Born on this day – Gisèle Préville:

Actress

December 11, 1918 – November 26, 2006

Born on this day – Val Guest:

Director

Writer

December 11, 1911 – May 10, 2006

Born on this day – Sally Eilers:

Actress

December 11, 1908 – January 5, 1978

Credits:

Stage to Tucson (1950); Coroner Creek (1948); Strange Illusion (1945); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); First Aid (1943); I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941); Full Confession (1939); They Made Her a Spy (1939); Tarnished Angel (1938); Nurse from Brooklyn (1938); Condemned Women (1938); Everybody's Doing It (1938); Lady Behave! (1937); Danger Patrol (1937); We Have Our Moments (1937); Talk of the Devil (1936); Without Orders (1936); Florida Special (1936); Don't Get Personal (1936); Strike Me Pink (1936); Remember Last Night? (1935); Pursuit (1935); Alias Mary Dow (1935); Carnival (1935); I Spy (1934); She Made Her Bed (1934); Three on a Honeymoon (1934); Walls of Gold (1933); Hold Me Tight (1933); Made on Broadway (1933); Central Airport (1933); Sailor's Luck (1933); State Fair (1933); Second Hand Wife (1933); Hat Check Girl (1932); Disorderly Conduct (1932); Dance Team (1932); Over the Hill (1931); Bad Girl (1931); A Holy Terror (1931); The Black Camel (1931); Quick Millions (1931); Clearing the Range (1931); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931); Reducing (1931); Doughboys (1930); Let Us Be Gay (1930); Trigger Tricks (1930); Roaring Ranch (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1930); Show of Shows (1929); The Long, Long Trail (1929); Sailor's Holiday (1929); Broadway Babies (1929); Matchmaking Mamma (1929); Trial Marriage (1929); Weary River (1929); The Campus Vamp (1928); Dry Martini (1928); The Campus Carmen (1928); The Good-Bye Kiss (1928); Fazil (1928); Broadway Daddies (1928); The Crowd (1928); Sunrise (1927); Slightly Used (1927); Paid to Love (1927); The Cradle Snatchers (1927); The Red Mill (1927).

Born on this day – Ethel Borden:

Writer

Actress

December 11, 1897 – July 4, 1953

Credits:

They Wanted to Marry (1937); I Live My Life (1935); After Office Hours (1935).

Annie Dillard, on reading:

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts?

Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms?

Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days,

will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness,

and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries,

so that we may feel again their majesty and power?

– from The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard.

On this day in music history - The album A Word in the Wind, by 2002 (2009)

A Word in the Wind

by 2002

was released on December 10, 2009.

 

On this day in movie history - The Fighter (2010)

The Fighter

directed by David O. Russell,

written by Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson and Scott Silver,

based on a story by Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson,

was released in the United States on December 10, 2010.

Music by Michael Brook.

Cast:

Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O'Keefe, Jack McGee, Melissa McMeekin, Bianca Hunter, Erica McDermott, Jill Quigg, Dendrie Taylor, Kate B. O'Brien, Jenna Lamia, Frank Renzulli, Paul Campbell, Caitlin Dwyer, Chanty Sok, Ted Arcidi, Ross Bickell, Sean Malone, José Antonio Rivera, Richard Farrell, Matthew Muzio, Steven Barkhimer, Art Ramalho, Sugar Ray Leonard, Jackson Nicoll, Alison Folland, Sean Patrick Doherty, Sue Costello, Thomas Benton, Ray Greenhalge, Tino Kimly, Epifanio Melendez, Jeremiah Kissel, Roeun Chea, Brian Nguyen, Rikki Kleiman, Michael Dell'Orto, Paul Locke, Kim Carrell, Colin Hamell, Dale Place, Eddie Lee Anderson, Joe Lupino, Bonnie Aarons, Walter Driscoll, Matt Russell, A. Joseph Denucci, George Michael Ward, Jack Greenhalge, Kevin Paige, David A. Ramalho Sr., Ziad Akl, Simon Hamlin, Gerald Greenhalge, Matthew Russell, Rita Mercier, Deborah Bolanger, Kerry Moore, Philip Dorn Hebert, Raul Vera, Jack Lally, Carlos L. Smith, Lee Wesley, Hugh Long, Catherine Lynn Stone, Bo Cleary, Anthony Molinari, Peter Cunningham, Miguel Espino, Anthony 'Ace' Thomas, Brian Christensen, Jen Weissenberg, Michael Buffer, Larry Merchant, Jim Lampley, Emanuel Steward, Roy Jones Jr., George Foreman, Don Dunphy.