Born on this day – Mark Stevens:

Mark Stevens

Actor

Director

Producer

December 13, 1916 – September 15, 1994

Credits:

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Big Town (1954–1956); Bronk (1975); Bus Stop (1962); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); Cry Vengeance (1954); Dancing in the Dark (1949); Decision (1958); Destination Tokyo (1943); Es usted mi padre (1971); Escape from Hell Island (1963); España otra vez (1968); Fate Is the Hunter (1964); Food and Magic (1943); Footlights Theater (1953); From This Day Forward (1946); Frontier Justice (1958); Frozen Alive (1964); General Electric Theater (1953); Ghost Train (1991); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gun Fever (1958); Gunsight Ridge (1957); Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); Jack Slade (1953); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Katie Did It (1950); Kojak (1975); La Lola, dicen que no vive sola (1970); Little Egypt (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1954 / 1955); Magnum, P.I. (1987); Martin Kane (1953–1954); Murder, She Wrote (1986); Mutiny (1952); News Gal (1957); Objective, Burma! (1945); Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949); Our American Heritage (1959); Passage to Marseille (1944); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Place the Face (1953); Please Believe Me (1950); Police Story (1975); Pride of the Marines (1945); Rawhide (1962); Reunion in Reno (1951); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Roaring Guns (1944); S.W.A.T. (1976); Sand (1949); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1957); September Storm (1960); Simon & Simon (1987); Strike It Rich (1953); Studio 57 (1957); Sunday Showcase (1959); Sunscorched (1965); Target Unknown (1951); The Big Frame (1952); The Dark Corner (1946); The Doughgirls (1944); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1953); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1958); The Law and Harry McGraw (1987); The Loretta Young Show (1957–1958); The Snake Pit (1948); The Street with No Name (1948); Time Table (1956); Torpedo Alley (1952); Wagon Train (1957–1958); Within These Walls (1945); Your Show Time (1949); Zane Grey Theatre (1957–1960).

Born on this day – Ross Macdonald:

Ross Macdonald

Writer

December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983

Credits:

The Lew Archer novel series: The Moving Target (aka Harper) (1949); The Drowning Pool (1950); The Way Some People Die (1951); The Ivory Grin (aka Marked for Murder) (1952); Find a Victim (1954); The Barbarous Coast (1956); The Doomsters (1958); The Galton Case (1959); The Wycherly Woman (1961); The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962); The Chill (1963); The Far Side of the Dollar (1965); Black Money (1966); The Instant Enemy (1968); The Goodbye Look (1969); The Underground Man (1971); Sleeping Beauty (1973); The Blue Hammer (1976); The Name is Archer (1955); Lew Archer, Private Investigator (1977); The Archer Files (2007). The Chet Gordon novel series: The Dark Tunnel (aka I Die Slowly) (1944); Trouble Follows Me (1946). Stand-alone novels, short stories and novellas: Blue City (1947); The Three Roads (1948); Meet Me at the Morgue (aka Experience with Evil) (1954); The Ferguson Affair (1967); The Guilty Ones (1952); The Imaginary Blonde (1953); Midnight Blue (2010); Strangers in Town (2001); Dear Dead Days: 1972 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1972); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Books to Die For (2012).

Movies and television:

Archer (1975); Blue City (1986); City Detective (1954); Crime Writers (1978); Criminal Behavior (1992); Double Negative (1980); Harper (1966); Harper Days Are Here Again (1975); Le loup de la côte Ouest (2002); Pursuit (1958); Tayna (1992); The Drowning Pool (1975); The Underground Man (1974).

Born on this day – Florine McKinney:

Florine McKinney

Actress

December 13, 1909 – July 28, 1975

Credits:

Little Joe, the Wrangler (1942); Pardon My Sarong (1942); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); Brooklyn Orchid (1942); Unholy Partners (1941); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); You're the One (1941); A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940); The Philadelphia Story (1940); Escape (1940); Oklahoma Renegades (1940); Waterloo Bridge (1940); And One Was Beautiful (1940); Blazing Barriers (1937); A Star Fell from Heaven (1936); Muss 'em Up (1936); Cappy Ricks Returns (1935); Dizzy Dames (1935); Strangers All (1935); Night Life of the Gods (1935); David Copperfield (1935); The Merry Widow (1934); Student Tour (1934); Hollywood Party (1934); Riptide (1934); Dancing Lady (1933); Beauty for Sale (1933); It's Great to Be Alive (1933); Blue of the Night (1933); Cynara (1932); The Cabin in the Cotton (1932); Horse Feathers (1932); The Miracle Man (1932); One Hour with You (1932).

Michelle Obama, on the arts:

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it.

Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue,

they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

- Michelle Obama.

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

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Season 1. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Persistence of Memory.

Released December 12, 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, Samira Wiley, Josh Duhamel, Stephen Root, Peyton List, Keith Ferguson, Shinshû Fuji, Takako Honda, Taiten Kusunoki, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Arisa Shida, Hôchû Ôtsuka.

On this day in music history - Winds of Change, by Denise Young (2019):

Winds of Change

Album by Denise Young,

released December 12, 2019.

Track list:

Under the Olive Tree; Ballerina; Moonlit Heart; Alegria; Winds of Change; Teardrop Symphony; Reflections; Blue Violet; Danssa; Dandelions.

On this day in music history - Light of Aluna, by Anima (2012):

Light of Aluna

Album by Anima,
released December 12, 2012.

Track list:

The New Dream; Ocean of Heart; Aluna; Ancient Future; Peace; Inner Light (Aluna Mix); Divine Emanation.