The Universal horror that comes closest to noir, both in story and sensibility, however, is The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), directed by Englishman James Whale and photographed by American Arthur Edeson.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

* 1889 – James Whale, English director ( d. 1957 )

As Whale biographer James Curtis wrote, the play " managed to coalesce, at the right time and in the right manner, the impressions of a whole generation of men who were in the war and who had found it impossible, through words or deeds, to adequately express to their friends and families what the trenches had been like ".

When his longtime companion David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.

James Whale lived as an openly homosexual man throughout his career in the British theatre and in Hollywood, something that was virtually unheard of in the 1920s and 1930s.

All artists do work that comes out of the unconscious mind and later on you can analyze it and say the symbolism may mean something, but artists don ’ t think that way and I would bet my life that James Whale would never have had such concepts in mind.

James Whale memorial sculpture in Dudley, England

James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters.

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* 1951 – James Whale, English radio and television host

Some notable British talk radio presenters include Tommy Boyd, James Whale, Steve Allen, Jon Gaunt, Nick Abbot, James Stannage, George Galloway, Ian Collins, Brian Hayes, Scottie McClue, Nicky Campbell and Simon Mayo.

In this latter instance it was apparently Jesus ’ brother James who spoke prominently in the assembly of “ the apostles and the older men ” at Jerusalem .— Adam Clarke, 1821, commentary on 5: 13, 22, 23.

On 27 July, Vanuatu's Trade Minister James Bule signed an order lifting the ban, effective from 22 July.

James R. " Jim " Jarmusch (; born January 22, 1953 ) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer.

James Brown performing on October 22, 2003

On Saturday, January 22, the full cabinet met and only Secretary of War Jefferson Davis and Secretary of Navy James C. Dobbin supported repeal.

* Gutzman, Kevin, "' O, What a Tangled Web We Weave ...': James Madison and the Compound Republic ", Continuity 22 ( 1998 ), 19 – 29.

James Fergason, while working with Sardari Arora and Alfred Saupe at Kent State University Liquid Crystal Institute, filed an identical patent in the United States on April 22, 1971.

* A Vision of Britain Through Time James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, discussion in entries for 22 and 23 September 1773.

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On April 22, 2007, Marcia Diana Valentine was found lying outside James and Bullock's Southern California home in Orange County.

On 22 August 1770, James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific.

* James Wilfred Estey ( October 6, 1944 – January 22, 1956 )

* May 22 – After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital, James Forrestal commits suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.

* February 22 – James Blunt, English singer

* September 22 – James Lawson, African-American civil rights activist and minister

* June 22 – Tooley Street fire starts and takes the life of James Braidwood first director of the London Fire Brigade.

* March 22 – In Washington, D. C., General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.

* November 22 – James Calder, 5th President of Pennsylvania State University ( b. 1826 )

* August 22 – James T. Farrell, American novelist ( b. 1904 )

* November 22 – Oscar James Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana ( b. 1825 )

* February 22 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist ( d. 1891 )

* June 22 – James Whitelocke, English judge ( b. 1570 )

* August 22 – James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland ( Australia ) for Great Britain.

* September 22 – James Miller, known as the ' Fan Man ' ( b. 1963 )