Monday, July 1, 2024
Born on this day – James M. Cain:
Credits:
The Postman
Always Rings Twice (1934); Double Indemnity (1936); Serenade (1937); The
Embezzler (1940); Mildred Pierce (1941); Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942);
Career in C Major: And Other Fiction (1943); Past All Dishonor (1946); The
Butterfly (1947); Sinful Woman (1947); The Moth (1948); Everybody Does It
(1949); Jealous Woman (1950); The Root of His Evil (1951); Galatea (1953);
Mignon (1962); The Magician's Wife (1965); Rainbow's End (1975); The Institute
(1976); Cloud Nine (1984); The Enchanted Isle (1985); Sixty Years of Journalism
(1985); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Best American Mystery
Stories of the Century (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Murder On The
Railways (2003); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); The Cocktail Waitress (2012); Books
to Die For (2012); A Bad Woman (2015); The Movie Book (2016).
Movies and television:
Algiers
(1938); Blockade (1938); Buai laju-laju (2004); Butterfly (1981); Cineficción
Radio (2021); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Everybody Does It (1949); Girl in
the Cadillac (1995); Gypsy Wildcat (1944); Interlude (1957 / 1968); ITV Play of
the Week (1960); Konto ausgeglichen (1959); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Lux
Video Theatre (1954–1956); Mildred Pierce (1945 / 2011); Money and the Woman
(1940); Obsession (1943); Out of the Past (1947); Passion (1998); Puissance de
la parole (1988); Serenade (1956); She Made Her Bed (1934); Slightly Scarlet
(1956); Stand Up and Fight (1939); Teledrama (1957); The Last Turning (1939);
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 / 1981); The Postman Always Rings Twice:
The Radio Play (1947); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); They Gave Him a Gun (1937);
Today (1969); When Tomorrow Comes (1939); Wife, Husband and Friend (1939); Yu
hai qing mo (1967).
Born on this day – Alice Guy-Blaché:
Writer
Producer
Actress
July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968
Recommended reading - The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain (1934)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain.
Description:
“A good, swift, violent story.” – Dashiell Hammett.
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.