Born on this day – Pamela Tiffin:

Pamela Tiffin

Actress

October 13, 1942 – December 2, 2020

Credits:

ABC's Nightlife (1965); Brigitte, Laura, Ursula, Monica, Raquel, Liz, Maria, Florinda, Barbara, Claudia, e Sofia, le chiamo tutte... anima mia (1974); Cinéma, de notre temps (2003); Come Fly with Me (1963); Cose di Cosa Nostra (1971); Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears (1973); E se per caso una mattina... (1972); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Girl Talk (1967); Harper / aka The Moving Target (1966); Here's Hollywood (1962); I protagonisti (1968); Kill Me, My Love! (1973); Kiss the Other Sheik (1965); La signora è stata violentata (1973); Live from Lincoln Center (1982); Music of Williamsburg (1960); No One Will Notice You're Naked (1971); One, Two, Three (1961); Password (1967); Quattro storie di donne (1989); State Fair (1962); Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968); Summer and Smoke (1961); TCM Remembers 2020 (2020); The Almost Perfect Crime (1966); The Archangel (1969); The Celebrity Game (1964); The David Frost Show (1970); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Fifth Cord (1971); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The Fugitive (1963); The Hallelujah Trail (1965); The Last of the Powerseekers (1969); The Lively Set (1964); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Pleasure Seekers (1964); The Responsive Eye (1966); The Survivors (1970); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); This Proud Land (1966); To Tell the Truth (1964); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Viva Max (1969); What's My Line? (1966–1967).

On this day in movie history – Harper a.k.a. The Moving Target (1966 movie & novel):

Harper

directed by Jack Smight,

written by William Goldman,

based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald,

was released in the United States on February 23, 1966.

Music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Harold Gould, Roy Jenson, Strother Martin.

Recommended reading:

The Moving Target

aka Harper.

By Ross MacDonald.

ISBN-10: 037570146X

ISBN-13: 978-0375701467

Published 1949.

Back cover description:

CRIME FICTION

“Ross Macdonald remains the grandmaster, taking the crime novel to new heights by imbuing it with psychological resonance, complexity of story, and richness of style that remain awe-inspiring. Those of us in his wake owe a debt that can never be paid. – Jonathan Kellerman.

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There’s the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson’s friends may have arranged his kidnapping. And as Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.

“Macdonald is one of a handful of writers in the [mystery] genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the later 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience whop walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

VINTAGE CRIME / BLACK LIZARD