Born on this day – Margery Allingham:

Margery Allingham

Writer

May 20, 1904 – June 30, 1966

Credits:

Books:

A Brief History of Witchcraft (1998); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Surprise for Christmas (2020); A Very Murderous Christmas (2018); Black Plumes (1940); Blackkerchief Dick (1923); Bodies from the Library 2 (2019); Bodies from the Library 6 (2023); Canine Crimes (1993); Capital Crimes (2015); Cargo of Eagles (1968); Christmas Crimes (1996); Classic Christmas Crime Stories (2023); Coroner's Pidgin / aka Pearls Before Swine (1945); Crime and Mr Campion (1959); Crimson Snow (2016); Dance of the Years / aka The Gallantrys (1943); Dancers in Mourning / aka Who Killed Chloe? (1937); Deadlier / 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women (2017); Deadly Duo / aka Take Two at Bedtime (1949); Death of a Ghost (1934); Detective Duos (1997); Fifty Best Mysteries (2004); Flowers for the Judge (1936); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Hide my Eyes / aka Tether's End (1958); Look to the Lady / aka The Gyrth Chalice Mystery (1931); Miraculous Mysteries (2017); More Work for the Undertaker (1948); Mr Campion, Criminologist (1977); Mr. Campion and Others (1937); Mr. Campion's Clowns (1967); Mr. Campion's Falcon / aka Mr. Campion's Quarry (1969); Mr. Campion's Farthing (1969); Mr. Campion's Lady (1965); Murder at Christmas (2019); Murder at the Manor (2016); Murder in a Heatwave (2023); Murder In Midsummer (2019); Murder in Midwinter (2020); Murder on a Winter's Night (2021); Murder On Christmas Eve (2017); Murder Under the Christmas Tree (2016); Murder Under the Mistletoe (1992); My Friend Mr Campion (2011); Mysterious Pleasures (2003); Mystery for Christmas (1993); Mystery Mile (1930); Nine Detective Stories (1964); No Love Lost (1954); Police at the Funeral (1931); Rogues' Holiday (1935); Safer Than Love (1954); Serpents in Eden (2016); Silent Nights (2015); Six Against the Yard (1989); Sweet Danger / aka The Fear Sign (1933); The Allingham Case-Book (1969); The Allingham Minibus / aka Mr. Campion's Lucky Day and Other Short Stories (1973); The Beckoning Lady / aka The Estate of the Beckoning Lady (1955); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Case of the Late Pig (1937); The Casebook of Mr Campion (1947); The China Governess (1962); The Crime At Black Dudley / aka The Black Dudley Murder (1929); The Darings of the Red Rose (1995); The Devil and Her Son (1936); The Fashion in Shrouds (1938); The Man of Dangerous Secrets / aka Other Man's Danger (1933); The Margery Allingham Omnibus (1983); The Mind Readers (1965); The Mysterious Mr. Campion (1963); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Patient at Peacocks Hall (1954); The Return of Mr. Campion (1989); The Tiger in the Smoke (1952); The White Cottage Mystery (1928); Traitor's Purse (1941); Wanted: Someone Innocent (1946); Water in a Sieve (1925).

Movies and television:

Dancers in Mourning (1959); Death of a Ghost (1960); Detective (1968); Die Kriminalerzählung (1973); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1962); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Mystery!: Campion (1989–1990); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); Panorama (1958); Room to Let (1950); The Unforeseen (1959); Tiger in the Smoke (1956).

Born on this day – Estelle Taylor:

Estelle Taylor

Actress

May 20, 1894 – April 15, 1958

Credits:

A Broadway Saint (1919); A California Romance (1922); A Fool There Was (1922); Bachelor Mother (1939); Bavu (1923); Blind Wives (1920); Call Her Savage (1932); Cimarron (1931); Desire (1923); Don Juan (1926); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924); Editor's Roundtable (1949–1952); Footfalls (1921); Forgive and Forget (1923); Forgotten Commandments (1932); Frisco Kid (1935); Hollywood (1923); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Honor Bound (1928); Kings of the Ring (1999); Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing (2000); Lady Raffles (1928); Liliom (1930); Manhattan Madness (1925); Mary of the Movies (1923); Monte Cristo (1922); New York (1927); Only a Shop Girl (1922); Passion's Pathway (1924); Phantom Justice (1924); Playthings of Desire (1924); Pusher-in-the-Face (1929); Rhythm Roundup (1937); Screen Snapshots (1926); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Show People (1928); Some of the Greatest (1955); Street Scene (1931); Street Scene (1931); The Adventurer (1920); The Alaskan (1924); The Golden Shower (1919); The Lights of New York (1922); The Revenge of Tarzan (1920); The Singapore Mutiny (1928); The Southerner (1945); The Ten Commandments (1923); The Tower of Jewels (1919); The Unholy Garden (1931); The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 (1930); The Western Limited (1932); The Whip Woman (1928); Thorns and Orange Blossoms (1922); Tiger Love (1924); Twinkle Twinkle (1925); Wandering Footsteps (1925); Where East Is East (1929); While New York Sleeps (1920).

Born on this day – Honoré de Balzac:

Honoré de Balzac

Writer

May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850

Credits:

Books:

Gobseck (1830); A Second Home (1830); Sarrasine (1830); An Episode Under The Terror (1830); The Elixir of Life (1830); Study of a Woman (1830); A Passion in the Desert (1830); The Red Inn (1831); The Recruit (1831); Maitre Cornelius (1831); The Hidden Masterpiece (1831); The Magic Skin (1831); Colonel Chabert (1832); The Vicar Of Tours (1832); History of the Thirteen (1833); The Old Maid, [and] the Cabinet of Antiquities (1833); The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1833); The Illustrious Gaudissart (1833); The Country Doctor (1833); A Drama on the Seashore (1834); Father Goriot (1835); The Commission In Lunacy (1836); A Daughter Of Eve (1838); Beatrix (1838); Scenes from a Courtesan's Life / A Harlot High and Low (1838); The Village Rector (1839); The Celibates (1840); The Physiology of Marriage (1841); Catherine De Medici (1841); A Start In Life (1842); The Two Brothers (1842); A Man of Business (1844); Modeste Mignon (1844); Unconscious Comedians (1846); The Chouans (1929); The Last Fay (1823); The Quest Of The Absolute (1834); Seraphita (1834); Melmoth réconcilié (1835); Father Goriot and M. Gobseck (1835); La Rabouilleuse (1840); Illusions perdues (1843); Le Cousin Pons (1847); The Country Parson (1896); About Catherine de Medici (1900); Eugénie Grandet (1914); Père Goriot (1950); Cousin Bette (1965); The Black Sheep (1976); Lost Illusions (1976); The Wild Ass's Skin (1977); The Unknown Masterpiece (1983); Old Goriot (1987); Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (1989); The Lily of the Valley (1989); A Woman Of Thirty (2000); My Journey from Paris to Java (1832); After Dinner Stories from Balzac (1832); The King's Sweetheart, The Maid of Thilouse, and The Reproach (1832); Juana, and the Red Inn (1833); The Napolean of the People and El Verdugo (1833); Massimilla Doni and Le Chef D'Oeuvre Inconnu (1839); Tales of the Napoleonic Era (1841); A Tragedy by the Sea and Other Stories (1842); A Marriage Settlement, And, Modeste Mignon: And Other Stories (1844); The Member For Arcis, The Seamy Side Of History, And Other Stories Part 2 (1847); The Atheist's Mass, and Other Stories (1986); Ten Droll Tales (1987); Domestic Peace (1989); The Commission in Lunacy, and Pierre Grassou (2006); The Exiles, and Other Short Stories (2006); The Celibates And Other Stories (2008); At The Sign Of The Cat And Racket / The Ball At Sceaux / The Purse / Madame Firmiani / Pierrette (2009); Honore de Balzac, Vol. 8: Provincial Life (2015); The Magic Skin. the Hidden Masterpiece (2015); The Country Parson and Albert Savaron (2015); The Chouans; The Gondreville Mystery, and Other Stories (2018); Treatise on Elegant Living (1830); Two Poets. Lost illusions part 1 (1837); 65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories (2015); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Classic Cat Stories (2020).

Movies and television:

1812, Gräfin Vandières (1926); A vörös vendégfogadó (1965); Adieu (1982); Albert Savarus (1993); Amore e la Maschera (1920); Ártatlan vagyok! (1916); Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (2009); Au théâtre ce soir (1976–1978); Aus dem Bücherschrank geholt (1965); Balzac (2015); Balzac: Gobseck (1969); Béatrix (1967); Black Venus (1983); Bratranec Pons (1973); Caesar Birotteau (1911); Camera Three (1958); Camino de Sacramento (1946); Cesare Birotteau (1921); Chabert ezredes (1987); Chouans! (1988); Colonel Bridau (1917); Colonel Chabert (1994); Conrad Nagel Theater (1955); Cousin Bette (1971 / 1998); Cousin Pons (1914); Cross of Gold (1965); Das Geld der Restauds (1964); Das Landhaus (1965); Das Maskenfest des Lebens (1918); Das Spiel vom Tode (1918); Den hvide djævel (1916); Den underbara lögnen (1955); Der Bagnosträfling (1921); Der Bagnosträfling (1949); Der Fächer der Madame de Pompadour (1964); Der Galeerensträfling (1919); Der Macher oder Warten auf Godeau (1974); Der Schwur (1963); Der Spekulant (1978); Desire (1920); Die Dreizehn (1918); Die Geschäfte des Herrn Mercadet (1965); Die Herzogin von Langeais (1960); Die Marquise von Clermont (1922); Die unheimlichen Wünsche (1939); Die wäscherin von Portillon (1984 / 1986); Divertimento (1992); Druh z vojny (1967); El regreso (1976); El Verdugo (1920); El verdugo (1948); Erotikon (1994); Eugenia Grandet (1918 / 1953 / 1910 / 1946 / 1956 / 1965–1966 / 1968 / 1994 / 2021); Eversti Chabert (1964); Ferragus (1910 / 1920 / 1923); Ficciones (1973–1974); Fireside Theatre (1949); Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen (1920); Gobseck (1924 / 1937 / 1985 / 1987); Graf Chargon (1924); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Himself as Herself (1967); Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau (1977); Honor of the Family (1931); Hora once (1970–1972); Human Comedy in Tokyo (2008); If Women Only Knew (1921); Il colonnello Chabert (1920); Il tuo piacere è il mio (1973); Illusions perdues (1966); Illusions Perdues (2015); Intimità proibita di una giovane sposa (1970); Invitation au voyage (2022); ITV Television Playhouse (1957); Karriere in Paris (1952); Kolonel Chabert (1961); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1951); Kuzen Pons (1978); La belle noiseuse (1991); La cousine Bette (1928); La Cousine Bette (1964); La donna di trent'anni (1920); La duchesse de Langeais (1995); La falsa amante (1920); La fausse maîtresse (1942); La femme abandonee (1992); La figlia dell'avaro (1913); La goccia di sangue (1910); La grande Bretèche (1960); La marâtre (1918); La peau de chagrin (1980); La piel de Zapa (1943 / 1964); La Rabouilleuse (1944); La rabouilleuse (1963); La reginetta Isotta (1918); La storia dei tredici (1917); L'auberge rouge (1910); L'avvoltoio (1920); Le bouton de rose (1971); Le club des Treize (1914); Le colonel Chabert (1911 / 1943); Le cousin Pons (1924 / 1976); Le curé de Tours (1980); Le curé de village (1969); Le faiseur (1965 / 1999); Le lys dans la vallée (1970); Le martyr calviniste (1913); Le père Goriot (1910 / 1921 / 1945 / 1972); Le réquisitionnaire (1968); Le roman du samedi (1981); Les amours romantiques (1983); Les arrivistes (1960); Les paysans (1909); Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (1960 / 1982 / 2023); Liebe (1927); L'interdiction (1993); Los libros (1977); Lost Illusions (2021); Luca Francesconi: Trompe la mort, Opéra en deux actes (2017); Magic Skin (2018); Man of the Sea (1920); Maskierte Liebe (1912); Matinee Theatre (1956); Mensch ohne Namen (1932); Mercadet (1936 / 1970); Mistr Kornelius (1988); Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur (1949); Narayana (1920); Novela (1969–1978); Nucingen House (2008); Oberst Chabert (1914 / 1956 / 1966); Old Goriot (2004); Orsola Mirouet (1914); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); Out 1 (1971); Papà Goriot (1970); Paris at Midnight (1926); Passion in the Desert (1997); Per il passato (1920); Père Goriot (1915 / 1968); Piel de zapa (1978); Pierre Grassou (1965); Pierrette (1979); Plukovník Chabert (1976); Polkovnik Shaber (1978); Quando la primavera ritorno (1916); Rastignac ou les ambitieux (2001); Sagrénova koza (1972); Sagrenska koza (1960); Secrets of a Ballerina (1943); Shagrenevaya kozha (1975 / 1982); Slave of Desire (1923); Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1975–1976); Stimulantia (1967); Stolen Kisses (1968); Survival (1927); Ted l'invisibile (1922); Television Theater (1999–2000); The Clock (1950); The Conquering Power (1921); The Country Parson (1915); The Dream Cheater (1920); The Duchess of Langeais (1910 / 2007); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1957); The Eternal Flame (1922); The False Oath (1909); The Fear (2001); The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1961); The Great Breach (1909); The Lovable Cheat (1949); The Magic Skin (1915 / 2011); The Masked Lover (1940); The Red Inn (1923); The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau (1965); The Royalists (1947); The Sealed Room (1909); The Silversmith to King Louis XI (1910); The Skin of Sorrow (2010); The Test (1923); The Ultimate Sacrifice (1911); The Unforeseen (1959); The Wild Ass's Skin (1909); Trompe-la-Mort (1914); Tromp-la-Mort (1920); Um Homem de Recursos (1965); Un homme sans nom (1932); Une Dame de Coeur (2004); Une fille d'Ève (1989); (Une ballade à travers) Les ruines de Paris (2004); Une ténébreuse affaire (1975); Unser liebes Fräulein Grandet (1965); Ursule Mirouët (1912 / 1981); Vautrin (1919); Vautrin the Thief (1943); Wicked Duchess (1942); Your Favorite Story (1953–1954); Zakuro yashiki (2006).

World Bee Day – May 20 ... & ... Born on this day – Anton Janša:

World Bee Day - May 20

Born on this day – Anton Janša

Apiarist and pioneer of beekeeping

Painter

May 20, 1734 – 13 September 1773

William Wordsworth, on writing:

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

- William Wordsworth.

On this day in movie history - The Zone of Interest (2023):

The Zone of Interest

directed by Jonathan Glazer,

written by Jonathan Glazer and Martin Amis,

based on the novel by Martin Amis,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 19, 2023.
Music by Mica Levi.

Based on the true story, written in novel form by the author, of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.

He, along with his wife, Hedwig, and their children, lived in a house on the other side of the boundary wall, with the camp watch tower and top floors of the buildings always visible.
The family enjoyed their artificial oasis, spending their time mostly at leisure: sunbathing, swimming, gardening … all with the sounds from the camp constantly in the background.
Yet, the Höss family coldly went about their lives, ignoring it all, pretending it wasn’t happening.
Their daily routine shown at a slow pace, a study of the banality of evil.
As Rudolf Höss oversaw the slaughter within the camp, Hedwig plundered the belongings stolen from the prisoners, the spoils of war, kept what she wanted and used the place as her own personal thrift store.
We, the viewers, never see the war crimes committed by the Nazis, the horror, the atrocities, the sadistic cruelty inflicted on the camp prisoners, but we hear it: the screaming of pain and torment, guards shouting, dogs barking, gunshots, flames from the crematorium.
This cacophony of background noise forces our imagination to conjure the hellish images.
What we see is the smoke from the train bringing new prisoners to be put to work or murdered.
The smoke from the chimney stack, from bodies being cremated, always there in the sky.
At night, the orange glow from the chimney stack flames illuminates the rooms.
The Zone of Interest is a must-see movie you will never forget.
It’s a movie as powerful and important as Schindler's List (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg; The Pawnbroker (1964), directed by Sidney Lumet; Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), directed by Robert Dornhelm; The Survivor (2021), directed by Barry Levinson; Conspiracy (2001), directed by Frank Pierson; Anthropoid (2016), directed by Sean Ellis; The Captain (2017), directed by Robert Schwentke; Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), directed by Stanley Kramer; Nuremberg (2000), directed by Yves Simoneau; and many others.
The Zone of Interest concludes with Rudolf Höss pausing to stare into the darkness of corridors, before walking down a flight of stairs, again into darkness, a man without God, without a soul, descending into the abyss, damned to Hell.
Intercut are scenes from modern day: the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cleaned by a team of janitors.
On permanent display, behind protective screens, are photographs, piles of clothes, shoes, suitcases and belongings, stolen from the prisoners.
The remains of the camp are preserved, to inform and teach future generations about a horrific period in history.
A period that should be studied, learned from, and never forgotten, so it will never be repeated.

Cast:

Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte, Nele Ahrensmeier, Lilli Falk, Anastazja Drobniak, Cecylia Pekala, Kalman Wilson, Medusa Knopf, Max Beck, Slava the Dog, Andrey Isaev, Julia Babiarz, Stephanie Petrowitz, Martyna Poznanski, Zuzanna Kobiela, Benjamin Utzerath, Thomas Neumann, Klaudiusz Kaufmann, Justyna Szklarska, Kacper Piwko, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Antje Falk, Jakub Sierenberg, Joerg Sierenberg, Joerg Giessler, Heiko Lange, Marek Lukasik, Bernhard Schirmer, Julia Polaczek, Shenja Lacher, Imogen Kogge, Wiktoria Wisniewska, Paulina Burzyk, Anna Marciniszyn, Agnieszka Wierny, Patryk Mika, Tomasz Piwko, Carsten Koch, Heinz Nielow, Christine Schröder, Marnius Fislage, Ralph Herforth, Daniel Holzberg, Rainer Haustein, Daniel Hoffman, Wolfgang Lampl, Oscar Lebeck, Christian Willy, Freya Kreutzkam, Leo Meier, Barbara Koszatka, Izabela Bara, Anna Kuwik, Mariola Karczewska, Halina Drzymota, Dominika Matonóg, Ewelina Kaczor, Matgorzata Zurek, Barbara Jakubowska, Etzbieta Bronka, Zuzanna Janusik, Sascha Maaz, Ralf Zillmann.

On this day in movie history - Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time. Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi (2020):

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time
Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

documentary directed by Danny Wolf,

was released in the United States on May 19, 2020.

Cast:

Bruce Campbell, Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Illeana Douglas, Jeff Goldblum, Malcolm Mcdowell, Joe Morton, Ed Neil, Kevin Pollak, John Sayles, Anthony Timpone, John Waters, Mary Woronov, Sean Young, Rob Zombie.