Jackie Kennedy, on books and reading:

 

Love of books is the best of all.

– Jackie Kennedy.

Recommended reading - Rope: A play

 

Rope: A play

Rope: A play
by Patrick Hamilton.

First published 1929.
a.k.a. Rope’s End.

Filmed as Rope (1948), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Published by Constable.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0094508607
ISBN-13: 978-0094508606

Description:

Genre: Drama.

Characters: 6 males, 2 females.

Scenery: Interior.

For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell. Finally, they break down under the strain and confess their guilt.

Recommended reading - The Arm

The Arm

The Arm.

by Clark Howard.

Filmed as The Big Town (1987), directed by Ben Bolt and Harold Becker.

First published 1967.

Published by Fawcett / Gold Medal.

ASIN: B0012513FS

Paperback.

Description:

A high-tension novel of the seething underworld of the professional crapshooter – where the women come easy and the points come hard.

Before young J.C. Cullen hit Chicago, nobody had ever heard of him. But Cully knew he had it- the cool, the guts, the skill, the magic... whatever it took to be a winner. The big-time players in Chicago had never seen anything like him. Within a week he was known in every gambling haunt in the city... every bar, brothel, striptease joint, and backroom. He was Cully the Arm, King of the crapshooters. He was hated, envied, respected... and lonely. Then he met Lorry. Beautiful, tempting, and evil as Hell. As skilled in sex as he was with dice. And far deadlier. The game she played had no rules – and no limit. Cully knew this, but he couldn't stop. Even though the stake was his own life.

Just one more chapter ... and another ... and another ...

 

Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll read another chapter.

Born on this day – Josephine Rector:

Josephine Rector

Writer

Actress

September 25, 1885 – October 1, 1958

Credits:

A Gambler's Way (1914); A Romance of the Hills (1913); Across the Plains (1911); Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist (1913); Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid (1913); Broncho Billy's Bible (1912); Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed (1913); Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner (1911); Broncho Billy's Reason (1913); Broncho Billy's Sermon (1914); Broncho Billy's Squareness (1913); Hard Luck Bill (1913); Love on Tough Luck Ranch (1912); Snakeville's Fire Brigade (1914); Snakeville's Home Guard (1914); Sophie's Birthday Party (1914); That Pair from Thespia (1913); The Atonement (1914); The Cast of the Die (1914); The Cowboy Samaritan (1913); The Dance at Eagle Pass (1913); The Dance at Silver Gulch (1912); The Last Shot (1913); The Two Ranchmen (1913); The Weaker's Strength (1914); Western Girls (1912).

Born on this day – William Faulkner:

William Faulkner

Writer

September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Fable (1954); A Rose for Emily (1930); Absalom, Absalom! (1936); As I Lay Dying (1930); Barn Burning (1996); Barn Burning and other stories (1939); Big Woods (1955); Collected Stories (1948); Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Flags in the Dust (1973); Go Down, Moses (1942); Growing Up in the South (1991); Intruder in the Dust (1948); Jealousy and Episode (1977); Knight's Gambit (1949); Light in August (1932); Louisiana Stories (1990); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Marble Faun and a Green Bough (1960); Mayday (1978); Mosquitoes (1927); New Orleans Sketches (1957); Ole Miss Juvenilia (2018); Pylon (1935); Requiem for a Nun (1950); Road to Glory (1981); Sanctuary (1931); Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1954); Sartoris (1929); Selected Short Stories (1956); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Soldiers' Pay (1926); Stories of the Modern South (1977); The Bear (1942); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Best Horror Stories (1977); The Essential Faulkner (2013); The Hamlet (1940); The Mansion (1959); The Marionettes (1978); The Reivers (1962); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Sound and the Fury (1929); The Town (1957); The Unvanquished (1938); The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (1939); These 13 (1931); Three Famous Short Novels (1958); Uncle Willy and Other Stories (1967); Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979); Wishing Tree (1927); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

A Rose for Emily (1983); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); Air Force (1943); As I Lay Dying (2013); Background to Danger (1943); Barn Burning (1980); Camera Three (1956–1958); Cheyenne (1956); Climax! (1954–1955); Deep Valley (1947); Dim (1958); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Estudio 1 (1977); Fireside Theatre (1952); Flesh (1932); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Fumée / Smoke (1961); General Electric Theater (1960); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gunga Din (1939); Intruder in the Dust (1949); Invitation au voyage (2021); Kaki Bakar (1995); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lazy River (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Mildred Pierce (1945); Mississippi Requiem (2018); Moi, général de Gaulle (1990); Noga (1991); Northern Pursuit (1943); Old Man (1997); Omnibus / Segment: William Faulkner (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Requiem für eine Nonne (1965); Sanctuary (1961); Slave Ship (1937); Sling Blade (1996); Submarine Patrol (1938); Suspense (1954); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The Bear (1980); The Big Sleep (1946); The Loneliness Trilogy (2008); The Long Hot Summer (1985); The Long, Hot Summer (1958–1966); The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner (2024); The Reivers (1969); The Road to Glory (1936); The Sound and the Fury (1959 / 2009 / 2014); The Southerner (1945); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Tarnished Angels (1957); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today We Live (1933); Tomorrow (1972); Two Soldiers (1986 / 2003); Vacation Playhouse (1964).

Born on this day – Ray Nazarro:

Ray Nazarro photographed with Adele Roberts during the filming of The Desert Horseman (1946)

Ray Nazarro

Director

Producer

Writer

September 25, 1902 – September 8, 1986

Born on this day – Aldo Ray:

Aldo Ray

Actor

September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991

Born on this day – Delia Scala:

Delia Scala

Ballerina

Actress

Singer

September 25, 1929 – January 15, 2004

Born on this day – Irène Tunc:

Irène Tunc

Actress

Model

September 25, 1935 – January 16, 1972

Born on this day – Christopher Reeve:

Christopher Reeve

Actor

Director

September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004

On this day in movie history - Rope (1948)

Rope

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Arthur Laurents and Hume Cronyn, and based on the novel by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1948.

Music by David Buttolph, Francis Poulenc and Leo F. Forbstein.

Cast:

James Stewart, Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Alfred Hitchcock.

On this day in movie history - Death Car on the Freeway (1979)

Death Car on the Freeway

directed by Hal Needham,

written by William Wood,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1979.

Music by Richard Markowitz.

                                                                  

Cast:

Shelley Hack, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves, Harriet Nelson, Barbara Rush, Dinah Shore, Abe Vigoda, Alfie Wise, George Hamilton, Robert F. Lyons, Tara Buckman, Morgan Brittany, Nancy Stephens, Gloria Stroock, Hal Needham, Jim Negele, Sid Haig, Buddy Farmer, Hank Brandt, Marguerite DeLain, Roger Aaron Brown, Jack Collins, Dennis Falt, Jerry Jensen

On this day in movie history - Southern Comfort (1981)

Southern Comfort

directed by Walter Hill,

written by Walter Hill, Michael Kane and David Giler,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1981.

Music by Ry Cooder.

Cast:

Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter, Lewis Smith, Les Lannom, Peter Coyote, Carlos Brown, Brion James, Sonny Landham, Jeanne-Louise Bulliard, Jeannie Spector, Orel Borel.

On this day in movie history - George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)

 

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

documentary directed and written by George Stevens Jr.

was released at the Deauville Film Festival in France on September 25, 1984.

Narrated by George Stevens Jr.

Music by Carl Davis.

 

Cast:

Fred Astaire, Warren Beatty, Pandro S. Berman, Frank Capra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Katharine Hepburn, John Huston, Rouben Mamoulian, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Joel McCrea, Ivan Moffat, Alan J. Pakula, Hermes Pan, Millie Perkins, Hal Roach, Ginger Rogers, Irwin Shaw, Jack Sher, Yvonne Howell, Antonio Vellani, Max von Sydow, Fred Zinnemann, George Stevens Jr., Jean Arthur, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Sam Jaffe, Alan Ladd, Fred MacMurray, Jack Palance, George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Shelley Winters, Charles Coburn, Brandon De Wilde, Joan Fontaine, Oliver Hardy, Van Heflin, Stan Laurel, Hattie McDaniel, Victor McLaglen.

On this day in movie history - The Big Town (1987)

The Big Town

directed by Ben Bolt and Harold Becker,

written by Robert Roy Pool,

based on the novel The Arm by Clark Howard,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1987.

Music by Michael Melvoin and Frank Fitzpatrick.

Cast:

Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant, Tom Skerritt, Suzy Amis, David Marshall Grant, Don Francks, Del Close, Meg Hogarth, Cherry Jones, Alvaro D'Antonio, David James Elliott, Steve Yorke, Chris Owens, Sean McCann, Kevin Fox, Marc Strange, Don Lake, Angelo Rizacos, Chris Benson, Gary Farmer, Diego Matamoros, Sarah Polley, Kirsten Bishop, Kenneth McGregor, Viki Matthews, Cherie McGroarty, Sandy Czapiewski, Marie Siebert, Julie Conte, A.C. Peterson, Sam Malkin, Robert Morelli, Layne Coleman, Lolita Davidovich, William Colgate, William Forrest MacDonald, Len Doncheff, Michael Caruana, Richard Comar, Lubomir Mykytiuk, Robert Ramsay Collins, Errol Slue, Gerry Pearson, Hugo Dann, John Evans, J. Winston Carroll, Diane Gordon, David Berni, Robert Mavor, Robert Minkoff.

On this day in movie history - Best Seller (1987)

Best Seller

directed by John Flynn,

written by Larry Cohen,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1987.

Music by Jay Ferguson.

Cast:

James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant, Allison Balson, Paul Shenar, George Coe, Anne Pitoniak, Mary Carver, Sully Boyar, Kathleen Lloyd, Charles Tyner, E. Brian Dean, Jeffrey Josephson, Edward Blackoff, Branscombe Richmond, J.P. Bumstead, William Bronder, Jenny Gago, Michael Crabtree, Clare Fields, Claudia Stenke, David Byrd, Loyda Ramos, Obaka Adedunyo, Ted Markland, Phil Hoover, David Blackwood, David Ursin, Jay Ingram, Daniel Trent, Gary Kirk, Dean Abston, David S. Cass Sr., Bill R. Mitchell, John Howard Swain, Dennis Acree, Mark Venturini, Larry Holt, Jeff Ramsey, James Winburn, Peter Stader, Hank Stone, Brian Gaffikin, Michael White, Martin West, Wally Burr, Arlin Miller, Sands Hall, Sam Baldoni, Seymour Cassel, Sydney Urshan.

On this day in movie history - The Brothers Warner (2007)

The Brothers Warner

documentary directed and written by Cass Warner,

was released in the United States on September 25, 2008.

Narrated by Cass Warner.

Music by David Campbell.

Cast:

Dennis Hopper, Cass Warner, Bette-Ann Warner, Harry M. Warner, Tab Hunter, Norman Lear, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Leo Braudy, Nancy Snow, Steven J. Ross, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Benjamin Warner, Betty Warner Sheinbaum, Michael Birdwell, John Steel, Albert Warner, Angie Dickinson, George Segal, Haskell Wexler, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Warner Jr., Lina Basquette, Stephen Farber, Johanna Blakey, Sam Warner, Lita Heller, Jack L. Warner, Roy Edward Disney, Lewis Warner, Sherry Lansing, Frank Pierson, Eddie Bockser, Lois McGrew, Robert Greenwald, Jim Meskimen, Heinrich Himmler, Frank Sinatra.

On this day in movie history - Surrogates (2009)

Surrogates

directed by Jonathan Mostow,

written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris,

based on the comic book The Surrogates by Robert Venditti,

was released in the United States on September 25, 2009.

Music by Richard Marvin.

End credits song: I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin.

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Francis Ginty, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, Jack Noseworthy, Devin Ratray, Michael Cudlitz, Jeffrey De Serrano, Helena Mattsson, Michael Philip, Danny F Smith, Brian Parrish, Jennifer Alden, Shane Dzicek, Andrew Haserlat, Justin Goodrich, Lisa Hernandez, Kirk Hawkins, Rachel Sterling, Meta Golding, Taylor Cole, Jordan Belfi, J.L. Highsmith, Nicholas Purcell, Max Murphy, Victor Webster, David Klefeker, Dorothy Brodesser, Valerie Azlynn, Michael O'Toole, Chad Williams, Mike Randy, Tyson Eberly, Michael DeMello, Ron Murphy, Genevieve Johnson, David Conley, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Cody Christian, Ian Novick, Todd Cahoon, Ella Thomas, Gabriel Olds, Eamon Brooks, Rodney Weber, De'Lon Grant, Matthew Souris, Trevor Donovan, Brock Gloor, Rick Malambri, Paul Richard Yarborough, Christine Mascott, Ari Mostow, Nathan Mostow, Taylar Eliza, Edward McCabe, Anya Monzikova, Brett Ainslie, John Amato, Stanis Krista Ames, Melissa Barker, Greg Berney, Joshua Brown, Nicole Burch, Shannon Carter, Chemi Che-Mponda, Desiree April Connolly, Kelly Dempsey, Amanda Dixon, Shannon Mary Dixon, Frank Durant, Shawn Fogarty, Sari Gagnon, Una Green, Barbara Guertin, Brett Gustafson, London Hall, Lauren Hayes, Quincy Heath, Haley Higgins, Jordan Johnson, Kate Jurdi, Haytham Kandil, Petar Kirilov, David A. Kirsch, Jennifer Lazea, Anne Lockhart, Christopher J. Long, Evalena Marie, Dan Marshall, Robert Masiello, Rana Morrison, Jason Mulcahy, Robert Nuzzie, Valerie Parker, Dominic Prietto, Ali Raymer, Derrick Redford, Baylee Ricci, Floyd Richardson, Joe Sobalo Jr., Vyvian B. Stevens, Amanda Wall, Mike Wendt, Jamie Christopher White.

On this day in movie history - Pandorum (2009)

Pandorum

directed by Christian Alvart,

written by Travis Milloy, and based on a story by Travis Milloy and Christian Alvart,

was released in the United States on September 25, 2009.

Music by Michl Britsch.

Cast:

Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Eddie Rouse, André Hennicke, Norman Reedus, Delphine Chuillot, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Yangzom Brauen, Virginia Welch, Niels-Bruno Schmidt