Born on this day – Cornell Woolrich:

Writer

December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968

Credits:

Cover Charge (1926); Children of the Ritz (1927); Times Square (1929); A Young Man's Heart (1930); The Time of Her Life (1931);  Manhattan Love Song (1932); The Bride Wore Black (aka Beware the Lady) (1940); The Black Curtain (1941); The Black Alibi (1942); Phantom Lady (1942); The Black Angel (1943); The Black Path of Fear (1944); Deadline at Dawn (1944); Night has a Thousand Eyes (1945); Waltz into Darkness (1947); I Married a Dead Man (1948); Rendezvous in Black (1948); Fright (1950); Savage Bride (1950); Marihuana (1951); Strangler's Serenade (1951); You'll Never See Me Again (1951); Hotel Room (1958); Death is my Dancing Partner (1959); The Doom Stone (1960); Into the Night (1987); Nightmare (1956); Violence (1958); Beyond the Night (1959); The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich (1965); The Dark Side of Love (1965); Nightwebs (1971); Angels of Darkness (1978); The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich (1981); Four by Cornell Woolrich (1983); Rear Window (1984); Vampire's Honeymoon (1985); Blind Date With Death (1985); Darkness at Dawn (1985); Night and Fear (2003); Tonight Somewhere in New York (2005); Love and Night (2011); Death in the Air (2020); Senor Flatfoot (2020); All at Once, No Alice (2020); The Drugstore Cowboy (2020); Hot Water (2020); Dilemma of the Dead Lady (2020); The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus (1998); Four Novellas of Fear (2010); Speak to Me of Death (1935); The Screaming Laugh (1938); Through a Dead Man's Eye (1939); Somebody's Clothes-Somebody's Life (1958).

Born on this day – Vedah Bertram:

Actress

December 4, 1891 – August 26, 1912

Born on this day – Lloyd Bacon:

Actor

Director

December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955

Credits:

3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); 42nd Street (1933); 50 Million Frenchmen (1931); 6 Day Bike Rider (1934); A Child Is Born (1939); A Christmas Revenge (1915); A Dark Room Secret (1917); A Hotel Disgrace (1917); A Jitney Elopement (1915); A Night in the Show (1915); A Notorious Affair (1930); A Playwright's Wrong (1918); A Prodigal Bridegroom (1926); A Quiet Little Game (1915); A Rainy Knight (1925); A Safe Proposition (1916); A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927); A Sea Serpent's Desire (1918); A Slight Case of Murder (1938); A Very Honorable Guy (1934); A Waiting Game (1916); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Affectionately Yours (1941); Afraid to Be False (1917); Alias the Doctor (1932); An Innocent Affair (1948); Behind the Screen (1916); Boy Meets Girl (1938); Brass Knuckles (1927); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926); Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp (1915); Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber (1915); Broncho Billy and the Lumber King (1915); Broncho Billy and the Posse (1915); Broncho Billy Begins Life Anew (1915); Broncho Billy Evens Matters (1915); Broncho Billy Misled (1915); Broncho Billy Steps In (1915); Broncho Billy's Brother (1915); Broncho Billy's Cowardly Brother (1915); Broncho Billy's Greaser Deputy (1915); Broncho Billy's Love Affair (1915); Broncho Billy's Marriage (1915); Broncho Billy's Protégé (1915); Brother Orchid (1940); Butter Fingers (1926); Cain and Mabel (1936); Call Me Mister (1951); Captain Eddie (1945); Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938); Crooner (1932); Devil Dogs of the Air (1935); Don't Fail (1924); Easy Street (1917); Empty Heads (1924); Espionage Agent (1939); Ever Since Eve (1937); Extra! Extra! (1923); F.O.B. (1923); Finger Prints (1927); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Footlight Parade (1933); Footsteps in the Dark (1941); Frisco Kid (1935); Give My Regards to Broadway (1948); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Gold Dust Gertie (1931); Golden Girl (1951); Good Morning (1924); Good Morning, Madam! (1925); Good Morning, Nurse (1925); Hands Off! (1921); He Was Her Man (1934); He Who Gets Smacked (1925); Hearts and Masks (1921); Her Lesson (1916); Here Comes the Navy (1934); His Fatal Move (1917); His Regeneration (1915); His Taking Ways (1917); His Thankless Job (1917); Home, Sweet Homicide (1946); Honeymoon for Three (1941); Honky Tonk (1929); Honor of the Family (1931); Hurry, Doctor! (1925); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); In Caliente (1935); In the Park (1915); Indianapolis Speedway (1939); Invisible Stripes (1939); Isn't Love Cuckoo? (1925); It Happened in Snakeville (1915); It Happens Every Spring (1949); Kill the Umpire (1950); Killing Time (1924); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Larceny, Inc (1942); Love's Languid Lure (1927); Manhattan Parade (1931); Marked Woman (1937); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Meet My Girl (1926); Merrymakers (1925); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); Miss Nobody (1920); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Moby Dick (1930); Mother Is a Freshman (1949); Navy Blues (1941); No Defense (1929); No Luck (1923); Pay as You Enter (1928); Pearls and Perils (1917); Picture Snatcher (1933); Private Izzy Murphy (1926); Racket Busters (1938); Radio Romeo (1923); San Quentin (1937); Say It with Songs (1929); She Couldn't Say No (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1953); Silver Queen (1942); Sit Tight (1931); Smith's Customer (1927); Smith's Vacation (1926); Smudge (1922); Snakeville's Champion (1915); So Long Letty (1929); Son of a Sailor (1933); Sons o' Guns (1936); Square Deal Sanderson (1919); Stark Mad (1929); Submarine D-1 (1937); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); Take Your Time (1925); Taking the Count (1916); The Bachelor's Burglar (1915); The Bank (1915); The Blue Bonnet (1919); The Book Agent's Romance (1916); The Broken Gate (1920); The Burglar's Godfather (1915); The Champion (1915); The Convict's Threat (1915); The Educator (1922); The Escape of Broncho Billy (1915); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Feud (1919); The Fighting Sullivans (1944); The Fireman (1916); The Floorwalker (1916); The French Line (1953); The Frogmen (1951); The Fuller Brush Girl (1950); The Funnymooners (1926); The Girl in the Rain (1920); The Good Humor Man (1950); The Grave Undertaking (1917); The Great Sioux Uprising (1953); The Greater Profit (1921); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Host (1923); The House of Intrigue (1919); The I Don't Care Girl (1953); The Irish in Us (1935); The Kentucky Colonel (1920); The Lion and the Mouse (1928); The Midlanders (1920); The Mills Brothers in Broadway Gondolier (1935); The Night That Sophie Graduated (1915); The Office Wife (1930); The Oklahoma Kid (1939); The Optimist (1923); The Optimist (1923); The Other Tomorrow (1930); The Question of Today (1928); The Raspberry Romance (1925); The Rink (1916); The Road Demon (1921); The Singing Fool (1928); The Speeder (1922); The Tramp (1915); The Vagabond (1916); The Wild Goose Chaser (1925); The Window Dummy (1925); There He Goes (1925); Two Laughs (1917); Two Lips in Holland (1926); Uneasy Feet (1923); Vagabond Luck (1919); Versus Sledge Hammers (1915); Wagon Tracks (1919); Wake Up and Dream (1946); Walking My Baby Back Home (1953); Wedding Showers (1924); When Snakeville Struck Oil (1915); White Flannels (1927); Wide Open Faces (1926); Wine, Women and Song (1915); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Wings of the Navy (1939); Women They Talk About (1928); Wonder Bar (1934); You Said a Mouthful (1932); You Were Meant for Me (1948). 

Raymond Chandler, on writing:

The most durable thing in writing is style,

and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

It pays off slowly,

your agent will sneer at it,

your publisher will misunderstand it,

and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

- Raymond Chandler.

On this day in music history - The album Home, by Michele McLaughlin (2021)

Home

by Michele McLaughlin

was released on December 3, 2021.

On this day in movie history - American Hustle (2013)

American Hustle

directed by David O. Russell,

written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell,

was released in the United States on December 3, 2013.

Music by Danny Elfman.

Cast:

Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Jack Huston, Michael Peña, Shea Whigham, Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Röhm, Paul Herman, Saïd Taghmaoui, Matthew Russell, Thomas Matthews, Adrian Martinez, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Camp, Steve Gagliastro, Christopher Tarjan, Zachariah Supka, Christy Scott Cashman, Simon Hamlin, Martie Barylick, Dawn Olivieri, Becki Dennis, Jay Giannone, Arthur Birnbaum, Rob DiNinni, Michael Fennimore, Jack Jones, Danny Corbo, Sonny Corbo, Bo Cleary, Greg Maxwell, Mickey O'Keefe, Erica McDermott, Alura Carbrey, Kayla Feeney, Shannon Halliday, Volieda Webb, Patsy Meck, Abby Lavin, Damien Di Paola, Paul Campbell, Jeff Avigian, Stacy Hock, Michael Trigg, Richard Heneks, Ted Zalewski, Elias Birnbaum, Armen Garo, Sal DiMino, Gary Craig, Barry Primus, Sonny Gordon, Deva Mahal, Dicky Eklund Jr., Sean Eklund, Charley Broderick, Richard Donelly, Gary Zahakos, Frank Geraci, Melson Alford, Melissa McMeekin, JJ Wright, Bob Taraschi

On this day in movie history - Undertow (1949)

Undertow

directed by William Castle,

written by Arthur T. Horman and Lee Loeb,

based on a story by Arthur T. Horman,

was released in the United States on December 3, 1949.

Music by Milton Schwarzwald.

Cast:

Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett, Gregg Martell, Robert Anderson, Dan Ferniel, Rock Hudson, Charles Sherlock, Anne P. Kramer, Robert Easton.