Born on this day – Rae Allen:

Rae Allen

Actress

July 3, 1926 – April 6, 2022

Born on this day – Margarita Alexandre:

Margarita Alexandre

Actress

Director

Producer

July 3, 1923 – December 23, 2015

Born on this day – Susan Peters:

Susan Peters

Actress

July 3, 1921 – October 23, 1952

Born on this day – Louise Allbritton:

Louise Allbritton

Actress

July 3, 1920 – February 16, 1979

Credits:

Radio:

Men in White (1943); Phantom Lady (1944).

Movies and television:

100 Years of Horror (1996); Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); An Innocent Affair (1948); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Armchair Theatre (1959); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1952); Bowery to Broadway (1944); Coming Soon (1982); Concerning Miss Marlowe (1954–1955); Crazy House (1943); Danger in the Pacific (1942); Dracula in the Movies (1992); Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991); Felicia (1964); Fired Wife (1943); Follow the Boys (1944); Good Morning, Judge (1943); Her Primitive Man (1944); It Comes Up Love (1943); ITV Play of the Week (1958); I've Got a Secret (1952); Keeping Fit (1942); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Men in Her Diary (1945); Monsters & Maniacs (1988); Naked City (1961); NBC Presents (1949); Not a Ladies' Man (1942); Parachute Nurse (1942); Person to Person (1955); Pittsburgh (1942); Reginald LeBorg - Man nannte mich den Alleskönner (1987); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); San Diego I Love You (1944); Sitting Pretty (1948); Son of Dracula (1943); Studio One (1950–1952); Tangier (1946); That Night with You (1945); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949); The Egg and I (1947); The Invisible Man (1959); The Many Faces of Dracula (2000); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); The Silver Theatre (1949); The Stage Door (1950); The Way of the World (1955); The Web (1954); Theatre Night (1958); This Is the Life (1944); Walk a Crooked Mile (1948); Who Done It? (1942).

Born on this day – Doris Lloyd:

Doris Lloyd

Actress

July 3, 1891 – May 21, 1968

Credits:

A Farewell to Arms (1932); A Feather in Her Hat (1935); A Man Called Peter (1955); A Princess of Destiny (1929); A Shot in the Dark (1935); A Study in Scarlet (1933); A Woman Rebels (1936); Adam’s Rib (1949); Alcatraz Island (1937); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1962); Alice in Wonderland (1951); Alice in Wonderland: A Lesson in Appreciating Differences (1978); Allotment Wives (1945); Appointment for Love (1941); Arrest and Trial (1963); Back Street (1932); Barricade (1939); Becky Sharp (1935); Black Paradise (1926); Bought! (1931); Brilliant Marriage (1936); British Agent (1934); Brown of Harvard (1926); Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937); Cavalcade of America (1953); Challenge to Lassie (1949); Charley’s Aunt (1930); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Clive of India (1935); Come to My House (1927); Coronado 9 (1960); Dangerous Corner (1934); Devotion (1931 / 1946); Disney Sing-Along Songs: Collection of All-Time Favorites - The Magic Years (1997); Disraeli (1929); Don’t Get Personal (1936); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Dynamite, the Story of Alfred Nobel (1954); Escape Me Never (1947); Exit Smiling (1926); First Love (1939); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); Follow the Boys (1944); Follow the Fleet (1936); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Forever and a Day (1943); Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943); Frenchman’s Creek (1944); G.I. War Brides (1946); Glamour (1934); Holiday in Mexico (1946); I’m from Missouri (1939); In Search of... (1978); Intermezzo (1939); International Squadron (1941); Interrupted Melody (1955); Is Zat So? (1927); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Journey for Margaret (1942); Keep ‘Em Flying (1941); Kind Lady (1935); Kind Lady (1951); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); Kitty (1945); Lady with Red Hair (1940); Letter of Introduction (1938); Life with Henry (1940); Lonesome Ladies (1927); Long Lost Father (1934); Looking Forward (1933); Lord Jeff (1938); Love’s Influence (1922); Lux Video Theatre (1955–1956); Madame Du Barry (1934); Mary of Scotland (1936); Mary Poppins (1964); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Maverick (1962); MGM Parade (1956); Midnight Lace (1960); Molly and Me (1945); Motive for Revenge (1935); Murder Is News (1937); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); My Name Is Julia Ross (1945); Night Monster (1942); No Place for a Lady (1943); Of Human Bondage (1946); Old English (1930); Oliver Twist (1933); On the Sunny Side (1942); Once a Lady (1931); One Exciting Adventure (1934); One Step Beyond (1960); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Payment Deferred (1932); Peg o’ My Heart (1933); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Phantom Lady (1944); Playhouse 90 (1958); Port of Seven Seas (1938); Portrait by Whistler (1954); Reno (1930); Rich But Honest (1927); Robbers’ Roost (1932); Rosie! (1967); Sarah and Son (1930); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Scotland Yard (1941); Scotland Yard Investigator (1945); Secrets (1933); She Was a Lady (1934); Shining Victory (1941); Sister Kenny (1946); Sisters Under the Skin (1934); Straight from the Heart (1935); Strange Wives (1934); Studio 57 (1957); Suspicion (1958); Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946); Tarzan the Ape Man (1932); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Auctioneer (1927); The Bachelor Father (1931); The Baroness and the Butler (1938); The Best of the Post (1961); The Betty Hutton Show (1959); The Bigelow Theatre (1950); The Black Doll (1938); The Black Shield of Falworth (1954); The Blackbird (1926); The Boys from Syracuse (1940); The Broncho Twister (1927); The Careless Age (1929); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Conspirators (1944); The Constant Nymph (1943); The Drake Case (1929); The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942); The Great Lie (1941); The Great Plane Robbery (1940); The House of Fear (1945); The Imperfect Lady (1946); The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944); The King Without a Crown (1937); The Lady (1925); The Letter (1940); The Lodger (1944); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Man from Red Gulch (1925); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Midnight Kiss (1926); The Notorious Landlady (1962); The Old Maid (1939); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Perfect Gentleman (1935); The Plough and the Stars (1936); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Red Danube (1949); The Rogues (1965); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Shadow Between (1920); The Sign of the Ram (1948); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951); The Sound of Music (1965); The Spellbinder (1939); The Swan (1956); The Time Machine (1960); The Trail of ‘98 (1928); The Under-Pup (1939); The Washington Masquerade (1932); The White Cliffs of Dover (1944); The Wolf Man (1941); The Woman in Red (1935); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); This Above All (1942); Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939); Three Strangers (1946); Thriller (1961–1962); ‘Til We Meet Again (1940); To Each His Own (1946); Too Many Parents (1936); Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938); Transgression (1931); TV Reader’s Digest (1955); Two for Tonight (1935); Two Girls Wanted (1927); Two Tickets to London (1943); Tyrant of the Sea (1950); Vigil in the Night (1940); Voltaire (1933); Waterfront (1955); Waterloo Bridge (1931); Way for a Sailor (1930); We Are Not Alone (1939); What a Woman! (1943); Wide Country (1963); Young Bess (1953).

Born on this day – Charlotte Perkins Gilman:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Writer

July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories (2004); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Chamber of Horrors (1965); A Journey from Within (1995); American Christmas Stories (2021); American Fantastic Tales (2009); American Gothic Tales (1996); American Midnight (2019); Benigna Machiavelli (1914); Best Horror Short Stories 1850-1899 (2016); Black Water 2 (1990); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Concerning Children (1900); Dark (2000); Deadlier (2017); Evil Roots (2019); Growth and Combat (1916); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2010); Haunted Houses (1983); Haunting Women (1988); Herland (1915); Herland and Selected Stories (1992); His Religion and Hers (1923); Human Work (1904); Humanness (1913); If I Were a Man (1914); In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe (2015); In This Our World (1893); Man-made World (1911); Medusa's Daughters (2020); Moon Stricken (2017); Moving the Mountain (1911); Novels, Stories & Poems (2022); Open at Your Own Risk (1975); Our Brains and What Ails Them (1912); Selected Short Stories from the 19th Century (2000); Social Ethics (1914); Spores of Doom (2025); Suffrage Songs and Verses (1911); Tales from Beyond the Stars (2024); Tales of the Dark (1987); The 9th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1975); The American Fantasy Tradition (2002); The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader (1980); The Crux (1910); The Dark Descent (1997); The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1994); The Dress of Women (1915); The Home, Its Work and Influence (1903); The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935); The Medusa in the Shield (1990); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women (1977); The Treasury of the Fantastic (2000); The Yellow Wallpaper (1892); The Yellow Wallpaper / Herland (2021); The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings (2020); The Yellow Wall-paper, Herland, and Selected Writings (2009); The Yellow Wallpaper: and Other Writings (1980); The Yellow Wallpaper: And Selected Stories (2024); Unpunished (1997); Weird Women (2020); What Diantha Did (1910); When I Was a Witch & Other Stories (2023); White Fire (1991); Witches' Brew (1984); With Her in Ourland (1916); Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1979); Women and Economics (1898).

Movies and television:

Confinement (2009); Dead Meat Podcast (2023); HERESY! (2021); Mad/woman (2022); New Chilling Tales: The Anthology (2019); Paper Walls (1992); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2023); The Haunted Woman (2019); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast the Yellow Wallpaper (2023); The Paper Wall (2023); The Yellow Wallpaper (1977 / 1989 / 2012 / 2013 / 2015 / 2017 / 2021); There Might Be Cupcakes (2017); Transfer (2018); Try Not to Die (2025); Where the Girls Are? (2002); Yellow Wallpaper (2020 / 2022).

Recommended reading - Double Indemnity (novel & screenplay):

Double Indemnity

By James M. Cain.

Filmed as:

Double Indemnity (1944), directed by Billy Wilder.

Double Indemnity (1973), directed by Jack Smight.

Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

Published 1943.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 9780679723226

ISBN-13: 9780679723226

Description:

“An American masterpiece.” – Ross Macdonald.

“No one has ever stopped reading in the middle of one of Jim Cain’s books.” – Saturday Review of Literature.

Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.

Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay

By Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, Jeffrey Meyers.

Published by University of California Press.

Published 2000.

ISBN-10: 0520218485

ISBN-13: 9780520218482

Description:

On every level -- writing, direction, acting -- Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role. From its grim story to its dark, atmospheric lighting, Double Indemnity is a definitive example of World War II-era film noir. Wilder's approach is everywhere evident: in the brutal cynicism the film displays, the moral complexity, and in the empathy we feel for the killers. The film received almost unanimous critical success, garnering seven Academy Award nominations. More than fifty years later, most critics agree that this classic is one of the best films of all time. The collaboration between Wilder and Raymond Chandler produced a masterful script and some of the most memorable dialogue ever spoken in a movie.

This facsimile edition of Double Indemnity contains Wilder and Chandler's original -- and quite different -- ending, published here for the first time. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction contextualizes the screenplay, providing hilarious anecdotes about the turbulent collaboration, as well as background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.