Danny
Aiello
Actor
June 20, 1933 – December 12, 2019
Friday, June 20, 2025
Born on this day – Lilian Jackson Braun:
Lilian Jackson Braun
Writer
June 20, 1913 – June
4, 2011
Credits:
Books:
Beastly
Tales (1989); Detective Duos (1997); Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1995);
Magicats II (1991); Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives (1998); More Mystery Cats
(1993); Mystery Cats (1989); Mystery Cats III (1995); Pussy Tales (2019); Senior
Sleuths (1996); Short & Tall Tales / aka Qwilleran's Short and Tall Tales (2002);
Sisters in Crime 3 (1990); Tar Heel Dead (2005); The Best of Sisters in Crime
(1997); The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (1967); The Cat Who Blew the Whistle
(1995); The Cat Who Brought Down The House (2003); The Cat Who Came to
Breakfast (1994); The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966); The Cat Who Dropped
a Bombshell (2006); The Cat Who Had 14 Tales (1988); The Cat Who Had 60
Whiskers (2007); The Cat Who Knew A Cardinal (1991); The Cat Who Knew
Shakespeare (1988); The Cat Who Lived High (1990); The Cat Who Moved A Mountain
(1992); The Cat Who Played Brahms (1987); The Cat Who Played Post Office (1987);
The Cat Who Robbed A Bank (2000); The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996); The Cat Who
Sang for the Birds (1998); The Cat Who Saw Red (1986); The Cat Who Saw Stars
(1998); The Cat Who Smelled A Rat (2000); The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (1988); The
Cat Who Tailed A Thief (1997); The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts (1990); The Cat Who
Talked Turkey (2004); The Cat Who Turned on and Off (1968); The Cat Who Wasn't
There (1992); The Cat Who Went Bananas (2004); The Cat Who Went Into the Closet
(1993); The Cat Who Went Underground (1989); The Cat Who Went Up The Creek
(2002); The Private Life of the Cat Who... (2003).
Born on this day – Gail Patrick:
Gail Patrick
Actress
Producer
June 20, 1911 – July 6, 1980
Credits:
A
Dream Comes True (1935); Artist and Models (1937); Bicentennial Minutes (1975);
Brewster's Millions (1945); Calendar Girl (1947); Claudia and David (1946); Cool
and Lam (1958); Cradle Song (1933); Dangerous to Know (1938); Death Takes a
Holiday (1934); Disbarred (1939); Doubting Thomas (1935); Early to Bed (1936); Gallant
Sons (1940); Gambling Ship (1933); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Hit Parade of
1943 (1943); If I Had a Million (1932); John Meade's Woman (1937); Kathleen
(1941); King of Alcatraz (1938); King of the Wild Horses (1947); Land of
Liberty (1939); Love Crazy (1941); Mad About Music (1938); Mama Loves Papa
(1933); Man of Conquest (1939); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet
the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Mississippi (1935); Murder at the Vanities
(1934); Murder with Pictures (1936); Murders in the Zoo (1933); My Favorite
Wife (1940); My Man Godfrey (1936); No More Ladies (1935); One Hour Late (1934);
Perry Mason (1957–1966); Pick-up (1933); Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports
(1941); Plainsman and the Lady (1946); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Rendezvous
with Annie (1946); Reno (1939); Rumba (1935); Screen Actors (1950); Screen
Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 6: Hollywood
Recreations (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 7: Wardrobe Designers (1940);
Smart Girl (1935); Soaring Stars (1942); Stage Door (1937); Svengoolie (2016); Take
the Stand (1934); Tales of Manhattan (1942); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The
Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934); The Doctor
Takes a Wife (1940); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Hunchback of
Notre Dame (1939); The Inside Story (1948); The Lone Wolf Returns (1935); The
Madonna's Secret (1946); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show
(1970); The Mysterious Rider (1933); The New Perry Mason (1973–1974); The
Phantom Broadcast (1933); The Preview Murder Mystery (1936); Threesome (2019); To
the Last Man (1933); Twice Blessed (1945); Two Fisted (1935); Two in the Dark
(1936); Unusual Occupations (1947); Up in Mabel's Room (1944); Voices in the
Labyrinth (2019); Wagon Wheels (1934 / 1953); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935);
We Were Dancing (1942); White Hunter (1936); Wives Under Suspicion (1938); Women
in Bondage (1943).
Recommended reading - Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (1997):
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
Published by Library of America.
Published 1997.
ISBN-10: 1883011493
ISBN-13: 9781883011499
Description:
Contents: The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson; The
Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith; Pick-up, by Charless
Willeford; Down There, by David Goodis; The Real Cool Killers, by
Chester Himes.
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the
1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing. Evolving out of
the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over
the decades into a varied, innovative, and profoundly influential body of work.
The five novels presented here are authentic underground classics: Jim Thompson’s
The Killer Inside Me, with its psychotic narrator, a murderous West
Texas Sheriff; Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, an
astonishing study of the seductiveness of evil and the vagaries of personal
identity; Pick-Up, Charles Willeford’s nihilistic love story of two lost
souls adrift in San Francisco’s lower depths; David Doodis’ haunted, lyrical Down
There (the inspiration for Truffaut’s classic film Shoot the Piano
Player); and Chester Himes’ The Real Cool Killers, an explosive and
sometimes wildly comic novel featuring Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and
Grave Digger Jones. With this Library of America publication, these works are
at last being recognized for their powerful literary qualities and their
unique, sometimes subversive role in shaping modern American language and
culture.
The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher,
is dedicated to preserving America’s best and most significant writing in
handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritive texts.
Julia Alvarez, on writing:
For me, the writing life
doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk.
It is a life lived with a
centering principle, and mine is this:
that I will pay close attention to this
world I find myself in.
'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet
Theodore Roethke put it in a poem.
And rendering in language what one sees through
the opened windows and doors of that house
is a way of bearing witness to the
mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.
– Julia Alvarez.
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