Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS: November 19

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Isabel Allende, on writing:

Write what should not be forgotten.

- Isabel Allende.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

by Ken Kesey.

Paperback.
First published 1962.
Published by Picador.

ISBN 13: 9780774033442
ISBN 10: 0774033444
ASIN: 0774033444

Description:

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.

In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax.

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

“BRILLIANT!” – Time.

Born on this day – Margaret Mayo:

Margaret Mayo

Writer

Actress

November 19, 1882 – February 25, 1951

Credits:

Teatro en Canal 13 (1997); Au théâtre ce soir (1966); Chuva de Filhos (1961); Mon bébé (1956); 'Minäkö isä!' (1954); Säg det med blommor (1952); Kraft Theatre (1947); Lluvia de hijos (1948); Twin Beds (1942); The Virginia Judge (1935); The Life of the Party (1934); Polly of the Circus (1932); The Spider (1931); Twin Beds (1929); Baby Mine (1928); The Marriage of William Ashe (1921); Twin Beds (1920); The Poor Boob (1919); Nearly Married (1917); Baby Mine (1917); Polly of the Circus (1917); A kölcsönkért csecsemök (1915); Behind the Scenes (1914); The Jungle (1914).

Born on this day – Bert Glennon:

Bert Glennon (left) and John Ford (right) filming Stagecoach (1939)

Bert Glennon

Cinematographer

Director

November 19, 1893 – June 29, 1967

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959–1964); The Man from Galveston (1963); G.E. True (1963); The Dakotas (1962–1963); Cheyenne (1961–1962); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1962); Surfside 6 (1960); Lawman (1960–1962); Lad: A Dog (1962); Maverick (1960–1961); The Roaring 20's (1961); Coronado 9 (1961); Sugarfoot (1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Sergeant Rutledge (1960); The Alaskans (1960); Bronco (1960); M Squad (1958–1960); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); Laramie (1959); The Betty Hutton Show (1959); Bonanza (1959); Markham (1959); Cimarron City (1959); The Restless Gun (1958); State Trooper (1958); Cavalcade of America (1957); Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Mad Magician (1954); Riding Shotgun (1954); Thunder Over the Plains (1953); Crime Wave (1953); The Moonlighter (1953); House of Wax (1953); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); About Face (1952); The Big Trees (1952); The Sea Hornet (1951); Operation Pacific (1951); Rio Grande (1950); Wagon Master (1950); Red Light (1949); Ruthless (1948); Copacabana (1947); Mr. District Attorney (1947); The Red House (1947); Shadow of a Woman (1946); Night and Day (1946); One More Tomorrow (1946); Rhythm on Ice (1946); Jan Savitt and His Band (1946); San Antonio (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Very Thought of You (1944); The Desert Song (1943); Destination Tokyo (1943); This Is the Army (1943); Vaudeville Days (1942); Desperate Journey (1942); Juke Girl (1942); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); The Tanks Are Coming (1941); Dive Bomber (1941); One Night in Lisbon (1941); Virginia (1941); The Reluctant Dragon (1941); The Howards of Virginia (1940); Our Town (1940); Swanee River (1939); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); The Rains Came (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Stagecoach (1939); The Young in Heart (1938); Kidnapped (1938); Swiss Miss (1938); The Hurricane (1937); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); Lloyd's of London (1936); Can This Be Dixie? (1936); Dimples (1936); Little Miss Nobody (1936); Half Angel (1936); The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936); Show Them No Mercy! (1935); Bad Boy (1935); Thunder in the Night (1935); Ginger (1935); Lottery Lover (1935); Hell in the Heavens (1934); She Was a Lady (1934); Grand Canary (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); Thru Thin and Thicket, or Who's Zoo in Africa (1933); Alice in Wonderland (1933); Morning Glory (1933); So This Is Harris (1933); Melody Cruise (1933); Gabriel Over the White House (1933); Christopher Strong (1933); Art in the Raw (1933); The Half-Naked Truth (1932); Blonde Venus (1932); South of Santa Fe (1932); In Line of Duty (1931); Heaven on Earth (1931); Paradise Island (1930); Around the Corner (1930); Girl of the Port (1930); Joy Ride (1929); Syncopation (1929); The Air Legion (1929); Gang War (1928); The Perfect Crime (1928); The Woman on Trial (1927); We're All Gamblers (1927); Underworld (1927); Barbed Wire (1927); Hotel Imperial (1927); Good and Naughty (1926); The Crown of Lies (1926); A Woman of the World (1925); Flower of Night (1925); Wild Horse Mesa (1925); Grounds for Divorce (1925); Are Parents People? (1925); Tomorrow's Love (1925); Worldly Goods (1924); Open All Night (1924); Changing Husbands (1924); Triumph (1924); The Ten Commandments (1923); You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923); Java Head (1923); Ebb Tide (1922); Burning Sands (1922); The Woman Who Walked Alone (1922); Moran of the Lady Letty (1922); A Daughter of the Law (1921); Nobody's Fool (1921); Moonlight Follies (1921); The Kiss (1921); Cheated Love (1921); The Dangerous Moment (1921); The Torrent (1921); The Society Bug (1920); The Kentucky Colonel (1920); A Scrambled Romance (1920); The Ragged Road to Romance (1920); Lightning Bryce (1919); The Eyes of the World (1917); Ramona (1916); The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914); A Hospital Hoax (1912).

Born on this day – Nancy Carroll:

Nancy Carroll

Actress

November 19, 1903 – August 6, 1965

Born on this day – Eleanor Audley:

Eleanor Audley

Actress

November 19, 1905 – November 25, 1991

Born on this day – Jack Schaefer:

Jack Schaefer

Writer

November 19, 1907 – January 1991

Credits:

Books:

Shane (1949); The Canyon (1953); The Pioneers (1954); First Blood (1954); Company of Cowards (1957); Out West (1959); Old Ramon (1960); Monte Walsh (1963); Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1966); Mavericks (1974); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1964); The Big Range (1953); First Blood and Other Stories (1954); The Kean Land (1960); Tales from the West (1961); The Plainsmen (1963); The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer (1966); The Great Endurance Horse Race (1963); Heroes Without Glory (1965); Jack Schaefer And The American West (1978); Conversations with a Pocket Gopher (1978).

Movies and television:

Advance to the Rear (1964); Cavalcade of America (1956); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Konyakçi (1965); Monte Walsh (1970 / 2003); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Shane (1953 / 1966); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978); Studio 57 (1957); The Silver Whip (1953); Tribute to a Bad Man (1956); Trooper Hook (1957).

Born on this day – Luke Short:

Luke Short

Writer

November 19, 1908 – August 18, 1975

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Great Western Stories (2000); A Man Could Get Killed (1980); Ambush (1950); And the Wind Blows Free (1943); Barren Land Showdown / aka Barren Land Murders (1951); Bold Rider (1938); Bold Rider / King Colt (1989); Bought with a Gun / aka Gun Bought Grant (1940); Bought with a Gun / Marauder's Moon (1989); Bounty Guns (1939); Brand of Empire (1937); Colt's Law (1957); Coroner Creek (1945); Crazy Rythmn / No Man's Range / Guns for a Peacemaker (1999); Dead Freight for Piute / aka Bull-Whip (1939); Debt of Honor (1968); Desert Crossing (1963); Donovan's Gun (1969); Fiddlefoot (1946); First Campaign (1965); First Claim (1960); Floodwater (1965); Frontier (1955); Gauntlet of Fire (1960); Great Tales of the West (1994); Gunfight! (1996); Gunman's Chance / aka Blood On the Moon (1941); Hard Money (1938); Hardcase (1941); High Vermilion / aka Hands Off! (1947); Hurricane Range (1959); King Cole (1980); King Colt (1937); Last Hunt (1963); Luke Short's Best of the West (1983); Man from the Desert (1979); Marauder's Moon (1937); Misery Lode (1964); Paper Sheriff (1966); Play a Lone Hand (1952); Raiders of the Rimrock (1938); Ramrod (1943); Raw Land (1940); Ride the Man Down (1942); Rimrock (1956); Saddle by Starlight (1953); Savage Range (1938); Show the Colors (1989); Silver Rock (1953); Station West (1947); Summer of the Smoke (1958); Sunset Graze (1942); The Best of the American West (1998); The Branded Man (1936); The Deserters (1976); The Feud At Single Shot (1936); The Gold Rustlers (1959); The Guns of Hanging Lake (1969); The Jackleg Sheriff (1989); The Man from Two Rivers (1975); The Man on the Blue (1936); The Marshal of Vengeance (1985); The Outrider (1989); The Primrose Try (1967); The Some-Day Country (1970); The Stalkers (1973); The Whip (1958); Three for the Money (1970); Trigger Country (1965); Trouble Country (1976); Trumpets West! (1951); Vengeance Valley (1949); War on the Cimarron (1939); War Whoop and Battle Cry (1968); Weary Range (1960); Western Bonanza (1969); Western Freight (1960).

Movies and television:

Albuquerque (1948); Ambush (1950); Blood on the Moon (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Hell's Outpost (1954); Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941); Ramrod (1947); Ride the Man Down (1952); Silver City (1951); Stage 7 (1955); Station West (1948); Suspense (1951); The Hangman (1959); Vengeance Valley (1951); Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1960).

Born on this day – Gene Tierney:

Gene Tierney

Actress

November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991

Born on this day – Luisella Beghi:

Luisella Beghi

Actress

November 19, 1922 – September 9, 2006

Born on this day – Etchika Choureau:

Etchika Choureau

Actress

November 19, 1929 – January 25, 2022

Credits:

Angélique (1964); Children of Love (1953); Darby's Rangers (1958); Ein Mädchen aus Paris (1954); Escalier de service (1954); Fruits of Summer (1955); Heart of the Festival (2002); I colpevoli (1957); La prostitution (1963); Lafayette Escadrille (1958); L'envers du paradis (1953); Les lumières du soir (1956); Paris au mois d'août (1966); Sulle strade di notte (1956); Tab Hunter Confidential (2015); The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955); The Scheming Women (1954); The Vanquished (1953); Tides of Passion (1956); Toute la ville accuse (1956).

On this day in movie history - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

directed by Miloš Forman,

written by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman,

based on the novel by Ken Kesey,

was released in the United States on November 19, 1975.

Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Mwako Cumbuka, Danny DeVito, William Duell, Josip Elic, Lan Fendors, Louise Fletcher, Nathan George, Ken Kenny, Mel Lambert, Sydney Lassick, Kay Lee, Christopher Lloyd, Dwight Marfield, Ted Markland, Louisa Moritz, William Redfield, Philip Roth, Will Sampson, Mimi Sarkisian, Mews Small, Delos V. Smith, Tin Welch, Brad Dourif, Aurore Clément, Bill Gratton, Anjelica Huston, Ingeborg Kjeldsen, Audrey Landers, Tom McCall, James V. Shore, Saul Zaentz.