Born on this day – Faith Domergue:

Faith Domergue

Actress

June 16, 1924 – April 4, 1999

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1961); Amore grande, amore libero (1976); Blues in the Night (1941); Bonanza (1961–1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Bronco (1960); California (1963); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); Cheyenne (1959); Colt .45 (1960); Combat! (1966); Cult of the Cobra (1955); Dancing in a Harem (1941); Elvira's Movie Macabre (1982); Escort West (1959); Fireside Theatre (1954); Garrison's Gorillas (1968); General Electric Theater (1954); Hardly a Criminal (1949); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962–1963); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1961); Here's Hollywood (1961); Il cielo brucia (1958); It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955); Lo stato d'assedio (1969); Lock Up (1961); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1954); Michael Shayne (1960); Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996); One on Top of the Other (1969); Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Rogue for Hire (1960); Santa Fe Passage (1955); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); So Evil, My Sister (1974); Spin a Dark Web (1956); State Trooper (1959); Sugarfoot (1959); Svengoolie (1997); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); The Atomic Man (1955); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Duel at Silver Creek (1952); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Gamblers (1970); The Great Sioux Uprising (1953); The Horror Show (1979); The House of Seven Corpses (1974); The Man with Icy Eyes (1971); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Tall Man (1961); This Is My Love (1954); This Island Earth (1955); Track of Thunder (1967); Vendetta (1950); Violent Stranger (1957); Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965); War of the Planets (1958); Where Danger Lives (1950); Will to Die (1971); Young Widow (1946).

Born on this day – Frances Rafferty:

Frances Rafferty

Actress

Dancer, June 16, 1922 – April 18, 2004

Credits:

Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alcoa Theatre (1958); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949); Bad Bascomb (1946); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Big Town (1952); Broadway Rhythm (1944); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952); Cavalcade of America (1954); Chevron Theatre (1952); Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1955); Curley (1947); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Dave and Charley (1953); December Bride (1954–1959); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Dragnet (1953–1954); Dragon Seed (1944); Fingers at the Window (1942); Fireside Theatre (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1954); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Electric Theater (1953); Girl Crazy (1943); Half Nelson (1985); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Lady at Midnight (1948); Lassie (1957); Lost Honeymoon (1947); Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Matinee Theatre (1956); Money Madness (1948); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Three Sons (1964); Mystery Is My Business (1954–1957); Oboler Comedy Theatre (1949); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Personalities (1942); Pete and Gladys (1962); Pilot #5 (1943); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Public Defender (1954–1955); Racket Squad (1952–1953); Rodeo (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1955); Seven Sweethearts (1942); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Stage 7 (1955); Stars Over Hollywood (1950); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); The Adventures of Don Coyote (1947); The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947); The Hidden Eye (1945); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1960); The Millionaire (1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1954); The Shanghai Story (1954); The Streets of San Francisco (1975–1977); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); Thousands Cheer (1943); Topper (1954); Treasury Men in Action (1952–1955); Twenty Years After (1944); Wings of Chance (1961); Young Ideas (1943); Your Favorite Story (1953); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).

Born on this day – Sidney Salkow:

Sidney Salkow

Director

Writer

June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); Along the Mohawk Trail (1957); Ang Vengador (1948); Behind the Mike (1937); Blood on the Arrow (1964); Bronco (1962); Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947); Cafe Hostess (1940); Casey Jones (1957); Cavalcade of America (1953–1954); Chicago Confidential (1957); City Without Men (1943); Come on, Leathernecks! (1938); Crusader (1956); Death Valley Days (1962–1964); Durango (1957); Ernestine (1962); Exclusive (1937); Faithful in My Fashion (1946); Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939); Flight at Midnight (1939); Flight Lieutenant (1942); Flirtation (1934); Four Days Wonder (1936); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Fury (1956–1958); General Electric Theater (1953); Girl from God's Country (1940); Girl Overboard (1937); Gun Brothers (1956); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Jack McCall, Desperado (1953); Karen (1964); La rivale dell'imperatrice (1951); La strada buia (1950); Lady Be Careful (1936); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Lassie (1954–1955); Maverick (1962); Michael Shayne (1961); Mike Hammer (1959); Millie's Daughter (1947); Murder with Pictures (1936); Overland Trail (1960); Prince of Pirates (1953); Prison Nurse (1938); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); Rhythm on the Range (1936); Robbers' Roost (1955); Scarlet Angel (1952); Shadow of the Eagle (1950); She Married a Cop (1939); Shotgun Slade (1959–1960); Simon Lash: The Black Book (1960); Sitting Bull (1954); Soldiers of Fortune (1955–1956); State Trooper (1957–1959); Storm Over Bengal (1938); Street of Missing Men (1939); Supernatural (1933); Surfside 6 (1961–1962); Sword of the Avenger (1948); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1960); That's My Story! (1937); The Addams Family (1965–1966); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); The Big Night (1960); The Boy from Stalingrad (1943); The Comedy Spot (1962); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Sioux Massacre (1965); The Iron Sheriff (1957); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1960–1961); The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940); The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940); The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941); The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964); The Murder Game (1965); The Night Hawk (1938); The Pathfinder (1952); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Quick Gun (1964); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Toughest Man Alive (1955); The Zero Hour (1939); This Is Alice (1958); Tillie the Toiler (1941); Time Out for Rhythm (1941); Twice-Told Tales (1963); Woman Doctor (1939); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953).

Born on this day – William K. Howard:

William K. Howard

Director

Writer

Producer

June 16, 1899 – February 21, 1954

Credits:

A Guy Could Change (1946); A Ship Comes In (1928); Bachelor Brides (1926); Back Door to Heaven (1939); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); Captain Fly-by-Night (1922); Christina (1929); Code of the West (1925); Danger Ahead (1923); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Dillinger (1945); Don't Bet on Women (1931); East of Broadway (1924); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Extra! Extra! (1922); Fire Over England (1937); Get Your Man (1921); Gigolo (1926); Good Intentions (1930); Johnny Come Lately (1943); Klondike Fury (1942); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Let's Go (1923); Love, Live and Laugh (1929); Lucky Dan (1922); Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935); Money and the Woman (1940); Murder on Diamond Row (1937); Over the Moon (1939); Play Square (1921); Red Dice (1926); Rendezvous (1935); Round the Film Studios (1937); Scotland Yard (1930); Sherlock Holmes (1932); Sin Town (1929); Surrender (1931); The Adorable Savage (1920); The Border Legion (1924); The Cat and the Fiddle (1934); The Crusader (1922); The First Year (1932); The Fourth Musketeer (1923); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Light of Western Stars (1925); The Main Event (1927); The One-Man Trail (1921); The Power and the Glory (1933); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The River Pirate (1928); The Thundering Herd (1925); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); The Valiant (1929); This Side of Heaven (1934); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Top Gun Academy: The Real Story (1997); Transatlantic (1931); Trooper O'Neill (1922); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Volcano (1926); What Love Will Do (1921); When the Lights Go on Again (1944); White Gold (1927).

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time.

To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions.

To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Pollinator Week:

Pollinator Week

June 17 - 23, 2024

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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet

whereby they write on hills and fields

mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

– Louisa May Alcott.

On this day in music history: Big City Blues, by Sue Foley (1995):

Big City Blues

Album by Sue Foley,

released June 15, 1995.

Track list:

Big City Blues; Howlin’ For My Darlin’; To Be Alone With You; One Hundred Dollar Bill; Ain’t Gonna Worry No More; This Time; As Long As I Have You; Highway Bound; If You Gotta Go; My Baby’s Sweeter; Girl’s Night Out.