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Lauren Facall
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"Prejudice, hate and discrimination make money. It's a racket just like prohibition racketeers. How? Membership dues, subscriptions, merchandise. They live on fear by making people feel rage toward people different to them. The profits can climb into millions."
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The day 30,000 white supremacists in KKK robes marched in the nation’s capital
Unlike Sunday's expected rally of white nationalists in the nation's capital, the Klan was enthusiastically welcomed by white Washington in 1925.
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The Hays Code refers to 1930 Production Code, an industry-wide set of self-imposed loose guidelines for Hollywood films.

However it wasn't until 1934 that the code became more strictly enforced with the creation of the Production Code Administration (PCA) led by it's new administrator Joseph Breen.
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#MarjorieTaylorGreene reiterated in statement she has faced “never ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me, most people could never withstand even for a day”.

#Trump calls her resignation ‘great news for the country’.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress in January
Decision by Georgia Republican and leading Maga figure to give up House seat comes after dramatic break with Trump
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
23 November 1941 – Franco Nero, (b. Francesco Sparanero), 84, Italian actor. Vanessa Redgrave ​(m. 2006-)

Django (1966) * Camelot * Day of the Owl * Virgin and the Gypsy * Confessions of a Police Captain * Force 10 from Navarone * Querelle * Django Unchained * John Wick: 2 * Pope's Exorcist (2023)
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
23 November 1902 – 1982 Victor Jory, 79, Canadian-US actor.

Madame Du Barry (1934) * A Midsummer Night's Dream * Dodge City * Each Dawn I Die * Gone with the Wind * The Shadow * Loves of Carmen * Fighting Man of Plains * Cariboo Trail * Manhunt (1959-61) * The Miracle Worker (1962) Papillon (1973)
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
23 November 1887 – 1969 Boris Karloff (b. William Pratt), 81, English actor. Anna Leonowens (great-aunt)

Frankenstein (the Monster 1931- 35) The Old Dark House * The Black Cat * The Devil Commands * The Body Snatcher * Comedy of Terrors * How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Grammy Award) Targets (1968)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Lucky Jordan (1942) Alan Ladd's first film billed above the title after his overnight success in This Gun For Hire and The Glass Key (also 1942) Helen Walker film debut

A disgruntled gangster trying to evade #WW2 army enlistment uncovers a Nazi plot against America.

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Lucky Jordan 1942 Alan Ladd & Helen Walker
YouTube video by DK Classics III
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November 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
22 November 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, 58, US actor, activist.

Oscar nominations: The Kids Are All Right (2010) * Foxcatcher * Spotlight * Poor Things (2023) Emmys: The Normal Heart (2014) * I Know This Much Is True (2020)

You Can Count on Me (2000) * Zodiac * Shutter Island * Avengers: (Hulk 2012-19)
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
22 November 1940 – Terry Gilliam, 85, US-British actor, animator, filmmaker.

Monty Python (1969–74 + animator) * Holy Grail (co-director) * Brazil (OscarNom) * The Fisher King * 12 Monkeys * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas * The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus * The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
22 November 1932 – 2016 Robert Vaughn, 83, US actor.

The Young Philadelphia (1959 OscarNom) * The Magnificent Seven * The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–68) * The Bridge at Remagen * The Protectors * Columbo (1975/1976) Washington: Behind Closed Doors * Centennial * Superman III (1983) Hustle (2004–12)
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
22 November 1924 – 1987 Geraldine Page, 62, (Heart Attack), US actress. Rip Torn ​(m. 1963-)

The Trip to Bountiful (1985 Oscar) Nominations: Hondo (1953) - Blacklisted

Summer and Smoke (1961) Sweet Bird of Youth * You're a Big Boy Now * Pete n' Tillie * Interiors * Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
22 November 1923 – 2016 Arthur Hiller, 92, Canadian-US filmmaker.

Tobruk (1967) * The Out-of-Towners * Love Story (Oscar Nom) * Plaza Suite * Silver Streak * The In-Laws * The Lonely Guy * Outrageous Fortune * See No Evil, Hear No Evil * The In-Laws * Carpool * National Lampoon's Pucked (2006)
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
22 November 1920 – 1956 Anne Crawford, 35, (Leukaemia), British #Palestine born UK actress.

They Flew Alone (1942) * Millions Like Us * Two Thousand Women * They Were Sisters * Caravan * The Master of Bankdam * Miranda * Street Corner * The Knights of the Round Table (1953 as Morgan le Fay)
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
22 November 1915 – 2014 Oswald Morris, 98, English cinematographer.

Oscar: Fiddler on the Roof (1972) Nominated: Oliver! * The Wiz (1979)

Moulin Rouge (1953) * Moby Dick * The Pumpkin Eater * The Spy Who Came in from the Cold * The Taming of the Shrew * Sleuth * The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
22 November 1899 – 1981 Hoagy Carmichael, 82, US singer-songwriter, pianist.

Music: Stardust (1927) Georgia on My Mind * Ole Buttermilk Sky of (OscarNom) In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (Oscar 1951)

Film Actor inc: To Have and Have Not * The Best Years of Our Lives * Las Vegas Story (1952)
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
22 November 1963 – #JFKassassination

Alarmed by the President Kennedy's liberal policies, a group of right-wing politicians, businessmen and intelligence agents plan to assassinate him.

Dalton Trumbo's adaptation of Donald Freed and Mark Lane novel (1973)
Full movie
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Executive Action 1973
YouTube video by Mechanical Pants
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November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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MGM bought the remake rights to Patrick Hamilton'play with a clause that all existing prints of the #AntonWalbrook version be destroyed, even the negative, so it could not compete with their 1944 film. While unsuccessful in destroying all copies they did manage to suppress the 1940 film for decades.
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
You asked me a question once to which I gave a stupid answer. I want much more. I want to make something big out of something small. I want to make you a great dancer. I ask you again what do you want from life? To live? To dance!

The Red Shoes by Hans Andersen moral 'be careful what you wish for?'
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
#Gaza. "They, as you know, have begun to move back to their homes. A lot more safety, they say, than they ever had before." #Trump

Shelter crisis is ‘most dangerous’ disaster of war. Conditions that “no society can endure”. Israel control since ceasefire October 10.
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‘Winter in Gaza means more people will die shivering’: The added threat for displaced Palestinians | CNN
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been displaced multiple times from Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip are now facing another threat – the arrival of harsh winter weather.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
21 November 1945 – Goldie Hawn, 80, US actress, singer

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968) Cactus Flower (Oscar) There's a Girl in My Soup * Shampoo * Foul Play * Private Benjamin (OscarNom) Overboard * Deceived * Death Becomes Her * Housesitter * Everyone Says I Love You * Christmas Chronicles (2020)
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
21 November 1944 – 2014 Harold Ramis, 69, US actor, filmmaker.

Co-writer: National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Meatballs * Stripes * Ghostbusters I/II * Caddyshack II (1988)

Director: Caddyshack (1980) National Lampoon's Vacation * Groundhog Day * Analyze This/That * Bedazzled * Year One (2009)
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
21 November 1941 – Juliet Mills, 84, UK-US actress. Maxwell Caulfield ​(m. 1980-)

Five Finger Exercise (Broadway 1958) * Nurse on Wheels * Carry On Jack * The Rare Breed * Avanti * QB VII * Nanny and Professor * Passions (1999-2008) Wild at Heart * Legends * Hot in Cleveland * Grey's Anatomy (2023)
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
21 November 1937 – 2010 Ingrid Pitt, (b. Ingoushka Petrov), 73, Polish-British actress, author.

Doctor Zhivago (1965) * Where Eagles Dare (1968) * The Vampire Lovers * Countess Dracula * The House That Dripped Blood * The Wicker Man * Smiley's People * Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011 + writer)
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
21 November 1920 – 1988 Ralph Meeker, (b. Rathgeber), 67, US actor.

Broadway: Mister Roberts (1948–51) Picnic (1953)

Film: Jeopardy (1953) * Kiss Me Deadly * Paths of Glory * The Dirty Dozen * The Anderson Tapes * Night Stalker * The Dead Don't Die * Food of the Gods * Winter Kills (1979)
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
21 November 1913 John Boulting (d. 1985) Roy Boulting (d. 2001) English filmmakers.

Boulting Brothers: Seven Days to Noon * Heavens Above! - John Boulting: Brighton Rock * I'm All Right Jack - Roy Boulting: The Family Way * Twisted Nerve * There's a Girl in My Soup * Mr Forbush and Penguins (1971)
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
21 November 1912 – 1982 Eleanor Powell, 69, (Cancer), US dancer, actress. Glenn Ford ​(m. 1943-59)

Broadway: Follow Thru (1929) * At Home Abroad (1935) Film: Broadway Melody of 1936/38/40 (with Fred Astaire) * Born to Dance * Lady Be Good * Thousands Cheer (with Gene Kelly) * Sensations of 1945 ⬇️
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM