Carlo Rustichelli
Composer
December 24, 1916 – November 13, 2004
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Born on this day – James Hadley Chase:
James Hadley Chase
Writer
December 24, 1906 – February 6, 1985
Credits:
A Can of Worms (1979); A
Coffin from Hong Kong (1962); A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961); An Ace Up My Sleeve
(1971); An Ear to the Ground (1968); Believe This, You'll Believe Anything
(1975); Believed Violent (1968); Blonde's Requiem (1946); But a Short Time to
Live (1951); Cade (1966); Come Easy, Go Easy (1960); Come Easy, Go Easy / Cade
/ My Laugh Comes Last (1993); Consider Yourself Dead (1978); Do Me a Favour,
Drop Dead (1976); Double Shuffle / Shock Treatment / Tell it to the Birds (1974);
Eve (1945); Figure It Out for Yourself (1950); Get a Load of This (1941); Goldfish
Have No Hiding Place (1974); Hand Me a Fig Leaf (1981); Have a Change of Scene
(1973); Have a Nice Night (1982); Have This One On Me (1967); He Won't Need It
Now (1939); Hit and Run (1958); Hit Them Where It Hurts (1985); I Hold the Four
Aces (1977); I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962); I'll Bury My Dead (1953); I'll
Get You for This (1946); In a Vain Shadow (1951); Just a Matter of Time (1972);
Just Another Sucker (1961); Just the Way It Is (1944); Knock, Knock! Who's
There? (1973); Lady, Here's Your Wreath (1940); Last Page (1946); Lay Her Among
the Lilies (1950); Like a Hole in the Head (1970); Make the Corpse Walk (1946);
Mallory (1950); Meet Mark Girland (1977); Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941);
Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (1944); Mission to Siena (1955); Mission to Venice
(1954); More Deadly Than the Male (1946); My Laugh Comes Last (1977); Never
Trust a Woman (1957); No Business of Mine (1947); No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939);
Not My Thing (1983); Not Safe to Be Free (1958); One Bright Summer Morning
(1963); Ruthless (1955); Safer Dead (1954); Shock Treatment (1959); Slipstream
(1946); So Soon To Die (1975); So What Happens to Me? (1974); Strictly for Cash
(1951); Tell It to the Birds (1963); The Dead Stay Dumb (1939); The Doll's Bad
News (1940); The Double Shuffle (1952); The Fast Buck (1952); The Flesh of the
Orchid (1948); The Guilty Are Afraid (1957); The Joker in the Pack (1975); The
Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Mirror in Room 22
(1946); The Paw in the Bottle (1949); The Pickup (1955); The Soft Centre (1964);
The Sucker Punch (1954); The Things Men Do (1953); The Vulture Is a Patient
Bird (1969); The Wary Transgressor (1952); The Way the Cookie Crumbles (1965); The
Whiff of Money (1969); The World in My Pocket (1959); There's a Hippie On the
Highway (1970); There's Always a Price Tag (1956); This Is for Real (1965); This
Way for a Shroud (1953); Three of Spades (1974); Tiger By the Tail (1954); Trusted
Like the Fox (1948); Try This One for Size (1980); Want to Stay Alive? (1971); Well
Now, My Pretty (1967); We'll Share a Double Funeral (1982); What's Better Than
Money? (1960); Why Pick On Me? (1951); You Can Say That Again (1980); You Find
Him, I'll Fix Him (1956); You Have Yourself a Deal (1966); You Must Be Kidding
(1979); You Never Know with Women (1949); You're Dead Without Money (1972); You're
Lonely When You're Dead (1949); You've Got It Coming (1955).
Movies and television:
Born on this day – Ruth Chatterton:
Ruth Chatterton
Actress
Aviator
Writer
December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961
Credits:
20th
Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); A Royal Divorce (1938); Anybody's Woman
(1930); Celanese Theatre (1951); Charming Sinners (1929); Complicated Women
(2003); Dodsworth (1936); Female (1933); Frisco Jenny (1932); Girls' Dormitory
(1936); Hamlet (1953); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood on Parade No.
A-13 (1933); Journal of a Crime (1934); Kraft Theatre (1952); Kraft Theatre / The
Philco Television Playhouse (1948); Lady of Secrets (1936); Lilly Turner (1933);
Madame X (1929); Mutual Weekly, No. 16 (1915); Once a Lady (1931); Paramount on
Parade (1930); Playhouse 90 (1957); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); Sarah and
Son (1930); Sins of the Fathers (1928); The Crash (1932); The Doctor's Secret
(1929); The Dummy (1929); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Lady of
Scandal (1930); The Laughing Lady (1929); The Magnificent Lie (1931); The
Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); The Rat (1937); The Rich Are Always with Us
(1932); The Right to Love (1930); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in
Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1932); Unfaithful (1931).
Recommended reading - Film Noir Reader 3: Interviews with Filmmakers of the Classic Noir Period (2004):
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Film Noir Reader 3:
Interviews with Filmmakers of the Classic Noir Period
Edited by Alain Silver, Robert
Porfirio and James Ursini.
Published by Limelight.
Published 2004.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0879109610
ISBN-13: 978-0879109615
Description:
Departing
from the approach of its Film Noir Reader predecessors, this third
volume in the series assembles a collection of interviews with film noir
directors and a cinematographer, few of whom are alive today. Interviewees
include Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard),
Otto Preminger (Laura), Joseph Lewis (Gun Crazy and The Big Combo),
Curtis Bernhardt (Possessed and A Stolen Life), Edward Dmytryk (Murder,
My Sweet and Crossfire), and Fritz Lang (Scarlet Street and The
Woman in the Window).
A Multiple Sclerosis Night Before Christmas:
A Multiple Sclerosis Night Before Christmas
in Positive Thoughts
by Penelope Conway
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through my body,
Not a nerve was behaving, making me move rather shoddy.
My daily activities were chosen with care,
In hopes that each one could be done from a chair.
Each word that I spoke seemed to come out all wrong,
So much to be finished, I had to stay strong.
And John in the kitchen, and Missy making frappe,
Everyone busy working, no time for a nap.
When somewhere outside there arose such a clatter,
I peeked through the window, to see what was the matter.
I tried to move fast, to get to the door,
But I didn’t quite make it, and wound up on the floor.
As I lay on the rug, making sure nothing broke
Through tears I could see it, even gave it a poke.
Yes, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But the cane that I had lost, earlier this year.
Then the front door cracked open, and before me he stood,
I immediately knew help had arrived which was good.
And more rapid than eagles, his phrases they came,
As he whistled and shouted, and called them by name.
“Now hang on, now slow down, now take more life pauses,
With stressful, and chaos, and tearful day causes.
To the end of the checklist, to the end of the hall,
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”
And then I could see, as I wiped away tears,
Why, his words and his wisdom had settled my fears.
As I sat on the floor, too weak to even move
He knelt down beside me, and said I have nothing to prove.
He looked a bit weary, as a glance we exchanged,
And he said that my focus is what needs to be changed.
What’s important is family and those who are nearby.
(On that last one he spoke with a twinkly eye.)
Your weakness…it’s real. Your limits…real too.
MS has this way of making even brilliant days blue.
He smiled as he spoke, and I knew he was right.
No more pity party moments or MS fist fights.
He spoke not a word more as he helped me to stand.
I found myself smiling as I reached for his hand.
I sat on the couch as he gave me a nod,
He helped me to see that my thinking was flawed.
Then he sprang to his sleigh, and to his team gave a
whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, “You’re doing great, don’t forget,
To pause more and smile, you have nothing to fret.
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