Doug McClure
Actor
May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Born on this day – Joan Swift:
Joan Swift
Actress
May 11, 1933 – June 26, 2016
Credits:
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Sunset Strip (1963–1964); A Majority of One (1961); Adam-12 (1968); Alcoa
Premiere (1962); Bewitched (1969); Brainstorm (1965); Death Valley Days (1957);
Flower Drum Song (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1963); Here's Lucy (1968); I
Spy (1965–1966); Insight (1966); Ironside (1969–1970); Laramie (1963); Lock Up
(1961); Lucy Gets Lucky (1975); Mr. and Mrs. (1964); One More Train to Rob
(1971); Penelope (1966); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Run for Your Life (1967); Slaughterhouse-Five
(1972); Star Trek (1967); Temple Houston (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965);
The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1971); The Bold Ones:
The New Doctors (1969); The Carol Channing Show (1966); The Deadly Trackers
(1973); The F.B.I. (1967); The Family Jewels (1965); The Gale Storm Show: Oh!
Susanna (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1964–1965); The Joey Bishop Show (1962);
The Lively Ones (1962); The Lucy Show (1966–1968); The Munsters (1966); The
Patsy (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1965); Tom, Dick and Mary (1964).
Born on this day – Yvonne Furneaux:
Yvonne Furneaux
Actress
May 11, 1926 – July 5, 2024
Credits:
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noi piace freddo...! (1960); Adventure Theater (1956); Affair in Monte Carlo
(1952); Caccia all'uomo (1961); Carta al cielo (1959); Charge of the Black
Lancers (1962); Cross Channel (1955); Crossed Swords (1954); Enough Rope (1963);
Fellini (1960); Film Fanfare (1956); Film Time (1955); Frankenstein's Great
Aunt Tillie (1984); Grand écran (1964); Hereward the Wake (1965); I 4 tassisti /
Segment: Caccia al Tesoro (1963); Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960); Il
principe dalla maschera rossa (1955); In the Name of the Italian People (1971);
ITV Play of the Week (1957); La Dolce Vita (1960); Lisbon (1956); Lui, lei e il
nonno (1959); Night Train to Milan (1962); Noi che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita (2009);
Nom-de-Plume (1956); Repulsion (1965); Rheingold Theatre (1953); Rommel and the
Plot to Kill Hitler (2006); Secret Agent (1965); Slave Queen of Babylon (1963);
The Baron (1966); The Beggar's Opera (1953); The Champagne Murders (1967); The
Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964); The Genie / Segment: The Genie (1953); The
Girlfriends (1955); The House of the Arrow (1953); The Javanese Dagger (1954); The
Last of the Powerseekers (1969); The Lion of Thebes (1964); The Man in a
Looking Glass (1965); The Man Who Never Was (1966); The Master of Ballantrae
(1953); The Mummy (1959); The Scarlet Pimpernel (1955); The Story of the Count
of Monte Cristo (1961); The Three Princes (1954); The Warriors (1955); The
World of Hammer (1994); Tonight at 8:30 / Segment: Ways and Means (1952); Versuchung
im Sommerwind (1972); Via Margutta (1960); Zehn Minuten für den Kinogänger (1964).
Born on this day – Kansas Joe McCoy:
Kansas Joe McCoy
Blues singer
Musician
Songwriter
May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950
Credits:
Songs:
Botherin'
That Thing; Delta Bound; Evil devil woman blues; Hey Hey Loretta; Hoodoo Women;
If You Take Me Back; If You're a Viper; I'm Going Back Home; Joliet Bound; Lake
Providence Blues; Let's Get Drunk and Truck; Let'sTry It Again; Look Who's
Coming Down The Road; Meat Cutter Blues; Motherless and Fatherless Blues; My
Babe, My Babe; My Garbage Man; Oh! Red; Pile Driver Blues; Pile Drivin' Blues; Root
Hog or Die; That will be alright; That'll Be Alright; The Candy Man; The World
Is a Hard Place to Live In; Time A-Wastin'; Twenty Minutes To Hell; Well, Well;
Wet It; When the Levee Breaks; Why Don’t You Do Right; You Done Tore Your Pants
With me.
Recommended reading - The Natural, by Bernard Malamud (1952):
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The Natural
By Bernard Malamud.
Filmed as The Natural
(1984), directed by Barry Levinson.
Paperback.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
First published 1952.
ISBN: 9780374502003
ISBN 10: 0374502005
ASIN: 0374502005
Description:
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in
1952, is also the first – and some would say still the best – novel ever
written about baseball. In it, Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring
portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material – the story
of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old
daylight baseball era – and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once
grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four
decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done
something which – now that he has done it! – looks as if we have been waiting
for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and
fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in
mythology."
Ann Patchett, on writing:
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head.
It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
- Ann Patchett.
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