Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Born on this day – Pamela Blair:


Actress

December 5, 1949 – July 23, 2023


Born on this day – J.J. Cale:


Singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

Sound engineer

December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013




Born on this day – Joan Didion:

 

Writer

December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021

Credits:

Run River (1963); Play It As It Lays (1970); A Book of Common Prayer (1977); Democracy (1984); The Last Thing He Wanted (1996); Vintage Didion (2004); The 1960s & 70s (2019); Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968); The White Album (1979); Salvador (1983); Miami (1987); Some Women (1990); After Henry (1992); Sentimental Journeys (1993); Perspectives on the Individual (1998); Political Fictions (2001); Fixed Ideas (2003); Where I Was From (2003); Live and Learn (2005); The Year of Magical Thinking (2005); We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006); Blue Nights (2011); Insider Baseball (2016); South and West (2017); Collected Essays (2018); Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021); Bonds of War (2022); What She Means (2022); The Writer on Her Work (1980); Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1989); Florida Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); Writing New York (1998); The Eloquent Essay (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (2005).





Born on this day – Ray Austin:

Director

Writer

Producer

Stuntman

Actor

December 5, 1932 – May 17, 2023





Born on this day – Norman Burton:


Actor

December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003


Born on this day – Adriana Benetti:


Actress

December 5, 1919 – February 24, 2016




Born on this day – Margaret Hayes:


Actress

December 5, 1916 – January 26, 1977