Actress
August 15, 1926 – June 4, 2018
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Born on this day – Katharine Brush:
Writer
August 15, 1902 – June 10, 1952
Credits:
Written work:
Don't Ever Leave Me (1935); Free Woman (1936); Glitter (1926); Little Sins (1927); Mannequin / aka Marry For Money (1937); Night Club (1929); Other Women (1933); Out of My Mind (1943); Red-Headed Woman (1931); The Boy from Maine (1942); This Is on Me (1940); This Man and This Woman (1944); When She Was Bad (1948); You Go Your Way (1941); Young Man of Manhattan (1930).
Movies and television:
Actor's Studio (1948); Andy Hardy's Private
Secretary (1941); General Electric Theater (1959); Honeymoon in Bali (1939);
Lady of Secrets (1936); Listen, Darling (1938); Mannequin (1937); Red-Headed
Woman (1932); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Drop Kick (1927); Young Man of
Manhattan (1930).
Born on this day – Edna Ferber:
Writer
August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968
Credits:
Books:
$1,200 A Year: A Comedy In Three Acts (1920); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); A Kind of Magic (2013); A Peculiar Treasure: Autobiography (1939); American Beauty (1931); Buttered Side Down: Short Stories (1912); Cheerful, by Request (1913); Cimarron (1929); Come and Get It (1934); Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911); Emma McChesney and Co. (1915); Fanny Herself (1917); Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle (1978); Giant (1952); Gigolo (1922); Great Son (1944); Half Portions (2010); Ice Palace (1958); Mother Knows Best (1927); One Basket (1947); Personality Plus (1914); Roast Beef Medium (1911); Saratoga Trunk (1941); Show Boat (1926); So Big (1924); Stage Door (1926); The Dancing Girls (2021); The Girls (1921); The Homely Heroine (2017); The Land Is Bright: A Play (2019); The Woman Who Tried to Be Good and Other Stories (1913); They Brought Their Women: A Book Of Short Stories (1933).
Movies, radio and television:
American Masters (1987); BBC Sunday-Night
Theatre (1951–1958); Cimarron (1931); Cimarron (1960); Classified (1925); Come
and Get It (1936); Dinner at Eight (1933); Dinner at Eight (1989); Front Row
Center (1955); A Gay Old Dog (1919); Giant (1956); Gigolo (1926); Glamour
(1934); Great Performances (1989); Hard to Get (1929); Ice Palace (1960); Kern:
Show Boat (2015); Kraft Theatre (1948); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television
Playhouse (1948); Mother Knows Best (1928); No Place to Go (1939); No Woman Knows
(1921); Our Mrs. McChesney (1918); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Radio Play
Revival (2024); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Show Boat (1929); Show Boat (1936); Show
Boat (1951); So Big (1924); So Big (1953); So Big! (1932); Stage Door (1937);
Stage Door (1939); Stage Door (1948); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Adventures
of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955);
The Expert (1932); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Home Girl (1928); The
Royal Family (1977); The Royal Family of Broadway (1930); The Royal Family of
Broadway (1939); The Stage Door (1950); Theatre Royal / The Royal Family
(1952); Welcome Home (1925).
Born on this day – Ethel Barrymore:
Actress
August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959
Credits:
All Star Revue (1951–1952); An American Widow
(1917); Animated Weekly, No. 26 (1912); Camille (1926); Cancer Fund Film
Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (1951); Climax! (1954); Daphni: Virgin of
the Golden Laurels (1951); Deadline - U.S.A. (1952); Ethel Barrymore Theater
(1956); Family Theatre (1952); General Electric Theater (1955); Hollywood
Opening Night (1952); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Johnny
Trouble (1957); Just for You (1952); Kind Lady (1951); Life's Whirlpool (1917);
Main Street to Broadway (1953); Moonrise (1948); Moss Rose (1947); National Red
Cross Pageant (1917); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1950); Night Song (1947);
None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Omnibus (1953); Our Mrs. McChesney (1918);
Person to Person (1955); Pinky (1949); Playhouse 90 (1956); Popular Players Off
the Stage (1913); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Rasputin and the Empress (1932);
Remember ... 1938 (1955); Show-Business at War (1943); Starland Review No. 13
(1922); Svengali and the Blonde (1955); That Midnight Kiss (1949); The
Awakening of Helena Ritchie (1916); The Call of Her People (1917); The Divorcee
(1919); The Eternal Mother (1917); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Final
Judgment (1915); The Great Sinner (1949); The Greatest Power (1917); The Kiss
of Hate (1916); The Lifted Veil (1917); The Nightingale (1914); The Paradine
Case (1947); The Red Danube (1949); The Secret of Convict Lake (1951); The
Spiral Staircase (1946); The Story of Three Loves (1953); The White Raven
(1917); What's My Line? (1952); Young at Heart (1954).
Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006).
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The Mammoth Book
of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006).
Edited by Mike
Ashley.
Published by
Running Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10:
0786718935
ISBN-13:
978-0786718931
Description:
Mystery conundrums from crime's finest storytellers.
This ingenious
new anthology from Mike Ashley presents nearly 30 impossible mysteries and
bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. Among them are some crimes
so impossible that they’re near perfect, and others so perfect that they’re
impossible to solve.
In all, the
delight is in unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth
happened.
Cases include:
A man in an
all-glass phone booth, clearly visible and with no one near him, is killed by
an ice pick.
Someone sitting
alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years
ago.
A man enters a
cable-car carriage alone and is visible the entire journey but is found dead
when he reaches the bottom.
A man vanishes at
the top of the Indian rope trick and is found dead miles away.
A dead man
continues to receive mail in response to letters apparently written by him
after he'd died.
The stories include several brand new masterpieces as well as lesser known rare gems – from such names as Robert Randisi, Edward D. Hoch, Joseph Commings, Peter Tremayne, Bill Pronzini and Gillian Linscott.
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