Born on this day – Claire Rochelle:

Claire Rochelle

Actress

August 22, 1908 – May 23, 1981

Born on this day – Jean Yarbrough:

Jean Yarbrough

Director

Producer

August 22, 1900 – August 2, 1975

Credits:

21 Beacon Street (1959); A Buckaroo Broadcast (1938); A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935); A Rented Riot (1937); A Returned Engagement (1935); According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951); Adam-12 (1970–1971); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1955–1956); Alaska Love (1932); All Business (1936); Along Came Auntie (1926); American Inventory (1952); American Maker (1960); America's Safest Tire (1939); And So to Wed (1936); Angels in Disguise (1949); Bachelor Bait (1934); Bad Medicine (1936); Berth Quakes (1938); Beulah (1950–1953); Big Timber (1950); Bonanza (1966); Border Patrol (1959); Bridal Bail (1934); Broadside (1965); Caliente Love (1933); Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (1955–1957); Casa Manana (1951); Caught in the Act (1941); Champs of the Chase (1954); Crashing Las Vegas (1956); Crime Rave (1939); Criminal Investigator (1942); Cuban Pete (1946); Curiosity Shop: The Story of the Aluminum Research Laboratory (1948); Daddy Knows Best (1933); Death Valley Days (1966–1970); Dizzy Daddies (1926); Dog Blight (1936); Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926); Don't Be Like That (1936); Don't Play Bridge with Your Wife (1933); Doubling in the Quickies (1932); Duck Soup (1942); Early to Bed (1928); Father Makes Good (1950); Father Steps Out (1941); Ferry-Go-Round (1934); Flight (1958–1959); Follow the Band (1943); Footsteps in the Night (1957); Freckles Comes Home (1942); Fun on the Run (1949); Galloping Ghosts (1928); Gem-Jams (1943); General Electric Theater (1954); Get 'Em Young (1926); Get Going (1943); Good Morning, Judge (1943); Gunsmoke (1960); Hectic Honeymoon (1938); Henry, the Rainmaker (1949); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Hi Ya, Sailor (1943); Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967); Holiday in Havana (1949); Horse Play (1937); Hot Foot (1943); Hot Shots (1956); House of Horrors (1946); Hypnotized (1932); I'm the Law (1953); In Society (1944); Inlawful (1937); Inside Job (1946); Jack and the Beanstalk (1952); Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance (1950); Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950); Kentucky Kernels (1934); King of the Zombies (1941); Kitchen Mechanics (1949); Knights of the Bath (1951); Lalapaloosa (1936); Law of the Jungle (1942); Le Fantôme du Dragon dans le sous-sol de la maison des zombies 2 (2023); Leave It to Henry (1949); Let's Go Collegiate (1941); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lost in Alaska (1952); Lure of the Islands (1942); Madame Mystery (1926); Man from Headquarters (1942); Man in the Square Suit (1966); Master Minds (1949); McHale's Navy (1965); Merry Widower (1926); Molly Cures a Cowboy (1940); Moon Over Las Vegas (1944); More Worlds to Conquer (1941); Music Will Tell (1938); My Favorite Martian (1965–1966); Navy Log (1955–1957); Night Freight (1955); On Stage Everybody (1945); On the Front Page (1926); Oysters and Muscles (1948); Panic! (1958); Petticoat Junction (1963–1969); Picketing for Love (1938); Plumb Crazy (1939); Police Bullets (1942); Pony Express (1959–1960); Rebellious Daughters (1938); Rhythm on the Rampage (1937); Roadhouse Queen (1933); Romancing Along (1937); Russian Dressing (1938); Saintly Sinners (1962); Sauce for the Gander (1940); Say It with Babies (1926); Sea Melody (1938); Shed No Tears (1948); She's in the Army (1942); She-Wolf of London (1946); Sideshow (1950); Silent Witness (1943); Silly Billies (1936); Singing in the Air (1937); So and Sew (1936); So's Your Aunt Emma! (1942); So's Your Uncle (1943); South of Dixie (1944); South of Panama (1941); South Sea Rhythms (1943); Square Dance Katy (1950); Start the Music (1939); Swing Fever (1937); Swing Vacation (1939); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1954); The Addams Family (1964); The Andrew Sisters: Hollywood Music Shop (1951); The Andrews Sisters (1951); The Blue Angels (1960); The Brothers Brannagan (1960–1961); The Brute Man (1946); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Challenge (1948); The Creeper (1948); The Devil Bat (1940); The Dummy Owner (1938); The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933); The Gang's All Here (1941); The Girl in the Tonneau (1932); The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967–1969); The Human Fish (1932); The Life of Riley (1957–1958); The Mutineers (1949); The Naughty Nineties (1945); The Nitwits (1935); The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969); The Photografter (1938); The Rainmakers (1935); The Silent Service (1957–1958); The Singing Boxer (1933); The Spirit of 1976 (1935); The Undie-World (1934); The Wolf Dog (1933); The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956); The World of Abbott and Costello (1965); Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941); Trailing Along (1937); Triple Threat (1948); Triple Trouble (1950); Twilight on the Prairie (1944); Two-Time Mama (1927); Under Western Skies (1945); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Walking Back Home (1933); We Learn About the Telephone (1965); Wedtime Stories (1943); Week-End Pass (1944); What's the World Coming To (1926); Why Girls Say No (1927); Wife Insurance (1937); Wild Papa (1925); Yaqui Drums (1956); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).

Born on this day – Dorothy Parker:

Dorothy Parker

Writer

August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967

Credits:

Poems:

A Certain Lady; A Dream Lies Dead; A Fairly Sad Tale; A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature; A Portrait; A Very Short Song; A Well-Worn Story; After Spanish Proverb; Afternoon; Alexandre Dumas And His Son; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Anecdote; August; Autobiography; Autumn Valentine; Ballade at Thirty-five; Ballade Of A Great Weariness; Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals; Bohemia; Braggart; Bric-a-Brac; But Not Forgotten; Chant For Dark Hours; Charles Dickens; Coda; Comment; Condolence; Convalescent; D.G. Rossetti; Daylight Saving; De Profundis; Dilemma; Distance; Epitaph; Experience; Fable; Fair Weather; Faute De Mieux; Fighting Words; Finis; For A Favorite Granddaughter; For A Lady Who Must Write Verse; For A Sad Lady; For An Unknown Lady; From A Letter From Lesbia; Frustration; Fulfillment; Garden-Spot; General Review Of The Sex Situation; George Gissing; George Sand; Godmother; Godspeed; Guinevere at Her Fireside; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Healed; Hearthside; I Know I Have Been Happiest; I Shall Come Back; Incurable; Indian Summer; Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom; Interior; Interview; Inventory; Iseult Of Brittany; Landscape; Liebestod; Light Of Love; Lines On Reading Too Many Poets; Little Words; Love Song; Lullaby; Men; Midnight; Mortal Enemy; My Own; Neither Bloody Nor Bowed; News Item; Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday; Nocturne; Now At Liberty; Observation; Of a Woman, Dead Young; On Being A Woman; One Perfect Rose; Ornithology For Beginners; Oscar Wilde; Parable For A Certain Virgin; Partial Comfort; Paths; Pattern; Penelope; Philosophy; Plea; Portrait of the Artist; Post-Graduate; Pour Prendre Conge; Prayer For a New Mother; Prayer For A Prayer; Prisoner; Prologue to a Saga; Prophetic Soul; Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song; Rainy Night; Recurrence; Renunciation; Requiescat; Rhyme Against Living; Roundel; Salome's Dancing-Lesson; Sanctuary; Sight; Social Note; Solace; Somebody's Song; Song in a Minor Key; Song Of One Of The Girls; Song of Perfect Propriety; Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence; Sonnet On An Alpine Night; Summary; Superfluous Advice; Surprise; Sweet Violets; Symptom Recital; Temps Perdu; Testament; The Apple Tree; The Burned Child; The Choice; The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse; The Dark Girl's Rhyme; The Dramatists; The Evening Primrose; The False Friends; The Flaw In Paganism; The Gentlest Lady; The Homebody; The Immortals; The Lady's Reward; The Last Question; The Leal; The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk; The New Love; The Red Dress; The Satin Dress; The Sea; The Searched Soul; The Second Oldest Story; The Small Hours; The Thin Edge; The Trifler; The Trusting Heart; The Veteran; The Whistling Girl; The White Lady; The Willow; Theory; There Was One; They Part; Thomas Carlyle; Thought For A Sunshiny Morning; Threnody; To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady; Tombstones in the Starlight; Transition; Two-Volume Novel; Ultimatum; Unfortunate Coincidence; Vers Demode; Verse For a Certain Dog; Victoria; Wail; Walter Savage Landor; Wisdom; Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror.

Books:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); After Such Pleasures (1940); Alaska Stories (1995); Big Blonde and Other Stories (1929); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Death and Taxes (1931); Enough Rope (1926); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Here Lies (1939); Here We Are, a Telephone Call (2001); Laments for the Living (1930); Life Stories (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Men I'm Not Married To (1922); New Orleans Stories (1992); Not Much Fun (1996); Not So Deep as a Well (1937); Points of View (1956); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Sayings of Dorothy Parker (1992); Secret Ingredients (2007); Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker (1976); Selected Stories (1995); Sisters (2009); Southwest Stories (1993); Such a Pretty Little Picture and Other Stories (2023); Sunset Gun: Poems (1940); Texas Stories (1995); The Coast of Illyria (1990); The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker (1944); The Collected Short Stories (1942); The Ladies of the Corridor (1954); The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944); The Sexes (1944); Women Writers at Work (1989); Wonderful Town (2000).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Star Is Born (1954); A Telephone Call (2014); American Masters (1987); August (2013); Big Blonde (1980); Bomb Girls (2012); Candide (1988 / 2024); Desert Hearts (1985); Dick Stabile and His Orchestra (1952); Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place (1982); Dynamite (1929); Een heel kleintje maar (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952); Hands Across the Table (1935); Here Is My Heart (1934); I Live on Your Visits (2024); I Wished on the Moon (1935); In the Pink (1982); ITV Play of the Week (1960); Jerry Gray and the Band of Today (1950); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Lady Be Careful (1936); Language of Love (1964); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life Together (2016); Madonna Feat. Massive Attack: I Want You (1995); Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (2009); Movie Melodies on Parade (1936); Moving Pictures (1995); O Telefonema (2010); Pakinateatteri (1960); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Public Speaking (2010); Queen for a Day (1951); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Saboteur (1942); Shoestring Theatre (1959–1962); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Something to Read (1959); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Stranded in Canton (2005); Suzy (1936); Sweethearts (1938); Teatterituokio (1966); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The David Susskind Show (1959); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Fan (1949); The Flower of My Secret (1995); The Game (2004); The Green Helmet (1961); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Little Foxes (1941); The Lovely Leave (1999); The Maker (1997); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Night Before Christmas (1957); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Sexes (2008); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); Three Married Men (1936); T'odio, amor meu (1996); Trade Winds (1938); Weekend for Three (1941); Woman Chases Man (1937); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); You Were Perfectly Fine (2009).

Born on this day – Henry "Son" Sims:

Henry “Son” Sims

Blues fiddler

Songwriter

August 22, 1890 – December 23, 1958

Credits:

Songs:

Be True, Be True Blues; Come Back Corrinna; Farrell Blues; Tell Me Man Blues.

Album:

Mississippi Blues 1927–1941; Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton; The Great Race Record Labels, Vol. 1 ; Violin, Sing the Blues for Me: African-American Fiddlers 1926–1949.

Television:

Once Were Brothers (2019).

Larry L. King, on writing:

Write.

Rewrite.

When not writing or rewriting, read.

I know of no shortcuts.

- Larry L. King.

On this day in movie history - Down, Out & Dangerous (1995):

Down, Out & Dangerous

directed by Noel Nosseck,

written by Carey Hayes and Chad Hayes,

was released in the United States on August 23, 1995.
Music by Mark Snow.

Cast:

Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cynthia Ettinger, Steve Hytner, Christine Cavanaugh, Melinda Culea, Stuart Pankin, Jason Bernard, George DiCenzo, Sarah MacDonnell, Virginia Hawkins, Lyla Graham, Joe Nesnow, Richard Narita, David J. Partington, Michael Bard Bayer, Leonard Kelly-Young, Carole Wyand, Rusty Schwimmer, David Jean Thomas.

On this day in movie history - Dead Again (1991):

Dead Again

directed by Kenneth Branagh,

written by Scott Frank,

was released in the United States on August 23, 1991.
Music by Patrick Doyle.

Cast:

Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Emma Thompson, Lois Hall, Richard Easton, Jo Anderson, Patrick Montes, Raymond Cruz, Robin Williams, Wayne Knight, Patrick Doyle, Erik Kilpatrick, Gordana Rashovich, Derek Jacobi, Obba Babatundé, Christine Ebersole, Vasek Simek, Hanna Schygulla, Gregor Hesse, John Gould Rubin, Campbell Scott, Steven Culp, Yvette Freeman, Miriam Margolyes, Ralph G. Morse, Peter Riga, Tina Rucker, Anthony Welch.