National Coffee Day – September 29:

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Iris Murdoch, on reading and writing:

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

 – Iris Murdoch.

Recommended reading - The Chair for Martin Rome

 

The Chair for Martin Rome

The Chair for Martin Rome
by Henry Edward Helseth.

ASIN: B0007I5CI0
First published 1947.
Published by Pocket Books.
Paperback.

Description:
Condemned killer escapes.

Martin Rome killed a policeman during a robbery. For this the State sentenced him to the electric chair. But before that bleak final moment Martin Rome had business to finish outside the jail – matters of stolen jewels and some human rats and a girl whose very existence he denied to the detectives but whose reality for him transcended all things. The swift, terrifying story of his mad undertaking, the grim revelation it brought to the police and, even more grimly, to Rome itself, is an emotional experience that leaves the reader thrilled and unnerved at the closing page.

“Just about the most real and convincing tough-job that has come in this season. Not easily forgettable.” – Saturday Review of Literature.

Born on this day – Greer Garson:

Greer Garson

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996

Credits:

Radio:

Brief Encounter (1946); Mrs. Parkington (1946); My Favorite Wife (1945); The African Queen (1952); The Philadelphia Story (1942); Twas the Night Before Christmas (1953).

Movies and television:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 24th Annual Academy Awards (1952); 60 Minutes Of (2023); A Gift of Music (1981); A Report from Miss Greer Garson (1944); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); Adventure (1945); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976–1980); American Masters (1986); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); At This Very Moment (1962); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bogart: The Untold Story (1997); Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960); Crown Matrimonial (1974); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978); Desire Me (1947); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Extraordinary Women (2011); Father Knows Best (1957); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); General Electric Theater (1956–1960); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939); Her Twelve Men (1954); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Hist-o-Rama (1961); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hour Magazine (1986); How He Lied to Her Husband (1937); Inasmuch... (1934); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963); James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (2017); Julia Misbehaves (1948); Julius Caesar (1953); Little Women (1978); Madame Curie (1943); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Mrs. Miniver (1942); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Father Gave Me America (1973); Pepe (1960); Perry Como's Christmas in New Mexico (1979); Personalities (1942); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005); Producers' Showcase (1955); Random Harvest (1942); Remember? (1939); Rockette: A Holiday Tribute to Radio City Music Hall (1978); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970); Scandal at Scourie (1953); Screen Actors (1950); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Some of the Best (1949); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Sophia Loren (2019); Star Stage (1955); Strange Lady in Town (1955); Sunrise at Campobello (1960); Talking Pictures (1988); Telephone Time (1957); That Forsyte Woman (1949); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Art Linkletter Show (1968); The Big Party (1959); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Heart of Variety (1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Law and the Lady (1951); The Linkletter Show (1967–1968); The Little Drummer Boy (1968); The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976); The Little Foxes (1956); The Love Boat (1982); The Merv Griffin Show (1963–1971); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Miniver Story (1950); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Red Skelton Hour (1964–1966); The School for Scandal (1937); The Singing Nun (1966); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1972); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Virginian (1970); The Youngest Profession (1943); Theatre Parade (1937); This Is Your Life (1960); This Proud Land (1966); Twenty Years After (1944); Victory in the Pacific (1995); What's My Line? (1953–1958); When Ladies Meet (1941).

Born on this day – Michelangelo Antonioni:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Director

September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007

Born on this day – Trevor Howard:

Trevor Howard

Actor

September 29, 1913 – January 7, 1988

Born on this day – Stanley Kramer:

Stanley Kramer

Director

Producer

September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001

Born on this day – Anne Nagel:

Anne Nagel

Actress

September 29, 1915 – July 6, 1966

Credits:

100 Years of Horror (1996); A Bride for Henry (1937); An Innocent Affair (1948); Appointment for Love (1941); Argentine Nights (1940); Armored Car Robbery (1950); Black Friday (1940); Blondie's Holiday (1947); Breakdowns of 1936 (1936); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Bungalow 13 (1948); Call a Messenger (1939); China Clipper (1936); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2014); Circus Boy (1957); College Humor (1933); Coming Out Party (1934); Coming Soon (1982); Convict's Code (1939); Diamond Frontier (1940); Dog of the Wild (1949); Don Winslow of the Navy (1942); Down the Stretch (1936); Escape by Night (1937); Every Girl Should Be Married (1948); Everybody's Old Man (1936); Evil Deeds / Segment: Hell Beast (2004); Family Honeymoon (1948); Gang Bullets (1938); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Guns of the Pecos (1936); Here Comes Carter (1936); Homecoming (1948); Hoosier Schoolboy (1937); Hot Money (1936); Hot Steel (1940); Hypnotized (1932); I Found a Dog (1949); I Loved You Wednesday (1933); King of Hockey (1936); Legion of Lost Flyers (1939); Love Begins at 20 (1936); Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940); Man Made Monster (1941); Meet the Chump (1941); Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); Mighty Joe Young (1949); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); Music Is Magic (1935); Mutiny in the Arctic (1941); My Little Chickadee (1940); Mystery House (1938); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); One Touch of Venus (1948); Pal, Canine Detective (1950); Pal, Fugitive Dog (1950); Pal's Gallant Journey (1951); Pal's Return (1948); Polo Joe (1936); Prejudice (1949); Redheads on Parade (1935); Road Agent (1941); Romance Road (1938); Saleslady (1938); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Sealed Lips (1942); She Loved a Fireman (1937); Should a Girl Marry? (1939); Sitting Pretty (1933); Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); The Adventurous Blonde (1937); The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937); The Dawn Express (1942); The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937); The Footloose Heiress (1937); The Green Hornet (1940 / 1990); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Hucksters (1947); The Invisible Woman (1940); The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942); The Mad Monster (1942); The Range Rider (1951); The Secret Code (1942); The Spirit of West Point (1947); The Stratton Story (1949); The Trap (1946); The Witness Vanishes (1939); Three Legionnaires (1937); Traffic in Crime (1946); Under the Big Top (1938); Winners of the West (1940); Women in Bondage (1943).

Born on this day – Brenda Marshall:

Brenda Marshall

Actress

September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992

Born on this day – Don Castle:

Don Castle

Producer

Actor

Writer

September 29, 1917 – May 26, 1966

Born on this day – Lizabeth Scott:

Lizabeth Scott

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1921 – January 31, 2015

Credits:

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); Adventures in Paradise (1960); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Bad for Each Other (1953); Burke's Law (1963); Century of Cinema (1995); Dark City (1950); Dead Reckoning (1946); Desert Fury (1947); Easy Living (1949); Empire State Building Murders (2008); Family Theatre (1949); Hit So Hard (2011); Home Stories (1990); I Walk Alone (1947); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); I've Got a Secret (1952); Loving You (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1952–1953); Mansfield 66/67 (2017); Paid in Full (1950); Pitfall (1948); Presley (1987); Pulp (1972); Red Mountain (1951); Scared Stiff (1953); Silver Lode (1954); Stolen Face (1952); Studio 57 (1955); Stump the Stars (1963); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Big Record (1958); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Company She Keeps (1951); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (2002); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Hollywood Collection: Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999); The Juke Box Jury (1958–1959); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The Movie Game (1970); The Oscars (2016); The Racket (1951); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); The Third Man (1965); The Weapon (1956); The World of Hammer (1994); Too Late for Tears (1949); Two of a Kind (1951); Variety Girl (1947); You Came Along (1945); You Don't Say (1963).

Born on this day – William A. Fraker:

William A. Fraker

Cinematographer

Director

Producer

September 29, 1923 – May 31, 2010

Born on this day – Marina Berti:

Marina Berti

Actress

September 29, 1924 – October 29, 2002

Born on this day – Steve Forrest:

Steve Forrest

Actor

September 29, 1925 – May 18, 2013

Born on this day – Barbara Mertz:

Barbara Mertz

Writer

September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Gothic Treasure Trove (1987); A River in the Sky (2010); Amelia Peabody Omnibus (2012); Amelia Peabody's Egypt (2003); Ammie, Come Home (1968); AZ Murder Goes... Artful (1997); Be Buried in the Rain (1985); Black Rainbow (1982); Borrower of the Night (1973); Children of the Storm (2003); Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975); Devil May Care (1977); Die for Love (1984); Greygallows (1972); Guardian of the Horizon (2004); He Shall Thunder in the Sky (2000); Here I Stay (1983); Historical Whodunits (1993); House of Many Shadows (1974); Houses of Stone (1993); Into the Darkness (1990); Legend in Green Velvet (1976); Lion in the Valley (1986); Lord of the Silent (2001); Malice Domestic 1 (1992); Malice Domestic 14 (2019); Malice Domestic 2 (1993); More Malice Domestic (1997); Naked Once More (1989); Night Train to Memphis (1994); Other Worlds (1999); Patriot's Dream (1976); Prince of Darkness (1969); Red Land, Black Land (1967); Search the Shadows (1987); Seeing a Large Cat (1997); Shattered Silk (1986); Silhouette in Scarlet (1983); Smoke and Mirrors (1989); Someone in the House (1981); Sons of the Wolf (1967); Stitches in Time (1995); Street of the Five Moons (1978); Summer of the Dragon (1979); Tales of the Uncanny (1983); Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs (1964); The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998); The Camelot Caper (1969); The Copenhagen Connection (1982); The Crying Child (1971); The Curse of the Pharaohs (1981); The Dancing Floor (1997); The Dark on the Other Side (1970); The Dead Sea Cipher (1970); The Deeds of the Disturber (1988); The Falcon at the Portal (1999); The Golden One (2002); The Grey Beginning (1984); The Hippopotamus Pool (1996); The Jackal's Head (1968); The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991); The Laughter of Dead Kings (2008); The Locked Tomb Mystery: And Other Stories (2018); The Love Talker (1980); The Master of Blacktower (1966); The Mummy Case (1985); The Murders of Richard III (1974); The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits (1971); The Painted Queen (2014); The Sea King's Daughter (1975); The Serpent on the Crown (2005); The Seventh Sinner (1972); The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (1992); The Walker in Shadows (1979); The Wizard's Daughter (1980); Tomb of the Golden Bird (2006); Trojan Gold (1987); Vanish with the Rose (1992); Wait for What Will Come (1978); Wings of the Falcon (1977); Witch (1973).

Born on this day – Norah Hayden:

Norah Hayden

Actress

Singer

Model

Writer

September 29, 1930 – August 10, 2013

Born on this day – Colin Dexter:

Colin Dexter

Writer

September 29, 1930 – March 21, 2017

Born on this day – Anita Ekberg:

Anita Ekberg

Actress

September 29, 1931 – January 11, 2015

Born on this day – Mylène Demongeot:

Mylène Demongeot

Actress

Writer

September 29, 1935 – December 1, 2022

Born on this day – Drake Hogestyn:

Drake Hogestyn

Actor

September 29, 1953 – September 28, 2024

Credits:

4th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards (1988); Anything to Win (2006); Battle of the Network Stars (2003); Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues (1985); Christmas Tree Lane (2020); Circus of the Stars #12 (1987); Criminal Minds (2018); Days of Our Lives (1986–2024); Days of Our Lives' 35th Anniversary (2000); Days of Our Lives' Christmas (2001); Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas (2021); Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem (2021–2022); Entertainment Tonight (2022); Generation (1985); Maury (1993); Mornings with Kerri-Anne (2007); Night Sins (1993); One Stormy Night (1992); Otherworld (1985); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982–1983); SoapTalk (2005); The 11th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards (1995); The 13th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1986); The 15th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards (1999); The 20th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1993); The 21st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1994); The 23rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1997); The 24th Annual People's Choice Awards (1998); The 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2004); The 32nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2005); The 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2023); The 83rd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2014); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1988); The Hollywood Moment (2021); The Hollywood Moment at Home Edition (2021); The Jeff Probst Show (2012); Top Chef Masters (2013); We Love Soaps TV (2012); Wheel of Fortune (2000); WNBC's New York Live (2022); Wordplay (1987); World by The Tail: The Bill Hayes Story (2017).

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