Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Born on this day – Caroline Cellier:

 

Actress

August 7, 1945 – December 15, 2020


Credits:
À la folie, pas du tout (1987); A Pain in the Ass (1973); Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1967); Au-delà de l'écran (1967); Cadet Rousselle (1973); Certaines nouvelles (1980); C'est encore mieux l'après-midi (1986–1987); Champs-Elysées (1984–1988); Charlie Dingo (1987); Ciné star (1987); Cop Au Vin (1985); Danger Passion (1986); Délit mineur (1994); Desproges est vivant (1998); Didier (1997); Dim Dam Dom (1969); Fantômes en héritage (1990); Farinelli (1994); Femmes de personne (1984); Fragile(s) (2007); Grand Guignol (1987); Gym tonic (1984); Histoires insolites (1974); Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (1996); Jean-Philippe (2006); Joyeux anniversaire Monsieur Trenet (1995); Julie de Carneilhan (1990); La boîte à questions (2010); La contre-allée (1991); La derelitta / Cinéma 16 (1980); La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (1967); La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu / Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1984); La morale de l'histoire (1966); La mort d'un champion (1972); La nuit des 7 d'or (1987); La nuit des Césars (1977–1985); La tête du client (1965); La vie de château (1984); L'atterrissage (1981); Le cheval évanoui (1976); Le ciel de lit (1974); Le grand journal de Canal+ (2004); Le grand restaurant (2011); Le journal de 20 heures (1992); Le vol d'Icare (1980); Le zèbre (1992); Les aveux les plus doux (1971); Les dossiers de Jérôme Randax (1966); Les enfants de la télé (2019); Les Enfoirés (1997); Les fougères bleues (1977); Les grands enfants (1998); Les héroïques (1981); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1977); L'histoire du samedi (1997); Life Love Death (1969); L'invité du dimanche (1969); L'oeil en coulisses (1988); Manon: Le miroir à trois faces (1966); Mardi cinema (1987); Mariage (1974); Marie Curie - Une certaine jeune fille (1965); Michel Sardou: Salut! (1997); Mille milliards de dollars (1982); Molière pour rire et pour pleurer (1973); Molinaro, un esprit libre (2006); Musicolor (1969); Nino Castelnuovo, le groom de l'Hôtel du Palais (2006); Ombre et lumière (2003); Petit Con (1984); Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences) (1998); Poiret est à vous (1975); Poker (1987); Rencontres de cinéma (2010); Romulus le grand (1971); Rouletabille (1966); Sacrée soirée (1987–1991); Soirée Courteline / Segment: La Peur des coups (1974); Surprise Party (1983); The Pupil (1996); The Taming of the Shrew (1964); Thelma, Louise et Chantal (2010); This Man Must Die (1969); Transit (2004); Un jeu dangereux (2005); Une cellule pour deux (2006); Une femme, un jour... (1977); Une fille dans la montagne (1964); Vent de panique (1987); Vivement dimanche (1999–2010); Year of the Jellyfish (1984).


Born on this day – Andrée Clément:


Actress

August 7, 1918 – May 31, 1954


Credits:
Angels of Sin (1943); Bethsabée (1947); Coïncidences (1947); Daughters of Destiny / Segment: Jeanne (1954); Devil's Daughter (1946); God Needs Men (1950); Jeanne (1952); Just a Big Simple Girl (1948); La vierge du Rhin (1953); Macadam (1946); Pastoral Symphony (1946); Premier de cordée (1944); Premier prix du conservatoire (1943); Suivez cet homme (1953); The Thirst of Men (1950).


Born on this day – Kay Williams:

 

Actress

August 7, 1916 – May 25, 1983

Credits:
A Guy Named Joe (1943); American Masters (2004); Arch of Triumph (1948); Biography (2003); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Gable: The King Remembered (1975); Girl Crazy (1943); Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944); Meet the People (1944); No Minor Vices (1948); Nostradamus IV (1944); Rationing (1944); Swing Fever (1943); The Actress (1953); The Other Love (1947); Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944); This Man's Navy (1945); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Ziegfeld Follies (1945).


Born on this day – June Travis:


Actress

August 7, 1914 – April 14, 2008

Credits:
Bengal Tiger (1936); Bright Lights (1935); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broadway Hostess (1935); Ceiling Zero (1936); Circus Girl (1937); Don't Bet on Blondes (1935); Dr. Socrates (1935); Earthworm Tractors (1936); Exiled to Shanghai (1937); Federal Man-Hunt (1938); Go Chase Yourself (1938); Jailbreak (1936); Join the Marines (1937); Little Orphan Annie (1938); Love Is on the Air (1937); Men in Exile (1937); Monster a Go-Go (1965); Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938); Over the Goal (1937); Over the Wall (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 8 (1937); Shipmates Forever (1935); Stranded (1935); The Big Game (1936); The Case of the Black Cat (1936); The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935); The ComicWeb: Old Time Radio Programs (2020); The Gladiator (1938); The Kid Comes Back (1937); The Marines Are Here (1938); The Night Hawk (1938); The Star (1952); Times Square Playboy (1936).


Born on this day – Ann Harding:

 

Actress

August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981


Credits:
A Night of Terror (1937); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1963); Ben Casey (1965); Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935); Burke's Law (1963); Cavalcade of America (1957); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Christmas Eve (1947); Climax! (1955–1957); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2024); Condemned! (1929); Crossroads (1955); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Devotion (1931); Double Harness (1933); Dr. Kildare (1964); East Lynne (1931); Enchanted April (1935); Eyes in the Night (1942); Front Row Center (1956); Gallant Lady (1933); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Electric Theater (1955–1956); Her Private Affair (1929); Holiday (1930); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947); I've Lived Before (1956); Janie (1944); Janie Gets Married (1946); Kraft Theatre (1957); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); Matinee Theatre (1955–1958); Nine Girls (1944); Our American Heritage (1960); Paris Bound (1929); Personalities (1942); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Playwrights '56 (1956); Prestige (1931); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1953–1954); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 (1936); Stage 7 (1955); Strange Intruder (1956); Studio 57 (1955); Sunday Showcase (1960); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Art Director (1949); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Conquerors (1932); The Defenders (1963); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Flame Within (1935); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1955); The Fountain (1934); The Girl of the Golden West (1930); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Hollywood Movie Parade (1934); The Lady Consents (1936); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Magnificent Yankee (1950); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The North Star (1943); The Right to Romance (1933); The Unknown Man (1951); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Witness Chair (1936); Those Endearing Young Charms (1945); TV Club (1950); Two Weeks with Love (1950); Westinghouse Presents: Come Again to Carthage (1961); Westward Passage (1932); When Ladies Meet (1933); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007).

 

Born on this day – Irene Purcell:

 

Actress

August 7, 1896 – July 9, 1972


Credits:
Bachelor's Affairs (1932); Just a Gigolo (1931); Just One Word (1929); Le plombier amoureux (1932); The Crooked Circle (1932); The Man in Possession (1931); The Passionate Plumber (1932); Westward Passage (1932).

Recommended reading - Find a Victim (1954).

 

Find a Victim (1954).

by Ross Macdonald.


Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0446358924
ISBN-13: 978-0446358927
 
Description:
 
The hitchhiker rose to his knees on the side of the dark road. When Archer stopped the car and got to him, he knew he was in for a ride – for this boy was dying of a gunshot wound. In a matter of hours, Archer would be suspected by the law, hired by a target-shooting trucking magnate, and propositioned by an adulterer’s wife. A hijacked load of hootch and a band of sinners are on the loose in the hills and desert around this nice Southern California town. So is this L.A. private eye, who keeps getting blood on his hands…
 
“[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brough to its zenith by Macdonald.” – New York Times Book Review.
 
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