Born on this day – Virginia Field:

Virginia Field

Actress

November 4, 1917 – January 2, 1992

Credits:

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); Adam-12 (1975); Adventures in Paradise (1962); Alcoa Theatre (1959); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Appointment with a Shadow (1957); Atlantic Convoy (1942); Bridal Suite (1939); Captain Fury (1939); Career Woman (1936); Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Christmas Eve (1947); Crime Photographer (1952); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Dance, Girl, Dance (1940); Dial 1119 (1950); Dream Girl (1948); Eternally Yours (1939); Fireside Theatre (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1956); General Electric Theater (1955); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Hudson's Bay (1940); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Iron Horse (1966); John Loves Mary (1949); Johnny Midnight (1960); Knockout (1941); Ladies in Love (1936); Ladies' Man (1947); Lancer Spy (1937); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); Lloyd's of London (1936); London by Night (1937); Man with a Camera (1959); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939); Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1938); Pantomime Quiz (1950); Perry Mason (1958); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 9: Star Portraits (1942); Repeat Performance (1947); Rockabilly Baby (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 27, No. 8: Hollywood Honors Hersholt (1948); Sing, Baby, Sing (1936); Singapore Woman (1941); Stage Door Canteen (1943); T.H.E. Cat (1966); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Thank You, Jeeves! (1936); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939); The Comedy Spot (1960); The Crystal Ball (1943); The Earth Dies Screaming (1964); The Ed Wynn Show (1958); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Explosive Generation (1961); The Felony Squad (1967); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Imperfect Lady (1946); The Lady Is Willing (1934); The Lady Pays Off (1951); The Millionaire (1959); The New Breed (1961); The Perfect Marriage (1946); The Primrose Path (1934); The Rebel (1961); The Red Skelton Hour (1955); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Sun Never Sets (1939); The Veils of Bagdad (1953); The Whistler (1955); Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937); Variety Girl (1947); Waterloo Bridge (1940); Week-End with Father (1951); Your Show of Shows (1951).

Born on this day – Stanley Cortez:

Stanley Cortez

Cinematographer

November 4, 1908 – December 23, 1997

Credits:

A Dangerous Game (1941); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Alias the Deacon (1940); American Masters (1993 / 2008); Another Man, Another Chance (1977); Apache (1954); Armored Car (1937); Back Street (1961); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Black Tuesday (1954); Blue (1968); Bombay Clipper (1941); Boy Meets Joy (1939); Broadway (1929); Chinatown (1974); Continental (1989); Damien: Omen II (1978); Danger on the Air (1938); Devotion (1931); Dinosaurus! (1960); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Doomsday Machine (1976); Dragon's Gold (1954); Eagle Squadron (1942); Exposed (1938); Family Affair (1966); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); For Love or Money (1939); Fort Defiance (1951); Four Days Wonder (1936); Furia roja (1951); Hawaiian Nights (1939); Hollywood Screen Test (1937); I Cover the War! (1937); It's a Date (1940); Lady with a Past (1932); Laugh It Off (1939); Let There Be Light (1980); Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940); Man from Del Rio (1956); Margie (1940); Medic (1954); Meet the Wildcat (1940); Models Inc. (1952); Moonlight in Hawaii (1941); Moving Pictures (1995); My Lips Betray (1933); Nightmare in the Sun (1965); Panama Flo (1932); Personal Secretary (1938); Riders to the Stars (1954); Risky Business (1939); San Antonio Rose (1941); Scream, Evelyn, Scream! (1970); Sealed Lips (1942); Secret Beyond the Door... (1947); Shanghai Madness (1933); Shark River (1953); Shock Corridor (1963); Since You Went Away (1944); Smart Woman (1948); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); South Pacific (1958); Stronghold (1951); Talking Film (1978); Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Angry Red Planet (1959); The Basketball Fix (1951); The Bat Whispers (1930); The Black Cat (1941); The Black Doll (1938); The Bridge at Remagen (1969); The Candidate (1964); The Diamond Queen (1953); The Forgotten Woman (1939); The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966); The Green Archer (1925); The Lady in the Morgue (1938); The Last Express (1938); The Leather Pushers (1940); The Madmen of Mandoras (1963); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949); The Moviemakers (1985); The Naked Kiss (1964); The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966); The Neanderthal Man (1953); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Powers Girl (1943); The Three Faces of Eve (1957); The Underworld Story (1950); The Wildcatter (1937); They Asked for It (1939); They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968); Thunder in the Sun (1959); Top Secret Affair (1957); Vice Raid (1959); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); When Time Ran Out... (1980); Yesterday and Today (1953); Young Dillinger (1965); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Gaby Deslys:

Gaby Deslys

Actress

Singer

November 4, 1881 – February 11, 1920

Credits:

Albums:

La Parisienne (1910); Philomene (1910); Tout en Rose (1910).

Stage:

Stop! Look! Listen! (December 25, 1915 - March 25, 1916); The Revue of Revues (September 27, 1911 - November 11, 1911); The Honeymoon Express (February 6, 1913 - June 14, 1913); The Belle of Bond Street (March 30, 1914 - May 9, 1914); Vera Violetta (November 20, 1911 - February 24, 1912).

Movies and television:

Animated Weekly, No. 55 (1913); Her Triumph (1915); Infatuation (1918); La nuit est à elles, Paris 1919-1939 (2018); La remplaçante (1916); Le Dieu du hasard (1920); Rosy Rapture (1915).

Born on this day – Will Rogers:

Will Rogers

Vaudevillian

Actor

November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935

Credits:

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); In Old Kentucky (1935); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Doubting Thomas (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); The County Chairman (1935); Judge Priest (1934); Handy Andy (1934); David Harum (1934); Mr. Skitch (1933); Doctor Bull (1933); State Fair (1933); Too Busy to Work (1932); Down to Earth (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Ambassador Bill (1931); Young as You Feel (1931); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); Lightnin' (1930); So This Is London (1930); They Had to See Paris (1929); Happy Days (1929); A Texas Steer (1927); Tiptoes (1927); Roaming the Emerald Isle with Will Rogers (1927); With Will Rogers in Dublin (1927); Gee Whiz, Genevieve (1924); A Truthful Liar (1924); Our Congressman (1924); Jubilo, Jr. (1924); Don't Park There (1924); Going to Congress (1924); High Brow Stuff (1924); The Cake Eater (1924); The Cowboy Sheik (1924); Two Wagons: Both Covered (1924); Uncensored Movies (1923); Hustlin' Hank (1923); Jus' Passin' Through (1923); Hollywood (1923); Fruits of Faith (1922); The Headless Horseman (1922); The Ropin' Fool (1922); One Glorious Day (1922); A Poor Relation (1921); Doubling for Romeo (1921); An Unwilling Hero (1921); Boys Will Be Boys (1921); Guile of Women (1920); Honest Hutch (1920); Cupid the Cowpuncher (1920); Jes' Call Me Jim (1920); The Strange Boarder (1920); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); Jubilo (1919); Almost a Husband (1919); Laughing Bill Hyde (1918); Roaring Camp (1916).

Recommended reading - Film Noir: A Critical Introduction (2017):

Film Noir: A Critical Introduction

By Ian Brookes.

Bloomsbury Film Genres Series.

Published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Published 2017.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1780933134

ISBN-13: 978-1780933139

Description:

What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study, the answer is a lot more complex than that. This book is designed to tackle those complexities in a critical introduction that takes into account the problems of straightforward definition and classification. Students will benefit from an accessible introductory text that is not just an account of what film noir is, but also an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a disparate group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s.

Ernest Hemingway, on writing:

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible.

There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

– Ernest Hemingway.

On this day in movie history - Lady Bird (2017):

Lady Bird

directed and written by Greta Gerwig,

was released in the United States on November 3, 2017.
Music by Jon Brion.

Cast:

Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Lois Smith, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Odeya Rush, Jordan Rodrigues, Marielle Scott, John Karna, Jake McDorman, Bayne Gibby, Laura Marano, Marietta DePrima, Daniel Zovatto, Kristen Cloke, Andy Buckley, Paul Keller, Kathryn Newton, Myra Turley, Bob Stephenson, Abhimanyu Katyal, Chris Witaske, Ben Konigsberg, Gurpreet Gill, Richard Jin, Joan Patricia O'Neil, Robert Figueroa, Carla Valentine, Roman Arabia, Monique Edwards, Matthew Maher, Anita Kalathara, Debra Miller, Georgia Leva, Derek Butler, London Thor, Shaelan O'Connor, Christina Offley, Sabrina Schloss, Connor Mickiewicz, Erik Daniells, Cynthia Cales, Giselle Grams, Ithamar Enriquez, Luisa Lee, Danielle Macdonald, Adam Brock, Bonnie Jean Shelton, Rebecca Light, Adriana Becerril, Joey Bell, Beau Bielski, Stephen Dill, Sheila Ellis, Nick Fenske, Sedona Feretto, Keenan Johnston, Rebecca Knight, Suzanne LaChasse, Elester Latham, Emily Merlin, Maxx Morando, Jessica Nunez-Wood, Brian Sampson, Janet Song, Nicole Torres, Brian VanGeem, Carolyn Wilson, Tomomi Yoshida.