Born on this day – Erle C. Kenton:

Erle C. Kenton

Director

August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980

Born on this day – Madlaine Traverse:

Madlaine Traverse

Actress

August 1, 1875 – January 7, 1964

Credits:

Fruits of Desire (1916); Gambling in Souls (1919); Leah Kleschna (1913); Lost Money (1919); Rose of the West (1919); Sins of Ambition (1917); Snares of Paris (1919); The Caillaux Case (1918); The Closing Net (1915); The Danger Zone (1918); The Hell Ship (1920); The Iron Heart (1920); The Love That Dares (1919); The Other Woman (1913); The Penalty (1920); The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917); The Shielding Shadow (1916); The Spirit of Good (1920); The Splendid Sin (1919); The Tattlers (1920); Three Weeks (1914); What Would You Do? (1920); When Fate Decides (1919).

Born on this day – Herman Melville:

Herman Melville

Writer

August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); Bartleby: The Scrivener (1853); Billy Budd (1924); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); I Would Prefer Not To (2021); Israel Potter (1855); Keys to the Bureau (2013); Mardi (1849); Moby Dick (1851); Mysterious Sea Stories (1987); Omoo (1847); Pierre (1852); Redburn (1849); The Apple-Tree Table (1922); The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2002); The Confidence-Man (1857); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Piazza Tales (1856); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Typee (1846); War: An Anthology (1969); White-Jacket (1850); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Movies and television:

2010: Moby Dick (2010); A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus (2007); Age of the Dragons (2011); Animated Epics: Moby Dick (1999); As Ilhas Encantadas (1965); Bartleby - Geschichte der Wall Street (2010); Bartleby (1963 / 1969 / 1970 / 1976 / 2001 / 2016 / 2023); Bartleby le scribe (2010); Bartleby l'écrivain (1957); Bartleby ou Les hommes au rebut (1993); Bartleby the Scrivener (1977); Beau Travail (1999); Beer and Board Games (2016); Benito Cereno (1969); Billy Budd (1962 / 1966 / 1988 / 1998 / 2001 / 2010 / 2017); Billy Budd, fra Den Norske Opera & Ballett (2019); Camera Three (1955); Capitaine Achab (2004); Captain Ahab (2007); Dämon des Meeres (1931); Enchanted Island (1958); Encounter (1955); Explained (2018); History's Mysteries (2000); Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson (1986); Hora once (1972); I riassuntini (2018); Ishmael (2022); Last of the Pagans (1935); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1964); L'homme silencieux (2021); Los libros (1974); Mobi Dik (1972); Moby Dick (1930 / Moby Dick (1954 / 1956 / 1978 / 1998 / 2000 / 2011); Moby Dick et le secret de Mu (2005); Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955); Moby-Dick (1977 / 2013); Mythos Wal (2017); NBC Experiment in Television (1970); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1952); NET Playhouse (1967); Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949); One Man's Story (1953); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Partanen (2003); Pisar Bartleby (1966); Pola X (1999); Ponds Theater (1955); Rappresentazione della terribile caccia alla balena bianca Moby Dick (1973); Revenge of the Whale (2001); Salinger (2013); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Siesta Z (2017); Strange Stories (1953); The Adventures of Moby Dick (1996); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Lighthouse (2019); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1969); The Sea Beast (1926); The White Whale of Mu (1980); War is Kind: Poetry of the Civil War (1999); Your Favorite Story / A Tale of the Enchanted Isles (1953); Zwischen Meer und Himmel (1957).

Sharon Creech, on books and reading:

I love the way that each book – any book – is its own journey.

You open it, and off you go.

You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

- Sharon Creech.

On this day in music history - Soul Espanol, by Sherry Finzer & Chris B. Jàcome (2020):

The album Soul Espanol,

by Sherry Finzer & Chris B. Jàcome,

was released on July 31, 2020.

On this day in music history - Winter & Christmas, by Amy Lauren (2008):

The album Winter & Christmas,

by Amy Lauren,

was released on July 31, 2008.

Born on this day – Kara Hamilton:

Kara Hamilton

Actress

July 31, 1975 – July 3, 2017

Credits:

The Awakened (2012); Secret Millionaires (2011); The Last Request (2006); Just Like Heaven (2005); Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003); Late Show with David Letterman (2003); Fighting Irish (2003); Smoking Herb (2002); So, What Do You Think? (2000); Forces of Nature (1999).