Billy Wilder
Director
June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002
Saturday, June 22, 2024
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).
Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (2001):
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The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories
Published 2001.
Mammoth Books.
Mammoth Books.
ISBN-10: 0786708867
ISBN-13: 978-0786708864
Anthology of short
stories.
Description:
Murder, suspense,
mystery – the biggest and best collection ever.
This
huge and unique volume contains four anthologies by Herbert Van Thai featuring
35 of the best detective stories ever told. The stories range and style and setting
from the mean streets of Raymond Chandler's New York to the classic English whodunnit
by Agatha Christie and offer an unmissable treat for detective fans.
Ann Patchett, on imagination:
Using your imagination
is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
- Ann Patchett.
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