Born on this day – John Gilbert:

John Gilbert

Actor

Writer

Director

July 10, 1897 – January 9, 1936

Born on this day – Slim Summerville:

Slim Summerville

Actor

Director

Writer

July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946

Credits:

A Bedroom Blunder (1917); A Bedtime Story (1926); A Bird's a Bird (1915); A Dog Catcher's Love (1917); A Dumb Friend (1926); A Free Ride (1925); A Game Old Knight (1915); A New York Girl (1914); A Peaceful Riot (1925); A Rowboat Romance (1914); A Run for His Money (1927); A Schoolhouse Scandal (1919); A Swell Affair (1926); Absent-Minded (1925); Air Mail (1932); All Out (1925); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); All Tied Up (1925); Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914); Among the Mourners (1914); An Incompetent Hero (1914); Andy Takes a Flier (1925); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Arabian Knights (1931); Are Waitresses Safe? (1917); Bachelor Daze (1944); Back to Nature (1925); Bad Sister (1931); Badly Broke (1926); Bless the Ladies (1931); Bride by Mistake (1944); Business Worries (1926); Can This Be Dixie? (1936); Captain January (1936); Case Dismissed (1924); Caught in a Park (1915); Caught in the Act (1915); Caught in the Rain (1914); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); Cinders of Love (1916); Cursed by His Beauty (1914); Don't Be a Dummy (1926); Dough and Dynamite (1914); Droppington's Devilish Deed (1915); Easy Money (1924); Easy Work (1924); El Tenorio del harem (1931); Estamos en París (1931); Faint Heart (1925); Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914); Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915); Fatty and the Heiress (1914); Fatty's Magic Pants (1914); Fatty's New Role (1915); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); First to Fight (1931); Five of a Kind (1938); Footballs and Frauds (1919); Free Love (1930); Garden of Eatin' (1943); Gentlemen of Nerve (1914); Gold Rush Maisie (1940); Green Grocers (1924); Gussle, the Golfer (1914); Gussle's Day of Rest (1915); Gypsy Joe (1916); Happy Times and Jolly Moments (1943); He Loved the Ladies (1914); Hearts and Sparks (1916); Hearts for Rent (1926); Heaven on Earth (1931); Hello, 'Frisco (1924); Henry Goes Arizona (1939); Her Ball and Chain (1924); Her Fame and Shame (1917); Her First Kiss (1919); Her First Mate (1933); Her Man (1930); Her Painted Hero (1915); Her Winning Punch (1915); Here's Luck (1931); Hey! Hey! Cowboy (1927); High and Dry (1922); Highway West (1941); His Bread and Butter (1916); His Busted Trust (1916); His Hidden Purpose (1918); His Naughty Wife (1919); His Precious Life (1917); His Smothered Love (1918); His Talented Wife (1914); Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912); Hold Me Tight (1920); Hold the Line (1922); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hop Along (1927); Horse Play (1933); Hotter Than Haiti (1931); Idle Workers (1921); I'm from Arkansas (1944); In Again, Out Again (1927); In the Air (1926); In the Bag (1932); It Pays to Exercise (1918); Jailhouse Blues (1927); Jesse James (1939); Keep Healthy (1924); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); Kid Glove Kisses (1932); King of Jazz (1930); King of the Rodeo (1928); Lasca of the Rio Grande (1931); Laughing Gas (1914); Leading Lizzie Astray (1914); Let's Play (1931); Life Begins at 40 (1935); Little Accident (1930); Love and Bullets (1914); Love Birds (1934); Love Is News (1937); Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933); Lover's Luck (1914); Mabel's Busy Day (1914); Mabel's Latest Prank (1914); Many a Slip (1931); Mary's Little Lobster (1920); Meet the Husband (1927); Meet the Princess (1932); Miners Over 21 (1924); Miss Polly (1941); My Little Brother (1924); Niagara Falls (1941); No One to Guide Him (1915); Off to the Races (1937); Officer, Save My Child (1932); Oh, What a Kick! (1927); One Hysterical Night (1929); One Moment, Please (1921); Only a Farmer's Daughter (1915); Ooh La-La (1930); Opry House Tonight (1926); Out All Night (1933); Painted Ponies (1927); Papa's Mama (1926); Pardon Me (1921); Parisian Gaities (1931); Parlez Vous (1930); Peeking in Peking (1931); Pepper (1936); Politics (1924); Pretty Lady (1920); Puddin' Head (1941); Qué tiempos aquéllos (1951); Racing Youth (1932); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938); Reckless Living (1931); Red Suspenders (1927); Reunion (1936); Riding for Fame (1928); Roaring Lions on the Midnight Express (1918); Roping Her Romeo (1917); Rough Sailing (1923); Rum and Wall Paper (1915); Sad But True (1924); Sailor's Holiday (1929); Saved by Wireless (1915); Sea Soldier's Sweeties (1932); See America Thirst (1930); Sheriff Nell's Comeback (1920); Ship Ahoy! (1924); Sing Me a Song of Texas (1945); Skirts (1921); Soldiers of Misfortune (1914); Stout Hearts But Weak Knees (1914); Strong Boy (1929); Submarine Patrol (1938); Sunshine's Dark Moment (1929); Swing in the Saddle (1944); Switching Sleepers (1926); Taking the Heir (1926); Ten Nights Without a Barroom (1920); That Little Band of Gold (1915); The Anglers (1914); The Artist (1923); The Barnstormers (1922); The Beauty Bunglers (1915); The Beloved Rogue (1927); The Chinese Parrot (1927); The Country Doctor (1936); The Cry Baby (1924); The Cyclist (1923); The Denver Dude (1927); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Diver's Last Kiss (1918); The Eskimo (1922); The Eyes Have It (1932); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935); The Five Fifteen (1923); The Front Page (1931); The Great Vacuum Robbery (1915); The High Spots on Broadway (1914); The Home Breakers (1915); The Honeymoon Quickstep (1927); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Kitchen Lady (1918); The Knockout (1914); The Last Warning (1928); The Midnight Bum (1927); The Pace That Thrills (1929); The Perfect Lie (1926); The Pinhead (1924); The Plumber (1914); The Property Man (1914); The Ranch Romeo (1922); The Riding Master (1923); The Rivals (1923); The Road Back (1937); The Royal Bluff (1931); The Sargie's Playmate (1931); The Shannons of Broadway (1929); The Singer Midget's Scandal (1921); The Snow Cure (1916); The Spoilers (1930); The Texas Streak (1926); The Three Slims (1916); The Unexpected Father (1932); The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942); The Very Bad Man (1924); The Village Cut-Up (1926); The Winning Punch (1916); The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927); Their Big Moment (1934); Their Fatal Bumping (1914); Their Social Splash (1915); These Amazing Shadows (2011); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); Those Athletic Girls (1918); Those College Girls (1915); Those Country Kids (1914); Those Happy Days (1914); Those Love Pangs (1914); Tiddly-Winks (1926); Tiger Rose (1929); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); Tobacco Road (1941); Tom Brown of Culver (1932); Too Much Sleep (1926); Training for Husbands (1920); Troopers Three (1930); Tune Up! (1926); Uncle Joe (1941); Under Montana Skies (1930); Unreal News Reel (1923); Unreal News Reel No. 2 (1924); Unreal News Reel No. 3 (1924); Unreal News Reel No. 4 (1924); Up the River (1938); Villa of the Movies (1917); Virtuous Husbands (1919); Wanted a Bride (1926); Way Down East (1935); We! We! Marie! (1930); Western Union (1941); Wet and Weary (1923 / 1924); When Dumbells Ring (1925); White Fang (1936); Who's the Boss (1930); Why Mules Leave Home (1927); Why Wait? (1924); Wild Waves and Women (1919); Wild West Love (1914); William Tell (1924); Winner Take All (1939); Zip, the Dodger (1914).

Born on this day – Marcel Proust:

Marcel Proust

Writer

July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922

Credits:

Books:

Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays (1994); Correspondance, 1914-1922 (1976); In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower / aka Within a Budding Grove (1919); Jean Santeuil (1954); Letters (1948); Letters to a friend (1949); Letters to His Mother (1973); Letters to the Lady Upstairs / aka Letters to His Neighbor (2017); Love Duet And Other Curious Stories About Music (2013); On Art and Literature: 1896-1919 (1996); On Life, Love and Letters (1989); On Reading (1971); On Reading Ruskin (1987); Pleasures and Days / aka Pleasures and Regrets (1896); Selected Letters: 1880-1903 (1983); Selected Letters: 1918-1921 (2000); Sodom and Gomorrah / aka Cities of the Plain (1921); Swann in Love (1913); Swann's Way / aka The Way by Swann's (1913); The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust (2001); The Fugitive / aka Albertine Gone / The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925); The Guermantes Way (1920); The Mysterious Correspondent (2021); The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 (2022); The Prisoner / aka The Captive (1923); Time Regained / aka The Past Recaptured / Finding Time Again (1927).

Movies and television:

À la recherche du temps perdu (2011); Choses vues (1971); Chroniques de France (1969–1972); Correspondances (1953); Dans le temps (2016); Du côté de chez Proust (2010); Guermantes (2021); Ici et là (2005); Le monde de Marcel Proust (2021); Le temps de l'amour (2009); Les cent livres des hommes (1971); Les intermittences du Coeur (1981); Les Nuits de France Culture (2020); Madame Aurélie (1955); Marcel Proust at Elaine Greffulhe's Wedding (1904); Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life (1993); Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999); Omnibus (1971); Preámbulo a un silencio (1986); Swann in Love (1984); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Captive (2000 / 2014); The Five Senses (1999); U cioci Leonii (2018); W strone (2014); Without Walls (1995).

Recommended reading - The Moving Target / aka Harper (1949):

The Moving Target

aka Harper.

By Ross MacDonald.

ISBN-10: 037570146X

ISBN-13: 978-0375701467

Published 1949.

Back cover description:

CRIME FICTION

“Ross Macdonald remains the grandmaster, taking the crime novel to new heights by imbuing it with psychological resonance, complexity of story, and richness of style that remain awe-inspiring. Those of us in his wake owe a debt that can never be paid. – Jonathan Kellerman.

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There’s the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson’s friends may have arranged his kidnapping. And as Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.

“Macdonald is one of a handful of writers in the [mystery] genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the later 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience whop walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

VINTAGE CRIME / BLACK LIZARD

Ann Patchett, on writing:

I made a startling discovery.

Time spent writing = output of work.

Amazing.

- Ann Patchett

On this day in movie history - Barbie (2023):

Barbie

directed by Greta Gerwig,

written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach,

was released in the United States on July 9, 2023.

Music by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.

Narrated by Helen Mirren.

Cast:

Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Sharon Rooney, Ana Cruz Kayne, Ritu Arya, Dua Lipa, Nicola Coughlan, Emerald Fennell, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, John Cena, Michael Cera, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Rhea Perlman, Helen Mirren, Will Ferrell, Connor Swindells, Jamie Demetriou, Andrew Leung, Will Merrick, Zheng Xi Yong, Asim Chaudhry, Ray Fearon, Erica Ford, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Mette Narrative, Marisa Abela, Lucy Boynton, Rob Brydon, Tom Stourton, Chris Taylor, David Mumeni, Olivia Brody, Isla Ashworth, Eire Farrell, Daisy Duczmal, Genvieve Toussaint, Isabella Nightingale Mercado, Millie-Rose Crossley, Anvita Nehru, Kayla-Mai Alvares, Luke Mullen, Patrick Luwis, Mac Brandt, Paul Jurewicz, Oraldo Austin, Benjamin Arthur, Carlos Jacott, Adam Ray, George Basil, Ptolemy Slocum, Deb Hiett, James Leon, Oliver Vaquer, Tony Noto, Christopher T. Wood, Ann Roth, Annie Mumolo, Elise Gallup, McKenna Roberts, Brylee Hsu, Sasha Milstein, Lauren Holt, Sterling Jones, Ryan Piers Williams, Jamaal Lewis, Kathryn Akin, Grace Jabbari, Ira Mandela Siobhan, Lisa Spencer, Naomi Weijand, Tom Clark, Ireanne Abenoja, Davide Albonetti, Charlotte Anderson, Michael Anderson, Rico Bakker, James Bamford, William John Banks, Callum Bell, Adam Blaug, Mason Boyce, Taylor Bradshaw, Alex Brown, Miekaile Browne, Lewis Calcutt, Nikkita Chadha, Oliver Chapman, Megan Charles, Callum Clack, Danny Coburn, Kat Collings, Adam Crossley, Sia Dauda, Gustave Die, Grace Durkin, Joelle Dyson, Lewis Easter, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Cameron Everitt, Luke Field-Wright, Sasha Flesch, Adam Fogarty, Michael John French, Anna-Kay Gayle, Charlie Goddard, Marlie Goddard, Ellis Harman, Yasmin Harrison, Josh Hawkins, James Healy, Tim Hodges, Mira Jebari, Beccy Jones, Thomas Kalek, Lily Laight, Maiya Leeke, Cristian Liberti, Prodromos Marneros, Nahum McLean, Jordan Melchor, Ramzan Miah, Andy Monaghan, Florivaldo Mossi, Hannah Nazareth, Grant Neal, Freja Nicole, Shaun Niles, Ella Nonini, Jack William Parry, Josie Pocock, Barnaby Quarendon, Redmand Rance, Zara Richards, Liam Riddick, Alana Rixon, Adam Paul Robertson, Kingdom Sibanda, Sebastian Skov Andersen, Aaron J. Smith, Joshua Smith, Lucia-Rose Sokolowski, Janine Somcio, Callum Sterling, Alex Sturman, Todd Talbot, Charles Tatman, Grant Thresh, Connor Tidman, Wahchi Vong, Jerry Wan, Sasha Wareham, Stan West, Oliver Wheeler, Josh Wild, Joe Wolstenholme, Richard Womersley, Ashley Young, Rocky Brower, Sergi Cervera, Jennifer Chan, Jasmine Clark, Nicholas de Graffenreid, Mike Dickman, Tanner Kerrins, Geoff Kinns, Noor Labelle, Kim Manning, Manuela Mora, Cadence Murray, Jordan Saria Oram, Tracy Pacana, Kourosh Parsapour, Justin Price, Richard Price, Kelly Rian Sanson, Evan Shafran, Chanel Stewart, Kelsey Toussant, Molly Peyton White, Brian Whitehill, Caroline Wilde.

On this day in music history - Sacred Alliance, by Anima (2015):

Sacred Alliance

Album by Anima,
released July 9, 2015.

Track list:

Great Mother’s Dominion; Surrender; Sewa; Sacred Lands; Offering; Camino De Pedro; Gonawindua; Kogi Transmission; Ancestral Fathers of the Stars.