On November 14, 1941, Suspicion, a romantic thriller starring Cary
Grant and Joan Fontaine and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, made
its debut. The film, which earned a Best Picture Academy Award nomination and a Best Actress Oscar for Fontaine, marked the
first time that Grant, one of Hollywood’s quintessential leading
men, and Hitchcock, one of the greatest directors in movie history, worked together. The two would later collaborate on Notorious,
To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest.

Alfred Hitchcock (center) directing Cary Grant in a scene 
from Suspicion.
       

Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American
literature and contains one of the most famous opening
lines in fiction: “Call me Ishmael.” Initially, though, the
book about Captain Ahab and his quest to catch a giant
white whale was a flop.

Its author, Herman Melville was born in New York City in
1819. As a young man, he spent time in the merchant
marines, the U.S. Navy and on a whaling ship in the
South Seas.

Herman Melville
(August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891)