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Sunday, August 3, 2025
On this day in movie history - If I Didn’t Care (2007):
If I Didn’t Care
aka Blue Blood,
directed and written by Benjamin Cummings and Orson
Cummings,
was released in the
United States on August 3, 2007.
Cast:
Bill Sage, Susan Misner,
Roy Scheider, Noelle Beck, Ronald Guttman, Brian McQuillan, Phyllis Somerville,
Nico Yektai, Darius Yekati, Alex Kilgore, Mirelly Taylor, Constance Barron, Jack
Marks, Sam Riley, Holly Barron, Patrick Collins, Eddie Kassam, Michelle Kelly, Billie
Jean Fellingham, Jordyn Meyers, Orson Cummings, Ben Cummings, Mellanie Hubert, Piras
Sebastian, Casey Van Maanen.
On this day in music history - Spa, by Hennie Bekker (1999):
Spa
Album by Hennie Bekker,released August 3, 1999.
Track list:
Comfort; Elusive Sensation; Euphoria; Inner Peace; Revitalized;
A State of Bliss.
On this day in movie history - The New Centurions (1972):
The New Centurions
directed by Richard Fleischer,
written by Stirling
Silliphant,
based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh,
was released in the United
States on August 3, 1972.
Music by Quincy Jones.
George C. Scott, Stacy
Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Erik Estrada, Clifton James,
Richard E. Kalk, James Sikking, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Mittie Lawrence, Isabel
Sanford, Carol Speed, Tracee Lyles, Burke Byrnes, William Atherton, Peter De
Anda, Ed Lauter, Dolph Sweet, Stefan Gierasch, Debbie Fresh, Mike Lane, Roger
E. Mosley, Charles H. Gray, Read Morgan, Michael DeLano, Adriana Shaw, Pepe
Serna, Bea Thompkins, Hilly Hicks, Shaaron Claridge, Herbert Coley, Otis Day, Dick
DeCoit, Lieux Dressler, Brent Dunsford, Raymond Guth, Kitten Natividad, Gerald
S. O'Loughlin, Anne Ramsey.
Born on this day – Dick Pope:
Cinematographer
August 3, 1947 – October 21, 2024
Credits:
13
Conversations About One Thing (2001); A Bigger Splash (1973); A Flock of
Seagulls in A Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (So Far Away) (1982); A Promise of Bed
(1969); A Running Jump (2012); A Sense of History (1992); AC/DC: Live at
Donington (1992); AC/DC: No Bull (1996); Africa (1984); Alan Bush: A Life (1983);
Alison Moyet: Invisible (Version 1) (1984); All or Nothing (2002); An Awfully
Big Adventure (1995); Angelica (2015); Angels & Atom Bombs: The Making of
the Reflecting Skin (2015); Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008); Another
Year (2010); Behind the Wheel of Happy-Go-Lucky (2009); Bernie (2011); Blue
Suede Shoes (1980); Bringing Balanchine Back (2006); Career Girls (1997); Coming
Up Roses (1986); Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (1983); Creating a
Classic: The Making of 'Nicholas Nickleby' (2003); Cuban Fury (2014); Cutting
Edge (1993); Dark City (1990); Disappearing World (1974); Erasure: Chorus (1991);
Erasure: Ship of Fools (1988); Fallen Hero (1978); Fine Young Cannibals:
Suspicious Minds (1985); Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery
(1993); Forever Green (1989); Forty Minutes (1985); Freddie Mercury: The Great
Pretender (1987); Freddie Mercury: Time (1986); Friday Night Shirt (2005); Fun
Boy Three: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum (1981); Great Performances
(1998); Happy-Go-Lucky (2008); Happy-Go-Lucky: B-Roll (2008); Hard Truths (2024);
Honeydripper (2007); Imagine (2014); Inseminoid (1981); Intercom (2008); INXS:
Live Baby Live (1991); Iron Maiden: Women in Uniform (1980); It's a Wonderful
Afterlife (2010); Just for Today (1980); Kylie Minogue: Never Too Late (1989); Kylie
Minogue: Wouldn't Change a Thing (1989); La danse (2009); Lara Croft: Tomb
Raider (2001); Legend (2015); Life Is Sweet (1990); Lisa Stansfield: What Did I
Do to You? (1990); Loving Feeling (1968); Mad in the Making: Little Scenes and
Outtakes Around a Mad Video (1991); Madness: It Must Be Love (1981); Madness:
Sweetest Girl (1986); Man of the Year (2006); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Motherless
Brooklyn (2019); Mountain Dew Kickstart Super Bowl Commercial: Puppymonkeybaby
(2016); Mountains of the Moon (1990); Movin' On (1993); Mr. Turner (2014); Mr.
Turner: The Many Colours of Mr. Turner (2014); Naked (1993); Never Mind (1995);
Nicholas Nickleby (2002); Nineteen Eighty-Four / aka 1984 (1984); Nothing
Personal (1995); Peter Gabriel's Secret World (1994); Peterloo (2018); Phantoms
(1998); Pleasure (1994); Porterhouse Blue (1987); Punk and Its Aftershocks
(1980); Queen: Champions of the World (1995); Queen: I Want to Break Free (1984);
Queen: I'm Going Slightly Mad (1991); Queen: No-One But You (Only the Good Die
Young) (1998); Queen: These Are the Days of Our Lives (1991); Rick Astley: Cry
for Help (1991); Rick Astley: Hold Me in Your Arms (1989); Rude Boy (1980); Screen
Two (1996); Secrets & Lies (1996); Side by Side (2012); Sigue Sigue
Sputnik: Love Missile F1-11 (1986); Six Days in Romandie (1983); Soft Cell: Sex
Dwarf (Version 1) (1982); Soweto (1991); Supernova (2020); Supertramp: Live in
Paris '79 (2012); Swept from the Sea (1997); TCM Remembers 2024 (2024); Team
Deakins (2020); The Air Up There (1994); The Blackheath Poisonings (1992); The
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019); The Christians (1977); The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005); The Cure in Orange (1987);
The Debt Collector (1999); The Fruit Machine (1988); The Girl in the Picture
(1985); The Great Kandinsky (1995); The Illusionist (2006); The London Weekend
Show (1977 / 1978); The Mike Leigh Method (2011); The Oscars (2015); The Outfit
(2022); The Planets (1985); The Pros (2015); The Reflecting Skin (1990); The
Secret Garden (1993); The Shattered Dream: Employment in the Eighties (1981); The
South Bank Show (1985); The Specials: Ghost Town (1981); The Swappers (1970); The
Unlucky Australians (1973); The Way of the Gun (2000); The Women's Olamal: The
Organization of a Maasai Fertility Ceremony (1984); The X Files (1998); Thin
Ice (2011); Tina Turner: Private Dancer (1985); Topsy-Turvy (1999); Toyah: I
Want to Be Free (1981); Urgh! A Music War (1981); Vera Drake (2004); Vera
Drake: Cast and Crew Documentary (2005); Walking Away (2007); What's Good for
the Goose (1969); Whoops Apocalypse (1982); Willie and the Poor Boys (1985); Women
in Rock (1980); World in Action (1975–1978); Worlds Apart (1982); Yes, Honestly
(1976); Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction: Prime Mover (1988).
Born on this day – Richard Foronjy:
Book:
From the Mob to the
Movies (2020).
Movies and television:
Prince
of the City: The Real Story (2007); Hot Parts (2003); Boss of Bosses (2001); 18
Wheels of Justice (2001); Love Boat: The Next Wave (1999); Evasive Action (1998);
Hoods (1998); Recoil (1998); Michael Hayes (1998); Dumb Luck in Vegas (1997); The
Big Easy (1997); Under Suspicion (1994–1995); Man of the House (1995); Carlito's
Way (1993); Da Vinci's War (1993); The Public Eye (1992); Fatal Instinct (1992);
Oscar (1991); Get a Life (1991); Capital News (1990); Curiosity Kills (1990); Equal
Justice (1990); Amen (1987–1990); Ghostbusters II (1989); Murphy's Law (1989); Midnight
Run (1988); The Galucci Brothers (1987); Who's the Boss? (1987); The Morning
After (1986); The Check Is in the Mail... (1986); Odd Jobs (1986); Hunter (1985);
Streets of Justice (1985); Misfits of Science (1985); Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1985); Silver Spoons (1982); The Jeffersons (1985); City Heat (1984); Cagney
& Lacey (1984); Once Upon a Time in America (1984); His & Hers (1984); Young
Lust (1984); Repo Man (1984); Shannon (1982); Hill Street Blues (1982); The
Gangster Chronicles (1981); Gangster Wars (1981); True Confessions (1981); Prince
of the City (1981); The Two of Us (1981); Flying High (1979); The Jerk (1979); Hart
to Hart (1979); Angie (1979); The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979); Fix-it
City (1978); Taxi (1978); The One Man Jury (1978); Kojak (1975–1978); Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman (1977); Fun with Dick and Jane (1977); The Streets of San
Francisco (1977); Rhoda (1977); Serpico (1976–1977); Charlie's Angels (1976); M*A*S*H
(1976); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Wonderbug (1976); The Krofft Supershow / Wonderbug
(1976); Shark Kill (1976); Phyllis (1976); Baretta (1976); The Blue Knight
(1975); Harry O (1975); That's My Mama (1975); The Rookies (1975); Police Story
(1975); The Bob Newhart Show (1975); The Gambler (1974); Serpico (1973).
Born on this day – Elliot Silverstein:
Director
Writer
Producer
Actor
August 3, 1927 – November
24, 2023
Credits:
50 Years of Action! (1986);
A Man Called Horse (1970); Alcoa Theatre (1959–1960); Arrest and Trial (1964); Assignment:
Underwater (1960); Belle Sommers (1962); Betrayed by Innocence (1986); Biography
(1996–2004); Black Saddle (1960); Breaking Point (1963–1964); Cain's Hundred
(1962); Cat Ballou (1965); Channing (1963–1964); Checkmate (1961); Dr. Kildare
(1961–1963); E! True Hollywood Story (2000); Fight for Life (1987); Filmmakers
vs. Tycoons (2005); Flashfire (1994); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Have Gun - Will
Travel (1961); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1964); Kraft Theatre / The United
States Steel Hour (1956–1957); L'ouest, le vrai (2019); Naked City (1961–1962);
Night of Courage (1987); Nightmare Honeymoon (1974); Omnibus (1955–1956); Picket
Fences (1993); Rich Men, Single Women (1990); Route 66 (1960–1961); Suspicion
(1958); Tales from the Crypt (1991–1994); Talk to Taka (2000); TCM Remembers
2023 (2023); The Car (1977); The Defenders (1962–1964); The Dick Powell Theatre
(1962); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1964); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The
Firm (1983); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1959); The Happening (1967);
The Legend of 'Cat Ballou' (2000); The Twilight Zone (1961–1964); The Westerner
(1960).
Born on this day – Jean Hagen:
Actress
August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977
Credits:
A
Life of Her Own (1950); Adam's Rib (1949); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
(1977); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); Ambush (1950); American Masters (2002);
Arena (1953); Babylon (2022); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Ben Casey (1962); Carbine
Williams (1952); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Climax! (1956); Dead
Ringer (1963); Dr. Kildare (1963); General Electric Theater (1961); Good
Heavens (1976); Half a Hero (1953); Latin Lovers (1953); Night Into Morning
(1951); No Questions Asked (1951); Panic in Year Zero! (1962); Shadow in the
Sky (1952); Shower of Stars (1954); Side Street (1949); Singin' in the Rain
(1952); Spring Reunion (1956); Stagecoach West (1961); Starsky and Hutch (1976);
Sunrise at Campobello (1960); Talking Pictures (1988); The 8th Annual Primetime
Emmy Awards (1956); The Andy Griffith Show (1961); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); The
Big Knife (1955); The Danny Thomas Show (1953–1956); The Detectives (1959); The
DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); The
Jim Backus Show (1961); The Jimmy Durante Show (1954); The Law and Mr. Jones
(1962); The Magical World of Disney (1978); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951);
The Shaggy Dog (1959); The Streets of San Francisco (1976); Wagon Train (1960–1963);
Welcome to the Basement (2016); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); What a
Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' (2002); Zane Grey Theatre
(1961).
Born on this day – Marilyn Maxwell:
Actress
August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972
Credits:
3 Men in White (1944); 77
Sunset Strip (1960–1961); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); Abbott and
Costello in the Movies (1990); Adventures in Paradise (1960–1961); ... A
Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005); American Masters (2017);
Anatomy of a Crime (1969); Arizona Bushwhackers (1968); Between Two Women (1945);
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest
Star (1996); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Branded (1965); Brooklyn Goes
to Las Vegas (1956); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Burke's Law (1963–1965);
Bus Stop (1961–1962); Cavalcade of Stars (1949); Celebrity Bowling (1972); Champion
(1949); Critic's Choice (1963); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Du Barry
Was a Lady (1943); East of Sumatra (1953); Forever, Darling (1956); Frankie
Laine: An American Dreamer (2006); From Nashville with Music (1969); Front Row
Center (1949); General Electric Theater (1953); Goodbye Mama (1942); Gunsmoke
(1960); Havin' a Time in Havana (1942); Here's Hollywood (1961); Here's Lucy
(1970); High Barbaree (1947); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); I've Got a Secret (1952–1962);
Key to the City (1950); Lost in a Harem (1944); Matinee Theatre (1957); Max
Liebman Spectaculars (1954); Men at Law (1971); New Mexico (1951); New York
Confidential (1955); Off Limits (1952); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Outside
the Wall (1950); Paris Model (1953); Password (1963); Pilot #5 (1943); Playhouse
90 (1957); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Race Street (1948); Rock-a-Bye Baby
(1958); Salute to the Marines (1943); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950);
Shower of Stars (1955); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Stand by for Action (1942);
Star of the Family (1952); Stump the Stars (1950–1963); Summer Holiday (1948); Swing
Fever (1943); Talent Scouts (1963); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The
Alan Young Show (1950); The Arthur Murray Party (1957–1960); The Bob Hope Show
(1950–1966); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1954); The
Danny Thomas Show (1964); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ford Television
Theatre (1955); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The Garry Moore Show (1958); The
George Gobel Show (1954–1957); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955–1956); The Ken
Murray Show (1951); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951); The Lively Set (1964); The Mike
Douglas Show (1965); The Name's the Same (1953); The Outsider (1968); The Phynx
(1970); The Red Skelton Hour (1956–1963); The Show-Off (1946); The Tennessee
Ernie Ford Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966); Thousands
Cheer (1943); Tune Time (1942); Twenty Years After (1944); Wagon Train (1964); What's
My Line? (1953); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); What's This Song? (1965); Wild
Women (1970); You Don't Say (1964); Your Show of Shows (1952–1954).
Born on this day – Frank De Felitta:
Frank De Felitta
Author
Director
Producer
Pilot
August 3, 1921 – March 29, 2016
Credits:
Books:
A Swift Death To Critics
(2000); Audrey Rose (1975); For Love of Audrey Rose (1982); Funeral March / aka
Funeral March of the Marionettes (1990); Golgotha Falls (1984); Oktoberfest
(1973); Sea Trial (1980); The Entity (1978).
Movies and television:
Adventure
(1954); Anzio (1968); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1954); Assignment:
Underwater (1960–1961); Audrey Rose (1977); Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
(2012); Bubba Didn't Do It!: 30 Years of Dark Night of the Scarecrow (2011); Cafe
Society (1995); California's Most Haunted (2003); Campbell Summer Soundstage
(1953–1954); Danger (1954–1955); Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981); Dark Night
of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Dateline NBC / Segment: Finding Booker's Place (2012);
Doberman Patrol (1973); El retorno de Ana Rosa (1982); Hollywood Ghost Stories
(1986); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Killer in the Mirror
(1986); Le Lab Secret (2016); Matinee Theatre (1957); Medallion Theatre (1953);
Rich and Famous (1981); Scissors (1991); Sightings: Ghosts (1992); Suspense (1954);
Tales of Tomorrow (1952–1953); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Entity
(1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Penthouse (1989); The Plymouth
Playhouse (1953); The Savage Is Loose (1974); The Stately Ghosts of England
(1965); The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979); Two Family House (2000); Windows
(1955); Witchcraft (1961); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953); Z.P.G. (1972).
Born on this day – P. D. James:
Writer
August 3, 1920 – November 27, 2014
Credits:
Books:
A Certain Justice (1997);
A Mind to Murder (1963); A New Omnibus of Crime (2009); A Taste for Death (1986);
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972); Bad Behavior (1995); Cover Her Face (1962);
Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime (2013); Criminal Elements (1988); Death Comes
to Pemberley (2011); Death in Holy Orders (2001); Death of an Expert Witness
(1977); Devices and Desires (1989); Felonious Assaults (1989); Future Crimes
(2021); Girl Who Loved Graveyards (1996); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Innocent
Blood (1980); More Murder Most Cozy (1993); More Murders for the Fireside (1994);
Murder in Triplicate (1980); Murders for the Fireside (1992); Nursing Stories
(1979); Original Sin (1994); Shroud for a Nightingale (1971); Sightlines (2001);
Sleep No More (2017); Sleuths of the Century (2000); Suspicious Characters
(1987); Tales of Obsession (1994); Talking about Detective Fiction (2009); Taste
for Death / Devices and Desires / Original Sin (2008); The Black Tower (1975); The
Children of Men (1992); The Detection Collection (2005); The Lighthouse (2005);
The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (1985); The Man Who... (1992); The
Maul and the Pear Tree (1971); The Mistletoe Murder (2016); The Murder Room
(2003); he New Mystery (1993); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The
Part-Time Job (2020); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The
Picador Book of Crime Writing (1993); The Private Patient (2008); The Skull
Beneath the Skin (1982); The Verdict of Us All (2006); The Victim (2019); The
Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1997); The Web She Weaves (1983); Time to Be in
Earnest (1999); Unnatural Causes (1967).
Movies and television:
60
Minutes / Segment: Murder She Writes (1992); A Better Read (1980); A Certain
Justice (1998); A Mind to Murder (1995); A Ripe Old Age (2002); A Taste for
Death (1988); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); An Unsuitable Job
for a Woman (1982–1999); Ànima (2009); Apostrophes (1989–1990); Bestseller (2001);
Book Four (1982); Bookmark (1988–1992); Breakfast (2005); Call My Bluff (1998);
CBS News Nightwatch (1990); Children of Men (2006); Close-Up (1995); Cover Her
Face (1985); Crime Writers (1978); Dalgliesh (2021–2023); Daphne Du Maurier - A
Loving Spirit (1997); Death Comes to Pemberley (2013); Death in Holy Orders
(2003); Death of an Expert Witness (1983); Desert Island Discs: Archive
1981-1985 (1985); Devices and Desires (1991); Did You See..? (1980–1987); Dinner
with Portillo (2005); Elementary My Dear Viewer (2007); Forty Years at the
I.C.A. (1987); Good Afternoon! (1983); ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards (2008); Late
Night with David Letterman (1990); Late Review (2003–2007); Les Carnets de
route de François Busnel (2014); Los Siete Locos (1987); Mark Lawson Talks
to... (2006); My Life in Books (2011); Omnibus (1994); Original Sin (1997); P.D.
James by Michael Taylor (2002); Pebble Mill at One (1983); Presumption: The
Life of Jane Austen (1995); Pride & Prejudice: From Page to Screen (1995); Prisoners
of Conscience (1991); Prisoners of Gravity (1993–1994); Profiling (2008); Question
Time (1994–2004); Rankin on the Staircase (2005); Read All About It (1979); Reader,
I Married Him (2006); Ruby (1998); Samtaler i natten (1995); Shroud for a Nightingale
(1984); Speaking Volumes (1990–1991); Stevensons Travels Part 1 (1994); Sunday
AM (2006); Sunday Best (2001–2007); Talking Books (2010); The Big Questions
(2009); The Black Tower (1985); The Book Programme (1975 / 1976); The Book Show
(2008–2011); The Fens (1991); The Heaven and Earth Show (2005); The Media Show
(1990); The Murder Room (2005); The South Bank Show (2004–2010); The Violent
Highway (2009); The Write Stuff (1988); This Week (2005); Timeshift (2014); Travels
with Pevsner (1998); Unnatural Causes (1993); Upon Reflection (1990); Wogan
(1987); Writers and Places (1983); Writing with PD James (1998).
Born on this day – Louise Platt:
Actress
August 3, 1915 – September 6, 2003
Credits:
Alfred
Hitchcock Presents (1957–1958); Captain Caution (1940); Forgotten Girls (1940);
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Guiding Light
(1958-1959); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); I Met My Love Again (1938); John
Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); Kraft Theatre (1956); Kraft Theatre / The
United States Steel Hour (1957); Lamp Unto My Feet (1959); Look Up and Live
(1959); Naked City (1963); New York Confidential (1959); Playwrights '56 (1955);
Spawn of the North (1938); Stagecoach (1939); Star Tonight (1956); Street of
Chance (1942); Tell No Tales (1939).
Born on this day – Adrienne Ames:
Actress
August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947
Credits:
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Hours (1931); A Bedtime Story (1933); Abdul the Damned (1935); Beautiful
Dreamer (1935); Black Sheep (1935); Broadway Bad (1933); City Girl (1938); Disgraced
(1933); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Fugitives for a Night (1938); George
White's Scandals (1934); Gigolette (1935); Girls About Town (1931); Guilty as
Hell (1932); Harmony Lane (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hotel
Imperial (1927); Husband's Holiday (1931); I Take This Woman (1940); La Fiesta
de Santa Barbara (1935); Ladies Love Danger (1935); Panama Patrol (1939); Sally
(1929); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Sinners in
the Sun (1932); Slander House (1938); The Avenger (1933); The Death Kiss (1932);
The Road to Reno (1931); The Zero Hour (1939); Two Kinds of Women (1932); Woman
Wanted (1935); Working Girls (1931); You're Telling Me! (1934).
Born on this day – Allen Holubar:
Actor
Director
Writer
August 3, 1890 – November 20, 1923
Credits:
20,000
Leagues Under the Sea (1916); A Double Fire Deception (1916); A Gentleman of
Art (1915); A Soul for Sale (1918); A Wolf Among Lambs (1913); Any Youth (1916);
Ashes of Remembrance (1916); Behind Life's Stage (1916); Behind the Curtain
(1916); Broken Chains (1922); Conscience (1915); Courtmartialed (1915); Fear
Not (1917); Heart Strings (1917); Hurricane's Gal (1922); Into the North (1913);
Man-Woman-Marriage (1921); Midnight (1917); Once to Every Woman (1920); Paid in
Advance (1919); Seeing Stars (1922); Sirens of the Sea (1917); Slander the
Woman (1923); Stronger Than Steel (1916); The Black Pearl (1915); The Bombay
Buddha (1915); The Double-Topped Trunk (1917); The Eleventh Dimension (1915); The
Field of Honor (1917); The Grip of Love (1917); The Health Road (1916); The
Heart of Humanity (1918); The Heart Punch (1915); The House of Fear (1915); The
Human Mill (1923); The Mortgaged Wife (1918); The Old Toymaker (1917); The
Phone Message (1916); The Prodigal Daughter (1916); The Prophecy (1913); The
Pursuit Eternal (1915); The Reed Case (1917); The Right to Happiness (1919); The
Shadow (1916); The Son of His Father (1915); The Story the Clock Told (1914); The
Taint of Fear (1916); The Talk of the Town (1918); The War Waif (1917); The
White Terror (1915); The Wrong Label (1915); Treason (1917); Two Social Calls (1913);
Where Glory Waits (1917).
Recommended reading - The Origins of the American Detective Story (2006):
The Origins of the American Detective Story
By LeRoy Lad Panek.
Published by McFarland.
Paperback.
Published 2006.
ISBN-10: 0786427760
ISBN-13: 978-0786427765
Description:
Edgar Allan Poe
essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue
Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America
saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral
crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist
publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the
century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American
literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social
conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the
parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading
newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too,
was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named
Sherlock Holmes.
Focusing
on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years
of American detective fiction.
Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:
When I sit down to
write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message.
I just try
to write a story which is hard enough.
- Jhumpa Lahiri.
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