Burt
Gillett
Director
Writer
Animator
October 15, 1891 – December 28, 1971
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Born on this day – S. S. Van Dine:
S. S. Van Dine
Writer
October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939
Credits:
The Benson Murder Case (1926);
The Canary Murder Case (1927); The Greene Murder Case (1928); The Bishop Murder
Case (1928); The Scarab Murder Case (1929); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The
Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Casino Murder Case (1934); The Garden Murder
Case (1935); The Kidnap Murder Case (1936); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (aka
The Smell of Murder) (1938); The Winter Murder Case (1939); Murder Plus (1992).
Movies and television:
Born on this day – Jane Darwell:
Jane Darwell
Actress
October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967
Credits:
Mary Poppins (1964); The
Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Burke's Law (1963); Follow the Sun (1961); Lassie
(1954); Wagon Train (1957); The Real McCoys (1957); Shirley Temple's Storybook
(1958); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Hound-Dog Man (1959); Buckskin (1958); The
Last Hurrah (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Maverick (1957); Studio One (1948);
The Eighty Yard Run: Playhouse 90 (1956–1957); Circus Boy (1957); The Sheriff
of Cochise (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Cavalcade of America (1952); Girls
in Prison (1956); My Friend Flicka (1955); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954);
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Studio 57
(1954); Climax! (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); Willy (1954); A
Life at Stake (1955); Hit the Deck (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The
Loretta Young Show (1953); Fireside Theatre (1949); The Bigamist (1953); Affair
with a Stranger (1953); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); The Sun Shines Bright
(1953); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); We're Not Married! (1952); The Red
Skelton Hour (1951); Personal Appearance Theater (1951); Journey Into Light
(1951); Excuse My Dust (1951); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951); Father's Wild Game
(1950); The Second Face (1950); Three Husbands (1950); Redwood Forest Trail
(1950); Surrender (1950); Caged (1950); Wagon Master (1950); The Daughter of
Rosie O'Grady (1950); Red Canyon (1949); 3 Godfathers (1948); Train to Alcatraz
(1948); The Red Stallion (1947); Keeper of the Bees (1947); My Darling
Clementine (1946); Three Wise Fools (1946); The Dark Horse (1946); Captain
Tugboat Annie (1945); A Yank in London (1945); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
(1944); She's a Sweetheart (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); The Impatient
Years (1944); Reckless Age (1944); Tender Comrade (1943); Government Girl
(1943); Family Feud (1943); Stage Door Canteen (1943); The Ox-Bow Incident
(1943); Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943); The Great Gildersleeve (1942); Highways
by Night (1942); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); Men of Texas (1942); It
Happened in Flatbush (1942); Small Town Deb (1942); On the Sunny Side (1942); Young
America (1942); All Through the Night (1942); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Private
Nurse (1941); Thieves Fall Out (1941); Chad Hanna (1940); Youth Will Be Served
(1940); Brigham Young (1940); Untamed (1940); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Miracle
on Main Street (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); 20,000 Men a Year (1939); The
Rains Came (1939); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Unexpected Father (1939); The
Zero Hour (1939); Inside Story (1939); Jesse James (1939); Up the River (1938);
Five of a Kind (1938); Time Out for Murder (1938); Little Miss Broadway (1938);
Three Blind Mice (1938); Battle of Broadway (1938); The Jury's Secret (1938); Change
of Heart (1938); Dangerously Yours (1937); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); The
Singing Marine (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); The Great
Hospital Mystery (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); Love Is News (1937); Laughing
at Trouble (1936); Ramona (1936); Craig's Wife (1936); Star for a Night (1936);
White Fang (1936); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Private Number (1936); Little
Miss Nobody (1936); Captain January (1936); The First Baby (1936); The Country
Doctor (1936); Paddy O'Day (1936); We're Only Human (1935); Metropolitan (1935);
Navy Wife (1935); Curly Top (1935); Wig-Wag (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); McFadden's
Flats (1935); One More Spring (1935); Bright Eyes (1934); Gentlemen Are Born
(1934); The White Parade (1934); The Firebird (1934); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Happiness
Ahead (1934); Wake Up and Dream (1934); Desirable (1934); One Night of Love
(1934); Million Dollar Ransom (1934); Embarrassing Moments (1934); Blind Date
(1934); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Let's Talk It Over (1934); Change
of Heart (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); Finishing School (1934); Once to
Every Woman (1934); Journal of a Crime (1934); David Harum (1934); Wonder Bar
(1934); Heat Lightning (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); Cross Country Cruise
(1934); King for a Night (1933); Roman Scandals (1933); Design for Living
(1933); Only Yesterday (1933); Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933); Ann Vickers
(1933); One Sunday Afternoon (1933); He Couldn't Take It (1933); Before Dawn
(1933); Bed of Roses (1933); Good Housewrecking (1933); Jennie Gerhardt (1933);
Emergency Call (1933); The Girl in 419 (1933); Bondage (1933); Murders in the
Zoo (1933); Child of Manhattan (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Air
Hostess (1933); Women Won't Tell (1932); Hot Saturday (1932); Washington
Merry-Go-Round (1932); Back Street (1932); The Strange Case of Clara Deane
(1932); Young America (1932); No One Man (1932); Ladies of the Big House (1931);
Huckleberry Finn (1931); Fighting Caravans (1931); Tom Sawyer (1930); Little
Church Around the Corner (1923); The Restless Sex (1920); The Reform Candidate
(1915); The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915); After Five (1915); The Goose Girl
(1915); Hypocrites (1915); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Ready Money (1914); The
Man on the Box (1914); The Only Son (1914); The Master Mind (1914); Brewster's
Millions (1914); The White Squaw (1913); War of the Cattle Range (1913); In the
Coils of the Python (1913); When Sherman Marched to the Sea (1913); The Head
Hunters (1913); At Shiloh (1913); The Capture of Aguinaldo (1913).
Introvert insight:
I don’t mean to be
arrogant and I really appreciate my fans
but talking about what I am doing is
not something I’m good at.
I do what I do and that’s it.
I want to get back to
my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
– Henry Rollins.
I think a lot, but I
don't say much.
– Anne Frank.
The good and the wise
lead quiet lives.
– Euripides.
We introverts love to
wander.
Our favorite destination for quiet explorations is our imagination.
No
matter where we are, we feel called away by our own thoughts.
– from The
Irresistible Introvert, by Michaela Chung.
Recommended reading - The Gutter and the Grave (1958).
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The Gutter and the Grave
By Ed McBain.
Published by Hard Case
Crime.
First published 1958.
Complete and Unabridged.
ISBN-10: 0857683675
ISBN-13: 978-0857683670
Description:
Detective Matt Cordell
was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was
before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took
it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.
Now
Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the
city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny
Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell
finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s
just like the old days – only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up
on the receiving end...
Joan Aiken, on stories:
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that
are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race
stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic
instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms
with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and
unbearable realities.
– Joan Aiken.
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