Saturday, August 10, 2024

Born on this day – Rhonda Fleming:

 

Actress

Singer

August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020


Credits:
50th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1981); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); Abilene Town (1946); Adventure Island (1947); Alias Jesse James (1959); All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Backtrack! (1969); Biography (1996–1999); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood (1983); Bullwhip (1958); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Celebrity Bowling (1974); Compression (2023–2024); Crosswinds (1951); Cry Danger (1951); Death Valley Days (1952); Dinah! (1977); Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008); Ellery Queen (1975); Entertainment This Week Salutes Paramount's 75th Anniversary (1987); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Follow the Sun (1962); Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (2002); Gun Glory (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Fun Festival (1952); Hollywood Glamour on Ice (1957); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Home Before Dark (1958); Hong Kong (1952 / 1961); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Inferno (1953); Inside TV Land (2001); Instant Love (1964); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got a Secret (1952–1967); Jivaro (1954); Kung Fu (1975); L.A. Confidential (1997); Last Hours Before Morning (1975); Little Egypt (1951); Love for Rent (1979); Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004); McMillan & Wife (1974); Nashville Now (1987); Needles and Pins (1973); Odongo: An Adventure of the African Frontier (1956); Out of the Past (1947); Password (1962); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1957); Police Woman (1974); Pony Express (1953); Praise (2003–2009); Reflets de Cannes (1959); Remembering Bing (1989); Rhonda Fleming: A Cinderella Story (2008); Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years (2001); Run for Your Wife (1965); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Premiere (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Jimmy McHugh's Song Party (1951); Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood (1958); Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special (1950); Screen Snapshots: WAIF International Ball (1957); Search (1973); Serpent of the Nile (1953); Shower of Stars (1956); Since You Went Away (1944); Slightly Scarlet (1956); Spellbound (1945); TCM Remembers 2020 (2020); Tennessee's Partner (1955); That's Entertainment! / The Lion Roars Again (1975); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Arthur Murray Party (1954); The Bell Telephone Hour (1962); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Big Circus (1959); The Big Record (1957); The Bob Hope Show (1957–1966); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952–1955); The Crowded Sky (1960); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959); The Eagle and the Hawk (1950); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Fighting Generation (1944); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Lover (1949); The Hour of Power (1980); The Investigators (1961); The Killer Is Loose (1956); The Last Outpost (1951); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Love Boat (1978); The Many Faces of Cleopatra (2009); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1973); The Name's the Same (1955); The Nude Bomb (1980); The Oscars (2021); The Patsy (1964); The Queen of Babylon (1954); The Red Skelton Chevy Special (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1961–1963); The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951); The Revolt of the Slaves (1960); The Road to Eltham (1978); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Virginian (1965); The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986); Those Redheads from Seattle (1953); Tropic Zone (1953); TV Club (1950); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971–1977); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Waiting for the Wind (1991); What's My Line? (1955); When Strangers Marry (1944); While the City Sleeps (1956); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Xpose (1982); Yankee Pasha (1954); You Don't Say (1964); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1974); Your First Impression (1961).


Born on this day – Dorothy B. Hughes:

 

Writer

August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993

Credits:

Books:

Dark Certainty (1931); Dread Journey (1945); Erle Stanley Gardner (1978); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); In a Lonely Place (1947); Johnnie (1944); Mr. President, Private Eye (2004); Ride the Pink Horse (1946); The Bamboo Blonde (1941); The Blackbirder (1943); The Candy Kid (1950); The Cross Eyed Bear Murders (1940); The Davidian Report (1952); The Delicate Ape (1944); The Expendable Man (1963); The Fallen Sparrow (1942); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999); The Scarlet Imperial (1946); The So Blue Marble (1940).

Movies and television:

The Hanged Man (1964); Destry (1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Climax! (1958); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1952); In a Lonely Place (1950); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); Follow the Boys (1944); The Fallen Sparrow (1943).


Born on this day – Walter Lang:

 

Director

August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972


Credits:
Alice Through a Looking Glass (1928); Amor in montagna (1932); As a Man Lives (1923); Autodefensa (2022); Brothers (1930); But Not for Me (1959); By Whose Hand? (1927); Call Me Madam (1953); Can-Can (1960); Carnival (1935); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Claudia and David (1946); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Command Performance (1931); Coney Island (1943); Desk Set (1957); Greenwich Village (1944); Hell Bound (1931); Hello Sister (1930); Hooray for Love (1935); I'll Give a Million (1938); Lady Tubbs (1935); Love Before Breakfast (1936); Meet the Baron (1933); Money to Burn (1926); Moon Over Miami (1941); Mother Wore Tights (1947); No More Orchids (1932); On the Riviera (1951); Racetrack (1933); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Second Honeymoon (1937); Sentimental Journey (1946); Sitting Pretty (1948); Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961); Song of the Islands (1942); Star Dust (1940); State Fair (1945); Susannah of the Mounties (1939); The Baroness and the Butler (1938); The Big Fight (1930); The Blue Bird (1940); The Carnival Girl (1926); The College Hero (1927); The Costello Case (1930); The Desert Bride (1928); The Earth Woman (1926); The Golden Web (1926); The Great Profile (1940); The Jackpot (1950); The King and I (1956); The Ladybird (1927); The Little Princess (1939); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Mighty Barnum (1934); The Night Flyer (1928); The Party's Over (1934); The Red Kimono (1926); The Satin Woman (1927); The Spirit of Youth (1929); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Warrior's Husband (1933); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Your Life (1960); Tin Pan Alley (1940); Top of the Town (1937); Week-End in Havana (1941); When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948); Whom the Gods Destroy (1934); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); With a Song in My Heart (1952); Women Go on Forever (1931); You're My Everything (1949).

Recommended reading - The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891 (2017)

 
The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891 (2017).

by LeRoy Lad Panek and Mary M. Bendel-Simso.

 
Published by McFarland & Company.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 9781476666990
ISBN-13: 978-1476666990
 
Description:
 
Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. Drawing on the unprecedented access provided by digital collections of period newspapers and magazines, this book examines detective fiction during its formative years, focusing on such crucial elements as setting, lawyers and the law, physicians and forensics, women as victims and heroes, crime and criminals, and police and detectives.


Junot Diaz, on writing:


In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope,
even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise,
you keep writing anyway.
- Junot Diaz.


Friday, August 9, 2024

National Book Lovers Day – August 9:

From one book lover to another -- happy National Book Lovers Day!


#NationalBookLoversDay #ReadABook #Reading #BookLover

On this day in movie history - Blood Work (2002)


Blood Work

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Brian Helgeland,

based on the novel by Michael Connelly,

was released in the United States on August 9, 2002.

Music by Lennie Niehaus.

 

Cast:
Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus, Tina Lifford, Paul Rodriguez, Dylan Walsh, Mason Lucero, Gerry Becker, Rick Hoffman, Alix Koromzay, Igor Jijikine, Dina Eastwood, Beverly Leech, June Kyoto Lu, Chao Li Chi, Glenn Morshower, Robert Harvey, Matt Huffman, Mark Thomason, Maria Quiban, Brent Hinkley, Natalia Ongaro, Amanda Carlin, Ted Rooney, P.J. Byrne, Sam Jaeger, Derric Nugent, Craig Hosking, James W. Gavin, Dan Andreiu, Todd Bryant, Bryan Hanna, Ted Hollis, Michael Keyes, Greg Stechman, Sandie West.