Jack Kost

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Born on this day – Buster Crabbe:

Buster Crabbe

Olympic swimmer

Actor

February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983

Born on this day – Edith Méra:

Edith Méra

Actress

Singer

Cartoonist

February 7, 1905 – February 24, 1935

Credits:

Le comte Obligado (1935); La flambée (1934); Prince de minuit (1934); Poliche (1934); Fedora (1934); Iris perdue et retrouvée (1934); Château de rêve (1933); Simone est comme ça (1933); Le père prématuré (1933); La poule (1933); Grandeur and Decadence (1933); Je te confie ma femme (1933); Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1933); Three Musketeers (1932); A Star Disappears (1932); Shout It from the House Tops (1932); Mon amant l'assassin (1932); Miche (1932); Monsieur le maréchal (1931); Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931); Un soir de rafle (1931); L'homme qui assassina (1931); Beauty Cult (1930).

Born on this day – Sinclair Lewis:

Sinclair Lewis

Writer

February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951

First American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Credits:

30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); Adventures in Autobumming (2017); Ann Vickers (1933); Arrowsmith (1925); Babbitt (1922); Bethel Merriday (1940); Cass Timberlane (1945); Dodsworth (1929); Elmer Gantry (1927); Free Air (1919); From Main Street to Stockholm (1953); Gideon Planish (1943); Go East, Young Man (2005); Harri (2016); Hike and the Aeroplane (1912); If I Were Boss (1997); I'm A Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories (1962); It Can't Happen Here (1935); Jayhawker: A Play in Three Acts (1935); Kingsblood Royal (1947); Let Us Play King (1956); Main Street (1920); Mantrap (1925); Moths in the ARC Light (2014); Our Mr. Wrenn (1914); Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1935); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Speed (2014); Storm in the West (1963); The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol (2007); The Cat of the Stars (2014); The Ghost Patrol (2014); The God-Seeker (1949); The Innocents (1917); The Job (1917); The Kidnaped Memorial (2014); The Man From Main Street (1953); The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928); The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (2005); The Prodigal Parents (1938); The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis, 1904-1949 (2007); The Trail of the Hawk (1915); The Willow Walk (1918); Things (2014); Work Of Art (1934); World So Wide (1951); Young Man Axelbrod (2013).

Born on this day – Charles Dickens:

Charles Dickens

Writer

February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

Credits:

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); A Child's History of England (1854); A Christmas Carol (1843); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); A Terribly Strange Bed (1852); After Dark (1856); Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions (1983); An Accursed Race (1855); Barnaby Rudge (1841); Bessy's Troubles at Home (1852); Black and White (2015); Bleak House (1853); Bran (2015); Children's Christmas Stories and Poems (1995); Chilling Ghost Stories (2015); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Company Manners (2018); Cousin Phyllis (1864); David Copperfield (1850); Disappearances (1851); Doctor Marigold (1866); Dombey and Son (1848); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve (2015); French Life (1864); George Silverman's Explanation (1868); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Expectations (1861); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); Hard Times (1854); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Hunted Down (2016); John Jago's Ghost (1874); Libbie Marsh's Three Eras (1855); Little Dorrit (1855); Lizzie Leigh (1850); London Stories (2013); Master Humphrey's Clock (1841); Master Humphrey's Clock, Volume 2 (1841); Miss Gwilt (1880); Miss or Mrs.? (1873); Morton Hall (2004); Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851); Mr. Wray's Cash Box (1852); Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley's Miscellany (1880); My French Master (2004); My Lady's Money (1879); No Thoroughfare (1867); No Thoroughfare (1867); Old Curiosity Shop (1841); Our Mutual Friend (1865); Reprinted Pieces (1861); Right at Last (1858); Round the Christmas Fire (2013); Select Short Fiction (1976); Sexton's Hero (1847); Sights A-Foot (1887); Six Weeks at Heppenheim (2004); Sketches by Boz (1836); Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth (2002); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838); The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange (1855); The Battle of Life (1846); The Black Veil (1836); The Cauldron of Oil (1861); The Chimes (1844); The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1866); The Cricket on the Hearth (1845); The Crooked Branch (2004); The Dead Alive (1873); The Doom of the Griffiths (1858); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The Dream Woman (1855); The Greatest Books of All Time #4 (2017); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Half-Brothers (1859); The Hanged Man's Bride (1857); The Haunted Hotel (1879); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848); The Heart of John Middleton (2004); The Holly Tree Inn (1850); The Last Stage Coachman (1843); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1839); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Magic Fishbone (1867); The Manchester Marriage (1858); The Moorland Cottage (1850); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870); The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage (1853); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Phantom Coach (2014); The Pickwick Papers (1837); The Poor Clare (1856); The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn (1858); The Queen of Hearts (1859); The Scholar's Story (2016); The Shah's English Gardener (1852); The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984); The Squire's Story (1855); The Well of Pen Morfa (2004); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The World's Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Yellow Mask (1887); Three Ghost Stories (1998); Thrillers (1994); To Be Read at Dusk (1852); Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses (2020); Who Killed Zebedee? (1880); Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (2002); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).