Born on this day – Norman Jewison:

Norman Jewison

Director

Producer

Writer

Founder of the Canadian Film Centre

July 21, 1926 – January 20, 2023

James Caan (left) and Norman Jewison (right), on the set of Rollerball (1975).

Olympia Dukakis (left) and Norman Jewison (right), on the set of Moonstruck (1987).

Denzel Washington (left) and Norman Jewison (right), on the set of The Hurricane (1999).

Credits:

The Statement (2003); Two Nudes Bathing (2001); Dinner with Friends (2001); Walter and Henry (2001); The 20th Century: Funny Is Money (1999); The Hurricane (1999); An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997); The Rez (1996); Bogus (1996); Picture Windows (1994–1995); Dance Me Outside (1994); Only You (1994); Geronimo (1993); Other People's Money (1991); In Country (1989); The January Man (1989); Moonstruck (1987); Agnes of God (1985); Iceman (1984); A Soldier's Story (1984); Best Friends (1982); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The Dogs of War (1980); And Justice for All (1979); F.I.S.T. (1978); Rollerball (1975); Billy Two Hats (1974); Jesus Christ Superstar (1973); Fiddler on the Roof (1971); The Landlord (1970); Gaily, Gaily (1969); The Thomas Crown Affair (1968); In the Heat of the Night (1967); The Stupids (1996); The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The Art of Love (1965); Send Me No Flowers (1964); The Thrill of It All (1963); The Judy Garland Show (1962–1964); 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962); The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe (1962); The Million Dollar Incident (1961); Bulova Watch Time with Pat Boone (1961); Belafonte, New York 19 (1960); An Hour with Danny Kaye (1960); The Secret World of Eddie Hodges (1960); The Fabulous Fifties (1960); The Revlon Revue (1959); The Big Party (1959); The Chevy Showroom Starring Andy Williams (1959); Your Hit Parade (1950–1958); The Adventures of Chich (1958); The Barris Beat (1956); The Wayne & Shuster Show (1955); The Denny Vaughan Show (1954); On Stage (1954); The Big Revue (1952); Let's See (1952); Canadian Pacific (1949).

Born on this day – Ernest Hemingway:

Ernest Hemingway

Writer

July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961

Credits:

Books:

100 Years Of Fishing: The Ultimate Tribute To Our Fishing Tradition (2002); 3 Short Stories and 10 Poems (1923); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Clean Well Lighted Place (1926); A Farewell To Arms (1929); A Moveable Feast (1964); Across the River and into the Trees (1950); Alaska Stories (1995); An Alpine Idyll (1927); Articles for The Kansas City Star (1970); Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Big Two-Hearted River (1925); Bullfighting, Sport & Industry (1974); Camping Out (1920); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Conversations with Ernest Hemingway (1986); Cross Country Snow (1924); Dateline Toronto (1985); David Bowie (2016); Death in the Afternoon (1932); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Florida Stories (1993); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Great First World War Stories (1930); Green Hills of Africa (1935); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hemingway at Oak Park High (1993); Hemingway on Fishing (2000); Hemingway on War (2003); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Our Time (1925); Islands in the Stream (1970); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Men Without Women (1927); New Orleans Stories (1992); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); On Paris (2008); On Writing (1986); Philip K. Dick (2015); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Complete Short Stories (1925); The Dangerous Summer (1985); The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1938); The First Forty-Nine Stories (1938); The Garden of Eden (1985); The Killers and Other Short Stories (1982); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922 (2011); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 (2013); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929 (2015); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 4, 1929–1931 (2017); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932–1934 (2020); The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 – 1950 (2004); The Nick Adams Stories (1966); The Old Man and the Sea (1952); The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber & Other Stories (1936); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (1936); The Sun Also Rises (1926); The Torrents of Spring (1926); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Undefeated (1965); To Have and Have Not (1937); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); True At First Light (1999); Under Kilimanjaro (2005); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); War: An Anthology (1969); Winner Take Nothing (1933); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (2002 / 2005 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010); A Curious World (2016); A Farewell to Arms (1932 / 1957 / 1966); A Teen-ager Takes a Look at Europe (1955); Abandoned Engineering (2020); Abrupt Ending (2014); Across the River and Into the Trees (2022); Adeus às Armas (1961); After the Storm (2001); Baby Shoes (2012); Best of Friends (1981); Bokser ide u raj (2007); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1959–1960); Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990); Captain Khorshid (1987); Carry Me Away (2013); Cat in the Rain (2011); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2016); Cheyenne (1956); Circle of Honor (2003); Climax! (1955); Democracy Now! (2013); Dieu a choisi Paris (1969); Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (2016); Duels (2016); Elefants blancs (2016); Ernest Hemingway, quatre mariages et un enterrement (2021); Ernest Hemingway's Out of Season (2014); Explained (2018); Fiesta (1971); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943 / 1965); For Whom the Bell Tolls: Recording of an Opera in Progress (2016); From D-Day to Germany (1944); Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989); Gifts Like White Elephants (2008); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (2005); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (1942); Hemingway (2021); Hemingway Unknown (2012); Hemingway: Winner Take Nothing (1998); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); Hills (2009); Hills Like White Elephants (2002 / 2017 / 2018); History of Swear Words (2021); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hormigas blancas (2020); I riassuntini (2018); Islands in the Stream (1977); Killarna - en far og seks syv brødre (2006); Kraft Theatre (1958); La France en face / Histoire immediate (2013); La ironía del dinero / Segment: Toros (1957); La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales (2016); Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017); Life and Times (2000); Little Sleep, Little Slumber (2024); Los asesinos (2006 / 2009); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Mia hara (1995); My Old Man (1969 / 1979); Njeriu kurrë nuk vdes (1961); Nochnoy ekspress (2006); Norman Mailer: The American (2010); Omnibus (1953–1954); Peta kolona (1973); Playhouse 90 (1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Project Twenty (1963); Randy Writes a Novel (2018); Renaud: Les mots (2016); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Salinger (2013); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Secrets of War (1999); Soldier's Home (1977); Teledrama (1956); Television Theater (1955–1958); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Breaking Point (1950); The Color of War (2002); The Devil's Den: A Nick Adams Story (2023); The Fifth Column (1960); The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio (1960); The Garden of Eden (2008); The Gun Runners (1958); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Killers (1946 / 1956 / 1964 / 2009 / 2013 / 2018); The Killers II (2013); The Leisure Seeker (2017); The Macomber Affair (1947); The Old Man and the Sea (1958 / 1990 / 1999 / 2021); The Reader (2008); The Sea (1958); The Sea Change (2006 / 2014); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); The Spanish Earth (1937); The Sun Also Rises (1957 / 1984); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Unknown War (1978); Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock (2019); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today Is Friday (2010); Ubice (2008); Un lugar limpio y bien iluminado (1991); Under My Skin (1950); Vrasësit (2014); Wave-189 (2016); Wemedge (2021); White Elephants (2012 / 2014); White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); Zabijáci (1990).

Born on this day – Alice Hechy:

Alice Hechy

Actress

Opera singer (soprano)

July 21, 1893 – May 26, 1973

Credits:

Nanon (1938); His Late Excellency (1935); 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931); Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930); Das Mädel aus U.S.A. (1930); Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille (1928); Zuflucht (1928); Batalla de damas (1928); Der rosa Diamant (1926); Variety (1925); Die abenteuerliche Hochzeit (1925); Die Puppe vom Lunapark (1925); This Ancient Law (1923); So sind die Männer (1923); Wien, du Stadt der Lieder (1923); Der Kampf ums Ich (1922); Tobias Buntschuh - Das Drama eines Einsamen (1921); Zpev zlata (1921); Das Land der Sehnsucht (1918); Dorittchens Vergnügungsreise (1916); Der Mann, den das Schicksal sandte (1916); Dorrits Eheglück (1916); Die Verkaufte Braut (1916); Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916); Teufelchen (1915); Liebet die Männer (1915); Sugar and Spice (1915); Problematische Naturen (1915); Kammermusik (1915); Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum (1915); Miss Piccolo (1915); Wenn Wunden heilen (1914); Pauline (1914); The Man in the Cellar (1914); Ilse und ihre drei Freier (1913); Red Powder (1913); Im Schatten der Schuld (1912).

Jim Rohn, on reading:

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.

We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

- Jim Rohn.

On this day in music history - Somewhere New, by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland (2018):

The album Somewhere New,

by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland,

was released on July 20, 2018.

On this day in music history - Timeless, by Jami Sieber (2013):

The album Timeless,

by Jami Sieber,

was released on July 20, 2013.

On this day in movie history - Sunshine (2007):

Sunshine,

directed by Danny Boyle,

written by Alex Garland,

was released in the United States on July 20, 2007.
Music by John Murphy and Underworld.

Cast:
Cliff Curtis, Chipo Chung, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Mark Strong, Paloma Baeza, Archie Macdonald, Sylvie Macdonald, Kevin Hudson.