Kathryn Boyd
Actress
September 13, 1897 – March 16, 1965
A
Flying Ace Mystery (2022); Black Gold (1928); The Flying Ace (1926); Deceit (1923).
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Born on this day – J. B. Priestley:
J. B. Priestley
Writer
September 13, 1894 – August 14, 1984
Credits:
Books:
A Visit to
New Zealand (1974); Adam in Moonshine (1927); An Inspector Calls (1948); Angel
Pavement (1930); Benighted (1927); Beyond Time (2019); Black Water (1983); Black-Out
in Gretley (1942); Bodley Head Leacock (1957); Bright Day (1946); Britain Under
Fire (1942); Charles Dickens and His World (1961); Classics of the Supernatural
(1998); Daylight On Saturday (1944); Delight (1949); Dragon's Mouth (1952); English
Humour (1929); English Journey (1934); Essays of Today and Yesterday (1935); Faraway
(1932); Farthing Hall (1929); Festival at Farbridge (1951); Figures in Modern
Literature (1924); Found, Lost, Found (1976); George Meredith (1926); Ghosts
for Christmas (1988); Hauntings (1968); I for One (1923); I Have Been Here
Before (1938); I'll Tell You Everything (1932); Instead of the Trees (1977); It's
An Old Country (1967); Jenny Villiers (1947); Johnson over Jordan (1939); Journey
Down a Rainbow (1955); Let the People Sing (1939); Letter To A Returning
Serviceman (1945); Literature and Western Man (1960); London End (1968); London
Stories (2013); Lost Empires (1965); Low Notes on a High Level (1954); Man and
Time (1964); Margin Released (1962); Medley Macabre (1966); Midnight On the
Desert (1937); My Six Favorite Plays (1978); Open House (1927); Our Nation's
Heritage (1939); Out of the People (1941); Out of Town (1968); Outcries and
Asides (1974); Over The Long High Wall (1972); Papers from Lilliput (1922); Particular
Pleasures (1975); Postscripts aka Britain Speaks (1940); Rain Upon Godshill
(1938); Realms of Darkness (1985); Salt is Leaving (1966); Saturn Over the
Water (1961); Self-Selected Essays (1937); Sir Michael and Sir George (1966); Snoggle
(1971); Spirits of the Season (2018); Stories of the Occult (1978); Tales of
the Dark 3 (1988); Talking (1926); The 31st of June (1961); The 6th Fontana
Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970); The Art of the Dramatist (1957); The
Balconinny (1930); The Book of Bodley Head Verse (1926); The Carfitt Crisis
(1975); The Doomsday Men (1938); The Edwardians (1970); The English (1971); The
English Comic Characters (1925); The Good Companions (1929); The Great Book of
Humour (1935); The Happy Dream (1976); The High Toby (1948); The Magicians
(1954); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Mammoth
Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Masque of the Red Death
(1964); The Other Place (1953); The Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume I (1949); The
Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume II (1949); The Plays of J.B. Priestley -
Volume III (1950); The Prince of Pleasure (1969); The Second Omnibus Book (1930);
The Shapes of Sleep (1962); The Silver Ship (1932); The Valancourt Book of
Horror Stories: Volume Three (2018); The Wonderful World of the Theatre (1959);
Theatre Outlook (1947); They Walk in the City (1936); Thomas Love Peacock (1966);
Thoughts in the Wilderness (1957); Three Men in New Suits (1945); Time and the
Conways (1937); Time Travelers (1997); Trumpets Over the Sea (1968); Victoria's
Heyday (1972); When We Were Married (1938); Wonder Hero (1933).
Movies and
television:
1940:
A Reminiscence by J.B. Priestley (1965); A Severed Head (1971); Actor's Studio
(1950); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1957); Alta comedia (1971–1974); An
Evening with J.B. Priestley (1973); An Inspector Calls (1948 / 1954 / 1982 / 2015
/ 2018 / 2020); Angel Pavement (1957–1967); Anoihtoi logariasmoi (2000); Armchair
Theatre (1957); Au théâtre ce soir (1971–1979); Battle for Music (1943); BBC
Play of the Month (1974–1983); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959); BBC: The
Voice of Britain (1935); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); Beshenoe zoloto (1977); Bright
Shadow (1950); Britain at Bay (1940); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Ci sono già
stato (1954); Conflict (1967); Conversations for Tomorrow (1964); Cornelius (1938);
Dangerous Corner (1934 / 1946 / 1949 / 1965); De roos en de kroon (1963); Det
er fra politiet (1960); Die Conways und die Zeit (1958); Die glücklichen Jahre
der Thorwalds (1962); Die Zeit und die Conways (1960); Doctor Who: The Cravat
Doctor Adventures (2018); Doomsday for Dyson (1958); Eden End (1977); El teatro
(1974); El temps i els Conway (1993); En inspektør ringer på (1961); Enas
epitheoritis erhetai (1999); Encounter (1954); Ergens ligt een stad... (1964); Essi
arrivarono a una città (1961); Estudio 1 (1967–2000); Gefährliche Kurve (1957);
Gendel i gangstery (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1963); Great British Railway
Journeys (2023); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Het begon in het paradijs (1960);
Hidden History: The Lost Portraits of Bradford (2019); How the BBC Began (2022);
I Have Been Here Before (1949 / 1964); Il tempo e la famiglia Conway (1954); In
Front of the Children (1982); Inspektor Gull (1979); Inspektor sa vracia (1972);
ITV Play of the Week (1957–1963); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); ITV
Television Playhouse (1955–1958); Jamaica Inn (1939); Jenny Villiers (1948); Kraft
Theatre (1947–1951); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); Kraft
Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Laburnum Grove (1936 / 1938 / 1947);
Last Holiday (1950 / 2006); Let the People Sing (1942); Little Ships (2010); Look
Up and Laugh (1935); Lost City (1958); Lost Empires (1986); Matinee Theatre
(1958); Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (1955); Music at Night (1952); Omnibus (1968–1969);
On the Road (1980); On Trial (1960); One Man's Week (1971); One Pair of Eyes
(1973); Onkel Phils Nachlaß (1965); Out of the Unknown (1966); Paradies auf
erden (1967); Performance (1994); Playdate (1964); Primera fila (1963–1965); Prizraki
zelyonoy komnaty (1992); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Salute to America (1939);
Sau Jhooth Ek Sach (2004); Seit Adam und Eva (1955 / 1962); Shadows (1975); Silberhochzeit!?!
(2015); Sing As We Go! (1934); Skandalnoye proishestviye v Brikmille (1981); Snoggl
(1993); Snuki (1978); Somewhere in France (1942); Studio One (1952–1958); Summer
Day's Dream (1949); Suspeita (1958); Tarkastaja tulee (1964); Teatro estudio
(1977); Television Theater (1997); Teper pust ukhodit (1963); Thana Theke Aschi
(1965 / 2010); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Germans Are Coming (2005); The
Good Companions (1933 / 1949 / 1957 / 1980 / 1981); The Linden Tree (1949); The
Long Mirror (1948); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1961);
The Old Dark House (1932 / 1963); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The Rose
and Crown (1946 / 1956 / 1963); The Time and the Conways (1966); The Venetian
Door (1966); The Wednesday Play (1968); The Winslow Boy / A Touch of Venus (1969);
The World at War (1973–1974); They Came to a City (1944); Thursday Theatre (1964–1965);
Time and the Conways (1985); Timeshift (2015); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); To
theatro ton neon (1973); Today (1968); Treasure on Pelican (1951); TV de
Vanguarda (1954–1957); Un inspecteur vous demande (1965); Und das am
Montagmorgen (1957 / 1959); Virage dangereux (1956); Vorhang auf! (1954); Vremya
i semya Konvey (1984); We Live in Two Worlds (1937); Wenn wir verheiratet sind
(1982); What Did You Do in the War, Auntie? 1939-45 (1995); When We Are Married
(1938 / 1943 / 1949 / 1951 / 1957 / 1987); Whitehall Wonders (1949); You Know
What People Are (1955); Zur Rose und Krone (1964).
Born on this day – Lewis E. Lawes:
Lewis E. Lawes
Prison warden
Writer
September 13, 1883 – April 23, 1947
Give vocational training
to the manually minded,
and the children's courts of the future will have less
to do.
– Lewis E. Lawes.
Credits:
Books:
20,000 Years in Sing
Sing; Cell 202, Sing Sing; Invisible Stripes; Life and Death in Sing Sing; Man's
Judgment of Death: An Analysis of the Operation and Effect of Capital
Punishment Based on Facts, Not on Sentiment; Meet the Murderer!; Sing Sing; Stone
and Steel: The Way of...; Strange Stories from Sing Sing; Where Do I Go From
Here? The Life Story of a Forger as told to Robert O. Ballou.
Movies and television:
20,000
Years in Sing Sing (1932); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Invisible Stripes (1939);
Kalimat Sharaf (1972); Over the Wall (1938); You Can't Get Away with Murder
(1939).
Born on this day – Arnold Schoenberg:
Arnold Schoenberg
Composer
Music theorist
Teacher
Writer
September 13, 1874 –
July 13, 1951
Credits:
Compositions:
11 Waltzes for String
Orchestra: III. Etwas langsam; 11 Waltzes for String Orchestra: V. Rasch; 3
Pieces for Chamber Orchestra: I. Rasche Viertel; 6 Orchester-Lieder, op. 8: I.
Nature; A Survivor from Warsaw; Brettl-Lieder: Nachtwandler; Chamber Symphony
No. 1; Chamber Symphony No. 2; Chamber Symphony no. 2, op. 38: II. Con fuoco; Das
zerbrochene Krüglein; Die glückliche Hand; Die Jakobsleiter; Die Jakobsleiter:
"Alter Weisheit" (Ein Ringender); Die Jakobsleiter: "Du bist
immerhin zufrieden" (Gabriel); Die Jakobsleiter: "Ob rechts, ob
links" (Gabriel); Die Jakobsleiter: "Wie, du doch schwankst"
(Gabriel); Drei Klavierstücke; Du kehrst mir den Rücken; Erwartung; Five Pieces
for Orchestra; Four Orchestral Songs; Friede auf Erden, op. 13; Genesis Suite; Gurre-Lieder;
Herzgewächse; In hellen Träumen; Mädchenfrühling; Moses und Aron; Ode an
Napoleon Bonaparte, op. 41; Pelleas und Melisande; Piano Concerto; Pierrot
lunaire; Sechs Stücke für Klavier zu vier Händen: IV. Andante; Sechs Stücke für
Klavier zu vier Händen: VI. Allegro molto; Serenade; Streichseptett; String
Quartet no. 2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10: I. Mäßig (Moderato); String Quartet no.
2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10: II. Sehr rasch; Suite for Piano; Suite, op. 29: II.
Tanzschritte; The Book of the Hanging Gardens; Theme and Variations, op. 43a:
8. Variation 7; Variations for Orchestra; Verklärte Nacht; Violin Concerto; Von
heute auf morgen; Waldesnacht; Warum bist du aufgewacht; Weihnachtsmusik; Wind
Quintet; Zwei Kanons: Wenn der schwer Gedrückte klagt.
Books:
Arnold Schoenberg /
Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and ...; Fundamentals of Musical
Composition; Gustav Mahler; Harmonia; Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint;
Structural Functions of Harmony; Style and Idea: Selected Writings; Theory of
Harmony.
Movies and television:
American
Masters (1987); Antonia. (2015); Antrittskonzert von Christian Thielemann (2024);
Appuntamento a Liverpool (1988); Arnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär (2024);
Avenida Progreso (2012); Brows Held High (2012); Christian Thielemann dirigiert
Moussa, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schönberg (2024); Cinema Falado (1986); Clairvoyant
(2002); Claudio Abbado: Die Stille nach der Musik (1998); Dark Journey (1961); Degenerate
Art (1993); Der gläserne Blick (2003); Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1990); Der
Ort der Handlung (1977); Die Jakobsleiter (1961); Die Olympiasiegerin (1983); Drei
Wege zum See (1976); En overlevende fra Warszawa (1973); Engel und Puppe (1974);
Erwartung (1989 / 2008); Five Orchestral Pieces (1994); From Today Until
Tomorrow (1997); Goodbye to Language (2014); Gurre-Lieder (2019); Hope@Home
(2020); Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
(1973); It Seems Today (2018); La botella (2017); L'adage (1964); Lastauspaikka
– Umschlagplatz (1987); Lazarus Heroification (2025); Le Cabinet des estampes
(1955); Les anges gardiens (1995); Licht sing tausendfache Lieder (1985); Lives
No Longer Ours (2011); L'occitanienne (2006); Lumière and Company (1995); Meine
Wunder (1978); Mental Images (1987); Metamorphoses (2014); Moses and Aaron (1995
/ 2009); Moses und Aron (1975 / 2006 / 2015); Musik in Zeiten von Krieg und
Revolution (2016); My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg (1992); New Wave (1990); New
World Symphony Wallcast Concert 2 (2013); New World Symphony Wallcast Concert 7
(2014); One Night, One Life (2002); Österreich - Unser Jahrhundert (1999); Perfect
Darkness (2016); Pierrot Lunaire (1988 / 1990 / 2014); Qu'en savent les morts (1991);
Rapport fra Nr. 24 (1994); Si fuera yo un helecho... (2006); Spektral Quartet:
Experiments in Living (2020); Spielregel für einen Wiedertäuferfilm (1977); The
Forbidden Room (2015); The Hunting Fever (2008); The Lively Arts (1977); The
Swindle (1997); Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993); Through the
Darkness (2021); Tom at the Farm (2013); Tones, Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic
of Minimalism (2018); Transfiguré: 12 vies de Schönberg (2024); Tren de sombras
(1997); Von Heute auf Morgen, Opera in un atto op. 32 (2011); Woman in Gold
(2015); World of Music (1974).
Recommended reading - L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels (2008):
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L.A. Noir:
Nine Dark
Visions of the City of Angels
By William Hare.
Published by McFarland
& Company.
Published in 2008.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0786437405
ISBN-13: 978-0786437405
Description:
Los Angeles is an ideal
city for film noir for both economic and aesthetic reasons. The largest
metropolitan area in the country, home to an ever-changing population of the
disillusioned and in close proximity to city, mountains, ocean, and desert, the
City of Angels became a center of American film noir.
This
detailed discussion of nine films explores such topics as why certain settings
are appropriate for film noir, why L.A. has been a favorite of authors such as
Raymond Chandler, and relevant political developments in the area. The films
are also examined in terms of story content as well as how they developed in
the project stage. Utilizing a number of quotes from interviews, the work
examines actors, directors, and others involved with the films, touching on
their careers and details of their time in L.A. The major films covered are The
Big Sleep, Criss Cross, D.O.A., In A Lonely Place, The
Blue Gardenia, Kiss Me Deadly, The Killing, Chinatown,
and L.A. Confidential.
Nancy Kress, on writing:
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.
- Nancy Kress.
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