Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Born on this day – Merry Anders:



Actress

May 22, 1934 – October 28, 2012

Credits:
Intimate Portrait (2002); Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny (1995); Reginald LeBorg - Man nannte mich den Alleskönner (1987); Gunsmoke (1971); Will to Die (1971); Airport (1970); Lassie (1967–1968); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1968); Flight of the Cougar (1967); The Magical World of Disney (1966); Never Too Young (1965–1966); Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966); Get Smart (1966); Tickle Me (1965); Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964); Young Fury (1964); The Time Travelers (1964); The Addams Family (1964); The Virginian (1964); The Quick Gun (1964); Perry Mason (1961–1964); A Tiger Walks (1964); Arrest and Trial (1964); The Joey Bishop Show (1963–1964); Police Nurse (1963); House of the Damned (1963); The Jack Benny Program (1963); FBI Code 98 (1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1962); Death Valley Days (1952); Air Patrol (1962); Beauty and the Beast (1962); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1962); Patty (1962); Straightaway (1962); Westinghouse Preview Theatre (1961); Ichabod and Me (1961); Maverick (1960–1961); The Bob Cummings Show (1961); Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Secret of Deep Harbor (1961); 20,000 Eyes (1961); When the Clock Strikes (1961); Michael Shayne (1961); The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961); Bringing Up Buddy (1961); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960–1961); Police Dog Story (1961); Surfside 6 (1961); The Loretta Young Show (1955–1961); Bronco (1960–1961); Spring Affair (1960); The Walking Target (1960); Cheyenne (1957–1960); Young Jesse James (1960); Five Bold Women (1960); Bonanza (1960); ; The Hypnotic Eye (1960); Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade of the Stars (1960); The Real McCoys (1959); Sugarfoot (1957–1959); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); How to Marry a Millionaire (1957–1959); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); Mike Hammer (1959); State Trooper (1959); Decision (1958); Violent Road (1958); The Dalton Girls (1957); Broken Arrow (1957); Hear Me Good (1957); The Bob Cummings Show (1957); Escape from San Quentin (1957); Death in Small Doses (1957); No Time to Be Young (1957); Calypso Heat Wave (1957); Desk Set (1957); The Night Runner (1957); The Millionaire (1956); Matinee Theatre (1956); It's Always Jan (1955–1956); All That Heaven Allows (1955); TV Reader's Digest (1955); The Stu Erwin Show (1954–1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); Phffft (1954); Public Defender (1954); Princess of the Nile (1954); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953); Titanic (1953); Les Miserables (1952); Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Golden Girl (1951).


Born on this day – Laurence Olivier:

 

Actor

Director

May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989


Born on this day – Hergé:

 

Cartoonist

May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983


Born on this day – Adrienne Dore:


Actress

May 22, 1907 – November 26, 1992


Credits:
Adam's Eve (1929); Alias the Doctor (1932); Beyond London Lights (1928); Delicious and Refreshing (1929); Hello, Baby (1930); Johnny's Week End (1930); Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933); Love's Hurdle (1926); Peaceful Alley (1929); Pep Up (1929); Play Girl (1932); Pointed Heels (1929); Smart Steppers (1929); Street of Women (1932); The Expert (1932); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Girl from Calgary (1932); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Swim Princess (1928); The Thirteenth Guest (1932); The Valley of Hunted Men (1928); The Wild Party (1929); Time to Expire (1929); Two Seconds (1932); Undercover Men (1934); Union Depot (1932); Wife Trouble (1928).


Recommended reading - The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain (1934):

 

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain.


“A good, swift, violent story.” – Dashiell Hammett.
 
Description:
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution — a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
 
First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.
 
“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man … has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent.” – James M. Cain.


Born on this day – Arthur Conan Doyle:

Writer

Physician

May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930


Credits:
A Study in Scarlet (1887); The Sign of Four (1890); A Scandal in Bohemia (1891); The Red-headed League (1891); A Case of Identity (1891); The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1891); The Five Orange Pips (1891); The Man with the Twisted Lip (1891); The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892); The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892); The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb (1892); The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (1892); Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (1892); The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (1892); The Adventure of Silver Blaze (1892); The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (1893); The Adventure of the Yellow Face (1893); The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (1893); The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (1893); The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (1893); The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (1893); The Adventure of the Crooked Man (1893); The Adventure of the Resident Patient (1893); The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (1893); The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (1893); The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893); The Field Bazaar (1896); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901); The Adventure of the Empty House (1903); The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (1903); The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903); The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (1904); The Adventure of the Priory School (1904); The Adventure of Black Peter (1904); The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (1904); The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (1904); The Adventure of the Three Students (1904); The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (1904); The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (1904); The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (1904); The Adventure of the Second Stain (1904); The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (1908); The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908); The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (1910); The Adventure of the Red Circle (1911); The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911); The Adventure of the Dying Detective (1913); The Valley of Fear (1914); His Last Bow (1917); The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (1921); The Problem of Thor Bridge (1922); The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923); The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (1924); How Watson Learned the Trick (1924); The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (1925); The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (1925); The Adventure of the Three Gables (1926); The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (1926); The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (1926); The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (1927); The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (1927); The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (1927); A Case of Identity (1891); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894); The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905); Sherlock Holmes (Read by Stephen Fry) (1927); The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927); Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume One (1985); Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume Two (1986); Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume Three (1986); The Sherlock Holmes Theatre (2005); Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection (2013); The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (1896); The Adventures of Gerard (1903); The Lost World (1912); The Poison Belt (1913); The Land of Mist (1926); When the World Screamed (1928); The Disintegration Machine (1929); The Surgeon of Gaster Fell (1885); The Mystery of Cloomber (1888); Micah Clarke (1889); The Firm of Girdlestone (1890); The White Company (1891); The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales (1892); The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892); Beyond the City (1892); The Refugees (1893); The Parasite (1894); The Stark Munro Letters (1895); Rodney Stone (1896); Uncle Bernac (1897); The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898); A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899); Sir Nigel (1906); The Maracot Deep (1929); The Narrative of John Smith (2011); Lot No. 249 (1892); The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (1893); The Adventure of the Yellow Face (1893); The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (1893); The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893); The Adventure of the Empty House (1903); The Adventure of the Red Circle (1911); The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911); The Problem of Thor Bridge (1922); The Ring Of Thoth (1968); The Leather Funnel (2003); John Barrington Cowles (2011); The Case of Lady Sannox (2013); A Literary Mosaic (2014); That Little Square Box (2014); The Crime of the Brigadier (2014); The Croxley Master (2016); The Gully of Bluemansdyke (2018); The Captain of the Polestar (1883); My Friend The Murderer And Other Mysteries And Adventures (1893); Round the Red Lamp (1894); The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (1900); Round the Fire Stories (1908); The Last Galley (1911); Danger! And Other Stories (1918); The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1919); Tales Of Adventure And Medical Life (1920); Tales Of Pirates And Blue Water (1922); Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates (1925); The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure (2009); Gothic Tales (2018); Tales of Terror and Mystery (2022); The Great Boer War (1900); The War in South Africa, Its Cause & Conduct (1902); Through the Magic Door (1907); The Crime of the Congo (1909); The Case Of Oscar Slater (1912); The New Revelation (1917); The Vital Message (1919); The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1915 (1920); The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921); The Coming of the Fairies (1921); Memories and Adventures and Western Wanderings (1924); The History of Spiritualism (1926); The Edge of the Unknown (1930); Dangerous Work (2012); Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season (2016); Murder on Christmas Eve (2017); A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season (2018); A Cat of a Different Color (2020); A Cat of Perfect Taste (2020); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); A Cat of Strange Lands (2020); A Cat of Cozy Situations (2020); A Cat of Heroic Heart (2020); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Cat of Fantastic Whims (2021); A Cat of Feral Instincts (2021); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1948); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); 21 Great Stories (1969); Scottish Tales of Terror (1972); Sea Tales of Terror (1974); The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1977); Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1979); Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 2 (1979); The 14th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories (1981); Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries (1982); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); English Country House Murders (1988); Tales of the Occult (1989); Hound Dunnit (1989); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1992); Horse & Pony Stories (1992); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Volume Three (1992); Murder British Style (1993); Sea-Cursed (1994); Mystery Stories (1996); Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (1997); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); Crime Never Pays (2001); On Glorious Wings (2003); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2007); Stories to Get You Through the Night (2010); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); London Stories (2013); Togas and Tyrants: Collected Tales of Ancient Rome (2014); The Phantom Coach (2014); Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures (2015); Holmes Away from Home: Adventures from the Great Hiatus (2016); Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures, Vol. 2 (2017); Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses (2017); Blood on the Tracks (2018); Flight or Fright (2018); Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays (2019); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); Murder Takes a Holiday: Classic Crime Stories for Summer (2021); Scottish Stories (2023); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime (2023).


Born on this day – Richard Wagner:

 

Composer

May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883