Born on this day – Elvis Presley:

Elvis Presley

Singer

Actor

January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977

Born on this day – Elisabeth Fraser:

Elisabeth Fraser

Actress

January 8, 1920 – May 5, 2005

Credits:

9 to 5 (1980); The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980); Maude (1972); The New Temperatures Rising Show (1972); Mannix (1967); The Second Hundred Years (1967); The Ballad of Josie (1967); The Graduate (1967); Tony Rome (1967); The Monkees (1965); The Way West (1967); Hey, Landlord (1966); Vacation Playhouse (1963); The Glass Bottom Boat (1966); Seconds (1966); Gunsmoke (1955); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); Perry Mason (1957); The Fugitive (1963); Bewitched (1964); A Patch of Blue (1965); Rawhide (1959); The Addams Family (1964); The Magical World of Disney (1954); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964); Mickey (1964); The Bing Crosby Show (1964); Ben Casey (1961); Wagon Train (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1950); The Eleventh Hour (1962); The Bill Dana Show (1963); Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); Dr. Kildare (1961); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962); McKeever and the Colonel (1962); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Defenders (1961); Two for the Seesaw (1962); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); Car 54, Where Are You? (1961); One Happy Family (1961); The Donna Reed Show (1958); Fibber McGee and Molly (1959); Border Patrol (1959); Ask Any Girl (1959); The Millionaire (1955); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Man with a Camera (1958); Bachelor Father (1957); The Tunnel of Love (1958); The Phil Silvers Show (1955); Telephone Time (1956); Kraft Theatre (1955–1956); Kraft Theatre (1955); Goodyear Playhouse (1951); Young at Heart (1954); The Steel Cage (1954); Dragnet (1951); Your Play Time (1954); Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1952); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); Four Star Playhouse (1952); So Big (1953); Lux Video Theatre (1950); Big Town (1950); Half-Dressed for Dinner (1953); Chevron Theatre (1952); Three Chairs for Betty (1953); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952); Dangerous Assignment (1952); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); Gruen Guild Theater (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Boston Blackie (1952); Death of a Salesman (1951); Callaway Went Thataway (1951); Racket Squad (1950); When I Grow Up (1951); Studio One (1950); Hills of Oklahoma (1950); Dear Wife (1949); Roseanna McCoy (1949); Your Show Time (1949); All My Sons (1948); Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942); The Hidden Hand (1942); Busses Roar (1942); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942); One Foot in Heaven (1941).

Born on this day – Butterfly McQueen:

Butterfly McQueen

Actress

January 8, 1911 – December 22, 1995

Credits:

The Magical World of Disney (1989); The Mosquito Coast (1986); American Playhouse (1986); ABC Afterschool Specials (1972); ABC Weekend Specials (1977); Amazing Grace (1974); The Phynx (1970); The Green Pastures (1957); Beulah (1950); Lux Video Theatre (1950); Studio One (1948); Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947); Duel in the Sun (1946); Mildred Pierce (1945); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945); Since You Went Away (1944); I Dood It (1943); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Affectionately Yours (1941); Gone with the Wind (1939); The Women (1939).

Born on this day – Tampa Red:

Tampa Red

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

January 8, 1903 – March 19, 1981

Credits:

Albums:

Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Tampa Red (2011); Blues Legends: Tampa Red (2012); Blues Masters Vol. 26 - Tampa Red (2009); Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937 (1974); Chicago Moan (2012); Chicago Moan Blues - Tampa Red in the 20's, Vol. 1 (2020); Don't Jive Me (1962); Don't Tampa With The Blues (1961 / 2012); Don't Tampa With The Blues (Remastered 1992) (1960); Echoes from the South With Tampa Red & Big Maceo (2009); Essential Blues (2012); Friendless Gal Blues (2016); Guitar Blues (2011); His Blues (2016); It Hurts Me Too (1995, EP); Mother Of The Blues, CD E (2007); Music Making In Chicago 1928-1935 (2012); Presenting Tampa Red (1928); Roots Of The Blues - Tampa Red (2004); Single String Slide (2020); So Far So Good (2010); Spotlight on Tampa Red (2022); Sugar Mama Blues (2009); Tampa Red - Music History (2021); Tampa Red - Volume 1 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red - Volume 2 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard (1994); Tampa Red Vol. 10 1938-1939 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 11 1939-1940 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 12 1941-1945 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 14 1949-1951 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 15 1951-1953 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 2 (1929) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 4 (1930 - 1931) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 5 (1931 - 1934) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 7 1935-1936 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 8 1936-1937 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 9 1937-1938 (2005); Tampa Red:1931-1946: Slide Guitar Wizard, Chicago (1997); The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936 (1997); The Bluebird Recordings, 1936-1938 (1997); The Blues Collective - Tampa Red (2023); Through Train Blues (2012); Travel On (2018); Uncle Bud - Selected Recordings (2009); Voice of the Blues (2015); Worried Life (2018); You Can't Get That Stuff No More (2008).

Songs:

1950 Blues; Anna Lou Blues; Beedle Um Bum; Black Eye Blues; Boogie Woogie Dance; But I Forgive You; Crying Won’t Help You; Deep Moaning Blues: 1; Delta Woman Blues; Denver Blues; Detroit Blues; Don't You Lie to Me; Green and Lucky Blues; Grievin' and Worryin' Blues; I'm Gonna Get High; It Hurts Me Too; It's Tight Like That; Kingfish Blues; Let Me Play with Your Poodle; Love Her With a Feelin'; Love With a Feeling; Lula Mae; Mean Mistreater Blues; No Matter How She Done It; Seminole Blues; She's Love Crazy; Sugar Mama Blues No. 1; Things 'Bout Coming My Way; Western Bound Blues; When Things Go Wrong with You; You Can't Get That Stuff No More; You Missed a Good Man.

Movies and television:

Baseball (1994); Honeydripper (2007); In Session: Stevie Ray Vaughan/Albert King (1983); Last Man Standing (1996); Music and Lyrics (2007); Tales from the Loop (2020); The Rose (1979).

Recommended reading - Noir City Annual 2023 (2024):

Noir City Annual 2023

By Eddie Muller.

Edited by Imogen Sara Smith.

No. 16

Published by Film Noir Foundation.

Published 2024.

Paperback.

ASIN: B0DG6XTLVL

ISBN-13: 979-8218508180

Description:

2024's NOIR CITY Annual 16, the best of the best from the Film Noir Foundation's 2023 NOIR CITY Magazines, is here – essays, profiles, interviews, and appreciations of classic and modern noir films from today's top writers. This year's contributors are Imogen Sara Smith, Danilo Castro, Rachel Walther, Jake Hinkson, Vince Keenan, Steve Kronenberg, John Wranovics, Jeremy Arnold, Peter Tonguette, Wallace Stroby, Andy Wolverton, Thomas Burchfield, Ben Terrall, and Eddie Muller. Book layout and design by Michael Kronenberg. And, as with any purchase from the FNF, when you buy the NOIR CITY Annual 16, you'll be helping fund the non-profit foundation's film restoration efforts.

James Patterson, on reading:

You see, one of the best things about reading

is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

- James Patterson.

Beatrix Potter, on writing:

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.

You never quite know where they'll take you.

- Beatrix Potter.