Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Born on this day – William Clemens:


William Clemens

Director

September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980

Born on this day – Bessie Love:


Bessie Love


Actress

September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986

Credits:

A Daughter of the Poor (1917); A Fighting Colleen (1919); A Harp in Hock (1927); A Little Sister of Everybody (1918); A Lost World (1938); A Sister of Six (1916); A Son of His Father (1925); A Yankee Princess (1919); Acquitted (1916); Alice Guy-Blaché (1997); Always a Bride (1953); Amateur Night (1927); Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928); Battle Beneath the Earth (1967); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1958); Beau Brummell (1954); Bonnie May (1920); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Bulldog Courage (1922); Carolyn of the Corners (1919); Catlow (1971); Chasing Rainbows (1930); Cheerful Givers (1917); Children of the Damned (1964); Conspiracy (1930); Cupid Forecloses (1919); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Don't Do It Dempsey (1960); Dress Parade (1927); Dynamite Smith (1924); Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978); Emergency-Ward 10 (1960); Fashions in Love (1936); Forget Me Not (1922); From a Bird's Eye View (1970); Gareth Hughes (2000); Gentle Julia (1923); Georgia Pearce (1915); Going Crooked (1926); Good News (1930); Gulliver's Travels (1977); Harpers West One (1961); Hearst-Pathé News, No. 87 (1917); Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Greats (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hotel Imperial (1958); How Could You, Caroline? (1918); Human Wreckage (1923); I Live Again (1936); I Think They Call Him John (1964); I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967); International Detective (1960); Intolerance (1916); Isadora (1968); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1960); ITV Playhouse (1968); ITV Television Playhouse (1957–1960); Johnny Frenchman (1945); Journey Together (1945); Kate (1970); Katy (1976); Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981); Late Show London (1966); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); London Playhouse (1955); London Scrapbook (1942); Long Distance (1958); Looks Familiar (1980); Loss of Innocence (1961); Lovey Mary (1926); Man of the World (1962); Mary of the Movies (1923); Meet the Prince (1926); Morals for Women (1931); Mousey (1974); My Partner the Ghost (1969); New Brooms (1925); Next to No Time! (1958); Night Life in Hollywood (1922); Nina, the Flower Girl (1917); No Highway in the Sky (1951); Nowhere to Go (1958); Omnibus (1969); On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Over the Garden Wall (1919); Pegeen (1920); Penny of Top Hill Trail (1921); Picture This (2022); Polly Ann (1917); Pollyanna (1973); Promise Her Anything (1966); Public Eye (1971); Ragtime (1981); Reds (1981); Reggie Mixes In (1916); Round About Hollywood (1931); Rubber Tires (1927); Sally of the Scandals (1928); San Demetrio London (1943); Saturday Playhouse (1959); Screen Snapshots No. 8 (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 11 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 3 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 14-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 5 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 8 (1923); See America Thirst (1930); Shades of Greene (1975); Slave of Desire (1923); Some of the Best (1944); Somerset Maugham Hour (1961); Sons of the Sea (1941); Soul-Fire (1925); Souls for Sale (1923); St. Elmo (1923); Stranded (1916); Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971); Sundown (1924); The Adventures of Prince Courageous (1923); The American (1927); The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962); The Aryan (1916); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); The Broadway Melody (1929); The Caves of Steel (1964); The Dawn of Understanding (1918); The Enchanted Barn (1919); The Eternal Three (1923); The Flying Torpedo (1916); The Front Page (1948); The Ghost Patrol (1923); The Girl in the Show (1929); The Good Bad-Man (1916); The Great Adventure (1918); The Heiress at Coffee Dan's (1916); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Honor of Rameriz (1921); The Hunger (1983); The Idle Rich (1929); The King on Main Street (1925); The Little Boss (1919); The Lost World (1925); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Magic Box (1951); The Male Animal (1956); The Matinee Idol (1928); The Midlanders (1920); The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916); The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966); The Purple Dawn (1923); The Ritz (1976); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961); The Sawdust Ring (1917); The Sea Lion (1921); The Sentimental Agent (1963); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Song and Dance Man (1926); The Spirit of the Lake (1921); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Swamp (1921); The Swell Head (1928); The Vermilion Pencil (1922); The Village Blacksmith (1922); The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (1930); The WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1922 (1922); The Wednesday Play (1965); The Western (1959); The Wild Affair (1965); The Wishing Ring Man (1919); The Woman on the Jury (1924); They Learned About Women (1930); This Is Your Life (1963–1978); Those Who Dance (1924); Three Who Paid (1923); Tongues of Flame (1924); Too Young to Love (1960); Torment (1924); Touch and Go (1955); Vampyres (1974); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); Wee Lady Betty (1917); Westward Bo (1926); You Can't Take It with You (1947); Young and Willing (1954); Young April (1926); Zero One (1962).

Coffee + book = happiness!


Coffee + book = happiness!

Recommended reading - The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962):


The Zebra-Striped Hearse

By Ross Macdonald.

First published in 1962.
Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0375701451
ISBN-13: 978-0375701450

“Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Ross Macdonald’s private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlán. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's – and Archer's – in a powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.

“A model of his excellence…. [The Zebra-Striped Hearse] has character, statement, and style.” – The New Yorker.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, on books:


I am simply a 'book drunkard.'
Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee.
I cannot withstand them.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Monday, September 9, 2024

On this day in movie history - Sully (2016):


Sully

aka Sully: Miracle on the Hudson,
directed by Clint Eastwood,
written by Todd Komarnicki,
based on the book Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow,
was released in the United States on September 9, 2016.
Music by Christian Jacob and The Tierney Sutton Band.


Cast:

Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Mike O'Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Anna Gunn, Holt McCallany, Ahmed Lucan, Laura Linney, Laura Lundy, Onira Tares, Gary Weeks, Katie Couric, Jeff Kober, Blake Jones, Molly Bernard, Chris Bauer, Jane Gabbert, Ann Cusack, Molly Hagan, Purva Bedi, Max Adler, Sam Huntington, Christopher Curry, Ashley Austin Morris, Cooper Thornton, Autumn Reeser, Jeffrey Nordling, Patch Darragh, Robert C. Treveiler, Billy Richards, Aida Manassy, Pascal Yen-Pfister, Marcia DeBonis, Noel Fisher, Adam Boyer, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Michael Rapaport, Vincent Lombardi, Jeremy Luke, Bernardo Badillo, Jerry Ferrara, Viktoria Khartchenko, Randall Pinkston, Graham Sibley, Grant Roberts, Wayne Bastrup, Bobby Cuza, Billy Smith, Martin Barabas, E. Roger Mitchell, Robert Pralgo, Clayton Landey, Tracee Chimo Pallero, Brett Rice, Kristine Johnson, Larry Guthrie, Lucy Young, Lori Cline, Jon Witten, Vickie Adams, Shane P. Allen, Scott Alan Berk, Larry Blanks, Roger Brenner, Lisa Brown, Aric Bunch, Kris Bunch, Phil Cappadora, Christine J. Carlson, Leslie Castay, Marc Chouen, Sonia Conlin, Jameson Jamey Copeland, Vicki Damante, Venus Dana, Michael-Scott Druckenmiller, Payson Durant, Mark Falvo, D. Paul Faulkner, Cathy Fielding, Noelle Angelica Fink, Christopher G Gates, Tahseen Ghauri, Melissa Kay Glaze, Steve Goffner, Takako Haywood, Drew Neal Horton, Jedediah Jenk, Michael D. Joseph, Jay D. Kacho, Inder Kumar, Benny Laurence, Michael Layman, Kamron Leal, Scott Ledbetter, Taylor Lee, Lynn Marocola, Doris McCarthy, Lindsey McCollough, Kevin Edward McGinn, Scarlett Mellinger, Sierra Mellinger, Frank Mercuri, Gary Miller, Kelly L. Moran, Josh Mowery, Michael Peavey, Clay Pool, David Philip Reed, Shaun Rey, Patti Schellhaas, Denise Scilabra, Vanessa Scull, Daniel Patrick Shook, Nancy Ellen Shore, Megan Monaghan Smith, Patty Tobin, Miguel J. Torres, Brad Trettien, Brandon Van Vliet, Mark White, Justin Michael Woods.

On this day in music history: Second Time Around, by Joan Jeanrenaud & Charlie Varon (2016):

The album Second Time Around,
by Joan Jeanrenaud & Charlie Varon,
was released on September 9, 2016.