Born on this day – Viora Daniel:

Viora Daniel

Actress

January 24, 1902 – May 9, 1980

Credits:

Bulldog Pluck (1927); One Chance in a Million (1927); Quarantined Rivals (1927); Old Shoes (1925); The Cowboy and the Lady (1922); The Son of a Sheik (1922); Cold Feet (1922); 'Twas Ever Thus (1922); Saturday Night (1922); A Barnyard Cavalier (1922); Be My Wife (1921); A Pair of Sexes (1921); In for Life (1921); Let Me Explain (1921); The Easy Road (1921); The Life of the Party (1920); The Fourteenth Man (1920); The Sins of St. Anthony (1920); Thou Art the Man (1920); Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920).

Born on this day – Gladys Lehman:

Gladys Lehman

Writer

January 24, 1892 – April 7, 1993

Credits:

20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); A Lady Surrenders (1930); A Message to Garcia (1936); Captain January (1936); Back Street (1932); Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939); Broadway Scandals (1929); Clear the Decks (1929); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Double Door (1934); Hired Wife (1940); His Lucky Day (1929); Hold Me Tight (1933); In Old Kentucky (1935); Embarrassing Moments (1930); Enter Madame! (1934); Fast and Furious / Red Hot Speed (1928); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Golden Girl (1951); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Her First Beau (1941); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); It's a Small World (1935); La voluntad del muerto (1930); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Reunion (1936); Little Accident (1930); Little Miss Marker (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Luxury Liner (1948); Meet Joe Black (1998); Mexicali Rose (1929); Midnight Madonna (1937); Nice Girl? (1941); Nice Women (1931); On Your Toes (1927); Out All Night (1927); The Broadway Hoofer (1929); The Cat Creeps (1930); The County Chairman (1935); Papa sans le savoir (1932); Personality (1930); Rio Rita (1942); Seed (1931); White Woman (1933); She Married an Artist (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Song and Dance Man (1936); Sorrowful Jones (1949); Strictly Dishonorable (1931); The Fall of Eve (1929); The Ice Flood (1926); The Lady Objects (1938); The Shield of Honor (1927); The Thin Man (1959); There's Always a Woman (1938); There's That Woman Again (1938); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); This Time for Keeps (1947); Thrill of a Romance (1945); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944).

Born on this day – Henry King:

Henry King

Actor

Director

Producer

January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982

Credits:

23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919); A Bell for Adano (1945); A Bolt from the Sky (1915); A False Friend (1913); A Fugitive from Matrimony (1919); A Game of Wits (1917); A Mexican Tragedy (1913); A Midnight Call (1913); A Perilous Ride (1913); A Romance of the Ozarks (1913); A Sporting Chance (1919); A Tenderfoot Hero (1913); A Woman's Heart (1913); A Yank in the RAF (1941); Abide with Me (1914); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); All the World to Nothing (1918); An Actor's Strategy (1913); Any Woman (1925); Back to Primitive (1913); Beauty and the Rogue (1918); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Big Brother (1916); Bitter Sweets (1914); Black Beauty (1913); Blue Blood and Yellow (1915); Brass Buttons (1919); By Impulse (1913); Called Back (1914); Captain from Castile (1947); Carolina (1934); Carousel (1956); Chad Hanna (1940); Crooked Road (1916); David and Bathsheba (1951); Deep Waters (1948); Dice of Destiny (1920); Eyes That Cannot See (1915); Faith's Reward (1916); For Her Brother's Sake (1913); For the Commonwealth (1915); Fury (1923); Harbor (1930); Haunting Shadows (1919); Hearts or Diamonds? (1918); Hell Harbor (1930); Help Wanted - Male (1920); Her Atonement (1913); Her Father (1913); His Excellency (1914); His Last Crooked Deal (1913); Hobbs in a Hurry (1918); Houses of Glass (1915); I Loved You Wednesday (1933); I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951); In Humble Guise (1915); In Old Chicago (1938); In the Hands of the Law (1917); Jesse James (1939); Jim's Reward (1913); Joy and the Dragon (1916); King of the Khyber Rifles (1953); King Social Briars (1918); Letters Entangled (1915); Life, Love and Liberty (1913); Lightnin' (1930); Little Mary Sunshine (1916); Little Old New York (1940); Lloyd's of London (1936); Love and War in Mexico (1913); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Magic Melody (1913); Margie (1946); Marie Galante (1934); Maryland (1940); Melita's Sacrifice (1913); Merely Mary Ann (1931); My Lips Betray (1933); Nerve (1914); O. Henry's Full House (1952); One Hour Before Dawn (1920); One More Spring (1935); Over the Hill (1931); Partners Again (1926); Pay Dirt (1916); Powers That Prey (1918); Prince of Foxes (1949); Ramona (1936); Remember the Day (1941); Romola (1924); Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925); Sacrificial Fires (1914); Salvage (1921); Saved from Himself (1915); Scepter of Suspicion (1917); Seventh Heaven (1937); Shadows and Sunshine (1916); She Goes to War (1929); Should a Wife Forgive? (1915); Six Feet Four (1919); Social Briars (1918); Some Liar (1919); Sonny (1922); Souls in Pawn (1917); Southern Pride (1917); Stanley and Livingstone (1939); State Fair (1933); Stella Dallas (1925); Sunshine and Gold (1917); Tender Is the Night (1962); The Acid Test (1915); The Apache Kid (1913); The Birthmark (1913); The Black Swan (1942); The Bliss of Ignorance (1915); The Bond Boy (1922); The Bravados (1958); The Breed of the West (1913); The Bride's Silence (1917); The Burden Bearer (1913); The Butterfly (1915); The Camera's Testimony (1913); The Climber (1917); The Country Doctor (1936); The Coveted Heritage (1914); The Crooked Road (1916); The Cruise of the Hell Ship (1914); The Devil's Bait (1917); The Dolls of Intrigue (1915); The Dream of Loco Juan (1914); The Eternal Duel (1914); The Eyes of the World (1930); The Fallen Standard (1915); The Fruit of Folly (1915); The Ghost of Rosy Taylor (1918); The Gunfighter (1950); The Imprint (1914); The Legend of Lovers Leap (1913); The Locked Heart (1918); The Love Liar (1915); The Magic Flame (1927); The Maid of the Wild (1915); The Mainspring (1917); The Mask (1914); The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917); The Mate of the Schooner 'Sadie' (1913); The Measure of a Man (1914); The Medal of Honor (1913); The Message of the Rose (1913); The Mistress of Shenstone (1921); The Moth and the Flame (1913); The Mysterious Hand (1913); The Nemesis (1915); The Oath of Hate (1916); The Outlaw's Gratitude (1913); The Padre's Strategy (1913); The Path of Sorrow (1913); The Pomp of Earth (1915); The Power of Evil (1916); The Power of Print (1914); The Price of Fame (1915); The Pursuit of Pleasure (1915); The Rat (1914); The Sand Lark (1916); The Sands of Life (1914); The Seventh Day (1922); The Silver Lining (1914); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Split Nugget (1913); The Stained Pearl (1916); The Sting of the Lash (1921); The Stranger (1914); The Sun Also Rises (1957); The Test of Manhood (1914); The Tomboy (1915); The Unexpected (1914); The White Dove (1920); The White Sister (1923); The Will o' the Wisp (1914); The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926); The Woman Disputed (1928); The Woman in Room 13 (1932); This Earth Is Mine (1959); This Hero Stuff (1919); To Love and Cherish (1913); Today and Tomorrow (1915); Toil and Tyranny (1915); Tol'able David (1921); Told at Twilight (1917); Turning the Table (1913); Twelve O'Clock High (1949); Twin Kiddies (1917); Uncharted Channels (1920); Untamed (1955); Unto Herself Alone (1915); Up Romance Road (1918); Vengeance of the Dead (1917); Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952); Way Down East (1935); When a Man Rides Alone (1919); When Brothers Go to War (1913); When Fate Was Kind (1914); When He Sees (1913); When Justice Sleeps (1915); When Might Is Right (1916); When the Clock Stopped (1913); When We Were 21 (1921); Where the West Begins (1919); Who Knows? (1916); Who Pays? (1915); Wilson (1944); You've Got to Pay (1913).

Born on this day – Edith Wharton:

Edith Wharton

Writer

Designer

January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920).

Credits:

Books:

A Backward Glance (1934); A Motor-Flight Through France (1908); A Son at the Front (1923); Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (1909); Bunner Sisters (1916); Certain People (1930); Crucial Instances (1901); Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings: 1888–1920 (1995); Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings (1996); Ethan Frome (1911); Fast and Loose: A Novelette (1938); Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915); French Ways and Their Meaning (1919); Ghosts (1937); Here and Beyond (1926); Hudson River Bracketed (1929); Human Nature (1933); In Morocco (1920); Italian Backgrounds (1905); Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904); Madame de Treymes (1907); Madame de Treymes and Others: Four Novelettes (1970); Old New York (1924); Roman Fever and Other Stories (1964); Sanctuary (1903); Shadow of a Doubt (1901); Summer (1917); Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910); The Age of Innocence (1920); The Book of the Homeless (1916); The Buccaneers (1938); The Children (1928); The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton (1998); The Cruise of the Vanadis (1910); The Custom of the Country (1913); The Decoration of Houses (1897); The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904); The Fruit of the Tree (1907); The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973); The Glimpses of the Moon (1922); The Gods Arrive (1932); The Greater Inclination (1899); The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908); The House of Mirth (1905); The Marne (1918); The Mother's Recompense (1925); The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (2007); The Old Maid (1924); The Reef (1912); The Spinster (1921); The Touchstone (1900); The Valley of Decision (1902); The World Over (1936); The Writing of Fiction (1925); Twelve Poems (1926); Twilight Sleep (1927); Verses (1878); Xingu and Other Stories (1916).

Movies and television:

The Buccaneers (2023); Roman Fever (2014); Life (2011); Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (2010); The House of Mirth (2000); Passion's Way (1999); The Buccaneers (1995); The Age of Innocence (1993); Ethan Frome (1992); The Children (1990); Shades of Darkness (1983); Great Performances (1971); The House of Mirth (1981); The DuPont Show of the Month (1960); Matinee Theatre / The House of Mirth (1955–1956); Ponds Theater (1954); General Electric Theater (1953); Goodyear Playhouse (1952); Lights Out / Pomegranate Seed (1951); The Ford Theatre Hour (1951); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Old Maid (1939); Strange Wives (1934); The Age of Innocence (1934); The Marriage Playground (1929); The Age of Innocence (1924); The Glimpses of the Moon (1923); The House of Mirth (1918).

Recommended reading - Killer in the Rain

Killer in the Rain

By Raymond Chandler.

Published by Ballantine Books.

First published 1964.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0345320204

ISBN-13: 978-0345320209

Description:

Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence. – Daily Telegraph.

One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain. – Sunday Times.

Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes. – Anthony Burgess.

Killer in the Rain collects together eight classic short stories by Raymond Chandler.

It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared.

Here then, from the well-thumbed pages of 'Black Mask' and 'Dime Detective Magazine', are eight of his finest stories including 'The Man Who Liked Dogs', 'The Lady in the Lake' and 'Bay City Blues'.

Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whisky, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959.

Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.

His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.

René Descartes, on books:

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

- René Descartes.

On this day in television history - Star Trek: Picard (2020):

Star Trek: Picard

created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer and Alex Kurtzman,

was released in the United States on January 23, 2020.
Music by Jeff Russo and Stephen Barton.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Jeri Ryan, Orla Brady, Annie Wersching, Brent Spiner.