J.D. Iredell
@JD_Iredell
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Reader. Writer. Film buff. Fan of classic supernatural and crime fiction. Author of noir occult detective stories. High-functioning ne’er-do-well.
Joined November 2025
“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.” —Raymond Chandler
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A happy Sterling Hayden celebrates his birthday (March 26th, 1916) as Kentuckian Dix Handley in John Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950).
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Happy Birthday to the great Sterling Hayden (born this day, March 26th, in 1916), pictured with Jean Hagen in John Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950).
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Victor Mature and the lovely Shelley Winters in Robert Siodmak’s “Cry of the City” (1948).
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Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters in George Cukor’s “A Double Life“ (1947).
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The great Richard Conte (born this day, March 24th, in 1910) with the lovely Shelley Winters in Robert Siodmak’s “Cry of the City” (1948).
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Birthday boy Richard Conte (born this day, March 24th, in 1910) in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “Somewhere in the Night” (1946).
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Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer with Maxine Cooper as Velda in the noir classic “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Ella Raines and Dan Duryea in Charles Barton’s “White Tie and Tails” (1946).
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William Bendix as Private Aloysius K. Randall in his academy-award nominated role in John Farrow’s “Wake Island” (1942), the dramatic story of the US Marines who defended the island in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
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Happy 95th Birthday to William Shatner (born March 22nd, 1931) as he shares important information: “My hat… is… made of… tribble.”
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The lovely Gene Tierney in Otto Preminger’s “Laura” (1944), based on the novel by Vera Caspary.
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The lovely Gail Russell and Joel McCrea in Lewis Allen’s “The Unseen“ (1945), based on a novel by Ethel Lina White with a screenplay co-written by Raymond Chandler.
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Frances Dee and Tom Conway in Jacques Tourneur’s “I Walked with a Zombie” (1943), produced by Val Lewton.
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Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd want to know what’s what in George Marshall’s “The Blue Dahlia” (1946).
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ICYMI: My three-minute flash fiction fright from last month, an Edwardian tale of the supernatural with more than a little M.R. James in the mix. Be careful what you read in old libraries. https://t.co/yNXSuEMVhr
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