Monday, January 27, 2025

Born on this day – Suzanne Ridgeway:


Suzanne Ridgeway


Actress

January 27, 1918 – May 6, 1996

Credits:

3 Ring Circus (1954); 5 Fingers (1952); A Bullet for Joey (1955); A Date with Judy (1948); A Merry Mix-up (1957); A Missed Fortune (1952); A Night in Casablanca (1946); A Night of Adventure (1944); A Star Is Shorn (1939); A Woman's Secret (1949); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); Alias Boston Blackie (1942); All About Eve (1950); An Annapolis Story (1955); Anne of the Indies (1951); April in Paris (1952); Arabian Nights (1942); Arch of Triumph (1948); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Assignment: Paris (1952); Back Street (1941); Barbary Pirate (1949); Bengazi (1955); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956); Big Jim McLain (1952); Black Angel (1946); Blues Busters (1950); Border River (1954); Born to Be Bad (1950); Bowery Buckaroos (1947); Brigadoon (1954); Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940); Brooklyn Orchid (1942); Calamity Jane (1953); California Passage (1950); Captain Pirate (1952); Casbah (1948); Cattle Town (1952); Chained for Life (1952); Citizen Kane (1941); City Beneath the Sea (1953); City of Shadows (1955); Climax! (1954); Club Havana (1945); College Swing (1938); Come on Seven (1956); Counter-Espionage (1942); Cow Town (1950); Cowboy (1958); Cowboy and the Prizefighter (1949); Criss Cross (1949); Cruisin' Down the River (1953); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Dangerous to Know (1938); Death Valley Days (1952); Destination Murder (1950); Double Crossbones (1951); Down Argentine Way (1940); Down Dakota Way (1949); Duchess of Idaho (1950); Duel on the Mississippi (1955); East of Sumatra (1953); El Dorado (1945); Even as IOU (1942); F.B.I. Girl (1951); First Aid (1943); Flying with Music (1942); Force of Arms (1951); Fort Osage (1952); Fort Ti (1953); Fourteen Hours (1951); Foxfire (1955); From Hell It Came (1957); Fun on a Weekend (1947); Gaucho Serenade (1940); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Gilda (1946); Girl Rush (1944); Girls in Chains (1943); Golden Girl (1951); Gone with the Wind (1939); Gunsmoke (1956); H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941); Heaven Only Knows (1947); Her Kind of Man (1946); Here Come the Marines (1952); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Hired Wife (1940); Hit the Ice (1943); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); Hold That Kiss (1938); Hollywood or Bust (1956); Homecoming (1948); Hoodlum Empire (1952); Hot News (1953); Hot Stuff (1956); Hurricane Island (1951); I Was an American Spy (1951); I, the Jury (1953); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); Illegal (1955); Incident (1948); It's a Date (1940); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); It's Always Fair Weather (1955); Jinx Money (1948); Johnny One-Eye (1950); Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949); Jungle Goddess (1948); Khyber Patrol (1954); Lady from Louisiana (1941); Latin Lovers (1953); Lili (1953); Loose Loot (1953); Lost City of the Jungle (1946); Love Is Better Than Ever (1952); Lovely to Look At (1952); Love's A-Poppin' (1953); Lucky Losers (1950); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); Lust for Gold (1949); Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952); Malaya (1949); Mary Ryan, Detective (1949); Mesa of Lost Women (1953); Mexican Hayride (1948); Mighty Joe Young (1949); Millionaire Playboy (1940); Money from Home (1953); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Montana (1950); Morocco (1949); Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938); Mr. Dynamite (1941); Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939); Mummy's Dummies (1948); My Blue Heaven (1950); My Dream Is Yours (1949); My Favorite Spy (1951); My Foolish Heart (1949); My Friend Irma Goes West (1950); My Son, the Hero (1943); Mystery Street (1950); Nancy Goes to Rio (1950); Night Song (1947); No Holds Barred (1952); No Questions Asked (1951); Not as a Stranger (1955); O.S.S. (1946); On Moonlight Bay (1951); On Our Merry Way (1948); On the Riviera (1951); One Too Many (1950); Out Where the Stars Begin (1938); Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951); Panama Hattie (1942); Passport to Danger (1954–1955); Perry Mason (1957); Please Believe Me (1950); Possessed (1947); Prince of Players (1955); Public Defender (1954); Quicksand (1950); Raiders of the Desert (1941); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); Raintree County (1957); Red, Hot and Blue (1949); Ride, Vaquero! (1953); Right Cross (1950); Road to Morocco (1942); Romance in the Dark (1938); Rumpus in the Harem (1956); Ruthless (1948); Saddle Legion (1951); Sailor Beware (1952); Scared Stiff (1953); Sea of Lost Ships (1953); Second Fiddle (1939); September Affair (1950); Serenade (1956); Serpent of the Nile (1953); Show Boat (1951); Sincerely Yours (1955); Sing, You Sinners (1938); Siren of Bagdad (1953); Slightly French (1949); Smart Woman (1948); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Smooth as Silk (1946); So You Want to Learn to Dance (1953); So You Want to Wear the Pants (1952); Something for the Birds (1952); Sorrowful Jones (1949); South Sea Sinner (1950); Strange Lady in Town (1955); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); Strangers on a Train (1951); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Sunny Side of the Street (1951); Suspicion (1957); Take the High Ground! (1953); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949); Tell It to the Judge (1949); Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957); Tennessee's Partner (1955); Tension at Table Rock (1956); That Midnight Kiss (1949); That Night in Rio (1941); That Way with Women (1947); That's Right - You're Wrong (1939); The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1956); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1956); The Beast with Five Fingers (1946); The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Big Punch (1948); The Big Sky (1952); The Big Sleep (1946); The Big Street (1942); The Big Tip Off (1955); The Broken Star (1956); The Buccaneer (1938); The Conspirators (1944); The Desperado (1954); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941); The Fighting Chance (1955); The Fleet's In (1942); The Girl from Jones Beach (1949); The Golden Eye (1948); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Gambini (1937); The House Across the Street (1949); The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939); The Jazz Singer (1952); The Kansas Terrors (1939); The Kissing Bandit (1948); The Lady Eve (1941); The Lady Is Willing (1942); The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Long Night (1947); The Luck of the Irish (1948); The Magic Carpet (1951); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); The Man I Love (1946); The Man with the Golden Arm (1955); The Merry Widow (1952); The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941); The Pace That Thrills (1952); The Parson of Panamint (1941); The Purple Gang (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1952); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The She-Creature (1956); The Steel Lady (1953); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Story of Seabiscuit (1949); The Story of Three Loves / Mademoiselle (1953); The Thrill of Brazil (1946); The Tijuana Story (1957); The Toast of New Orleans (1950); The Walls of Jericho (1948); The West Point Story (1950); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); They Won't Believe Me (1947); Thief of Damascus (1952); Three Daring Daughters (1948); Three Little Words (1950); Three Sailors and a Girl (1953); Thrill of a Lifetime (1937); Timber Queen (1944); Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942); Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951); Tonight We Sing (1953); Top Gun (1955); Tricky Dicks (1953); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Undercurrent (1946); Unfaithfully Yours (1948); Up in Daisy's Penthouse (1953); Uranium Boom (1956); Valentino (1951); Walk a Crooked Mile (1948); Wife Wanted (1946); Wintertime (1943); Women's Prison (1955); You Were Never Lovelier (1942); Young Buffalo Bill (1940); Yukon Gold (1952).

Born on this day – Dorothy Scarborough:


Dorothy Scarborough


Writer

January 27, 1878 – November 7, 1935

Credits:

Written work:

Biographical Essay on the Handbook of Texas / Online Foreword to The Wind, written by Sylvia Ann Grider (1979); Can't Get a Redbird (1929); From a Southern Porch (1919); Fugitive Verses (1912); Humorous Ghost Stories (1921); Impatient Griselda (1927); In the Land of Cotton (1923); On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs (1925); Selected Short Stories of Today (1935); Song Catcher in Southern Mountains; American Folk Songs of British Ancestry (printed posthumously in 1937); Stretch-Berry Smile (1932); The Story of Cotton (1933); The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917); The Unfair Sex (printed in serialized form from 1925–1926); The Wind (1925).

Movie and television:

The Wind (1928); The 100 (2014).

Born on this day – Lewis Carroll:


Lewis Carroll


Writer

January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898

Credits:

30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); A Tangled Tale (1885); Alice in Wonderland (1862); Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1871); Alice through the Looking Glass (1871); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1865); Alicia (1871); Bruno's Revenge (1867); Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1969); For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale (1932); Jabberwocky (1872); Jabberwocky and Other Poems (2012); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 1 (1993); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 2 (1994); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 3 (1995); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 4 (1997); Novelty And Romancement (1925); One White Rabbit (2017); Over the Rainbow (1983); Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869); Red Sky (2014); Sylvie And Bruno (1889); Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893); The Classic Fantasy Collection (2019); The Crocodile (1988); The Hunting of the Snark (1876); The Mad Gardener's Song (1967); The Nursery (1889); The Pig-Tale (1893); The Rectory Umbrella And Mischmasch (1932); The Walrus and the Carpenter (1872); The Wasp In A Wig (1877); Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1899); Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871).

Born on this day – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Composer

January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791

Recommended reading - Silent Film's Last Hurrah (2023):


Silent Film's Last Hurrah

The Remarkable Movies of the Long 1928


By David Meuel.

Published by McFarland.
Published 2023.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1476668957
ISBN-13: 978-1476668956

Description:

Meuel’s latest book marks a specific, prolific time in silent-film history that signaled the end of an era as Hollywood transitioned to sound. This title covers films from the end of 1927 to early 1929. Each chapter details a silent-film star or director and a renowned film of theirs from that period.... Meuel analyzes what made these films special and provides details about the stars’ personal lives and their other notable works.... Film-history fans will enjoy Meuel’s contextualization of some of the greatest silent films and biggest actors.... Great for libraries with lots of movie buffs, especially fans of silent films and classics, and for institutions with film studies programs.” – Library Journal.

This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish who helped bring them to life, even as the art they had taken to remarkable heights was about to be obliterated. It depicts some of the silent medium's most talented filmmakers and their efforts – in the face of inescapable technological change – to give their dying art a rousing last hurrah.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day


January 27

In memory of all who died in the Holocaust.

Plato, on writing:


Writing is the geometry of the soul.

- Plato.