Born on this day – Scrapper Blackwell:

Scrapper Blackwell

Blues singer

Guitarist

February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962

Credits:

Albums:

A Blues (2018); ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 (2010); Blue Night Blues (2000); Blues Before Sunrise + Mr. Scrapper's Blues (2014); Blues Night Blue (2019); Kokomo (2021); Penal Farm Blues (2021); Presenting Scrapper Blackwell (1929); Rocks In My Bed (2016); Scrapper Blackwell - Music History (2021); Scrapper Blackwell 1959-1960 (2005); Scrapper Blackwell Vol. 1 (1928-1932) (2005); The Blues Collective -Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell (2023); The Very Best Of (2009); The Virtuoso Guitar Of Scrapper Blackwell (2006); Trouble Blues (2019); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD A (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD B (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD C (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD D (2008).

Songs:

Alabama Women Blues; Back Door Blues; Be-Da-Da-Bum; Blue Day Blues; Blue Night Blues; Blues Before Sunrise; Cold Blooded Murder; D Blues; Down and Out Blues; Down South Blues; Four Day Rider; Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog; Hard Time Blues; How About Me; How Long Blues No. 1; I Believe I'll Make a Change; I Won't Miss You When You're Gone; Lifeboat Blues; Low Down Dog Blues; Mean Mistreater Mama; My Dream Blues; My Heart Struck Sorrow; My Old Pal; My Old Pal Blues; Naptown Blues; Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; Pack Up Her Trunk Blues; Papa's on the House Top; Scrapper Blackwell; Shady Lane; When the Sun Goes Down; Whiskey Man Blues.

Born on this day – Celia Lovsky:

Celia Lovsky

Actress

February 21, 1897 – October 12, 1979

In Star Trek (1967).

Credits:

36 Hours (1964); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Aimee De Rivery (1955); Airport (1970); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Arrest and Trial (1964); Because You're Mine (1952); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965–1966); Bonanza (1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bright Leaf (1950); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Champ for a Day (1953); Channing (1963); Checkmate (1961); Chicago Deadline (1949); Crash Landing (1958); Crusader (1955); Death of a Scoundrel (1956); Dragnet (1953–1959); Dragnet 1967 (1968); Duel on the Mississippi (1955); Emergency! (1974); Fireside Theatre (1952); Flaming Fury (1949); For the Love of Spock (2016); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Foxfire (1955); Front Row Center (1956); G.E. True (1963); Garrison's Gorillas (1967); General Electric Theater (1957–1960); Going My Way (1962); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Gunslinger (1961); Hank (1965); Harlow (1965); Harrigan and Son (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hitler (1962); Hong Kong (1960); I Mobster (1959); Insight (1965); It Takes a Thief (1970); Johnny Staccato (1960); Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Magnificent Obsession (1954); Make Haste to Live (1954); Man of a Thousand Faces (1957); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970–1974); Me and the Colonel (1958); Michael Shayne (1961); Mr. Lucky (1960); Mystery Is My Business (1954); New York Confidential (1955); Night Into Morning (1951); One Step Beyond (1959); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Passport to Danger (1954); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Producers' Showcase (1956); Public Defender (1955); Rhapsody (1954); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); Riverboat (1960); Rumble on the Docks (1956); Run for Your Life (1967); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sealed Verdict (1948); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Soylent Green (1973); Star Trek (1967); Steve Canyon (1958–1959); Studio 57 (1955); Studio One (1948); Target: The Corruptors (1962); Telephone Time (1956–1957); Texas Lady (1955); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1963); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Big Heat (1953); The Big Valley (1966); The Blue Gardenia (1953); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); The Californians (1958); The Court of Last Resort (1957); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Doomsday Flight (1966); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959–1960); The F.B.I. (1966–1968); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The Flying Nun (1967); The Foxes of Harrow (1947); The Frank Sinatra Show (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Gene Krupa Story (1959); The Great Adventure (1963); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Jumping Jack (1930); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954); The Lineup (1957); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Millionaire (1957–1959); The New Phil Silvers Show (1963); The Opposite Sex (1956); The People Against O'Hara (1951); The Power (1968); The Scarf (1951); The Snake Pit (1948); The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967); The Star and the Story (1955); The Story of Three Loves / Segments: The Jealous Lover / Mademoiselle (1953); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Texan (1960); The Third Man (1959); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Untouchables (1960); The Waltons (1973); This Is the Life (1955); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Tightrope (1960); Trooper Hook (1957); Twilight for the Gods (1958); Wagon Train (1958); While the City Sleeps (1956); Whirlybirds (1958); Zweimal Hochzeit (1930).

Born on this day – Léo Delibes:

Léo Delibes

Composer

February 21, 1836 – January 16, 1891

E. L. Konigsburg, on writing:

Finish.

The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish.

Don't talk about it.

Do it.

Finish.

- E. L. Konigsburg.

On this day in music history - Poèmes, by Renée Fleming (2012):

Poèmes

Album by Renée Fleming,

released February 20, 2012.

Track list:

Messiaen: Poemes pour mi - 7. Les deux guerriers; Messiaen: Poemes pour mi - 8. Le collier; Messiaen: Poemes pour mi - 9. Prière exaucée; Dutilleux: Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou - Il n'y avait que des troncs dechirés...; Dutilleux: Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou - J'ai revé que je vous portais entre mes bras...; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Le temps l'horloge; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Le masque; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Le dernier poème; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge – Interlude; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Envirez-vous; Renée Fleming - Poèmes - Ravel, Messiaen, Dutilleux.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: The Star Witness.

Released February 20, 1959.

Directed by David Lowell Rich.

Written by Leonard Kantor.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Virginia Vincent, Paul Picerni, Terry Becker, Abbey Shelton, Sidney Clute, Mary Gregory, John Perri.

On this day in movie history - The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947 movie & novel):

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

directed and written by Felix E. Feist,

based on the novel by Robert C. Du Soe,

was released in the United States on February 20, 1947.
Music by Paul Sawtell and Roy Webb.

Cast:

Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford, Andrew Tombes, Harry Shannon, Glen Vernon, Marian Carr, William Gould, Josephine Whittell, Phil Warren, Robert Malcolm, Arthur Q. Bryan, Roger Creed, Harry Depp, George Dockstader, Dick Edwards, Sarah Edwards, Dick Elliott, Carl Faulkner, Lee Frederick, Raoul Freeman, Dorothy Granger, Chuck Hamilton, William Joy, Perc Launders, Bert LeBaron, Lee Phelps, Tom Pilkington, Victor Potel, Harry Raven, John Roy, Dick Rush, Cy Slocum, Tex Swan, Minerva Urecal.

Recommended reading:

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

By Robert C. Du Soe.

First published 1938.

Published by Avon Books

ASIN: B00730V9GY

Description:

Screenwriter Du Soe's only novel, about an innocuous fellar name of Steve who gets in a car with the simple, corpulent Furgison. The pair pick up a couple of girls, and only after the bodies pile up does Furgison start to wonder who it is he's riding along with.