Frank Q. Dobbs
Writer
Director
Producer
Cinematographer
July 29, 1939 – February
15, 2006
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Born on this day – Chris Marker:
Chris
Marker
Director
Writer
Photographer
July 29, 1921 – July 29, 2012
Recommended reading:
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La Jetée: Ciné-Roman
By Chris Marker.
Zone Books
Distributed by The MIT Press.
Published 1992.
ISBN-10: 0942299663
ISBN-13: 978-0942299663
The inspiration for the movie 12 Monkeys (1995), directed by Terry Gilliam.
Description:
In the aftermath of World War III, both the earth’s surface and all of history – everything ever dreamed or known – lies irretrievably buried in a heap of radioactive devastation. Space has become off-limits, and the war’s few remaining survivors, huddled underground in the dank galleries beneath Chaillot, seek desperately an alternative path to survival – one perhaps that passes through Time. At the expense of madness, death, and unspeakable cruelty, they begin a set of experiments whose purpose will be to launch emissaries, in search of food, medicine and energy, through a hole in Time. A man is chosen for his unique quality of having retained a single clear image from pre-war days; no more than an ambiguous memory fragment from childhood – a visit to the jetty at Orly airport, the troubling glance of an unknown woman, the crumbling body of a dying man. These elements become crucial hinge-points in the ensuing narrative, thickening and accumulating nuance with each successful expedition into the historical past. The image of a woman, increasingly suffused with the time – and eros – bestowing capacities of a deep and impossible love, provides both the kernel for the recovery of the dimension through which humankind and history will be saved, as well as the tragic abyss into which both the hero and the narrative inexorably fall.
Although Chris Marker’s legendary film is no more than 29 minutes long and contains but a single moving image, perhaps no other film has matched its combination of devastating emotional power, former brilliance and philosophical complexity. The story marker tells – a stunning parable of our modern fate – is about the death of the world, about loss, memory, hope, and the indomitable power of love.
“This strange and poetic film, a fusion of science fiction, psychological fable, and photomontage … creates its own conventions from scratch. It triumphantly succeeds where science fiction invariably fails.” – J.G. Ballard.
Born on this day – Helen Chapman:
Helen Chapman
Actress
July 29, 1918 – November 1, 1986
Credits:
Alias Nick Beal (1949);
All-American Co-Ed (1941); Bells Are Ringing (1960); Blaze of Noon (1947);
Borrowed Trouble (1948); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Call
Me Mister (1951); Chicago Deadline (1949); Confidence Girl (1952); Cowboy G-Men
(1953); Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1952–1953); Dangerous Assignment (1952);
Double Diving (1939); Easy to Wed (1946); Girl Crazy (1943); Give a Girl a
Break (1953); Good News (1947); High Tension (1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952); I
Dood It (1943); Jackson and Jill (1949); Knock on Wood (1954); Lillian Russell
(1940); Man About Town (1939); Man Against Crime (1954); Man with a Camera
(1959); Martin Kane (1954); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); My
Dog Shep (1946); My Favorite Spy (1951); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948);
O.S.S. (1946); Outlaw Roundup (1944); Panic! (1957); Prairie Chickens (1943);
Racket Squad (1953); Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958); Rocky King, Detective (1954); Show
Boat (1951); Sing Another Chorus (1941); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Smooth as Silk
(1946); So Goes My Love (1946); Somewhat Secret (1939); Son of Sinbad (1955);
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); The Belle of New York (1952); The Box
Brothers (1956); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Farmer's Daughter (1947);
The Files of Jeffrey Jones (1952); The French Line (1953); The House Across the
Bay (1940); The Last Angry Man (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Thrill of
Brazil (1946); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); You're a Sweetheart (1937).
Born on this day – Chester Himes:
Chester Himes
Writer
July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984
Credits:
Books:
A Rage in Harlem / aka
For Love of Imabelle (1957); A Century of Noir (2002); A Case of Rape (1980);
All God's Chillun Got Pride (2025); All Shot Up (1960); Black Noir (2009);
Black On Black (1973); Blind Man with a Pistol / aka Hot Day Hot Night (1969);
City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965); Crime
Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers
1964-1969 (2023); Hard-boiled (1995); If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945); Lonely
Crusade (1947); Murderous Schemes (1996); My Life of Absurdity (1976); Pinktoes
(1961); Plan B (1993); Run Man Run (1966); The Big Gold Dream (1960); The
Collected Stories of Chester Himes (1990); The Crazy Kill (1959); The End of a
Primitive (1955); The Heat's On / aka Come Back, Charleston Blue (1966); The
Quality of Hurt (1972); The Real Cool Killers (1959); The Third Generation
(1954); Yesterday Will Make You Cry / aka Cast the First Stone (1952).
Movies and television:
A Rage in Harlem (1991);
Camera Three (1972); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972); Come Back Charleston
Blue (1972); Cosmic Slop (1994); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); Dossier
Souvenirs (1970); If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968); Three and a Half Thoughts
(2006); Un sang d'encre (1998).
Born on this day – Thelma Todd:
Thelma Todd
Actress
July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935
Credits:
A
Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); Abie's Irish Rose (1928); After the
Dance (1935); Air Fright (1933); Air Hostess (1933); All Teed Up (1930); Aloha
(1931); Alum and Eve (1932); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and
Crimes (2010); An All American Toothache (1936); Another Fine Mess (1930); Asleep
in the Feet (1933); Babes in the Goods (1934); Backs to Nature (1933); Beauty
and the Bus (1933); Bottoms Up (1934); Broadminded (1931); Bum Voyage (1934); Call
Her Savage (1932); Careers (1929); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931); Cheating Blondes
(1933); Chickens Come Home (1931); Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934); Command Performance
(1931); Corsair (1931); Counsellor at Law (1933); Crazy Feet (1929); Death
Scenes (1989); Deception (1932); Dollar Dizzy (1930); Done in Oil (1934); E!
Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Fascinating Youth (1926); Fashion News (1930);
Fireman, Save My Child (1927); Follow Thru (1930); God Gave Me Twenty Cents
(1926); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); Heart to Heart (1928); Her
Man (1930); Her Private Life (1929); High C's (1930); Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934);
History's Mysteries: Infamous Murders (2001–2004); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
(1934); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als
die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014); Horse Feathers (1932); Hot Money (1935); Hotter
Than Hot (1929); House of Horror (1929); Hurdy Gurdy (1929); I'll Be Suing You
(1934); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Klondike (1932); Let's Do Things (1931);
Lightning Strikes Twice (1934); Look Out Below (1929); Looser Than Loose (1930);
Love Fever (1931); Maid in Hollywood (1934); Maids a la Mode (1933); Mary
Stevens, M.D. (1933); Monkey Business (1931); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen:
Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Naughty Baby (1928); Nevada (1927); No Limit
(1931); On the Loose (1931); One Track Minds (1933); One-Horse Farmers (1934); Opened
by Mistake (1934); Palooka (1934); Personality Parade (1938); Players at Play (1929);
Pobre infeliz (1930); Red Noses (1932); Rough Seas (1931); Rubber Heels (1927);
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 3 (1935); Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (1942);
Sealskins (1932); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Show Business (1932); Shy
Boy (1929); Sing Sister Sing (1935); Sitting Pretty (1933); Slightly Static
(1935); Snappy Sneezer (1929); Sneak Easily (1932); Son of a Sailor (1933); Soup
and Fish (1934); Speak Easily (1932); Stepping Out (1929); Strictly Unreliable
(1932); Swanee River (1931); Take the Stand (1934); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973);
The Bachelor Girl (1929); The Bargain of the Century (1933); The Big Timer
(1932); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Crash (1928); The Devil's Brother (1933);
The Fighting Parson (1930); The Gay Defender (1927); The Haunted House (1928); The
Head Guy (1930); The Hot Heiress (1931); The King (1930); The Laurel and Hardy
Show (1986); The Maltese Falcon (1931); The Misses Stooge (1935); The Nickel
Nurser (1932); The Noose (1928); The Old Bull (1932); The Pajama Party (1931); The
Pip from Pittsburg (1931); The Poor Rich (1934); The Real McCoy (1930); The
Shield of Honor (1927); The Shrimp (1930); The Soilers (1932); The Tin Man
(1935); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 13
(Second Series) (1932); This Is the Night (1932); Three Chumps Ahead (1934); Top
Flat (1935); Treasure Blues (1935); Trial Marriage (1929); Twin Triplets (1935);
Two for Tonight (1935); Unaccustomed As We Are (1929); Vamping Venus (1928); War
Mamas (1931); When the Applause Died / Death in Hollywood (1990); Whispering
Whoopee (1930); Yesterday and Today (1953); You Made Me Love You (1933).
Born on this day – Clara Bow:
Clara Bow
Actress
July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965
Credits:
100 Years at the Movies
(1994); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); All You Need Is Love (1977);
Arena (2012); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Beyond the Rainbow
(1922); Biography (2002); Black Lightning (1924); Black Oxen (1923); Call Her
Savage (1932); Capital Punishment (1925); Children of Divorce (1927); Cinema
Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Clara
Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012); Dancing Mothers (1926); Dangerous
Curves (1929); Daughters of Pleasure (1924); Down to the Sea in Ships (1922); E!
Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002); Empty
Hearts (1924); Enemies of Women (1923); Eve's Lover (1925); Fascinating Youth
(1926); Fashions in Love (1936); Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern
Culture (2010); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Free to Love
(1925); Get Your Man (1927); Grit (1924); Helen's Babies (1924); Her Wedding
Night (1930); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Babylon (1971); Hollywood on Parade (1934);
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934); Hollywood Rebellen (2013); Hollywood Scandals
and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Snapshots #11 (1929); Hollywood Without Make-Up
(1963); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hoopla (1933); Hula (1927); It
(1927); Kick In (1931); Kid Boots (1926); Kiss Me Again (1925); Ladies of the
Mob (1928); Love Among the Millionaires (1930); Love Lust (2011); Mantrap (1926);
March of the Movies (1933); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Maytime
(1923); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Monty and the
Movies (2024); Movies Golden Age (1961); MsMojo (2023); My Lady of Whims (1925);
My Lady's Lips (1925); No Limit (1931); Paramount on Parade (1930); Parisian
Love (1925); Poisoned Paradise (1924); Red Hair (1928); Rough House Rosie (1927);
Screen Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949); Screen
Snapshots Series 12, No. 12 (1932); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 9 (1937); Screen
Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 20, No. 1 (1940); Screen
Snapshots Series 28, No. 6 (1948); Screen Snapshots Series 5, No. 4 (1924); Screen
Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 15 (1924); Screen
Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Sex in the 20th Century (2001); Shadow
of the Law (1926); Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (1998); Shooting the
Hollywood Stars (2011); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Skin: A History of Nudity in
the Movies (2020); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The
Adventurous Sex (1925); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Ancient Mariner (1925);
The Best Bad Man (1925); The Casting Couch (1995); The Daring Years (1923); The
First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Flapper Story (1985);
The Fleet's In (1928); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Keeper of the
Bees (1925); The Lawful Cheater (1925); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Pill
Pounder (1923); The Plastic Age (1925); The Primrose Path (1925); The Runaway
(1926); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); The Scarlet West (1925); The Wild Party
(1929); This Woman (1924); Three Week Ends (1928); True to the Navy (1930); Two
Can Play (1926); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007);
Wine (1924); Wings (1927); Yesterday and Today (1953).
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