Born on this day – Eve Miller:

Eve Miller

Actress

August 8, 1923 – August 17, 1973

Credits:

Annie Oakley (1955–1956); April in Paris (1952); Arctic Fury (1951); Artists and Models (1955); Beyond the Forest (1949); Broadway Jungle (1955); Buckaroo from Powder River (1947); City Detective (1955); Code 3 (1957); Coronado 9 (1961); Crossroads (1955–1957); Diamond Horseshoe (1945); Fireside Theatre (1950–1953); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Frontier Doctor (1959); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); Inner Sanctum (1948); Kansas Pacific (1953); Lassie (1957); Mayor of the Town (1954); Mr. & Mrs. North (1954); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957); Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950); Navy Log (1957); Never Fear (1950); Perry Mason (1958); Pier 23 (1951); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); She's Working Her Way Through College (1952); Telephone Time (1956); The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1956); The Big Bluff (1955); The Big Trees (1952); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Desperate Women (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1954); The Lineup (1954–1959); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1955); The Range Rider (1951); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Story of Will Rogers (1952); The Vicious Years (1950); The Whistler (1955); The Winning Team (1952); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This My Son (1954); Trackdown (1957); Wire Service (1956); Your Show Time (1949); Zane Grey Theatre (1957).

Born on this day – Sylvia Sidney:

Sylvia Sidney

Actress

August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999

Credits:

A Small Killing (1981); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); Accent on Youth (1935); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); American Masters (1989–2001); American Playhouse (1982–1990); An American Tragedy (1931); An Early Frost (1985); Beetlejuice (1988); Behind the High Wall (1956); Behold My Wife! (1934); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2002); Blood on the Sun (1945); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Broadway Nights (1927); Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1953); California Fever (1979); Cameo Theatre (1952); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); Celebrity Playhouse (1955–1956); City Streets (1931); Climax! (1955–1957); Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931); Damien: Omen II (1978); Dead End (1937); Dear John (1988); Death at Love House (1976); Diagnosis Murder (1993); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Domestic Life (1984); Eight Is Enough (1977); Equal Justice (1990); F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980); Fantasy Island (1998–1999); Finnegan Begin Again (1985); Five Minutes from the Station (1930); Fury (1936); General Electric Theater (1960); Girl Talk (1965–1967); God Told Me To (1976); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988); Good Dame (1934); Gypsy (1965–1967); Hammett (1982); Having It All (1982); Here's Hollywood (1960); Home (1956); I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); Joseph Schildkraut Presents (1953); Kaz (1978); Kraft Theatre (1957); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1954); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Les Miserables (1952); Love from a Stranger (1947); Lux Video Theatre (1952); Madame Butterfly (1932); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Make Me a Star (1932); Mars Attacks! (1996); Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935); Matinee Theatre (1957); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Morningstar/Eveningstar (1986); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Lumet (1985); Mr. Ace (1946); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); My Three Sons (1969); Naked City (1961); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); ...One Third of a Nation... (1939); Order of Death (1983); Pals (1987); Pick-up (1933); Playhouse 90 (1957–1958); Playwrights '56 (1955); Ponds Theater (1953–1955); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Route 66 (1961–1964); Ryan's Four (1983); Ryan's Hope (1975–1976); Sabotage (1936); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949); Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party (1946); Siege (1978); Snowbeast (1977); Star Stage (1955); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Street Scene (1931); Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973); Supertrain (1979); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Talking Pictures (1988); That's Life (1979); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1986 (1986); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1999); The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The Bob Braun Show (1973); The Brass Ring (1983); The Defenders (1962); The Doctors (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Equalizer (1989); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1955); The Gossip Columnist (1980); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Joan Rivers Show (1969); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1951); The Lee Phillip Show (1971); The Love Boat (1981); The Man in the Family (1991); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1970); The Miracle Man (1932); The Polly Bergen Show (1957); The Searching Wind (1946); The Secret Night Caller (1975); The Shadow Box (1980); The Sorrows of Satan (1926); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); The Witching of Ben Wagner (1987); Thirty Day Princess (1934); Thirtysomething (1989); Thru Different Eyes (1929); Tom Cottle: Up Close (1982); Trapper John, M.D. (1984); Used People (1992); Violent Saturday (1955); Westside Medical (1977); Whiz Kids (1984); Winner Take All (1975); WKRP in Cincinnati (1978); You and Me (1938); You Only Live Once (1937).

Recommended reading - Mildred Pierce (1941):

Mildred Pierce

By James M. Cain.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.

Published 1941.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679723218

ISBN-13: 978-0679723219

Description:

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for men and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements James M. Cain created a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and suffering are never less than recognizable.

Haruki Murakami, on writing:

You have to dream intentionally.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep.

But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

- Haruki Murakami.

International Cat Day – August 8:

International Cat Day

August 8

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On this day in movie history - Unforgiven (1992):

Unforgiven

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by David Webb Peoples,

was released in the United States on August 7, 1992.
Music by Lennie Niehaus.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Anna Thomson, David Mucci, Rob Campbell, Anthony James, Tara Dawn Frederick, Beverley Elliott, Liisa Repo-Martell, Josie Smith, Tantoo Cardinal, Shane Meier, Aline Levasseur, Ron White, Jeremy Ratchford, John Pyper-Ferguson, Jefferson Mappin, Mina E. Mina, Henry Kope, Larry Joshua, Ben Cardinal, Frank C. Turner, Lochlyn Munro, Philip Hayes.

On this day in movie history - The Commitments (1991):

The Commitments

directed by Alan Parker,

written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais and Roddy Doyle,

based on the novel by Roddy Doyle,

was released in the United States on August 7, 1991.
Music by Wilson Pickett.

Cast:

Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Félim Gormley, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey, Johnny Murphy, Ken McCluskey, Andrew Strong, Colm Meaney, Anne Kent, Andrea Corr, Gerard Cassoni, Aoife Lawless, Ruth Fairclough, Lindsay Fairclough, Michael O'Reilly, Liam Carney, Ger Ryan, Mark O'Regan, Phelim Drew, Sean Hughes, Philip Bredin, Lance Daly, Conor Malone, Jezz Bell, Colm MacConiomare, Emily Dawson, Dave Kane, Kristel Harris, Maria Place, Brian MacAodha, Tricia Smith, Canice William, Patrick Foy, Allan Murray, Jody Campbell, Eanna MacLiam, Philomena Kavanagh, Peter Rowen, Eamon O'Connor, Maura O'Malley, Blaise Smith, Derek Herbert, Owen O'Gorman, Pat Leavy, John Cronin, Rynagh O'Grady, Sheila Flitton, Michael Bolger, Mick Nolan, Eileen Reid, Bob Navan, Derek Duggan, Paddy O'Connor, Paul Bushnell, Jim Corr, Larry Hogan, Bernard Keelan, Ronan Hardiman, Mikel Murfi, Josylen Lyons, Winston Dennis, Alan Parker, James Brown, Caroline Corr, Sharon Corr, Alan Howley, Mark Leahy, William Morgan, Ralph G. Morse, Sean O'Donovan, Martin O'Malley.