On this day in music history - First Dance (2011):

First Dance

Album by Amy Lauren,

released August 11, 2011.

Track list:

Just for Tonight; I Believe; Emerald Mist; Beginning Now; Louisa’s Song; Inspirations; Candlelight; The Processional; First Dance; Can You Hear Me; Search the Stars.

On this day in movie history - The Greene Murder Case (1929 movie & novel):

The Greene Murder Case

directed by Frank Tuttle,

written by Louise Long and Richard H. Digges Jr.,

based on the novel by S. S. Van Dine,

was released in the United States on August 11, 1929.
Music by Karl Hajos.

Cast: William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Jean Arthur, Eugene Pallette, E. H. Calvert, Gertrude Norman, Lowell Drew, Morgan Farley, Brandon Hurst, Augusta Burmeister, Marcia Harris.

Recommended reading:

The Greene Murder Case

By S.S. Van Dine.

Filmed as The Greene Murder Case (1929), directed by Frank Tuttle.

Published by American Mystery Classics.

First published 1928.

ISBN-10: 1613165692

ISBN-13: 9781613165690

Description:

Philo Vance’s ultimate case. – Kirkus.

With his highbrow manner and his parade of encyclopedic learning, Philo Vance is not only a detective; he is a god out of the machine. – New York Times.

The perfect sleuth for the Jazz Age. – CrimeReads.

Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance – the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest (and did we mention handsome?) amateur sleuth – uses his detective skills to unravel the murders.

On this day in movie history - Earthbound (1920):

Earthbound

directed by T. Hayes Hunter,

written by Edfrid A. Bingham,

based on the story by Basil King,

was released in the United States on August 11, 1920.

Cast:

Wyndham Standing, Naomi Childers, Billie Cotton, Mahlon Hamilton, Flora Revalles, Alec B. Francis, Lawson Butt, Kate Lester, Aileen Pringle.

Born on this day – Stuart Gordon:

Stuart Gordon

Director

Writer

August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020

Born on this day – Laurel Goodwin:

Laurel Goodwin

Actress

August 11, 1942 – February 25, 2022

Credits:

Birth of a Timeless Legacy (2004); Call to Danger (1968); Get Smart (1966); Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962); Here's Hollywood (1962); Law of the Lawless (1964); Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories (1984); Mannix (1969); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); Premiere (1968); Run Buddy Run (1966); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Star Trek (1966); Stroker Ace (1983); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); The Beverly Hillbillies (1967); The Bob Hope Show (1963); The Dain Curse (1978); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Glory Guys (1965); The Hero (1966); The Partners (1971); The Roddenberry Archive: The Cage (2022); The Virginian (1964).

Born on this day – Andre Dubus:

Andre Dubus

Writer

August 11, 1936 – February 24, 1999

Recommended reading:

Andre Dubus: Selected Stories

By Andre Dubus.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1975.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679767304

ISBN-13: 9780679767305

Description:

"Stunning…a fine, deeply rewarding collection from one of this country’s ablest writers." – Anne Tyler.

"Dubus’s characters resemble those of Raymond Carver...but the stories stand alone in their idiosyncratic spiritual cast, occasionally religious, more often expressive of devotion to the people he lives among." – New York Times Book Review.

A bereaved father stalks his son’s killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns fiction into an act of compassion. For readers new to Dubus, this is the perfect starting point. For fans of his, this is an essential, must-have collection.

Credits:

Books:

Adultery and Other Choices (1980); Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar (2011); Boston Noir 2 / Akashic Noir (2012); Broken Vessels (1991); Dancing After Hours (1996); Finding a Girl in America (1980); In the Bedroom (2002); Land Where My Fathers Died (1984); Louisiana Stories (1990); Meditations from a Movable Chair (1998); New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1987 (1987); Selected Stories (1988); Separate Flights (1982); Stories of the Modern South (1995)The Best American Short Stories 1970 (1970); The Best American Short Stories 1975 (1975); The Best American Short Stories 1981 (1981); The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984); The Colonel's Wife (2015); The Cross Country Runner (2018); The Last Worthless Evening (1986); The Lieutenant (1986); The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007); The Picador Book of Crime Writing (1993); The Times Are Never So Bad (1983); The Winter Father (2018); Voices from the Moon (1984); We Don't Live Here Anymore (1984); Why I Like This Story (2019).

Movies and television:

A Year in the Life (1987); Delivering (1993); His Lover (2017); In the Bedroom (2001); Literary Visions (1992); We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004).

Born on this day – Stuart Rosenberg:

Stuart Rosenberg

Director

August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007