Bert I. Gordon
Director
Visual effects artist
September 24, 1922 – March 8, 2023
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Born on this day – Audra Lindley:
Audra Lindley
Actress
September 24, 1918 – October 16, 1997
Credits:
Absolute
Strangers (1991); All-Star Family Feud Special (1978–1979); American Inventory
(1954); An American Girl (1958); Another World (1964–1969); Armstrong Circle
Theatre (1952–1963); Barnaby Jones (1975); Best Friends (1982); Biography (2009);
Bridesmaids (1989); Bridget Loves Bernie (1972–1973); Brilliant But Cancelled
(2002); Cannery Row (1982); Chico and the Man (1975); Cybill (1996–1998); Dangerously
They Live (1941); Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995); Dean
Martin Celebrity Roast: Suzanne Somers (1978); Desert Hearts (1985); Dinah!
(1979); Doc (1976); Entertainment Tonight (2016); Family Feud (1980); Fay
(1975–1976); Friends (1995); From These Roots (1958–1961); Getting Married
(1978); Good Morning America (1979); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Hands of
Mystery (1951–1952); Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994); High Incident
(1996); Horizons (1954); Insight (1981); Just My Imagination (1992); Kraft
Theatre (1953–1958); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1952); Kraft
Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1963); Lamp Unto My Feet (1955); Lifestories:
Families in Crisis (1992); Lights Out (1951); Love Story (1954); Lux Video
Theatre (1950–1951); Manpower (1941); Married Is Better (1974); Matlock (1987);
Maude (1975); Modern Romances (1954–1956); Murder, She Wrote (1995); Naked City
(1961–1962); Nothing Sacred (1997); One Foot in Heaven (1941); Pat Boone and
Family Christmas Special (1979); Pearl (1978); Perry Mason: The Case of the
Lady in the Lake (1988); Playhouse 90 (1957); Ponds Theater (1955); Revenge of
the Stepford Wives (1980); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951–1956); Route 66
(1963); Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986); Shadow of the Cloak (1951); Shoot the
Moon (1996); Sisters and Other Strangers (1997); Skyward Christmas (1981); Spellbinder
(1988); Stamp of a Killer (1987); Sudden Death (1995); Take My Daughters,
Please (1988); Taking Off (1971); Tales from the Crypt (1989); Tales from the
Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The 6th People's Choice Awards (1980); The
Alcoa Hour (1955–1957); The Big Story (1952); The Bob Crane Show (1975); The
Canterville Ghost (1974); The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1994); The Day the
Bubble Burst (1982); The Edge of Night (1956–1984); The Girl with Something
Extra (1974); The Heartbreak Kid (1972); The Hidden Room (1991); The Love Boat
(1977–1981); The Magical World of Disney (1986); The Male Animal (1942); The
Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1978–1979); The Mommies (1994);
The New Age (1994); The Relic (1997); The Ropers (1979–1980); The Silent Lovers
(1980); The Web (1951–1954); Three's Company (1976–1982); Three's Company (1982);
Troop Beverly Hills (1989); True Story (1957–1958); When You Comin' Back, Red
Ryder? (1979); Zoo Ship (1985).
Born on this day – F. Scott Fitzgerald:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writer
September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940
Credits:
Books:
100 Years
of the Best American Short Stories (2015); 40 Short Stories (2004); A Short
Trip Home (1927); A Treasury of Civil War Stories (1991); All of the Belles
(2020); All the Sad Young Men (1926); American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the
Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009); Babylon Revisited (2023); Bernice Bobs
Her Hair and Other Stories (2019); Black Water 2 (1990); Classic Works (2018); Flappers
and Philosophers (1920); Golden Age Whodunits (2024); I'd Die for You (2017); Parties
(2020); Spires and Gargoyles (2010); Tales of the Jazz Age (1922); Taps at
Reveille (1935); Tender Is the Night (1934); The Beautiful and Damned (1922); The
Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008); The Best of F. Scott
Fitzgerald (2021); The Complete Fitzgerald Collection (2019); The Crack-up
(1945); The Cruise of the Rolling Junk (1924); The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button and Other Stories (2020); The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922); The
Fantasy and Mystery Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald (1991); The Great Gatsby
& Related Stories (2023); The Great Gatsby (1925); The Great Gatsby and
Other Classic Works (2021); The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other
Writings 1920 - 26 (2022); The Jelly-Bean (1920); The Last Tycoon / aka The
Love of the Last Tycoon (1970); The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1964); The
Love Boat and Other Stories (2019); The Moonlight Traveller (1949); The Oxford
Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century
Ghost Stories (1996); The Pat Hobby Stories (1962); The Platform Edge (2019); The
Popular Girl (2005); The Popular Girl (2018); The Stories of F. Scott
Fitzgerald (1951); This Side of Paradise (1920); Vampires, Wine and Roses (1997);
White Fire (1991).
Movies and
television:
A
Curious World (2016); A Yank at Oxford (1938); American Playhouse (1984); Armchair
Theatre (1959); Az édenen innen és túl (1971); Berenika (1995); Bernice Bobs
Her Hair (1976 / 2015); Biography (1997); Bookmark (1988); Boulevard of Broken
Dreams (1988); Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990); Climax! (1955); Contretemps
(2007); Curtain Call (1952); Duels (2016); Einer meiner ältesten Freunde (1994);
Ernest Hemingway, quatre mariages et un enterrement (2021); Everything Happens
at Night (1939); F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'the Last of the Belles' (1974); F.
Scott Fitzgerald's Head and Shoulders (2014); Fate's Shadow (2019); Fate's
Shadow: The Whole Story (2021); Frankly Speaking: A Conversation with Frank
Howson (2012); Front Row Center (1955–1956); Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold
Story (2020); Gatsby: The Movie... Kind Of (2016); Grit (1924); Hemingway (2021);
Honeymoon in Bali (1939); I riassuntini (2020); Indiánské léto (1995); Izmedju
dva aviona (1964); Kraft Theatre (1955–1958); Kraft Theatre / The Philco
Television Playhouse (1949–1952); La France en face (2013); Look Up and Live
(1958); Lux Video Theatre (1952); Marie Antoinette (1938); Million Dollar
American Princesses (2016); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); New York: A
Documentary Film (1999); Perfidi incanti / Segment: Il Viaggio (1985); Playhouse
90 (1957–1958); Ponds Theater (1954); Project Twenty (1956); Pusher-in-the-Face
(1929); Raffles (1939); Red-Headed Woman (1932); Robert Montgomery Presents
(1951–1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Star Tonight (1956); Starlight Theatre
(1950–1951); Suspense (1953); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed
with Genius (1987); Taví zadok (1979); Teletale (1963); Tender Is the Night
(1962 / 1985); The Beautiful and Damned (1922 / 2009); The Bridal Party - F. S.
Fitzgerald (2021); The Chorus Girl's Romance (1920); The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button (2008); The Dashing Mr. Lowell (2012); The Dick Powell Theatre
(1962); The Glimpses of the Moon (1923); The Great Gatsby (1926 / 1949 / 1974 /
2000 / 2013); The Great Gatsby Live Read! (2021); The Husband Hunter (1920); The
Jazz Age (1968); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954); The Last Tycoon (1976); The
Last Tycoon / TV series (2016–2017); The Lost Decade (2012); The Off-Shore
Pirate (1921); The Offshore Pirate (2013); The Sensible Thing (1996); The
Twentieth Century (1960); The Women (1939); Three Comrades (1938); To theatro
tis Defteras (1977); Winter Carnival (1939); Zelig (1983).
Born on this day – Julia Faye:
Julia Faye
Actress
September 24, 1892 – April 6, 1966
Credits:
A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); A Lover's Might (1916); A
Movie Star (1916); A Roadside Impresario (1917); A Trip to Paramountown (1922);
A Very Good Young Man (1919); Adam's Rib (1923); Alias Nick Beal (1949); As in
the Days of Old (1915); Bachelor Brides (1926); Beyond Glory (1948); Blaze of
Noon (1947); Bucking Society (1916); California (1947); Casanova Brown (1944);
Changing Husbands (1924); Chicago (1927); Chicago Deadline (1949); Copper
Canyon (1950); Corporal Kate (1926); Don Quixote (1915); Don't Call It Love
(1923); Don't Change Your Husband (1919); Dynamite (1929); Easy Come, Easy Go
(1947); Fear in the Night (1946); Feet of Clay (1924); Fool's Paradise (1921);
Forbidden Fruit (1921); Hell's Highroad (1925); Here Comes the Groom (1951);
His Auto Ruination (1916); His Dog (1927); His Last Laugh (1916); Holiday Inn
(1942); Hollywood (1923); Intolerance (1916); It Pays to Advertise (1919); Joan
of Arc (1948); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Male and Female (1919); Manslaughter
(1922); Masquerade in Mexico (1945); Meet the Prince (1926); Mr. Reckless
(1948); Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots (1918); Nice People (1922); Night Has a
Thousand Eyes (1948); Nobody's Money (1923); North West Mounted Police (1940);
Not So Dumb (1930); Old Wives for New (1918); Only Yesterday (1933); Pacific
Blackout (1941); Professor Beware (1938); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Red, Hot
and Blue (1949); Remember the Night (1939); Samson and Delilah (1949); Sandy
(1918); Saturday Night (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 7 (1923); So
Proudly We Hail! (1943); Something to Think About (1920); Song of Surrender
(1949); Stepping Out (1919); Sunset Boulevard (1950); The Affairs of Anatol
(1921); The Big Clock (1948); The Breaking Point (1924); The Buccaneer (1958);
The Fighting Eagle (1927); The Godless Girl (1928); The Golden Bed (1925); The
Great Moment (1921); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); The King of Kings
(1927); The Lamb (1915); The Lawless (1950); The Life of the Party (1920); The
Main Event (1927); The Perils of Pauline (1947); The Road to Yesterday (1925);
The Six Best Cellars (1920); The Snob (1921); The Spellbinder (1939); The Squaw
Man (1918 / 1931); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Surf Girl (1916); The
Ten Commandments (1923 / 1956); The Ten Commandments: Making Miracles (2011);
The Voice of Hollywood No. 3 (1930); The Volga Boatman (1926); The Whispering
Chorus (1918); The Woman God Forgot (1917); The Yankee Clipper (1927); This Is
Your Life (1957); Till I Come Back to You (1918); Till We Meet Again (1936); To
Each His Own (1946); Triumph (1924); Turkish Delight (1927); Unconquered
(1947); Union Pacific (1939); Venus in the East (1919); Welcome Stranger
(1947); Where Danger Lives (1950); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); You and Me
(1938).
Recommended reading - The Black Eyed Blonde (2014):
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The Black Eyed Blonde
By Benjamin Black.
Filmed as Marlowe
(2022), directed by Neil Jordan.
Published by Picador.
First published 2014.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 144723670X
ISBN-13: 978-1447236702
Description:
A Philip Marlowe novel.
Raymond Chandler’s
incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the
most difficult and dangerous case of his career.
“It was one of those
summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped
revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it’s
being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians,
too, men in hats going nowhere.”
So begins The
Black-Eyed Blonde, a new novel featuring Philip Marlowe – yes, that Philip
Marlowe. Channeling Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back
to life for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City, California. It is
the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a
little slow. Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively
dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson.
Marlowe sets off on his search, but almost immediately discovers that
Peterson’s disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events.
Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City’s richest families and developing a
singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune.
Only Benjamin Black, a
modern master of the genre, could write a new Philip Marlowe novel that has all
the panache and charm of the originals while delivering a story that is as
sharp and fresh as today’s best crime fiction.
Praise for The
Black-Eyed Blonde:
“Somewhere Raymond
Chandler is smiling, because this is a beautifully rendered hard-boiled novel
that echoes Chandler’s melancholy at perfect pitch. The story is great, but
what amazed me is how John Banville caught the cumulative effect Chandler’s
prose had on readers. It’s hard to quatify, but it’s also what separated the
Marlowe novels from the general run of noir (which included some damn fine
novelists, like David Goodis and Jim Thompson). The sadness runs deep. I loved
this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into
the room. Kind of like Terry Lennox, hiding behind those drapes.” – Stephen King.
“Banville
channeling Chandler is irresistible – a double whammy of a mystery. Hard to
think anyone could add to Chandler with profitable results. But Banville
most definitely gets it done.” – Richard Ford.
Jean Craighead George, on reading:
I love to travel, but
when I really want to escape, I read a book.
- Jean Craighead George.
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