Born on this day – Dulce La Cantante:

Dulce La Cantante

Singer

Actress

July 29, 1955 – December 25, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

Aquella edad (1977); Ay, amor… (1990); Castillos de cristal (1988); Cosas prohibidas (1991); Dulce (1979); Heridas (1982); Homenaje a Camilo Sesto (2006); Invitación al amor (1988); La voz con alma (1976); Lobo (1985); Salvaje (1987); Testigo de una noche (1993); Triunfadora de Mallorca (1978); Tu muñeca (1984).

Movies and television:

Cara a cara (1982); Celebremos México: Hecho en México (2005); Con todo (2004); De su misma sangre (1982); Diseñador ambos sexos (2001); Dulce, la cantante (1983); El Minuto Que Cambió Mi Destino (2016); José José... El especial (2006); La camioneta gris (1990); La Más Draga (2019); Las mañanitas a la virgen de Guadalupe (2004); Las vías del amor (2002–2003); Más allá del puente (1993); Mónica y el sexo (2019); Muchachitas como tú (2007); Mujeres engañadas (1999); Mundo de fieras (2006); Muñeca rota (1978); No vale nada la vida (1984); Quién es la máscara (2020); Quiéreme Tonto (2010); Reyes de la canción (2006); Sale el Sol (2018–2019); Segunda oportunidad (2010); Siempre en domingo (1984); Siempre reinas (2024); Soñadoras (1998); Vecinos (2024); Vencer la culpa (2023).

Born on this day – Charles Hallahan:

Charles Hallahan

Actor

July 29, 1943 – November 25, 1997

Credits:

58th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1989); A Death in Canaan (1978); A Smile in the Dark (1991); A Winner Never Quits (1986); ABC Afterschool Specials (1990); All in the Family (1978); Allison Sydney Harrison (1983); Almost Perfect (1996); Ambushed (1998); Body of Evidence (1993); Bret Maverick (1981); Capone Behind Bars (1989); Cast a Deadly Spell (1991); Chicago Story (1981); Civil Wars (1992); Coach (1995); Dallas (1978); Dante's Peak (1997); Dave (1993); Executive Decision (1996); Family (1979); Fatal Beauty (1987); Gargoyles (1995–1996); Going in Style (1979); Good Times (1979); Grace Under Fire (1993–1994); Great Performances (1971–1988); Happy Days (1977); Hart to Hart (1980); Hawaii Five-O (1977); Hide in Plain Sight (1980); Hill Street Blues (1981); Hunter (1986–1991); Hunter: Return to Justice (2002); In the Heat of the Night (1993); J. Edgar Hoover (1987); Jack Reed: A Search for Justice (1994); Jack's Place (1993); JAG (1995); James at 16 (1978); Kidco (1984); Law & Order (1993); Lou Grant (1979–1982); M*A*S*H (1981); Mad About You (1994); Magic Mongo (1977); Margin for Murder (1981); Mind Rage (1996); Minty Comedic Arts (2021); Murder, She Wrote (1994); Nails (1992); Nightwing (1979); NYPD Blue (1997); P.K. and the Kid (1987); Pale Rider (1985); Picket Fences (1992); Players (1997); Riker (1981); Rolling Thunder (1996); Roswell (1994); Silkwood (1983); Sirens (1993); Sisters (1995–1996); Skag (1980); Soap (1979); Space Jam (1996); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Sweet Justice (1995); Tales of the Unexpected (1984); Terror Out of the Sky (1978); The Equalizer (1985); The Fan (1996); The Fantasticks (2000); The Law and Harry McGraw (1988); The Other Victim (1981); The Paper Chase (1978–1979); The Pest (1997); The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A. (1995); The Rich Man's Wife (1996); The Rockford Files (1977); The Star Chamber (1983); The Ted Knight Show (1978); The Thing (1982); The Thing: Terror Takes Shape (1998); The Visitor (1997); The Waltons (1979); Things That Go Bump (1997); Trapper John, M.D. (1981); True Believer (1989); Twilight Zone: The Movie / Segment: Time Out (1983); Two of a Kind (1983); Vision Quest (1985); Warlock: The Armageddon (1993); When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn (1993); Wild Palms (1993); Wings (1990).

Born on this day – David Warner:

David Warner

Actor

July 29, 1941 – July 24, 2022

Born on this day – Frank Q. Dobbs:

Frank Q. Dobbs

Writer

Director

Producer

Cinematographer

July 29, 1939 – February 15, 2006

Born on this day – Chris Marker:

Chris Marker

Director

Writer

Photographer

July 29, 1921 – July 29, 2012

Recommended reading:

La Jetée: Ciné-Roman

By Chris Marker.

Zone Books

Distributed by The MIT Press.

Published 1992.

ISBN-10: 0942299663

ISBN-13: 978-0942299663

The inspiration for the movie 12 Monkeys (1995), directed by Terry Gilliam.

Description:

In the aftermath of World War III, both the earth’s surface and all of history – everything ever dreamed or known – lies irretrievably buried in a heap of radioactive devastation. Space has become off-limits, and the war’s few remaining survivors, huddled underground in the dank galleries beneath Chaillot, seek desperately an alternative path to survival – one perhaps that passes through Time. At the expense of madness, death, and unspeakable cruelty, they begin a set of experiments whose purpose will be to launch emissaries, in search of food, medicine and energy, through a hole in Time. A man is chosen for his unique quality of having retained a single clear image from pre-war days; no more than an ambiguous memory fragment from childhood – a visit to the jetty at Orly airport, the troubling glance of an unknown woman, the crumbling body of a dying man. These elements become crucial hinge-points in the ensuing narrative, thickening and accumulating nuance with each successful expedition into the historical past. The image of a woman, increasingly suffused with the time – and eros – bestowing capacities of a deep and impossible love, provides both the kernel for the recovery of the dimension through which humankind and history will be saved, as well as the tragic abyss into which both the hero and the narrative inexorably fall.

Although Chris Marker’s legendary film is no more than 29 minutes long and contains but a single moving image, perhaps no other film has matched its combination of devastating emotional power, former brilliance and philosophical complexity. The story marker tells – a stunning parable of our modern fate – is about the death of the world, about loss, memory, hope, and the indomitable power of love.

“This strange and poetic film, a fusion of science fiction, psychological fable, and photomontage … creates its own conventions from scratch. It triumphantly succeeds where science fiction invariably fails.” – J.G. Ballard.

Born on this day – Budd Boetticher:

Budd Boetticher

Director

July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001

Born on this day – Chester Himes:

Chester Himes

Writer

July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984