Saturday, November 25, 2023

Born on this day – Ricardo Montalbán:


Actor

Director

November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009




Born on this day – Norman Tokar:


Director

Actor

Writer

Producer

November 25, 1919 – April 6, 1979


Born on this day – Mona Goya:


Actress

November 25, 1909 – October 8, 1961


Born on this day – W. R. Burnett:


Writer

November 25, 1899 – April 25, 1982

Credits:

Little Caesar (1929); The Silver Eagle (1931); Dark Hazard (1933); The Goodhues of Sinking Creek (1934); High Sierra (1940); Nobody Lives Forever (1943); The Quick Brown Fox (1943); Tomorrow's Another Day (1945); Romelle (1946); The Asphalt Jungle (1949); Little Men, Big World (1951); Vanity Row (1952); Underdog (1957); Conant (1961); Round the Clock At Volari's (1961); The Widow Barony (1962); The Abilene Samson (1963); The Cool Man (1968); Good-bye, Chicago (1981); Four novel omnibus: Little Caesar / The Asphalt Jungle / High Sierra / Vanity Row (1984).


Born on this day – Jessie Royce Landis:


Actress

November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972


Born on this day – Margaret Livingston:


Actress

Businesswoman

November 25, 1895 – December 13, 1984


Credits:

Social Register (1934); Call Her Savage (1932); Broadminded (1931); Smart Money (1931); God's Gift to Women (1931); Kiki (1931); The Lady Refuses (1931); Big Money (1930); What a Widow! (1930); For the Love o' Lil (1930); Murder on the Roof (1930); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929); Acquitted (1929); Tonight at Twelve (1929); The Girl Who Wouldn't Wait (1929); Innocents of Paris (1929); The Charlatan (1929); The Office Scandal (1929); The Bellamy Trial (1929); The Canary Murder Case (1929); Dreary House (1928); The Last Warning (1928); The Apache (1928); Beware of Bachelors (1928); Through the Breakers (1928); His Private Life (1928); Say It with Sables (1928); The Way of the Strong (1928); Wheel of Chance (1928); The Scarlet Dove (1928); Mad Hour (1928); A Woman's Way (1928); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Streets of Shanghai (1927); The American Beauty (1927); Sunrise (1927); The Girl from Gay Paree (1927); Married Alive (1927); Lightning (1927); The Secret Studio (1927); Slaves of Beauty (1927); Breed of the Sea (1926); Womanpower (1926); The Blue Eagle (1926); A Trip to Chinatown (1926); Hell's Four Hundred (1926); The Yankee Señor (1926); Wages for Wives (1925); When the Door Opened (1925); The Best People (1925); After Marriage (1925); Havoc (1925); The Wheel (1925); Greater Than a Crown (1925); I'll Show You the Town (1925); Up the Ladder (1925); Capital Punishment (1925); The Chorus Lady (1924); Butterfly (1924); Her Marriage Vow (1924); Wandering Husbands (1924); Love's Whirlpool (1924); Divorce (1923); The Social Buccaneer (1923); The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922); Eden and Return (1921); Passing Through (1921); Colorado Pluck (1921); The Home Stretch (1921); Lying Lips (1921); The Parish Priest (1920); The Brute Master (1920); Hairpins (1920); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); What's Your Husband Doing? (1920); Haunting Shadows (1919); All Wrong (1919); The Busher (1919); Within the Cup (1918); Alimony (1917); The Chain Invisible (1916).


Margaret Atwood, on writing:

 

A word after a word is power.

- Margaret Atwood.