Born on this day – Buster Crabbe:

Buster Crabbe

Olympic swimmer

Actor

February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983

Born on this day – Edith Méra:

Edith Mera

Actress

February 7, 1905 – February 24, 1935

Credits:

Count Obligado (1935); The Outbreak (1934); Midnight Prince (1934); Poliche (1934); Fedora (1934); Iris lost and found (1934); Dream Castle (1933); Simone Is Like That (1933); The Premature Father (1933); The Hen (1933); Grandeur and Decadence (1933); I confide ma femme (1933); Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1933); Three Musketeers (1932); A Star Disappears (1932); Shout It from the House Tops (1932); My Lover the Assassin (1932); Miche (1932); Monsieur le maréchal (1931); Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931); Un soir de rafle (1931); The Man Who Murdered (1931); Beauty Cult (1930).

Born on this day – Sinclair Lewis:

Sinclair Lewis

Writer

February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951

First American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Credits:

30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); Adventures in Autobumming (2017); Ann Vickers (1933); Arrowsmith (1925); Babbitt (1922); Bethel Merriday (1940); Cass Timberlane (1945); Dodsworth (1929); Elmer Gantry (1927); Free Air (1919); From Main Street to Stockholm (1953); Gideon Planish (1943); Go East, Young Man (2005); Harri (2016); Hike and the Aeroplane (1912); If I Were Boss (1997); I'm A Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories (1962); It Can't Happen Here (1935); Jayhawker: A Play in Three Acts (1935); Kingsblood Royal (1947); Let Us Play King (1956); Main Street (1920); Mantrap (1925); Moths in the ARC Light (2014); Our Mr. Wrenn (1914); Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1935); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Speed (2014); Storm in the West (1963); The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol (2007); The Cat of the Stars (2014); The Ghost Patrol (2014); The God-Seeker (1949); The Innocents (1917); The Job (1917); The Kidnaped Memorial (2014); The Man From Main Street (1953); The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928); The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (2005); The Prodigal Parents (1938); The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis, 1904-1949 (2007); The Trail of the Hawk (1915); The Willow Walk (1918); Things (2014); Work Of Art (1934); World So Wide (1951); Young Man Axelbrod (2013).

Born on this day – Charles Dickens:

Charles Dickens

Writer

February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

Credits:

Books:

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); A Child’s History of England (1854); A Christmas Carol (1843); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); A Terribly Strange Bed (1852); After Dark (1856); Alfred Hitchcock’s Fatal Attractions (1983); An Accursed Race (1855); Barnaby Rudge (1841); Bessy’s Troubles at Home (1852); Black and White (2015); Bleak House (1853); Bran (2015); Children’s Christmas Stories and Poems (1995); Chilling Ghost Stories (2015); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Company Manners (2018); Cousin Phyllis (1864); David Copperfield (1850); Disappearances (1851); Doctor Marigold (1866); Dombey and Son (1848); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve (2015); French Life (1864); George Silverman’s Explanation (1868); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Expectations (1861); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror (1993); Hard Times (1854); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Hunted Down (2016); John Jago’s Ghost (1874); Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras (1855); Little Dorrit (1855); Lizzie Leigh (1850); London Stories (2013); Master Humphrey’s Clock (1841); Master Humphrey’s Clock, Volume 2 (1841); Miss Gwilt (1880); Miss or Mrs.? (1873); Morton Hall (2004); Mr. Harrison’s Confessions (1851); Mr. Wray’s Cash Box (1852); Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley’s Miscellany (1880); My French Master (2004); My Lady’s Money (1879); No Thoroughfare (1867); No Thoroughfare (1867); Old Curiosity Shop (1841); Our Mutual Friend (1865); Reprinted Pieces (1861); Right at Last (1858); Round the Christmas Fire (2013); Select Short Fiction (1976); Sexton’s Hero (1847); Sights A-Foot (1887); Six Weeks at Heppenheim (2004); Sketches by Boz (1836); Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth (2002); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838); The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange (1855); The Battle of Life (1846); The Black Veil (1836); The Cauldron of Oil (1861); The Chimes (1844); The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1866); The Cricket on the Hearth (1845); The Crooked Branch (2004); The Dead Alive (1873); The Doom of the Griffiths (1858); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The Dream Woman (1855); The Greatest Books of All Time #4 (2017); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Half-Brothers (1859); The Hanged Man’s Bride (1857); The Haunted Hotel (1879); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848); The Heart of John Middleton (2004); The Holly Tree Inn (1850); The Last Stage Coachman (1843); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1839); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Magic Fishbone (1867); The Manchester Marriage (1858); The Moorland Cottage (1850); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870); The Nun’s Story of Gabriel’s Marriage (1853); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Phantom Coach (2014); The Pickwick Papers (1837); The Poor Clare (1856); The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn (1858); The Queen of Hearts (1859); The Scholar’s Story (2016); The Shah’s English Gardener (1852); The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984); The Squire’s Story (1855); The Well of Pen Morfa (2004); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The World’s Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Yellow Mask (1887); Three Ghost Stories (1998); Thrillers (1994); To Be Read at Dusk (1852); Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses (2020); Who Killed Zebedee? (1880); Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (2002); World’s Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); A Christmas Carol - A Dramatic Reading (2014); A Christmas Carol - ITS Troupe 7825 (2020); A Christmas Carol (1908 / 1910 / 1914 / 1923 / 1938 / 1943 / 1947 / 1950 / 1951 / 1960 / 1962 / 1969 / 1971 / 1977 / 1981 / 1982 / 1984 / 1994 / 1997 / 1999 / 2000 / 2009 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020); A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre (1979); A Christmas Carol: 50th Anniversary (2015); A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022); A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play (2020); A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale (2006); A Christmas Carol: The Concert (2013); A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004); A Dark Shadows Christmas Carol (2021); A Dickens of a Time (2020); A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994); A Frozen Christmas Carol (2018); A Ghost Story for Christmas (1976); A Knight for a Night (1909); A Loja de Antigüidades (1963); A Message from Mars (1903); A Modern Christmas Carol (2020); A Modern Oliver Twist (1906); A Moeda de Ouro (1965); A Nintendo Christmas Carol (2014); A Tale of Two Cities (1907 / 1911 / 1917 / 1922 / 1935 / 1957 / 1958 / 1965 / 1980 / 1984 / 1989); A Tale of Two Cities: In Concert (2009); A VHS Christmas Carol (2020); A Yorkshire School (1910); A Youtube Carol (2017); Adventures from the Book of Virtues (2000); Agalia agapis 3 (2024); Alta comedia (1993); An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998); An American Christmas Carol (1979); An Evening of Dickens 'Round the Fire... A Christmas Carol (2018); Armchair Theatre (1959); As Grandes Esperanças (1961); Atop the Fourth Wall (2009); Aus dem Bücherschrank geholt (1960); Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006); Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (1994); Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol' (2008); Bardell Against Pickwick (1938 / 1946); Barnaby Rudge (1911 / 1915 / 1960); Beavis and Butt-Head / Segment: Huh-Huh-Humbug (1995); Bijli (1979); Biography (1996); Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988); Bleak House (1920 / 1922 / 1926 / 1959 / 2005); Boozoo's Ghosts (2020); Boy Called Twist (2004); Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol (1992); Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979); Camera Three (1956–1961); Canto di Natale (2010 / 2020); Cariño, sabes que soy de otro planeta (2022); Carol (2024); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Carovná rybí kosticka (1984); CBC Show of the Week (1964); Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (2020); Charles Dickens's England (2009); Charles Laughton (1952); Christmas Carol (1984); Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001); Christmas Carole (1966); Christmas Glory 2000 (2000); Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol (2013); Christmas Visitations (2015); CineRama (2015); Computer Boy (2015); Conto de Natal (1997); Creepy As Fuck (2020); Cricket on the Hearth (1967); David Copperfield (1911 / 1913 / 1922 / 1935 / 1956 / 1958 / 1965–1966 / 1966 / 1970 / 1974–1975 / 1983 / 1986 / 1993 / 1999 / 2000 / 2009); Death and Rebirth of a Stingy Man (2018); Death of Nancy Sykes (1897); Detective (1969); Dickensian (2015–2016); Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1955); Die Geheimnisse von London - Die Tragödie eines Kindes (1920); Die Glocken von London (1962); Die Pickwickier (1968); Doctors (2016); Dolly Varden (1906 / 1913); Dombais et fils (2007); Dombey & Son (1983); Dombey and Son (1919 / 1969); Dombi i syn (1974); Ebenezer (1998 / 2020); Ebenezer Scrooge (2018); Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa (1955); Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa oder Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest (1960); El guardavías (2004); Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens (1951 / 1983); Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001); Eugene Wrayburn (1911); Every Day Is Christmas (2018); Fagin (1922); Family Theatre (1958); Feliz navidad mama (2002); Festival (1961); Festival of Family Classics (1972); Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol (2022); Fireside Theatre (1951); Fitoor (2016); Foley Marra Studios Presents (2020); Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens (1959); Gabriel Grub (1904); Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013); General Electric Theater (1957); George Burns Comedy Week (1985); Ghost Stories (1987); Going Live! (1990); Great Expectations (1917 / 1934 / 1946 / 1959 / 1967 / 1971 / 1974 / 1981 / 1983 / 1989 / 1998 / 1999 / 2011 / 2013 / 2023); Great Expectations US Poster (2012); Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1987); Grimaldi: The Funniest Man in the World (2017); Hans Christian Andersen - Im Schatten der Märchen (2023); Hard Times (1915 / 1977 / 1988 / 1994); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); Hora once (1970–1972); House of Mouse / Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001); How Bella Was Won (1911); How Does It End? (1952); Hristougenniatiki istoria (2020); Hristougenniatiki metamorfosi (2024); Humphrey and Renshaw - Warning: May Contain Nuts (2007); I riassuntini (2018); Il circolo Pickwick (1968); Il grillo del focolare (1963); In Love With... (2011–2012); ITV Television Playhouse (1960–1963); Jackanory (1966–1976); Jo the Crossing Sweeper (1910 / 1918); John Grin's Christmas (1986); Kapetan Smelo srce (1963); Karácsonyi ének (1964); Karl Wells: A Christmas Carol (2021); Karroll's Christmas (2004); Klein Doortje (1917); Kraft Theatre (1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); La bottega dell'antiquario (1921); Las grandes novellas (1971); Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958); Le grillon du foyer (1922 / 1933 / 1972); Le Noël de M. Scrooge (2017); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1961–1965); Legends & Oddities (2004); Les aventures de Monsieur Pickwick (1964–1965); Les grandes espérances (1968); Les nouvelles aventures d'Oliver Twist (1997–1998); Let's Make a Musical (1977); Lille Dorrit (1924); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955); Little Dorrit (1913 / 1920 / 1934 / 1987 / 2008); Little Emily (1911); Little Nell (1979–1980); Louder with Crowder (2017); Love and the Law (1910); Luigi0730 (2011); Magwitch (2012); Malá Dorritka (1967); Martin Chuzzlewit (1912 / 1914 / 1964 / 1994); Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985); Matinee Theatre (1956); Megalo tileoptiko theama (1975); Mia hristougenniatiki istoria (2020); Micawber (2001–2002); Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983); Mine yndlingsbøger (1970); Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962); Mister Scrooge (1967); Monodrama Theater (1953); Monsters (1990); Mr. Bumble the Beadle (1898); Mr. Horatio Sparkins (1913); Mr. Pickwick in a Double Bedded Room (1913); Mr. Pickwick's Christmas at Wardle's (1901); Mr. Pickwick's Predicament (1912); Mr. Quilp (1975); Mrs. Corney Makes Tea (1913); Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgers (1912); Ms. Scrooge (1997); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); Nancy (1922); Natale a casa Deejay - A Christmas Carol (2004); Nature Cat (2019); New Looney Tunes (2020); Nicholas Nickleby (1903 / 1912 / 1957 / 1968 / 1977 / 1985 / 2002); Nieznana opowiesc wigilijna (2000); Non è mai troppo tardi (1953); Novela (1965–1976); Nuestro amigo el libro (1964); O Grilo da Lareira (1960); O Rolfi ston Peiraia No. 2 (2017); O Velho Scrooge (1963); Old Scrooge (1913); Oliver & Company (1988); Oliver Touist (1997); Oliver Twink (2007); Oliver Twist (1907 / 1909 / 1910 / 1911 / 1912 / 1916 / 1922 / 1933 / 1948 / 1955 / 1960 / 1962 / 1974 / 1982 / 1985 / 1997 / 1999 / 2005 / 2007 / 2022 / 2023); Oliver Twist, Jr. (1921); Oliver! (1968 / 2014); Olivia Twist (2014); Omnibus (1952–1953); One Word Christmas Carol (2021); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Os irmãos Dombey (1959); Our Mutual Friend (1958–1959 / 1976 / 1998); Ouvrez les guillemets (2017); Pan Pickwick (1987); Perry Mason (1966); Pickwick (1969); Pickwick Papers (1985); Pickwick Versus Bardell (1913); Pikvikskiy klub (1986); Ponds Theater (1953); Príbeh se starou lenoskou (1972); Radio Story Hour (2024); Radioteatro de Navidad de la Cadena Ser (2013–2016); Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1978); Rich Man's Folly (1931); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Santa World: Christmas Bedtime Stories (2018); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2024); Scrooge (1922 / 1928 / 1935 / 1970 / 1978); Scrooge and Marley (2001); Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022); Scrooge: A Christmas Sarah (1990); Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost (1901); Scrooged (1988); Shadows at the Door (2019); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Shoestring Theatre (1960); Shower of Stars (1954–1955); Siesta Z (2017); Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979); Smike! (1973); Society of Radio Theatre (2022); South Park (2000); Spirited (2022); Starozitníkuv krám (1980); Store forventninger (1922); Story of the Christmas Carol (1955); Storyboard (1989); Sunday Story (1963); Suspense (1952–1953 / 2019); Sverchok na pechi (1915); Tayna Edvina Druda (1980); Television Theater (1958–1998); Tense Moments from Great Plays / Segment: Bleak House (1922); Tense Moments with Great Authors / Segments: Nancy / Fagin / Scrooge / A Tale of Two Cities (1922); The Abridged Works of Charles Dickens (2016); The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1987); The Alcoa Hour (1955–1956); The Angry Video Game Nerd (2007); The Bible: The Amazing Book (1988); The Boy and the Convict (1909); The Charlie Drake Show (1960); The Chimes (1914 / 1999); The Christmas Carol (1949); The Cricket on the Hearth (1909 / 1914 / 1923); The Danny Thomas Hour (1967); The Death of Poor Joe (1901); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958–1959); The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist (1980); The Gospel According to Scrooge (1983); The Gumby Show (1960); The Haunted Man (2022); The Jetsons (1985); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 / 1982 / 2001); The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012); The Lonely Man (2014); The Magic Fishbone (1955); The Magic of Charles Dickens (1967); The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017); The Merry Christmas (1955); The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992); The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2000); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1909 / 1914 / 1960 / 1993 / 2012); The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story (1992); The Old Curiosity Shop (1909 / 1911 / 1912 / 1913 / 1921 / 1934 / 1962–1963 / 1979–1980 / 1984 / 1995 / 2007); The Only Way (1925 / 1948); The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019); The Pickwick Papers (1913 / 1952–1953 / 1985); The Pickwick Papers / Part Three (1913); The Picture of Dorian Gray (2023); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Reader (2008); The Real Ghostbusters (1986); The Right to Be Happy (1916); The Signal Man (2016); The Signal Man by Charles Dickens (2022); The Signalman (2015); The Six Million Dollar Man (1976); The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol (2011); The Stingiest Man in Town (1978); The Tale of Gabriel Grub (2004); The Virtue of Rags (1912); Thomas & Friends (1986); Tohtoritehtaan saituri ja yliopistokaupungin valot (2018); Twist (2003 / 2021); Twist Olivér (1919); Un Cuento de Navidad (2020); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); VeggieTales: An Easter Carol (2004); VHS Christmas Carol: Live! (2022); VHS Christmas Carols (2023 / 2024); Vor fælles Ven (1921); Wagon Train (1960); Wishbone (1995–1997); Xena: Warrior Princess (1996); Yellow River (2020); Your Show Time (1949); Zapiski Pikvikskogo kluba (1972).

Recommended reading - The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard (1969):

The Big Bounce

By Elmore Leonard.

Published by Mariner Books.

First published 1969.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062184288

ISBN-13: 978-0062184283

Description:

Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attentions to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match – and more – in Nancy. She's a rich man's plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-crosses are the name of this game – and it's going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive . . . each other.

Saul Bellow, on writing:

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

- Saul Bellow.

On this day in movie history - Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981):

Fort Apache, The Bronx

directed by Daniel Petrie,

written by Heywood Gould,

was released in the United States on February 6, 1981.

Music by Jonathan Tunick.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Ed Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, Pam Grier, Kathleen Beller, Tito Goya, Miguel Piñero, Jaime Tirelli, Clifford David, Sully Boyar, Dominic Chianese, Michael Higgins, Paul Gleason, Randy Jurgensen, Gilbert Lewis, Cleavant Derricks, Reynaldo Medina, Norman Matlock.