On this day in movie history - Woman on the Run (1950)

Woman on the Run

directed by Norman Foster,

written by Alan Campbell, Norman Foster and Ross Hunter,

based on the short story Man on the Run by Sylvia Tate,

was released in the United States on November 29, 1950.

Music by Arthur Lange and Emil Newman.

Cast:

Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks, Ross Elliott, Jane Liddell, Joan Shawlee, J. Farrell MacDonald, Steven Geray, Victor Sen Yung, Reiko Sato, Syd Saylor, Milton Kibbee, Tom Dillon.

On this day in movie history - The Lost Weekend (1945)

The Lost Weekend

directed by Billy Wilder,

written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder,

based on the novel by Charles R. Jackson,

was released in the United States on November 29, 1945.

Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Bolster, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth, Lewis Russell, Harry Tenbrook, Gene Ashley, Walter Baldwin, Harry Barris, Ian Begg, Eddie Borden, Jess Lee Brooks, Jack Rube Clifford, David Clyde, James Conaty, Willa Pearl Curtis, John Deauville, Helen Dickson, Clark Eggleston, Franklyn Farnum, John Garris, Dick Gordon, Jayne Hazard, Ted Hecht, Ernest Hilliard, Earle Hyman, Jerry James, Stan Johnson, Jack W. Johnston, Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky, Eddie Laughton, Perc Launders, Theodora Lynch, Bertram Marburgh, William Meader, James Millican, Frank Mills, Pat Moriarity, William Newell, William O'Leary, Peter Potter, Mark Power, Stanley Price, Craig Reynolds, The San Francisco Opera Company, Lester Sharpe, Lee Shumway, Sophie (the dog), Douglas Spencer, Al Stewart, Bunny Sunshine, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Emmett Vogan, Max Wagner, Milton Wallace, Gisela Werbisek, Crane Whitley, Ernest Whitman, Isabel Withers, Audrey Young.

Born on this day – Tom Sizemore:

Actor

November 29, 1961 – March 3, 2023

Born on this day – Fran Ryan:

Actress

November 29, 1916 – January 15, 2000

Born on this day – Mildred Harris:

Actress

November 29, 1901 – July 20, 1944

Born on this day – Genevieve Tobin:

Actress

November 29, 1899 – July 31, 1995

Born on this day – C. S. Lewis:

Writer

November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963

Credits:

Out of the Silent Planet (1938); Perelandra (1944); That Hideous Strength / The Tortured Planet (1945); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950); Prince Caspian (1951); The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952); The Silver Chair (1953); The Horse and His Boy (1954); The Magician's Nephew (1955); The Last Battle (1956); A Book of Narnians (1950); Lucy Steps Through the Wardrobe (1997); Edmund and the White Witch (1997); Aslan (1998); Aslan's Triumph (1998); Uncle Andrew's Troubles (1998); The Wood Between the Worlds (1999); The Pilgrim's Regress (1933); The Screwtape Letters (1942); The Great Divorce (1945); Till We Have Faces (1956); Screwtape Proposes A Toast (1965); Boxen (1985); The Problem of Pain (1940); Case for Christianity (1942); Mere Christianity (1943); The Abolition of Man (1943); Miracles (1947); Surprised by Joy (1955); Reflections on the Psalms (1958); The Four Loves (1960); A Grief Observed (1961); Christian Reflections (1967); The Joyful Christian (1977); Of This and Other Worlds (1982); The Business of Heaven (1984); From Narnia To Space Odyssey (written with Arthur C. Clarke) (2003); The Weight of Glory (2016); How to Be a Christian (2018); On Writing (2022); Spirits in Bondage (1919); Poems (1964); Narrative Poems (1969); The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set (1956); The Chronicles of Narnia Collector's Edition (2014); George MacDonald (1946); The Late Great Future (1976); Over the Rainbow (1983); The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (1988); Horse & Pony Stories (1992); Spellbound (1995); We Remember C. S. Lewis: Essays & Memoirs (2001); Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Mere Christians (2009); Called to Community (2016); Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together (2021); Finding the Kingdom: Discover a Faith that is Costly, Rich, Alive & True (2023).

Born on this day – Lucille Hegamin:

Blues singer

November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970

Born on this day – Otis Turner:

Director

Writer

Producer

November 29, 1862 – March 28, 1918

Born on this day – Louisa May Alcott:

Writer

November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888

Credits:
 
Including titles with Madeleine B. Stern and Susan Beth Pfeffer:
 

Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868); Good Wives (1869); Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871); Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (1886); Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872); Shawl-Straps (1872); Cupid and Chow Chow (1873); My Girls (1877); Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. (1879); An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (1882); Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875); Rose in Bloom (1876); The Inheritance (1849); Moods (1864); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869); Work (1873); A Modern Mephistopheles (1877); Under the Lilacs (1878); Jack & Jill (1880); Proverb Stories (1882); Lulu's Library (1886); A Long Fatal Love Chase (1995); Flower Fables (1854); A Modern Cinderella (1860); On Picket Duty, and Other Tales (1864); A Marble Woman (1865); Behind a Mask (1867); Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (1882); Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884); A Garland for Girls (1887); A Whisper in the Dark (1889); The Louisa Alcott Reader (1908); Glimpses of Louisa (1968); Short Stories (1968); Plots and Counterplots (1976); An Intimate Anthology (1980); Selected Fiction (1980); Hidden Louisa May Alcott (1984); Works of Louisa May Alcott (1986); A Double Life (1988); Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories (1992); The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott (1993); Louisa May Alcott Unmasked (1995); Modern Magic (1995); The Quiet Little Woman (1999); The Poems of Louisa May Alcott (2000); The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 (2000); Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury (2002); The Brownie and the Princess & Other Stories (2004); Doctor Dorn's Revenge and A Strange Island (2007); The Candy Country and How They Ran Away (2008); Morning-Glories (2009); The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott (2012); Sisters (2017); A Vintage Christmas (2018); May Flowers (2019); A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories (2019); Transcendental Wild Oats (1873); Marjorie's Three Gifts (1899); Diana & Persis (1978); Kate's Choice (2001); Debby's Debut (2010); Love and Self Love (2010); Pauline's Passion and Punishment (1862); The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treheme's Temptation (1867); Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse (1869); Poppies and Wheat (1900); Trudel's Siege (1976); Scarlet Stockings (2004); The Baron's Gloves (2005); Silver Pitchers and Independence (2007); Little Button Rose (2008); The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (2010); The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts (2013); The Death of John (2013); The Cross on the Old Church Tower (2013); On Picket Duty (2014); Doctor Dorn's Revenge (2015); Effie's Christmas Dream (2015); The Dolls' Journey (2015); The Blind Lark (2016); Comic Tragedies (2016); How They Ran Away (2016); Sophie's Secret (2016); Lilybell and Thistledown (2016); The Brownie and the Princess (2017); Kitty's Class Day (2018); Pansies and Water-Lilies (2018); The Mysterious Key (2019); Lost in a Pyramid (2019); Civil War Hospital Sketches (1863); Hospital Sketches (1863); Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866); Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889); The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott (1987); The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott (1989); The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 (1993); Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery (1997); The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott (2001); Louisa May Alcott's Civil War (2006); Meg's Story (1997); Jo's Story (1997); Beth's Story (1997); Amy's Story (1997); Meg Makes a Friend (1998); Jo Makes a Friend (1998); Beth Makes a Friend (1998); Amy Makes a Friend (1998); Christmas Dreams (1998); A Gift for Jo (1999); A Gift for Meg (1999); A Gift for Amy (1999); Birthday Wishes (1999); Ghostly Tales (2000); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); Women Who Wrote (2020); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023).

 

Movie and television adaptations:
 

Louisa's Legacy: Little Women and Orchard House (2020); Little Women (2019); Radioteatro de Navidad de la Cadena Ser (2018); I riassuntini (2018); Little Women (2018); Little Women (2017); A Frozen Christmas (2016); The Inheritance (2013); The March Sisters at Christmas (2012); An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008); Great Performances (2001); Little Men (1998-1999); Little Men (1998); The Inheritance (1997); Little Women (1994); Wakakusa monogatari nan to Jô sensei (1993); Quattro piccole donne (1989); Ai no wakakusa monogatari (1987); No hay por qué llorar (1985); Wakakusa monogatari yori wakakusa no yonshimai (1981); Little Women (1980); Little Women (1979); Little Women (1978); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1976); NBC Special Treat (1975); Adorables mujercitas (1974); Mujercitas (1973); Little Women (1970); NBC Children's Theatre (1969); Novela (1964–1967); Dai lu nian hua (1967); Rosella (1964); Mujercitas (1963); Mujercitas (1962); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960–1961); La Hora Fate (1960); Jo's Boys (1959); Mulherzinhas (1959); Little Women (1958); Good Wives (1958); Little Women (1958); Primavera (1958); Xiao fu ren (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Matinee Theatre (1956); Fu Lan jie jie (1956); A Girl Called Jo (1956); Piccole donne (1955); Encounter (1955); Music and Macaroni (1955); Little Women (1950–1951); Studio One (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Little Women (1949); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949); Little Women (1946); Little Men (1940); Little Women (1939); Little Men (1934); Little Women (1933); Little Women (1918); Little Women (1917).

Jhumpa Lahiri, on fiction:

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.