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Sunday, August 9, 2026

Born on this day – Martin Greenfield:


Martin Greenfield


Tailor

Writer

Holocaust survivor

August 9, 1928 – March 20, 2024

Credits:

Founder of Martin Greenfield Clothiers.

Book:

Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor (2014).

Television:

Tailor Made (2018); Great Big Show (2017); Lessons from a Tailor (2008).

Friday, August 7, 2026

Born on this day – Betsy Byars:


Betsy Byars


Writer

August 7, 1928 – February 26, 2020

Credits:

Books:

A Blossom Promise (1987); After the Goat Man (1980); Ant (2001); Ant Plays Bear (1997); Beans On the Roof (1988); Bingo Brown and the Language of Love (1989); Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover (1991); Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance (1969); Boo's Dinosaur (2006); Boo's Surprise (2009); Cat Diaries (2010); Coast to Coast (1992); Cracker Jackson (1985); Dead Letter (1996); Death's Door (1997); Disappearing Acts (1998); Dog Diaries (2007); Go and Hush the Baby (1982); Good-bye, Chicken Little (1979); Hooray for the Golly Sisters! (1990); Keeper of the Doves (2002); King of Murder (2006); Little Horse (2002); Little Horse On His Own (2004); McMummy (1993); Me Tarzan (2000); Midnight Fox (1970); My Brother Ant (1996); My Dog, My Hero (2000); Perfect, the Pig (1970); Rama the Gypsy (1966); Rama the Gypsy Cat (1976); Tarot Says Beware (1995); The 18th Emergency (1975); The Animal, the Vegetable, And John D Jones (1982); The Black Tower (2006); The Blossoms and the Green Phantom (1987); The Blossoms Meet The Vulture Lady (1986); The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown (1988); The Cartoonist (1984); The Computer Nut (1984); The Cybil War (1981); The Dancing Camel (1965); The Dark Stairs (1994); The Glory Girl (1983); The Golly Sisters Go West (1985); The Golly Sisters Ride Again (1994); The House of Wings (1972); The Joy Boys (1996); The Lace Snail (1975); The Moon and I (1991); The Night Swimmers (1980); The Not-Just-Anybody Family (1986); The Pinballs (1977); The Seven Treasure Hunts (1991); The SOS File (2004); The Summer of the Swans (1972); The T.V. Kid (1974); The Winged Colt of Casa Mia (1973); TheTwo-Thousand-Pound Gold Fish (1982); Tornado (1996); Trouble River (1969); Wanted. . . Mud Blossom (1991).

Movies and television:

ABC Afterschool Specials (1974–1982); ABC Weekend Specials (1977); Jackanory (1975–1984); Middle English (1983).

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Sunday, July 26, 2026

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick:


A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick


In celebration of his movies:

Day of the Fight (1951)


Flying Padre (1951)


The Seafarers (1953)


Fear and Desire (1953)


Killer's Kiss (1955)


The Killing (1956)


Paths of Glory (1957)


Spartacus (1960)


Lolita (1962)


Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)


A Clockwork Orange (1971)


Barry Lyndon (1975)


The Shining (1980)


Full Metal Jacket (1987)


Eyes Wide Shut (1999)


Video created by Jack Kost.
2022.

Music credit:
Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod.


If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

– Stanley Kubrick.


In memory of Stanley Kubrick

Director

Producer

Writer

Photographer

July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999

Born on this day – Elliott Erwitt:


Elliott Erwitt


Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

July 26, 1928 – November 29, 2023

Credits:

Books:

100+1 Elliott Erwitt (1997); Between the Sexes (1994); Dog Dogs A collection of black and white photographs of dogs Erwitt was intrigued by throughout his world travels (1998); EE 60/60 (2002); Elliot Erwitt's Scotland (2018); Elliott Erwitt Personal Best (2010); Elliott Erwitt XXL – Special and Collectors Edition (2012); Elliott Erwitt, Sequentially Yours (2011); Elliott Erwitt: The Private Experience / Series: Masters of Contemporary Photography (1974); Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (2002); Elliott Erwitt's Kolor Kempen, Germany: teNeues (2013); Elliott Erwitt's New York (2009); Elliott Erwitt's Rome (2009); Found, Not Lost (2021); Museum Watching (1999); Observations on American Architecture (1972); On the Beach (1991); Personal Exposures (1988); Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972); Pittsburgh 1950 (20117); Recent Developments (1978); Snaps. London & New York: Phaidon (2001); Son of Bitch, photographs of dogs (1974); The Angel Tree (1993); The Art of Andre S. Solidor aka Elliott Erwitt (2010); To The Dogs (1992); Woof (2005).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1974); 3 x Magnum (2006); 4 Little Girls (1997); A Sense of Loss (1972); American Masters (2005–2006); Arte Journal (2023); Arthur Penn: The Director (1970); Articulate with Jim Cotter (2019); At Home with Elliott Erwitt (2013); Beautiful Baby, Beautiful (1980); Beauty Knows No Pain (1972); Cinéma cinémas (1989); Copyright by Inge Morath (1992); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Elliott Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs (2011); Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (2019); Everybody Street (2013); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009); Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2002); Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003); Incontournables: Les grandes expositions de 2010 (2010); Le cinéma dans l'oeil de Magnum (2017); L'invité (2006); Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016); Paper Lion (1968); The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan (1986); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Misfits (1961); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013); The Unwed Mother (1964); Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2008); Un jour, un destin (2011); Un voyageur (2013).

Friday, July 24, 2026

Born on this day – Michael Currie:


Michael Currie


Actor

July 24, 1928 – December 22, 2009

Credits:

A Perfect Match (1980); ABC Afterschool Specials (1980); Airplane II: The Sequel (1982); Any Which Way You Can (1980); Aaron's Way (1988); Barney Miller (1980); Bogie (1980); Cheers (1989); Christine Cromwell (1990); Code Red (1981); Dallas (1983); Dark Shadows (1966); Dead & Buried (1981); Deadly Intentions (1985); Devlin (1992); Distant Thunder (1988); Dying Time (1990); Eight Is Enough (1981); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Family (1979); Family Ties (1984); Fantasy (2002); Firefox (1982); G.I. Jane (1997); Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994–1995); Hooperman (1988); I Want to Live (1983); In the Shadow of a Killer (1992); Knots Landing (1981); Lou Grant (1979); Loving Couples (1980); M*A*S*H (1980); Mae West (1982); Mark, I Love You (1980); Mother and Daughter: The Loving War (1980); Mrs. R's Daughter (1979); N.Y.P.D. (1967); Nero Wolfe (1981); Newhart (1984); Once a Hero (1987); Our Family Business (1981); Pray TV (1982); Quarterback Princess (1983); Remington Steele (1983); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); See How She Runs (1978); Snoops (1989); Soap (1981); Spenser: For Hire (1985–1986); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); Sudden Impact (1983); The Associates (1979); The Dead Pool (1988); The French Atlantic Affair (1979); The Man Without a Face (1993); The New Mike Hammer (1984); The Other Victim (1981); The Philadelphia Experiment (1984); The Trials of O'Brien (1965–1966); The Troublemaker (1964); Too Many Thieves (1966); Trapper John, M.D. (1979); Voyagers! (1982); Werewolf (1987); Wizards and Warriors (1983).

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Born on this day – Tom Troupe:


Tom Troupe


Actor

Writer

July 15, 1928 – July 20, 2025

Credits:

Amen (1988); Archie Bunker's Place (1983); Baby Talk (1992); Barbary Coast (1975); Ben Casey (1962–1964); Bert D'Angelo / Superstar (1976); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Break a Hip (2015–2018); Cagney & Lacey (1985); Cannon (1973); Caravaggio and My Mother the Pope (2017); Cassie & Co. (1982); Che! (1969); Cheers (1987); CHiPs (1979); Combat! (1963); Dan August (1971); Dr. Kildare (1961); ER (1998); Frasier (1995); Griff (1973); Harrigan and Son (1961); Highway to Heaven (1989); Iron Horse (1966); Ironside (1974); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kelly's Heroes (1970); Knots Landing (1991); Lawman (1960); Lock Up (1960); Lucas Tanner (1974); Making It (1971); Mannix (1969); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1974–1975); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976); McMillan & Wife (1972–1973); Mission: Impossible (1967); Murder, She Wrote (1990); My Own Private Idaho (1991); Night Gallery / Segment: Clean Kills and Other Trophies (1971); Off the Minnesota Strip (1980); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971–1974); Peyton Place (1965); Planet of the Apes (1974); Private Screenings (2014); PSI Factor (1980); Quincy, M.E. (1980); Rawhide (1960); Sofi (1968); Star Trek (1967); Studio One (1955); Summer School (1987); The Alpha Caper (1973); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The F.B.I. (1972); The Fugitive (1964); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors (2010); The Rookies (1972); The Runaways (1978); The Smith Family (1972); The Streets of San Francisco (1973–1975); The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); The Wild Wild West (1968); The Young Rebels (1970); This Is the Life (1970–1976); Time Out (2019); Voyagers! (1983); What I Did Last Summer / Segment: Christmas in June (2012); Who's the Boss? (1990–1991).

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Born on this day – Jane Gardam:


Jane Gardam


Writer

July 11, 1928 – April 28, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Few Fair Days (1971); A Long Way from Verona (1971); Animal Stories (1995); Bilgewater (1976); Black Faces, White Faces (1975); Black Woolly Pony (1993); Bridget and William (1981); Crusoe's Daughter (1985); Facing the Music (2013); Faith Fox (1996); God on the Rocks (1978); Going into a Dark House (1994); Horse (1982); Kit (1983); Kit / Kit in Boots (1988); Kit in Boots (1986); Last Friends (2013); Life (2013); Magical Stories (1995); Missing the Midnight (1997); Old Filth (2004); Reader, I Married Him (2016); Showing the Flag (1989); Stories for Five-Year-Olds (1995); Stories for Six-Year-Olds (1995); Stories of Jane Gardam (2014); Supernatural Stories (1995); Swan (1987); The Armless Maiden (1995); The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005); The Flight of the Maidens (2000); The Green Man (1998); The Hollow Land (1981); The Kit Stories (1998); The Man in the Wooden Hat (2009); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Pangs Of Love (2012); The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (1983); The People on Privilege Hill (2007); The Pineapple Bay Hotel (1976); The Queen of the Tambourine (1991); The Sidmouth Letters (1980); The Stories (2012); The Summer After the Funeral (1973); Through the Doll's House Door (1987); Trio (1993); Tufty Bear (1996).

Movies and television:

BBC2 Playhouse (1982); Bookmark (1987); God on the Rocks (1990); Jackanory (1985); Read All About It (1979); Tales of the Unexpected (1983); The Book Show (2007).

Monday, July 6, 2026

On this day in movie history - Lights of New York (1928):


Lights of New York

directed by Bryan Foy,
written by Murray Roth and Hugh Herbert,
based on a story by Charles L. Gaskill,
was released in the United States on July 6, 1928.
Music by Louis Silvers.
Note: this was the first full-length all-talking movie.

Cast:

Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman, Gladys Brockwell, Robert Elliott, Eugene Pallette, Tom Dugan, Tom McGuire, Walter Percival, Guy D'Ennery, Jere Delaney, Harry Downing, Eddie Kane, Bob Perry.

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Born on this day – Warren Oates:


Warren Oates


Actor

July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1965); 1941 (1979); 77 Sunset Strip (1960–1962); 92 in the Shade (1975); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2008); And Baby Makes Six (1979); Baby Comes Home (1980); Badlands (1973); Barquero (1970); Bat Masterson (1959–1961); Beat the Clock (1950–1961); Behind-the-Scenes: 'Blue Thunder' (1983); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Black Beauty (1979); Black Saddle (1959); Blue Thunder (1983); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Bonanza (1962); Branded (1965); Brave New Cowboy (1979); Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974); Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986); Bronco (1960); Buckskin (1959); Chandler (1971); China 9, Liberty 37 (1978); Cimarron Strip (1967); Cockfighter (1974); Combat! (1964); Dillinger (1973); Dixie Dynamite (1976); Dream in the Making: The Making of Sleeping Dogs (2018); Drum (1976); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); East of Eden (1981); Film Night (1973); Gunsmoke (1958–1967); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1960); Hawaiian Eye (1960); Hero's Island (1962); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hotel de Paree (1960); Iguana (1988); In the Heat of the Night (1967); Insight (1979); Iron Horse (1967); Johnny Ringo (1960); Kid Blue (1973); Kraft Theatre (1956–1957); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956); Lamp Unto My Feet (1955); Lancer (1969–1970); Lanton Mills (1969); Laramie (1961); Lawman (1960); Lost in Space (1965); Mail Order Bride (1964); Major Dundee (1965); Michael Shayne (1961); My Old Man (1979); On location with There Was a Crooked Man (1970); Outlaws (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); Police Story (1978); Prime Time (1977); Private Property (1960); Race with the Devil (1975); Rancho Deluxe (1975); Rawhide (1960–1965); Rescue 8 (1958); Return of the Seven (1966); Ride the High Country (1962); Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' (2006); Run for Your Life (1968); Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004); Shane (1966); Shenandoah (1965); Shotgun Slade (1960); Slattery's People (1965); Sleeping Dogs (1977); Smith! (1969); Something for a Lonely Man (1968); Sophie's Place (1969); Stagecoach West (1961); Stoney Burke (1962–1963); Stripes (1981); Studio One (1956–1958); Tales of the Unexpected (1985); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Target: The Corruptors (1961–1962); Tate (1960); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1958); The African Queen (1977); The Big Story (1956); The Big Valley (1965–1966); The Blue and the Gray (1982); The Border (1982); The Brink's Job (1978); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The F.B.I. (1971); The Fugitive (1964); The Hired Hand (1971); The Larry Solway Show (1976); The Lawless Years (1961); The Magical World of Disney (1968); The Making of 'Sleeping Dogs' (2004); The Monroes (1966); The Movie Murderer (1970); The Name of the Game (1971); The Old Man & the Gun (2018); The Outer Limits (1964); The Rebel (1959); The Reluctant Heroes (1971); The Reporter (1964); The Rifleman (1958–1962); The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); The Rough Riders (1959); The Rounders (1965); The Shooting (1966); The Split (1968); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963); The Twilight Zone (1960–1963); The Untouchables (1962); The Virginia Graham Show (1970); The Virginian (1963–1966); The Westerner (1960); The White Dawn (1974); The Wild Bunch (1969); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); Thriller (1960–1962); Tom Sawyer (1973); Tombstone Territory (1958–1960); Tough Enough (1983); Trackdown (1959); True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978); Two-Lane Blacktop (1971); Up Periscope (1959); Wagon Train (1959); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961); Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993); Welcome to Hard Times (1967); Welcome to the Basement (2015–2018); Wrangler (1960); Yellowstone Kelly (1959).

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

On this day in movie history - The Racket (1928 movie & play):


The Racket

directed by Lewis Milestone,
written by Bartlett Cormack, Del Andrews, Tom Miranda, Harry Behn,
based on the play by Bartlett Cormack,
released in the United States on June 30, 1928.




Cast: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins, Henry Sedley, George E. Stone, Sam De Grasse, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Lee Moran, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Dan Wolheim, Frank Austin, Walter Brennan, Jimmy Dime, Jim Farley, Ruth Feldman, Sherry Hall, Sydney Jarvis, Tony Marlo, Burr McIntosh, Pat McKee, Lewis Milestone, William H. O'Brien, Jack Perry, Dick Rush, Charles Sullivan, Nick Thompson, Harry Wilson.

Recommended reading:


The Racket

By Bartlett Cormack.

A play in three acts.

ASIN: B0BPM49P6T
Published by Samuel French.
Published 1928.
Adapted to film in 1928 and 1951.

The play The Racket is also available in the following anthology:


Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Plays

Edited by Richard Nelson.

Paperback.
Published 1993.
Published by Theatre Communications Group.
ISBN 13: 9780930452551
ISBN 10: 0930452550
ASIN: 0930452550
Contents: Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges; The Racket by Bartlett Cormack; The Ghost of Yankee Doodle by Sidney Howard and A Slight Case of Murder by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon.

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Born on this day – Alex Toth:


Alex Toth


Cartoonist

June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006

Credits:

Adventures Into Digital Comics (2006); Battle of the Planets (1978–1980); Bionic Six (1987); Bird of Steel! (2024); Birdman (1967–1987); C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979); Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977–1980); Captain Fathom (1965); Cartoon Planet (1995–1999); Cartoon Superheroes Abridged (2015); Clue Club (1976); Devlin (1974); Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976–1977); Fantastic Four (1967); Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles (1966); Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2018); Jabberjaw (1976); Jack and the Beanstalk (1967); Jonny Quest (1965); Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space (1972); Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (1967); Project X (1968); Robin Hood (1973); Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980); Scooby's Laff-A Lympics (1977–1979); Sealab 2020 (1972); Sealab 2021 (2000–2001); Shazzan (1967); Sin City (2005); Skyhawks (1969–1971); Space Angel (1962–1964); Space Ghost (1966–2021); Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1993–2004); Super Friends (1973–1978); The Angry Red Planet (1959); The Herculoids (1967–1969); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1978); Thundarr the Barbarian (1980).

Saturday, June 20, 2026

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Born on this day – Maurice Sendak:


Maurice Sendak


Writer

Illustrator

Producer

June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012

Credits:

Books:

A Hole is to Dig (1952); A Kiss for Little Bear (1968); A Very Special House (1953); Along Came a Dog (1958); Atomics for the Millions (1947); Bears! (2005); Best in Children's Books: Volume 31 (1960); Best in Children's Books: Volume 41 (1961); Brundibár (2003); Bumble Ardy (2011); Bumble-Ardy (2011); Caldecott and Co: Notes on Books and Pictures (1988); Charlotte and the White Horse (1955); Circus Girl (1957); Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (1998); Dear Mili (1988); Dwarf Long-Nose (1960); Fantasy Sketches (1970); Father Bear Comes Home (1959); Fly by Night (1976); Frank and Joey Eat Lunch (1996); Frank and Joey Go to Work (1996); Good Shabbos Everybody (1951); Happy Hanukah Everybody (1955); Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes (1965); Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (1967); How Little Lori Visited Times Square (1963); Hurry Home, Candy (1953); I Saw Esau (1992); I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (1956); I'll Be You and You Be Me (1954); In Grandpa's House (1985); In the Night Kitchen (1970); Kenny's Window (1956); King Grisly-Beard, by the Brothers Grimm, 1973); Let's Be Enemies (1961/ 1965); Little Bear (1957); Little Bear's Friend (1960); Little Bear's Visit (1961); Little Cow & the Turtle (1955); Lullabyes and Night Songs (1965); Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (2009); Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of The Artist and His Work (2013); Maurice Sendak's Christmas Mystery (1995); McCall's: August 1964, VOL. XCI, No. 11 (1964); Mommy? (2006); Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (1962); Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (1954); Music album: Mahler – Symphony No. 3, James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra / What The Night Tells Me (1976); My Brother's Book (2013); My Brother's Book (2013); No Fighting, No Biting! (1958); Nutcracker (1984); Open House for Butterflies (1960); Outside Over There (1981); Penthesilea (1998); Pierre, or The Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition (1995); Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale (2004); Pleasant Fieldmouse (1975); Presto and Zesto in Limboland (2018); Sarah's Room (2003); Seven Little Monsters (1977); Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects (1955); Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen (1959); Shadrach (1953); She Loves Me ... She Loves Me Not ... (1963); Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems (1988); Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955 / 1980); Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog? (1976); Somebody Else's Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children (1971); Swine Lake (1999); Ten Little Rabbits (2025); Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book with Mino the Magician (1970); The Animal Family (1965); The Art of Maurice Sendak (1980); The Art of Maurice Sendak: From 1980 to the Present (2003); The Bat-Poet (1967); The Bee-Man of Orn (1964); The Big Book for Peace (1990); The Big Green Book (1962); The Big Green Book (1978); The Birthday Party (1957); The Cunning Little Vixen (1985); The Giant Story (1953); The Golden Key (1967 / 1992); The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1963); The Happy Rain (2004); The House of Sixty Fathers (1956); The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm: Volumes 1 & 2 (1973); The Light Princess (1969); The Love for Three Oranges (1984); The Miami Giant (1995); The Moon Jumpers (1959); The Mother Goose Collection (1985); The Nutshell Library: Alligators All Around / Chicken Soup with Rice / One Was Johnny / Pierre (1962); The Saturday Evening Post: May 4, 1968, 241st year, Issue no. 9 / The Chimney Sweep (1968); The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960); The Singing Hill (1962); The Tin Fiddle (1954); The Wheel on the School (1954); The Wonderful Farm (1951); Very Far Away (1957); We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures (1993); What Can You Do with a Shoe? (1955 / 1997); What Do You Do, Dear? (1958 / 1961); Where the Wild Things Are (1963); You Can't Get There From Here (1957); Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1974); American Masters (1987); Angels in America (2003); Chicken Soup with Rice (1975); Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012); Galaxie (1966); George and Martha (1999–2000); Great Performances (1994); Hansel and Gretel (1998 / 1999); HBO First Look (2009); Her (2013); Higglety Pigglety Pop! (1986); Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (2010); In the Night Kitchen (1987); Jackanory (1971); Labyrinth (1986); Last Dance (2002); L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (1987); L'heure espagnole (1987); Little Bear (1995–2001); Little Bear: Family Tales (1997); Little Bear: Feel Better, Little Bear (2003); Little Bear: Friends (1999); Little Bear: Goodnight Little Bear (1998); Little Bear: Little Artist Bear (2002); Little Bear: Little Goblin Bear (1999); Little Bear: Little Sherlock Bear (2001); Little Bear: Meet Little Bear (1997); Little Bear: Parties & Picnics (1998); Little Bear: Rainy Day Tales (2005); Little Bear: Snacktime Tales (2002); Live from Lincoln Center (1983); Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982); Northern Exposure (1991); Nutcracker (1986); Read to Me, Heidi (2024); Really Rosie (1975); Return to Oz (1985); Scholastic Jumbo Box of Storybook Classics - Volume 1 (2002); Scholastic Storybook Treasures: Where the Wild Things Are... And 5 More Stories by Maurice Sendak (2008); Scholastic Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics / Segment: Where the Wild Things Are (2007); Seasons of the Heart (1994); Sendak (1986); Seven Little Monsters (2000–2003); Simple Gifts / Segment: Prologue (1978); Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009); The Book Programme (1976); The Colbert Report (2012); The Dresden Dolls: In Paradise (2005); The Little Bear Movie (2000); The Love for Three Oranges (1982); The Pixar Story (2007); The Secret World of the Very Young (1984); The World of Maurice Sendak (1986); Today (1975); Where the Wild Things Are (1975 / 1984 / 2009); Zlateh the Goat (1966).

Monday, June 8, 2026

Born on this day – Kate Wilhelm:


Kate Wilhelm


Writer

June 8, 1928 – March 8, 2018

Credits:

Books:

A Flush of Shadows (1995); A Sense of Shadow (1981); A Wrongful Death (2007); Abyss (1973); All For One (2012); Alpha 5 (1974); And the Angels Sing (1992); Andover and the Android (1966); Angels! (1995); Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 (1994); Best New Horror 4 (1993); Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection (1977); Better Than One (1980); By Stone By Blade By Fire (2012); Cambio Bay (1990); Children of the Wind (1989); City of Cain (1974); Clarion SF (1977); Clear and Convincing Proof (2003); Cold Case (2008); Crazy Time (1988); Death of an Artist (2012); Death Qualified (1991); Defense for the Devil (1999); Desperate Measures (2001); Fantasy & Science Fiction, July / August 2012 (2012); Fault Lines (1977); Fear is a Cold Black (2010); Forever Yours, Anna (1987); Heaven is High (2011); Huysman's Pets (1985); I Know What You’re Thinking (1994); In Between (2014); Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1986 (1986); Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders (1983); Juniper Time (1979); Justice for Some (1993); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One (2015); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume Two (2015); Let the Fire Fall (1969); Listen, Listen (1981); Malice Prepense / For the Defense (1996); Margaret and I (1971); Mirror, Mirror (2017); Moongate (2000); More Bitter Than Death (1963); Music Makers (2012); Naming the Flowers (1992); Nebula Awards 9 (1974); No Defense (2000); Oh, Susannah! (1982); Omni Visions Two (1994); Orbit 11 (1972); Orbit 12 (1973); Orbit 3 (1967); Orbit 6 (1970); Seven Kinds of Death (1992); Sister Angel (2012); Skeletons (2002); Sleight of Hand (2006); Smart House (1989); Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions (1978); Storyteller (2005); Sweet, Sweet Poison (1990); Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987); The Best Defense (1994); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); The Bird Cage (2012); The Clewiston Test (1976); The Clone (1965); The Dark Door (1988); The Deepest Water (2000); The Downstairs Room (1970); The Fullness of Time (2012); The Giant Book of Terror (1994); The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky (1986); The Good Children (1998); The Gorgon Field (1986); The Hamlet Trap (1987); The Hills Are Dancing (1986); The House Share (2022); The Infinity Box (1975); The Killer Thing / The Killing Thing (1967); The Mile-Long Spaceship (1963); The Nevermore Affair (1966); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 (1988); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three (1990); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two (1989); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Price of Silence (2005); The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009); The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989); The Unbidden Truth (2004); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Winter Beach (1981); Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973); Torch Song (2012); Welcome, Chaos (1983); Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1975); Whisper Her Name (2012); With Thimbles, With Forks, and Hope (2012); Yesterday's Tomorrows (2015).

Movies and television:

The Lookalike (1990); Out of the Unknown (1965).