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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.

Recommended reading - I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming

by Steve Fisher.
 
Paperback.
Published by Vintage.
First published 1941.

ISBN 13: 9780679736776
ISBN 10: 0679736778
ASIN: 0679736778
 
Description:

The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s.
 

"She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.  Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eyeshadow on her eyelids.  You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still.  She was lying still and she wasn't breathing."

 

With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake and I, Mobster.

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

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

Born on this day – Dale Evans:

Dale Evans

Actress

Singer

Songwriter

October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001

Born on this day – Barbara Bel Geddes:

Barbara Bel Geddes

Actress

Artist

Writers

October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005

Born on this day – Cleo Moore:

Cleo Moore

Actress

October 31, 1924 – October 25, 1973

Born on this day – Dianne Foster:

Dianne Foster

Actress

October 31, 1928 – July 27, 2019

Born on this day – Bud Spencer:

Bud Spencer

Actor

Swimmer

Water polo player

October 31, 1929 – June 27, 2016

Born on this day – Suzanne Shepherd:

Suzanne Shepherd

Actress

October 31, 1934 – November 17, 2023

Credits:

The Performance (2023); Blue Bloods (2016–2018); The Week Of (2018); Furlough (2018); Where Is Kyra? (2017); Jerome's Bouquet (2013); Delivering the Goods (2012); Gravity (2010); I Hate Valentine's Day (2009); Harold (2008); Choke (2008); The Sopranos (2000–2007); Twilight's Last Gleaming (2005); A Dirty Shame (2004); Ed (2000–2004); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2002); The Wormhole (2002); Deadline (2001); Never Again (2001); Third Watch (2000); Requiem for a Dream (2000); On the Run (1999); Vig (1998); American Cuisine (1998); Living Out Loud (1998); Come to (1998); Illuminata (1998); Lolita (1997); Trees Lounge (1996); Bullet (1996); Palookaville (1995); The Jerky Boys (1995); Jacob's Ladder (1990); Law & Order (1990); Goodfellas (1990); Second Sight (1989); Uncle Buck (1989); Working Girl (1988); Mystic Pizza (1988).

Born on this day – David Ogden Stiers:

David Ogden Stiers

Actor

Conductor

October 31, 1942 – March 3, 2018

Born on this day – Barrie Keeffe:

 

Barrie Keeffe

Writer

Actor

October 31, 1945 – December 10, 2019

Credits:

Books:

Gadabout (1969); No Excuses (1983).

Stage and radio plays:

A Mad World My Masters (1977 / 1984); A Sight of Glory (1975); Anything Known (1980); Barbarians / Killing Time; Abide with Me; In the City (1977); Bastard Angel (1980); Better Times (1985); Black Lear (1980); Chorus Girls (1981); Feng Shui and Me (2001); Frozen Assets (1978 / 1987); Gimme Shelter (1977); Heaven Scent (1979); Here Comes the Sun (1976); I Only Want to Be With You (1995); King of England (1988); My Girl (1989); My Girl (1999); Not Fade Away (1990); On the Eve of the Millennium (1999); Only a Game (1973 / 1976); Paradise (1989); Pigeon Skyline (1976); Scribes (1975); Shadows on the Sun (2001); She's So Modern (1980); Still Killing Time (2006); Sus (1979); The Five of Us (2002); The Long Good Friday (1997); Uncle Jack (1975); Wild Justice (1990).

 

Movies and television:

Adam Smith (1973); An Accidental Studio (2019); Cast & Crew (2005); Du er ferdig (1981); Innbrakt (1985); ITV Playhouse (1977); Julius Caesar (1964); No Excuses (1983); På lika villkor (1979); Play for Today (1977–1984); Premiere (1978); Pylon (2017); Sus (2010); The London Programme (1990); The Long Good Friday (1980).

Born on this day – John Candy:

John Candy

Actor

Comedian

October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994

I wasn't the hugest fan of John Candy but must say Uncle Buck has become my favorite 'go to' movie when I need a good laugh. 

He is greatly missed, but we'll always have his films when we need a 'Candy fix'.

#UncleBuck

On this day in movie history - I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

 

I Wake Up Screaming

a.k.a. Hot Spot

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone,

written by Dwight Taylor and Steve Fisher,

based on the novel by Steve Fisher,

was released in Spain on October 31, 1941.

Music by Cyril J. Mockridge.

Cast:

Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn, Elisha Cook, Jr., Chick Chandler, Cyril Ring, Morris Ankrum, Charles Lane, Frank Orth, Gregory Gaye, May Beatty, Stanley Blystone, Heinie Conklin.

On this day in movie history - They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

directed by Antonio Isasi,

written by Antonio Isasi, Lluis Josep Comeron, Jorge Illa and Jo Eisinger,

based on the novel by André Lay,

was released in Spain on October 31, 1968.

Music by Georges Garvarentz.

Cast:

Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Servais, Georges Géret, Jack Palance, Fabrizio Capucci, Roger Hanin, Gustavo Re, Daniel Martín, Maurizio Arena, Enrique Ávila, Gérard Tichy, Rubén Rojo, Ingrid Spaey, Carlos Ballesteros, Luis Barboo, Rossella Bergamonti, Antonio Casas, Beni Deus, Fernando Hilbeck, José Marco, Julio Pérez Tabernero, George Rigaud, Lorenzo Robledo.

On this day in movie history - The Night That Panicked America (1975)

The Night That Panicked America

directed by Joseph Sargent,

written by Nicholas Meyer and Anthony Wilson,

based on a story by Nicholas Meyer,

was released in the United States on October 31, 1975.

TV movie, originally screened on the ABC network.

Based on Orson Welles’ dramatized radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds,

in turn based on the novel H. G. Wells broadcast as part of the CBS Radio series

The Mercury Theatre on the Air on October 30, 1938.

Music by Frank Comstock.

Cast:

Paul Shenar, Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine, Walter McGinn, Eileen Brennan, Meredith Baxter, Tom Bosley, Will Geer, John Ritter, Granville Van Dusen,   Burton Gilliam, Joshua Bryant, Liam Dunn, Shelley Morrison, Walker Edmiston, Marcus J. Grapes, Art Hannes, Casey Kasem, Ron Rifkin, Byron Webster, Clarke Gordon, Linda Dano, Tracy Brooks Swope, Hanna Landy, Robert Lussier, Ed Bakey, Bob Harks, Michelle Stacy.