Born on this day – Rhonda Fleming:

Rhonda Fleming

Actress

Singer

August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020

Credits:

50th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1981); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); Abilene Town (1946); Adventure Island (1947); Alias Jesse James (1959); All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Backtrack! (1969); Biography (1996–1999); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood (1983); Bullwhip (1958); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Celebrity Bowling (1974); Compression (2023–2024); Crosswinds (1951); Cry Danger (1951); Death Valley Days (1952); Dinah! (1977); Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008); Ellery Queen (1975); Entertainment This Week Salutes Paramount's 75th Anniversary (1987); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Follow the Sun (1962); Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (2002); Gun Glory (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Fun Festival (1952); Hollywood Glamour on Ice (1957); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Home Before Dark (1958); Hong Kong (1952 / 1961); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Inferno (1953); Inside TV Land (2001); Instant Love (1964); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got a Secret (1952–1967); Jivaro (1954); Kung Fu (1975); L.A. Confidential (1997); Last Hours Before Morning (1975); Little Egypt (1951); Love for Rent (1979); Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004); McMillan & Wife (1974); Nashville Now (1987); Needles and Pins (1973); Odongo: An Adventure of the African Frontier (1956); Out of the Past (1947); Password (1962); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1957); Police Woman (1974); Pony Express (1953); Praise (2003–2009); Reflets de Cannes (1959); Remembering Bing (1989); Rhonda Fleming: A Cinderella Story (2008); Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years (2001); Run for Your Wife (1965); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Premiere (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Jimmy McHugh's Song Party (1951); Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood (1958); Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special (1950); Screen Snapshots: WAIF International Ball (1957); Search (1973); Serpent of the Nile (1953); Shower of Stars (1956); Since You Went Away (1944); Slightly Scarlet (1956); Spellbound (1945); TCM Remembers 2020 (2020); Tennessee's Partner (1955); That's Entertainment! / The Lion Roars Again (1975); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Arthur Murray Party (1954); The Bell Telephone Hour (1962); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Big Circus (1959); The Big Record (1957); The Bob Hope Show (1957–1966); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952–1955); The Crowded Sky (1960); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959); The Eagle and the Hawk (1950); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Fighting Generation (1944); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Lover (1949); The Hour of Power (1980); The Investigators (1961); The Killer Is Loose (1956); The Last Outpost (1951); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Love Boat (1978); The Many Faces of Cleopatra (2009); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1973); The Name's the Same (1955); The Nude Bomb (1980); The Oscars (2021); The Patsy (1964); The Queen of Babylon (1954); The Red Skelton Chevy Special (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1961–1963); The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951); The Revolt of the Slaves (1960); The Road to Eltham (1978); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Virginian (1965); The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986); Those Redheads from Seattle (1953); Tropic Zone (1953); TV Club (1950); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971–1977); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Waiting for the Wind (1991); What's My Line? (1955); When Strangers Marry (1944); While the City Sleeps (1956); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Xpose (1982); Yankee Pasha (1954); You Don't Say (1964); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1974); Your First Impression (1961).

Born on this day – Noah Beery Jr.:

Noah Beery Jr.

Actor

August 10, 1913 – November 1, 1994

Credits:

20 Mule Team (1940); 43: The Richard Petty Story (1972); 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964); ABC Weekend Specials (1979); Ace Drummond (1936); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Adventures of Noah Beery Jr. (1954); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); All-American Co-Ed (1941); Allergic to Love (1944); Bad Lands (1939); Black Beauty (1978); Blade Rider, Revenge of the Indian Nations (1966); Bonanza (1965–1968); Branded (1965); Calaboose (1943); Circus Boy (1956–1957); Climax! (1957); Combat! (1967); Compression (2024); Corvette K-225 (1943); Cover Up (1984); Crossroads (1956); Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950); Death Valley Days (1963); Decision at Sundown (1957); Desert Command (1946); Devil's Canyon (1935); Doc Elliot (1973–1974); Dudes Are Pretty People (1942); Eight Is Enough (1977); Ellery Queen (1976); Escort West (1959); Fantasy Island (1981); Fighting with Kit Carson (1933); Five Bad Men (1935); Flight at Midnight (1939); Follow the Boys (1944); Forbidden Valley (1938); Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976); Frontier Badmen (1943); General Electric Theater (1959); Girls' School (1938); Glove Slingers (1939); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1979); Gridlock (1980); 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943); Guns of the Timberland (1960); Gunsmoke (1964–1966); Hay Foot (1942); Heaven with a Gun (1969); Her Lucky Night (1945); Heroes of the West (1932); Hi, Beautiful (1944); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Theatre Time (1950); Hondo (1967); Hondo and the Apaches (1967); Hot Pursuit (1984); Incident at Phantom Hill (1966); Indian Agent (1948); Inherit the Wind (1960); Journey to Shiloh (1968); Jubal (1956); Jungle Mystery (1932); Lancer (1969); Laredo (1966); Lassie (1966–1970); Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970); Magnum, P.I. (1981); Me and the Chimp (1972); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Mysterious Two (1982); 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942); Of Mice and Men (1939); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Overland Mail (1942); Parents on Trial (1939); Parole! (1936); Part 2: Walking Tall (1975); Passport to Alcatraz (1940); Penrod (1922); Perry Mason (1965); Police Story (1973); Postmark: Jim Fletcher (1963); Power's Play (1986); Prairie Chickens (1943); Rawhide (1959); Red River (1948); Renegades (1930); Revenge of the Gray Gang (1981); Riders of Death Valley (1941); Riverboat (1960–1961); Rocketship X-M (1950); Route 66 (1962); Savage Fury (1956); Savages (1974); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 10: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946); See My Lawyer (1945); Sergeant York (1941); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Sidekicks (1974); Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937); Squadron of Doom (1949); Stormy (1935); Studio One (1958); Tailspin Tommy (1934); Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935); Tanks a Million (1941); Temple Houston (1963); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995); The Alpha Caper (1973); The Asphalt Cowboy (1980); The Bastard (1978); The Beautiful Cheat (1945); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982); The Big Stuffed Dog (1981); The Black Dakotas (1954); The Call of the Savage (1935); The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1982); The Carson City Kid (1940); The Cat Creeps (1946); The Cimarron Kid (1952); The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970); The Crimson Canary (1945); The Daltons Ride Again (1945); The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949); The Fastest Gun Alive (1956); The Ghost of Cypress Swamp (1977); The Great Adventure (1963); The High Chaparral (1970); The Indian Raiders (1956); The Last Outpost (1951); The Light of Western Stars (1940); The Littlest Hobo (1965); The Love Boat (1980–1986); The Magical World of Disney (1971–1982); The Making of 'the Day the Earth Stood Still' (2008); The Mark of Zorro (1920); The Mighty Treve (1937); The Monroes (1966); The Moviemakers (1985); The Murdocks and the McClays (1970); The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920); The Quest (1982); The Real McCoys (1961); The Road Back (1937); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); The Rockford Files (1974–1980); The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994); The Rustler's Roundup (1933); The Savage Horde (1950); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1976); The Spikes Gang (1974); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Story of Will Rogers (1952); The Strange Case of Dr. Meade (1938); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Texas Rangers (1951); The Three Musketeers (1933); The Trail Beyond (1934); The Virginian (1966–1970); The Waltons (1974); The Yellow Rose (1983–1984); The Yellow Tomahawk (1954); These Amazing Shadows (2011); To the People of the United States (1943); Top Man (1943); Trapper John, M.D. (1985); Tropic Zone (1953); Trouble at Midnight (1937); Two Flags West (1950); Two in a Taxi (1941); Under Western Skies (1945); Vega$ (1981); Viva Villa! (1934); Wagon Train (1960–1964); Wagons West (1952); Walking Tall (1973); Waltz Across Texas (1982); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1961); War Arrow (1953); Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us (2005); Week-End Pass (1944); We've Never Been Licked (1943); White Feather (1955); Wide Country (1962); Wings of the Hawk (1953); Your Favorite Story (1953).

Born on this day – Dorothy B. Hughes:

Dorothy B. Hughes

Writer

August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993

Credits:

Books:

Dark Certainty (1931); Dread Journey (1945); Erle Stanley Gardner (1978); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); In a Lonely Place (1947); Johnnie (1944); Mr. President, Private Eye (2004); Ride the Pink Horse (1946); The Bamboo Blonde (1941); The Blackbirder (1943); The Candy Kid (1950); The Cross Eyed Bear Murders (1940); The Davidian Report (1952); The Delicate Ape (1944); The Expendable Man (1963); The Fallen Sparrow (1942); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999); The Scarlet Imperial (1946); The So Blue Marble (1940).

Movies and television:

The Hanged Man (1964); Destry (1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Climax! (1958); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1952); In a Lonely Place (1950); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); Follow the Boys (1944); The Fallen Sparrow (1943).

Born on this day – Walter Lang:

Walter Lang

Director

August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972

Credits:

Alice Through a Looking Glass (1928); Amor in montagna (1932); As a Man Lives (1923); Autodefensa (2022); Brothers (1930); But Not for Me (1959); By Whose Hand? (1927); Call Me Madam (1953); Can-Can (1960); Carnival (1935); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Claudia and David (1946); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Command Performance (1931); Coney Island (1943); Desk Set (1957); Greenwich Village (1944); Hell Bound (1931); Hello Sister (1930); Hooray for Love (1935); I'll Give a Million (1938); Lady Tubbs (1935); Love Before Breakfast (1936); Meet the Baron (1933); Money to Burn (1926); Moon Over Miami (1941); Mother Wore Tights (1947); No More Orchids (1932); On the Riviera (1951); Racetrack (1933); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Second Honeymoon (1937); Sentimental Journey (1946); Sitting Pretty (1948); Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961); Song of the Islands (1942); Star Dust (1940); State Fair (1945); Susannah of the Mounties (1939); The Baroness and the Butler (1938); The Big Fight (1930); The Blue Bird (1940); The Carnival Girl (1926); The College Hero (1927); The Costello Case (1930); The Desert Bride (1928); The Earth Woman (1926); The Golden Web (1926); The Great Profile (1940); The Jackpot (1950); The King and I (1956); The Ladybird (1927); The Little Princess (1939); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Mighty Barnum (1934); The Night Flyer (1928); The Party's Over (1934); The Red Kimono (1926); The Satin Woman (1927); The Spirit of Youth (1929); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Warrior's Husband (1933); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Your Life (1960); Tin Pan Alley (1940); Top of the Town (1937); Week-End in Havana (1941); When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948); Whom the Gods Destroy (1934); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); With a Song in My Heart (1952); Women Go on Forever (1931); You're My Everything (1949).

Born on this day – Edith Johnson:

Edith Johnson

Actress

August 10, 1894 – September 6, 1969

Credits:

Hello, 'Frisco (1924); Wolves of the North (1924); The Fast Express (1924); The Steel Trail (1923); Smashing Barriers (1923); Playing It Wild (1923); The Fighting Guide (1922); When Danger Smiles (1922); The Silent Vow (1922); No Defense (1921); Steelheart (1921); Where Men Are Men (1921); Fighting Fate (1921); The Silent Avenger (1920); Smashing Barriers (1919); A Fight for Love (1919); Man of Might (1919); A Fight for Millions (1918); The Shuttle (1918); The Fighting Grin (1918); The Scarlet Car (1917); The Right Man (1917); Hands in the Dark (1917); In the Talons of an Eagle (1917); The Greater Punishment (1917); The Scarlet Crystal (1917); A Brother's Sacrifice (1917); Giant Powder (1916); The Five Franc Piece (1916); The Lost Lode (1916); Guilty (1916); For Love and Gold (1916); The Conspiracy (1916); Behind the Lines (1916); The Gold Ship (1916); The Private Banker (1916); The Valiants of Virginia (1916); The Hare and the Tortoise (1916); An Elephant's Gratitude (1916); Badgered (1916); The Woman Who Did Not Care (1916); The Three Wise Men (1916); The Cycle of Fate (1916); Toll of the Jungle (1916); The Black Orchid (1916); The Devil-in-Chief (1916); The Baby and the Leopard (1915); Orders (1915); Just as I Am (1915); Sweet Alyssum (1915); The Runt (1915); The Circular Staircase (1915); The Orang-Outang (1915); At the Flood Tide (1915); The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle (1915); The Girl and the Reporter (1915); The Jaguar Trap (1915); The Face at the Window (1915); Her Jungle Sweetheart (1915); Hearts of the Jungle (1915); The Van Thornton Diamonds (1915); Heart's Desire (1915); The Flower of Faith (1914); Wade Brent Pays (1914); The Lure of the Windigo (1914); The Butterfly's Wings (1914); Out of Petticoat Lane (1914); If I Were Young Again (1914); Rosemary, That's for Remembrance (1914); The Tonsorial Leopard Tamer (1914); The Dream Girl (1914); An Embarrassing Predicament (1914); For Love of Him (1914); Life's Crucible (1914); Nan's Victory (1914); The Captain's Chair (1914); Somebody's Sister (1914); Bombarded (1914); The Mother of Seven (1914); The Story of Diana (1914); The Story of Cupid (1914); The Better Way (1914); Conscience and the Temptress (1914); Dixieland (1913); A Message from Home (1913); An Actor's Romance (1913); The Three Wise Men (1913).

Recommended reading - The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891 (2017):

The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891

by LeRoy Lad Panek and Mary M. Bendel-Simso.

Published by McFarland & Company.

Paperback.

Published 2017.

ISBN-10: 9781476666990

ISBN-13: 978-1476666990

Description:

Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. Drawing on the unprecedented access provided by digital collections of period newspapers and magazines, this book examines detective fiction during its formative years, focusing on such crucial elements as setting, lawyers and the law, physicians and forensics, women as victims and heroes, crime and criminals, and police and detectives.

Junot Diaz, on writing:

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope,

even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise,

you keep writing anyway.

- Junot Diaz.