Micheline Bourday
Actress
October 6, 1921 – November 26, 1988
Monday, October 6, 2025
Born on this day – Mitchell Leisen:
Mitchell Leisen
Director
Art director
Costume designer
October 6, 1898 – October 28,
1972
Credits:
Spree (1967); The Girl
from U.N.C.L.E. (1966–1967); Adventures in Paradise (1961–1962); Follow the Sun
(1961); Wagon Train (1961); Open Windows (1960); General Electric Theater (1955–1960);
Thriller (1960); Markham (1960); The Twilight Zone (1959–1960); Shirley
Temple's Storybook (1958); The Girl Most Likely (1957); Bedevilled (1955); Tonight
We Sing (1953); Young Man with Ideas (1952); Darling, How Could You! (1951); The
Mating Season (1951); No Man of Her Own (1950); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Song
of Surrender (1949); Bride of Vengeance (1949); Dream Girl (1948); Golden
Earrings (1947); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); To Each His Own (1946); Masquerade
in Mexico (1945); Kitty (1945); Practically Yours (1944); Frenchman's Creek
(1944); Lady in the Dark (1944); No Time for Love (1943); Take a Letter,
Darling (1942); The Lady Is Willing (1942); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); I Wanted
Wings (1941); Arise, My Love (1940); Remember the Night (1939); Midnight (1939);
Artist and Models (1937); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); Easy Living (1937);
Swing High, Swing Low (1937); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); 13 Hours by Air
(1936); Hands Across the Table (1935); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); Behold My
Wife! (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Bolero
(1934); Cradle Song (1933); The Eagle and the Hawk (1933).
Born on this day – Benjamin Stoloff:
Benjamin Stoloff
Director
Producer
Production Manager
October 6, 1895 – September 8,
1960
Home Run Derby (1960); Footlight
Varieties (1951); It's a Joke, Son! (1947); Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946); Take
It or Leave It (1944); Bermuda Mystery (1944); The Mysterious Doctor (1943); The
Hidden Hand (1942); Secret Enemies (1942); Three Sons o' Guns (1941); The Great
Mr. Nobody (1941); The Marines Fly High (1940); The Lady and the Mob (1939); The
Affairs of Annabel (1938); Radio City Revels (1938); Fight for Your Lady (1937);
Super-Sleuth (1937); Sea Devils (1937); Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936); Two in the
Dark (1936); To Beat the Band (1935); Swellhead (1935); Transatlantic
Merry-Go-Round (1934); Palooka (1934); Night of Terror (1933); Obey the Law
(1933); The Devil Is Driving (1932); The Night Mayor (1932); By Whose Hand?
(1932); Destry Rides Again (1932); Just Pals (1932); Perfect Control (1932); Slide,
Babe, Slide (1932); Goldie (1931); Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931); Soup to Nuts
(1930); Rough Romance (1930); New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930); The Girl
from Havana (1929); Happy Days (1929); Protection (1929); Speakeasy (1929); Mind
Your Business (1928); The Bath Between (1928); Plastered in Paris (1928); Horseman
of the Plains (1928); Silver Valley (1927); The Gay Retreat (1927); The Circus
Ace (1927); The Canyon of Light (1926); It's a Pipe (1926); A1 Society (1926); Matrimony
Blues (1926); The Mad Racer (1926); Pawnshop Politics (1926); The Fighting
Tailor (1926); East Side, West Side (1925); The Heart Breaker (1925); Love and
Lions (1925); Sweet Marie (1925); On the Go (1925); A High Jinx (1925); Papa's
Darling (1925); Say It with Flour (1925); Help Yourself! (1925); The House of
Flickers (1925); Lion Love (1925); Grief in Bagdad (1925); Roaring Lions at
Home (1924); Stolen Sweeties (1924); In-Bad the Sailor (1924); Stretching the
Truth (1924); When Wise Ducks Meet (1924); On the Job (1924); Be Yourself
(1924); Highly Recommended (1924); Slow and Sure (1923); Full Speed Ahead
(1923); Play Ball with Babe Ruth (1920).
Recommended reading - To Die For (1992):
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To Die For
By Joyce Maynard.
First published 1992.
Published by Open Road
Media.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1497643821
ISBN-13: 978-1497643826
Description:
“That’s the beauty of
television. It’s like an eye that’s on you all the time…. Kind of like God, if
you want to get heavy.”
Local weather reporter
Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban
cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara
Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way
of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She
seduces a fifteen-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty
work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as
grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the
river, she’s ready.
Maynard’s brilliant,
funny, and groundbreaking novel – adapted by Gus Van Sant into the cult classic
movie of the same name, starring Nicole Kidman – was first published in 1992
before the era of manufactured stardom and the phenomenon of televised murder
trials as entertainment. The book still stands as a razor-sharp satire of
celebrity-fixated culture and the American obsession with TV – a novel that
imagined the phenomenon of reality television before its creation, with
alternately bone-chilling and hilarious accuracy.
“A seductive page
turner.” – The New York Times Book Review.
“A triumph.” – The
Boston Globe.
“A
powerful novel of murder and sexual obsession. . . . Chilling.” – The Star-Ledger.
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