The album Calm Within,
by Laura Sullivan,
was released on December 11, 2015.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
On this day in music history - Ama, by Cecilia Chailly (2001):
The album Ama,
by Cecilia
Chailly,
was released on December 11, 2001.
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On this day in movie history - Driving Miss Daisy (1989):
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Driving Miss Daisy
directed by Bruce Beresford,
written by
Alfred
Uhry,
based on the play by Alfred Uhry,
was released in the United States on December
11, 1989.
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Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther
Rolle, Joann Havrilla, William Hall Jr., Alvin M. Sugarman, Clarice F.
Geigerman, Muriel Moore, Sylvia Kaler, Carolyn Gold, Crystal Fox, Bob Hannah, Ray
McKinnon, Ashley Josey, Jack Rousso, Fred Faser, Indra A. Thomas, Trilby
Beresford, Dean DuBois, Jay Freer, Jen Harper, Martin Luther King, D. Taylor
Loeb.
On this day in movie history - Pittsburgh (1942):
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Pittsburgh
directed by Lewis
Seiler,
written by Kenneth Gamet, Tom Reed, John Twist, Robert Fellows and Winston
Miller,
based on a story by George Owen and Tom Reed,
was released in the
United States on December 11, 1942.
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Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Frank Craven,
Louise Allbritton, Shemp Howard, Thomas Gomez, Ludwig Stössel, Samuel S. Hinds,
Paul Fix, William Haade, Charles Coleman, Nestor Paiva, John Alban, Charles
Arnt, Lois Austin, Don Barclay, Robert Barron, Brandon Beach, Brooks Benedict, Edward
Biby, Ted Billings, Wade Boteler, Chet Brandenburg, Tex Brodus, James Carlisle,
Hobart Cavanaugh, Jack Chefe, James Conaty, Harry Cording, Victor Cox, Hal
Craig, Oliver Cross, Grace Cunard, Sayre Dearing, Jack Deery, William Desmond, Helen
Dickson, John Dilson, Jimmy Dime, Ed Emerson, Bess Flowers, Douglas Fowley, Joe
Garcio, Jack Gardner, Jack Gargan, Kenneth Gibson, Gus Glassmire, George Golden,
Dick Gordon, William Gould, Bobbie Hale, Eddie Hall, Chuck Hamilton, Sam Harris,
Winifred Harris, Carol Henry, Edward Keane, Joe Kirk, Ethan Laidlaw, Nolan
Leary, Kay Linaker, Frank Marlowe, Alphonse Martell, Johnny Marvin, Larry
McGrath, Mira McKinney, Paul McVey, Robert Milasch, Irving Mitchell, Sandra
Morgan, Frances Morris, Edmund Mortimer, Charles Morton, Broderick O'Farrell, Monty
O'Grady, Bob Perry, Lorin Raker, Bob Reeves, Cyril Ring, Robert Robinson, William
Ruhl, Virginia Sale, Paul Scott, Harry Seymour, John Sheehan, Charles Sherlock,
Jack C. Smith, Tom Steele, Sammy Stein, Brick Sullivan, Charles Sullivan, Ben
Taggart, Dale Van Sickel, Frankie Van, Ray Walker, Glen Walters, Anthony Warde,
Phil Warren.
Born on this day – Teri Garr:
Teri Garr
Actress
Dancer
Comedian
December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024
Diagnosed with Multiple
Sclerosis (MS) in 1983.
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Teri Garr in Star
Trek (1968)
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Richard Dreyfuss (left)
and Teri Garr (right) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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Gene Wilder (left) and
Teri Garr (right) in Young Frankenstein (1974)
Credits:
Book:
Speedbumps: Flooring it
Through Hollywood (2005).
Movies and television:
1988
MTV Video Music Awards (1988); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); A Better Man:
The Making of Tootsie (2008); A Colder Kind of Death (2001); A Comic's Climb at
the USCAF (2005); A Festival at Ford's (1991); A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a
Perfect Little Murder (1990); A Simple Wish (1997); A Swingin' Affair (1963); A
Taste of Jupiter (2005); Adventures in Wonderland (1993); AFI Life Achievement
Award (1986–2013); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000);
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999); After
Hours (1985); Aliens for Breakfast (1995); Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005); American
Cinema (1995); An American Saturday Night (1991); And the Oscar Goes to...
(2014); Ask Rita (2003); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1974); Barney's First
Adventures (1998); Batman (1966); Batman Beyond (1999–2000); Batman Beyond:
Return of the Joker (2000); Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999); Biography (1998–2002);
Bitte umblättern (1984); Black Dahlia / Video Game (1998); Casper Meets Wendy
(1998); Celebrity First Loves (1995); Changes (1969); Changing Habits (1997); Cher
(1975); Chicken Soup for the Soul (1999–2000); Cinemax Comedy Experiment (1985
/ 1988); Clambake (1967); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Crumbs
(2006); David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival (1986); Deja View
(1986); Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992); Des O'Connor
Tonight (1992); Dick (1999); Do It Debbie's Way (1983); Doctor Franken (1980); Double
Jeopardy (1996); Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1999); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dream
On (1992); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994); Dumb and Dumber (1994); E!
True Hollywood Story (2003); Elvis Forever (2002); Entertainment Tonight (2007);
ER (1999); Expired (2007); Faerie Tale Theatre (1982 / 1985); Felicity (2001); Firstborn
(1984); For Pete's Sake! (1966); Frasier (1995); Fresno (1986); Friday Night
(1992); Friends (1997–1998); Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert (1993); Full
Moon in Blue Water (1988); Fun in Acapulco (1963); Futures (1991); Gene Wilder:
Loved, Remembered (2017); Ghost World (2001); God Out the Window (2007); Good
& Evil (1991); Good Advice (1994); Great Drives (1996); Greetings from
Tucson (2003); GSN Live (2009); Half a Dozen Babies (1999); Head (1968); Hey,
Hey We're the Monkees (1997); Hollywood Squares (2001–2002); Hollywood: The
Gift of Laughter (1982); Homage to Steve (1984); Honky Tonk Freeway (1981); Hour
Magazine (1984–1986); How to Marry a Billionaire (2011); Hunter (1977); Imagine
(2018); Inside the Coppola Personality (1981); Insight (1966); Intimate
Portrait (2000); Intimate Strangers (1986); It Takes a Thief (1969); I've Got a
Secret (2000); Jackie Gleason: The Great One (1988); Java Junkie (1979); Jeopardy!
(1993–1998); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2006); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965);
Kabluey (2007); Kill the Man (1999); King of the Hill (2000); Kissin' Cousins
(1964); La tele de tu vida (2007); Larry King Live (2005); Late Night with
Conan O'Brien (1995–1996); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993); Late
Show with David Letterman (1993–2008); Laugh? I Thought I'd Die! (1999); Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit (2005); Law and Order (1976); Legends (2008);
Let It Ride (1989); Life with Bonnie (2003); Life Without Dick (2002); Lifetime
Presents: Disney's American Teachers Awards (2001); Love, Gilda (2018); M*A*S*H
(1973 / 1978); Mad TV (2002); Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio
(1987); Mary & Tim (1997); Maryjane (1968); Maude (1975); Mayberry R.F.D.
(1968); McCloud (1970–1975); Memories Then and Now (1988); Men Behaving Badly
(1996); Michael (1996); Miracles (1986); Mom and Dad Save the World (1992); Mother
Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990); Movin' with Nancy (1967); Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
(1979); Mr. Mom (1983); Mr. Novak (1964); Murder Live! (1997); Murphy Brown (1993);
Night of 100 Stars II (1985); NightScream (1997); Oh, God! (1977); Once Upon a Brothers
Grimm (1977); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm / Segment: The Frog Prince (1977); One
from the Heart (1981); One on One with John Tesh (1991); Out Cold (1989); Pack
of Lies (1987); Pajama Party (1964); Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim (1987); Paul
Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974); Perfect Alibi (1995); Prime Suspect (1982); Radio
City Music Hall: The Story Behind the Showplace (1999); Ray Parker Jr.:
Ghostbusters (1984); Ready to Wear (1994); Red Line 7000 (1965); Remembering
Gene Wilder (2023); Rendez-Vous Video Magazine / Segment: Coppola (1981); Role
Model: Gene Wilder (2008); Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977);
Room 222 (1969); Roustabout (1964); Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997); Safeguard:
Beige Deodorant and Antibacterial Soap Commercial (1972); Saturday Night Live
(1979 / 1985); Save the Rabbits (1994); Screen Goddesses (2006); Searching for
Debra Winger (2002); Sesame Street (1987); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Shindig!
(1964–1965); Shining Time Station: One of the Family (1995); Shivaree (1965); Short
Time (1990); Showbiz Today (1992); Sin City Spectacular (1998–1999); Spielberg
(2017); Star Trek (1968); Steve Martin: A Comic Life (1999); Stranger in the
Family (1991); Strong Medicine (2001); Studio 10 (2017); Summertree (1971); Tales
from the Crypt (1991); Teri Garr in Flapjack Floozie (1988); That Girl (1967–1968);
The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 15th Annual IFP/West Independent
Spirit Awards (2000); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 50th
Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993); The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1994); The
55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The
6th Annual Independent Spirit Awards (1991); The 7th Annual American Comedy
Awards (1993); The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977); The Alan Hamel Show (1978); The
Andy Griffith Show (1968); The Arsenio Hall Show (1991); The Best of Disney: 50
Years of Magic (1991); The Best TV Shows That Never Were (2004); The Black
Stallion (1979); The Black Stallion Returns (1983); The Bob Newhart Show (1973–1974);
The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008); The Booth / Segment: Death at Dinner (1985); The
Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973); The Carson Podcast (2018); The
Celebrity Guide to Entertaining (1993); The Conversation (1974); The Cool Ones
(1967); The Definite Maybe (1997); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years -
Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Downer Channel
(2001); The Dream Studio (2004); The Escape Artist (1982); The Factor (2014); The
Full Wax (1992); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1993); The Girl with
Something Extra (1973–1974); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Hardy
Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime)
(1975); The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (1972); The Larry Sanders Show (1993); The
Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1987); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
(2005); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1993); The Making of 'Close Encounters of
the Third Kind' (1977 / 2001); The Martin Short Show (2000); The Merv Griffin
Show (1975–1984); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Moonshine War (1970); The
Mothers-In-Law (1969); The Movie Awards (1991); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973);
The New Show (1984); The Odd Couple (1974); The Player (1992); The Rosie
O'Donnell Show (1996); The Sky Is Falling (1999); The Sonny and Cher Comedy
Hour (1971–1977); The Sonny Comedy Revue (1974); The Sting II (1983); The
T.A.M.I. Show (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1975–1992); The
Tony Danza Show (2006); The View (2005); The Weird Al Show (1997); The Winter
of Our Discontent (1983); This Is the Life (1970); This Means War (2012); To
Catch a King (1984); Today (1982); Tootsie (1982); Trailers from Hell (2007); Trying
Times (1987); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Ultimate
Trek: Star Trek's Greatest Moments (1999); Unaccompanied Minors (2006); Viva
Las Vegas (1964); Waiting for the Light (1990); Weakest Link (2001); What a Way
to Go! (1964); What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2003); Where the Action Is (1965); Where's
the Bus? (1966); Witches' Brew (1980); Wogan (1987); Women of the House (1995);
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Young Frankenstein (1974); Young
Frankenstein: It's Alive! Creating a Monster Classic (2008); Your Total Health
(2006).
Born on this day – Jim Harrison:
Jim Harrison
Writer
December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016
Credits:
A Good Day to Die (1973);
A Really Big Lunch (2017); After Ikkyu and Other Poems (1996); Braided Creek (2003);
Brown Dog (2013); Conversations with Jim Harrison (2002); Dalva (1988); Darkness
Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (2013); Dead Man's Float (2015); Farmer
(1976); Great Leader (2011); In Search of Small Gods (2009); Jim Harrison:
Collected Ghazals (2020); Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems (2019); Julip (1994);
Just Before Dark (1993); Legends of the Fall (1979); Letters to Yesenin (1973);
Locations (1968); New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry (2000);
Off to the Side (2002); Outlyer and Ghazals (1971); Plain Song (1965); Returning
to Earth (2007); Saving Daylight (2006); Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 (1982);
Songs of Unreason (2011); Sundog (1984); The Ancient Minstrel (2016); The Beast
God Forgot to Invent (2000); The Big Seven (2015); The Boy Who Ran to the Woods
(2000); The English Major (2008); The Etiquette of Freedom (2010); The Farmer's
Daughter (2009); The Raw and the Cooked (2001); The River Swimmer (2013); The
Road Home (1998); The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (2022); The
Shape of the Journey (1998); The Summer He Didn't Die (2005); The Theory and
Practice of Rivers and New Poems (1990); The Woman Lit by Fireflies (1990); True
North (2004); Warlock (1982); Wild Stories (2002); Wolf (1971).
Movies and television:
A Day Like Any Other (1987);
All That Is Sacred (2023); Amérique, notre histoire (2006); Café Picouly (2010);
Carried Away (1996); Cold Feet (1989); Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013);
Dalva (1996); Droit d'auteurs (2000); Jim Harrison entre chien et loup (1993); La
grande librairie (2009–2015); Le cercle de minuit (1993–1995); Légendes
d'automne (2018); Legends of the Fall (1994); Nulle part ailleurs (2000); Revenge
(1990); Seule la terre est éternelle (2019); The Practice of the Wild (2010); Vol
de nuit (2003); Wolf (1994).
Born on this day – Jean-Louis Trintignant:
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Actor
December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022
Born on this day – Maila Nurmi:
Maila Nurmi
Actress
Writer
December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008
Portrayed the character Vampira
Born on this day – Toni Vaz:
Toni Vaz
Actress
Stuntwoman
December 11, 1922 – October 4, 2024
Credits:
Founder of the NAACP
Image Awards.
Movies and television:
Anna Lucasta (1958); Lady
Sings the Blues (1972); Mission: Impossible (1971); Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959);
The Singing Nun (1966); The Towering Inferno (1974).
Born on this day – Marie Windsor:
Marie Windsor
Actress
December 11, 1919 – December 10, 2000
Credits:
100
Years of John Wayne (2007); 77 Sunset Strip (1960); Abbott and Costello Meet
the Mummy (1955); Adam-12 (1971–1973); Alias Mike Hercules (1956); Alias Smith
and Jones (1972); All-American Co-Ed (1941); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan
(1985); American Cinema (1995); Barnaby Jones (1973); Bat Masterson (1958); Batman
(1966); Bedtime Story (1964); Bonanza (1965); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bracken's
World (1969–1970); Branded (1965); Bronco (1961); Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973); Call
Out the Marines (1942); Cat-Women of the Moon (1953); Chamber of Horrors (1966);
Charlie's Angels (1978–1979); Chatterbox (1943); Cheyenne (1957); Cinderella
Swings It (1943); City Detective (1954); City That Never Sleeps (1953); Climax!
(1956); Commando Squad (1987); Compression (2023); Critic's Choice (1963); Dakota
Lil (1950); Day of the Badman (1958); Destry (1964); Double Deal (1950); Erskine
Johnson's Hollywood Reel (1949–1952); Eyes in the Night (1942); Fantasy Island
(1979); Flying with Music (1942); Follow the Leader (1944); Force of Evil (1948);
Four Jacks and a Jill (1942); Freaky Friday (1976); Frenchie (1950); General
Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Hospital (1963); George Washington
Slept Here (1942); Grand Jury (1960); Gunsmoke (1971); Gypsy (1967); Hawaii
Five-O (1971); Hawaiian Eye (1961–1962); Hearts of the West (1975); Hec Ramsey
(1972); Hellfire (1949); Hell's Half Acre (1954); Here's Hollywood (1961); Horrible
Horror (1986); Hurricane Island (1951); I Love My Husband, But! (1946); I Love
My Wife But! (1947); Inca Gold (1943); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Insight
(1960); Island Women (1958); It's a Great Life (1954); J.O.E. and the Colonel
(1985); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Japanese War Bride
(1952); Joan of Paris (1942); Key Witness (1959); Lassie (1960); Lawman (1962);
Let's Face It (1943); Little Big Horn (1951); Living in a Big Way (1947); Lou
Grant (1979–1980); Lovely But Deadly (1981); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Mail
Order Bride (1964); Manhunter (1974); Mannix (1968–1974); Marcus Welby, M.D.
(1976); Markham (1959); Matinee Theatre (1958); Maverick (1957–1962); MGM Parade
(1956); Murder, She Wrote (1987–1991); New Comedy Showcase (1960); No Man's
Woman (1955); On an Island with You (1948); One More Train to Rob (1971); Outlaw
Women (1952); Outpost in Morocco (1949); Parachute Nurse (1942); Paradise Alley
(1962); Perry Mason (1958–1964); Pilot #5 (1943); Playmates (1941); Police
Story (1974); Project U.F.O. (1978); Public Defender (1954); Pursuit (1959); Rawhide
(1959–1964); Reagan (2011); Salem's Lot (1979); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1984);
Scared Stiff (1971); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); cience Fiction Theatre (1955); Screen
Directors Playhouse (1955); Shotgun Slade (1959); Simon & Simon (1983–1987);
Smart Alecks (1942); So This Is Love (1953); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Stanley
Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Star's Table (1986); Stories of the Century
(1954); Stranded (1976); Strange Stories (1956); Stump the Stars (1954); Summer
Playhouse (1964); Supercarrier (1988); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971); Swamp
Women (1956); Tales from the Darkside (1986); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); Target
(1958); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The Adventures of McGraw (1957);
The Alaskans (1959); The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949); The Best of
the Post (1961); The Big Street (1942); The Bounty Hunter (1954); The
Californians (1957); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); The Day Mars Invaded
Earth (1962); The Deputy (1959); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The
Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The F.B.I. (1968); The Fighting Kentuckian (1949); The
Ford Television Theatre (1954–1957); The Girl in Black Stockings (1957); The
Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969); The Hucksters (1947); The Incredible Hulk
(1980); The Iron Major (1943); The Jungle (1952); The Killing (1956); The Lady
or the Tiger? (1942); The Legend of Jesse James (1965); The Life and Legend of
Wyatt Earp (1961); The Lineup (1959); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962); The
Magical World of Disney (1982); The Manhunter (1974); The Narrow Margin (1952);
The New Adam-12 (1990); The Outfit (1973); The Outsider (1968); The Parson and
the Outlaw (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Perfect Woman (1981); The
Pirate (1948); The Rebel (1960); The Red Rowe Show (1960); The Red Skelton Hour
(1956–1962); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Rogues (1964); The Romance
of Rosy Ridge (1947); The Showdown (1950); The Silver Star (1955); The Sniper
(1952); The Story of Mankind (1957); The Tall Texan (1953); The Three
Musketeers (1948); The Unexpected (1952); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The
Unholy Wife (1957); The Whistler (1954); Three Hearts for Julia (1943); Trouble
Along the Way (1953); Two Dollar Bettor (1951); Two-Gun Lady (1955); Unexpected
Uncle (1941); Waterfront (1954); Weekend for Three (1941); Whispering Smith
(1961); Wild Women (1970); Yancy Derringer (1958).
Born on this day – Sally Eilers:
Sally Eilers
Actress
December 11, 1908 – January 5, 1978
Stage to Tucson (1950); Coroner
Creek (1948); Strange Illusion (1945); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); First
Aid (1943); I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941); Full Confession (1939); They
Made Her a Spy (1939); Tarnished Angel (1938); Nurse from Brooklyn (1938); Condemned
Women (1938); Everybody's Doing It (1938); Lady Behave! (1937); Danger Patrol
(1937); We Have Our Moments (1937); Talk of the Devil (1936); Without Orders
(1936); Florida Special (1936); Don't Get Personal (1936); Strike Me Pink
(1936); Remember Last Night? (1935); Pursuit (1935); Alias Mary Dow (1935); Carnival
(1935); I Spy (1934); She Made Her Bed (1934); Three on a Honeymoon (1934); Walls
of Gold (1933); Hold Me Tight (1933); Made on Broadway (1933); Central Airport
(1933); Sailor's Luck (1933); State Fair (1933); Second Hand Wife (1933); Hat
Check Girl (1932); Disorderly Conduct (1932); Dance Team (1932); Over the Hill
(1931); Bad Girl (1931); A Holy Terror (1931); The Black Camel (1931); Quick
Millions (1931); Clearing the Range (1931); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931); Reducing
(1931); Doughboys (1930); Let Us Be Gay (1930); Trigger Tricks (1930); Roaring
Ranch (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1930); Show of Shows (1929); The Long, Long
Trail (1929); Sailor's Holiday (1929); Broadway Babies (1929); Matchmaking
Mamma (1929); Trial Marriage (1929); Weary River (1929); The Campus Vamp (1928);
Dry Martini (1928); The Campus Carmen (1928); The Good-Bye Kiss (1928); Fazil
(1928); Broadway Daddies (1928); The Crowd (1928); Sunrise (1927); Slightly
Used (1927); Paid to Love (1927); The Cradle Snatchers (1927); The Red Mill
(1927).
Born on this day – Ethel Borden:
Ethel Borden
Writer
Actress
December 11, 1897 – July 4, 1953
Credits:
They Wanted to Marry (1937);
I Live My Life (1935); After Office Hours (1935).
Recommended reading - Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood (2005):
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Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood
By Teri Garr, with Henriette Mantel.Published 2005.
Published by Hudson Street Press.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1594630070
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071
Published by Hudson Street Press.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1594630070
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071
Description:
In her laugh-out-loud
funny and inspiring autobiography, Teri Garr, one of Hollywood’s best-loved
comediennes, muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS.
From the directors she’s
worked with and admired to the men she’s loved; from sipping cokes with Elvis
Presley on Good Friday to hangin’ with the Beatles; from her secrets to
succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear, anxiety,
and denial of being plagues by mysterious physical problems that eluded
diagnosis for over twenty years – the insights in Speedbumps, while
always couched in Garr’s trademark humor, are honest, heartfelt, and often
profound.
Since she was eight
years old, little Terry Ann Garr was a natural performer, staging elaborate
productions for the neighborhood in her family’s garage, captivating her
teachers, and easing the tensions between her alcoholic, gambling vaudevillian
father and her hard-working Rockette mother with her natural charm and wit. By
the age of thirteen – two years after her father’s premature death catalyzed
her to “get serious” about becoming a dancer – she was touring with a San
Franscisco ballet company; at seventeen, she was swiveling her hips alongside
Elvis and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas.
By the time she was
thirty, Teri had become known as one of Hollywood's best-loved comic actresses,
starring in such classic films as Young Frankenstein; Oh, God!; Close
Encounters of the Third Kind; and Mr. Mom; and receiving an Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance alongside
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.
In October 2002, Teri
announced on national television that she had multiple sclerosis, making
headlines across the country. Since then, she has become a leading advocate in
raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease, traveling
around the United States speaking to corporations, physicians, and patients
about her experience.
Now, in a book that is
at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri writes about her life –
speedbumps and all – with the same characteristic wit and warmth that have won
the hearts of fans and Hollywood for more than three decades.
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Annie Dillard, on reading:
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts?
Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms?
Why are we reading, if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days,
will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness,
and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries,
so we may feel again their majesty and power?
- from The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard.
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