Friday, June 14, 2024

Born on this day – Gene Barry:


Gene Barry

Actor

Singer

June 14, 1919 – December 9, 2009

Born on this day – Dorothy McGuire:


Dorothy McGuire

Actress

June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001

Born on this day – Gisèle Casadesus:


Gisèle Casadesus

Actress

June 14, 1914 – September 24, 2017

Born on this day – Burl Ives:


Burl Ives

Actor

Writer

Singer

Musician

June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995

Born on this day – May Allison:


May Allison

Actress

June 14, 1890 – March 27, 1989

Credits:

A Fool There Was (1915); A Successful Adventure (1918); Almost Married (1919); Are All Men Alike? (1920); Big Game (1921); Big Tremaine (1916); Castles in the Air (1919); David Harum (1915); Extravagance (1921); Fair and Warmer (1919); Flapper Wives (1924); Held in Trust (1920); Her Indiscretion (1927); Her Inspiration (1918); I Want My Man (1925); In for Thirty Days (1919); Life's Blind Alley (1916); Lillo of the Sulu Seas (1916); Men of Steel (1926); Mismates (1926); Mister 44 (1916); One Increasing Purpose (1927); Pardoned (1915); Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919); Pidgin Island (1916); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (1922); Social Hypocrites (1918); The Broad Road (1923); The Broken Cross (1916); The Buzzard's Shadow (1915); The Cheater (1920); The City (1926); The Come-Back (1916); The End of the Road (1915); The Gamble (1916); The Governor's Lady (1915); The Great Question (1915); The Greater Glory (1926); The Hidden Children (1917); The House of a Thousand Scandals (1915); The Island of Intrigue (1919); The Last Card (1921); The Man in the Sombrero (1916); The Marriage of William Ashe (1921); The Masked Rider (1916); The Other Side of the Door (1916); The Promise (1917); The Return of Mary (1918); The River of Romance (1916); The Secret Wire (1916); The Secretary of Frivolous Affairs (1915); The Telephone Girl (1927); The Testing of Mildred Vane (1918); The Tragic Circle (1915); The Uplifters (1919); The Walk-Offs (1920); The Winning of Beatrice (1918); The Woman Who Fooled Herself (1922); Wreckage (1925); Youth for Sale (1924).

Julia Alvarez, on writing:


But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention.
I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write.
It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.

– Julia Alvarez.

Thursday, June 13, 2024

On this day in movie history - With/In (2021):


With/In

Anthology in two volumes.

Segment titles:
Coco and Gigi. I’m Listening. In the Air. Intersection. Leap. Mother! Neighborhood Watch. Nuts. One Night Stand. Shell Game. Still Life. Touching. Twenty Questions.

Directed by:
Jonathan Cake, Bill Camp, Chris Cooper, Griffin Dunne, Bart Freundlich, Gina Gershon, Sebastian Gutierrez, Sanaa Lathan, Elizabeth Marvel, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Nivola, Rosie Perez, Maya Singer, Morgan Spector, Mickey Sumner.

Written by:
Portia A. Buckley, Jonathan Cake, Griffin Dunne, Bart Freundlich, Gina Gershon, Sebastian Gutierrez, Arliss Howard, Marianne Leone, Michael Lindley, Margaret Nagle, Sam Nivola, Zonia Pelensky, Rosie Perez, Maya Singer.

Released at the Tribeca Film Festival in the United States.
Volume 1 shown on June 13, 2021.
Volume 2 shown on June 14, 2021.

Cast:
Talia Balsam, Don Cheadle, Rebecca Hall, Sanaa Lathan, Justina Machado, Julianne Moore, Rosie Perez, Maya Singer, Morgan Spector, Taj Swaminathan-Sipp, Adrianne Palicki, Elizabeth Marvel, Carla Gugino, Gina Gershon, Emily Mortimer, Debra Winger, Alessandro Nivola, Julianne Nicholson, Griffin Dunne, Chris Cooper, Bill Camp, Jonathan Cake, Arliss Howard, Trudie Styler, Mickey Sumner, Sam Nivola, Marianne Leone, Fuschia Sumner, May Nivola, Zonia Pelensky, Phoebe Cake, Iggy Cake, Silas Camp.