean Shepherd.

Filmed as A Christmas Story (1983), directed by Bob Clark.

Published by Broadway Books.

Published 1966.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0385021747

ISBN-13: 978-0385021746

Description:

A collection of humorous and nostalgic Americana stories – the beloved, bestselling classics that inspired the movie A Christmas Story.

Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant – and utterly hilarious – works of comic art. In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.

In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage “You can never go back.” Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth.

A comic genius who bridged the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.

“Shepherd has a fine eye for absurdity, for the madness and idiocy in all of us.” – Best Sellers.

On this day in movie history - Last Rites (1988)

Last Rites

directed and written by Donald P. Bellisario,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1988.

Music by Bruce Broughton.

Cast:

Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Dane Clark, Paul Dooley, Vassili Lambrinos, Adrian Paul, Deborah Pratt, Tony DiBenedetto, Christine Poor, Al Rodrigo, Jack Hallett, Louis Gigante, Ibi Kaufman, Frank Patton III, Maurizio Benazzo, Roberto Corbo, Leslie Arnett, Ernesto González, Mary Diveny, Julie Kenyon, Lynda Jordan, Tony Lip, Damien Leake, Phil Neilson, Peter J. Blanck, Shawn Gold, Ricky Rojas, Frank Simpson, Anthony Bishop, Tony Montana, Chelsea Berenger, Lisa Berenger, Troian Bellisario, Michael Bellisario, Kristin Andersen, Fernando Ramírez Romero.

On this day in movie history - Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Star Trek: Generations

directed by David Carson,

written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1994.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Alan Ruck, Jacqueline Kim, Jenette Goldstein, Thomas Kopache, Glenn Morshower, Tim Russ, Tommy Hinkley, John Putch, Christine Jansen, Michael Mack, Dendrie Taylor, Patti Yasutake, Granville Ames, Henry Marshall, Brittany Parkyn, Majel Barrett, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh, Rif Hutton, Brian Thompson, Marcy Goldman, Jim Krestalude, Judy Levitt, Kristopher Logan, Gwen Van Dam, Kim Braden, Christopher James Miller, Matthew Collins, Mimi Collins, Thomas Dekker, Madison Eginton, Olivia Hack, Sam Alejan, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Scott Barry, Rina Bennett, Pam Blackwell, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Andrew DePalma, Steve Diamond, Michael Echols, Tarik Ergin, Gunnel Eriksson, Whoopi Goldberg, Star Halm, Adolphus Hankins, Grace Harrell, Kerry Hoyt, Gary Hunter, Randy James, Dale Kasman, Stewart Lew, Lorine Mendell, Karlotta Nelson, Jerry L. Quinn, Keith Rayve, Raul Reformina, Lynn Salvatori, Richard Sarstedt, Penny Smartt-Juday, Patricia Tallman, John Alex Tampoya, Dennis Tracy, Guy Vardaman, D. Danny Warhol.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation, Generations, Voyager, Discovery (1989, 1994, 1998, 2021)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: The Vengeance Factor.

Released November 18, 1989.

Directed by Timothy Bond.

Written by Sam Rolfe, Richard Danus.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Lisa Wilcox, Joey Aresco, Nancy Parsons, Stephen Lee, Marc Lawrence, Elkanah Burns, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Michael Braveheart, Clay Hodges, Michael Lamper, Tim McCormack, Oliver Theess.

 

Star Trek: Generations

Directed by David Carson.

Written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga.

Released in the United States on November 18, 1994.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Alan Ruck, Jacqueline Kim, Jenette Goldstein, Thomas Kopache, Glenn Morshower, Tim Russ, Tommy Hinkley, John Putch, Christine Jansen, Michael Mack, Dendrie Taylor, Patti Yasutake, Granville Ames, Henry Marshall, Brittany Parkyn, Majel Barrett, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh, Rif Hutton, Brian Thompson, Marcy Goldman, Jim Krestalude, Judy Levitt, Kristopher Logan, Gwen Van Dam, Kim Braden, Christopher James Miller, Matthew Collins, Mimi Collins, Thomas Dekker, Madison Eginton, Olivia Hack, Sam Alejan, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Scott Barry, Rina Bennett, Pam Blackwell, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Andrew DePalma, Steve Diamond, Michael Echols, Tarik Ergin, Gunnel Eriksson, Whoopi Goldberg, Star Halm, Adolphus Hankins, Grace Harrell, Kerry Hoyt, Gary Hunter, Randy James, Dale Kasman, Stewart Lew, Lorine Mendell, Karlotta Nelson, Jerry L. Quinn, Keith Rayve, Raul Reformina, Lynn Salvatori, Richard Sarstedt, Penny Smartt-Juday, Patricia Tallman, John Alex Tampoya, Dennis Tracy, Guy Vardaman, D. Danny Warhol.

 

Star Trek: Generations

by John Vornholt.

Published by Pocket Books.
Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 0671519018
ISBN-13: 978-0671519018

Description:

The story begins with the launching of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B and the mysterious disappearance of Captain James T. Kirk. Then, seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D receives a distress call from a remote scientific observatory. Picard learns that a newly developed superweapon has been stolen by a desperate scientist with an insane plot. Facing the most difficult task of his career, Captain Picard must seek out the one person with the power to help him, a person long thought dead: Captain James T. Kirk. Together, the two captains are tested as they've never been before. And both men are forced to make the greatest sacrifices of their careers to save countless millions from a madman with a plan for mass destruction.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 5. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Timeless.

Released November 18, 1998.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Rick Berman, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Christine Harnos, LeVar Burton, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Richard Sarstedt.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 4. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Kobayashi Maru.

Released November 18, 2021.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michelle Paradise, Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman, Glenise Mullins, 

Brandon Schultz.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast:

Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Ian Alexander, Chelah Horsdal, Bill Irwin, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Sara Mitich, Raven Dauda, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Orville Cummings, Luca Doulgeris, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Ache Hernandez, Vanessa Jackson, Jodi Jahnke, Avaah Blackwell, Alex McCooeye, David Sobolov, Adrian Walters, Victoria Dunsmore, Golden Madison, Shelley Owens.

On this day in movie history - Walk the Line (2005)

Walk the Line

directed by James Mangold,

written by Gill Dennis and James Mangold,

based on the book Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words

and Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash,

was released in the United States on November 18, 2005.

Music by T Bone Burnett.

 

Cast:

Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, McGhee Monteith, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Shelby Lynne, Tyler Hilton, Waylon Payne, Shooter Jennings, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Dan Beene, Clay Steakley, Johnathan Rice, Johnny Holiday, Ridge Canipe, Lucas Till.