Thursday, November 7, 2024

Born on this day – Miriam Cooper:


Miriam Cooper


Actress

November 7, 1891 – April 12, 1976

Credits:

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912); A Diamond in the Rough (1914); A Man for All That (1915); A Railroad Conspiracy (1913); A Railroad Lochinvar (1912); A Railroad Wooing (1913);  Treacherous Shot (1913); Across the Continent (1913); After the Ball (1924); Battle in the Virginia Hills (1912); Battle of Pottsburg Bridge (1912); Betrayed (1917); Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975); Captured by Strategy (1913); Century of Cinema (1995); Daughters of the Rich (1923); Evangeline (1919); 'Fighting' Dan McCool (1912); For His Master (1914); For the Sake of Kate (1914); Golden Dross (1914); Her Accidental Husband (1923); His Mother's Picture (1912); His Return (1915); Home, Sweet Home (1914); How Izzy Stuck to His Post (1914); Intolerance (1916); Is Money Everything? (1923); Izzy and His Rival (1914); Izzy and the Diamond (1914); Kindred of the Dust (1922); Lest We Forget (1914); Only a Tramp (1915); Prisoners of War (1913); Rounding Up the Counterfeiters (1913); Saved from Court Martial (1912); Serenade (1921); Shenandoah (1913); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); The Artist's Wife (1915); The Battle of Bloody Ford (1913); The Birth of a Nation (1915); The Broken Wing (1923); The Bugler of Battery B (1912); The Burned Hand (1915); The Confederate Ironclad (1912); The Darling of the CSA (1912); The Deep Purple (1920); The Dishonored Medal (1914); The Double Deception (1915); The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg (1912); The Duke's Plan (1910); The End of the Run (1913); The Exposure of the Land Swindlers (1913); The Farm Bully (1912); The Fatal Black Bean (1915); The Filibusters (1912); The Girl in the Caboose (1912); The Girl Who Came Back (1923); The Greaser (1915); The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher (1912); The Gunman (1914); The Hand of Destiny (1913); The Hero (1923); The Honor System (1917); The Horse Wrangler (1914); The Infamous Don Miguel (1913); The Innocent Sinner (1917); The Making of 'the Birth of a Nation' (1998); The Moonshiner's Mistake (1913); The Mother and the Law (1919); The Oath (1921); The Octoroon (1913); The Odalisque (1914); The Old Shoemaker (1915); The Prison Ship (1912); The Prussian Cur (1918); The Pseudo Prodigal (1913); The Railroad Detective's Dilemma (1913); The Railroad Inspector's Peril (1913); The Rival Engineers (1912); The Rose Bush of Memories (1914); The Sacrifice at the Spillway (1913); The Siege of Petersburg (1912); The Silent Lie (1917); The Slave Girl (1915); The Smuggler (1913); The Smugglers of Sligo (1914); The Soldier Brothers of Susanna (1912); The Stolen Radium (1914); The Story of a Story (1915); The Tide of Battle (1912); The Toll Gate Raiders (1912); The Turning Point (1913); The Woe of Battle (1913); The Woman and the Law (1918); Their First Acquaintance (1914); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913); War's Havoc (1912); When Fate Frowned (1914).


Born on this day – Herman J. Mankiewicz:


Herman J. Mankiewicz


Writer

November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953


Born on this day – Albert Camus:


Albert Camus


Writer

Philosopher

November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960


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Born on this day – William Wharton:


William Wharton


Writer

November 7, 1925 – October 29, 2008

Credits:

Birdy (1978); Ever after (1981); Dad (1981); A Midnight Clear (1982); Scumbler (1984); Pride (1985); Tidings (1987); Franky Furbo (1989); Last Lovers (1991); Wrongful Deaths (1994); Houseboat on the Seine (1996); Shrapnel (2012). 

Awards:

In 1980, William Wharton was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction / Best Book, for his 1978 novel: Birdy.


Born on this day – Derek Vanlint:

Derek Vanlint

Cinematographer

Director

November 7, 1932 – February 23, 2010


Credits:
Cine Chalom (2020); X-Men (2000); The Spreading Ground (2000); Dragonslayer (1981); The Bed (1980); Alien (1979); Simon Simon (1970); Morning, Noon and Night (1967); This Time Tomorrow (1966); A Penny for Your Thoughts or 'Birds, Dolls & Scratch' English Style (1965).


Born on this day – Daniela Giordano:


Daniela Giordano


Actress

November 7, 1947– December 16, 2022


Credits:

Batton Story (1976); Bloody Friday (1972); Bolidi sull'asfalto a tutta birra! (1970); Daniela's Inquisition (2017); Dante's Project (2015); Death Walks on High Heels (1971); Ein kalter Tag (2017); Erba Celeste (2015); Eurotika! (1999); Evil Eye (1975); Find a Place to Die (1968); Four Gunmen of the Holy Trinity (1971); Four Times That Night (1971); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970); Help Me Have No Human Ways (2015); I barbieri di Sicilia (1967); Il fidanzamento (1975); Il lungo giorno del massacro (1968); Inquisition (1977); Jean-Roch Coignet (1969); Kara Murat: Seyh Gaffar'a Karsi (1977); Killer's Gold (1979); La cameriera (1974); La sfida dei MacKenna (1970); L'adolescente (1976); Le segrete esperienze di Luca e Fanny (1980); L'infermiera... di mio padre (1976); Lobo the Bastard (1971); Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973); Mondo Macabro (2001); Ombre roventi (1970); Play-Boy (1967); Reflections in Black (1975); Sexy Susan Sins Again (1968); Soror (2022); Stay Away from Trinity... When He Comes to Eldorado (1972); The 5-Man Army (1969); The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972); The Girl in Room 2A (1974); The Naked Doorwoman (1976); The Night of the Scorpion (1972); The World of Shadows (2015); Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972); Un toro da monta (1976); Un'estate, un inverno (1971); Vedo nudo (1969); Violent Rome (1975); Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972).



On this day in movie history - 52 Pick-up (1986)

52 Pick-up

directed by John Frankenheimer,

written by John Steppling and Elmore Leonard,

based on the novel by Elmore Leonard,

was released in the United States on November 7, 1986.

Music by Gary Chang.

Cast:
Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Lonny Chapman, Kelly Preston, Doug McClure, Clarence Williams III, Alex Henteloff, Michelle Walker, Philip Bartko, Tom Byron, Herschel Savage, Ron Jeremy, Amber Lynn, Sharon Mitchell, Ines Ochoa, Allyson Palmeter, Katherine Poland, Debra Satell, Amy White, Charles Bowden, Marc Castenada, Mike Caruso, Steven Clawson, Christopher Cory, Maurice Jenkins, John Kahnen, Bobby Ponce, Ray Vela, Robin Bronfman, Debra Berger, Laisa Carrie, Blackie Dammett, Barbara Ferris, John Francis, Conroy Gedeon, Bill Gratton, Jai M. Jefferson, Lenora Logan, Mark M. Mayuga, Lorrie Lovett, Sandra Perron, Barbara Summers, William John Murphy, Anthony Palmer, Frank Sivero, Arlin Miller, Erica Boyer, Barbara Dare, Jamie Gillis, Nicholas Grabowsky, Bill Kucera, Cara Lott, Pat Manning, Randy West, Honey Wilder.