Jack Kost

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Born on this day – Joseph Cates:

Joseph Cates

Director

Producer

Writer

August 10, 1924 – October 10, 1998

Born on this day – Martha Hyer:

Martha Hyer

Actress

August 10, 1924 – May 31, 2014

Credits:

A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1952); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1977); Battle Hymn (1957); Battle of Rogue River (1954); Bewitched (1965); Bikini Beach (1964); Blood on the Arrow (1964); Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood (1983); Born to Kill (1947); Branded (1965); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Catch As Catch Can (1967); Climax! (1958); Crossplot (1969); Cry Vengeance (1954); Cuernavaca en primavera / Segment: El nido de amor (1966); Desire in the Dust (1960); Down Three Dark Streets (1954); Family Affair (1967); Fireside Theatre (1953); First Men in the Moon (1964); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1954); Francis in the Navy (1955); Frisco Tornado (1950); Geisha Girl (1952); Gun Smugglers (1948); Here's Hollywood (1960); House of 1,000 Dolls (1967); Houseboat (1958); Ice Palace (1960); It Takes a Thief (1969); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kelly and Me (1956); Kiss of Fire (1955); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964–1965); La mujer de otro (1967); Lucky Me (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); McCloud (1974); Mister Cory (1957); Mistress of the World (1960); My Man Godfrey (1957); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1972); Once Upon a Horse... (1958); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); Oriental Evil (1951); Outcast of Black Mesa (1950); Paris Follies of 1956 (1955); Paris Holiday (1958); Picture Mommy Dead (1966); Playhouse 90 (1958); Private Secretary (1953); Public Defender (1954); Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964); Racket Squad (1952); Rawhide (1959); Red Sundown (1956); Riders to the Stars (1954); Rooster Cogburn (1975); Roughshod (1949); Route 66 (1961); Rustlers (1949); Sabrina (1954); Salt Lake Raiders (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Showdown at Abilene (1956); So Big (1953); Some Came Running (1958); Some May Live (1967); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Best of Everything (1959); The Beverly Hillbillies (1966); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Chase (1966); The Clay Pigeon (1949); The Day of the Wolves (1971); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Deputy (1960); The Deputy (1960); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Happening (1967); The Judge Steps Out (1948); The Kangaroo Kid (1950); The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961); The Lawless (1950); The Locket (1946); The Lone Ranger (1950); The Man from the Diners' Club (1963); The Name of the Game (1968); The Night of the Grizzly (1966); The Oscars (2015); The Right Approach (1961); The Scarlet Spear (1954); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); The Unexpected (1952); The Velvet Touch (1948); The Virginian (1970); The Woman on the Beach (1947); The Young Lawyers (1971); Thunder Mountain (1947); Trouble on the Trail (1954); War Italian Style (1965); Wild Stallion (1952); Wives and Lovers (1963); Wyoming Renegades (1955); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952); Yukon Gold (1952); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Rhonda Fleming:

Rhonda Fleming

Actress

Singer

August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020

Credits:

50th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1981); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); Abilene Town (1946); Adventure Island (1947); Alias Jesse James (1959); All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Backtrack! (1969); Biography (1996–1999); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood (1983); Bullwhip (1958); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Celebrity Bowling (1974); Compression (2023–2024); Crosswinds (1951); Cry Danger (1951); Death Valley Days (1952); Dinah! (1977); Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008); Ellery Queen (1975); Entertainment This Week Salutes Paramount's 75th Anniversary (1987); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Follow the Sun (1962); Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (2002); Gun Glory (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Fun Festival (1952); Hollywood Glamour on Ice (1957); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Home Before Dark (1958); Hong Kong (1952 / 1961); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Inferno (1953); Inside TV Land (2001); Instant Love (1964); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got a Secret (1952–1967); Jivaro (1954); Kung Fu (1975); L.A. Confidential (1997); Last Hours Before Morning (1975); Little Egypt (1951); Love for Rent (1979); Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004); McMillan & Wife (1974); Nashville Now (1987); Needles and Pins (1973); Odongo: An Adventure of the African Frontier (1956); Out of the Past (1947); Password (1962); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1957); Police Woman (1974); Pony Express (1953); Praise (2003–2009); Reflets de Cannes (1959); Remembering Bing (1989); Rhonda Fleming: A Cinderella Story (2008); Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years (2001); Run for Your Wife (1965); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Premiere (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Jimmy McHugh's Song Party (1951); Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood (1958); Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special (1950); Screen Snapshots: WAIF International Ball (1957); Search (1973); Serpent of the Nile (1953); Shower of Stars (1956); Since You Went Away (1944); Slightly Scarlet (1956); Spellbound (1945); TCM Remembers 2020 (2020); Tennessee's Partner (1955); That's Entertainment! / The Lion Roars Again (1975); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Arthur Murray Party (1954); The Bell Telephone Hour (1962); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Big Circus (1959); The Big Record (1957); The Bob Hope Show (1957–1966); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952–1955); The Crowded Sky (1960); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959); The Eagle and the Hawk (1950); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Fighting Generation (1944); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Lover (1949); The Hour of Power (1980); The Investigators (1961); The Killer Is Loose (1956); The Last Outpost (1951); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Love Boat (1978); The Many Faces of Cleopatra (2009); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1973); The Name's the Same (1955); The Nude Bomb (1980); The Oscars (2021); The Patsy (1964); The Queen of Babylon (1954); The Red Skelton Chevy Special (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1961–1963); The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951); The Revolt of the Slaves (1960); The Road to Eltham (1978); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Virginian (1965); The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986); Those Redheads from Seattle (1953); Tropic Zone (1953); TV Club (1950); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971–1977); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Waiting for the Wind (1991); What's My Line? (1955); When Strangers Marry (1944); While the City Sleeps (1956); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Xpose (1982); Yankee Pasha (1954); You Don't Say (1964); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1974); Your First Impression (1961).

Born on this day – Dorothy B. Hughes:

Dorothy B. Hughes

Writer

August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993

Credits:

Books:

Dark Certainty (1931); Dread Journey (1945); Erle Stanley Gardner (1978); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); In a Lonely Place (1947); Johnnie (1944); Mr. President, Private Eye (2004); Ride the Pink Horse (1946); The Bamboo Blonde (1941); The Blackbirder (1943); The Candy Kid (1950); The Cross Eyed Bear Murders (1940); The Davidian Report (1952); The Delicate Ape (1944); The Expendable Man (1963); The Fallen Sparrow (1942); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999); The Scarlet Imperial (1946); The So Blue Marble (1940).

Movies and television:

The Hanged Man (1964); Destry (1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Climax! (1958); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1952); In a Lonely Place (1950); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); Follow the Boys (1944); The Fallen Sparrow (1943).

Born on this day – Walter Lang:

Walter Lang

Director

August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972

Credits:

Alice Through a Looking Glass (1928); Amor in montagna (1932); As a Man Lives (1923); Autodefensa (2022); Brothers (1930); But Not for Me (1959); By Whose Hand? (1927); Call Me Madam (1953); Can-Can (1960); Carnival (1935); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Claudia and David (1946); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Command Performance (1931); Coney Island (1943); Desk Set (1957); Greenwich Village (1944); Hell Bound (1931); Hello Sister (1930); Hooray for Love (1935); I'll Give a Million (1938); Lady Tubbs (1935); Love Before Breakfast (1936); Meet the Baron (1933); Money to Burn (1926); Moon Over Miami (1941); Mother Wore Tights (1947); No More Orchids (1932); On the Riviera (1951); Racetrack (1933); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Second Honeymoon (1937); Sentimental Journey (1946); Sitting Pretty (1948); Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961); Song of the Islands (1942); Star Dust (1940); State Fair (1945); Susannah of the Mounties (1939); The Baroness and the Butler (1938); The Big Fight (1930); The Blue Bird (1940); The Carnival Girl (1926); The College Hero (1927); The Costello Case (1930); The Desert Bride (1928); The Earth Woman (1926); The Golden Web (1926); The Great Profile (1940); The Jackpot (1950); The King and I (1956); The Ladybird (1927); The Little Princess (1939); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Mighty Barnum (1934); The Night Flyer (1928); The Party's Over (1934); The Red Kimono (1926); The Satin Woman (1927); The Spirit of Youth (1929); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Warrior's Husband (1933); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Your Life (1960); Tin Pan Alley (1940); Top of the Town (1937); Week-End in Havana (1941); When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948); Whom the Gods Destroy (1934); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); With a Song in My Heart (1952); Women Go on Forever (1931); You're My Everything (1949).

Junot Diaz, on writing:

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope,

even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise,

you keep writing anyway.

- Junot Diaz.