Danielle Darrieux
Actress
Singer
Dancer
May 1, 1917 – October 17, 2017
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Born on this day – Leila Hyams:
Leila Hyams
Actress
Vaudevillian
May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977
Credits:
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a Minute (1935); A Girl in Every Port (1928); Affairs of a Gentleman (1934); Alias
Jimmy Valentine (1928); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Dancing Mothers
(1926); First Aid (1943); Freaks (1932); Gentleman's Fate (1931); Honor Bound
(1928); Horse Play (1933); Hurricane (1929); Island of Lost Souls (1932); Land
of the Silver Fox (1928); Masquerade (1929); May I Come In (1930); Men Call It
Love (1931); New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931); No Ransom
(1934); One-Round Hogan (1927); People Will Talk (1935); Red-Headed Woman (1932);
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Sandra (1924); Saturday's Millions (1933); Schlitzie:
One of Us; Sing Sinner Sing (1933); Spite Marriage (1929); Stepping Out (1931);
Summer Bachelors (1926); Surrender (1931); Sweethearts and Wives (1930); The
Big Broadcast (1932); The Big House (1930); The Bishop Murder Case (1929); The
Branded Sombrero (1928); The Brute (1927); The Bush Leaguer (1927); The
Christmas Party (1931); The Constant Woman (1933); The Crimson City (1928); The
Far Call (1929); The Flirting Widow (1930); The Girl Said No (1930); The Idle
Rich (1929); The Kick-Off (1926); The Phantom of Paris (1931); The Poor Rich
(1934); The Sins of the Children (1930); The Thirteenth Chair (1929); The
Wizard (1927); Tod Browning's 'Freaks': The Sideshow Cinema (2004); Way for a
Sailor (1930); Way Out West (1930); White Pants Willie (1927); Wonder of Women
(1929); Yellow Dust (1936).
Recommended reading - Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz (2002):
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Citizen Kane
By Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Published by Methuen
Drama.
Published 2002.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0413771873
ISBN-13: 978-0413771872
Description:
"A definitive
chronicle of the making of the film" – Sheridan Morley, Films &
Filming.
"Citizen Kane
revolutionised film-making, and the question of its authorship is as important
to the cinema as that of Hamlet to the theatre ... Pauline Kael explains how
the picture came to be made and concludes that the man most responsible for its
creation was not Welles but Herman J. Mankiewicz" – Kenneth Tynan, Observer.
The complete screenplay
of one of the world's most famous and controversial films.
This is the complete
companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to
shock" (Kenneth Tynan) - one of the best-loved and best-known movies in
the history of Hollywood and still the most staggering film debut ever. Not
only was this Orson Welles's first film as actor and director but most of the
cast were also new to the cinema. Yet so controversial was the subject matter
that an $842,000 bribe and the concentrated wrath of the Hearst newspaper
empire combined in an attempt to strangle its distribution. And the authorship
of the film is still a subject of conflict.
Pauline
Kael's long essay, "Raising Kane", dissects a maze of Hollywood lore
to re-evaluate these and many other fascinating stories about the making of
this remarkable film. Her account is followed by the original screenplay,
illustrated with stills and frame enlargements.
Mabel Seeley, on writing:
The only time I'm
pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too
much.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
On this day in music history - Signature – Solo, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2015):
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Signature – Solo
Album by Fiona Joy
Hawkins,
released April 30, 2015.
Track list:
Ceremony;
Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible (Solo Piano); Calling Earth; Invisible
Train; Signature; Once Upon Impossible (Duet); From the Mist; Little Star.
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