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).

Jhumpa Lahiri, on fiction:

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

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

On this day in music history - In The Wake, by Ann Sweeten (2011):

The album In The Wake,

by Ann Sweeten,

was released on November 28, 2011.

On this day in movie history - Port of New York (1949):

Port of New York,

directed by László Benedek,

written by Eugene Ling and Leo Townsend,

based on a story by Arthur A. Ross and Bert Murray,

was released in the United States on November 28, 1949.
Narrated by Chet Huntley.
Music by Sol Kaplan.

Cast:
Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Arthur Blake, Lynne Carter, John Kellogg, William Challee, Neville Brand, Barry Brooks, Harry Brown, George M. Carleton, Stephen Chase, Steve Crandall, Sayre Dearing, Ann Doran, Frank Fenton, Fred Graham, Raymond Greenleaf, Chuck Hamilton, Patricia Hawkins, Joe Haworth, Chet Huntley, Stan Johnson, Doyle Manor, Joe Mantell, Jean McBride, Mickey McCardle, James Nolan, Tudor Owen, John Parris, Steve Pendleton, David Perry, Alexander Pope, Gordon Richards, Henry Rowland, Glenn Thompson, Larry Thompson, Harlan Warde.

Born on this day – Michael Ritchie:

Michael Ritchie

Director

Producer

November 28, 1938 – April 16, 2001