Born on this day – Jobyna Ralston:

Jobyna Ralston

Actress

November 21, 1899 – January 22, 1967

Credits:

Sheer Luck (1931); Rough Waters (1930); The College Coquette (1929); Some Mother's Boy (1929); The Power of the Press (1928); The Toilers (1928); Black Butterflies (1928); The Big Hop (1928); The Count of Ten (1928); The Night Flyer (1928); Little Mickey Grogan (1927); Pretty Clothes (1927); A Racing Romeo (1927); Lightning (1927); Wings (1927); Special Delivery (1927); The Kid Brother (1927); Gigolo (1926); Sweet Daddies (1926); For Heaven's Sake (1926); Soft Pedal (1926); Don't Butt In (1926); Between Meals (1926); Whispering Lions (1925); Are Parents Pickles? (1925); The Freshman (1925); Hot Water (1924); Girl Shy (1924); Winner Take All (1923); Why Worry? (1923); For Guests Only (1923); For Art's Sake (1923); Speed the Swede (1923); Bowled Over (1923); For Safe Keeping (1923); Shoot Straight (1923); Do Your Stuff (1923); Tight Shoes (1923); A Loose Tightwad (1923); Jailed and Bailed (1923); Once Over (1923); Don't Say Die (1923); Mr. Hyppo (1923); Paste and Paper (1923); Watch Your Wife (1923); Fire the Fireman (1922); The White Blacksmith (1922); Fair Week (1922); I’ll Take Vanilla (1922); Blaze Away (1922); The Flivver (1922); Harvest Hands (1922); Washed Ashore (1922); Shine 'em Up! (1922); The Golf Bug (1922); Shiver and Shake (1922); Out on Bail (1922); The Uppercut (1922); Face the Camera (1922); Soak the Sheik (1922); Bone Dry (1922); The Landlubber (1922); Wet Weather (1922); Rough on Romeo (1922); The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922); The Truth Juggler (1922); Touch All the Bases (1922); Take Next Car (1922); The Bride-to-Be (1922); Friday, the Thirteenth (1922); The Call of Home (1922); The Brown Derby (1921); Don't Marry (1921); An Eastern Breeze (1921); Humor Risk (1921); A Sailor-Made Man (1921); Bride and Broom (1921); Ball Bearing, But Hard Running (1920); The Sultan of Djazz (1919); The Shimmy Gym (1919); Starting Out in Life (1919).

Born on this day – Corinne Griffith:

Corinne Griffith

Actress

Producer

Writer

Businesswoman

November 21, 1894 – July 13, 1979

Known as: The Orchid Lady of the Screen.

Credits:

Paradise Alley (1962); Lily Christine (1932); Back Pay (1930); Lilies of the Field (1929); Prisoners (1929); Saturday's Children (1929); The Divine Lady (1928); Outcast (1928); The Garden of Eden (1928); Three Hours (1927); The Lady in Ermine (1927); Syncopating Sue (1926); Into Her Kingdom (1926); Mademoiselle Modiste (1926); Infatuation (1925); Classified (1925); The Marriage Whirl (1925); Déclassé (1925); Love's Wilderness (1924); Single Wives (1924); Lilies of the Field (1924); Black Oxen (1923); Six Days (1923); The Common Law (1923); Divorce Coupons (1922); A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922); Island Wives (1922); Received Payment (1922); The Single Track (1921); Moral Fibre (1921); What's Your Reputation Worth? (1921); It Isn't Being Done This Season (1921); The Broadway Bubble (1920); The Whisper Market (1920); Babs (1920); The Garter Girl (1920); Deadline at Eleven (1920); Human Collateral (1920); The Tower of Jewels (1919); The Climbers (1919); The Bramble Bush (1919); A Girl at Bay (1919); Thin Ice (1919); The Unknown Quantity (1919); The Girl Problem (1919); The Adventure Shop (1919); Miss Ambition (1918); A Wise Purchase (1918); The Girl of Today (1918); The Clutch of Circumstance (1918); Love Watches (1918); The Menace (1918); Who Goes There? (1917); I Will Repay (1917); The Love Doctor (1917); Transgression (1917); The Stolen Treaty (1917); The Mystery of Lake Lethe (1917); His Wife's Allowance (1916); The Last Man (1916); Through the Wall (1916); A Fool and His Friend (1916); The Yellow Girl (1916); The Waters of Lethe (1916); Ashes (1916); The Rich Idler (1916); The Cost of High Living (1916); Miss Adventure (1916); Sin's Penalty (1916); When Hubby Forgot (1916); Bitter Sweet (1916); La paloma (1916).

Recommended reading - Darkness Before Dawn (2004)

Darkness Before Dawn

By Ingrid Pitt.

Paperback.
Published 2004.
Published by Midnight Marquee Press.
ISBN 13: 9781887664547
ISBN 10: 1887664548
ASIN: 1887664548

Description:

At the age of five, Ingrid Pitt found herself in a concentration camp. Ingrid and her mother escaped from the guards while on a forced march and presented themselves to the partisans, unsure if they would kill them. They spent the rest of the war in the forests. Ingrid fell in love for the first time and watched in despair as British bombers flew overhead. She still cannot see the vapor trials of planes without being transported back to her childhood vigil. After the war Ingrid came to London, where she developed a career as a Hammer House of Horror movie star, but, as she proudly says, `I was always the biter, never the bitten!' She also acted in mainstream films, such as WHERE EAGLES DARE. She had a child by her first marriage and a grand passion which lead to her marrying a racing driver. They lived in Argentina for a while and were good friends of President Peron and Isabelits Peron. Ingrid even spent an evening with the embalmed body of Eva Peron. Written with great passion and warmth, this is a rare childhood memoir and the story of Hammer`s most glamorous actress. Above all, this is a story of a survivor.

Recommended reading - Dances with Wolves (1988):

Dances with Wolves

By Michael Blake.

Paperback.

First published 1988.

Published by Ballantine Books.

ISBN 13: 9780449000755

ISBN 10: 0449000753

ASIN: 0449000753

Description:

Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever.

Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it is gone". His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the springboard for contact with the lords of the southern plains... the Comanche. Though he does not speak their language, has no know-ledge of their customs, and is considered a trespasser, Lieutenant Dunbar finds himself intrigued by the exotic and alien culture of the buffalo-hunting people of the plains. A simple desire to know more about his wild neighbors ignites a great adventure of transformation that culminates with the emergence of a different kind of man... a man called Dances With Wolves.

Tatiana de Rosnay, on stories:

When a story is told, it is not forgotten.

It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.

– Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay.

On this day in music history - Winter Symphony, by Jennifer Thomas (2015):

The album Winter Symphony,

by Jennifer Thomas,

was released on November 20, 2015.

On this day in movie history - Legend (2015):

Legend

directed and written by Brian Helgeland,

was released in the United States on November 20, 2015.
Based on the book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins by John Pearson.
Music by Carter Burwell.

Cast:

Tom Hardy, Paul Anderson, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill, Emily Browning, Colin Morgan, Tara Fitzgerald, Nicholas Farrell, Adam Fogerty, Mel Raido, Millie Brady, Chris Mason, Stephen Thompson, Sam Spruell, Taron Egerton, Alex Ferns, Martin McCreadie, Shane Attwooll, Richard Riddell, Huggy Leaver, Sam Hoare, David Thewlis, Frankie Fitzgerald, Christopher Adamson, Chazz Palminteri, Alex Giannini, Duffy, Samantha Pearl, Mark Theodore, Lara Cazalet, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Tim Faraday, John Sessions, Kevin McNally, Tim Woodward, Nick Hendrix, Robert Ashby, Geoffrey Beevers, Jane Wood, Jon McKenna, John Sears, Stephen Lord, Lorraine Stanley, Ashley Byam, Clive Aitkins, Fraser Andrews, James Francis Andrews, Lasco Atkins, David Olawale Ayinde, Aneurin Barnard, Roy Beck, Francesca Bennett, Jimmy 'The Bee' Bennett, Paul Bettany, Paul Biddiss, Martin Bishop, Steven Blake, Nicholas Blatt, Andy Blithe, Ancuta Breaban, Steve Brunton, Jon Callaway, John Carr, Alan Chimes, Bern Collaço, Trevor Comber, Carmen Cowell, Chris Cowlin, Bob Cryer, Leigh Dent, Raphael Desprez, Christian Di Sciullo, Gary Douglas, John Duggan, Shola Ebofin, Begona F. Martin, Dino Fazzani, Holly Field, Ellie Fox, Rich Goble, Claire Greasley, Guna Gultniece, Charlotte Habib, Abigail Halley, Jack Hamson, Shane Hart, Michael Haydon, Robin Hooper, Kornelia Horvath, Philip Howard, Adam Hypki, Danny Jackson, Alex Jaep, Steven J. Jobes, Paul Kerry, Jefferson King, Evia Laizane, Wesley Lloyd, Nick Longland, Darren Luckin, Christopher Marsh, Sonia Mason, Martyn Mayger, Matthew David McCarthy, Jackson Milner, David Mott, Campbell Muirhead, Benjayx Murphy, Josh Myers, Philip Myklebust, Debbie J. Nash, Johnny Neal, Celina Nessa, Tyrone Nestor, Hugh O'Brien, Yves O'Hara, Tom Ogg, Jeremy Oliver, Tony Pankhurst, Julia Papp, Stephen Parker, Christophe Philipps, Scott Plumridge, Glenn Power, Matt Rentell, Claire Richardson, David G. Robinson, Katherine Rodden, Geoff Rolph, Jd Roth-round, Tiger Rudge, Tom Sandell, James Thomas Scott, Timothy Scott, Janette Sharpe, Teresa Shaughnessy, Ruth Shaw, Sam Shoubber, Tristan Teller, Tom Urie, Daniel Westwood, Chris Wilson.