Saturday, January 27, 2024

Born on this day – Bobby "Blue" Bland:


Blues singer

Songwriter

January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013



Born on this day – Dolores Moran:


Actress

January 27, 1926 – February 5, 1982


Credits:
Silver Lode (1954); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953–1954); Count the Hours! (1953); My Hero (1952); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Johnny One-Eye (1950); Movietown USA (1950); Christmas Eve (1947); The Man I Love (1946); Without Reservations (1946); Mr. Noisy (1946); Too Young to Know (1945); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Last Ride (1944); Old Acquaintance (1943); Three Cheers for the Girls (1943); The Hard Way (1943); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); Winning Your Wings (1942); The Ghost Breakers (1940).


Born on this day – Ingrid Thulin:

 

Actress

Director

Writer

January 27, 1926 – January 7, 2004


Credits:
The House of Smiles (1991); Cuore di mamma (1988); Orn (1987); Control (1987); Il Corsaro (1985); After the Rehearsal (1984); Brusten himmel (1982); It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980); One and One (1978); The Cassandra Crossing (1976); L'Agnese va a morire (1976); Madam Kitty (1976); La cage (1975); Monismanien 1995 (1975); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); E cominciò il viaggio nella vertigine (1974); A Handful of Love (1974); Puccini (1973); La sainte famille (1973); Cries & Whispers (1972); Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971); N.P. (1971); The Damned (1969); The Rite (1969); Adelaide (1968); Badarna (1968); Un diablo bajo la almohada (1968); Hour of the Wolf (1968); O.K. Yevtushenko (1967); Domani non siamo più qui (1967); Night Games (1966); The War Is Over (1966); Hängivelse (1965); Return from the Ashes (1965); Games of Desire (1964); Sextet (1963); Espionage (1963); The Silence (1963); Ett drömspel (1963); Winter Light (1963); Agostino (1962); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962); Theatre '62 (1961); Syskon (1961); Domaren (1960); Vår ofödde son (1959); Älska (1959); The Magician (1958); Brink of Life (1958); Wild Strawberries (1957); Det händer i natt (1957); Pettersson i Annorlunda (1956); Foreign Intrigue (1956); Hoppsan! (1955); Danssalongen (1955); Foreign Intrigue (1954–1955); Två sköna juveler (1954); I rök och dans (1954); Göingehövdingen (1953); En skärgårdsnatt (1953); Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo (1952); Möte med livet (1952); Leva på 'Hoppet' (1951); När kärleken kom till byn (1950); Hasse Ekman in Hjärter knekt (1950); Kärleken segrar (1949); Son of the Sea (1949); Känn dej som Hemma (1948); Jørund Smed (1948).


Born on this day – Donna Reed:


Actress

January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986


Credits:
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1990); Dallas (1984–1985); The Love Boat (1984); Deadly Lessons (1983); The Best Place to Be (1979); The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966); Pepe (1960); The Whole Truth (1958); Suspicion (1957); General Electric Theater (1957); Beyond Mombasa (1956); Backlash (1956); Ransom! (1956); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); Tales of Hans Anderson (1955); The Far Horizons (1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954); They Rode West (1954); Three Hours to Kill (1954); The Big Moment (1954); Gun Fury (1953); The Caddy (1953); From Here to Eternity (1953); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); Trouble Along the Way (1953); Hangman's Knot (1952); Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952); Scandal Sheet (1952); Saturday's Hero (1951); Chicago Deadline (1949); Beyond Glory (1948); Green Dolphin Street (1947); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Faithful in My Fashion (1946); They Were Expendable (1945); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945); Gentle Annie (1944); See Here, Private Hargrove (1944); Sucker Bait (1943); Thousands Cheer (1943); The Man from Down Under (1943); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); The Human Comedy (1943); Personalities (1942); Eyes in the Night (1942); Apache Trail (1942); Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942); Mokey (1942); The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942); The Bugle Sounds (1942); Babes on Broadway (1941); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); The Getaway (1941).



Born on this day – Lewis Carroll:

Writer

January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898


Credits:
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); A Tangled Tale (1885); Alice in Wonderland (1862); Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1871); Alice through the Looking Glass (1871); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1865); Alicia (1871); Bruno's Revenge (1867); Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1969); For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale (1932); Jabberwocky (1872); Jabberwocky and Other Poems (2012); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 1 (1993); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 2 (1994); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 3 (1995); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 4 (1997); Novelty And Romancement (1925); One White Rabbit (2017); Over the Rainbow (1983); Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869); Red Sky (2014); Sylvie And Bruno (1889); Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893); The Classic Fantasy Collection (2019); The Crocodile (1988); The Hunting of the Snark (1876); The Mad Gardener's Song (1967); The Nursery (1889); The Pig-Tale (1893); The Rectory Umbrella And Mischmasch (1932); The Walrus and the Carpenter (1872); The Wasp In A Wig (1877); Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1899); Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871).

Born on this day – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:


Composer

January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791




Plato, on writing:

 


Writing is the geometry of the soul.

- Plato.