Born on this day – Elisabeth Sanxay Holding:

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Writer

June 18, 1889 – February 7, 1955

Credits:

Books:

A Dinner Date (1929); A Hesitating Cinderella (1923); A Man Can Take It (1934); All She Could Get (1934); Angelica (1921); Angelica (1921); Another Baby (1941); As Is (1925); As Patrick Henry Said (1925); Bait for a Killer / aka The Blue Envelope (1944 / 1959 / 1960); Be Careful, Mrs. Williams (1947); Benedicta (1923); Blonde on a Boat (1939); Blotted Out (1926); Bonnie Wee Thing (1926); Brides of Crime (1931); Broken Faith (1929 / 1930); By the Light of Day (1927); Can Do! (1936); Carline (1929); Cross Purposes (1936); Dare-Devil (1929); Dark Power (1930); Derelict (1928); Dogs Always Know (1926); Drifting (1937); Echo of a Careless Voice (1938); Farewell to a Corpse (1946); Flow and Ebb (1929); Flowers for Miss Riordan (1925); For Granted (1927); Friday, the Nineteenth (1950); Funny Kind of Love (1945); Game for Four Players (1958); Glitter of Diamonds (1955); Half an Hour Late (1928); Hanging’s Too Good for Him (1922); Hard as Nails (1928); Highfalutin’ (1926); His Own People (1924); His Remarkable Future (1924); Home Fires (1926); Hound’s Bay (1932); Human Nature Unmasked (1926); I Could Brighten Your Life! (1935); If It Hadn’t Been for Laurel (1933); Illusion (1938); Important Things (1928); Inches and Ells (1928); Incompatibility (1927); Invincible Minnie (1920); It Is a Two-Edged Sword (1928); It Seemed Reasonable (1923); It’s All Right for Men (1931); Kill Joy / Murder is a Kill-Joy (1942); Lady Killer (1942); Late Date (1940); Like a Leopard (1922); Little Deeds of Kindness (1929); Lost (1936); Lost Luck (1922); Loved I Not Honor More (1941); Marie’s View of It (1920); Miasma (1929); Miss Cigale (1926); Miss Kelly (1947); Miss What’s-Her-Name (1925); Mollie: The Ideal Nurse (1921); Money Can’t Buy It (1939); Most Audacious Crime (1954); Mr. Martin Swallows the Anchor (1924); Net of Cobwebs (1945); Nickie and Pem (1924); Night Life (1936); Nobody Would Listen (1935); Not Goodbye But Au Revoir (1942); Old Dog Tray (1923); On Yonder Lea (1940); One Misty Night (1928); Open That Door (1939); Out of the Woods (1923); Outside the Door (1928); Patrick on the Mountain (1920); People Do Fall Downstairs (1947 / 1949); Proposal (1940); Rosaleen Among the Artists (1921); Rosalie Gets Out of the Cage (1926); Rose-Leaves (1930); Saving Up (1929); Scandal (1936); Shadow of Wings (1954); So Sort of Proud (1939); Somebody’s Cynthia (1935); Sometimes Things Do Happen (1925); Speak of the Devil (1941); That’s Not Love (1926); The Aforementioned Infant (1923); The Blank Wall (1947); The Blank Wall (1959); The Bride Comes Home (1935); The Chain of Death (1930); The Compromising Letter (1926); The Darling Doctor (1957); The Death Wish (1934 / 1953); The Fearful Night / aka The Obstinate Murderer (1941); The Foreign Woman (1922); The Girl He Picked Up at Coney (1923); The Girl in Armor (1931); The Girl Who Had To Die (1940); The Good Little Pal (1925); The Grateful Lunella (1927); The Green Bathtub (1934); The Innocent Mrs. Duff (1946); The Kiskadee Bird (1944); The Last Night (1934); The Long Night (1925); The Marquis of Carabas (1923); The Married Man (1921); The Matador (1923); The Net of Cobwebs (1945); The Nicest Little Lunch (1937); The Obstinate Murderer / aka No Harm Intended (1938); The Old Battle Ax (1943); The Old Battle-Ax (1943 / 1944); The Old Ways (1927); The Postponed Wedding (1923); The Preposterous Mrs. Manders (1932); The Problem that Perplexed Nicholson (1920); The Root of Evil (1935); The Sin of Angels (1929); The Strange Children (1955); The Strange Crime in Bermuda (1937); The Stranger in the Car (1949); The Thing Beyond Reason (1926); The Unbelievable Baroness (1945); The Unfinished Crime (1935); The Unlit Lamp (1922); The Virgin Huntress (1951); The Wonderful Little Woman (1925); The Worst Joke in the World (1925); They Take It So Lightly! (1938); Third Act (1937); This is Life (1923); This Road Is Closed (1928); Tomorrow’s Not Soon Enough (1941); Too French (1925); Too Late (1928); Too Many Bottles (1951); Tropical Secretary (1941); Two Passes for the Show (1938); Unscathed (1936); Vanity (1926); Vera’s Superior Smile (1929); Very, Very Dark Mink (1956 / 1957); Wedding Day (1937); What It Takes (1941); Who Is This Impossible Person? (1924); Who's Afraid? / Trial By Murder (1940); Widow's Mite (1953); With Unbowed Head (1923); Without Benefit of Police (1929); Ye Gods and Little Fishes (1924); You Never Can Tell (1935 / 1936).

Movies and television:

La candide madame Duff (2000); Lights Out (1951); Seeing Nellie Home (1943); The Bride Comes Home (1935); The Deep End (2001); The Price of Pleasure (1925); The Reckless Moment (1949); Vocalizing (1936).

Recommended reading - The Black Door, by Collin Wilcox (1967):

The Black Door

By Collin Wilcox.

ASIN: B0006BQEGW

Published by Dodd, Mead.

First published 1967.

ASIN: B0006BQEGW

Description:

A crime reporter with ESP tackles a double homicide. In a San Francisco apartment building, a young woman is found strangled beside a piano player with a broken neck. He's a nobody – a dreamer with little talent and no future – but she is Roberta Grinnel, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the Bay Area. Stephen Drake, crime reporter for the "Sentinel," feels nothing when he looks at their corpses, and this is a troubling fact. For Drake is a psychic, and when his sixth sense fails him, that means more trouble ahead. As Drake tries to come to grips with his cosmic gift, the mystery of the heiress and the piano player becomes the hottest story in town. To keep his gig at the paper, Drake will call on every source he has – on this plane and the astral one – but knowing danger's lurking doesn't guarantee he can stay out of its way.

Madeleine L'Engle, on writing:

A book comes and says, 'Write me.’

- Madeleine L'Engle.

On this day in movie history - The Diamond Fleece (1992):

The Diamond Fleece

directed by Al Waxman,

written by Michael Norell,

was released in the United States on June 17, 1992.

Music by James McVay.

Cast:

Ben Cross, Kate Nelligan, Brian Dennehy, Tony Rosato, Janet-Laine Green, Ron Lea, David Huband, Jonathan Welsh, Kurt Reis, John Swindells, Tom Butler, Jack Newman, Gene Mack, Ronnie Pulval, Conrad Bergschneider, Chris Benson, Janet Bailey, Lindsay Leese, Paul Brown.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 2. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Manhunt.

Released June 17, 1989.

Directed by Rob Bowman.

Written by Tracy Tormé / Terry Devereaux, Melinda M. Snodgrass.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Diana Muldaur, Majel Barrett, Robert Costanzo, Carel Struycken, Rod Arrants, Colm Meaney, Robert O'Reilly, Rhonda Aldrich, Mick Fleetwood, Wren T. Brown, Rachen Assapiomonwait, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay.

On this day in movie history - Full Metal Jacket (1987):

Full Metal Jacket

directed by Stanley Kubrick,

written by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford,

based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford,

was released in the United States on June 17, 1987.
Music by Vivian Kubrick, as Abigail Mead.

Cast:

Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Kevyn Major Howard, Arliss Howard, Ed O’Ross, John Terry, Kieron Jecchinis, Kirk Taylor, Tim Colceri, Jon Stafford, Bruce Boa, Ian Tyler, Sal Lopez, Gary Landon Mills, Papillon Soo, Peter Edmund, Ngoc Le, Leanne Hong, Tan Hung Francione, Marcus D’Amico, Costas Dino Chimona, Gil Kopel, Keith Hodiak, Peter Merrill, Herbert Norville, Nguyen Hue Phong, Duc Hu Ta, Martin Adams, Kevin Albridge, Del Anderson, Philip Bailey, Louis Barlotti, John Beddows, Patrick Benn, Steve Boucher, Adrian Bush, Tony Carey, Gary Cheeseman, Wayne Clark, Chris Cornibert, Danny Cornibert, John Curtis, John Davis, Harry Davies, Kevin Day, Gordon Duncan, Phil Elmer, Colin Elvis, Hadrian Follett, Sean Frank, David George, Laurie Gomes, Brian Goodwin, Nigel Goulding, Tony Hague, Steve Hands, Chris Harris, Robert E. Hartenberger, Derek Hart, Barry Hayes, Tony Hayes, Robin Hedgeland, Duncan Henry, Kenneth Head, Liam Hogan, Trevor Hogan, Luke Hogdal, Steve Hudson, Tony Howard, Sean Lamming, Dan Landin, Tony Leete, Nigel Lough, Terry Lowe, Frank McCardle, Gary Meyer, Brett Middleton, David Milner, Sean Minmagh, Tony Minmagh, John Morrison, Russell Mott, John Ness, Robert Booth Nichols, David Parry, Peter Rommely, Pat Sands, Jim Sarup, Chris Maybach, Al Simpson, Russell Slater, Gary Smith, Roger Smith, Tony Smith, Anthony Styliano, Bill Thompson, Mike Turjansky, Dan Weldon, Dennis Wells, Michael Anthony Williams, John Wilson, John Wonderling, Robin Blair-Crawford, Stanley Kubrick, Vivian Kubrick, David Palffy, Ken Shane, John Ward, Mark White.

On this day in music history:

Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams (1985)

Love Among the Ruins by 10,000 Maniacs (1997)

In The Midst of Stars by Majestica / aka Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty (2016)

Summer of ‘69

Song by Bryan Adams.

Released June 17, 1985.

Love Among the Ruins

Album by 10,000 Maniacs.

Released June 17, 1997.

Track list: Rainy Day; Love Among the Ruins; Even with My Eyes Closed; Girl on a Train; Green Children; A Room for Everything; More Than This; Big Star; You Won't Find; All That Never Happens; Shining Light; Across the Fields.

In The Midst of Stars

Album by Majestica / aka Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty.

Released June 17, 2016.

Track list: In the Midst of Stars; Carousel; In Bloom; Close of Day; Lone Mountain; View from the Summit; How Does It Feel; Aurora Australis.