Saturday, August 30, 2025

Born on this day – Joan Blondell:


Joan Blondell


Actress

August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979

Credits:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); About Faces (1960); Ace of the Mounties (1966); Advance to the Rear (1964); Adventure (1945); Adventures in Paradise (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1975); All Star Revue (1951–1953); An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930); Anatomy of a Crime (1969); And Baby Makes Three (1966); And She Learned About Dames (1934); Angel Baby (1961); Back in Circulation (1937); Banyon (1972); Battered (1978); Big Breakdowns: Hollywood Bloopers of the 1930s (1991); Big Business Girl (1931); Big City Blues (1932); Big Daddy (1969); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blondie Johnson (1933); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bobby Parker and Company (1974); Bogart (1967); Bonanza (1964); Breakdowns of 1939 (1940); Broadway Bad (1933); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broadway's Like That (1930); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers (1969); Carroll O'Connor Special (1973); Central Park (1932); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Classic Movie Bloopers (1990); Colleen (1936); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Complicated Women (2003); Convention City (1933); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Dames (1934); Death at Love House (1976); Death Valley Days (1963); Desk Set (1957); Don Juan Quilligan (1945); Donahue (1972); Dr. Kildare (1964); East Side of Heaven (1939); Family Affair (1967); Fantasy Island (1979); Feud (2017); Fireside Theatre (1955); Footlight Parade (1933); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); For Heaven's Sake (1950); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); General Electric Theater (1955); God's Gift to Women (1931); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Goodbye Again (1933); Grease (1978); Havana Widows (1933); He Was Her Man (1934); Here Come the Brides (1968–1970); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Newsreel (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones, No. 2: 'Chip Shots' (1931); I Want a Divorce (1940); Illicit (1931); Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (1950); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got Your Number (1934); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Just Around the Corner (1933); Kansas City Princess (1934); Kona Coast (1968); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Ladies Before Gentlemen (1951); Lady for a Night (1942); Lawyer Man (1932); Lizzie (1957); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Swinging Surgeon / Love and the Lovesick Sailor (1971–1973); Lux Playhouse (1959); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Make Me a Star (1932); McCloud (1971); Medical Center (1973); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Millie (1931); Miss Pacific Fleet (1935); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Model Wife (1941); Movie Bloopers (1988); Mrs. Thursday (1967); My Past (1931); My Three Sons (1965); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Night Nurse (1931); Nightmare Alley (1947); Off the Record (1939); Opening Night (1977); Other Men's Women (1930); Penthouse Party (1950); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1950); Person to Person (1959); Petticoat Junction (1968); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Police Story (1975); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935); Shower of Stars (1955); Sinners' Holiday (1930); Slattery's People (1965); Smarty (1934); Sons o' Guns (1936); Stage Struck (1936); Stand-In (1937); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Stay Away, Joe (1968); Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989); Studio One (1958); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971); Suspense (1953); Sweepstakes (1979); Switch (1976); Talent Scout (1937); That Girl (1968); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Arthur Murray Party (1950); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Baron (1977); The Blue Veil (1951); The Champ (1979); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle (1965); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950 / 1954); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); The Crowd Roars (1932); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dead Don't Die (1975); The Devil's Parade (1930); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Glove (1979); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967); The Heart Breaker (1930); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kid from Kokomo (1939); The King and the Chorus Girl (1937); The Love Boat (1978); The Lucy Show (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1972); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1955); The Movie Crazy Years (1971); The Movies (2019); The Name of the Game (1970); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973); The Office Wife (1930); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Outsider (1968); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Phynx (1970); The Public Enemy (1931); The Real McCoys (1963); The Rebels (1979); The Reckless Hour (1931); The Rookies (1973); The Snoop Sisters (1974); The Spy in the Green Hat (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Untouchables (1961); The Virginian (1963); 20 Questions (1950); The Witness (1961); The Woman Inside (1981); There's Always a Woman (1938); Things You Never See on the Screen (1935); This Could Be the Night (1957); Three Girls About Town (1941); Three Men on a Horse (1936); Three on a Match (1932); Topper Returns (1941); Traveling Saleslady (1935); Tribute to Bogart (1972); TV Club (1951); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Union Depot (1932); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Wagon Train (1963); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); Waterhole #3 (1967); We're in the Money (1935); What's My Line? (1950); When the Talkies Were Young (1955); Who Said That? (1949); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Winchester '73 (1967); Winner Take All (1975); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976).

Born on this day – Edwin J. Burke:


Edwin J. Burke


Writer

Director

August 30, 1889 – September 26, 1944

Credits:

Auto Intoxication (1931); Bad Girl (1931); Bright Eyes (1934); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1953); Call Her Savage (1932); Camino del infierno (1931); Dance Team (1932); Down to Earth (1932); Good Medicine (1929); Happy Days (1929); Harmony at Home (1930); Hello, Sister! (1933); It Might Be Worse (1931); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); Love, Live and Laugh (1929); Man Trouble (1930); Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931); Not Quite Decent (1929); Now I'll Tell (1934); One More Spring (1935); Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933); Plastered in Paris (1928); Sob Sister (1931); Song and Dance Man (1936); Speakeasy (1929); The Dancers (1930); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935); The Girl from Havana (1929); The Littlest Rebel (1935); The Man Who Came Back (1931); The Stolen Jools (1931); This Thing Called Love (1929 / 1940); Woman Trap (1929); Young as You Feel (1931).

Born on this day – Fritzi Scheff:


Fritzi Scheff


Actress

Singer

August 30, 1879 – April 8, 1954

Credits:

This Is Your Life (1954); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); Musical Comedy Time (1951); The Robert Q. Lewis Show (1950); We, the People (1949); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1953); Naughty Martine (1947); Follies Girl (1943); Pretty Mrs. Smith (1915); Animated Weekly, No. 112 (1914).

Born on this day – Mary Shelley:


Mary Shelley


Writer

August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851

Credits:

Frankenstein (1818); The Last Man (1826); The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830); Lodore (aka The Beautiful Widow) (1835); Falkner (1837); Proserpine and Midas (1922); Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot (1998); The Mortal Immortal (1831); The Mourner and Other Stories (1993); Transformation (1831); The Invisible Girl, and The Dream (1831); The Pilgrims (1837); The Heir of Mondolfo (1877).

Movies and television:

A Book and Its Cover (2020); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Adam (2023); Adam Heatherly's Frankenstein! (2022); Adam in aeternum (2021); Allen and Rossi Meet Dracula and Frankenstein (1974); Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999); Army of Frankensteins (2013); Bikini Frankenstein (2010); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); Bride of Re-Animator (1990); Canavar Gibi (2018); Carry on Christmas (1969); Cineficción Radio (2019–2021); Creature (2023); Deadly Tales (1998); Depraved (2019); Doctor Franken (1980); Doctor Stein (2019); Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972); Edison's Frankenstein (1990); English the Move: 4Ever After (2023); Erica (2019); Flesh for Frankenstein (1973); Flesh for Frankenstein (1988); Frank (2019); Frankensitter (2020); Frankenstein (1910 / 1931 / 1984 / 1986 / 1990 / 1992 / 1994 / 2004 / 2015 / 2023); Frankenstein / miniseries (2004); Frankenstein 1970 (1958); Frankenstein 90 (1984); Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974); Frankenstein by Moisés Neto - Silent Version (1989); Frankenstein from the Royal Ballet (2016); Frankenstein General Hospital (1988); Frankenstein in Love (2017); Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969); Frankenstein Punk (1986); Frankenstein Reborn (2005); Frankenstein Rising (2010); Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965); Frankenstein: A Love Story (1974); Frankenstein: A Modern Myth (2012); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (1995); Frankensteinin lapsi (2010); Frankenstein's Army (2013); Frankenstein's Aunt (1987); Frankenstein's Master (2013); Frankenstein's Monster (1983); Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999); Great British Theatre (2021); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); I riassuntini (2018); I, Frankenstein (2014); Lady Frankenstein (1971); Life Without Soul (1915); LSD Frankenstein (2002); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977); Mary Shelley's the Mortal Immortal (2021); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Matinee Theatre (1957); Monica and Friends (1997); Monster Mash: The Movie (1995); Monster of Frankenstein (1981); Monsterz (2015); Mystery and Imagination (1968); Naan Vanangum Daivam (1963); National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011); O Frankenstein! (2014); Potty Time (1973); Pretty Face (2021); Quaranstein (2020); Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein (1999); Siesta Z (2017); Son of Frankenstein (1939); Spark of Being (2010); Struck by Lightning (1979); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010); Terror of Frankenstein (1977); The Bride (1985); The Curse of Frankenstein (1957); The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1965); The Frankenstein Theory (2013); The Horror of Frankenstein (1970); The Interactive History of Frankenstein (1995); The Last Man (2008); The Monster of Frankenstein (1921); The Moon, The Bat, The Monster (2019); The Mortal Immortal (2024); The Prometheus Project (2010); The Real Frankenstein: An Untold Story (1995); The Reckoning of Darkness (2018); The Sick and Twisted Tale of Frankenstein (2015); The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray (1914); The Ultimate Lover (1986); The Ultimate Sacrifice (2021); The Weary Traveler (2016); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Victor Frankenstein (2015); Weird (2022); Wishbone (1995); Young Frankenstein (1974).

Don't forget to recharge your minds every night:


Read to recharge your mind.
Reading stimulates the imagination.

Recommended reading - The Magician's Wife (1965):


The Magician's Wife

By James M. Cain.

Published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Published 1965.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0887480187
ISBN-13: 978-0887480188

Description:

In The Magician’s Wife, Cain returns to his classic themes of lust and greed. Clay Lockwood, a business executive, falls in love with the irresistible Sally Alexis, wife of a professional magician. Their story is one of the inexorable process of “wishes coming true” – the realization of which was always, for Cain, “a terrifying concept.”

James M. Cain was born in Annapolis in 1892. He lived and worked in Hollywood for seventeen years, and spent the last years of his life in Hyattsville, Maryland. His work, especially the best-sellers The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and The Butterfly, is known to millions in this country and abroad.

Frank Herbert, on writing:


There is no real ending.
It's just the place where you stop the story.

- Frank Herbert.