Born on this day – Jackson Pollock:

Jackson Pollock

Painter

January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956

Jackson Pollock

By Ellen G. Landau.

Published by Abrams.

Published 2010.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0810984962

ISBN-13: 978-0810984967

Description:

How did Jackson Pollock become a cult figure for the Beat Generation? And what caused his reputation to continue to soar? This compelling and original Abrams classic, now back in print, locates the artist in the continuum of his times, recreating the social and cultural milieu of New York in the 1940s and 1950s. With extensive knowledge of Pollock’s habits (much of it gained through interviews), his reading, his conversation, and the exhibitions he visited, the author retraces many of the far-flung sources of Pollock’s work. A wealth of comparative photographs that illustrate paintings by artists Pollock admired further explains the work of this complex, tragic, and immeasurably influential figure. Pollock’s big, bold canvases are reproduced in five colors to convey the brilliance of his network of tones, his aluminum paint, and his sparkling collage materials. Six gatefolds show his vast horizontal works without distortion and a chronology provides a summary of the major events of Pollock’s life.

Born on this day – Robert Flemyng:

Robert Flemyng

Actor

Producer

January 3, 1912 – May 22, 1995

Credits:

A Touch of Larceny (1960); About Religion (1962); Battle of Britain (1969); BBC Play of the Month (1976); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1955); Blackmailed (1951); Bond Street (1948); Boyd Q.C. (1960); By Candlelight (1949); Cast a Dark Shadow (1955); Chance Meeting (1959); Compact (1963–1964); Conspirator (1949); Crown Court (1976–1982); Danger Man (1960); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978); Edward the King (1975); Enemy at the Door (1978); Executive Stress (1986); Fame Is the Spur (1982); Family Solicitor (1961); French Without Tears (1949); Funny Face (1957); Golden Rendezvous (1977); Half Hour Story (1967); Head Over Heels in Love (1937); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1972); ITV Television Playhouse (1956–1958); Kafka (1991); Lady Killers (1980); Late Night Theatre (1972); Let's Be Happy (1957); Let's Be Happy (1957); Man of the World (1962); Merkmale der Gotik am Beispiel von L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock (2018); Miss Nightingale (1974); Mystery Submarine (1962); Oh! What a Lovely War (1969); Omnibus / Segment: The Trial of St. Joan (1955); Paris by Night (1988); Perfect Scoundrels (1991); Play for Today (1982); Playhouse 90 (1957); Probation Officer (1961); Producers' Showcase (1955); Public Eye (1973); Rebecca (1979); Screen Two (1992); Shadowlands (1993); Small World (1988); Somerset Maugham Hour (1960); Spider's Web (1982); Spy Trap (1975); Studio One (1957); Suspicion (1957); Tempo (1968); The Alcoa Hour (1955–1956); The Avengers (1967); The Blackheath Poisonings (1992); The Blood Beast Terror (1968); The Blue Lamp (1950); The Body Stealers (1969); The Choir (1995); The Darwin Adventure (1972); The Deadly Affair (1967); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Firechasers (1971); The Four Feathers (1978); The Holly and the Ivy (1952); The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Inside Man (1969); The King's Breakfast (1963); The Magic Box (1951); The Man Who Never Was (1956); The Medusa Touch (1978); The New Avengers (1976); The Outsider (1948); The Persuaders! (1971); The Professionals (1983); The Quiller Memorandum (1966); The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966); The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991); The Strauss Family (1972); The Thirty Nine Steps (1978); The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995); The Venturers (1975); Theatre Night (1959); They Made History (1960); This Is Your Life (1980–1991); Thursday Theatre (1964–1965); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Trial (1971); Vanity Fair (1967); Windom's Way (1957); Young Winston (1972); Zero One (1962).

Born on this day – Rosina Lawrence:

Rosina Lawrence

Actress

Singer

December 30, 1912 – June 23, 1997

Born on this day – Nancy Coleman:

Nancy Coleman

Actress

December 30, 1912 – January 18, 2000

Credits:

Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); Breakdowns of 1944 (1945); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1953); Colgate Theatre (1950); Dangerously They Live (1941); Desperate Journey (1942); Devotion (1946); Edge of Darkness (1943); Entertainment – 1955 (1955); Goodyear Playhouse (1953); Her Sister's Secret (1946); In Our Time (1944); Kings Row (1942); Kraft Theatre (1949–1950); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1958); Lights Out (1950); Lux Video Theatre (1952); Mourning Becomes Electra (1947); NBC Presents (1949); Play of the Week (1961); Producers' Showcase (1956); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Ryan's Hope (1976); Slaves (1969); Star Tonight (1955–1956); Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio) (2022); Susan and God (1938); Tales of Tomorrow (1952–1953); That Man from Tangier (1953); The Adams Chronicles (1976); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); The Edge of Night (1956–1984); The Gay Sisters (1942); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Silver Theatre (1950); The Web (1951); True Story (1957–1958); Unusual Occupations (1947); Valiant Lady (1953–1957); Violence (1947).

Born on this day – Howard Breslin:

Howard Breslin

Writer

December 23, 1912 – May 30, 1964

Credits:

Books:

A Hundred Hills; Autumn Comes Early; Bad Day at Black Rock / aka Bad Day at Honda; Concert Grand; Let Go of Yesterday; Run Like a Thief; Shad Run; The Bright Battalions; The Gallowglass; The Piper's Son; The Silver Oar; The Tamarack Tree; Thunder on the River.

Movies:

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Platinum High School (1960).

Born on this day – Charles Marquis Warren:

Charles Marquis Warren

Writer

Producer

Director

December 16, 1912 – August 11, 1990

Born on this day – Harry Sukman:

Harry Sukman

Composer

December 2, 1912 – December 2, 1984

Born on this day – Connie Sawyer:

Connie Sawyer

Actress

November 27, 1912 – January 21, 2018

Credits:

2 Broke Girls (2012); 227 (1985); 8 Simple Rules (2003); A Bell for Adano (1967); A Hole in the Head (1959); Abandoned and Deceived (1995); ABC Weekend Specials (1982); Ada (1961); All in the Family (1971); Allan (1971); And Justice for All (1979); Archie Bunker's Place (1979); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953); Barbary Coast (1975); Barnaby Jones (1980); Becker (1999); Big Hawaii (1977); Blue Desert (1990); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bonanza (1969); Boy Meets World (1998); Bram and Alice (2002); Cavalcade of Bands (1950); Cavalcade of Broadway: Blue Angel (1950); CBS Playhouse (1967); Complete Guide to Guys (2005); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008); Dave's World (1996); Do You Remember Love (1985); Doc Elliot (1973); Dr. Kildare (1962); Dream On (1992); Due Date (2010); Dumb and Dumber (1994); Dynasty (1982); Entanglement (2014); ER (1999–2006); Evil Roy Slade (1972); Family (1977–1979); Far from Home (1989); Fast Break (1979); Five Desperate Women (1971); Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984); For Pete's Sake! (1966); Foul Play (1978); Get Smart (1995); Girlfriends (2003); Good Times (1974); Guestward Ho! (1960); Hawaii Five-O (1974–1979); Hawthorne (2009); Hill Street Blues (1984–1986); Home Improvement (1995); Hot Chili (1985); How I Met Your Mother (2007); In the Heat of the Night (1990); It Came from Outer Space II (1996); Jake and the Fatman (1991); Johnny Staccato (1976); Just Our Luck (1983); Kiss the Bride (2007); Kojak (1974–1977); L.A. Doctors (1998); Laverne & Shirley (1983); Legmen (1984); Life's Waltz (2008); Little Ladies of the Night (1977); Lou Grant (1977); Love on a Rooftop (1967); Lovesick (2014); Majority Rule (1992); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976); Matlock (1987); McMillan & Wife (1973–1974); Murder, She Wrote (1986–1991); Murphy Brown (1994); My World and Welcome to It (1969); NCIS: Los Angeles (2013); Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2007); New Girl (2014); Nights in White Satin (1987); Nurses (1992); Oh, God! (1977); Out of Sight (1998); Peter Loves Mary (1961); Pineapple Express (2008); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Promised Land (2004); Pros & Cons (1986); Ray Donovan (2013–2014); Relative Strangers (2006); Ritoru champion (1981); Room 222 (1970); Roseanne & Tom: Behind the Scenes (1994); Scorpion Spring (1995); Seinfeld (1997); Showfolk (2014); Significant Others (2004); Silver Spoons (1984); Sliders (1998); Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992); Something's Gotta Give (2003); Staring at the Sun (2002); Starsky and Hutch (1977–1978); Stoney Burke (1963); Studio One (1954); Stu's Show (2013); Style & Substance (1998); Summer Playhouse (1965); Sunset Over Mulholland Drive (2019); Tell Me You Love Me (2007); That '70s Show (2000); That's Adequate (1989); The Andy Griffith Show (1968); The Arrow Show (1948); The Bait (1973); The Beast (2001); The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950); The Donna Reed Show (1961); The End of Innocence (1990); The F.B.I. (1965–1972); The Fugitive (1966); The Jackie Gleason Show (1954); The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (2004); The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995); The Judge (1987); The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966); The Man in the Glass Booth (1975); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1975); The Michael Richards Show (2000); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Name of the Game (1970); The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991); The Office (2009); The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1992); The People Next Door (1989); The President's Mistress (1978); The Red Skelton Hour (1967); The Rockford Files (1978); The Rookies (1972); The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1951); The Strangers in 7A (1972); The Streets of San Francisco (1976); The Tom Ewell Show (1961); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2013); The Trip (2002); The Way West (1967); Troupers (2011); True Colors (1990); True Grit (1969); Unhappily Ever After (1996); Up All Night (2011); V (1984); Veronica's Closet (1998); View from the Top (2003); Visions (1978); Watch Out for Slick (2010); Webster (1988); Welcome Back, Kotter (1978); When Harry Met Sally... (1989); Where's Marlowe? (1998); Will & Grace (2000); Worst Week (2008).

Born on this day – Eleanor Powell:

Eleanor Powell

Dancer

Actress

November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982

Born on this day – June Havoc:

June Havoc

Actress

Dancer

Director

Writer

November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010

Born on this day – Dale Evans:

Dale Evans

Actress

Singer

Songwriter

October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001

Born on this day – Don Siegel:

Don Siegel

Director

Producer

October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991

Born on this day – Philip H. Lathrop:

Philip H. Lathrop

Cinematographer

Actor

October 22, 1912 – April 12, 1995

Philip H. Lathrop (left), Charlton Heston (center), and Orson Welles (right), on set filming Touch of Evil (1958).

Credits:

36 Hours (1964); A Change of Seasons (1980); A Different Story (1978); Airport 1975 (1974); Airport '77 (1977); All Night Long (1981); Against All Flags (1952); All My Sons (1948); All That Heaven Allows (1955); Battle Hymn (1957); Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985); Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); Captains Courageous (1977); Celebrity (1984); Christmas Snow (1986); Class Reunion (1982); Combat! (1962); Cry Tough (1959); Days of Wine and Roses (1962); Deadly Friend (1986); Dime with a Halo (1963); Don't Make Waves (1967); Earthquake (1974); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Experiment in Terror (1962); Finian's Rainbow (1968); Flame of Araby (1951); Foolin' Around (1980); Girl Happy (1965); Girls on the Loose (1958); Gunn (1967); Hammett (1982); Hard Times (1975); Hong Kong (1960–1961); I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968); In Harm's Way (1965); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982); Katie Did It (1950); Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948); Little Girl Lost (1988); Little Egypt (1951); Little Miss Marker (1980); Live Fast, Die Young (1958); Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973); Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Love on the Run (1985); Loving Couples (1980); Malice in Wonderland (1985); Mame (1974); Moment by Moment (1978); Money, Women and Guns (1958); Mr. and Mrs. Ryan (1986); Mr. Lucky (1959–1960); Man Afraid (1957); Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948); Naked Alibi (1954); Never Con a Killer (1977); Never Too Late (1965); Peggy (1950); Perry Mason (1961); Peter Gunn (1958–1960); Picking Up the Pieces (1985); Point Blank (1967); Portnoy's Complaint (1972); Profiles in Courage (1965); Rabbit, Run (1970); Rawhide (1959); Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987); Sam Benedict (1962); Scarlet Angel (1952); Seminole (1953); Six Against the Rock (1987); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Steve Canyon (1959); Swashbuckler (1976); The All-American Boy (1973); The Americanization of Emily (1964); The Black Bird (1975); The Cat Creeps (1946); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979); The Desert Hawk (1950); The Driver (1978); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); The Female Animal (1958); The Green Peacock (1958); The Gypsy Moths (1969); The Happening (1967); The Hawaiians (1970); The Illustrated Man (1969); The Killer Elite (1975); The Lady Gambles (1949); The Magical World of Disney (1959); The Man from the Alamo (1953); The Midnight Story (1957); The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959); The Perfect Furlough (1958); The Pink Panther (1963); The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975); The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960); The Raging Tide (1951); The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); The Traveling Executioner (1970); The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952); The Woody Woodpecker Show (1957); They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969); Three for the Road (1975); Together Brothers (1974); Touch of Evil (1958); Twilight of Honor (1963); Vacation Playhouse (1963); The Veils of Bagdad (1953); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966); What Now, Catherine Curtis? (1976); Wild Heritage (1958); Wild Rovers (1971); Wyoming Mail (1950); Yankee Buccaneer (1952); You Gotta Stay Happy (1948).

Born on this day – Frances Drake:

Frances Drake

Actress

October 22, 1912 – January 18, 2000

Born on this day – Cornel Wilde:

Cornel Wilde

Actor

Director

October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989

Born on this day – Michelangelo Antonioni:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Director

September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007

Born on this day – Martha Ellen Scott:

Martha Ellen Scott

Actress

September 22, 1912 – May 28, 2003

Born on this day – Chuck Jones:

Chuck Jones

Animator

Director

Painter

September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002

Born on this day – Barry Sullivan:

Barry Sullivan

Actor

August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994

Born on this day – Steve Fisher:

Steve Fisher

Writer

Producer

August 29, 1912 – March 27, 1980

Credits:

Books:

Be Still My Heart (1952); Homicide Johnny (1940); I Wake Up Screaming (1941); Image of Hell (1961); Murder of the Admiral (1936); Murder of the Pigboat Skipper / aka Murder on the S-23 (1937); No House Limit (1958); Satan's Angel (1935); Saxon's Ghost (1969); Take All You Can Get (1955); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Big Dream (1970); The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (2010); The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007); The Hell-Black Night (1970); The Night Before Murder (1939); Winter Kill (1946).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1959); Adventures of the Sea Hawk (1958); Arizona Bushwhackers (1968); Barnaby Jones (1973); Battle Zone (1952); Berlin Correspondent (1942); Betrayed Women (1955); Black Spurs (1965); Cannon (1973); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Checkmate (1960); City That Never Sleeps (1953); Colt .45 (1958); Combat! (1965); Conflict (1956); Courage of Black Beauty (1957); Crusader (1955); Danger (1951); Dead Reckoning (1946); Decision (1958); Destination Tokyo (1943); Fantasy Island (1978–1981); Flat Top (1952); Fort Utah (1967); General Electric Theater (1959); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1959); Hell's Half Acre (1954); Hostile Guns (1967); I Mobster (1959); I Wake Up Screaming (1941); I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957–1958); Johnny Angel (1945); Johnny Reno (1966); King of Diamonds (1961–1962); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975); Lady in the Lake (1946); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Law of the Lawless (1964); Luke and the Tenderfoot (1955 / 1965); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Matt Helm (1975); McMillan & Wife (1972–1973); Men of Annapolis (1958); Miami Undercover (1961); Navy Secrets (1939); New York Confidential (1959); Night Freight (1955); Noose for a Gunman (1960); Nurse from Brooklyn (1938); Peter Gunn (1958); Red Tomahawk (1966); Ripcord (1962–1963); Roadblock (1951); Rogue's Gallery (1968); San Antone (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1955–1956); Sea of Lost Ships (1953); September Storm (1960); Silent Fear (1956); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Starsky and Hutch (1976–1977); Susan Slept Here (1954); Switch (1978); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1960); Terror Street (1953); That's My Man (1947); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1956); The Best in Mystery (1954); The Big Frame (1952); The Big Tip Off (1955); The Clones (1973); The Court of Last Resort (1957); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Evil Touch (1973); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1957); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Great Gundown (1977); The Hunted (1948); The Last Day (1975); The Lawbreakers (1963); The Loretta Young Show (1958–1959); The Man from the Alamo (1953); The Quick Gun (1964); The Restless Breed (1957); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Rough Riders (1958); The Shanghai Story (1954); The Toughest Man Alive (1955); The Wild Wild West (1966); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Tokyo Joe (1949); Tombstone Territory (1957–1958); Top Gun (1955); Typhoon (1940); U.S. Marshal (1959–1960); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Vicki (1953); Waco (1966); Woman They Almost Lynched (1953); Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952); Wire Service (1957); Woman in the Rain (1976); Young Fury (1964).