Born on this day – Rosemary Murphy:

Actress

January 13, 1925 – July 5, 2014

Born on this day – Robert Stack:

 

Actor

January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003

Born on this day – Herbert L. Strock:

Producer

Director

January 13, 1918 – November 30, 2005

Born on this day – Kay Francis:

Actress

January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968

Credits:

Lux Video Theatre (1951); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); Wife Wanted (1946); Allotment Wives (1945); Divorce (1945); Four Jills in a Jeep (1944); Between Us Girls (1942); Always in My Heart (1942); The Feminine Touch (1941); Charley's Aunt (1941); The Man Who Lost Himself (1941); Play Girl (1941); Little Men (1940); When the Daltons Rode (1940); It's a Date (1940); In Name Only (1939); Women in the Wind (1939); King of the Underworld (1939); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Secrets of an Actress (1938); My Bill (1938); Women Are Like That (1938); First Lady (1937); Confession (1937); Another Dawn (1937); Stolen Holiday (1937); Give Me Your Heart (1936); The White Angel (1936); I Found Stella Parish (1935); The Goose and the Gander (1935); Stranded (1935); Living on Velvet (1935); British Agent (1934); Dr. Monica (1934); Wonder Bar (1934); Mandalay (1934); The House on 56th Street (1933); I Loved a Woman (1933); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Storm at Daybreak (1933); The Keyhole (1933); Cynara (1932); Trouble in Paradise (1932); One Way Passage (1932); Jewel Robbery (1932); Street of Women (1932); Man Wanted (1932); Strangers in Love (1932); The False Madonna (1931); Girls About Town (1931); 24 Hours (1931); Guilty Hands (1931); Transgression (1931); The Vice Squad (1931); Ladies' Man (1931); Scandal Sheet (1931); Passion Flower (1930); The Virtuous Sin (1930); Let's Go Native (1930); For the Defense (1930); Raffles (1930); A Notorious Affair (1930); Paramount on Parade (1930); Street of Chance (1930); Behind the Make-Up (1930); The Marriage Playground (1929); Illusion (1929); Dangerous Curves (1929); The Cocoanuts (1929); Gentlemen of the Press (1929).

Born on this day – A. B. Guthrie Jr.:

Writer

Historian

January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991

Credits:

Wild Pitch (1973); The Genuine Article (1977); No Second Wind (1980); Playing Catch-Up (1985); Murder in the Cotswolds (1989); The Big Sky (1947); The Way West (1949); Fair Land, Fair Land (1982); Murders at Moon Dance (1943); Twenty-Six Years After (1949); Kentucky (1951); These Thousand Hills (1956); The West Is Our Great Adventure of the Spirit (1959); Arfive (1970); Once Upon a Pond (1973); The Last Valley (1975); Four Miles From Ear Mountain (1987); The Big It and Other Stories (1972); The Blue Hen's Chick (1965); Big Sky, Fair Land (1974); Images from the Great West (1990); A Field Guide to Writing Fiction (1991).

Stephen King, on writing:

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about.

It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

- Stephen King

On this day in movie history - Sexy Beast (2000)

Sexy Beast

directed by Jonathan Glazer,

written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto,

was released in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2001.

Music by Roque Baños.

Cast:

Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, James Fox, Cavan Kendall, Julianne White, Álvaro Monje, Robert Atiko, Nieves del Amo Oruet, Enrique Alemán Fabrega, Gérard Barray, José Maria Cano Ramos, Desirée Erasmus, Santiago Frias Munoz, José Hernández, Ana Maldonado Herreria, Andy Lucas, José Lirola Ramos, José López Carrillo, Antonio Fco. Márquez Quesada, Juan Manuel Martníez Cobos, Dionisio Mesa, Eddie O'Connell, Terence Plummer, Manuel Sánchez Berlanga, Frank Scinto, Darkie Smith, Rocky Taylor, Chris Webb, Pedro Zamora Hernández, Tina Simmons.