On this day in movie history - The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

directed by Bharat Nalluri,

written by Susan Coyne and based on the book by Les Standiford,

was released in the United States on November 22, 2017.

Music by Mychael Danna.

Cast:

Dan Stevens, Ely Solan, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Donald Sumpter, Miriam Margolyes, Morfydd Clark, Justin Edwards, Miles Jupp, Ian McNeice, David McSavage, Bill Paterson, John Henshaw, Annette Badland, Anna Murphy, Jasper Hughes-Cotter, Eddie Jackson, Paul Kealyn, Aleah Lennon, Ger Ryan, Cosimo Fusco, Valeria Bandino, Donna Marie Sludds.

On this day in movie history - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

directed by Marielle Heller,

written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster,

was released in the United States on November 22, 2019.

Based on Can You Say Hero? by Tom Junod, a 1998 article published in Esquire.

Music by Nate Heller.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Fred Rogers, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Cooper, Maryann Plunkett, Enrico Colantoni, Wendy Makkena, Tammy Blanchard, Noah Harpster, Christine Lahti, Carmen Cusack, Jessica Hecht, Maddie Corman, Daniel Krell, Zoey Harsh, Joanne Rogers, David Newell, Bill Isler, Margy Whitmer, Arsenio Hall, Oprah Winfrey.

On this day in music history - Portrait of a Waterfall, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2005)

Portrait of a Waterfall

by Fiona Joy Hawkins

was released on November 22, 2005.

Tatiana de Rosnay, on stories:

When a story is told, it is not forgotten.

It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.

– Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay.

Recommended reading - Dances with Wolves

 

Dances with Wolves

by Michael Blake.
 
Paperback.
First published 1988.
Published by Ballantine Books.

ISBN 13: 9780449000755
ISBN 10: 0449000753
ASIN: 0449000753
 
Description:
 

Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever.

 

Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it is gone". His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the springboard for contact with the lords of the southern plains... the Comanche. Though he does not speak their language, has no know-ledge of their customs, and is considered a trespasser, Lieutenant Dunbar finds himself intrigued by the exotic and alien culture of the buffalo-hunting people of the plains. A simple desire to know more about his wild neighbors ignites a great adventure of transformation that culminates with the emergence of a different kind of man... a man called Dances With Wolves.

Recommended reading - Darkness Before Dawn

Darkness Before Dawn

by Ingrid Pitt.
 
Paperback.
Published 2004.
Published by Midnight Marquee Press.

ISBN 13: 9781887664547
ISBN 10: 1887664548
ASIN: 1887664548
 
Description:
 
Revised and expanded edition, previously published as Life's a Scream: The Autobiography of Ingrid Pitt (1999).
 

At the age of five, Ingrid Pitt found herself in a concentration camp. Ingrid and her mother escaped from the guards while on a forced march and presented themselves to the partisans, unsure if they would kill them. They spent the rest of the war in the forests. Ingrid fell in love for the first time and watched in despair as British bombers flew overhead. She still cannot see the vapor trials of planes without being transported back to her childhood vigil. After the war Ingrid came to London, where she developed a career as a Hammer House of Horror movie star, but, as she proudly says, `I was always the biter, never the bitten!' She also acted in mainstream films, such as WHERE EAGLES DARE. She had a child by her first marriage and a grand passion which lead to her marrying a racing driver. They lived in Argentina for a while and were good friends of President Peron and Isabelits Peron. Ingrid even spent an evening with the embalmed body of Eva Peron. Written with great passion and warmth, this is a rare childhood memoir and the story of Hammer`s most glamorous actress. Above all, this is a story of a survivor.

Born on this day – Corinne Griffith:

Corinne Griffith

Actress

Producer

Writer

Businesswoman

November 21, 1894 – July 13, 1979

Known as: The Orchid Lady of the Screen.

Credits:

Paradise Alley (1962); Lily Christine (1932); Back Pay (1930); Lilies of the Field (1929); Prisoners (1929); Saturday's Children (1929); The Divine Lady (1928); Outcast (1928); The Garden of Eden (1928); Three Hours (1927); The Lady in Ermine (1927); Syncopating Sue (1926); Into Her Kingdom (1926); Mademoiselle Modiste (1926); Infatuation (1925); Classified (1925); The Marriage Whirl (1925); Déclassé (1925); Love's Wilderness (1924); Single Wives (1924); Lilies of the Field (1924); Black Oxen (1923); Six Days (1923); The Common Law (1923); Divorce Coupons (1922); A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922); Island Wives (1922); Received Payment (1922); The Single Track (1921); Moral Fibre (1921); What's Your Reputation Worth? (1921); It Isn't Being Done This Season (1921); The Broadway Bubble (1920); The Whisper Market (1920); Babs (1920); The Garter Girl (1920); Deadline at Eleven (1920); Human Collateral (1920); The Tower of Jewels (1919); The Climbers (1919); The Bramble Bush (1919); A Girl at Bay (1919); Thin Ice (1919); The Unknown Quantity (1919); The Girl Problem (1919); The Adventure Shop (1919); Miss Ambition (1918); A Wise Purchase (1918); The Girl of Today (1918); The Clutch of Circumstance (1918); Love Watches (1918); The Menace (1918); Who Goes There? (1917); I Will Repay (1917); The Love Doctor (1917); Transgression (1917); The Stolen Treaty (1917); The Mystery of Lake Lethe (1917); His Wife's Allowance (1916); The Last Man (1916); Through the Wall (1916); A Fool and His Friend (1916); The Yellow Girl (1916); The Waters of Lethe (1916); Ashes (1916); The Rich Idler (1916); The Cost of High Living (1916); Miss Adventure (1916); Sin's Penalty (1916); When Hubby Forgot (1916); Bitter Sweet (1916); La paloma (1916).