Albert Ammons
Pianist
Blues Musician
March 1, 1907 – December 2, 1949
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Born in March – Kathleen Noisette:
Kathleen Noisette
Actress
March 1903 / exact date of birth unknown – April 16, 1935
The Exile (1931); A
Daughter of the Congo (1930); Wages of Sin (1929); When Men Betray (1928).
Born on this day – William Dean Howells:
William Dean Howells
Writer
March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920
Credits:
Books:
A Boy’s Town (1890); A
Chance Acquaintance (1873); A Counsel of Consolation in In After Days: Thoughts
on the Future Life (1910); A Counterfeit Presentment (1877); A Day’s Pleasure
(1876); A Day’s Pleasure, and Other Sketches (1881); A Fearful Responsibility
and Other Stories (1881); A Foregone Conclusion (1875); A Hazard of New
Fortunes (1889); A Letter of Introduction (1892); A Little Swiss Sojourn
(1892); A Modern Instance (1881); A Pair of Patient Lovers (1901); A Parting
and a Meeting (1896); A Previous Engagement (1897); A Sea-Change, or, Love’s
Stowaway (1884); A Traveler from Altruria (1894); A Woman’s Reason (1883); An
Imperative Duty (1891); An Indian Giver (1900); An Open-Eyed Conspiracy (1897);
Annie Kilburn (1889); April Hopes (1887); Between the Dark and the Daylight
(1907); Bride Roses (1893); Certain Delightful English Towns with Glimpses of the
Pleasant Country Between (1906); Criticism and Fiction (1891); Doorstep
Acquaintance, and Other Sketches (1900); Dr. Breen’s Practice (1881); Eighty
Years and After (1919); Evening Dress (1893); Familiar Spanish Travels (1913);
Fennel and Rue (1908); Heroines of Fiction (1901); Hither and Thither in
Germany (1920); Imaginary Interviews (1910); Impressions and Experiences
(1896); Indian Summer (1885); Italian Journeys (1867); Letters Home (1903);
Literary Friends and Acquaintance (1900); Literature and Life (1902); Lives and
Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (1860); London Films (1905);
Miss Bellard’s Inspiration (1905); Modern Italian Poets (1887); Mrs. Farrell
(1921); My Literary Passions (1895); My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms
(1910); My Year in a Log Cabin (1893); New Leaf Mills (1913); Niagara Revisited
12 Years after their Wedding Journey by the Hoosac Tunnel Route (1884); No Love
Lost (1868); Out of the Question (1877); Parting Friends (1911); Poems (1885);
Questionable Shapes (1903); Ragged Lady (1899); Roman Holiday and Others
(1908); Room Forty-Five (1900); Seven English Cities (1909); Sketch of the Life
and Character of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); Stops of Various Quills (1895);
Stories of Ohio (1897); Suburban Sketches (1871); The Albany Depot (1892); The
Coast of Bohemia (1893); The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose
and Verse (1916); The Elevator (1885); The Flight of Pony Baker (1902); The
Garroters (1886); The Kentons (1902); The Lady of The Aroostook (1879); The
Landlord At Lion’s Head (1897); The Leatherwood God (1916); The Minister’s
Charge (1886); The Mother and Father (1909); The Mouse-Trap and Other Farces
(1889); The Mulberries in Pay’s Garden (1906); The Parlor Car (1876); The
Quality of Mercy (1891); The Register (1884); The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885);
The Shadow of a Dream (1890); The Sleeping Car (1883); The Son of Royal
Langbrith (1904); The Story of a Play (1898); The Undiscovered Country (1880);
The Unexpected Guest (1893); The Vacation of the Kelwyns (1920); The Whole
Family (1908); The World of Chance (1893); Their Silver Wedding Journey (1899);
Their Wedding Journey (1872); Three Villages (1884); Through the Eye of the
Needle (1907); Tuscan Cities (1884); Venetian Life (1866); Years of My Youth
(1916).
Movies and television:
Christmas
Every Day (1986); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Mickey’s
Once Upon a Christmas (1999); Studio 57 (1954).
Recommended reading - Making Movies, by Sidney Lumet (1996):
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Making Movies
By Sidney Lumet.
Published by Vintage.
Published 1996.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0679756604
ISBN-13: 978-0679756606
Description:
Why does a director choose a particular script? What must
they do in order to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a
single scene? How do you stage a shootout – involving more than one hundred
extras and three colliding taxis – in the heart of New York’s diamond district?
What does it take to keep the studio honchos happy? From the first rehearsal to
the final screening, Making Movies is a master’s take, delivered with clarity,
candor, and a wealth of anecdote.
For in this book, Sidney Lumet, one of our most
consistently acclaimed directors, gives us both a professional memoir and a
definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing
on forty years of experience on movies that range from Long Day’s Journey
into Night to Network and The Verdict – and with such stars
as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino – Lumet
explains how painstaking labor and inspired split-second decisions can result
in two hours of screen magic.
“Film would be a better place if every director were
required to share with other romancers of film his process. It is a gift to us
all that it is Sidney Lumet, one of American’s greatest filmmakers, who is
sharing his point-of-view.” – Stephen Spielberg.
“Invaluable. . . . I am sometimes asked if there is one
book a filmgoer could read to learn more about how movies are made and what to
look for while watching them. This is the book.” – Roger Ebert, The New York
Times Book Review.
“Remarkable . . . . as dignified as the movies [Lumet] has
made and yet deeply felt and very moving. . . . Anyone who truly loves movies
ought to read what he has to say about them. . . . Delightfully engrossing.” – Los
Angeles Times.
“The film bible from a master. It tells in meticulous
detail the step-by-step process of making a movie. You feel you’re on the set.
A must.” – Quincy Jones.
“Full of energy, enthusiasm and wisdom. . . .
It’s all engrossing because [Lumet] speaks so fervently and opinionatedly about
matters on which he has earned the right to opinions.” - The New Republic.
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