Showing posts with label November 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November 8. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

On this day in music history - The album Christmas Picante - Remastered, by Veeronna Ragone & Sherry Finzer (2019)


Christmas Picante - Remastered

by Veeronna Ragone & Sherry Finzer

was released on November 8, 2019.




On this day in movie history - Doctor Sleep (2019)


Doctor Sleep

directed and written by Mike Flanagan,

based on the novel by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on November 8, 2019.

Music by The Newton Brothers.

Cast:
Ewan McGregor, Roger Dale Floyd, Danny Lloyd, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Dakota Hickman, Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Cliff Curtis, Robert Longstreet, Carel Struycken, Alex Essoe, Zackary Momoh, Jacob Tremblay, Henry Thomas, Catherine Parker, Met Clark, Selena Anduze, James Flanagan, Violet McGraw, Bethany Anne Lind, Sadie Heim, KK Heim, Kaitlyn McCormick, Molly Jackson, Sallye Hooks, Michael Monks, Hugh Maguire.

On this day in movie history - Ransom (1996)


Ransom

directed by Ron Howard,

written by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon,

based on a story by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum,

was released in the United States on November 8, 1996.

Music by James Horner.

Cast:
Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo, Lili Taylor, Liev Schreiber, Donnie Wahlberg, Evan Handler, Nancy Ticotin, Michael Gaston, Kevin Neil McCready, Paul Guilfoyle, Allen Bernstein, José Zúñiga, Dan Hedaya, Iraida Polanco, John Ortiz, Mike Hodge, Paul Geier, Louisa Marie, Edward Francis Joseph, A.J. Benza, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Tony Hoty, Daniel May Wong, John Short, Ed Jupp Jr., Stephen Oates, Gene Harrison, Mick O'Rourke, Henry Kingi Jr., Roy Farfel, Lex D. Geddings, Donna Hanover, Rosanna Scotto, Tony Potts, John Finnerty, Todd Hallowell, Joe Bacino, Carl S. Redding, James Georgiades, Christian Maelen, David Vadim, Addie O'Donnell, Judy Hudson, Mitzie Pratt, Lynne Redding, Michael Countryman, Chris Lopata, John Hartmann, Anton Evangelista, Richard Price, Joseph Badalucco Jr., Dell Maara, Tommy Allen, John Dorish, Brad Brewer, Darren Brown, Marvin Brown, Glenn King, Cheryl Howard, James Ritz, Anna Marie Wieder, Joan D. Lowry, Craig Castaldo, Teodorina Bello, Jane Jenkins, Lori Tan Chinn, Carl Don, Nathaniel Freeman, Phil Parolisi, Rafael Osorio, Leslie Devlin, Lewis Dodley, John Brian Rogers, Jeffrey H. Kaufman, Mark Smith, James Patrick Whalen Sr., Kim Snyder, Panicker Upendran, Eric Attio, Steve Axelrod, Carl Burrows, Glenn J. Cohen, Gregory D'Angelo, Cynthia Daddona, Brian Donahue, Jeff Eigen, Todd Ellison, Philippe Hartmann, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Rawleigh Moreland, Christopher Tracy, Keith Leon Williams, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc.

Born on this day – Virna Lisi:


Actress

November 8, 1936 – December 18, 2014



Born on this day – Stéphane Audran:


Actress

November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018




Born on this day – Gene Saks:


Director

Actor

November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015



Born on this day – Norman Lloyd:


Actor

Producer

Director

November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021



Born on this day – Robert Strauss:


Actor

November 8, 1913 – February 20, 1975




Born on this day – June Havoc:


Actress

Dancer

Director

Writer

November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010




Born on this day – Margaret Mitchell:

Writer

November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949


Credits:

Gone with the Wind (1936); Lost Laysen (1996); Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell (2000); Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000); I Want to Be Famous: The Writings of Young Margaret Mitchell (2002); Gone with the Wind Letters (1987); Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 (1989).


Awards:

National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel (1936).

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1937).

Both awards for her 1936 novel: Gone with the Wind.




Born on this day – Bram Stoker:


Writer

November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912



Credits:

Under the Sunset (1881); Snowbound (1908); Dracula's Guest (1914); The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion (1973); Shades of Dracula (1982); Midnight Tales (1992); Best Ghost and Horror Stories (1997); The Judge's House and Other Weird Tales (2003); Bram Stoker Horror Stories (2018); The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879); Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906); Famous Impostors (1910); The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker (2012); The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (2012); The First Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959); Human And Inhuman Stories (1963); Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965); The Midnight People (1968); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968); 11 Great Horror Stories (1969); The Undead (1971); Summoned From The Tomb (1973); Clutch of Vampires (1974); Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975); The Price of Fear (1976); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1976); Demons Within & Other Disturbing Tales (1977); Spine-Chillers (1978); The 12th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1979); Echoes Of Terror (1980); The Giant Book Of Horror Stories (1981); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); The 16th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1983); Realms of Darkness (1985); Tales of the Dark (1987); The Man In Black (1990); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); Blood and Roses (1992); To Sleep, Perchance to Dream ... Nightmare (1993); Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1993); 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (1994); Thrillers (1994); The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994); Great Irish Tales of Horror (1995); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Vampire Hunters' Casebook (1996); Secret City (1997); Vampires, Wine & Roses (1997); The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997); Haunted Houses (1997); Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998); The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); Into the Mummy's Tomb (2001); Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favourite Scary Stories (2002); Classic Erotic Tales (2002); Vampyre Tales: An Anthology (2005); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); Creepy Archives, Vol. 1 (2008); Short Stories: After Dark Classics (2012); 6 Classic Graveyard Tales of Vampires and Ghosts ... (2012); Penny Dreadful Multipack Vol. 2 (2013); Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction (2014); The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories (2015); The Frightful Fifty, Part One (2015); Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats (2017); In the Footsteps of Dracula (2017); Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses (2017); Bram Stoker Horror Stories (2018); Vampire Classics (2018); Stories to make you Shudder: Book 2 (2019); The Curse of the Undead - Selected Vampire Books and Legends (2020); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); Our Haunted Shores (2022); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023).


Born on this day – Sarah Fielding:

Writer

November 8, 1710 – April 9, 1768


Credits:

The Adventures of David Simple (1744); Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple (1747); The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749); Remarks on Clarissa (1749); David Simple: Volume the Last (1753); The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754); The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1757); The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759); The History of Ophelia (1761); Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Socrates Before His Judges (1762).