On this day in movie history - Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

 

Melodrama

directed by W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway and George Cukor,

written by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

based on a story by Arthur Caesar, Frank Dolan and Donald Ogden Stewart,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1934.

Music by William Axt.

Cast:

Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Isabel Jewell, Muriel Evans, Thomas E. Jackson, Isabelle Keith, Frank Conroy, Noel Madison, Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Ross.

On this day in movie history - Gaslight (1944)

Gaslight

directed by George Cukor,

written by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston,

based on the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1944.

Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:

Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes, Tom Stevenson, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel, Harry Adams, Lassie Lou Ahern, John Ardizoni, Frank Baker, Wilson Benge, Arnold Bennett, Florence Benson, Arthur Blake, Lillian Bronson, Alec Craig, Antonio D'Amore, Wynne Davis, Frank Eldredge, Maude Fealy, Al Ferguson, Helen Flint, Gibson Gowland, Gary Gray, Roger Gray, Bobbie Hale, Joy Harington, Tom Hughes, Jack Kirk, Pat Malone, Al Masiello, Charles McNaughton, Terry Moore, Clive Morgan, Georgie Nokes, Joseph North, Tarquin Olivier, Elsie Prescott, Joseph Romantini, Syd Saylor, Arthur Stone, Alix Terry, Morgan Wallace, Eric Wilton, Eustace Wyatt, Katherine Yorke, Phyllis Yuse, Guy Zanette.

On this day in movie history - Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

directed by Carl Reiner,

written by Carl Reiner, George Gipe and Steve Martin,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1982.

Music by Miklós Rózsa and Steve Goodman.

Cast:

Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Kirk Douglas, Fred MacMurray, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Reni Santoni, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, George Gaynes, Francis X. McCarthy, Adrian Ricard, Charlie Picerni, Gene LeBell, George Sawaya, Britt Nilsson, Jean Beaudine, John Easton Stuart, Ronald Spivey, Bob Hevelone, Dieter Curt, Phillip Kearns, Kent Deigaard, Eugene Brezany, Brad Baird, William Conrad, Charles McGraw, Jeff Corey, John Miljan, Brian Donlevy, Norma Varden, Edmond O'Brien, Wally Brown, David LeBell, Cheryl Smith.

On this day in television history – Justified (2010 & 2011):

 

Justified
Season 1. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Blowback.

Released May 4, 2010.

Directed by Jon Avnet.

Written by Graham Yost, Benjamin Cavell, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, W. Earl Brown, Jere Burns, M.C. Gainey, Rick Gomez, Fredric Lehne, William Ragsdale, Walton Goggins, David Haley, Chris Stacy, David Hill.

Justified
Season 2. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Bloody Harlan.

Released May 4, 2011.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, James Le Gros, David Meunier, Peter Murnik, Kevin Rankin, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Randolph Adams, Mark Atteberry, Sean Donnellan, William Gregory Lee, Tonja Kahlens, Savannah McReynolds, Ryan Smith, Andrey Batt, Jeremy Timmins, Seth Yohnka.

On this day in music history - The album With Teeth, by Nine Inch Nails (2005)

With Teeth

by Nine Inch Nails

was released on May 3, 2005.

NIN has been one of my favorite bands since the first time I heard the opening bars of Pretty Hate Machine’s Head Like a Hole and With Teeth is a release that nearly equals Pretty Hate Machine’s cohesion, with it's songs among my ‘go to’ tunes for road trips.

The supporting tour was excellent as well – everyone on their feet joyfully singing along, yelling, fisted hands pumping in solidarity - unforgettable.

Well done Trent, bandmates, and guest artists – thank you.

Track list:

All the Love in the World; You Know What You Are?; The Collector; The Hand That Feeds; Love Is Not Enough; Every Day Is Exactly the Same; With Teeth; Only; Getting Smaller; Sunspots; The Line Begins to Blur; Beside You in Time; Right Where It Belongs.

#WithTeeth #NIN #NineInchNails #TrentReznor #TheHandThatFeeds #Only #EveryDayIsExactlyTheSame

Sappho, on words:

 

Although only breath,

words which I command are immortal.
- Sappho.

Recommended reading - Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male

by James Gunn.

Introduced by Curtis Evans.

Filmed as Born to Kill, aka Lady of Deceit and Deadlier Than the Male (1947), directed by Robert Wise.

Published by Stark House Press.

Film Noir Classics, 7.

First published 1942.

Paperback.

ISBN-13: 979-8886010824

ASIN: B0CW22PDN7

Description:

“Deadlier Than the Male is truly one of the strangest of all American crime novels. In fact it’s one of the strangest of all American novels… It is in no way a pleasant read but it is fascinating in a bizarre, morbid and very unsettling way. Gunn’s style is as extreme and as offbeat as his plotting. This is psychological noir at its darkest.” – Vintage Pop Fictions.

DEADLIER THAN THE MALE.

Helen is in Reno for her second divorce and staying with Mrs. Krantz and her daughter Rachel at their boarding house. Mrs. Krantz’s drinking companion, Laura Pollicker, lives next door. That night she is murdered, and Helen discovers the body—and wastes no time in returning to the San Francisco house she shares with his sister Georgia. How could she know that the very man who meets and marries her sister only days later is the same man who had slit Mrs. Pollicker’s throat.

Sam Wild is a powerful man, tall, muscular, with very little control over his emotions. His friend Mart watches out for him, but Sam sometimes just can’t help himself—he has to kill. Now he’s got a rich wife with an attractive sister, and he’s just biding his time until he can take over Georgia’s money and get rid of her, too. But that’s when Helen steps in with some plans of her own.