Monday, July 1, 2024

Born on this day – Florence Stanley:


Florence Stanley

Actress

July 1, 1924 – October 3, 2003

Born on this day – Olivia de Havilland:


Olivia de Havilland

Actress

July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020

Born on this day – Willie Dixon:


Willie Dixon

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

Arranger

Producer

July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992

Born on this day – Jean Stafford:


Jean Stafford

Writer

July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979

Born on this day – Virginia Vance:


Virginia Vance

Actress

July 1, 1902 - October 13, 1942

Born on this day – James M. Cain:


James M. Cain


Writer

July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977

Credits:

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934); Double Indemnity (1936); Serenade (1937); The Embezzler (1940); Mildred Pierce (1941); Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942); Career in C Major: And Other Fiction (1943); Past All Dishonor (1946); The Butterfly (1947); Sinful Woman (1947); The Moth (1948); Everybody Does It (1949); Jealous Woman (1950); The Root of His Evil (1951); Galatea (1953); Mignon (1962); The Magician's Wife (1965); Rainbow's End (1975); The Institute (1976); Cloud Nine (1984); The Enchanted Isle (1985); Sixty Years of Journalism (1985); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Murder On The Railways (2003); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); The Cocktail Waitress (2012); Books to Die For (2012); A Bad Woman (2015); The Movie Book (2016).

Movies and television:

Algiers (1938); Blockade (1938); Buai laju-laju (2004); Butterfly (1981); Cineficción Radio (2021); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Everybody Does It (1949); Girl in the Cadillac (1995); Gypsy Wildcat (1944); Interlude (1957 / 1968); ITV Play of the Week (1960); Konto ausgeglichen (1959); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Mildred Pierce (1945 / 2011); Money and the Woman (1940); Obsession (1943); Out of the Past (1947); Passion (1998); Puissance de la parole (1988); Serenade (1956); She Made Her Bed (1934); Slightly Scarlet (1956); Stand Up and Fight (1939); Teledrama (1957); The Last Turning (1939); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 / 1981); The Postman Always Rings Twice: The Radio Play (1947); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Today (1969); When Tomorrow Comes (1939); Wife, Husband and Friend (1939); Yu hai qing mo (1967).

Born on this day – Alice Guy-Blaché:


Alice Guy-Blaché


Director

Writer

Producer

Actress

July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968

Credits:

A Child's Sacrifice (1910); A Comedy of Errors (1912); A Costly Pledge (1911) A Fateful Gift (1910); A Fool and His Money (1912); A Four-Year-Old Heroine (1907); A House Demolished and Rebuilt (1901); A House Divided (1913) Looking for an Apartment (1906); A Man and the Woman (1917); A Man's a Man (1912); A Midnight Visitor (1911); Has Reporter's Romance (1911); A Severe Test (1913); A Solax Celebration (1912); Has Sticky Woman (1906); A Terrible Lesson (1912) A Terrible Night (1913); A Widow and Her Child (1910); Across the Mexican Line (1911); Algie, the Miner (1912); Alice Guy - The Stranger of the 7th Art (2021); Alice Guy or the Childhood of Cinema (1996); Alice Guy shot a phonoscene on the Buttes-Chaumont pose theatre (1907); Alice Guy-Blaché (1997); Allumeur-Marche (1905); Anna, what are you waiting for? (1906); After the Party (1904); Arrival of Harléquin (1900); Arrival of Pierette and Pierrot (1900); Au bal de Flore (1900); Au cabaret (1899); To the henhouse! (1905); At refectory (1897); Avenue de l'opéra (1900); Badinage (1900); Swimming in the torrent (1897); Japanese Ballet (1900); Ballet libella (1897) Barbara Frietchia (1915); Snowball Fight (1900); Pillow Fight (1900); Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018); Beasts of the Jungle (1913); Behind the Mask (1917); Blighted Lives (1912); Blood and Water (1913); Good evening ladies (1902); Broken Oaths (1912) Burstup Homes (1913); Burstup Homes' Murder Case (1913); Cake-walk of the clock (1903); Cake-walk nègre (1905); Burglar and agent (1904); What a Flag Is (1909); It is a ingénue (1905); Millinery and mechanical charcuterie (1900); Charles Pathé and Léon Gaumont, the first giants of cinema (2016); Charmant froufrou (1901); At The Barber (1896); At the dentist's (1905); Chez le magnetizer (1897); At the Farrier (1900); At the Photographer's (1900); Dog Playing Ball (1905); Child of the Tenements (1912); Surgery fin de siècle (1900); Human Target (1904); Cinéast(e)s (2015); Cinépanorama (1957); Clown in a Bag (1904); Clown, dog and balloon (1905); Comme on fait son bed on se couché (1903); How sir takes a bath (1903); Comment on disperse les crowds (1904); How to sleep at Paris! (1905); Companions of the Present (1903); Baby Contest (1904); Conscience de prêtre (1906); Corinne in Dollyland (1911) Bedtime of a Parisienne (1900); Sausage Race (1907); Bull Race in Nîmes (1906); Short Scale (1899); Cousins of Sherlocko (1913) Cucurbitaceae (1905); Culture Intensive (1904); Cupid and the Comet (1911); Dance de l'ivresse (1900); In Les coulisses (1900); Dance of the Seasons (1900); Dance of the Butterfly (1900); Dance du pas des foulards par des almées (1900); Dance of the Veil (1900); Dance eccentric (1902); Danse fantaisiste (1902); Lotus Flower Dance (1897); Dance Moorish (1902); Serpentine Dance (1900); Serpentine Dance by Mrs. Bob Walter (1899); Dances (1900); Basque Dances (1901); Declaration of Love (1900); Move to the wooden bell (1898 / 1907); Departure for the holidays (1904); Dick Whittington and his Cat (1913); Customs officers and smugglers (1905); Dranem Performs 'The True Jiu-Jitsu' (1905); Dublin Dan (1912); Tragic Duel (1904); Belongings of the sea (1906); Electrocuted (1904); In the classroom (1897); On Duty (1902); Abduction in an automobile and a hasty marriage (1903); Entrance and exit of the mine (1899); Error de Poivrot (1904); Miscarriage of Justice (1899); Esmeralda (1905); Spain (1905); And the woman created Hollywood (2016); Being a Vegetable (1905); Falling Leaves (1912); Fanfan the Tulip (1907); Cook's Stuffings (1902); Faust and Mephistopheles (1903); Five O'Clock Tea (1905); Masked Follies (1901); Fra Diavolo (1912); France and Russia (1897); Frivolity (1901); Frozen on Love's Trail (1912); Fruits of season (1902); Gage d'amour (1904); Gavotte, directorate (1900); God Disposes (1912) Greater Love Hath No Man (1911) William Tell (1900); Hearts Unknown (1912) Her Father's Sin (1910); His Best Friend (1911); His Double (1912) His Mother's Hymn (1911); His Musical Soul (1912); Hollywood Insider (2020–2021); House of Cards (1917); Hubby Does the Washing (1912); Hussars and grisettes (1901); Idyll (1897); Interrupted Idyll (1897); Illusionist Stunning (1903); In a Bamboo Hut (1905); In the Year 2000 (1912); Unfortunate Intervention (1902); I have a chafer in my pants (1906); I take you there! (1898); Jesus before Pilate (1898); Young Man and the Trottin (1905); Jocko musician (1903); Kelly from the Emerald Isle (1913); La bonne absinthe (1899); The Last Supper (1898); The charity of the conjurer (1905); The Hunt for the Burglar (1903); The sock (1906); The Concierge (1900); The Conquest of Trottin (1906); The courtyard Miracles (1902); The Nativity Scene in Bethlehem (1898); The Crinoline (1906); Dance of the belly (1900); The Recalcitrant Tooth (1902); The Descent from the Cross (1899); The hunger... the opportunity ... The Soft Grass (1904); The Cabbage Fairy (1896); The Fairy with cabbages, or the birth of children (1900); The Woman of the Mask (1906); The daughter to her mother (1905); The Enchanted Flask (1902); The Flagellation (1898); The Flight to Egypt (1898); La gavotte (1902); La gavotte de la reine (1904); The Gigue (1902); The Hierarchy in Love (1906); La leçon de pipeau (1904); The Professor Hamilton's hand or the King of Dollars (1903); The malagueña and the bullfighter (1905); La mattchiche (1905); The Bad Soup (1899); The Mass of midnight (1906); The Fly (1903); La paimpolaise (1905); The Peasant Woman (1900); The Paris Underworld (1906); The Little Magician (1900); La polka des trottins (1905); The Fanciful Hen (1903); The Black Doll (1900); The First Cigarette (1904); The First Bowl (1902); The Modern Regiment (1906); The Toy Queen (1900); The Resurrection (1899); The Hunter's Dream (1904); The Source (1900); The statue (1905); The Tarantella (1900); The Enchanted Suitcase (1905); The Truth About The Ape-Man (1906); The Life of Christ (1898); The Sailor's Life (1906); The cell car (1906); Lady Betty's Strategy (1910); The Angelus (1900); The Harlequine (1900); The Assassination of the Lyon Courier (1904); The Attack on a Stagecoach (1904); Modern Lavatory (1901); The Blind Man (1897 / 1899); The Blind End of the Century (1898); The airship 'The Fatherland' (1906); The Baby (1900); The Embarrassing Baby (1905); The Bank Note (1906); The Cosmopolitan Bolero (1905); The Cake-walk of the Nouveau Cirque (1905); Tabarin's Hat (1896); The Stations of the Cross (1898); The Ragpicker (1899); The Clubmen (1896); The Sleeping Cab Driver (1897); The suckling pig (1906); The Cockerel by Cook and Rilly (1905); Bedtime of Yvette (1897); The Crime of the Rue du Temple (1904); The Crucifixion (1899); The children's luncheon (1899); The Departure of Harlequin and Pierrette (1900); The infantryman Guignard (1906); The Bewitched Fiancé (1903); The gamekeeper's son (1906); The Scrubber (1907); The Garden of Olives (1898); The Forgotten Garden: The life and work of Alice Guy-Blaché (1996); The Day of the Term (1904); Le kepi (1905); The Rabbit (1900); The Learned Lion (1902); The Convent Liqueur (1903); The lorgnon accusateur (1905); The Balloon Merchant (1902); The Coconut Merchant (1900); The Sailor (1900); The Monowrestler (1904); Le Noël de Monsieur le curé (1906); The cut-off trousers (1905); The Pavement (1905); The Fisherman in the Torrent (1897); The little Grégoire (1905); The Little Basket (1905); The Colonel's Messenger, (1897); The plateau (1905); Le Polichinelle (1900); The Apple Tree (1902); The pompom unfortunate (1904); The Gardener's Awakening (1904); Le rire du nègre (1905); The blood of Adonis giving birth to the red rose (1900); The Fisherman's Dream (1906); Le tango (1905); Pierrot's Will (1904); The Dog Shearer (1899); The cooper (1899); Le trou de mon quai (1905); The Sacrilegious Thief (1903); Lesson dance (1897 / 1900); Boxing Lessons (1898); The Scotch (1900); Reading daily (1901); The Child of the Barricade (1907); The Shoemaker's Child (1905); Entry into Jerusalem (1898); The Tightrope Walker (1902); The Apaches Not Lucky (1903); The Adventures of a Voyageur Trop Hurry (1903); The benefits of the cinematograph (1904); The Poachers (1903); The Burglars (1897); The burglars of Paris (1904); The Clowns (1902); The Janitors (1896); The dangers of alcoholism (1899); The Demolitionists (1896); The Two Rivals (1904); The Dragoons of Villars (1906); The Druids (1906); The Cheeky: Cinema in the women's (2022); Children of the Miracle (1904); Jocko's Farces (1898); The masons (1905); Les malabares, acrobats (1902); Les p'tits pois (1905); The Secrets of Conjuring Unveiled (1904); The Lumière sisters: 100 years of women's cinema (1996); The Surprises of the Display (1903); The Waves (1901); L'Habanera (1900); The Honor of the Corsican (1906); White Lilac (1905); L'indiscret (1896); Little Tich and His Funny Feet (1900) The eye, the brush and the cinematograph: Birth of an Art (2021); The Flying Bird (1904); Love's Test (1911) Lui (1904); The Utility of X-rays (1898); American Wrestlers (1903); Mrs. Ducordon, concierge (1906); Madame's Cravings (1907); Black Magic (1904); Making an American Citizen (1912); Poultry market (1900); Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913); Mauvais coeur puni (1904); Medor showers his master (1906); Misadventure a charcoal burner (1899); Micky's Pal (1912); Mignon (1912); Military and nanny (1904); Mireille (1906); Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902); Miss Helyett: Portrait Air (1905); Miss Lina Esbrard, cosmopolitan dancer and serpentine (1902); Mixed Pets (1911); Express Modelling (1903); Rabbit Currency (1899); Death of Adonis (1900); Mrs. Cranston's Jewels (1912) Mrs. Richard Dare (1910); My Madonna (1915) Ne bougeons plus (1903); No! You won't go out without me! (1911); Our Good Students (1903); Officer Henderson (1913); We are drunk, but we have heart (1905); One Touch of Nature (1910); Out of the Arctic (1911); Paris at Night (1904); Parson Sue (1912); No Columbine (1901); No Grace (1900); Pas des fans (1900); Pas du poignard (1900); Step Japanese (1900); Pastry Chef and Chimney Sweep (1904); Poor Fireman (1906); Painter and drunkard (1905); Phantom Paradise (1912); Pierrot, Murderer (1904); Playing Trumps (1912); Polin, The Anatomy of the Conscript (1905); Animated portrait taken by L and A Lumière (1895); Indigestible soup (1903); Pour shaker la salade (1902); Put Out (1911); Quadrille réaliste (1902); Indiscreet Questions (1906); Roundup of dogs (1904); Child abduction by the Romanichels (1904); Reel Herstory: Tea Real Story of Reel Women (2014); Reformation (1907); Rehearsal in a circus (1903); Return from the Fields (1900); Ring of Love (1911) Road Leads Home (1911); Robert Macaire and Bertrand (1905); Romeo Trapped (1905); Rose of the Circus (1911); Midwife First Class (1902); Saharet, bolero (1907); Wet jump of M. Plick (1900); Love Scene (1901); Scene of Evamotage (1898); Scene drunkenness (1901); Scènes directoire (1904); Sealed Lips (1906); Relief for shipwrecked (1903); Precipitate Service (1903); Shadows of the Moulin Rouge (1913); Si ça t'va (1905); Souls in the Shadow (1912) Starting Something (1911) Stronger Than Death (1920) Stupefying! (2017); Suite de la danse (1900); Surprise of a house at dawn (1898); Sydney's Toys (1900); Tarnished Reputations (1920); Tears (2014); Such is taken who thought he took (1901); Attempt murder on the railway (1904); The Absent-Minded Shoeblack (1905) The Adventurer (1917); The Animated Bathtub (1912); The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906) The Blood Stain (1912) The Coming of Sunbeam (1913) The Consequences of Feminism (1906); The Cure (1911) The Detective's Dog (1912); The Devil's Seven Castles (1906) The Dream Woman (1914); The Drunken Mattress (1906); The Empress (1917) The Enchanted Bean (1904) The Equine Spy (1912) The Face at the Window (1912); The Finger Prints (1912); The Girl and the Burglar (1911) The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912) The Glue (1907) The Great Adventure (1918) The Heart of a Painted Woman (1915); The High Cost of Living (1912); The Irresistible Piano (1907); The Legend of St. Nicholas (1904); The Little Hunchback (1913); The Love of the Flag (1912); The Lure (1914) The Monster and the Girl (1914); The Nightcap (1911) The Ocean Waif (1916) The Pawnshop (1910); The Pink Garters (1912) The Pit and the Pendulum (1913) The Reformation of Mary (1912); The Rogues of Paris (1913) The Rolling Bed (1907) The Sergeant's Daughter (1910); The Sewer (1912) The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915); The Song of the Wage Slave (1915); The Stepmother (1906) The Strike (1912) The Thief (1913); The Tigress (1914) The Vertigo Years (2013); The Violin Maker of Nuremberg (1911); The Woman Behind the Man (1912); The Woman of Mystery (1914) The Wooing of Alice (1912); Tramp Strategy (1911); Transformations (1899 / 1904); Treasures on the Wing (1912); Triste fin d'un vieux savant (1904); Deceived but content (1902); Two Little Rangers (1912); Two Suits (1910); A case of divorce (1906); A Lunch (1899); A Shoe for a Ham (1906); A race of Jumping (1906); A Rolling History (1906); A wedding at Lake Saint-Fargeau (1905); A Restless Night (1897); A toothache (1900); A scene in the office particular view through the keyhole (1902); Waltz of the Directory (1900); Slow Waltz (1900); Valsons (1905); Vampire (1915); Vendetta (1901); Venus and Adonis (1900); Old Prints (1904); Viens, poupoule (1905); Villa robbed (1905); V'la le rétameur (1905); Journey to Spain (1906); What Do Those Old Films Mean? (1986); What Is to Be, Will Be (1910); What Will People Say? (1916); When You and I Were Young (1917); Yesterday Is History (2021).