Alan Ladd
Actor
Producer
September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Born on this day – Kitty Carlisle:
Kitty Carlisle
Actress
Opera singer
September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007
Credits:
Advocate for the Arts.
Chair of the New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) (1976 to 1996).
Stage:
Anniversary Waltz (1954);
Champagne, Sec (1933); Design for Living (1943); Die Fledermaus (1967); French
Without Tears (1936); Larceny with Music (1943); Night of January 16th (1938); On
Your Toes (1983); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1949); The Merry Widow (1943); The
Rape of Lucretia (1948); There's Always Juliet (1944); Three Waltzes (1937); Walk
With Music (1940); White Horse Inn (1936); Wit & Wisdom (2003); You Never
Know (1975).
Songs:
Movies and television:
13
Stars for Channel 13 (1966); 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); A
Night at the Opera (1935); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest
Movies (2000); All Star Musical Revue (1945); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan
(1985); American Masters (1987–1990); Beyond Vaudeville (1993); Bicentennial
Minutes (1976); Biography (2000); Broadway Legends (2002); Broadway: The
American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were
There (2003); Call My Bluff (1965); Catch Me If You Can (2002); Cavalcade of
Stars (1949); CBS Mornings (1988); Complicated Women (2003); Danny Kaye:
Nobody's Fool (1994); Don Ameche's Musical Playhouse (1951); Game Show Moments
Gone Bananas (2005); Get the Message (1964); Great Performances (1981–1998); Great
Performances / Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Greta Garbo: A Lone Star
(2001); Here Is My Heart (1934); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood Singing
and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
(2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); I Am Big
Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Irving
Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); I've Got a Secret (1952–1966); Kojak:
Flowers for Matty (1990); Larceny with Music (1943); Leave It to the Girls (1949);
Lerner and Loewe: Broadway's Last Romantics (1988); Max Liebman Spectaculars
(1956); McLean and Company (1971); Miss America Pageant (1958); Missing Links (1963–1964);
Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Lumet (1985);
Moving Image Salutes Steven Spielberg (1994); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Nash
Airflyte Theatre (1951); Nick & Hillary (1988); Night of 100 Stars III
(1990); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Password (1961–1965);
Person to Person (1959); Play Your Hunch (1963); Probe and Night Beat (1956); Quick
as a Flash (1953–1954); Radio Days (1987); Remarks on Marx (2004); Remembering
Bing (1989); Sally Jessy Raphael (1989); She Loves Me Not (1934); Ship's
Reporter (1950); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Six Degrees of Separation (1993); Special
Collector's Edition (2012); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 39th
Annual Tony Awards (1985); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The 9th
Annual American Cinema Awards (1992); The Bob Braun Show (1980); The Ed
Sullivan Show (1959); The Eyes Have It (1950–1951); The Faye Emerson Show (1950);
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The
Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Claudette Colbert (1984);
The Film Society of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Gregory Peck (1992); The
Howard Stern Show (1991); The Jim Backus Show (1960); The Kennedy Center
Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998 / 1980); The Kennedys: The
Curse of Power (2000); The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000); The Match Game (1963–1964);
The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1969); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1971); The
Morning Exchange (1988); The Movie Masters (1989–1990); The Powder & the
Glory (2007); The South Bank Show (1978); The Steve Allen Show (1951); The
Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); Theater Talk (2007); This Is Show
Business (1951–1954); To Tell the Truth (1957–2000); TV's Funniest Game Show
Moments (1984); We, the People (1948); What's Going on? (1954); What's My Line?
(1963–1966); Who Said That? (1948–1955); Who's There? (1952).
Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:
Lawrence Clark Powell
Writer
Librarian
Bibliographer
September 3, 1906 – March 14,
2001
Credits:
Books:
A
Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California
Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair
(1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the
Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years
of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the
Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern
Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The
Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H.
Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a
Bygone era (1986).
Born on this day – Sally Benson:
Sally Benson
Writer
September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972
Credits:
Short
stories:
Emily
(1938); Junior Miss (1941); Meet Me in St. Louis (1942); People Are Fascinating
(1936); Stories of the Gods and Heroes (1940); Women and Children First (1943).
Movies and
television:
Anna
and the King of Siam (1946); Bus Stop (1961); Come to the Stable (1949); Conspirator
(1949); Curtain Call (1952); General Electric Guest House (1951); Hans Brinker
and the Silver Skates (1958); Joy in the Morning (1965); Junior Miss (1945 / 1946);
Little Women (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944 / 1959
/ 1966); No Man of Her Own (1950); Occupation Housewife / Yrke: Hemmafru (1967);
Shadow of a Doubt (1943 / 1991); Signpost to Murder (1964); Summer Magic (1963);
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953); The Singing Nun (1966); Viva Las Vegas (1964); Wonderful
Town, U.S.A. (1951).
Recommended reading - The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944):
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The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
By Dashiell Hammett.
Published by Must Have
Books.
Published 1944.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1773237772
ISBN-13: 978-1773237770
Description:
Sam Spade is the tall,
tough, smart private detective made famous by Dashiell Hammett in his superb
detective novel, The Maltese Falcon. His appearance in the three short
stories which make up The Adventures of Sam Spade is good news for his
admirers and even better news for those who have yet to meet him. As Sam says, “There
ought to be a law making criminals give themselves up…” but since there isn’t
one is better qualified than he to take the place of that law. He’s not a
fictional detective, not given to elaborate analysis of the crime nor to
elaborate restaging of it in front of all the suspects in the hope that one
will break down; he’s an honest-to-God detective, astute and industrious enough
to find out everything possible and then figure the angles from what he knows.
In addition to the three
Adventures of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett has included here four
brilliant short stories, each one terse, masculine, and eminently readable, yet
one different in theme and handling. The Assistant Murderer tells of a
complicated case neatly solved by Alexander Rush, the detective who is so ugly
that people just naturally think he is crooked. Night Shade is a vivid
sketch with an O. Henry Ending. The Judge Laughed Last is a story so
funny that you’ll be laughing even when the judge is through. And His
Brother’s Keeper is a fine prize fight tale told by a tough, dumb, honest
and likable fighter.
Contents: Too Many Have Lived;
They Can Only Hang You Once; A Man Called Spade; The Assistant Murderer; Night Shade;
The Judge Laughed Last; His Brother's Keeper.
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