Jack Kost

Monday, December 30, 2024

Born on this day – Jeanette Nolan:

Jeanette Nolan

Actress

December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998

Born on this day – Carol Reed:

Carol Reed

Director

Producer

December 30, 1906 – April 25, 1976

Born on this day – Letizia Quaranta:

Letizia Quaranta

Actress

December 30, 1892 – January 9, 1977

Credits:

Acquazzone in montagna (1913); Addio giovinezza! (1913); Amor de Apache (1930); Astuzia di donna (1915); Bacio di morte (1916); Bersaglio umano (1921); Bob salva la vita all'Ammiraglio (1916); Cofanetto dei milioni (1914); Da boxeur a detective (1916); El consultorio de Madame René (1924); Fiamma tra le fiamme (1917); Fiori d'amore... fiori di morte (1914); Floretta e Patapon (1910); Forbidden Music (1942); Guerra in tempo di pace (1914); Hedda Gabler (1920); I mariti allegri (1914); Il caporal Simon (1917); Il germoglio della morte (1916); Il medico per forza (1931); Il mistero del messale (1919); Il mistero dell'educanda di Saint-Bon (1915); Il teschio d'oro (1920); Il testamento di Maciste (1920); Il treno degli spettri (1913); Il Trust dei diamanti (1916); Il viaggio di Maciste (1920); Il violino di Ketty (1914); La casa della paura (1921); La droga di Satana (1922); La gondola del diavolo (1946); La lanterna del diavolo (1931); La mujer de medianoche (1925); La nave dei morti (1921); La scala (1931); La signora delle miniere (1921); La tempesta in un cranio (1921); La trilogia di Maciste (1920); La vuelta del toro salvaje (1924); L'eterno romanzo (1914); L'immagine dell'altra (1914); L'innocente Casimiro (1945); L'inverosimile (1919); L'isola tenebrosa (1916); L'orfana del ghetto (1955); Love Everlasting (1914); Maciste contro la morte (1920); Maciste I (1919); Maciste innamorato (1919); Memoria dell'altro (1914); Nerone e Agrippina (1914); Più che Fratello (1916); Scacco matto (1919); Ted l'invisibile (1922); The Fatal Grotto (1913); The Queen's Jewel (1913); T'ho ancor baciato, or muoio lieta! (1912); Un dramma tra le belve (1915); Un simpatico mascalzone (1921); Vortice (1920).

Born on this day – Rudyard Kipling:

Rudyard Kipling

Writer

December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936

Credits:

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906); Rewards and Fairies (1910); The Jungle Book (1893); The Second Jungle Book (1895); The Light That Failed (1890); The Naulahka - A Story Of East And West (1892); Captains Courageous (1897); The Story of the Gadsbys (1899); Under The Deodars (1899); Kim (1901); They (1905); With the Night Mail (1909); The Man Who Would Be King (1888); The Return of Imray (1891); The Cat That Walked by Himself (1902); Plain Tales from the Hills (1888); The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories (1888); Life's Handicap (1891); Barrack-Room Ballads (1893); Many Inventions (1893); Soldiers Three (1899); Indian Tales (1899); Just So Stories (1902); The Five Nations (1903); Traffics and Discoveries (1904); Kipling Poems (1907); The Day's Work (1908); Actions and Reactions (1909); Sea Warfare (1916); A Diversity of Creatures (1917); The Eyes of Asia (1919); Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1923); The Man Who Was (1924); Debits And Credits (1926); Limits And Renewals (1932); All The Mowgli Stories (1933); Phantoms and Fantasies (1965); Complete Verse (1972); Kiplings Science Fiction (1987); The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1987); Kipling's Fantasy Stories (1992); The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1994); Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1999); The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales (2000); The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra (2003); Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages (2005); Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy (2008); Ten Stories (2017); The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book (2018); The Elephant's Child (1900); Letters of Marque (2009); Red Riding Hood (2008); Cinderella (2008); Jack and the Beanstalk (2008); Hansel and Gretel (2008); Beauty and the Beast (2008); Snow White (2009); Rumpelstiltskin (2009); Sleeping Beauty (2009); The Three Little Pigs (2009); Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel (2009); The Ugly Duckling (2009); The Princess and the Pea (2009); The Emperor's New Clothes (2009); Thumbelina (2009); The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan (2010); John Henry, Hammerin' Hero (2010); Pecos Bill, Colossal Cowboy (2010); The Legend of Johnny Appleseed (2010); The Bremen Town Musicians (2011); The Golden Goose (2011); Tom Thumb (2011); The Elves and the Shoemaker (2011); How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (2012); How the Leopard Got His Spots (2012); How the Camel Got His Hump (2012); How the Elephant Got His Trunk (2012); Rudyard Kipling's Just So Comics (2013); Tall (2014); A Cat of a Different Color (2020); A Cat of Perfect Taste (2020); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); A Cat of Strange Lands (2020); A Cat of Cozy Situations (2020); A Cat of Heroic Heart (2020); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Cat of Fantastic Whims (2021); A Cat of Feral Instincts (2021); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling (1989); Tales of the Occult (1989); The Amis Story Anthology (1992); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); Fantasy Stories (1994); The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994); Spellbound (1995); World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others (1997); Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (1997); Time Machines (1997); A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories (2000); Dark (2000); On Glorious Wings (2003); The World's Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Little Big Book of California (2005); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007); Empire Tales (2008); Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction (2008); Stories to Get You Through the Night (2010); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2011); The Phantom Coach (2014); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); Red Sky (2014); The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories (2015); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); Classic Cat Stories (2020); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023).

Swag

By Elmore Leonard.

aka Ryan's Rules.

Published by Mariner Books.
First published 1976.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0062227866
ISBN-13: 978-0062227867

Description:

The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick – all of them involving guns – and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth. But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken, if one is to succeed in the world of crime, especially if the "brains" of the operation knows less than nothing.