Born on this day – George Orwell:

George Orwell

Writer

June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950

Credits:

Books:

1984 (1949); 40 Model Essays (2005); A Clergyman's Daughter (1935); A Collection of Essays (1970); A Kind of Compulsion (1999); A Life in Letters (2010); A Nice Cup Of Tea (1946); An Age Like This 1920-1940 (1971); Animal Farm (1945); As I Please, 1943-1945 (1968); Books v. Cigarettes (2008); Coming Up for Air (1939); Critical Essays (1951); Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays (1965); Diaries (2009); Dickens, Dali and Others (1946); Down and Out in Paris and London (1933); England Your England and Other Essays (1953); Facing Unpleasant Facts (1999); Fifty Essays (2015); Homage to Catalonia (1938); In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950 (1971); It Is What I Think (1999); Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936); Keeping Our Little Corner Clean (1999); Narrative Essays (2009); Orwell in Spain (2001); Orwell In Tribune (2007); Orwell The Lost Writings (1985); Orwell: A Celebration (2009); Orwell: The 'Observer' Years (2003); Orwell's England (2001); Our Job is to Make Life Worth Living (1999); Pages From a Scullion's Diary (1995); Selected Essays / Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1957); Selected Prose (1991); Selected Writings (1958); Smothered Under Journalism (1999); Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays (2010); The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1961); The Eloquent Essay (2000); The English People (1982); The Lion and the Unicorn (1962); The Penguin Essays of George Orwell (1984); The Road to Wigan Pier (1937); The Sayings of George Orwell (1994); The War Broadcasts (1985); Two Wasted Years (1999); War Commentaries (1985); Why I Write (2004); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies, television, theatre and audioplay:

1984 - BBC Live TV Productions (1954); 1984 / aka Nineteen Eighty-Four (1956 / 1984 / 2006 / 2009 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023); 1984 a ballet by Jonathan Watkins (2016); 1984: A Personal View of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' (1983); A Merry War (1997); A Reading: 'You and the Atomic Bomb' (2017); About Religion (1964); Amélie Paul (2020); Animal Farm (1954 / 1999 / 2020); Anno Schmidt (1974); Apple Mac: 1984 (1983); Arena (1984); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); Big Brother (1970); Dobro vece, gospodine Orvel (1984); Dramarama (1984); Especial 84 (1984); Europa: The Last Battle (2017); Four Episodes from 1984 (1985); Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984); Hollywood Insider (2021); How to Become a Tyrant (2021); I riassuntini (2018); Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1965); LIT P.D. (2017); NET Playhouse (1968); rwell's England (1985); Peaceforce (2011); Poem 1984 (2020); Reminded (2023); Shooting an Elephant (2016); Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (2023); Studio One (1953); The Bolt Report (2024); The Dark Triad (2019); The Final Redpill (2022); The Rita Panahi Show (2023); Theatre 625 (1965).

Born on this day – Georgia Hale:

Georgia Hale

Actress

June 25, 1900 – June 17, 1985

Credits:

A Trick of Hearts (1928); A Woman Against the World (1928); Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003); Fashion News (1930); For Sale (1924); Gypsy of the North (1928); Hills of Peril (1927); His Marriage Wow (1925); Hollywood Party (1937); Josef von Sternberg Interview (1968); Lost Forever (2011); Man of the Forest (1926); No More Women (1924); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); The Floating College (1928); The Gold Rush (1925); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Last Moment (1928); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Rainmaker (1926); The Rawhide Kid (1928); The Salvation Hunters (1925); The Taxi Driver (1921); The Wheel of Destiny (1927); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Unknown Chaplin (1983).

Born on this day – Charlotte Greenwood:

Charlotte Greenwood

Actress

Comedian

Dancer

June 25, 1890 – December 28, 1977

Credits:

Animated Weekly, No. 73 (1913); Baby Mine (1928); Banda sonora (2008); Cheaters at Play (1932); Dangerous When Wet (1953); Diminishing Returns (2019); Dixie Dugan (1943); Down Argentine Way (1940); Driftwood (1947); First Man (2018); Flying High (1931); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Girls Will Be Boys (1931); Glory (1956); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Home in Indiana (1944); Jackie Cooper's Birthday Party (1931); Jane (1915); Love Your Neighbor (1930); Miss George Washington (1916); Moon Over Miami (1941); Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949); Oklahoma! (1955); Orders Is Orders (1933); Palmy Days (1931); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931); Peggy (1950); So Long Letty (1929); So This Is College (1929); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Star Dust (1940); Starland Review No. 2 (1922); Starland Review No. 4 (1922); Stepping Out (1931); Stepping Some (1918); Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941); The Best of the Post (1961); The Christmas Party (1931); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Gang's All Here (1943); The Great Dan Patch (1949); The Man in Possession (1931); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Perfect Snob (1941); The Sound of Laughter (1963); The Starland Review (1922); Up in Mabel's Room (1944); Wake Up and Dream (1946); Young People (1940).

Born on this day – Tod Robbins:

Tod Robbins

Writer

June 25, 1888 – May 10, 1949

Credits:

Books:

Close Their Eyes Tenderly (1949); Creeps (1932); Famous Fantastic Mysteries (1991); Freaks and Fantasies (2007); Hallowe'en Hauntings: Stories About the Most Ghostly Night of the Year (1984); In the Shadow (1929); Nightmares (1933); Red of Surley (1919); Shivers (1933); Shudders (1932); Silent, White and Beautiful and Other Stories (1920); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Freak Show: Tales of Fantasy and Horror (1970); The Ghouls (1971); The Master of Murder (1933); The Original Sin (unpublished); The People of the Pit (2010); The Scales of Justice and Other Poems (1915); The Spirit of the Town (1912); The Unholy Three / aka The Three Freaks (1917 / 1935); Thrills (1935); To Hell and Home Again (unpublished); Who Wants a Green Bottle? and Other Uneasy Tales (1926).

Movies and television:

Cineficción Radio (2019–2021); Freaks (1932); Hoop Dreams (1994); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2023); Screen Two (1986); The Branded Man (1928); The Museum of Wonders (2010); The Unholy Three (1925 / 1930).

Shannon Hale, on writing:

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

- Shannon Hale.

On this day in music history - Cloudwalker & the Ascent, by Zero Ohms (2022):

Cloudwalker & the Ascent

Album by Zero Ohms,
released June 24, 2022.

Credits:

Cloudwalker and the Ascent; Unknownland; Vistas Beyond; Tum Gaon (ascending to higher places); Skybound (free from terrestrial bonds); Deep Sky Tones; Across the Seven Skies.

On this day in movie history - Deliver Us from Evil (2014 movie & book):

Deliver Us from Evil

directed by Scott Derrickson,

written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman,

based on the book Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool,

was released in the United States on June 24, 2014.

Music by Christopher Young.

Cast:

Eric Bana, Edgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy, Dorian Missick, Sean Harris, Joel McHale, Mike Houston, Lulu Wilson, Olivia Horton, Scott Johnsen, Daniel Sauli, Antoinette LaVecchia, Aidan Gemme, Jenna Gavigan, Skylar Toddings, Sebastian La Cause, Steve Hamm, Sean Nelson, Mari-Ange Ramirez, Ben Horner, Tijuana Ricks, John Cariani, Robert Keiley, Blair Sams, Mark David Watson, Ben Livingston, Kevin Nagle, Oliver Wadsworth, Lolita Foster, Carmen Ortiz-Girdauskas, Victor Pagan, Carol Stanzione, Adam Kobylarz, Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, John Auer, Joseph Basile, Sean Bennett, Lyndsey Bloise, José Báez, Ivan Cardona, John Cenatiempo, Mikhael DeVille, Dennis Jay Funny, Raiden Integra, Joseph Anthony Jerez, Umar Khan, Amra Mallassi, Valentina Rendón.

Recommended reading:

Beware the Night

By Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool.

Filmed as Deliver Us from Evil (2014), directed by Scott Derrickson.

Published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Published 2001.

ISBN-10: 1250059496

ISBN-13: 9781250059499

Description:

DEMONIC POSSESSION. EXORCISM. HAUNTED HOUSES. SATANIC RITUALS.

For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real -- and dangerous -- as midnight patrol...

HELL IS HIS BEAT

A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South Bronx. But it is his other job that he calls "the Work": investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity's most ancient -- and most dangerous -- foes. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. Schooled in the rituals of exorcism, and an eyewitness to the reality of demonic possession, Ralph Sarchie has documented a riveting chronicle of the inexplicable that gives a new shape to the shadows in the dark.

In Beware the Night, he takes readers into the very hierarchy of a hell on earth to expose the grisly rituals of a Palo Mayombe priest; a young girl whose innocence is violated by an incubus; a home invaded by the malevolent spirit of a supposedly murdered nineteenth-century bride; the dark side of a couple who were literally, the neighbors from hell; and more. Ralph Sarchie's NYPD revelations are a powerful and disturbing documented link between the true-crime realities of life and the blood-chilling ice-grip of a supernatural terror.