Jack Kost

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Born on this day – Billy Wilder:

Billy Wilder

Director

June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002

Born on this day – Catherine Hessling:

Catherine Hessling

Actress

June 22, 1900 – September 28, 1979

Born on this day – Oskar Fischinger:

Oskar Fischinger

Abstract animator

Director

Painter

June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967

Born on this day – Dorothy Devore:

Dorothy Devore

Actress

Comedian

June 22, 1899 – September 10, 1976

Credits:

Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 3: Funny Girls (1998); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); Miracle on Main Street (1939); Take the Heir (1930); Auntie's Mistake (1929); Misplaced Husbands (1928); Companionate Service (1928); Rah! Rah! Rah! (1928); Circus Blues (1928); Cutie (1928); The Little Rube (1927); Kilties (1927); Better Days (1927); Up in Arms (1927); Mountains of Manhattan (1927); The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927); The First Night (1927); Money to Burn (1926); No Babies Wanted (1926); Senor Daredevil (1926); The Social Highwayman (1926); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Man Upstairs (1926); The Midnight Flyer (1925); Three Weeks in Paris (1925); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Fighting the Flames (1925); How Baxter Butted In (1925); A Broadway Butterfly (1925); The Prairie Wife (1925); Who Cares (1925); The Narrow Street (1925); The Tomboy (1924); Hold Your Breath (1924); Getting Gertie's Goat (1924); Stay Single (1924); Kidding Katie (1923); When Odds Are Even (1923); Navy Blues (1923); Pick and Shovel (1923); Winter Has Came (1923); Babies Welcome (1923); Hazel from Hollywood (1923); Chop Suey (1922); Let 'Er Run (1922); Mile-a-Minute Mary (1922); Fair Enough (1922); One Stormy Knight (1922); Saving Sister Susie (1921); Paying Patients (1921); Nothing Like It (1921); Sneakers (1921); The Magnificent Brute (1921); Naughty Mary Brown (1921); The Reckless Sex (1921); Man vs. Woman (1921); Mind Your Business (1921); Movie Mad (1921); Call a Cop (1920); Should Husbands Dance (1920); 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920); Seven Bald Pates (1920); Biff Bang Bomb (1920); A Home Made Hero (1920); Her Perfect Husband (1920); Should a Wife Come Back? (1920); Neat But Not Gaudy (1920); All Jazzed Up (1920); No Babies Allowed (1920); Nearly Newlyweds (1920); It Takes a Crook (1920); Should a Husband Tell? (1920); Twas Midnight (1919); Her Bear Escape (1919); A Flirt There Was (1919); Love in a Hurry (1919); Anybody's Widow (1919); A Cheerful Liar (1919); A Full House (1919); All in the Swim (1919); Kiss the Bride (1919); Oh, Susie, Be Careful (1919); Too Many Wives (1919); Lost: A Bridegroom (1919); Marrying Molly (1919); Brides for Two (1919); Oh, What a Night! (1919); Bobby Comes Marching Home (1919); Welcome Home (1919); Four of a Kind (1919); Salvation Sue (1919); The Girl Dodger (1919); You Couldn't Blame Her (1919); Marry My Wife (1919); Good Gracious, Bobby (1919); Sing, Rosa, Sing! (1919); How's Your Husband? (1919); Know Thy Wife (1918); Swat the Flirt (1918); String Beans (1918); Camping Out (1918); Maid Wanted (1918); The Price of a Rotten Time (1918); Frenzied Film (1918); Please Hit Me (1918); The Law of the North (1918); The Extra Bridegroom (1918); The House Cleaning Horrors (1918).

Born on this day – H. Rider Haggard:

H. Rider Haggard

Writer

June 22, 1856 – May 14, 1925

Credits:

Books:

30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); A Farmer's Year (1899); A Gardener's Year (1905); A Tale of Three Lions (1887); A Winter Pilgrimage (1901); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); After the War Settlement and Employment of Ex-service Men (1916); Allan Quatermain (1887); Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods (1927); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1999); Allan Quatermain's Wife (1887); Allan's Wife (1887); Allan's Wife, with Hunter Quatermain's Story (1980); Ayesha (1905); Beatrice (1890); Belshazzar (1930); Benita / The Spirit of Bambatse (1906); Black Heart and White Heart (1900); Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1882); Child of Storm (1913); Cleopatra (1889); Colonel Quaritch, V.C. (1888); Diary of an African Journey (1914); Doctor Therne (1898); Elissa (1900); Fair Margaret (1907); Finished (1917); Heart of the World (1895); Heu Heu (1924); Holy Flower (1915); Jess (1887); Joan Haste (1895); King Solomon's Mines (1885); Love Eternal (1918); Lysbeth (1901); Maiwa's Revenge (1888); Marie (1912); Mary of Marion Isle (1929); Montezuma's Daughter (1893); Moon of Israel (1918); Morning Star (1910); Mr. Meeson's Will (1888); Nada the Lily (1892); Pearl-Maiden (1903); Queen of the Dawn (1925); Queen Sheba's Ring (1910); Red Eve (1911); Regeneration (1910); Rural Denmark and Its Lessons (1911); Rural England (1902); Saga of Eric Brighteyes / Eric Brighteyes (1891); She (1886); She and Allan (1921); Smith and the Pharaohs (1920); Stella Fregelius (1903); Swallow (1898); Tales Before Tolkien (2003); Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others (2002); The Ancient Allan (1920); The Brethren (1904); The Days of My Life (1926); The Ghost Kings (1908); The Ivory Child (1916); The Lady of Blossholme (1909); The Last Boer War (1899); The Mahatma and the Hare (1911); The missionary and the witch-doctor (1920); The People of the Mist (1894); The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 (1980); The Spring of a Lion (1899); The Virgin of the Sun (1922); The Wanderer's Necklace (1914); The Way of the Spirit (1906); The Witch's Head (1885); The Wizard (1896); The World's Desire (1890); The Yellow God (1908); Treasure of the Lake (1926); When the World Shook (1919); Wisdom's Daughter (1923).

Movies and television:

Allan Quatermain (1919); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986); Allan Quatermain and the Spear of Destiny (2023); Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008); Cleopatra (1917); Dawn (1917); Haggard's She: The Pillar of Fire (1899); Heart and Soul (1917); High Adventure (2001); Jess (1912 / 1914); King Solomon's Mines (1919 / 1937 / 1950 / 1985 / 1986 / 2004); King Solomon's Treasure (1979); Mr. Meeson's Will (1915); O Trapalhão nas Minas do Rei Salomão (1977); She (1908 / 1911/ 1916 / 1917 / 1925 / 1935 / 1965 / 1984 / 2001); Stella (1921); Swallow (1922); The Grasp of Greed (1916); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Moon of Israel (1924); The Mystical Flame (1903); The Stronger Passion (1921); The Vengeance of She (1968); Watusi (1959).

Ann Patchett, on imagination:

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

- Ann Patchett.