Enid Bagnold, on writing:

Who wants to become a writer? 

And why?

Because it’s the answer to everything …

It’s the streaming reason for living.

To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.

 - Enid Bagnold.

Recommended reading - Hell Hath No Fury

 

Hell Hath No Fury

by Charles Williams.

 

Filmed as The Hot Spot (1990), directed by Dennis Hopper.
 
Paperback.
First published 1953.
Published by Vintage.
ISBN 13: 9780679733294
ISBN 10: 0679733299
ASIN: 0679733299
 
Description:
 
A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony.
 

Madox wasn't all bad.  He was just half-bad.  But trap a man like Madox in a dead-end job in a stultifying small town, introduce him to a femme fatale like the Harshaw woman, and give him a shot at a fast fifteen thousand dollars--in a bank just begging to be knocked over--and his better nature doesn't stand a chance.

 

Merciless in its suspense, flawless in its grasp of the ways in which ordinary people hurtle over the edge, The Hot Spot is a superb example of fifties roman noir.

Born on this day – Domenico Scarlatti:

Domenico Scarlatti

Composer

October 26, 1685 – July 23, 1757

Born on this day – Margaret Wycherly:

Margaret Wycherly

Actress

October 26, 1881 – June 6, 1956

Credits:

General Electric Theater (1955); Studio One (1954); Ponds Theater (1954); Kraft Theatre (1953–1954); The President's Lady (1953); That Man from Tangier (1953); Lux Video Theatre (1951–1953); Claudia: The Story of a Marriage (1952); The Man with a Cloak (1951); Kraft Theatre (1950–1951); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); White Heat (1949); NBC Presents (1949); The Loves of Carmen (1948); Forever Amber (1947); Something in the Wind (1947); The Yearling (1946); Johnny Angel (1945); Experiment Perilous (1944); Hangmen Also Die! (1943); The Moon Is Down (1943); Assignment in Brittany (1943); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Random Harvest (1942); Crossroads (1942); Sergeant York (1941); Victory (1940); Wanderlust (1938); Midnight (1934); The Thirteenth Chair (1929); The Fight (1915).

Born on this day – Mark Sandrich:

Mark Sandrich

Director

Writer

Producer

October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945

Born on this day – Don Siegel:

Don Siegel

Director

Producer

October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991

Born on this day – Jackie Coogan:

Jackie Coogan

Actor

Comedian

October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984

Born on this day – Vivian Nathan:

Vivian Nathan

Actress

October 26, 1916 – April 3, 2015

Founding member of the Actors Studio in 1947.
 
Credits:

The Equalizer (1989); Kojak (1976); Klute (1971); Breaking Point (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1963); Arrest and Trial (1963); The Outsider (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1961); The Young Savages (1961); Play of the Week (1961); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Pursuit (1958); Studio One (1956–1958); Encounter (1957–1958); Teacher's Pet (1958); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); Look Up and Live (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956–1957); Playwrights '56 (1956); The Stranger (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1953).

Born on this day – Faye Marlowe:

Faye Marlowe

Actress

Writer

October 26, 1926 – May 5, 2022

Credits:

Conrad Nagel Theater (1955); Hangover Square (1945); Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946); Junior Miss (1945); Rendezvous with Annie (1946); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); The All-Star Bond Rally (1945); The Bed (1954); The Spider (1945); The Thief of Venice (1950).

Born on this day – Shelley Morrison:

Shelley Morrison

Actress

October 26, 1936 – December 1, 2019

Born on this day – Bob Hoskins:

Bob Hoskins

Actor

October 26, 1942 – April 29, 2014

Born on this day – Pascale Ogier:

Pascale Ogier

Actress

October 26, 1958 – October 25, 1984

Born on this day – Ted Demme:

 

Ted Demme

Director

Producer

Actor

October 26, 1963 – January 13, 2002

On this day in movie history - The Terminator (1984)

 

The Terminator

directed by James Cameron,

written by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd,

was released in the United States on October 26, 1984.

Music by Brad Fiedel.

Cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Rick Rossovich, Bess Motta, Earl Boen, Dick Miller, Shawn Schepps, Bruce M. Kerner, Franco Columbu, Bill Paxton, Brad Rearden, Brian Thompson, William Wisher, Ken Fritz, Tom Oberhaus, Ed Dogans, Ed Dogans, Joe Farago, Hettie Lynne Hurtes, Tony Mirelez, Philip Gordon, Anthony Trujillo, Stan Yale, Al Kahn, Leslie Morris, Hugh Farrington, Harriet Medin, Loree Frazier, James Ralston, Norman Friedman, Barbara Powers, Wayne Stone, David Michels, John E. Bristol, Webster Williams, Patrick Pinney, Bill W. Richmond, Chino ‘Fats’ Williams, Greg Robbins, Marianne Muellerleile, John Durban, Robin Antin, Marian Green, J. Randolph Harrison, David Kristin, Darrell Mapson, Bob Ritchie, John Stuart West.

On this day in movie history - The Hot Spot (1990)

The Hot Spot

directed by Dennis Hopper,

written by Charles Williams and Nona Tyson,

based on the novel Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams,

was released in the United States on October 26, 1990.

Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Cast:

Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Jerry Hardin, Barry Corbin, Leon Rippy, Jack Nance, Virgil Frye, John Hawker, Margaret Bowman, Debra Cole, Karen Culley, Cody Haynes, George Haynes, James N. Harrell, Edith Mills, Shannon Quinlan, Roosevelt Williams, Kirk Hunter, Mark Lawyer, Lynn Speier.