Born on this day – Oskar Fischinger:

Oskar Fischinger

Abstract animator

Director

Painter

June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967

Born on this day – Dorothy Devore:

Dorothy Devore

Actress

Comedian

June 22, 1899 – September 10, 1976

Credits:

Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 3: Funny Girls (1998); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); Miracle on Main Street (1939); Take the Heir (1930); Auntie's Mistake (1929); Misplaced Husbands (1928); Companionate Service (1928); Rah! Rah! Rah! (1928); Circus Blues (1928); Cutie (1928); The Little Rube (1927); Kilties (1927); Better Days (1927); Up in Arms (1927); Mountains of Manhattan (1927); The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927); The First Night (1927); Money to Burn (1926); No Babies Wanted (1926); Senor Daredevil (1926); The Social Highwayman (1926); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Man Upstairs (1926); The Midnight Flyer (1925); Three Weeks in Paris (1925); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Fighting the Flames (1925); How Baxter Butted In (1925); A Broadway Butterfly (1925); The Prairie Wife (1925); Who Cares (1925); The Narrow Street (1925); The Tomboy (1924); Hold Your Breath (1924); Getting Gertie's Goat (1924); Stay Single (1924); Kidding Katie (1923); When Odds Are Even (1923); Navy Blues (1923); Pick and Shovel (1923); Winter Has Came (1923); Babies Welcome (1923); Hazel from Hollywood (1923); Chop Suey (1922); Let 'Er Run (1922); Mile-a-Minute Mary (1922); Fair Enough (1922); One Stormy Knight (1922); Saving Sister Susie (1921); Paying Patients (1921); Nothing Like It (1921); Sneakers (1921); The Magnificent Brute (1921); Naughty Mary Brown (1921); The Reckless Sex (1921); Man vs. Woman (1921); Mind Your Business (1921); Movie Mad (1921); Call a Cop (1920); Should Husbands Dance (1920); 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920); Seven Bald Pates (1920); Biff Bang Bomb (1920); A Home Made Hero (1920); Her Perfect Husband (1920); Should a Wife Come Back? (1920); Neat But Not Gaudy (1920); All Jazzed Up (1920); No Babies Allowed (1920); Nearly Newlyweds (1920); It Takes a Crook (1920); Should a Husband Tell? (1920); Twas Midnight (1919); Her Bear Escape (1919); A Flirt There Was (1919); Love in a Hurry (1919); Anybody's Widow (1919); A Cheerful Liar (1919); A Full House (1919); All in the Swim (1919); Kiss the Bride (1919); Oh, Susie, Be Careful (1919); Too Many Wives (1919); Lost: A Bridegroom (1919); Marrying Molly (1919); Brides for Two (1919); Oh, What a Night! (1919); Bobby Comes Marching Home (1919); Welcome Home (1919); Four of a Kind (1919); Salvation Sue (1919); The Girl Dodger (1919); You Couldn't Blame Her (1919); Marry My Wife (1919); Good Gracious, Bobby (1919); Sing, Rosa, Sing! (1919); How's Your Husband? (1919); Know Thy Wife (1918); Swat the Flirt (1918); String Beans (1918); Camping Out (1918); Maid Wanted (1918); The Price of a Rotten Time (1918); Frenzied Film (1918); Please Hit Me (1918); The Law of the North (1918); The Extra Bridegroom (1918); The House Cleaning Horrors (1918).

Born on this day – H. Rider Haggard:

H. Rider Haggard

Writer

June 22, 1856 – May 14, 1925

Credits:

Books:

30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); A Farmer's Year (1899); A Gardener's Year (1905); A Tale of Three Lions (1887); A Winter Pilgrimage (1901); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); After the War Settlement and Employment of Ex-service Men (1916); Allan Quatermain (1887); Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods (1927); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1999); Allan Quatermain's Wife (1887); Allan's Wife (1887); Allan's Wife, with Hunter Quatermain's Story (1980); Ayesha (1905); Beatrice (1890); Belshazzar (1930); Benita / The Spirit of Bambatse (1906); Black Heart and White Heart (1900); Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1882); Child of Storm (1913); Cleopatra (1889); Colonel Quaritch, V.C. (1888); Diary of an African Journey (1914); Doctor Therne (1898); Elissa (1900); Fair Margaret (1907); Finished (1917); Heart of the World (1895); Heu Heu (1924); Holy Flower (1915); Jess (1887); Joan Haste (1895); King Solomon's Mines (1885); Love Eternal (1918); Lysbeth (1901); Maiwa's Revenge (1888); Marie (1912); Mary of Marion Isle (1929); Montezuma's Daughter (1893); Moon of Israel (1918); Morning Star (1910); Mr. Meeson's Will (1888); Nada the Lily (1892); Pearl-Maiden (1903); Queen of the Dawn (1925); Queen Sheba's Ring (1910); Red Eve (1911); Regeneration (1910); Rural Denmark and Its Lessons (1911); Rural England (1902); Saga of Eric Brighteyes / Eric Brighteyes (1891); She (1886); She and Allan (1921); Smith and the Pharaohs (1920); Stella Fregelius (1903); Swallow (1898); Tales Before Tolkien (2003); Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others (2002); The Ancient Allan (1920); The Brethren (1904); The Days of My Life (1926); The Ghost Kings (1908); The Ivory Child (1916); The Lady of Blossholme (1909); The Last Boer War (1899); The Mahatma and the Hare (1911); The missionary and the witch-doctor (1920); The People of the Mist (1894); The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 (1980); The Spring of a Lion (1899); The Virgin of the Sun (1922); The Wanderer's Necklace (1914); The Way of the Spirit (1906); The Witch's Head (1885); The Wizard (1896); The World's Desire (1890); The Yellow God (1908); Treasure of the Lake (1926); When the World Shook (1919); Wisdom's Daughter (1923).

Movies and television:

Allan Quatermain (1919); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986); Allan Quatermain and the Spear of Destiny (2023); Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008); Cleopatra (1917); Dawn (1917); Haggard's She: The Pillar of Fire (1899); Heart and Soul (1917); High Adventure (2001); Jess (1912 / 1914); King Solomon's Mines (1919 / 1937 / 1950 / 1985 / 1986 / 2004); King Solomon's Treasure (1979); Mr. Meeson's Will (1915); O Trapalhão nas Minas do Rei Salomão (1977); She (1908 / 1911/ 1916 / 1917 / 1925 / 1935 / 1965 / 1984 / 2001); Stella (1921); Swallow (1922); The Grasp of Greed (1916); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Moon of Israel (1924); The Mystical Flame (1903); The Stronger Passion (1921); The Vengeance of She (1968); Watusi (1959).

Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (2001):

The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories

Published 2001.
Edited by Herbert Van Thal.
Mammoth Books.

ISBN-10: 0786708867
ISBN-13: 978-0786708864

Anthology of short stories.

Description:

Murder, suspense, mystery – the biggest and best collection ever.

This huge and unique volume contains four anthologies by Herbert Van Thai featuring 35 of the best detective stories ever told. The stories range and style and setting from the mean streets of Raymond Chandler's New York to the classic English whodunnit by Agatha Christie and offer an unmissable treat for detective fans.

Ann Patchett, on imagination:

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

- Ann Patchett.

Pollinator Week:

Pollinator Week

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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet

whereby they write on hills and fields

mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

– Louisa May Alcott.

On this day in movie history - Minority Report (2002):

Minority Report

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen,

based on the novella The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick,

was released in the United States on June 21, 2002.
Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jessica Capshaw, Richard Coca, Keith Campbell, Kirk B.R. Woller, Klea Scott, Frank Grillo, Anna Maria Horsford, Sarah Simmons, Eugene Osment, James Henderson, Vene L. Arcoraci, Erica Ford, Keith Flippen, Nathan Taylor, Radmar Agana Jao, Karina Logue, Elizabeth Anne Smith, Victoria Kelleher, Jim Rash, Colin Farrell, Stephen Ramsey, Tom Choi, Tom Whitenight, William Morts, Samantha Morton, Daniel London, Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman, Lois Smith, Tim Blake Nelson, George D. Wallace, Ann Ryerson, Kathryn Morris, Tyler Patrick Jones, Dominic Scott Kay, Arye Gross, Ashley Crow, Mike Binder, Joel Gretsch, Jessica Harper, Bertell Lawrence, Jason Antoon, William Mesnik, Scott Frank, Severin Wunderman, Max Trumpower, Allie Raye, Rocael Leiva, Nicholas Edwin Barb, Catfish Bates, Peter Stormare, Caroline Lagerfelt, Danny Parker-Lopes, Vanessa Cedotal, Katy Boyer, Adrianna Kamosa, Kari Gordon, Elizabeth Kamosa, Raquel Gordon, Laurel Kamosa, Fiona Hale, Pamela Roberts, Clement Blake, Jerry Perchesky, Victor Raider-Wexler, Nancy Linehan Charles, Nadia Axakowsky, Dude Walker, Tony Hill, Drakeel Burns, William Mapother, Morgan Hasson, Andrew Sandler, Bonnie Morgan, Kathi Copeland, Ana Maria Quintana, Lucille M. Oliver, Gene Wheeler, Tonya Ivey, David Stifel, Kurt Sinclair, Rebecca Ritz, Beverly Morgan, John Bennett, Maureen Dunn, Ron Ulstad, Blake Bashoff, David Doty, Gina Gallego, David Hornsby, Anne Judson-Yager, Meredith Monroe, Benita Krista Nall, Shannon O’Hurley, Jorge-Luis Pallo, Elizabeth Payne, Ethan Sherman, Jarah Mariano, Miles Dinsmoor, Vanessa Asbert.