Thursday, January 30, 2025

Born on this day – Elsa Martinelli:


Elsa Martinelli


Actress

Model

January 30, 1935 – July 8, 2017

Credits:

Alles Glück dieser Erde (1994); Arrivederci Roma (1990); Astuzia per astuzia (1979); Atelier (1986–1987); Blood and Roses (1960); Cabiria, Priscilla e le alter (1999); Candy (1968); Captain Blood (1960); Ciao, ciao bambina! (Piove) (1959); Cinépanorama (1964); Come imparai ad amare le donne (1966); Costa Azzurra (1959); De l'amour (1964); Diamonds Are Brittle (1965); Domenica in (2006); Donatella (1956); Elsa Martinelli: Il a pris (1968); Every Man Is My Enemy (1967); Festival di Sanremo (1951); Four Girls in Town (1957); French Mistress (1968); Gala de l'Unicef (1966); Gala de l'union (1965–1973); Garofano rosso (1976); Hail, Mafia (1965); Hatari! (1962); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Hinter der Leinwand (1964); I piaceri del sabato notte (1960); If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969); Il barone (1995); Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960); La araucana (1971); La grande farandole (1967); La menace (1961); La mina (1958); La part des lions (1971); L'amica (1969); Le palmarès des chansons (1965); L'or du duc (1965); L'ultima scena (2011); L'uomo col microfono (2005); Madigan's Millions (1968); Maldonne (1969); Marco the Magnificent (1965); Maroc 7 (1967); Once Upon a Crime... (1992); One on Top of the Other (1969); Orgoglio (2004–2006); OSS 117 prend des vacances (1970); Paris aktuell (1969); Pelle viva (1962); Pigmalione 88 (1988); Pop Age (1966); Prisoner of the Volga (1959); Rampage (1963); Reflets de Cannes (1958); Return of the Saint (1979); Rice Girl (1956); Samedi soir (1971); Se vincessi cento milioni / L'indossatrice (1954); Sono un fenomeno paranormale (1985); Stowaway Girl (1957); The 10th Victim (1965); The Belle Star Story / No Time for Love (1968); The Big Night (1959); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The Indian Fighter (1955); The Last Diva (2018); The Oldest Profession / Les Nuits romaines (1967); The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962); The Pleasure Pit (1969); The Red and the Black (1954); The Rogues (1964); The Trial (1962); The V.I.P.s (1963); Tunis Top Secret (1959); Un amore a Roma (1960); Upshaw (1967); V.I.P.-Schaukel / Solarium Transatlantique (1971); Woman Times Seven / Super Simone (1967).

Born on this day – Marilyn Buferd:


Marilyn Buferd


Actress

January 30, 1925 – March 27, 1990

Credits:

Adorable Creatures (1952); Beauties of the Night (1952); Don't Touch the Loot (1954); Earl Carroll Vanities (1945); Fame and the Devil (1949); Fuoco nero (1951); George White's Scandals (1945); Gioventù alla sbarra (1953); Highway Patrol (1956); Io sono il capataz (1951); La cieca di Sorrento (1953); L'inafferrabile 12 (1950); Mademoiselle Gobete (1952); Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba! (1949); Of Human Bondage (1946); Orient Express (1954); Queen of Outer Space (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Strange Stories (1956); The Anatomy of Love / Segment: Don Corradino (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Machine to Kill Bad People (1952); The Millionaire (1957); The Unearthly (1957); The Wayward Wife (1953); The Woman Who Came from the Sea (1954); Tototarzan (1950); Viva il cinema! (1952); Without Reservations (1946).

Born on this day – Claudia Drake:


Claudia Drake


Actress

Singer

January 30, 1918 – October 19, 1997

Credits:

Wagon Train (1958); Calypso Joe (1957); Your Favorite Story (1954–1955); Cavalcade of America (1955); Day of Triumph (1954); Northern Patrol (1953); Racket Squad (1950); The Pace That Thrills (1952); The Cisco Kid (1951); The Cowboy and the Indians (1949); Indian Agent (1948); Lady at Midnight (1948); The Return of Rin Tin Tin (1947); Renegade Girl (1946); Lone Star Moonlight (1946); Lawless Breed (1946); The Gentleman from Texas (1946); The Face of Marble (1946); Live Wires (1946); Detour (1945); The Crimson Canary (1945); Why Girls Leave Home (1945); Bedside Manner (1945); The Lady Confesses (1945); Enemy of Women (1944); Campus Rhythm (1943); False Colors (1943); Border Patrol (1943); Reunion in France (1942); Flying with Music (1942); No Greater Sin (1941); Footlight Parade (1933); Old King Cole (1933).

Recommended reading - The Big Knockover and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett (1981):


The Big Knockover and Other Stories

By Dashiell Hammett.

Published by Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Published 1981.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0140029419
ISBN-13: 978-0140029413

Description:

Nine short stories. Includes the unfinished novel, Tulip, and a memoir by Lillian Hellman. Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.

George R. R. Martin, on books:


A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone,
if it is to keep its edge.

- George R. R. Martin.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

On this day in television history - Justified (2013):


Justified

Season 4. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: This Bird Has Flown.
Released January 29, 2013.
Directed by Bill Johnson.
Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.
Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Ron Eldard, Robert Baker, Jim Beaver, David Dean Bottrell, Joshua Close, Jenn Lyon, David Meunier, Abby Miller, Lindsay Pulsipher, Paul Rae, Navi Rawat, Jeffery A. Baker, Corey Weber.

On this day in movie history - The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996):


The Battle Over Citizen Kane

documentary directed by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein,
written by Thomas Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer,
was released in the United States on January 29, 1996.
Episode from season 8 of the PBS documentary series American Experience.
Narrated by Richard Ben Cramer.
Music by Brian Keane.

Cast:

William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Jimmy Breslin, Richard Ben Cramer, Marion Davies, Leonard de Paur, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard France, William Randolph Hearst, William Herz, Sam Leve, Norman Lloyd, Nancy Loe, Frank Mankiewicz, David McCullough, David Nasaw, Louetta Santucci, John Tebbel, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Vern Whaley, Gloria Widelock, Robert Wise, Jack Carter, Charles Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Cecil B. DeMille, Maurice Ellis, Joan Fontaine, Myrna Loy, Louis B. Mayer, Louella Parsons, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russell, David O. Selznick, Norma Shearer.