Born on this day – Lucia Bosè:

Lucia Bose

Actress

January 28, 1931 – March 23, 2020

Credits:

One More Time (2013); Capri (2010); I Viceré (2007); Harem Suare (1999); Alta società (1992); Il coraggio di Anna (1992); Le gorille (1990); L'avaro (1990); Volevo i pantaloni (1990); Brumal (1989); Moon Child (1989); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987); Like Peter for his house (1985); The Charterhouse of Parma (1982); The Partridge (1981); Mon enfant, Ma Mère (1981); Violanta (1977); Mrs. Garcia Confesses (1976–1977); The school trips (1976); Lumiere (1976); Down the Ancient Stairs (1975); The Golden Mass (1975); Blood Stains on a New Car (1975); The Legend of Blood Castle (1973); La colonna infame (1973); The Heroes (1973); Nathalie Granger (1972); Arcana (1972); The House of Pigeons (1972); L'ospite (1971); The Double (1971); Something Creeping in the Dark (1971); Ciao Gulliver (1970); Winter in Mallorca (1970); Metello (1970); The Picasso Summer (1969); Fellini Satyricon (1969); Of Love and Other Solitudes (1969); Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969); Nocturno 29 (1969); We Are Not Made of Stone (1968); On the roads of Spain (1966); Testament of Orpheus (1960); This is Called Dawn (1956); Sinfonia D'Amore (1956); Gli sbandati (1955); Death of a Cyclist (1955); Le village Magique (1955); Accadde al commissariato (1954); Concert of Intrigue (1954); Of Life and Love / Marsina stretta (1954); It was lei che lo voleva! (1953); The Lady Without Camellias (1953); Rome 11:00 (1952); Three Girls from Rome (1952); È L'amor che mi rovina (1951); Parigi è sempre Parigi (1951); Story of a Love Affair (1950); Under the Olive Tree (1950).

Born on this day – Jackson Pollock:

Jackson Pollock

Painter

January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956

Born on this day – Augusto Genina:

Augusto Genina

Director

Writer

Producer

January 28, 1892 – September 18, 1957

Louise Brooks (left) with Augusto Genina (right) on the set of Prix de Beauté (1930).

Credits:

Frou-Frou (1955); Maddalena (1954); Three Forbidden Stories (1952); Devotion (1950); Sky over the swamp (1949); Benghazi (1942); The Siege of the Alcazar (1940); Castles in the Air (1939); Naples Under the Kiss of Fire (1937); Frauenliebe - Frauenleid (1937); Blumen aus Nizza (1936); The White Squadron (1936); La gondola aux chimères (1936); Not Forget-me-nots (1935); Vergiss mein nicht (1935); Nous ne sommes plus des Enfants (1934); Ne sois pas jalouse (1932); La femme en homme (1932); The Darling of Paris (1931); Mitternachtsliebe (1931); Les amours de minuit (1931); Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe); (1930); n drama at 16 (1929); Quartier Latin (1929); Liebeskarneval (1928); Remnant (1928); The story of a small Parisian (1928); Die Gefangene von Shanghai (1927); The White Slave (1927); Farewell youth! (1927); The Last Lord (1926); The Extinguished Hearth (1925); The wife Bella (1924); Il Corsaro (1923); Cyrano de Bergerac (1923) Germaine (1923); The sinless sinner (1922); Lucie de Trecoeur (1922); The castle of the Melancholy (1922); A Woman Passed (1922); Husband, wife and... (1921); The chained (1921); The Crisis (1921); A Black Point (1921); The Diabolical (1921); The three sentimental (1921); La douloureuse (1921); The Adventure of God (1920); The warmer (1920); The Wheel of Vice (1920); The Woman and the Corpse (1920); Debt of hatred (1920); The Two Crucifixes (1920); Bel ami (1919); Lucrezia Borgia (1919); The Adventures of Bijou (1919); Noris (1919); The Mask and the Face (1919); The Prince Dell'impossibile (1919); The End of a Vile (1918); The Emigrant (1918); Farewell youth! (1918); Female – Female (1918); The Throne and the Chair (1918); The lie (1918); The torpedoing of Oceania (1917); Kalidaa - the story of a mummy (1917); Tomboy (1917); Firefly (1917); The drama of the crown (1916); Miss Cyclone (1916); His Daughter's Second Husband (1916); The dream of One Day (1916); Cento H.P. (1915); The Last Disguise (1915); A Woman Wills (1915); The Butterfly with the Golden Wings (1915); Jealousy (1915); Midnight (1915); The 13 HP engine (1915); The Florist of Como (1915); The Ring of Siva (1914); The Lovers' Escape (1914); The Conquest of Diamonds (1914); After the New Year's Eve (1914); The Escape of the Diamonds (1914); The Mysteries of Monroe Castle (1914); Youth Triumphs! (1914); The Voice of Innocence (1914); The Little Candle Maker (1914); Lulu (1914); The Word That Kills (1914); The Broken Chain (1913); His wife's wife excellence (1913); Too late! (1912); Beatrix d'Este (1912).

Born on this day – Colette:

Colette

a.k.a.

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Writer

Mime artist

Actress

January 28, 1873 – August 3, 1954

Credits:

Books and plays:

Chance Acquaintances (1952); Chéri (1920); Claudine at School (1900); Claudine in Paris (1901); Gigi (1945); Gigi: Play (1951); Green Sealing Wax (2020); The Collected Stories of Colette (2003); The Last of Cheri aka The End of Cheri (1926); The Vagabond (1911).

Movies and television:

Madelen, she is so much all that (2020); Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (2013); Chéri (2009); Mademoiselle Gigi (2006); The Child and the Spells (2004); Camaradagem (1999); The Child and the Spells (1994); Duo (1990); The second (1990); Wheat in grass (1990); Julie de Carneilhan (1990); Chéri (1988); Gigi (1987); The war of Troy Will Not Take Place (1984); Le roman du samedi (1980); Claudine (1978); The bed canopy (1974); The second (1973); Plainchant (1973); Chéri (1973); Away from It All (1973); Hora once (1969); The Gentle Libertine (1967) The child and Les sortilèges (1967); Kirmizi karanfiller (1962); Drengen og trolderiet (1962) Chéri (1962); École des vedettes (1960); Gigi (1958); Matinée Théâtre (1958); Mitsou (1956); Le ciel de lit (1955); Journey to Italy (1954); Immature Grain Tea (1954); The Seven Deadly Sins (1952) Colette (1951); Chéri (1950); Minne (1950); Julie de Carneilhan (1950); Gigi (1949); Claudine at School (1937); Divine (1935); Ladies Lake (1934) The Vagabond (1932); Mädchen in Uniform (1931); The vagabonda (1918); Claudine at School (1917); Claudine in Paris (1917); Claudine Goes Away (1917); Claudine en ménage (1917); Claudine (1913).

Recommended reading - Jackson Pollock (2010):

Jackson Pollock

By Ellen G. Landau.

Published by Abrams.

Published 2010.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0810984962

ISBN-13: 978-0810984967

Description:

How did Jackson Pollock become a cult figure for the Beat Generation? And what caused his reputation to continue to soar? This compelling and original Abrams classic, now back in print, locates the artist in the continuum of his times, recreating the social and cultural milieu of New York in the 1940s and 1950s. With extensive knowledge of Pollock’s habits (much of it gained through interviews), his reading, his conversation, and the exhibitions he visited, the author retraces many of the far-flung sources of Pollock’s work. A wealth of comparative photographs that illustrate paintings by artists Pollock admired further explains the work of this complex, tragic, and immeasurably influential figure. Pollock’s big, bold canvases are reproduced in five colors to convey the brilliance of his network of tones, his aluminum paint, and his sparkling collage materials. Six gatefolds show his vast horizontal works without distortion and a chronology provides a summary of the major events of Pollock’s life.

Recommended reading - Phantom Lady (1942):

Phantom Lady

By Cornell Woolrich.

Published by Renaissance Literary & Talent.
First published 1942.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1950369781
ISBN-13: 978-1950369782

Description:

Phantom lady, I was with you for six hours last night, but I can't remember what you look like, or what you wore—except for that large orange hat. We sat shoulder to shoulder at a little bar in the east Fifties. We ate dinner together, saw a Broadway show together, shared a cab together.

The bartender, the waiter, the usher, the cab driver—none of them remembers you. The police say I was home strangling my wife at the moment I met you.

You are the only one who can prove my story—but I don't know your name, or where you live. And I can't search for you from a jail cell....

After spending a night on the town with a mysterious woman, a man arrives home to find his wife strangled to death. Now, the only way to prove his innocence and confirm his alibi is to track down the "Phantom Lady" he was with all night. “Cornell Woolrich deserves to be discovered and rediscovered by each generation." – Ray Bradbury Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America's best crime and noir writers, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish or George Hopley. He invented and mastered the genre of "Pulp-Fiction" and wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and full-length novels. One of his most famous stories is It Had to be Murder which was adapted into the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window in 1954. Check out the countless other Woolrich Novels, Novellas and Short Stories, also available as EBooks, from the Estate of Cornell Woolrich and Renaissance Literary & Talent!

Elias Canetti, on writing:

The process of writing has something infinite about it.

Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

- Elias Canetti.