Saturday, November 1, 2025

Born on this day – Stephen Crane:


Stephen Crane


Writer

November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900
Credits:
 
Short stories:

A Mystery of Heroism; An Episode of War; An Experiment in Misery; His New Mittens; The Blue Hotel; The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; The Knife; The Little Regiment; The Men in the Storm; The Monster; The Open Boat; The Pace of Youth; The Price of the Harness; The Upturned Face; The Veteran; Virtue in War.

Books:

100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999); 101 Mystery Stories (1986); 40 Short Stories (2004); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); A Treasury of Civil War Stories (1991); Active Service (1899); American Christmas Stories (2021); American Fantastic Tales (2009); And the Darkness Falls (1946); Best of the West (1988); Bowery Tales (1901); Florida Stories (1993); Four Classic American Novels (2017); George's Mother (1896); Great Battles Of The World (1901); Great Short Stories of the World (1986); Great Short Works of Stephen Crane (2004); Great Tales of the West (1994); Hanging By a Thread (1970); Last Words (1902); Letters (1960); Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893); Manhattan Noir 2 (2008); Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (1985); Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992); Master's Choice (1999); Men at War (1942); Men, Women and Boats (1921); One Hundred Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); Points of View (1966); Prose and Poetry of the American West (1991); Standing Down (2014); The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1985); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century (2014); The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2012); The Best of the West (1991); The Black Riders / poems (1895); The Blue Hotel (1899); The Complete Poems Of Stephen Crane / poems (2005); The Evil Image (1983); The Little Regiment / aka Pictures Of War (1896); The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honour (2000); The Monster (1899); The Open Boat (1898); The O'Ruddy (1903); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Red Badge Of Courage (1895); The Reel West (1984); The Short Story (1992); The Sophisticated Cat (1992); The Third Violet (1897); Three Great Novels of the Civil War (1994); War Is Kind / poems (1899); Whilomville Stories (1900); Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1979); Wounds In The Rain (1900).

Movies and television:

An Illusion in Red & White (2014); Danger (1955); Das blaue Hotel (1973); Face of Fire (1959); Face to Face (1952); Festival (1961); General Electric Theater (1956); La locanda Azzurra (1966); Norman Corwin Presents (1972); Omnibus / Segment: The Blue Hotel (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Stephen Crane's A Desertion (2014); The Blue Hotel (1977 / 1997); The Dark Riders (2001); The Red Badge of Courage (1951 / 1974 / (2025); Tobruk (2008); War is Kind: Poetry of the Civil War (1999); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Born on this day – Sippie Wallace:


Sippie Wallace


Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986

Credits:

Music:

A Man for Every Day of the Week (1926); Advice Blues (1925); Baby I Can't Use You No More (1924); Bedroom Blues (1926); Being Down Don't Worry Me (1925); Caldonia Blues (1924); Can Anybody Take Sweet Mama's Place? (1924); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 1, 1923–1925; vol. 2, 1925–1945 (1995); Dead Drunk Blues (1927); Devil Dance Blues (1925); Every Dog Has His Day (1925); Have You Ever Been Down (1927); He's the Cause of Me Being Blue (1924); I Feel Good (1926); I Must Have It (1925); I'm a Mighty Tight Woman (1926); I'm Leaving You (1925); I'm So Glad I'm Brownskin (1924); I'm Sorry for It Now (1925); I've Stopped My Man (1924); Jack of Diamond Blues (1926); Jealous Woman Like Me (1926); Kitchen Blues (1926); Lazy Man Blues (1927); Leaving Me, Daddy Is Hard to Do (1924); Let My Man Alone Blues (1924); Mail Train Blues (1926); Mama's Gone Goodbye (1924); Morning Dove Blues (1925); Murder's Gonna Be My Crime (1925); Off and On Blues (1924); Parlor Social Deluxe (1925); Section Hand Blues (1925); Shorty George Blues (1923); Sings the Blues (1966); Sippie (1982); Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey (1970); Special Delivery Blues (1926); Stranger's Blues (1924); Sud Busting Blues (1924); Suitcase Blues (1925); The Flood Blues (1927); The Man I Love (1925); Trouble Evrywhere I Roam (1924); Underworld Blues (1924); Up the Country Blues (1923); Walkin Talkin Blues (1924); Wicked Monday Morning Blues (1924); Women Be Wise (1966).

Movies and television:

Bessie (2015); Blues Alive: Recorded Live at the Capitol Theatre (1983); Evening of AnExchange (1972); Jammin' with the Blues Greats (1982); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Nothing But the Blues (1966); Nothing But the Blues: Blues Scene (1967); Sippie (1983); The David Letterman Show (1980); The Reaping (2007); Uvolnete se, prosím (2005).

Born on this day – Mario Zampi:


Mario Zampi


Producer

Director

November 1, 1903 – December 2, 1963


Born on this day – Laura La Plante:


Laura La Plante


Actress

November 1, 1904 – October 14, 1996

Credits:

A Bottle Baby (1922); A Movie Mixup (1922); A Shaky Family Tree (1922); A Treacherous Rival (1922); Arizona (1931); Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923); Back from the Front (1920); Beware of Widows (1927); Big Town Ideas (1921); Brand of Courage (1921); Burning Words (1923); Butterflies in the Rain (1926); Butterfly (1924); Captain of the Guard (1930); Crooked Alley (1923); Dangerous Innocence (1925); Dead Game (1923); Desperation (1922); 813 (1920); Easy to Cop (1922); Excitement (1924); Fashion News (1930); Father's Close Shave (1920); Fighting Back (1922); Finders Keepers (1928); Gaslight Follies (1945); God's Gift to Women (1931); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1998); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952); Her Big Night (1926); Her Imaginary Lover (1933); His Four Fathers (1921); His Inheritance Taxi (1922); Hold Your Man (1929); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Home, James (1928); It's a Great Life (1955); Jiggs and the Social Lion (1920); Jiggs in Society (1920); King of Jazz (1930); Little Mister Jim (1946); Lonely Wives (1931); Lost in Limehouse (1933); Man of the Moment (1935); Matching Wits (1922); Meet the Wife (1931); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Old Dynamite (1921); Out of Luck (1923); Perils of the Yukon (1922); Play Square (1921); Poker Faces (1926); Ride for Your Life (1924); Scandal (1929); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 8 (1931); Shootin' for Love (1923); Should Husbands Do Housework? (1921); Should Watchmen Sleep? (1922); Show Boat (1929); Silk Stockings (1927); Skinner's Dress Suit (1926); Smouldering Fires (1925); Society Sailors (1922); Sporting Youth (1924); Spring Reunion (1956); Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931); Taking Things Easy (1922); Telephone Time (1956); Thanks for the Buggy Ride (1928); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 42nd. Street Special (1933); The Alarm (1921); The Beautiful Cheat (1926); The Big Ranger (1922); The Big Town Round-Up (1921); The Call of Courage (1922); The Call of the Blood (1921); The Cat and the Canary (1927); The Church Mouse (1934); The City of Stars (1924); The Dangerous Blonde (1924); The Deputy's Double Cross (1922); The Fast Worker (1924); The Fatal Plunge (1924); The Girl in Possession (1934); The Great Gamble (1919); The Last Warning (1928); The Linkletter Show (1954); The Love Thrill (1927); The Love Trap (1929); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Midnight Sun (1926); The Minute Man (1922); The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921); The Ramblin' Kid (1923); The Ranger's Reward (1922); The Sea Ghost (1931); The Show Boat Story (1989); The Speed Boy (1922); The Teaser (1925); The Thrill Chaser (1923); The Trail of the Wolf (1922); The Wall Flower (1922); True Gold (1923); Widow's Might (1935); Won't You Worry? (1923); You Bet Your Life (1954); Young Ideas (1924).

Born on this day – Ira Wolfert:


Ira Wolfert


Writer

November 1, 1908 – November 24, 1997
Credits:
 
Books:
 
An epidemic of genius (1957); American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1945); Battle for the Solomons (1943); Torpedo 8: The Story of Swede Larsen's Bomber Squadron (1943); Tucker's people / aka The Underworld (1997).
 
Movies and television:
 
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950); Exercise No. One (1962); Force of Evil (1948).

Born on this day – Betsy Palmer:


Betsy Palmer


Actress

November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015


Born on this day – Marcel Ophuls:


Marcel Ophuls


Director

Writer

Actor

November 1, 1927 – May 24, 2025
Credits:

Book:

The Sorrow and the Pity (1975).

Movies and television:

A Deal Made in a Turkish Bath (2017); A Sense of Loss (1972); America Revisited (1971); Annie Hall (1977); Arte Journal (2025); Banana Peel (1963); Camera Three (1972–1976); Cinéastes de notre temps (1965); Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (2015); Clavigo (1970); Costa-Gavras Talks with Marcel Ophuls (1976); Darf ich mitspielen? (1958); Das Pflichtmandat (1958); Das schöne irre Judenmädchen (1984); Die Ullrich (1972); Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980); Faites vos jeux, mesdames (1965); Festspiele (1982); François Truffaut: Portraits volés (1993); Hôtel Terminus (1988); Inside Story (1990); Journeys Through French Cinema (2017); Kortnergeschichten (1980); La fille au fouet (1952); L'Art de Max Ophuls (2024); Late Night Line-Up (1971); Liberty belle (1983); Lola Montès (1955); Love at Twenty / Segment: Munich (1962); Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais (2011); Marcel Ophuls: A Course in Resistance (1992); Marianne of My Youth (1955); Masterclass: Marcel Ophuls and Kenneth Turan on Disagreeable Truths (2017); Matisse ou Le talent du bonheur (1960); Max par Marcel (2009); Moulin Rouge (1952); Munich ou la paix pour cent ans (1967); November Days (1991); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); The Harvest of My Lai (1970); The Media Show (1988); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Sorrow and the Pity (1969); Till Eulenspiegel (1967); Un voyageur (2013); Veillées d'armes (1994); Wortwechsel (1989); Yorktown: Le sens d'une Victoire (1982); Zeil um Zehn (1992); Zwei ganze Tage (1970).