Claire Rommer
Actress
December 7, 1904 – August 19, 1996
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Born on this day – Fay Bainter:
Fay Bainter
Actress
December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968
Credits:
The Alfred Hitchcock
Hour (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Dr. Kildare (1963);
The Donna Reed Show (1962); The Children's Hour (1961); Thriller (1960);
Adventures in Paradise (1960); Studio One (1953–1957); Matinee Theatre (1956);
Kraft Theatre (1956); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Armstrong Circle Theatre
(1953–1955); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1955); Lux Video Theatre
(1950–1955); The Elgin Hour (1954); Goodyear Playhouse (1954); The Web (1954);
The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Story of Ruth (1954); The President's
Lady (1953); Eye Witness (1953); Suspense (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1953);
Close to My Heart (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Danger (1950); The
Ford Theatre Hour (1948–1949); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); June Bride
(1948); Give My Regards to Broadway (1948); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947); Deep Valley (1947); The Virginian (1946); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946);
State Fair (1945); Three Is a Family (1944); Dark Waters (1944); The Heavenly
Body (1944); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Salute to the Marines (1943); Presenting Lily
Mars (1943); The Human Comedy (1943); Journey for Margaret (1942); Mrs. Wiggs
of the Cabbage Patch (1942); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); Mister
Gardenia Jones (1942); Woman of the Year (1942); Babes on Broadway (1941); Maryland
(1940); A Bill of Divorcement (1940); Our Town (1940); Young Tom Edison (1940);
Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); The Lady and
the Mob (1939); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939); The Shining Hour (1938); The
Arkansas Traveler (1938); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Jezebel (1938); White
Banners (1938); Make Way for Tomorrow (1937); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); Quality
Street (1937); This Side of Heaven (1934).
Born on this day – Clementine Plessner:
Clementine Plessner
Actress
Singer
December 7, 1855 – February 27, 1943
Credits:
Bar
el Manach (1920); Bara en danserska (1926); Bigamie (1922); Das Geheimnis der
vier Tage (1921); Das Hexenlied (1919); Das Medaillon der Lady Sington (1920); Das
Recht zu leben (1927); Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1918); Das weisse
Paradies (1929); Der Bankkrach unter den Linden (1926); Der Fleck auf der Ehr' (1930);
Der Glücksschmid (1919); Der hauptmann von Köpenick (1926); Der krasse Fuchs (1926);
Der Monte Christo von Prag (1929); Der Schatten der Gaby Leed (1921); Der
Todesreigen (1922); Der verliebte Blasekopp (1932); Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis
führt, 1.Teil - Das Schicksal der Aenne Wolter (1918); Der Weg, der zur
Verdammnis führt, 2.Teil - Hyänen der Lust (1919); Der Wilddieb (1930); Die
Benefiz-Vorstellung der vier Teufel (1920); Die eiserne Braut (1925); Die
entfesselte Menschheit (1920); Die Frau mit den zehn Masken, 2. Begebenheit -
Der Schatten des Gehenkten (1922); Die graue Macht (1923); Die schwarze Paula (1922);
Die Stimme des Herzens (1924); Die Tragödie der Entehrten (1924); Die Tragödie
eines Großen (1920); Die verschwundene Frau (1929); Die weiße Sonate (1928); Die
Zirkusprinzessin (1925); Different from the Others (1919); Eine weisse unter
Kannibalen (1921); Eleven Who Were Loyal (1926); Fräulein Josette - Meine Frau
(1926); Giovannis Rache (1917); Gobseck (1924); Großstadtmädels, 2. Teil -
Erlebnisse aus Berlin (1921); Hallig Hooge (1923); Henriette Jacoby (1918); Hingabe
(1929); Im Zeichen der Schuld (1918); Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918); Journey
into the Night (1921); Kaiserjäger (1928); Kaliber fünf Komma zwei (1920); Klatsch
(1921); Kord Kamphues, der Richter von Coesfeld (1919); Lady Hamilton (1921); Lo,
die Kokette (1920); Lucrezia Borgia (1922); Mädchen, die man nicht heiratet (1923);
Manolescus Memoiren (1920); Nocturno der Liebe (1919); O alte
Burschenherrlichkeit (1925); Povara (1928); Ratten der Großstadt. 1. Die
geheimnisvolle Nacht (1921); Seelenverkäufer (1919); Sklaven der Liebe (1924); Spitzenhöschen
und Schusterpech (1928); Steuerlos (1924); Störtebeker (1919); Stürmisch die
Nacht (1931); Superfluous People (1926); Taras Bulba (1924); The Story of Dida
Ibsen (1918); Theodor Körner (1932); Vagabund (1930); Wie bleibe ich jung und
schön – Ehegeheimnisse (1926); Zwei Kinder (1924).
Recommended reading - Alice Guy Blache: Lost Visionary of the Cinema (2002):
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Alice Guy Blache: Lost Visionary of the Cinema
by Alison McMahan.
Filmed as Be Natural:
The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018), documentary directed by
Pamela B. Green.
Published by Continuum
Intl Pub Group.
Published 2002.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0826451586
ISBN-13: 978-0826451583
Description:
The time has arrived, so
it would seem, when woman must take her place beside man in the majority of
arts and professions in the business world. In women of the caliber of Madame
Alice Blaché it has also been demonstrated that there is a possibility of their
doing so without being shorn of that most desirable of womanly qualities,
femininity. – The Moving Picture News, 1912.
It has long been a
source of wonder to me that many women have not seized upon the wonderful
opportunities offered to them by the motion-picture art to make their way to
fame and fortune as producers of photodramas. Of all the arts there is probably
none in which they can make such a splendid use of talents so much more natural
to a woman than to a man and so necessary to its perfection. – Alice Guy
Blaché, 1914.
Over a hundred years
after she started making films (which was considerably earlier than D.W.
Griffith, Mabel Normand, and Lillian Gish began their careers), the life and
work of Alice Guy Blaché is still shrouded in myth and controversy.
Only a fraction (111) of
the approximately one thousand films that she directed still exist, and almost
half of these have been found very recently. The films are spread out in
archives all over the world. Not all of them are available for viewing, even to
scholars, and many of them are in desperate need of conservation and
preservation.
It is widely agreed that
she was the first woman filmmaker but there is considerable debate as to
whether she made the first ever fiction film. She played a key role in early
sound film production, and yet this part of her career is almost always ignored.
She is, to this day, the only woman ever to have owned and run her own film
studio. And yet she made her final film in 1920, at the age of 47, and died in
New Jersey in 1968, unacknowledged, unheralded, almost totally forgotten.
Ten years of painstaking
research has enabled Alison McMahan to piece together the career of this
extraordinary woman. What results is the first full-length treatment of Alice
Guy Blaché’s work, the debunking of several long-standing myths about her and,
ultimately, the emergence of a feminist figurehead of the filmmaking industry.
"McMahan s book is
an obsessively detailed history of a true motion-picture pioneer." – American
Cinematographer, July 2002.
"The author
provides intriguing information about Guy s life, the early days of film
production, and Guy s independent film company (Solax)." – Choice,
November 2002.
"A fascinating book
that will interest scholars and general readers alike." – Richard Abel,
Drake University.
"Monumental...a
daunting achievement." – Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2002.
Elizabeth Hardwick, on reading:
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick.
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - December 7:
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
December 7
Honoring
all who served and died for our freedom.
We will never forget.
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