Coffee + book = happiness!

 

Coffee + book = happiness!

Lucy Maud Montgomery, on books:

 

I am simply a 'book drunkard.'
Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee.
I cannot withstand them.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Recommended reading - The Zebra-Striped Hearse

The Zebra-Striped Hearse

by Ross Macdonald.
 
First published in 1962.
Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0375701451
ISBN-13: 978-0375701450
 
“Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.
 

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Ross Macdonald’s private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlán. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's – and Archer's – in a powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.

 

“A model of his excellence…. [The Zebra-Striped Hearse] has character, statement, and style.” – The New Yorker.

Recommended reading - Five Star Final: A Melodrama in Three Acts (1931)

Five Star Final
A Melodrama in Three Acts

Play by Louis Weitzenkorn.

Filmed as Five Star Final (1931), directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

ASIN: B000GDF9TI

Published by Samuel French.
First Edition.
Published 1931.
Hardcover.
 
Description:

Tabloid newspaper editor publishes a 20-year-old murder case to boost newspaper sales. A decision that leads to tragedy.

Recommended reading - Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (2020)

Devotions
The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Published by Penguin Books.
Published 2020.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0399563261
ISBN-13: 9780399563263

Description:

Now a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

“I love [Mary’s] work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human. . . . I find her poetry to be so cathartic and beautiful.” – Jenna Bush Hager.

“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love.” – The Washington Post.

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country’s best-selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

Born on this day – Jane Keckley:

Jane Keckley

Actress

September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963

Credits:

A Broken Spur (1912); A Crucial Test (1912); A Cup of Cold Water (1911); A Foolish Romance (1916); A Frontier Girl's Courage (1911); A Modern Rip (1911); A Mysterious Gallant (1912); A Painter's Idyl (1911); A Petticoat Pilot (1918); A Red Man's Love (1912); A Shot in the Dark (1912 / 1935); A Spanish Wooing (1911); A Virginia Courtship (1921); Abraham Lincoln (1930); Aflame in the Sky (1927); An Indian Ishmael (1912); And Sudden Death (1936); Are You a Failure? (1923); As Told by Princess Bess (1912); Bedtime Story (1941); Big Rock's Last Stand (1912); Buy Me That Town (1941); Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936); Children of Banishment (1919); City Limits (1934); Coals of Fire (1911); Colorado Sunset (1939); Conspiracy (1930); Convict's Code (1939); Corralling a School Marm (1940); Craig's Wife (1928); Curtain at Eight (1933); Dance Hall Hostess (1933); Dangerous Holiday (1937); Death from a Distance (1935); Detectives Wanted (1929); Diamond Jim (1935); Dick Tracy (1937); Dude Cowboy (1941); Dynamite (1929); Everything for Sale (1921); Fair Week (1924); False Pretenses (1935); Fighting Caravans (1931); For His Pal's Sake (1911); For Love, Life and Riches (1912); Gentle Julia (1936); George Warrington's Escape (1911); Ginger (1935); Girl of the Ozarks (1936); Git Along Little Dogies (1937); Going Hollywood (1933); Goldie Gets Along (1933); Great Guy (1936); Gun Justice (1933); Gunsmoke Ranch (1937); Harold Teen (1928); Her Bargain (1917); Hide-Out (1930); Hi-Yo Silver (1940); Honky Tonk (1941); Huck and Tom (1918); I Give My Love (1934); In Old Montana (1939); In the Shadow of the Pines (1911); John Oakhurst, Gambler (1911); Just Like a Woman (1923); Kit Carson's Wooing (1911); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Laughter in Hell (1933); Lieutenant Grey of the Confederacy (1911); Lightning Carson Rides Again (1938); Magnificent Obsession (1935); Man of Conquest (1939); McKee Rankin's '49' (1911); Melody Ranch (1940); Molly Entangled (1917); Mr. District Attorney (1941); Murder on the Campus (1933); Next Time We Love (1936); Noisy Neighbors (1929); North West Mounted Police (1940); Notorious But Nice (1933); Object: Alimony (1928); On to Reno (1927); One in a Million (1935); One Year Later (1933); Only 38 (1923); Paddy O'Day (1936); Paradise Express (1937); Pepper (1936); Persons in Hiding (1939); Pioneers of the West (1940); Rags to Riches (1922); Red Skins and Red Heads (1941); Redeeming Love (1916); Riding the Wind (1942); Road Demon (1938); Road House (1928); Roarin' Lead (1936); Romance of the Redwoods (1939); Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Sabotage (1939); Sacred and Profane Love (1921); Sauce for the Goose (1918); Scandal Street (1938); Show Boat (1936); Silly Billies (1936); Six-Shootin' Sheriff (1938); Souls at Sea (1937); South of Santa Fe (1942); Southward Ho! (1939); Spooks (1916); Star Eyes' Stratagem (1912); Stolen Sweets (1934); Strange People (1933); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); Sweet Lavender (1920); Tango (1936); That I May Live (1937); The Angel of Broadway (1927); The Bridge of Sighs (1936); The Buccaneer (1938); The Chief's Daughter (1911); The Circular Staircase (1915); The Country Doctor (1927); The Curtain Falls (1934); The Danites (1912); The Deadwood Coach (1924); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); The Girl of My Dreams (1918); The Godless Girl (1928); The Hill Billy (1924); The Homesteaders (1916); The Impatient Maiden (1932); The Isle of Content (1915); The King of Kings (1927); The Lady in Ermine (1927); The Little Widow (1911); The Lone Ranger (1938); The Lone Star Ranger (1930); The Masked Angel (1928); The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail (1912); The Mile-a-Minute Man (1926); The Miracle Man (1932); The Musical Bandit (1941); The Mystic Circle Murder (1938); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The New Superintendent (1911); The Night Herder (1911); The Night Riders (1939); The Painted Veil (1934); The Parson of Panamint (1916); The Plainsman (1936); The Quitter (1934); The Right Name, But the Wrong Man (1911); The Rookie Cop (1939); The Secret Wedding (1912); The Soul of Youth (1920); The Tattoo (1912); The Third Kiss (1919); The Throwback (1935); The Tonto Kid (1934); The Totem Mark (1911); The Winning of Jess (1915); The World Accuses (1934); Theodora Goes Wild (1936); There's Magic in Music (1941); Through Fire and Smoke (1911); Tight Shoes (1941); Today I Hang (1942); Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938); Trapper Bill, King of Scouts (1912); Two Kinds of Women (1932); Under Western Stars (1938); Union Pacific (1939); Walking Back (1928).

Born on this day – Bessie Love:

 

Bessie Love

Actress

September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986

Credits:

A Daughter of the Poor (1917); A Fighting Colleen (1919); A Harp in Hock (1927); A Little Sister of Everybody (1918); A Lost World (1938); A Sister of Six (1916); A Son of His Father (1925); A Yankee Princess (1919); Acquitted (1916); Alice Guy-Blaché (1997); Always a Bride (1953); Amateur Night (1927); Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928); Battle Beneath the Earth (1967); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1958); Beau Brummell (1954); Bonnie May (1920); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Bulldog Courage (1922); Carolyn of the Corners (1919); Catlow (1971); Chasing Rainbows (1930); Cheerful Givers (1917); Children of the Damned (1964); Conspiracy (1930); Cupid Forecloses (1919); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Don't Do It Dempsey (1960); Dress Parade (1927); Dynamite Smith (1924); Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978); Emergency-Ward 10 (1960); Fashions in Love (1936); Forget Me Not (1922); From a Bird's Eye View (1970); Gareth Hughes (2000); Gentle Julia (1923); Georgia Pearce (1915); Going Crooked (1926); Good News (1930); Gulliver's Travels (1977); Harpers West One (1961); Hearst-Pathé News, No. 87 (1917); Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Greats (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hotel Imperial (1958); How Could You, Caroline? (1918); Human Wreckage (1923); I Live Again (1936); I Think They Call Him John (1964); I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967); International Detective (1960); Intolerance (1916); Isadora (1968); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1960); ITV Playhouse (1968); ITV Television Playhouse (1957–1960); Johnny Frenchman (1945); Journey Together (1945); Kate (1970); Katy (1976); Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981); Late Show London (1966); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); London Playhouse (1955); London Scrapbook (1942); Long Distance (1958); Looks Familiar (1980); Loss of Innocence (1961); Lovey Mary (1926); Man of the World (1962); Mary of the Movies (1923); Meet the Prince (1926); Morals for Women (1931); Mousey (1974); My Partner the Ghost (1969); New Brooms (1925); Next to No Time! (1958); Night Life in Hollywood (1922); Nina, the Flower Girl (1917); No Highway in the Sky (1951); Nowhere to Go (1958); Omnibus (1969); On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Over the Garden Wall (1919); Pegeen (1920); Penny of Top Hill Trail (1921); Picture This (2022); Polly Ann (1917); Pollyanna (1973); Promise Her Anything (1966); Public Eye (1971); Ragtime (1981); Reds (1981); Reggie Mixes In (1916); Round About Hollywood (1931); Rubber Tires (1927); Sally of the Scandals (1928); San Demetrio London (1943); Saturday Playhouse (1959); Screen Snapshots No. 8 (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 11 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 3 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 14-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 5 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 8 (1923); See America Thirst (1930); Shades of Greene (1975); Slave of Desire (1923); Some of the Best (1944); Somerset Maugham Hour (1961); Sons of the Sea (1941); Soul-Fire (1925); Souls for Sale (1923); St. Elmo (1923); Stranded (1916); Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971); Sundown (1924); The Adventures of Prince Courageous (1923); The American (1927); The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962); The Aryan (1916); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); The Broadway Melody (1929); The Caves of Steel (1964); The Dawn of Understanding (1918); The Enchanted Barn (1919); The Eternal Three (1923); The Flying Torpedo (1916); The Front Page (1948); The Ghost Patrol (1923); The Girl in the Show (1929); The Good Bad-Man (1916); The Great Adventure (1918); The Heiress at Coffee Dan's (1916); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Honor of Rameriz (1921); The Hunger (1983); The Idle Rich (1929); The King on Main Street (1925); The Little Boss (1919); The Lost World (1925); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Magic Box (1951); The Male Animal (1956); The Matinee Idol (1928); The Midlanders (1920); The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916); The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966); The Purple Dawn (1923); The Ritz (1976); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961); The Sawdust Ring (1917); The Sea Lion (1921); The Sentimental Agent (1963); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Song and Dance Man (1926); The Spirit of the Lake (1921); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Swamp (1921); The Swell Head (1928); The Vermilion Pencil (1922); The Village Blacksmith (1922); The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (1930); The WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1922 (1922); The Wednesday Play (1965); The Western (1959); The Wild Affair (1965); The Wishing Ring Man (1919); The Woman on the Jury (1924); They Learned About Women (1930); This Is Your Life (1963–1978); Those Who Dance (1924); Three Who Paid (1923); Tongues of Flame (1924); Too Young to Love (1960); Torment (1924); Touch and Go (1955); Vampyres (1974); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); Wee Lady Betty (1917); Westward Bo (1926); You Can't Take It with You (1947); Young and Willing (1954); Young April (1926); Zero One (1962).

Born on this day – William Clemens:

William Clemens

Director

September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980

Born on this day – Robert Wise:

 

Robert Wise

Director

Producer

Editor

September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005

Born on this day – William Brinkley:

William Brinkley

Writer

September 10, 1917 - November 22, 1993

When William Brinkley was a reporter for The Washington Post, he wrote the article covering the exorcism of a 14-year-old boy who lived in Mt. Rainier, Washington.

This case later became the inspiration for the novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, published in 1971, and the movie of the same title, directed by William Friedkin and released in 1973.

Article in the Post was dated: Friday, August 20, 1949.

Born on this day – Bo Goldman:

Bo Goldman

Writer

September 10, 1932 – July 25, 2023

Born on this day – Mary Oliver:

Mary Oliver

Writer

September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019

Credits:

Poems:

At Black River; August; Banyan; Beside the Waterfall; Breakage; Death at a Great Distance; Death at Wind River; Every Morning; Fall; Forty Years; The Hermit Crab; Hummingbirds; In Malaysia; The Kingfisher; The Mango; Morning Glories; The Moths; The Owl; Pilot Snake; Rain; The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First; The Shark; Singapore; The Son; Song for Autumn; Spring; THE STORM; This Morning Again It Was in the Dusty Pines; The Waterfall; What Is It?; White-Eyes.

 

Books:
 

A Poetry Handbook; A Thousand Mornings; American Primitive; At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver (audio cd); Blue Horses; Blue Iris: Poems and Essays; Blue Pastures; Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver; Dog Songs; Dream Work; Evidence; Felicity; House of Light; Long Life: Essays and Other Writings; New and Selected Poems [volume one]; New and Selected Poems, volume two; No Voyage, and Other Poems; Our World with photographs by Molly Malone Cook; Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays; Provincetown; Red Bird; Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse; Sleeping in the Forest; Swan: Poems and Prose Poems; The Leaf and the Cloud; The Night Traveler; The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems; The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays; Thirst: Poems; Twelve Moons; Upstream: Selected Essays; West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems; What Do We Know; White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems; Why I Wake Early: New Poems; Wild geese: selected poems; Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems.

Born on this day – Peter Lovesey:

 

Peter Lovesey

Writer

September 10, 1936 – April 10, 2025

Credits:
 
Books:

A Case of Spirits (1975); Abracadaver (1972); Against the Grain (2024); Another One Goes Tonight (2016); Beau Death (2017); Bloodhounds (1996); Bloodhounds / Diamond Dust (2004); Cop to Corpse (2012); Diamond and the Eye (2021); Diamond Dust (2002); Diamond Solitaire (1992); Do Not Exceed The Stated Dose (1998); Down Among the Dead Men (2015); Invitation to a Dynamite Party / aka The Tick of Death (1974); Killing with Confetti (2019); Mad Hatter's Holiday (1973); Peter Diamond: A Mysterious Profile (2024); Showstopper (2022); Skeleton Hill (2009); Stagestruck (2011); The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (1971); The Finisher (2020); The House Sitter (2003); The Last Detective (1991); The Last Detective / Diamond Solitaire (2006); The Secret Hangman (2007); The Stone Wife (2014); The Summons (1995); Swing, Swing Together (1976); The Tooth Tattoo (2013); The Vault (1999); Upon A Dark Night (1997); Waxwork (1978); Wobble to Death (1970).

Movies and television:

Cribb (1980–1981); Dead Gorgeous (2002); Goldengirl (1979); Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006); Screenplay (1979); Tales of the Unexpected (1982).

Born on this day – Spencer Milligan:

Spencer Milligan

Actor

Producer

September 10, 1937 – April 18, 2024

Born on this day – David Stratton:

David Stratton

Film historian

Writer

Actor

September 10, 1939 – August 14, 2025

Credits:
 
Books:
 

Australia at the Movies: The ultimate guide to modern Australian cinema (2024); I Peed on Fellini: Recollections of a Life in Film (2008); My Favourite Movies: From a century of films and the world's best directors (2021); The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry (1990); The Insiders' Guide to Las Vegas (1997); The Last New Wave (1980).

 

Movies and television:
 

7th AACTA Awards (2017); A Woman's Tale (1991); Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight (2011); Advance Australian Film (2014); At the Movies (2004–2013); Australian Story (1997 / 2020); Celia: David Stratton interviews Ann Turner (1989); Cosi: Interview with screenwriter Louis Nowra (2022); Dance Academy (2013); David Stratton on 'The Last Wave' (2010); David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (2017); David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema (2017); Edmond: Interview with Director Stuart Gordon (2006); FAQ (2017); First Tuesday Book Club (2013); Golden Braid (1990); Green Card: Interview with director Peter Weir and actor Gérard Depardieu (1991); Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002); In Conversation with Bryan Brown (2012); In Conversation with Ennio Morricone (2012); In the Cannes (2007); Inside Film Awards (2011); Introduction to Genre: An Introduction (2020); Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure (2009); Mad Max: Film Phenomenon (2002); 'Malcolm' at the AFI Awards (1986); Malcolm: Interviews with Cast and Crew (2001); Mel Gibson: God's Lethal Weapon (2004); Movie of the Week (1980–1985); Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019); On Borrowed Time (2011); Palace of Dreams (1984); Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007); Reel to Reel (1993–1994); Return Home: SBS Movie Show (2005); Review with Myles Barlow (2008–2010); Rove Live (2004); Showreel (2013); Smut Hounds (2015); Stone Forever (1999); Sunshine and Shadows: 70 Years of Australian Cinema (1976); The 53rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2011); The Bazura Project (2011); The Chaser Decides (2004); The Chaser's War on 2020 (2020); The Chaser's War on Everything (2006–2007); The Faking Game (2006); The Hamster Wheel (2011–2012); The Making of Nothing (1993); The Movie Show (1995–1997); The Telegram Man (2011); The Tracker: Director Rolf De Heer Interviewed by David Stratton (2003); The Tracker: IF Awards 2002 (2003); The Tracker: World Premiere Adelaide Festival of Arts 2002 (2003); Yes We Canberra! (2010).

On this day in movie history - Five Star Final (1931)

 

Five Star Final

directed by Mervyn LeRoy,

written by Byron Morgan, Robert Lord,

based on the play Five Star Final by Louis Weitzenkorn,

released in the United States on September 10, 1931.

Music by Leo F. Forbstein, Vitaphone Orchestra.

 

Cast:

Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell, George E. Stone, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, Boris Karloff, Aline MacMahon, Oscar Apfel, Purnell Pratt, Robert Elliott, James P. Burtis, Richard Carlyle, Frank Darien, James Donlan, Evelyn Hall, Gladys Lloyd, Arnold Lucy, Franklin Parker, William H. Strauss, David Torrence, Harold Waldridge, Polly Walters, Jack Wise.

On this day in movie history - The Blob (1958)

 

The Blob

directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. and Russell S. Doughten Jr.,

written by Theodore Simonson and Kay Linaker,

based on an idea by Irvine H. Millgate,

was released in the United States on September 10, 1958.

Music by Ralph Carmichael.

 

Cast:

Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase, John Benson, George Karas, Lee Payton, Elbert Smith, Hugh Graham, Vincent Barbi, Audrey Metcalf, Jasper Deeter, Tom Ogden, Elinor Hammer, Pamela Curran, Ralph Roseman, Charlie Overdorff, David Metcalf, Josh Randolph, George Gerbereck, Julie Cousins, Keith Almoney, Eugene Sabel, Robert Fields, James Bonnet, Tony Franke, Molly Ann Bourne, Diane Tabben, Russ Conway, Howard Fishlove, Jack H. Harris, Vincent J. Mastrangelo, Theodore Simonson.

On this day in movie history - The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

a.k.a. The St. Louis Bank Robbery

directed by Charles Guggenheim and John Stix,

written by Richard Heffron,

was released in the United States on September 10, 1959.

Music by Bernardo Segáll.

Cast:

Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas, Molly McCarthy, Martha Gable, Larry Gerst, Boyd Williams, Frank Novotny, Nell Roberts, Bob Holt, May Kohn, Jay Elliot, Robert Klauss, Barney Barnett, Nancy Lyon.

On this day in television history – Johnny Staccato (TV show & book)

Johnny Staccato
Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: The Naked Truth

Released September 10, 1959.

Directed by Joseph Pevney.

Written by Richard Berg.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Chick Chandler, Michael Landon, Stacy Harris, Nick Cravat, Ruta Lee, Robert H. Harris, Frank Sully, Shelly Manne, Pete Candoli, Red Norvo, Red Mitchell, John / Johnny Williams, Barney Kessel, Monica Lewis, Joe Ploski.

Recommended reading:

Johnny Staccato

by Frank Boyd

Published by Gold Medal Books.

Published 1960.

ASIN: B0DSZXQGML

Description:

A smooth man on the ivories, hot on the trigger, and cool in a jam – he’s the toughest private eye to hit America in a decade.