On this day in movie history - The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

The Pit and the Pendulum

directed by Roger Corman,

written by Richard Matheson,

based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe,

was released in the United States on August 23, 1961.

Music by Les Baxter.

Cast:

Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone, Patrick Westwood, Lynette Bernay, Larry Turner, Mary Menzies, Charles Victor, Randee Lynne Jensen.

On this day in movie history - Dead Again (1991)

Dead Again

directed by Kenneth Branagh,

written by Scott Frank,

was released in the United States on August 23, 1991.

Music by Patrick Doyle.

Cast:

Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Emma Thompson, Lois Hall, Richard Easton, Jo Anderson, Patrick Montes, Raymond Cruz, Robin Williams, Wayne Knight, Patrick Doyle, Erik Kilpatrick, Gordana Rashovich, Derek Jacobi, Obba Babatundé, Christine Ebersole, Vasek Simek, Hanna Schygulla, Gregor Hesse, John Gould Rubin, Campbell Scott, Steven Culp, Yvette Freeman, Miriam Margolyes, Ralph G. Morse, Peter Riga, Tina Rucker, Anthony Welch.

On this day in movie history - Down, Out & Dangerous (1995)

Down, Out & Dangerous

directed by Noel Nosseck,

written by Carey Hayes and Chad Hayes,

was released in the United States on August 23, 1995.

Music by Mark Snow.

Cast:

Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cynthia Ettinger, Steve Hytner, Christine Cavanaugh, Melinda Culea, Stuart Pankin, Jason Bernard, George DiCenzo, Sarah MacDonnell, Virginia Hawkins, Lyla Graham, Joe Nesnow, Richard Narita, David J. Partington, Michael Bard Bayer, Leonard Kelly-Young, Carole Wyand, Rusty Schwimmer, David Jean Thomas.

Larry L. King, on writing:

Write.
Rewrite.
When not writing or rewriting, read.
I know of no shortcuts.
- Larry L. King.
 

Born on this day – Henry "Son" Sims:

 

Henry "Son" Sims

Blues fiddler

Songwriter

August 22, 1890 – December 23, 1958

Born on this day – Dorothy Parker:

 

Dorothy Parker

Writer

August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967

Credits:
 
Poems:
 

A Certain Lady; A Dream Lies Dead; A Fairly Sad Tale; A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature; A Portrait; A Very Short Song; A Well-Worn Story; After Spanish Proverb; Afternoon; Alexandre Dumas And His Son; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Anecdote; August; Autobiography; Autumn Valentine; Ballade at Thirty-five; Ballade Of A Great Weariness; Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals; Bohemia; Braggart; Bric-a-Brac; But Not Forgotten; Chant For Dark Hours; Charles Dickens; Coda; Comment; Condolence; Convalescent; D.G. Rossetti; Daylight Saving; De Profundis; Dilemma; Distance; Epitaph; Experience; Fable; Fair Weather; Faute De Mieux; Fighting Words; Finis; For A Favorite Granddaughter; For A Lady Who Must Write Verse; For A Sad Lady; For An Unknown Lady; From A Letter From Lesbia; Frustration; Fulfillment; Garden-Spot; General Review Of The Sex Situation; George Gissing; George Sand; Godmother; Godspeed; Guinevere at Her Fireside; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Healed; Hearthside; I Know I Have Been Happiest; I Shall Come Back; Incurable; Indian Summer; Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom; Interior; Interview; Inventory; Iseult Of Brittany; Landscape; Liebestod; Light Of Love; Lines On Reading Too Many Poets; Little Words; Love Song; Lullaby; Men; Midnight; Mortal Enemy; My Own; Neither Bloody Nor Bowed; News Item; Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday; Nocturne; Now At Liberty; Observation; Of a Woman, Dead Young; On Being A Woman; One Perfect Rose; Ornithology For Beginners; Oscar Wilde; Parable For A Certain Virgin; Partial Comfort; Paths; Pattern; Penelope; Philosophy; Plea; Portrait of the Artist; Post-Graduate; Pour Prendre Conge; Prayer For a New Mother; Prayer For A Prayer; Prisoner; Prologue to a Saga; Prophetic Soul; Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song; Rainy Night; Recurrence; Renunciation; Requiescat; Rhyme Against Living; Roundel; Salome's Dancing-Lesson; Sanctuary; Sight; Social Note; Solace; Somebody's Song; Song in a Minor Key; Song Of One Of The Girls; Song of Perfect Propriety; Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence; Sonnet On An Alpine Night; Summary; Superfluous Advice; Surprise; Sweet Violets; Symptom Recital; Temps Perdu; Testament; The Apple Tree; The Burned Child; The Choice; The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse; The Dark Girl's Rhyme; The Dramatists; The Evening Primrose; The False Friends; The Flaw In Paganism; The Gentlest Lady; The Homebody; The Immortals; The Lady's Reward; The Last Question; The Leal; The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk; The New Love; The Red Dress; The Satin Dress; The Sea; The Searched Soul; The Second Oldest Story; The Small Hours; The Thin Edge; The Trifler; The Trusting Heart; The Veteran; The Whistling Girl; The White Lady; The Willow; Theory; There Was One; They Part; Thomas Carlyle; Thought For A Sunshiny Morning; Threnody; To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady; Tombstones in the Starlight; Transition; Two-Volume Novel; Ultimatum; Unfortunate Coincidence; Vers Demode; Verse For a Certain Dog; Victoria; Wail; Walter Savage Landor; Wisdom; Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror.

 

Books:
 

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); After Such Pleasures (1940); Alaska Stories (1995); Big Blonde and Other Stories (1929); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Death and Taxes (1931); Enough Rope (1926); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Here Lies (1939); Here We Are, a Telephone Call (2001); Laments for the Living (1930); Life Stories (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Men I'm Not Married To (1922); New Orleans Stories (1992); Not Much Fun (1996); Not So Deep as a Well (1937); Points of View (1956); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Sayings of Dorothy Parker (1992); Secret Ingredients (2007); Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker (1976); Selected Stories (1995); Sisters (2009); Southwest Stories (1993); Such a Pretty Little Picture and Other Stories (2023); Sunset Gun: Poems (1940); Texas Stories (1995); The Coast of Illyria (1990); The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker (1944); The Collected Short Stories (1942); The Ladies of the Corridor (1954); The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944); The Sexes (1944); Women Writers at Work (1989); Wonderful Town (2000).

 

Movies and television:
 

2nd House (1975); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Star Is Born (1954); A Telephone Call (2014); American Masters (1987); August (2013); Big Blonde (1980); Bomb Girls (2012); Candide (1988 / 2024); Desert Hearts (1985); Dick Stabile and His Orchestra (1952); Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place (1982); Dynamite (1929); Een heel kleintje maar (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952); Hands Across the Table (1935); Here Is My Heart (1934); I Live on Your Visits (2024); I Wished on the Moon (1935); In the Pink (1982); ITV Play of the Week (1960); Jerry Gray and the Band of Today (1950); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Lady Be Careful (1936); Language of Love (1964); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life Together (2016); Madonna Feat. Massive Attack: I Want You (1995); Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (2009); Movie Melodies on Parade (1936); Moving Pictures (1995); O Telefonema (2010); Pakinateatteri (1960); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Public Speaking (2010); Queen for a Day (1951); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Saboteur (1942); Shoestring Theatre (1959–1962); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Something to Read (1959); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Stranded in Canton (2005); Suzy (1936); Sweethearts (1938); Teatterituokio (1966); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The David Susskind Show (1959); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Fan (1949); The Flower of My Secret (1995); The Game (2004); The Green Helmet (1961); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Little Foxes (1941); The Lovely Leave (1999); The Maker (1997); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Night Before Christmas (1957); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Sexes (2008); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); Three Married Men (1936); T'odio, amor meu (1996); Trade Winds (1938); Weekend for Three (1941); Woman Chases Man (1937); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); You Were Perfectly Fine (2009).

Born on this day – Jean Yarbrough:

 

Jean Yarbrough

Director

Producer

August 22, 1900 – August 2, 1975