“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” Carson McCullers, born 19 February 1917.

Sir Cedric Hardwicke pictured with his pedigree piglets during a weekend break from filming in Sir Laurence Olivier's production of "Richard III" (with Lady Hardwicke) - BOTD

Director John Frankenheimer, born 19 February 1930.

Kay Boyle, born 19 February 1902.

Remembering Lee Marvin on his birthday 🎂 📷 Terry O'Neill, 1971 "I'm waiting for some young guy to come along & knock me off so I can go to the old actor's home & talk about how great we were in nineteen-you-know."

Lee Marvin in "Point Blank" - BOTD

Lee Marvin, born 19 February 1924.

Dancer and actor John W. Bubbles (John William Sublett) was born on 19 February 1902.

Remembering Audre Lorde on her birthday 🎂 📷 Jack Mitchell, 1983 "Lorde is everywhere today; we see the flowering of her most subtle ideas." - Parul Sehgal

Remembering Constantin Brancusi on his birthday 🎂 📷 André Kertész, 1928-29 "There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things."

Frank Tashlin (with scenes from his film "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?") - BOTD

Ann Savage in "My Winnipeg" - BOTD

Ruth Orkin, New York City, 1950s.

Jacques Deray (with scenes from his film "La Piscine") - BOTD

Happy birthday Jill Krementz 🎂 📷 Fred W. McDarrah, 1974 Krementz is best known for her portraits of writers. "I thought I'd like to carve out a little niche for myself. And I like to read."

Remembering Carson McCullers on her birthday 🎂 📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1946 "The sharp girl who had cast such an unforgiving eye on the world around her became a woman imprisoned by her own initial success and her inability to replicate it." - Rafia Zakaria

John Frankenheimer (with scenes from his film "Seconds") - BOTD

Louis Calhern in "The Asphalt Jungle" - BOTD

French poster for FANTOMAS: THE DEAD MAN WHO KILLED (1913) Directed and co-written by Louis Feuillade - BOTD in 1873

Les Vampires (1915 - 1916) Starring Musidora Written and directed by Louis Feuillade - BOTD in 1873

Birthday girl Ann Savage and real life savage Tom Neal in a lobby card for the Poverty Row noir classic DETOUR (1945)

Ossi Oswalda and Hermann Thimig in The Doll (1919) 🎩

Thursday Lee Marvin in The Big Heat (1953) #FilmNoir

"Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby." Lee Marvin, born 19 February 1924.

David Murray #BOTD - "High Priest" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUvW... #Jazzsky

David Murray #BOTD Octet - "Ming" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPmJ... #Jazzsky

David Murray #BOTD Quartet - "Bird's The Word" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKh9... #Jazzsky

"The fire comes from within. The real fire from the spirituality of the music comes from within." Happy Birthday David Murray born February 19, 1955

#MMLifers Born on this day in 1968 and died aged 52 in 2021, Mark Anthony Morales, known as Prince Markie Dee.

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Chappell Roan, 28 today.

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Smokey Robinson, 86 today.

Happy 86th birthday, singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive, and founding member of The Miracles, William 'Smokey' Robinson Jr. 🎂

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Dave Wakeling, 70 today.

An 1897 hand-colored dance film. The performers are crowded to stay in-frame but they soldier on. Dance films were popular color subjects as the moving costumes disguised any flaws in the application youtu.be/kk-pTXzQp4c

FROM THE MANGER TO THE CROSS (1912) was among the first American feature-length films and possibly the first US feature epic. It was shot on location, director Sidney Olcott and screenwriter Gene Gauntier (who also played Mary) were supposed to deliver short films but came back with five reels.

"In terms of expression and versatility, I am nothing to her." Greta Garbo on Asta Nielsen

Happy 59th birthday, actor Benico del Toro. 🎂

Happy 71st birthday, actor Jeff Daniels. 🎂

"There is no way for even the most honest among us to look into memory's dreamy, evasive eyes and know she can be persuaded not to lie, not to betray." ✒ #KayBoyle, American novelist ("Plagued by Nightingales"), was #BOTD 19 February 1902. #Literature

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." ✒ #CarsonMcCullers, American novelist ("The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"), was #BOTD 19 February 1917. #Literature

#BOTD 1924. Remembering actor Lee Marvin. (d.1987) #Skyfilms

#BOTD 1911. Remembering actress Merle Oberon. (d.1979) #Filmsky

Gabriele Münter (German, 1877–1962)

Gabriele Münter (German, 1877– 1962) "Villa les Fleurettes", 1930. Oil on Canvas, 59.5 × 38.5 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Gabriele Münter

Gabriele Münter (German, 1877-1967) "Bildnis Anna Roslund" 1917

Vom weissen Busch (1919) by Gabriele Münter. Oil on canvas, laid on cardboard.

🎨 #GabrieleMünter, German painter, was #BOTD 19 February 1877. #Art #Painting

🎨 #ElseBerg, German-born Dutch-Jewish painter (Bergense School), was #BOTD 19 February 1877. #Art #Painting

Constantin Brâncuși, Maiastra, 1910-12 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136265