Thursday, December 5, 2024

Born on this day – Joan Didion:


Joan Didion


Writer

December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021

Credits:

Run River (1963); Play It As It Lays (1970); A Book of Common Prayer (1977); Democracy (1984); The Last Thing He Wanted (1996); Vintage Didion (2004); The 1960s & 70s (2019); Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968); The White Album (1979); Salvador (1983); Miami (1987); Some Women (1990); After Henry (1992); Sentimental Journeys (1993); Perspectives on the Individual (1998); Political Fictions (2001); Fixed Ideas (2003); Where I Was From (2003); Live and Learn (2005); The Year of Magical Thinking (2005); We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006); Blue Nights (2011); Insider Baseball (2016); South and West (2017); Collected Essays (2018); Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021); Bonds of War (2022); What She Means (2022); The Writer on Her Work (1980); Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1989); Florida Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); Writing New York (1998); The Eloquent Essay (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (2005).

Movies and television:

A Star Is Born (1976 / 2018); Babel (2005); Broken Trust (1995); Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (2008); Charlie Rose (1996–2011); Crossing Borders: The Journey of Carlos Fuentes (1989); David Halberstam: The Coldest Winter (2007); Dominick Dunne et les crimes de la jet set (2007); Ellie Parker (2005); Everything Is Copy (2015); Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Late Review (2011); New York 360ยบ Presents: The 2007 Matrix Awards (2007); New York in the 50's (2000); Nicole (1976); Northern Exposure (1993); Out of My Head (2018); Play It As It Lays (1972); Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. (1995); Such Good Friends (1971); The 50 Year Argument (2014); The Brandon Teena Story (1998); The Falling of the Bright (2008); The Last Thing He Wanted (2020); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); The South Bank Show (2007); True Confessions (1981); Up Close & Personal (1996); West Wing Week (2013); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); Writers in Needle Park (2011).

Born on this day – Ray Austin:


Ray Austin

Director

Writer

Producer

Stuntman

Actor

December 5, 1932 – May 17, 2023

Born on this day – Norman Burton:


Norman Burton

Actor

December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003

Born on this day – Adriana Benetti:


Adriana Benetti

Actress

December 5, 1919 – February 24, 2016

Born on this day – Margaret Hayes:


Margaret Hayes

Actress

December 5, 1916 – January 26, 1977

Born on this day – Odette Joyeux:


Odette Joyeux

Actress

Writer

December 5, 1914 – August 26, 2000

Born on this day – Virginia Lee Corbin:


Virginia Lee Corbin


Actress

December 5, 1910 – June 5, 1942

Credits:

3 Keys (1925); Ace High (1918); Adventure in Diamonds (1940); Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917); All's Swell on the Ocean (1924); Bare Knees (1928); Behind Life's Stage (1916); Broken Laws (1924); By Conscience's Eye (1916); Chasing Choo Choos (1927); Driven from Home (1927); Enemies of Children (1923); Fan Fan (1918); Fight and Win (1924); Footlights and Fools (1929); Forgotten Women (1931); Hands Up! (1926); Headlines (1925); Heart Strings (1917); Intolerance (1916); Jack and the Beanstalk (1917); Jazz Mamas (1929); Jazzland (1928); Knee High (1929); Ladies at Play (1926); Let Katie Do It (1916); Letter of Introduction (1938); Lilies of the Streets (1925); Morals for Women (1931); No Place to Go (1927); North Star (1925); Pidgin Island (1916); Play Safe (1927); Shotgun Pass (1931); Sinners in Silk (1924); Six-Shooter Andy (1918); So Ends Our Night (1941); Somebody Lied (1917); The Babes in the Woods (1917); The Cafe of Fallen Angels (1923); The Castle of Despair (1916); The Chorus Girl and the Kid (1916); The Chorus Lady (1924); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Cloud Rider (1925); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Handsome Brute (1925); The Head of the Family (1928); The Honeymoon Express (1926); The Light of Love (1917); The Little Snob (1928); The Old Toymaker (1917); The Perfect Sap (1927); The Splendid Sin (1919); The White Dove (1920); The Whole Town's Talking (1926); The Woman He Feared (1916); Three Women of France (1917); Treasure Island (1917); Vengeance of the Dead (1917); Wine of Youth (1924); X Marks the Spot (1931).