Born on this day – Elsie Albiin:

Elsie Albiin

Actress

December 17, 1921 – April 3, 2009

Born on this day – Joan Woodbury:

Joan Woodbury

Actress

December 17, 1915 – February 22, 1989

Born on this day – Monique Rolland:

Monique Rolland

Actress

December 17, 1913 – September 27, 1999

Born on this day – Richard Sale:

Richard Sale

Writer

Producer

Director

December 17, 1911 – March 4, 1993

Born on this day – David Butler:

David Butler

Director

Actor

Writer

December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979

Credits:

C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967); Camp Runamuck (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965); The Patty Duke Show (1964–1965); Daniel Boone (1965); Leave It to Beaver (1959–1963); The Twilight Zone (1963); I Love My Doctor (1962); The Hathaways (1962); Wagon Train (1958–1962); The Deputy (1959–1961); The Right Approach (1961); Bringing Up Buddy (1960); Overland Trail (1960); General Electric Theater (1959); M Squad (1959); Buckskin (1958–1959); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1957–1959); Bachelor Father (1958); Captain Z-Ro (1955–1956); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Glory (1956); Studio 57 (1955); Jump Into Hell (1955); King Richard and the Crusaders (1954); The Command (1954); Calamity Jane (1953); By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953); April in Paris (1952); Where's Charley? (1952); The Story of Will Rogers (1952); Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); Tea for Two (1950); The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950); The Story of Seabiscuit (1949); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Look for the Silver Lining (1949); John Loves Mary (1949); Two Guys from Texas (1948); Marlon Brando Screentest for Rebel Without a Cause (1947); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946); San Antonio (1945); The Princess and the Pirate (1944); Shine on Harvest Moon (1944); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); They Got Me Covered (1943); Road to Morocco (1942); Playmates (1941); Caught in the Draft (1941); You'll Find Out (1940); If I Had My Way (1940); That's Right - You're Wrong (1939); East Side of Heaven (1939); Kentucky (1938); Straight Place and Show (1938); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); You're a Sweetheart (1937); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Pigskin Parade (1936); White Fang (1936); Captain January (1936); The Littlest Rebel (1935); Doubting Thomas (1935); The Little Colonel (1935); Bright Eyes (1934); Have a Heart (1934); Handy Andy (1934); Bottoms Up (1934); My Weakness (1933); Hold Me Tight (1933); Handle with Care (1932); Down to Earth (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Delicious (1931); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); Just Imagine (1930); High Society Blues (1930); Nertz (1929); Sunny Side Up (1929); Salute (1929); Chasing Through Europe (1929); Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929); Masked Emotions (1929); Prep and Pep (1928); Win That Girl (1928); News Parade (1928); High School Hero (1927); The Rush Hour (1927); Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927); 7th Heaven (1927); Girl in the Rain (1927); Nobody's Widow (1927); The Quarterback (1926); Womanpower (1926); The Blue Eagle (1926); Meet the Prince (1926); Oh, Baby! (1926); Too Many Relations (1926); The Sap (1926); His Own Lawyer (1926); The Gold Hunters (1925); The Plastic Age (1925); Wages for Wives (1925); The Phantom Express (1925); The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925); The Man on the Box (1925); Havoc (1925); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Tracked in the Snow Country (1925); Private Affairs (1925); Code of the West (1925); The Narrow Street (1925); In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924); The Arizona Express (1924); Hoodman Blind (1923); The Temple of Venus (1923); Cause for Divorce (1923); Desire (1923); The Fog (1923); Mary of the Movies (1923); A Noise in Newboro (1923); Poor Men's Wives (1923); The Hero (1923); Conquering the Woman (1922); The Village Blacksmith (1922); According to Hoyle (1922); The Wise Kid (1922); The Milky Way (1922); Bing Bang Boom (1922); Making the Grade (1921); The Sky Pilot (1921); Girls Don't Gamble (1920); The County Fair (1920); Fickle Women (1920); Smiling All the Way (1920); Don't Ever Marry (1920); The Triflers (1920); The Pointing Finger (1919); Bonnie Bonnie Lassie (1919); The Other Half (1919); A Petal on the Current (1919); Nugget Nell (1919); Better Times (1919); Upstairs and Down (1919); The Unpainted Woman (1919); The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919); The Greatest Thing in Life (1918); Intolerance (1916); The Deathlock (1915); The Alien (1915); The Birth of a Nation (1915); The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); The Sea Wolf (1913); The Face at the Window (1910).

Ursula K. Le Guin, on being an introvert and a writer:

Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts.

Extroverts rule.

This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.

We are being taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'.

But a writer's job is ingoing.

- Ursula K. Le Guin.

On this day in movie history - The Revenant (movie & novel):

The Revenant

directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu,

written by Mark L. Smith and Alejandro G. Iñárritu,

based on the novel by Michael Punke,

was released in the United States on December 16, 2015.
Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto.

Cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck, Paul Anderson, Kristoffer Joner, Duane Howard, Melaw Nakehk'o, Arthur Redcloud, Lukas Haas, Brendan Fletcher, Tom Guiry, Grace Dove.

Recommended reading:

The Revenant

By Michael Punke.

Published by Picador.

Movie tie-in edition published in 2015.

Published 2002.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 9781250072689

ISBN-13: 978-1250072689

Description:

Read the book that inspired to major motion picture.

A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men rob and abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

“The makings of a western classic, Michael Punke's novel The Revenant provides muscle and sinew to the vengeful and epic tale of mountain man Hugh Glass that even a sow Grizzly couldn't rend asunder.” – Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels.

“One of the great tales of the nineteenth-century West.” – The Salt Lake Tribune.