Born on this day – Jack Cardiff:

Jack Cardiff

Cinematographer

Director

Photographer

September 18, 1914 – April 22, 2009

Born on this day – Greta Garbo:

Greta Garbo

Actress

September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990

Credits:

1 a Minute / In memory of: Battled Breast Cancer (2010); 100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 30 Years of Fun (1963); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Man's Man (1929); A Woman of Affairs (1928); Absolutely Do Not Die! (2014); Adam & Yves (1974); Anita no perd el tren (2001); Anna Christie (1930); Anna Karenina (1935 / 2012); Annie (1982); Arena (1991–2012); As You Desire Me (1932); Avocado Toast the Series (2020); Azzedine Alaïa: Un couturier français (2022); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Biography (1998); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Camille (1936); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Century of Cinema (1995); Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2023); Conquest (1937); Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (1955); Diary for My Children (1984); Die Filmstadt Hollywood (1928); Dos reinas (1993); Duels (2015); Ein Idol hat Geburtstag - Die Karriere der Greta Garbo (1957); En lyckoriddare (1921); Film Time (1955); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); First Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Flesh and the Devil (1926); Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! (1931); From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Garabatos Greta Garbo (1944); Garbo (2005); Garbo Talks (1984); Gossip (2000); Grand Hotel (1932); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997); Greta (2019); Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1985); Grosse Fische, kleine Fische (1973); Haunted Hotels of Hollywood (2018); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood Party (1934); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood sul Tevere (2009); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); How Andy invented a superstar: true uncut tales from Andy Warhol's Factory People (2018); How Not to Dress (1920); Inspiration (1931); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996); Kärlekens ögon (1922); Konsumtionsföreningen Stockholm med omnejd (1921); Kvinnor, kvinnor, kvinnor (1997); Le petit prince, naissance d'une étoile (2023); Le vie della Recherche - Luchino Visconti (2006); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Leggende dietro la quinte: Greta Garbo (2020); Love (1927); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); Luffar-Petter (1922); Marlowe (1969); Mata Hari (1931); MGM Parade (1955–1956); Minns Ni? (1993); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moviestar Cartoons (1983); Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (2021); Ninotchka (1939); O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (1991); Prejudice & Pride: Swedish Film Queer (2022); PUB i City (1957); Queen Christina (1933); Romance (1930); S1m0ne (2002); Satin and Silk (2003); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Screen Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Second Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Sensationer (1992); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Siskel & Ebert (1990); Sixty Years of Seduction (1981); Some of the Best (1944); Spécial cinéma (1985); Star Life (1990); Stiller, Garbo & Me (1988); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Casting Couch (1995); The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1972); The Divine Garbo (1990); The Divine Woman (1928); The Dreamers (2003); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Happy Ending (1969); The Joyless Street (1925); The Kiss (1929); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movies March On (1939); The Mysterious Lady (1928); The Painted Veil (1934); The Picture Theatre (1967); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924); The Single Standard (1929); The South Bank Show (2001); The South Bank Show / Greta Garbo: A Lone Star (2001); The Story of Hollywood (1988); The Temptress (1926); The World's Most Photographed (2005); Third Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); Torrent (1926); Two-Faced Woman (1941); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1979); Vi mötte stormen (1943); Vito (2011); Voices Across the Sea (1928); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wild Orchids (1929); Wonderful Times (1950).

Born on this day – Samuel Johnson:

Samuel Johnson

Writer

September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784

Credits:

Written work:

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755); A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775); A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735); Birmingham Journal (1732–33); Irene, a Tragedy (1749); Life of Browne (1756); Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744); Lives of the Poets (1779–81); London (1738); Messiah (1728); Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth (1745); Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language (1747); Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language (1755); Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare (1765); Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane (1747); Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, the Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1756); Taxation no Tyranny (1775); The Adventurer (1753–54); The Beauties of Johnson (1781); The False Alarm (1770); The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia / novella (1759); The Idler (1758–60); The Literary Magazine, or Universal Review (1756); The Patriot (1774); The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765); The Rambler (1750–52); The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749); Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands (1771); Universal Visiter (1756).

Movie:

Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man (2006).

I need more books ...

It literally stresses me out how many good books are out there that I still haven't read.

Recommended reading - Connecting Detectives: The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds (2014):

Connecting Detectives:
The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds

By Lewis D. Moore.

Published by McFarland.

Published 2014.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786477717

ISBN-13: 978-0786477715

Description:

A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.

Shannon Hale, on reading:

Life is short, so live extra lives.

Read books.

- Shannon Hale.

On this day in music history – Guilty Pleasures, by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2013):

Guilty Pleasures

Album by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing,

released September 17, 2013.

Track list:

Berlioz: Les nuits d’été, Op. 7: 1. Villanelle; Duparc: Phidylé; Refice: Ombra di nube; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 5. Nana; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 6. Canción; Tchaikovsky: Undina: Undina’s Aria; Rachmaninoff: Sumerki (Twilight), Op. 21, No. 3; Delibes: Les Filles de Cadix; Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1: “Sous le dôme épais” (Flower Duet); Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 7. La Delaissado; Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 13. Malurous qu’o uno Fenno; Dvořák: Armida: “Za Štíhlou Gazelou”; Smetana: The Kiss (Hubicka) - Opera in 2 Acts: Lullaby; J. Strauss II: Walzer aus Wien: “Frag mich oft”; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: V. Träume; Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles / Act II: “Once There Was A Golden Bird”; Traditional: “O Danny Boy”.