Born on this day – Evi Maltagliati:

Evi Maltagliati

Actress

July 11, 1908 – April 27, 1986

Born on this day – E. B. White:

E. B. White

Writer

July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985

Credits:

Stuart Little (1945); Charlotte's Web (1952); The Points of My Compass (1962); The Trumpet of the Swan (1970); The Fox of Peapack (poems) (1928); The Lady Is Cold (1928); The Second Tree from the Corner (1954); E. B. White Reader (1966); Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (poems) (1981); The Subtreasury of American Humor (1941); Wilbur's Adventure (2007); Ho-hum (1931); Another Ho-hum (1932); Every Day Is Saturday (1934); Quo Vadimus (1939); One Man's Meat (1942); The Wild Flag (1946); The Elements of Style (1959); Is Sex Necessary? (1960); Letters of E. B. White (1976); Essays of E. B. White (1977); Writings from the New Yorker, 1925-76 (1990); On Democracy (2019); Reading I've Liked (1946); Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952); Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956); A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1959); American Gothic Tales (1996); The Supremacy of Uraguay (1933); The Door (1939); The Morning of the Day They Did It (1950); The Hour of Letdown (1952).

Movies, television and video:

Alien Tales (1995); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Charlotte's Web (1973 / 2003 / 2006); Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2002); Here Is New York (2000); Jackanory (1966–1990); NBC Children's Theatre (1966); Omnibus / Segment: A Maine Lobsterman (1954); Stuart Little (1999 / 2003); Stuart Little 2 (2002); Stuart Little 2 (PlayStation Commerical) (2002); Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005); The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973); The French Dispatch (2021); The Trumpet of the Swan (2001); Wilbur und Charlotte (2007).

Born on this day – Amleto Palermi:

Amleto Palermi

Director

Writer

July 11, 1889 – April 20, 1941

Born on this day – Alfred E. Green:

Alfred E. Green

Director

July 11, 1889 – September 4, 1960

Born on this day – Howard Estabrook:

Howard Estabrook

Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

July 11, 1884 – July 16, 1978

Credits:

A Bill of Divorcement (1932); Are These Our Children (1931); Behind the Make-Up (1930); Cattle Queen of Montana (1954); Chasing Choo Choos (1927); Cimarron (1931); Dakota (1945); David Copperfield (1935); Double Cross Roads (1930); Dressed to Kill (1928); El hombre malo (1930); Forgotten Faces (1928); Four Feathers (1915); Giving Becky a Chance (1917); Heavenly Days (1944); Hell's Angels (1930); International Lady (1941); Kismet (1930); Lone Star (1952); Lopez, le bandit (1930); Maid of Salem (1937); Maquillage (1932); M'Liss (1915); New Wine (1941); North Star (1925); Officer 666 (1914); Orchids to You (1935); Passion (1954); Play Safe (1927); Roar of the Dragon (1932); She Goes to War (1929); Slightly Scarlet (1930); Street of Chance (1930); Sweepings (1933); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Adventurous Sex (1925); The Bad Man (1930); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Bowery (1933); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944); The Butterfly (1915); The Closing Net (1915); The Conquerors (1932); The Corsican Brothers (1941); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Devil's in Love (1933); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Four Feathers (1929); The Girl from Manhattan (1948); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Human Comedy (1943); The Masquerader (1933); The Master Smiles (1916); The Millionaire (1957–1958); The Mysteries of Myra (1916); The Port of Missing Girls (1928); The Price of a Party (1924); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The Virginian (1929 / 1946); The Wild Girl (1917); The Woman Between (1931); Varsity (1928); Way Down East (1935); Wells Fargo (1937); Woman Hungry (1931).

Recommended reading - The So Blue Marble, by Dorothy B. Hughes (1940):

The So Blue Marble

By Dorothy B. Hughes.

Introduction by Otto Penzler.

Published by American Mystery Classics.

First published 1940.

ISBN-10: 1613161050

ISBN-13: 9781613161050

Description:

The debut by one of the great American suspense writers will suck you in even as it makes you keep asking, "Did I just read that?" – Kirkus.

Nonstop action, with menace and daring exploits bursting through the smooth veneer of upper-class life.. Readers new to this forgotten classic are in for a treat. – Publishers Weekly.

You will have to read [The So Blue Marble] for yourself, and if you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don’t say we didn’t warn you. – The New York Times Book Review.

Extraordinary . . . [Hughes’s] brilliant descriptive powers make and unmake reality. – The New Yorker.

The society pages announce it before she even arrives: Griselda Satterlee, daughter of the princess of Rome, has left her career as an actress behind and is traveling to Manhattan to reinvent herself as a fashion designer. They also announce the return of the dashing Montefierrow twins to New York after a twelve-year sojourn in Europe. But there is more to this story than what’s reported, which becomes clear when the three meet one evening during a walk, and their polite conversation quickly takes a menacing turn. The twins are seeking a rare and powerful gem and they believe it’s stashed in the unused apartment where Griselda is staying. Baffled by the request, she pushes them away, but they won’t take no for an answer. When they return, accompanied by Griselda’s long-estranged younger sister, the murders begin...

Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the New York elite, The So Blue Marble is a perfectly Art Deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. While different in style from her later books, Dorothy B. Hughes’s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author, rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today.

Margaret Atwood, on reading:

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

– Margaret Atwood.