On this day in movie history - Woman On the Run (1950):

Woman On the Run

directed by Norman Foster,

written by Alan Campbell, Norman Foster and Ross Hunter,

based on the short story Man on the Run by Sylvia Tate,

was released in the United States on November 29, 1950.
Music by Arthur Lange and Emil Newman.

Cast:

Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks, Ross Elliott, Jane Liddell, Joan Shawlee, J. Farrell MacDonald, Steven Geray, Victor Sen Yung, Reiko Sato, Syd Saylor, Milton Kibbee, Tom Dillon.

On this day in movie history - The Lost Weekend (1945):

The Lost Weekend

directed by Billy Wilder,

written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder,

based on the novel by Charles R. Jackson,

was released in the United States on November 29, 1945.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Bolster, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth, Lewis Russell, Harry Tenbrook, Gene Ashley, Walter Baldwin, Harry Barris, Ian Begg, Eddie Borden, Jess Lee Brooks, Jack Rube Clifford, David Clyde, James Conaty, Willa Pearl Curtis, John Deauville, Helen Dickson, Clark Eggleston, Franklyn Farnum, John Garris, Dick Gordon, Jayne Hazard, Ted Hecht, Ernest Hilliard, Earle Hyman, Jerry James, Stan Johnson, Jack W. Johnston, Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky, Eddie Laughton, Perc Launders, Theodora Lynch, Bertram Marburgh, William Meader, James Millican, Frank Mills, Pat Moriarity, William Newell, William O'Leary, Peter Potter, Mark Power, Stanley Price, Craig Reynolds, The San Francisco Opera Company, Lester Sharpe, Lee Shumway, Sophie (the dog), Douglas Spencer, Al Stewart, Bunny Sunshine, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Emmett Vogan, Max Wagner, Milton Wallace, Gisela Werbisek, Crane Whitley, Ernest Whitman, Isabel Withers, Audrey Young.

Born on this day – Tom Sizemore:

Tom Sizemore

Actor

November 29, 1961 – March 3, 2023

Born on this day – Madeleine L'Engle:

Madeleine L'Engle

Writer

November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007

Credits:

Books:

101st Miracle: Early Short Stories (1999); A Circle of Quiet (1971); A Cry Like a Bell (1987); A Full House (2000); A House Like a Lotus (1984); A Live Coal in the Sea (1962); A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends: Partners in Prayer (1999); A Ring of Endless Light (1980); A Severed Wasp (1982); A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob (1986); A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978); A Wind in the Door (1973); A Winter's Love (1957); A Wrinkle in Time (1962 / 2012); An Acceptable Time (1989); And Both Were Young (1949); And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings (1983); Anytime Prayers (1994); Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation (1997); Camilla Dickinson / Camilla (1951); Certain Women (1992); Dance in the Desert (1969); Dragons in the Waters (1976); Everyday Prayers (1974); Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together (2021); Friends for the Journey (1997); From This Day Forward (1989); Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections (1996); Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old (2002); Ilsa (1946); Intergalactic P.S. 3 (2018); Ladder of Angels (1979); Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems (1969); Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life (2001); Many Waters (1986); Meet the Austins (1960); Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings (1998); Moses, Prince of Egypt (1999); Mothers & Daughters (1997); Mothers and Sons (2000); My Own Small Place: Developing the Writing Life (1999); Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Spiritual Places (1996); Prayers for Sunday (1974); Prelude (1968); Second Sight (1999); Sold into Egypt: Joseph's Journey into Human Being (1989); The Anti-Muffins (1981); The Arm of the Starfish (1965); The Fact of the Matter (2020); The Glorious Impossible (1990); The Irrational Season (1976); The Journey with Jonah (1967); The Joys of Love (2008); The Love Letters (1966); The Moment of Tenderness (2020); The Moon by Night (1963); The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle (2005); The Other Dog (2001); The Other Side of the Sun (1971); The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth (1993); The Small Rain (1945); The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories (1989); The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (1974); The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (1964); The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (1988); The Wand in the Word (2006); The Weather of the Heart (1978); The Young Unicorns (1968); Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children's Literature (1985); Troubling a Star (1994); Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (1988); Walking on Water: Personal Reflections (1980); Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Way More than Luck (2015); WinterSong (1996); Writing Women's Lives (1994).

Movies and television:

A Ring of Endless Light (2002); A Wrinkle in Time (2003 / 2018); Camilla Dickinson (2012); Madeleine L'Engle: Star Gazer (1990).

Born on this day – Fran Ryan:

Fran Ryan

Actress

November 29, 1916 – January 15, 2000

Born on this day – Mildred Harris:

Mildred Harris

Actress

November 29, 1901 – July 20, 1944

Born on this day – Genevieve Tobin:

Genevieve Tobin

Actress

November 29, 1899 – July 31, 1995

Credits:

A Lady Surrenders (1930); Breakdowns of 1936 (1936); Broadway Hostess (1935); By Your Leave (1934); Dark Hazard (1934); Dramatic School (1938); Easy to Love (1934); Free Love (1930); Golden Harvest (1933); Goodbye Again (1933); Here's to Romance (1935); Hollywood Speaks (1932); I Loved a Woman (1933); Infernal Machine (1933); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); No Mother to Guide Her (1923); No Time for Comedy (1940); One Hour with You (1932); Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939); Perfect Understanding (1933); Pleasure Cruise (1933); Queen of Crime (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934); Seed (1931); Snowed Under (1936); Success at Any Price (1934); The 9th Guest (1934); The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935); The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932); The Country Cousin (1919); The Duke Comes Back (1937); The Gay Diplomat (1931); The Goose and the Gander (1935); The Great Gambini (1937); The Man in the Mirror (1936); The Petrified Forest (1936); The Woman in Red (1935); The Wrecker (1933); Uncertain Lady (1934); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910); Up for Murder (1931); Victory Plays (1932); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939); Zaza (1938).

Born on this day – C. S. Lewis:

C. S. Lewis

Writer

November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963

Credits:

Books:

Out of the Silent Planet (1938); Perelandra (1944); That Hideous Strength / The Tortured Planet (1945); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950); Prince Caspian (1951); The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952); The Silver Chair (1953); The Horse and His Boy (1954); The Magician's Nephew (1955); The Last Battle (1956); A Book of Narnians (1950); Lucy Steps Through the Wardrobe (1997); Edmund and the White Witch (1997); Aslan (1998); Aslan's Triumph (1998); Uncle Andrew's Troubles (1998); The Wood Between the Worlds (1999); The Pilgrim's Regress (1933); The Screwtape Letters (1942); The Great Divorce (1945); Till We Have Faces (1956); Screwtape Proposes A Toast (1965); Boxen (1985); The Problem of Pain (1940); Case for Christianity (1942); Mere Christianity (1943); The Abolition of Man (1943); Miracles (1947); Surprised by Joy (1955); Reflections on the Psalms (1958); The Four Loves (1960); A Grief Observed (1961); Christian Reflections (1967); The Joyful Christian (1977); Of This and Other Worlds (1982); The Business of Heaven (1984); From Narnia To Space Odyssey (written with Arthur C. Clarke) (2003); The Weight of Glory (2016); How to Be a Christian (2018); On Writing (2022); Spirits in Bondage (1919); Poems (1964); Narrative Poems (1969); The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set (1956); The Chronicles of Narnia Collector's Edition (2014); George MacDonald (1946); The Late Great Future (1976); Over the Rainbow (1983); The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (1988); Horse & Pony Stories (1992); Spellbound (1995); We Remember C. S. Lewis: Essays & Memoirs (2001); Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Mere Christians (2009); Called to Community (2016); Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together (2021); Finding the Kingdom: Discover a Faith that is Costly, Rich, Alive & True (2023).

Movies and television:

A Grief Observed (2013); Hidden Pages (1959); Jackanory (1967–1968); Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989); Story Box (1963); Television Theater (2022); The Andrew Klavan Show (2017); The Blockbuster Buster (2016); The Chronicles of Narnia the Silver Chair Fan Audio Drama (2023); The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010); The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1979 / 1988 / 1990); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967); The Most Reluctant Convert (2021); The Problem of Pain (2015); The Screwtape Letters (2014); To Love at All (2018); Wandering Attention (2017).

Born on this day – Lucille Hegamin:

Lucille Hegamin

Blues singer

November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970

Born on this day – Otis Turner:

Otis Turner

Director

Writer

Producer

November 29, 1862 – March 28, 1918

Born on this day – Louisa May Alcott:

Louisa May Alcott

Writer

November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888

Credits:

Including titles with Madeleine B. Stern and Susan Beth Pfeffer:

Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868); Good Wives (1869); Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871); Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (1886); Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872); Shawl-Straps (1872); Cupid and Chow Chow (1873); My Girls (1877); Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. (1879); An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (1882); Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875); Rose in Bloom (1876); The Inheritance (1849); Moods (1864); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869); Work (1873); A Modern Mephistopheles (1877); Under the Lilacs (1878); Jack & Jill (1880); Proverb Stories (1882); Lulu's Library (1886); A Long Fatal Love Chase (1995); Flower Fables (1854); A Modern Cinderella (1860); On Picket Duty, and Other Tales (1864); A Marble Woman (1865); Behind a Mask (1867); Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (1882); Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884); A Garland for Girls (1887); A Whisper in the Dark (1889); The Louisa Alcott Reader (1908); Glimpses of Louisa (1968); Short Stories (1968); Plots and Counterplots (1976); An Intimate Anthology (1980); Selected Fiction (1980); Hidden Louisa May Alcott (1984); Works of Louisa May Alcott (1986); A Double Life (1988); Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories (1992); The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott (1993); Louisa May Alcott Unmasked (1995); Modern Magic (1995); The Quiet Little Woman (1999); The Poems of Louisa May Alcott (2000); The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 (2000); Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury (2002); The Brownie and the Princess & Other Stories (2004); Doctor Dorn's Revenge and A Strange Island (2007); The Candy Country and How They Ran Away (2008); Morning-Glories (2009); The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott (2012); Sisters (2017); A Vintage Christmas (2018); May Flowers (2019); A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories (2019); Transcendental Wild Oats (1873); Marjorie's Three Gifts (1899); Diana & Persis (1978); Kate's Choice (2001); Debby's Debut (2010); Love and Self Love (2010); Pauline's Passion and Punishment (1862); The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treheme's Temptation (1867); Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse (1869); Poppies and Wheat (1900); Trudel's Siege (1976); Scarlet Stockings (2004); The Baron's Gloves (2005); Silver Pitchers and Independence (2007); Little Button Rose (2008); The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (2010); The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts (2013); The Death of John (2013); The Cross on the Old Church Tower (2013); On Picket Duty (2014); Doctor Dorn's Revenge (2015); Effie's Christmas Dream (2015); The Dolls' Journey (2015); The Blind Lark (2016); Comic Tragedies (2016); How They Ran Away (2016); Sophie's Secret (2016); Lilybell and Thistledown (2016); The Brownie and the Princess (2017); Kitty's Class Day (2018); Pansies and Water-Lilies (2018); The Mysterious Key (2019); Lost in a Pyramid (2019); Civil War Hospital Sketches (1863); Hospital Sketches (1863); Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866); Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889); The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott (1987); The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott (1989); The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 (1993); Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery (1997); The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott (2001); Louisa May Alcott's Civil War (2006); Meg's Story (1997); Jo's Story (1997); Beth's Story (1997); Amy's Story (1997); Meg Makes a Friend (1998); Jo Makes a Friend (1998); Beth Makes a Friend (1998); Amy Makes a Friend (1998); Christmas Dreams (1998); A Gift for Jo (1999); A Gift for Meg (1999); A Gift for Amy (1999); Birthday Wishes (1999); Ghostly Tales (2000); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); Women Who Wrote (2020); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023).

Movie and television adaptations:

Louisa's Legacy: Little Women and Orchard House (2020); Little Women (2019); Radioteatro de Navidad de la Cadena Ser (2018); I riassuntini (2018); Little Women (2018); Little Women (2017); A Frozen Christmas (2016); The Inheritance (2013); The March Sisters at Christmas (2012); An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008); Great Performances (2001); Little Men (1998-1999); Little Men (1998); The Inheritance (1997); Little Women (1994); Wakakusa monogatari nan to Jô sensei (1993); Quattro piccole donne (1989); Ai no wakakusa monogatari (1987); No hay por qué llorar (1985); Wakakusa monogatari yori wakakusa no yonshimai (1981); Little Women (1980); Little Women (1979); Little Women (1978); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1976); NBC Special Treat (1975); Adorables mujercitas (1974); Mujercitas (1973); Little Women (1970); NBC Children's Theatre (1969); Novela (1964–1967); Dai lu nian hua (1967); Rosella (1964); Mujercitas (1963); Mujercitas (1962); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960–1961); La Hora Fate (1960); Jo's Boys (1959); Mulherzinhas (1959); Little Women (1958); Good Wives (1958); Little Women (1958); Primavera (1958); Xiao fu ren (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Matinee Theatre (1956); Fu Lan jie jie (1956); A Girl Called Jo (1956); Piccole donne (1955); Encounter (1955); Music and Macaroni (1955); Little Women (1950–1951); Studio One (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Little Women (1949); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949); Little Women (1946); Little Men (1940); Little Women (1939); Little Men (1934); Little Women (1933); Little Women (1918); Little Women (1917).

Recommended reading – An Introduction to the Detective Story (1987):

An Introduction to the Detective Story

By Leroy Lad Panek.

Published by Popular Press 1.

First edition.

Published 1987.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0879723777

ISBN-13: 978-0879723774

Description:

This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally broken ground in terms of aggressive writing, contemporary scenarios, and tough dialogue.

Jhumpa Lahiri, on fiction:

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.