Saturday, November 22, 2025

Born on this day – Lee Patrick:


Lee Patrick


Actress

November 22, 1901 – November 21, 1982


Credits:

7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964); 77 Sunset Strip (1961); A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); A Night to Remember (1942); Adventures in Paradise (1962); Auntie Mame (1958); Big Sister Blues (1948); Border Cafe (1937); Boss Lady (1952); Caged (1950); Circus Boy (1957); City for Conquest (1940); Condemned Women (1938); Crashing Hollywood (1938); Danger Patrol (1937); Dangerously They Live (1941); Faces in the Fog (1944); Father Is a Prince (1940); Fisherman's Wharf (1939); Follow the Sun (1962); Footsteps in the Dark (1941); Gambler's Choice (1944); General Electric Theater (1953); George Washington Slept Here (1942); Goodbye Again (1961); Harrigan and Son (1961); Hawaiian Eye (1959); Hazel (1965); Hello Out There (1949); Honeymoon for Three (1941); I Married Joan (1953); Inner Sanctum (1948); Invisible Stripes (1939); Jitterbugs (1943); Joan of Arkansas (1958); Keep Your Powder Dry (1945); Kings Row (1955); Kisses for Breakfast (1941); Ladies Must Live (1940); Larceny with Music (1943); Law of the Underworld (1938); Lawman (1959–1960); Maid's Night Out (1938); Mark Saber (1952); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mildred Pierce (1945); Million Dollar Baby (1941); Money and the Woman (1940); Moon Over Las Vegas (1944); Mother Wore Tights (1947); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957); Mrs. Parkington (1944); Music for Madame (1937); Night Spot (1938); Nobody's Darling (1943); Now, Voyager (1942); Over 21 (1945); Pillow Talk (1959); Public Prosecutor (1948); Racket Squad (1951); Saturday's Children (1940); See My Lawyer (1945); Singin' Spurs (1948); Somewhere I'll Find You (1942); South of Suez (1940); Stage Door (1939); Strange Cargo (1929); Strange Journey (1946); Studio One (1958); Summer and Smoke (1961); Summer Playhouse (1964); Take Me to Town (1953); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The Abbott and Costello Show (1953); The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1957); The Alvin Show (1961); The Backbone of America (1953); The Black Bird (1975); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Dennis O'Keefe Show (1960); The Donna Reed Show (1965); The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949); The Far Out West (1967); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The Fuller Brush Girl (1950); The Lawless (1950); The Lineup (1956–1957); The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Naked Archaeologist (2010); The New Interns (1964); The Nurse's Secret (1941); The Real McCoys (1961–1963); The Rifleman (1962); The Sisters (1938); The Smiling Ghost (1941); The Snake Pit (1948); The Thin Man (1958); The Untouchables (1960); The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Our Life (1942); Those Whiting Girls (1957); Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951); Topper (1953–1955); Vertigo (1958); Visit to a Small Planet (1960); Wagon Train (1959); Wake Up and Dream (1946); Wives and Lovers (1963); You Can't Beat Love (1937); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – Whistlin' Alex Moore:


Whistlin' Alex Moore


Blues singer

Pianist

Whistler

November 22, 1899 – January 20, 1989

Credits:

Albums:

Finding My Way (2015); From North Dallas to the East Side (1994); In Europe (1970); Miracle Working God (2020); Whistlin' Alex Moore (1929-1951) (2005); Whistling Alexander Moore (1961); Wiggle Tail: Original, Eccentric, Legendary and Lascivious Piano Playing and Stories (1988).

Songs:

Across The Atlantic Ocean; Alex's Blues; Alex's Boogie; Alex's Rag; Alex's Wild Blues; Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls; Blue Bloomer Blues; Boogie In The Barrel; Boogiein' in Strassburg; Bull Con Blues; Chock House Boogie; Frisky Gal; Going Back to Foggy Bottom; Hard Hearted Woman; Heart Wrecked Blues; I Want My Mary; Ice Pick Blues; If I Lose You Woman; It Wouldn't Be So Hard; July Boogie; Lillie Mae Boogie; Miss No-Good Weed; New Miss No-Good Weed; Pretty Woman with a Sack Dress On; Rock and Roll Bed; Rubber Tired Hack; Sometime I Feel Worried; They May Not Be My Toes; West Texas Woman; Whistling Alex Moore's Blues; You Got Me Dissatisfied; You Say I'm a Bad Feller.

Born on this day – Elizabeth Patterson:


Elizabeth Patterson


Actress

November 22, 1874 – January 31, 1966

Credits:

The New Breed (1961); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960); Tall Story (1960); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1956–1960); New York Confidential (1959); Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1959); Johnny Staccato (1959); The Oregon Trail (1959); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Climax! (1955–1958); Matinee Theatre (1958); Pal Joey (1957); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1957); Crossroads (1956); I Love Lucy (1952–1956); Front Row Center (1956); Adventures of Superman (1955–1956); Cavalcade of America (1956); The Star and the Story (1956); Playwrights '56 (1956); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); The Milton Berle Show (1955); Stage 7 (1955); Willy (1955); Mayor of the Town (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1954); Ponds Theater (1954); General Electric Theater (1953); Chevron Theatre (1953); Three Lives (1953); Footlights Theater (1952); Washington Story (1952); I Love Lucy (1952); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); Studio One (1950–1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Katie Did It (1950); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950); Bright Leaf (1950); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Intruder in the Dust (1949); Little Women (1949); Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948); Welcome Stranger (1947); Out of the Blue (1947); The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947); The Secret Heart (1946); I've Always Loved You (1946); Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946); Lady on a Train (1945); Together Again (1944); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); The Sky's the Limit (1943); I Married a Witch (1942); Lucky Legs (1942); My Sister Eileen (1942); Her Cardboard Lover (1942); Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942); Almost Married (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Belle Starr (1941); Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941); Tobacco Road (1941); Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Earthbound (1940); Adventure in Diamonds (1940); Remember the Night (1939); The Cat and the Canary (1939); Bad Little Angel (1939); Our Leading Citizen (1939); Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939); Sons of the Legion (1938); Sing, You Sinners (1938); Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938); Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938); Scandal Street (1938); Night Club Scandal (1937); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); High, Wide and Handsome (1937); Night of Mystery (1937); Go West Young Man (1936); Old Hutch (1936); Three Cheers for Love (1936); The Return of Sophie Lang (1936); Small Town Girl (1936); Timothy's Quest (1936); Her Master's Voice (1936); Men Without Names (1935); So Red the Rose (1935); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Hide-Out (1934); Ever in My Heart (1933); Golden Harvest (1933); Doctor Bull (1933); Dinner at Eight (1933); Secret of the Blue Room (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); Infernal Machine (1933); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); No Man of Her Own (1932); The Conquerors (1932); Breach of Promise (1932); They Call It Sin (1932); A Bill of Divorcement (1932); Life Begins (1932); Love Me Tonight (1932); Guilty as Hell (1932); New Morals for Old (1932); Miss Pinkerton (1932); So Big! (1932); Man Wanted (1932); The Expert (1932); Husband's Holiday (1931); Heaven on Earth (1931); Penrod and Sam (1931); Daddy Long Legs (1931); The Smiling Lieutenant (1931); Tarnished Lady (1931); The Cat Creeps (1930); The Big Party (1930); Harmony at Home (1930); The Lone Star Ranger (1930); South Sea Rose (1929); Words and Music (1929); The Dancing Town (1928); The Return of Peter Grimm (1926); The Boy Friend (1926).

Born on this day – George Eliot:


George Eliot


Writer

Translator

November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880

Credits:

Books:

Adam Bede (1859); Brother Jacob (1864); Daniel Deronda (1876); Felix Holt, the Radical (1866); Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879); Middlemarch (1871–1872); Review of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters in Westminster Review (April 1856); Romola (1863); Scenes of Clerical Life / The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton / Mr Gilfil’s Love Story / Janet’s Repentance (1857); Silas Marner (1861); Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (1856); The Influence of Rationalism (1865); The Lifted Veil (1859); The Mill on the Floss (1860); The Natural History of German Life (1856); Three Months in Weimar (1855); Translations: The Life of Jesus Volume 2 by David Strauss (1846) / The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1854) / The Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedict de Spinoza (1856).

Poems:

A College Breakfast Party (1879); A Minor Prophet (1865); Agatha (1868); Arion (1873); Armgart (1870); Brother and Sister (1869); Evenings Come and Go, Love (1878); How Lisa Loved the King (1869); I Grant You Ample Leave (1874); In a London Drawingroom (1865); Knowing That I Must Shortly Put Off This Tabernacle (1840); Self and Life (1879); Stradivarius (1873); The Choir Invisible (1867); The Death of Moses (1879); The Legend of Jubal (1874); The Spanish Gypsy (1868); Two Lovers (1866).

Movies and television:

A Fair Exchange (1909); A Simple Twist of Fate (1994); Adam Bede (1915 / 1918); Are Children to Blame? (1920); Daniel Deronda (1921 / 1970 / 2002); Felix Holt (1915); George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002); Gwendolin (1914); Harvest of Hate (1940); Les liens du coeur (1996); Matinee Theatre (1957); Middlemarch (1968 / 1994); Monodrama Theater (1953); Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story (1920); Novela (1970); Romola (1911 / 1924); Santa Cecilia (1911); Screen One (1992); Silas Marner (1911 / 1913 / 1916 / 1922 / 1964 / 1985); The Mill on the Floss (1915 / 1936 / 1965 / 1997); The Mill on the Floss / TV mini-series (1978–1979); Wishbone (1995).

Albert Einstein, on imagination:


The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

- Albert Einstein.

Friday, November 21, 2025

On this day in television history - Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021):


Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Season 1. Episode 3.
Episode entitled: The Human Condition.
Released November 21, 2021.
Developed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.
Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.
Written by Brandon Auman, Margaret Dunlap, Eugene Son, Alex de Campi.
Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
Opening theme: Feel You Now by Alessia Cara.
Music by Michael Hodges, Gerald Trottman.
Cast: Jessica Henwick, Will Yun Lee, Brian Cox, Wes Bentley, Barkhad Abdi, Samira Wiley, Gregg Henry, Stephen Root, Peyton List, Sunil Malhotra, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Laura Post, Jason Spisak, Roger Craig Smith, Elias Toufexis, Shinshû Fuji, Takaya Hashi, Takako Honda, Takayuki Kinba, Takehito Koyasu, Tony Nakajima, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Arisa Shida, Kazuki Yao, Hôchû Ôtsuka.

On this day in television history - Pushing Daisies (2007):


Pushing Daisies

Season 1. Episode 7.
Episode entitled: Smell of Success.
Released November 21, 2007.
Directed by Lawrence Trilling.
Written by Scott Nimerfro.
Series created by Bryan Fuller.
Music by Jim Dooley.
Narrated by Jim Dale.


Cast:

Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, Paul Reubens, Field Cate, Tim Conlon, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Christopher Sieber, Terry Anzur, Tina Gloss, Victor Z. Isaac.