Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Born on this day – Jackie Gleason:


Jackie Gleason


Actor

Comedian

Writer

Composer

February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987

Credits:

Nothing in Common (1986); Izzy & Moe (1985); Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (1983); Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983); The Sting II (1983); The Toy (1982); Smokey and the Bandit II (1980); Smokey and the Bandit (1977); Mr. Billion (1977); Three for Two (1975); How Do I Love Thee? (1970); Don't Drink the Water (1969); How to Commit Marriage (1969); Skidoo (1968); Here's Lucy (1968); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1968); Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1965); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962); Gigot (1962); The Hustler (1961); The Secret World of Eddie Hodges (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Studio One (1953–1955); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Red Skelton Hour (1953–1954); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); Musical Comedy Time (1951); The Desert Hawk (1950); The Life of Riley (1949–1950); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Orchestra Wives (1942); Escape from Crime (1942); Larceny, Inc (1942); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942); Lady Gangster (1942); All Through the Night (1942); Steel Against the Sky (1941); Navy Blues (1941).

Born on this day – Robert Alda:


Robert Alda


Actor

Singer

Dancer

Director

February 26, 1916 – May 3, 1986

Credits:

Amanda's (1983); Quincy M.E. (1977–1983); Matt Houston (1983); Trapper John, M.D. (1982); Private Benjamin (1982); Days of Our Lives (1981–1982); The Love Boat (1981); Code Red (1981); Beyond Westworld (1980); Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980); Lucy Moves to NBC (1980); M*A*S*H (1975–1980); The White Shadow (1980); The Dukes of Hazzard (1980); The Incredible Hulk (1978–1979); The Facts of Life (1979); But Mother! (1979); Laverne & Shirley (1979); Supertrain (1979); Every Girl Should Have One (1978); Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978); Fame (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); The Rockford Files (1978); Wonder Woman (1978); Sword of Justice (1978); The Squeeze (1978); The Rock Rainbow (1978); Fantasy Island (1978); The Amazing Spider-Man (1978); Perfect Gentlemen (1978); Police Story (1975–1978); The Tony Randall Show (1977); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); Phyllis (1977); Holiday Hookers (1976); Bittersweet Love (1976); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); I Will... I Will... For Now (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Kojak (1975); The Invisible Man (1975); Last Hours Before Morning (1975); The House of Exorcism (1975); Cagliostro (1975); Rhoda (1974); Get Christie Love! (1974); The Serpent (1973); Emergency! (1973); Here's Lucy (1970–1971); Julia (1970); Mission: Impossible (1970); The Name of the Game (1970); The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969); Ironside (1967–1969); N.Y.P.D. (1968); That Girl (1968); Judd for the Defense (1967); All Woman (1967); The Lucy Show (1964); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); Musketeers of the Sea (1962); Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino (1962); La padrona di raggio di luna (1961); Force of Impulse (1961); The Devil's Hand (1961); Revenge of the Barbarians (1960); Daughter of Cleopatra (1960); Un militare e mezzo (1960); Tales of the Vikings (1959); Naked City (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); The Millionaire (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Pursuit (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Playhouse 90 (1958); Matinee Theatre (1957); Robert Montgomery Presents (1953–1957); Can Do (1956); Secret File, U.S.A. (1955); Assignment Abroad (1955); The Robert Alda Show (1955); Beautiful But Dangerous (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1952–1953); The Gulf Playhouse (1952); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Love of Life (1951); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); Two Gals and a Guy (1951); Your Story Theatre (1951); Mister Universe (1951); Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950); Holiday Rhythm (1950); Homicide (1949); Your Show Time (1949); April Showers (1948); Nora Prentiss (1947); The Man I Love (1946); The Beast with Five Fingers (1946); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Cinderella Jones (1946); Rhapsody in Blue (1945).

Born on this day – Victor Hugo:


Victor Hugo


Writer

Politician

February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885

Credits:

Written work:

Amy Robsart (1821); Cast Up By the Sea (1879); Cromwell (1827); Hernani (1830); History of a Crime (1877); How to Be a Grandfather (poems) (1877); Les Miserables (1862); Marion De Lorme (1831); Mary Tudor (1833); Ninety-Three / aka Quatrevingt-Treize (1874); Ruy Blas (1838); Selected Poetry (poems) (2001); The Distance, the Shadows (poems) (1997); The Hunchback of Notre Dame / aka Notre Dame de Paris (1831); The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829); The Man Who Laughs / aka L’Homme qui rit (1869); The Toilers of the Sea / aka Les Travailleurs de la Mer (1866); Things Seen / aka Choses vues (1887).

Movies and television:

A csavargó (1918); A Fool's Revenge (1909); A New Life (1909); Aa mujô - Dai ippen: Hôrô no maki (1923); Aa mujô - Dai nihen: Shichô no maki (1923); Aa mujô re mîzerabûru dainihen (1923); Aa mujô: kôhen (1929); Aa mujô: zenpen (1929); AKA (2002); Al Bouasa (1978); Alagna: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné (2014); Alta comedia (1970–1972); Angelo, tyran de Padoue (2009); Arm Joe (1998); Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (2009); Binavayan (1997); Biography (1996); Bob herceg / Musical TV Theater (1987); Caccia all'uomo (1948); Choses vues (1985); Cineficción Radio (2021); Comédie-Française in cinemas (2018); Comédie-Française, derrière le rideau (2020); Delusions of Grandeur (1971); Der König amüsiert sich (1918); Der rote Henker (1920); Die Liebe und die Königin (1977); Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996); Don Caesar de Bazan (1915); Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2021); El rey se divierte (1944); Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1985); Encounter (1958); Ernani (1981 / 1982 / 2007); Esmeralda (1905 / 1922); French Movie (2016); Gavroche (1987); Gavrosh (1937 / 1986); Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto, Melodramma in three acts (2008); Great Performances (1995); Great Performances at the Met (1987–2022); Hernani (1910 / 1911 / 1961 / 1975); Hugo the Hunchback (1910); Hunchback (1983); I riassuntini (2018); Il gobbo di Notre Dame (1998); Il tiranno di Padova (1946); Invitation au voyage (2020–2022); Janbarujan: kohen (1931); Janbarujan: Zenpen (1931); Jean Valjean (1961); Jean Valjean monogatari (1979); Kozete (1977); La conscience (1987); La déroute (1957); La Gioconda (1958 / 1979 / 1986 / 1988 / 2013); La joie de vivre (1956); La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède (1982); La régularité est le goût de la médiocrité (2016); La tragedia di Pulcinella (1913); Lail Almosaferin (2000–2002); Le crucifix (1909); Le débutant (1986); Le dernier jour d'un condamné (1985); Le Golden Show (2013); Le mariage de Quascimodo (2013); Le miroir à trois faces: Rigoletto (1966 / 1968); Le roi s'amuse (1909); Le téléthéâtre de Radio-Canada (1962); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1961–1963); Les Contemplations de Victor Hugo (2022); Les disparus de St. Agil (1938); Les Misérables (1888 / 1909 / 1912 / 1917 / 1922 / 1925 / 1934 / 1935 / 1943 / 1952 / 1958 / 1964 / 1967 / 1972 / 1978 / 1982 / 1988 / 1995 / 1998 / 2000 / 2012 / 2018–2019); Les Miserables (Part I) (1909); Les miserables (Part II) (1909); Les misérables (Part III) (1909); Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010); Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913); Les Misérables, Part 2: Fantine (1913); Les Misérables, Part 3: Cosette (1913); Les Misérables, Part 4: Cosette and Marius (1913); Les Misérables: Flag of Love and Liberty (1950); Les Misérables: Gods and Demons (1950); Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette (2007); Les pauvres gens (1938); Les travailleurs de la mer (1918); L'exilé (2002); L'homme qui rit: Creating the Play (2019–2020); Los miserables (1973 / 1981 / 2014); Lucrezia Borgia (1977 / 1980 / 1994 / 2009 / 2013); L'uomo che ride (1966); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977–1978); Mangeront-ils? (1957); Maria Tudor (1920 / 1917 / 1966); Marion de Lorme (1912 / 1918); Marion Delorme (1919 / 1967); Mashup (2021); Medallion Theatre (1953); Mest shuta (1993); Mil francos de recompense (1965); Mille franchi di ricompensa (1964); Monodrama Theater (1953); Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002); Notre-Dame de Paris (1996 / 1998); Novela (1964–1972); Nuestro amigo el libro (1964); O anthropos pou gela (2021); O Corcunda de Notre Dame (1957); On verra demain: Excursion en procrasti-nation (2019); Os Miseráveis (1958 / 1967); Par coeur (1998); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Plight of the Poor (1950); Poèmes à voir (2004); Portrait souvenir (1961); Prestige de la musique (1969); Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999); Quatre-vingt-treize (1921 / 1962); Return to Manhood (1957); Rigoletto (1909 / 1946 / 1963 / 1967 / 1977 / 1981 / 1982 / 1987 / 1989 / 2001 / 2003 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2019); Rigoletto a Mantova (2010); 'Rigoletto' di Giuseppe Verdi (1987); Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Ruy Blas (1909 / 1914 / 1948 / 1965 / 1972 / 2002 / 1912); Sea Devils (1953); Sefiller (1967); Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Kanketsu Ban: Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette Part 2 (2011); Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Kanketsu Ban: Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette Part 1 (2011); Sirakaruwa (1957); Spectacle d'un soir (1967); St Joseph's Convent Documentary (2017); Super Hunchback (1992); Tausend Francs Belohnung (1974); Teatro de siempre (1967); Television Theater (1955–1997); Tempesta su Parigi (1948); Tense Moments from Great Plays / Notre Dame de Paris / Segments: Esmeralda; Les Misérables (1922); The Bishop's Candlesticks (1913 / 1929 / 1949); The Bishop's Treasure (1952); The Caped Crusader (2021); The Darling of Paris (1917); The Duke's Jester or A Fool's Revenge (1909); The Giant (1938); The Hunchback Bee of Notre Dame (2020); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911 / 1923 / 1939 / 1956 / 1966 / 1976 / 1982 / 1986 / 1996 / 1997); The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002); The King's Jester (1941); The Man Who Laughs (1921 / 1928 / 1971 / 2012); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2012–2022); The Ordeal (1909); The Price of a Soul (1909); The Royal Opera: Rigoletto (2022); The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The Toilers (1919); Toilers of the Sea (1923 / 1936); Torquemada (1976); Une Dame de Coeur (2004); Variations (1962); Verdi: Rigoletto (1961 / 2014 / 2016 / 2022); Whatever Happened to My Revolution (2018); Who's to blame? (2014); Wishbone (1995); Your Show Time (1949).

Recommended reading - The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century (2014):


The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century

By Otto Penzler.
The Best American Series.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Published 2014.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0544302222
ISBN-13: 978-0544302228

Description:

An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre’s founding century.

With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It’s a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that pioneered the form, such as Anna Katharine Green, the godmother of mystery fiction, and the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. Of course, Penzler includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” recognized as the first detective story, and with thirty-three stories spanning the years 1824–1899, nowhere else can readers find such a surprising, comprehensive take on the evolution of the American mystery story.

Victor Hugo, on books and reading:


He never went out without a book under his arm,
and he often came back with two.

- Victor Hugo.

Paulo Coelho, on writing:


I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

- Paulo Coelho.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

On this day in music history - Sulla Riva, by Amy Lauren (2016):


Sulla Riva

Album by Amy Lauren,
released February 25, 2016.

Track list:

Mahogany Cider; Black Creek Trail; Where Rivers Meet; Emmerson's Ballad; Bridges on River Road; Rain Rhythm; White Feather's Tale; Lavender Clay; Sulla Riva; Waterline; Towards the Sea; Let Waters Rage; The Autumnal Sessions.