Sunday, September 6, 2026

Born on this day – Otto Kruger:

 


Otto Kruger


Actor

September 6, 1885 – September 6, 1974

Credits:

711 Ocean Drive (1950); A Dispatch from Reuters (1940); A Mother's Confession (1915); A Woman Is the Judge (1939); Allotment Wives (1945); Another Thin Man (1939); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1954); Around the Clock with a Sailor (1918); Around the Clock with the Marines (1918); Beauty for Sale (1933); Black Widow (1954); Bonanza (1963); Cash McCall (1960); Center Stage (1954); Chained (1934); Checkmate (1962); Climax! (1956–1957); Corregidor (1943); Counsel for Crime (1937); Cover Girl (1944); Della (1965); Disbarred (1939); Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940); Dr. Kildare (1962); Dracula's Daughter (1936); Duel in the Sun (1946); Earl Carroll Vanities (1945); Escape in the Fog (1945); Ever in My Heart (1933); Exposed (1938); False Rapture (1939); Friendly Enemies (1942); Frontier Circus (1961); Gallant Lady (1933); General Electric Theater (1953–1954); Glamorous Night (1937); Grand Jury (1959); High Noon (1952); Hitler's Children (1943); Housemaster (1938); I Am the Law (1938); Knickerbocker Holiday (1944); Ladies Not Allowed (1932); Lady of Secrets (1936); Lights Out (1951); Living Dangerously (1936); Love and Learn (1947); Lulu Belle (1948); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Magnificent Obsession (1954); Marionettes (1925); Medallion Theatre (1954); Men in White (1934); Mercy Island (1941); Mr. Intruder (1930); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Night Plane from Chungking (1943); On Stage Everybody (1945); Paris Interlude (1934); Payment on Demand (1951); Perry Mason (1961–1964); Power of the Press (1943); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951–1952); Romance on the High Seas (1948); Saboteur (1942); Sam Benedict (1962); Scandal Sheet (1939); Schlagerparade (1953); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Secrets of a Co-Ed (1942); Seventeen (1940); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Smart Woman (1948); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Springtime for Henry (1934); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Storm Over Lisbon (1944); Studio One (1954); Suspense (1949); Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943); Thanks for the Memory (1938); The Amazing Mr. Forrest (1939); The Barrier (1937); The Big Boss (1941); The Chicago Kid (1945); The Colossus of New York (1958); The Crime Doctor (1934); The Desert Song (1955); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961–1963); The Fabulous Suzanne (1946); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958); The Great John L. (1945); The Hidden Menace (1938); The Home Girl (1928); The Investigators (1961); The Jungle Captive (1945); The Last Command (1955); The Law and Mr. Jones (1961); The Man and the Challenge (1959); The Man I Married (1940); The Men in Her Life (1941); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Rebel (1959); The Runaway Wife (1915); The Women in His Life (1933); The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962); The Young Philadelphians (1959); The Zero Hour (1939); They Live in Fear (1944); They Won't Forget (1937); Thriller (1962); Treasure Island (1934); Turn Back the Clock (1933); Two Sinners (1935); Under the Red Robe (1923); Valentino (1951); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); When the Call Came (1915); Woman Who Came Back (1945); Wonder Man (1945).

Born on this day – Max Schreck:


Max Schreck


Actor

September 6, 1879 – February 20, 1936

Most famous for playing the vampire Count Orlok in Nosferatu (1922).

Credits:

100 Years of Horror (1996); A Woman Like You (1933); ABC News Breakfast (2024); Am Narrenseil, 2. Teil - Rätsel der Kriminalistik (1921); Am Rande der Welt (1927); Barron Arts Center Lecture: Vampires (2023); Biography (2004); Boo! (1932); Boykott (1930); Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam (2014); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007–2021); Compression (2024); Dämonische Leinwand - Der deutsche Film der zwanziger Jahre (1998); Das Land des Lächelns (1930); Das verliebte Hotel (1933); Death of the Rat (2024); Der alte Fritz - 1. Friede (1928); Der alte Fritz - 2. Ausklang (1928); Der Kampf der Tertia (1929); Der Kaufmann von Venedig (1923); Der Richter von Zalamea (1920); Der Roman der Christine von Herre (1921); Der rosa Diamant (1926); Der Sohn der Hagar (1927); Der Tunnel (1933); Der zeugende Tod (1921); Die letzten Vier von Santa Cruz (1936); Die zwölfte Stunde (1930); Doña Juana (1928); Donogoo Tonka (1936); Dracula in the Movies (1992); Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991); Dracula: Fact or Fiction? (1992); Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode (2011); Dudu, ein Menschenschicksal (1924); Ein Kuß in der Sommernacht (1933); Ein Mann mit Herz (1932); Empire of the Censors (1995); Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Finances of the Grand Duke (1924); Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1933); From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014); Gefühlswelten (2014); Geheimnisse der Weimarer Republik (2016); German Grusel - Die Edgar Wallace-Serie (2011); Haunted Housesitting (2025); Historia del cine: Epoca muda (1983); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); How to Survive a Vampire Attack (2009); Howard Goodall's Story of Music (2013); Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935); Krieg im Frieden (1925); La duodécima hora (2007); La galerie France 5 (2018); Les Chroniques du Mea (2016); Local Nomad: Young Vampires (2020); Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern (1930); Luther (1928); Meat the Carvers (2024); Moderne Piraten (1928); Monsters & Maniacs (1988); Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen (1933); Nacht der Versuchung (1932); Nathan der Weise (1922); Nightfall (2010); Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror (1996); Nosferatu - Ein Film wie ein Vampir (2022); Nosferatu (1922); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); Nosferatu: The First Vampire (1998); Peer Gynt (1934); Peter Voss Who Stole Millions (1932); Prince Seppl (1932); Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2 / Segment: Under Pressure (2003); Rasputins Liebesabenteuer (1928); Real vampires, exposed! (1998); Roman einer Nacht (1933); Rotten (2018); Sam and Colby Present: Hell Week (2021); Scampolo (1928); Serenissimus und die letzte Jungfrau (1928); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Spongebob in Real-Life (2019); SpongeBob SquarePants (2002–2022); Sprockets (1995); Teenagers' Republic (1928); Texas Freds Brautfahrt (1920); That really old vampire movie (2014); The Bartered Bride (1932); The Count of Monte Cristo (1934); The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999); The Horror of It All (1983); The Mandela Catalogue (2023); The Many Faces of Dracula (2000); The Mark of Dracula (2000); The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop (1923); The Rules of Film Noir (2009); The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934); The Steel Animal (1935); The Strange Case of Captain Ramper (1927); The Street (1923); The Tomb of Nosferatu (2023); The Vampire (1945); Universal Horror (1998); Vampyr (1932); Volga Volga (1928); WatchMojo (2012); Welcome to the Basement (2014).


Recommended reading - Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959 (2010).

 

Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959

by Michael F. Keaney.

Published by McFarland & Company.
Paperback.
Published in 2010.
 
ISBN-10: 078646366X
ISBN-13: 978-0786463664
 
Description:
 
More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book – such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story, The Naked City, Strangers on a Train, White Heat, and The Window. For each film, the following information is provided: the title, release date, main performers, screenwriter(s), director(s), type of noir, thematic content, a rating based on the five-star system, and a plot synopsis that does not reveal the ending.

Zelda Popkin, on writing:

 
Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer.
Another is keeping regular working hours.
- Zelda Popkin.


Just one more chapter ...


I'm not addicted to reading.
I can quit as soon as I finish one more chapter.

Saturday, September 5, 2026

How I keep adding to our home library:

I am not buying any new books.

Oh, look!

A book!


Barbara Mertz, on writing:

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds:

the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

- Barbara Mertz.