Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Born on this day – Christine McIntyre:


Christine McIntyre

Actress

Singer

April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984

Credits:

A Blunderful Time (1950); A Knight and a Blonde (1944); A Modern Marriage (1950); A Pinch in Time (1948); All Gummed Up (1947); Back from the Front (1944); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Behind the Mask (1946); Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939); Border Buckaroos (1943); Boston Blackie (1951); Bride and Gloom (1947); Brideless Groom (1947); Bubble Trouble (1953); Cinderella Swings It (1943); Clunked in the Clink (1949); Colorado Ambush (1951); Community Sing: Strauss Waltzes (1939); Crazy Like a Fox (1944); Crime on Their Hands (1948); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Defective Detectives (1944); Doctor, Feel My Pulse (1944); Doggie in the Bedroom (1954); Dopey Dicks (1950); Flung by a Fling (1949); Forbidden Trails (1941); French Fried Frolic (1949); From Rogues to Riches (1951); Frontier Feud (1945); Fuelin' Around (1949); Garden of Eatin' (1943); Gasoline Alley (1951); Get Along Little Zombie (1946); Gun Talk (1947); Hectic Honeymoon (1947); He's in Again (1949); His Baiting Beauty (1950); His Hotel Sweet (1944); His Tale Is Told (1944); Honeymoon Blues (1946); Hot Heir (1947); Hot Water (1946); Hugs and Mugs (1950); Innocently Guilty (1950); Jiggers, My Wife (1946); Jitter Bughouse (1948); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Knutzy Knights (1954); Land of the Lawless (1947); Louisiana Hayride (1944); Love at First Bite (1950); Man from Headquarters (1942); Mark Saber (1952); Meet Mr. Mischief (1947); Men in Her Diary (1945); Micro-Phonies (1945); Microspook (1949); Missing Daughters (1939); Mopey Dope (1944); Mr. Wright Goes Wrong (1946); News Hounds (1947); No Dough Boys (1944); Of Cash and Hash (1955); Off Again, on Again (1945); Oh, Say Can You Sue (1953); Open Season for Saps (1944); Out West (1947); Pals and Gals (1954); Pardon My Terror (1946); Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath (1948); Partners of the Trail (1944); Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945); Punchy Cowpunchers (1950); Racket Squad (1951); Radio Romeo (1947); Riders of the West (1942); Rock River Renegades (1942); Rolling Down to Reno (1947); Scotched in Scotland (1954); Sea Racketeers (1937); She Took a Powder (1951); Shivering Sherlocks (1948); Should Husbands Marry? (1947); Slappily Married (1946); Society Mugs (1946); Squareheads of the Round Table (1948); Studio Stoops (1950); Super Wolf (1949); Swing Fever (1937); Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948); The Blonde Stayed On (1946); The Blue Danube (1941); The Crimson Canary (1945); The Fire Chaser (1954); The Gentleman from Texas (1946); The Gink at the Sink (1952); The Gunman from Bodie (1941); The Hot Scots (1948); The Mayor's Husband (1945); The Power of God (1942); The Range Rider (1951–1952); The Rangers' Round-Up (1938); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Sheepish Wolf (1948); The Stranger from Pecos (1943); The Three Troubledoers (1946); They Stooge to Conga (1943); Three Hams on Rye (1950); Three Little Pirates (1946); To Heir Is Human (1944); Trapped by a Blonde (1949); Two Jills and a Jack (1947); Two Nuts in a Rut (1948); Vagabond Loafers (1949); Valley of Fear (1947); Waiting in the Lurch (1949); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1951); Wedded Bliss (1944); Wedding Belle (1947); Wedlock Deadlock (1947); West of the Rio Grande (1944); When the Wife's Away (1946); Where the Pest Begins (1945); Who Done It? (1949); Who's Hugh? (1943); Wife Decoy (1945); Wife to Spare (1947); Wine, Women and Bong (1951); Woo, Woo! (1945).

W. Somerset Maugham, on reading:


To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham.

Monday, April 15, 2024

On this day in music history - Trialogue, by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman (2016):

The album Trialogue,
by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman,
was released on April 15, 2016.

On this day in music history - Reflections 2000-2005, The Best of Michele McLaughlin, by Michele McLaughlin (2006):

The album Reflections 2000​-​2005,
The Best of Michele McLaughlin,
by Michele McLaughlin,
was released on April 15, 2006.

On this day in music history - Say You Will, by Fleetwood Mac (2003):

The album Say You Will,
by Fleetwood Mac,
was released on April 15, 2003.

On this day in music history - White Stones, by Secret Garden (1997):

The album White Stones,
by Secret Garden,
was released on April 15, 1997.

On this day in movie history - The Wages of Fear (1953):


The Wages of Fear

French title: Le Salaire de la peur,
directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot,
written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jérome Geronimi,
based on the novel by Georges Arnaud,
was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on April 15, 1953.
Music by Georges Auric.


Cast:
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck, Véra Clouzot, William Tubbs, Darío Moreno, Jo Dest, Antonio Centa, Luis De Lima, Grégoire Gromoff, Josep Palau i Fabre, Faustini, Seguna, Darling Légitimus, René Baranger, Pat Hurst, Evelio Larenagas, Jeronimo Mitchell, Ricardo, François Valorbe, Rico Zermano.