Born on this day – Florence Vidor:

Florence Vidor

Actress

July 23, 1895 – November 3, 1977

Credits:

A Heart in Pawn (1919); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1920); A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920); Afraid to Love (1927); Alice Adams (1923); American Methods (1917); Are Parents People? (1925); Barbara Frietchie (1924); Beau Revel (1921); Bill Peter's Kid (1916); Borrowed Husbands (1924); Chinatown Nights (1929); Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924); Conquering the Woman (1922); Curfew at Simpton Center (1916); Doomsday (1928); Dusk to Dawn (1922); Grounds for Divorce (1925); Hail the Woman (1921); Hashimura Togo (1917); Honeymoon Hate (1927); Husbands and Lovers (1924); Lying Lips (1921); Main Street (1923); Marry Me (1925); Old Wives for New (1918); One Woman to Another (1927); Poor Relations (1919); Real Adventure (1922); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 19 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 2 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 11 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 2 (1922); Sea Horses (1926); Skin Deep (1922); Souls for Sale (1923); The Bravest Way (1918); The Cook of Canyon Camp (1917); The Countess Charming (1917); The Eagle of the Sea (1926); The Enchanted Hill (1926); The Family Honor (1920); The Girl of Gold (1925); The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926); The Hidden Pearls (1918); The Honor of His House (1918); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Intrigue (1916); The Jack-Knife Man (1920); The Magnificent Flirt (1928); The Marriage Circle (1924); The Mirage (1924); The Other Half (1919); The Patriot (1928); The Popular Sin (1926); The Secret Game (1917); The Trouble with Wives (1925); The Virginian (1923); The White Man's Law (1918); The Widow's Might (1918); The World at Her Feet (1927); The Yellow Girl (1916); Till I Come Back to You (1918); Welcome Stranger (1924); Woman, Wake Up (1922); You Never Know Women (1926).

Born on this day – Raymond Chandler:

Raymond Chandler

Writer

July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959

Credits:

Books to Die For (2012); Double Indemnity (1944); Farewell, My Lovely (1940); Five Murders (1944); Five Sinister Characters (1945); Goldfish (1981); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Hard-Boiled Detectives (1953); I’ll Be Waiting (2020); Killer in the Rain (1964); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Mandarin's Jade (1937); No Crimes In The Mountains (1941); Only to Sleep (2018); Pearls are a Nuisance (1958); Perchance to Dream (1991); Pickup on Noon Street (1952); Playback (1958); Poodle Springs (1989); Pulp Fiction - The Dames (2008); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Wind (1946); Selected Letters (1981); Smart-Aleck Kill (1953); Spanish Blood (1946); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Sleep (1939); The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014); The Blue Dahlia (1976); The Curtain (1936); The Finger Man (1947); The Goodbye Coast (2022); The High Window (1942); The Lady in the Lake (1943); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Little Sister (1949); The Long Goodbye (1953); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Man Who Liked Dogs (1996); The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Second Murderer (2023); The Simple Art of Murder (1950); The Smell of Fear (1965); The World of Raymond Chandler (2014); Trouble is My Business (1950); Try The Girl (1937); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); And Now Tomorrow (1944); Aspetterò (1978); Cineficción Radio (2021); Climax! (1954); Danger (1953); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Fallen Angels (1993–1995); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler (2006); Ich werde warten (1982); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Lady in the Lake (1946); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Marlowe (1969 / 2007 / 2022); Mike Case in: The Big Kiss Off (2013); Morning Patrol (1987); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Omnibus (1969); Once You Meet a Stranger (1996); Philip Marlowe (1959–1960); Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986); Poodle Springs (1998); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Smart Philip (2003); Storyboard (1961); Strangers on a Train (1951); Studio One (1951–1953); The Big Sleep (1946 / 1978); The Blue Dahlia (1946); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Falcon Takes Over (1942); The Great Detectives (1999); The Long Goodbye (1973 / 2014); The Long Goodbye: Tom Williams on Raymond Chandler (2013); The Unseen (1945); Time to Kill (1942); Triple Feature (2016); TV de Vanguarda (1957).

Born on this day – Birt Acres:

Birt Acres

Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

July 23, 1854 – December 27, 1918

Recommended reading - Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995):

Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels

Anthology by Raymond Chandler.

Edited by Frank MacShane.

Published 1995.

ISBN-10: 1883011078

ISBN-13: 978-1883011079

Contents:

Pulp Stories: Blackmailers Don’t Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish Blood; Guns at Cyrano’s; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble Is My Business; I’ll Be Waiting. Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window. Chronology. Note on the texts. Notes.

Description:

In Raymond Chandler’s hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling detail, he created a fictional universe out of the dark side of aunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the crime novel and American writing.

Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler’s great creation, private eye Philip Marlowe: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window, Marlowe’s investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkytonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicians, lost souls and small-time operators. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective include such classics as “Red Wind” and “Trouble Is My Business.” This volume, with its companion, Later Novels & Other Writings, comprises the most comprehensive edition available of America’s greatest mystery writer.

The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving the works of America’s greatest writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.

Paul Auster, on writing:

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman.

You don't choose it so much as get chosen,

and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else,

you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

- Paul Auster.

On this day in music history - Moonwheel, by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer (2022):

Moonwheel

Album by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer,
released July 22, 2022.

Track list:

Drift; Amity; Solis Occasum; Moonwheel.

On this day in music history - Beyond Dreams: Pathways To Deep Relaxation, by Hennie Bekker (2016):

Beyond Dreams: Pathways To Deep Relaxation

Album by Hennie Bekker,
released July 22, 2016.

Track list:

Self Connect; Floating to Forever; Letting Go; The Calm; Quiescence; Beyond Dreams.