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Theodore Roosevelt, on books:

There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter

when the rocking chair in front of the fire

simply demands an accompanying book.

- Theodore Roosevelt.

Born on this day – John Keats:

John Keats

Writer

October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821

Credits:

Poems:

A Galloway Song; A Song About Myself; A Song of Opposites; A Party Of Lovers; Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats; Addressed to Haydon; Addressed to the Same; After dark vapours have oppressed our plains; Apollo to the Graces; An Extempore; As from the darkening gloom a silver dove; As Hermes once took to his feathers light; Before he went to live with owls and bats; Ben Nevis: A Dialogue; Blue!—’Tis the life of heaven—the domain; Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art; Calidore: A Fragment; Character of C. B.; Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds; Endymion; Extracts from an Opera; Faery Songs; Fancy; Fill for me a brimming bowl; For there’s Bishop’s Teign; Fragment Of “The Castle Builder”; Fragment of an Ode to Maia; God of the meridian; Happy is England! I could be content; Hence burgundy, claret, and port; Hither, hither, love; How many bards gild the lapses of time; Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear; Hymn To Apollo; Hyperion; I am as brisk; I cry your mercy—pity—love!—aye, love; I had a dove, and the sweet dove died; I stoof tip-toe upon a little hill; Imitation of Spenser; In after time a sage of mickle lore; In drear nighted December; Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil; Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there; King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy; La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad; Lamia; Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern; Lines (Unfelt, unheard, unseen…); Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing; Meg Merrilies; Modern Love; Not Aladdin magian; O grant that like to Peter I; O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell; O thou whose face hath felt the winter’s wind; Ode (Bards of Passion and of Mirth); Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on a Melancholy; Ode on Indolence; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Apollo; Ode to Psyche; Of late two dainties were before me plac’d; Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve; On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me; On Fame (“Fame, like a wayward girl”); On Fame (“How fever’d is the man”); On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour; On Peace; On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies; On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles; On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again; On Some Skills in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness; On the Grasshopper and Cricket; On the Sea; On the Sonnet; On Visiting the Tomb of Burns; On Leigh Hunt’s Poem, the ‘Story of Rimini’; Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts; Over the hill and over the dale; Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud; Robin Hood; Sharing Eve’s Apple; Sleep and Poetry; Song of Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water; Sonnet to Byron; Sonnet to Chatterton; Sonnet to Sleep; Sonnet to Spenser; Specimen of an Induction to a Poem; Spirit here that reignest; Stay, ruby breated warbler, stay; Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes; The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone; The Eve of St. Agnes; The Eve of St. Mark; The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream; The Human Seasons; The Gadfly; The Gothic looks solemn; The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale (Unfinished); There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain; Think not of it, sweet one, so; This living hand, now warm and capable; This mortal body of a thousand days; Time’s sea hath been five years at its slow ebb; Tis the “witching time of night”; To.- (Had I a man’s fair form, then might my sighs); To.- (Hadst tho liv’d in days of old); To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses; To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown; To Ailsa Rock; To Autumn; To Charles Cowden Clarke; To Emma; To G. A. W.; To George Felton Mathew; To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on seeing the Elgin Marbles; To Homer; To Hope; To J. H. Reynolds; To Kosciusko; To Leigh Hunt, Esq.; To Mrs. Reynold’s Cat; To My Brother George (epistle); To My Brother George (sonnet); To My Brothers; To one who has been long in city pent; To Some Ladies; To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown’d; To the Nile; Translated From A Sonnet Of Ronsard; Two or three posies; What can I do to drive away; When I have fears that I may cease to be; Where by ye going, you Devon maid; Where’s the Poet? (Fragment); Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell; Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain; Women, wine, and snuff; Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition; Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison; Written On The Blank Space Of A Leaf At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe; You say you love, but with a voice.

Movies and television:

Bright Star (2009); Camera Three (1958); Cariño, sabes que soy de otro planeta (2022); Count the Ways (1975); Isabella and the Pot of Basil (2004); La belle dame sans merci (2005); La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (1997); New in November 2011 (2012); The Eve of St. Agnes (1950); The Merciless Beauty (2016); The Sunday Programme (2003); Venus Blue (1998).

Born on this day – Ethel Waters:

Ethel Waters

Singer

Actress

October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977

Songs:

A Hundred Years From Today, As Thousands Cheer: Heat Wave; At the New Jump Steady Ball; Baby, What Else Can I Do?; Black And Blue; Blue Skies; Cabin in the Sky; Come Up and See Me Sometime; Dinah; Down Home Blues; Georgia Blues; Heatwave; His Eye Is On The Sparrow; Honey in the Honeycomb; I Got Rhythm; I Just Couldn't Make It, Baby; Me; Paper Moon; Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; Puttin' On The Ritz; Shake That Thing; Some of These Days; Spread Yo' Stuff; St. Louis Blues; Stormy Weather; Suppertime; Takin' a Chance on Love; Taking a Chance on Love; They say; You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You; You're Lucky to Me.

Movies and television:

Amelia (2009); American Inventory (1953); American Masters (1997); Beulah (1950–1951); Biography (1995–2001); Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975); Blues Masters (1999); Break the $250,000 Bank (1957); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bubbling Over (1934); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Cairo (1942); Carib Gold (1956); Change Your Luck (1933); Classified X (2007); Climax! (1955); Cold Case (2005–2006); Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (2018); Daniel Boone (1970); Della (1969); Dinah! (1976); Double Vision (2015); Encounter (1954); Entertainment Tonight (1990); General Electric Guest House (1951); General Electric Theater (1955); Gift of Gab (1934); Great Performances (2003); Heart of Midnight (1988); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hold That Note (1957); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Home (1956); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Jazz (2001); Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 (1972); Let My People Live (1939); Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (1948); Look Up and Live (1955); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990); On with the Show! (1929); One Night Stand (1959); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1950); Person to Person (1954); Pinky (1949); Playwrights '56 (1955); Project Twenty (1961); Ridley Road (2021); Route 66 (1961); Rufus Jones for President (1933); Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017); Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956); See It Loud: The History of Black Television (2023); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Sing Your Song (2011); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Something Special (1967); Songs for Sale (1951); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Television (1988); That's Black Entertainment (1990); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The American Society of Magical Negroes (2024); The Barbara McNair Show (1970); The Bob Braun Show (1968); The Borden Show (1947); The Color Purple (2023); The Dave Garroway Show (1953–1954); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1963); The Ethel Waters Show (1939); The Great Adventure (1963); The Heart Is a Rebel (1958); The Hollywood Palace (1969); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Linkletter Show (1962); The Member of the Wedding (1952); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1977); The Mike Wallace Interview (1959); The Milton Berle Show (1951); The New Steve Allen Show (1962); The Nightclub Years (2001); The Old Mill Pond (1936); The Pearl Bailey Show (1971); The Sound and the Fury (1959); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1959); The Tex and Jinx Show (1954–1957); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943); This Is Show Business (1950–1952); This Is Your Life (1971); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Vacation Playhouse (1967); What's My Line? (1951); Whirlybirds (1959); Your Play Time (1955).

Born on this day – Margery Wilson:

Margery Wilson

Actress

Director

Producer

Writer

October 31, 1896 – January 21, 1986

Credits:

A Corner in Colleens (1916); A Dark Horse (1915); A Woman of Nerve (1915); Bred in the Bone (1915); Crooked Straight (1919); Desert Gold (1919); Double Trouble (1915); Eye of the Night (1916); Flooey and Axel (1915); For the Honor of Bettina (1915); Insinuation (1922); Intolerance (1916); Jane Eyre (1914); Marked Cards (1918); Mountain Dew (1917); Old Love for New (1918); That Something (1920); The Bankhurst Mystery (1915); The Blooming Angel (1920); The Bride of Hate (1917); The Charcoal-Burner's Son (1939); The Clodhopper (1917); The Deadly Focus (1915); The Desert Man (1917); The Fatal Hour (1915); The Flames of Chance (1918); The Gunfighter (1917); The Hand at the Window (1918); The Hard Rock Breed (1918); The Honorable Algy (1916); The House of Whispers (1920); The Last of the Ingrams (1917); The Law of the Great Northwest (1918); The Lucky Transfer (1915); The Man of It (1915); The Mother Instinct (1917); The Offenders (1924); The Opal Pin (1915); The Primal Lure (1916); The Return of Draw Egan (1916); The Showdown (1915); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Sin Ye Do (1916); The Stab (1915); The Ten O'Clock Boat (1915); The Way of a Mother (1915); Two of a Kind (1920); Unwinding It (1915); Venus in the East (1919); Why Not Marry? (1922); Wild Sumac (1917); Without Honor (1918); Wolf Lowry (1917).

Born on this day – Sheila Bromley:

Sheila Bromley

Actress

October 31, 1907 – July 23, 2003

Credits:

87th Precinct (1961); A Day of Fury (1956); A Fugitive from Justice (1940); A Star Is Born (1954); Accidents Will Happen (1938); Adam-12 (1970); Adventures in Paradise (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Angel (1960); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951); Bachelor Father (1962); Behind the Evidence (1935); Big Town (1956); Born to Fight (1936); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Cain's Hundred (1962); Call of the Desert (1930); Calling Philo Vance (1939); Carnival (1935); Cavalcade of America (1954); Checkmate (1960); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Chevron Theatre (1952); City Detective (1954); Climax! (1954); Cool and Lam (1958); Daddy Long Legs (1931); Danger Ahead (1935); Days of Our Lives (1967); Death Goes North (1939); Desert Phantom (1936); Dr. Kildare (1962); Fireside Theatre (1951); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Front Row Center (1955); Frontier Circus (1962); Girls About Town (1931); Girls on Probation (1938); Glamour (1934); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Grindl (1964); Guestward Ho! (1960); Hands of Murder (1951); Hank (1965); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Hazel (1962); Her First Mate (1933); Horse Feathers (1932); Hotel (1967); I Love Lucy (1955); I Married Joan (1954); Ice Palace (1960); Idol of the Crowds (1937); I'm the Law (1953); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); Kelly of the Secret Service (1936); King for a Night (1933); King of the Newsboys (1938); Lady and Gent (1932); Lady Be Careful (1936); Lady with a Past (1932); Land of Wanted Men (1931); Lassie (1959); Lawless Range (1935); Lawman (1961); Love on a Rooftop (1967); Luck of Roaring Camp (1937); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Making the Headlines (1938); Markham (1959); Matinee Theatre (1956); Maverick (1959); Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976); Meet the Baron (1933); Midnight Intruder (1938); Missing Witnesses (1937); Moonlight on the Prairie (1935); Morning Star (1965); Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen: Fatal Females (1992); My Favorite Martian (1964); Mystery House (1938); Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939); Newsstand Theatre (1952); No Privacy (1931); One Hour with You (1932); Only Yesterday (1933); Perry Mason (1959); Peter Loves Mary (1961); Petticoat Junction (1966); Play Girl (1932); Playthings of Hollywood (1930); Public Defender (1955); Ramar of the Jungle (1953); Rawhide (1960); Rebellious Daughters (1938); Reformatory (1938); Rescue 8 (1959); Rocky King, Detective (1952); Room for One More (1962); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Shadow of the Cloak (1951); Shannon (1962); She Wanted a Millionaire (1932); Shower of Stars (1955); Slattery's People (1964); Spoilers of the Forest (1957); State Trooper (1958); Studio One (1958); Telephone Time (1957); Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931); Terror Circus (1973); Texas Gun Fighter (1932); Texas Pioneers (1932); That's Gratitude (1934); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The Abbott and Costello Show (1953); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Big Valley (1967); The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning (1937); The Canyon of Missing Men (1930); The Cara Williams Show (1965); The Cowboy Counsellor (1932); The Dennis O'Keefe Show (1960); The Donna Reed Show (1960); The Ed Wynn Show (1958); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1958); The Girls on the Beach (1965); The Hell Cat (1934); The House on 92nd Street (1945); The Lawless Eighties (1957); The Lawyer's Secret (1931); The Merry Widow (1934); The Millionaire (1956); The Pace That Kills (1935); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Prescott Kid (1934); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Restless Gun (1958); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Rookies (1972); The Singing Cowboys Ride Again (1979); The Storm (1930); The Whistler (1955); The Woman Condemned (1934); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); This Is the Life (1961); Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939); Tiger Shark (1932); Time to Kill (1942); Together We Live (1935); Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939); Torture Ship (1939); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Waterfront (1939); Wendy and Me (1964); West of Shanghai (1937); Westinghouse Playhouse (1961); Westward Ho (1935); Winner Take All (1932); Women in the Wind (1939); Working Girls (1931); World in My Corner (1956); You Are There (1955); Young Jesse James (1960).

Born on this day – Dale Evans:

Dale Evans

Actress

Singer

Songwriter

October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001

Credits:

Along the Navajo Trail (1945); Apache Rose (1947); Bells of Coronado (1950); Bells of Rosarita (1945); Bells of San Angelo (1947); Casanova in Burlesque (1944); Cowboy and the Senorita (1944); Dale Evans: Queen of the West (1950); Don't Fence Me In (1945); Down Dakota Way (1949); Girl Trouble (1942); Good News for You in 1982 (1982); Heldorado (1946); Here Comes Elmer (1943); Hitchhike to Happiness (1945); Home in Oklahoma (1946); Hoosier Holiday (1943); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944); Man from Oklahoma (1945); Matinee Theatre (1958); My Pal Trigger (1946); Orchestra Wives (1942); Out California Way (1946); Pals of the Golden West (1951); Playhouse 90 (1959); Rainbow Over Texas (1946); Roll on Texas Moon (1946); Saga of Sonora (1973); San Fernando Valley (1944); Screen Snapshots, Series 28, No. 10: Howdy, Podner (1949); Screen Snapshots, Series 31, No. 9: Hollywood on the Ball (1952); Slippy McGee (1947); Song of Arizona (1946); Song of Nevada (1944); South of Caliente (1951); Sunset in El Dorado (1945); Susanna Pass (1949); Swing Your Partner (1943); The Big Show-Off (1945); The Golden Stallion (1949); The Red Skelton Hour (1968); The Roy Rogers Show (1951); The Trespasser (1947); The West Side Kid (1943); The Yellow Rose of Texas (1944); Trigger, Jr. (1950); Twilight in the Sierras (1950); Under Nevada Skies (1946); Utah (1945).