Born on this day – George Montgomery:

George Montgomery

Actor

Painter

Director

Producer

Writer

Sculptor

Furniture craftsman

Stuntman

August 27, 1916 – December 12, 2000

Born on this day – Helen Gibson:

Helen Gibson

Actress

Vaudeville performer

Producer

Rodeo rider

Stunt woman

August 27, 1892 – October 10, 1977

Credits:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Johnny Ringo (1959); Bonanza (1959); The Horse Soldiers (1959); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954); The Man from the Alamo (1953); City That Never Sleeps (1953); Horizons West (1952); Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952); The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952); The Dakota Kid (1951); Hollywood Story (1951); Kansas Raiders (1950); Lonely Heart Bandits (1950); Crooked River (1950); Outcasts of the Trail (1949); Cheyenne Cowboy (1949); The Scarlet Horseman (1946); The Climax (1944); The Blocked Trail (1943); The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942); The Sombrero Kid (1942); Wyoming (1941); Sheriff of Tombstone (1941); The Singing Hill (1941); Young Bill Hickok (1940); The Trail Blazers (1940); Deadwood Dick (1940); Covered Wagon Trails (1940); Cowboys from Texas (1939); Saga of Death Valley (1939); The Marshal of Mesa City (1939); New Frontier (1939); The Oregon Trail (1939); Spoilers of the Range (1939); Southward Ho! (1939); Stagecoach (1939); Flaming Frontiers (1938); The Old Barn Dance (1938); Luck of Roaring Camp (1937); Danger Valley (1937); Range Defenders (1937); Git Along Little Dogies (1937); Jungle Jim (1937); Roarin' Lead (1936); Ride, Ranger, Ride (1936); Winds of the Wasteland (1936); Last of the Warrens (1936); Lady of Secrets (1936); The Lawless Nineties (1936); Custer's Last Stand (1936); Gun Play (1935); Fighting Caballero (1935); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); The Drunkard (1935); Cyclone of the Saddle (1935); The Pecos Kid (1935); 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934); The Way of the West (1934); Rocky Rhodes (1934); Wheels of Destiny (1934); King of the Arena (1933); Law and Lawless (1932); The Silver Lining (1932); Single-Handed Sanders (1932); Human Targets (1932); The Cheyenne Cyclone (1931); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Vanishing West (1928); The Chinatown Mystery (1928); Heroes of the Wild (1927); Thorobred (1922); Nine Points of the Law (1922); The Wolverine (1921); No Man's Woman (1921); No Man's Woman (1921); Wires Down (1920); Winning the Franchise (1920); Trail of the Rails (1920); The Payroll Pirates (1920); The Overland Express (1920); The Golden Star Bandit (1920); Flirting with Terror (1920); The Daring Daughter (1920); Clutch of the Law (1920); The Broken Trestle (1920); The Broken Brake (1920); The Ghost of the Canyon (1920); Border Watch Dogs (1920); Daring Danger (1919); Loot (1919); Down But Not Out (1919); Ace High (1919); Gun Law (1919); Rustlers (1919); The Black Horse Bandit (1919); Riding Wild (1919); The Canyon Mystery (1919); The Secret Peril (1919); Wolves of the Range (1918); The Robber (1918); Captured Alive (1918); The Silent Sentinel (1918); The Dead Shot (1918); The Fast Mail (1918); Under False Pretenses (1918); Danger Ahead (1918); Bawled Out (1918); The Pay Roll Express (1918); The Branded Man (1918); The Midnight Flyer (1918); Play Straight or Fight (1918); The Deserted Engine (1917); Fighting Mad (1917); The Detective's Danger (1917); Danger Ahead (1917); The End of the Run (1917); Saving the Fast Mail (1917); The Dynamite Special (1917); A Perilous Leap (1917); The Wrong Man (1917); A Race to the Drawbridge (1917); The Railroad Smugglers (1917); The Munitions Plot (1917); The Lone Point Feud (1917); The Mystery of the Burning Freight (1917); The College Boys' Special (1917); The Borrowed Engine (1917); The Registered Pouch (1917); In the Path of Peril (1917); The Sidetracked Sleeper (1917); The Prima Donna's Special (1917); The Death Siding (1917); The Railroad Claim Intrigue (1917); The Wrecked Station (1917); The Fireman's Nemesis (1917); The Mogul Mountain Mystery (1917); A Race with Death (1916); The Vanishing Box Car (1916); The Midnight Express (1916); The Lineman's Peril (1916); The Trial Run (1916); The Forgotten Train Order (1916); The Runaway Sleeper (1916); The Lone Point Mystery (1916); The Gate of Death (1916); The Lost Messenger (1916); A Daring Chance (1916); To Save the Special (1916); The Blocked Track (1916); The Death Swing (1916); Defying Death (1916); The Hoodoo of Division B (1916); Ablaze on the Rails (1916); The Secret of the Box Car (1916); At Danger's Call (1916); With the Aid of the Wrecker (1916); Hurled Through the Drawbridge (1916); A Mystery of the Rails (1916); A Plunge from the Sky (1916); In Death's Pathway (1916); The Broken Brake (1916); To Save the Road (1916); The Engineer's Honor (1916); The Mysterious Cipher (1916); A Race Through the Air (1916); The Treasure Train (1916); The Spiked Switch (1916); The Capture of Red Stanley (1916); One Chance in a Hundred (1916); The Bridge of Danger (1916); The Human Telegram (1916); The Trail of Danger (1916); The Governor's Special (1916); The Race for a Siding (1916); The Record Run (1916); The Trapping of 'Peeler' White (1916); The Detective's Peril (1916); The Girl Who Dared (1916); A Race for a Life (1916); The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve (1916); The Switchman's Story (1916); The Perilous Swing (1916); The Peril of the Rails (1916); The Broken Wire (1916); Tapped Wires (1916); The Open Track (1916); The Haunted Station (1916); When Seconds Count (1916); At the Risk of Her Life (1916); Boy at the Throttle (1915); The Wrong Train Order (1915); Crossed Wires (1915); The Tramp Telegrapher (1915); The Dynamite Train (1915); The Girl on the Bridge (1915); The Girl and the Special (1915); Danger Ahead! (1915); The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children (1915); A Mile a Minute (1915); The Hazards of Helen (1914); A Girl of the Range (1913); Old Moddington's Daughters (1913); Ranch Girls on a Rampage (1912).

Born on this day – Theodore Dreiser:

Theodore Dreiser

Writer

August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945

Credits:

Books:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); A Century of Horror (1971); American Ghost Stories (1928); An American Tragedy (1925); Dawn (1931); Great Short Stories of the World (1986); Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1994); Jennie Gerhardt (1911); Masters of Horror and the Supernatural (2010); Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural (1916); Quiver of Horror (1965); Rod Serling's Devils and Demons (1967); Sister Carrie (1904); The Bulwark (1946); The Financier (1912); The Genius (1915); The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Stoic (1947); The Titan (1914); Uncanny Tales 3 (1976).

Movies and television:

A Place in the Sun (1951); Americká tragédia (1976); Amerikietiska tragedija (1981); An American Tragedy (1931); Camille (1926); Carrie (1952); Hi no ataru basho (1982); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); Jennie Gerhardtová (1980); Lux Video Theatre (1954); My Gal Sal (1942); Nakaw na pag-ibig (1980); Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996); Television Theater (1955); The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951); The Window (1970); Um Lugar ao Sol (1959); Una tragedia americana (1962); Uragan (1970); V pasti (1956); Verano ardiente (1971); Zapadnya (1965).

The movie compared to the book ...

Author humor:

Recommended reading: Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton (1976):

Eaters of the Dead

Full title:

Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922

By Michael Crichton.

Filmed as The 13th Warrior (1999), directed by John McTiernan.

Mass Market Paperback.
Published by Harper.
First published 1976.
ISBN 13: 9780061782633
ISBN 10: 0061782637
ASIN: 0061782637

Description:

The year is A.D. 922.  A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs — the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them — a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .

Recommended reading - Ham on Rye (1982):

Ham on Rye

By Charles Bukowski.

Published by Ecco.

Published 1982.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 006117758X

ISBN-13: 978-0061177583

Description:

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.