Laura Smith (blues singer) Laura Smith (blues singer) Laura Smith (March 1882 – February 1932) was an American classic female blues and country blues singer. Songs she recorded include "Gonna Put You Right in Jail" and her version of "Don't You Leave Me Here". She led Laura Smith and her Wild Cats and also worked with Clarence Williams and Perry Bradford. Details of her life outside the music industry are scanty. The researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc state that she was born Loretta Bryant in Illinois in 1882. Other sources suggest that she was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, at an unknown date. In
When Marnie Was There (novel) Anna lives with her foster mother in London. Due to illness, she is sent away to Norfolk to recover, where she meets a strange girl called Marnie who lives in a house overlooking the local marshes. In 2014, Studio Ghibli released an animated adaption of the book, with the story set in Hokkaido. The anime was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki had previously recommended the book. The anime won the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and an Oscar nomination in 2015. "When Marnie Was There" was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1967. When Marnie Was There