Born on this day – Virginia Valli:

Actress

January 10, 1896 – September 24, 1968

Credits:

Night Life in Reno (1931); Guilty? (1930); The Lost Zeppelin (1929); Mister Antonio (1929); The Isle of Lost Ships (1929); Behind Closed Doors (1929); The Street of Illusion (1928); The Escape (1928); Ladies Must Dress (1927); East Side, West Side (1927); Judgment of the Hills (1927); Paid to Love (1927); Evening Clothes (1927); Marriage (1927); Stage Madness (1927); Flames (1926); The Family Upstairs (1926); Watch Your Wife (1926); The Pleasure Garden (1925); The Man Who Found Himself (1925); The Lady Who Lied (1925); Siege (1925); Up the Ladder (1925); The Price of Pleasure (1925); K: The Unknown (1924); In Every Woman's Life (1924); The Signal Tower (1924); The Confidence Man (1924); Wild Oranges (1924); A Lady of Quality (1924); The Shock (1923); The Village Blacksmith (1922); The Storm (1922); The Black Bag (1922); His Back Against the Wall (1922); Tracked to Earth (1922); The Right That Failed (1922); The Idle Rich (1921); The Devil Within (1921); A Trip to Paradise (1921); The Man Who (1921); Love's Penalty (1921); Sentimental Tommy (1921); The Silver Lining (1921); The Plunger (1920); The Common Sin (1920); The Dead Line (1920); The Very Idea (1920); The Midnight Bride (1920); The Black Circle (1919); His Father's Wife (1919); The Lie That Failed (1918); Ruggles of Red Gap (1918); Uneasy Money (1918); The Fibbers (1917); The Fable of the Speedy Sprite (1917); Efficiency Edgar's Courtship (1917); The Long Green Trail (1917); The Golden Idiot (1917); Much Obliged (1917); Vernon, the Bountiful (1917); Filling His Own Shoes (1917); The Quarantined Bridegroom (1917); Satan's Private Door (1917); Skinner's Dress Suit (1917); The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916).

Liv Ullman, on books:

Books have always been living things to me.

Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little.

When I have been perplexed,

looking for something I could not define to myself,

a certain book has turned up,

approached me as a friend would.

And between its cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

- Liv Ullmann.

On this day in music history - The album Key of Sea, by Jennifer Thomas (2007)

Key of Sea

by Jennifer Thomas

was released on January 9, 2007.

 

On this day in music history - The album Rossini Heroines, by Cecilia Bartoli (1992)

Rossini Heroines

by Cecilia Bartoli

was released on January 9, 1992.

On this day in movie history - True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

True History of the Kelly Gang

directed by Justin Kurzel,

based on the novel by Peter Carey,

was released in Australia on January 9, 2020.

Music by Jed Kurzel.

Cast:

George MacKay, Orlando Schwerdt, Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis, Sean Keenan, Jacob Collins-Levy, Thomasin McKenzie, Charlie Hunnam, Claudia Karvan, Marlon Williams, Gentle Ben Corbett, Earl Cave, Louis Hewison.

On this day in movie history - The Pledge (2001)

The Pledge

directed by Sean Penn,

written by Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski,

based on the novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt,

was released in the United States on January 9, 2001.

Music by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer.

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Benicio del Toro, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Tom Noonan, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Dale Dickey, Costas Mandylor, Michael O'Keefe, Mickey Rourke, Lois Smith, Brittany Tiplady, Eileen Ryan.

On this day in movie history - This Gun for Hire (1991)

This Gun for Hire

directed by Lou Antonio,

written by Nevin Schreiner,

based on the novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene,

was released in the United States on January 9, 1991.

Music by Dana Kaproff.

Cast:

Robert Wagner, Nancy Everhard, Fredric Lehne, John Harkins, John McConnell, Joe Warfield, Kristina Loggia, Patrik Baldauff, Lenore Banks, James Borders, Dean Cochran, David Dahlgren, Margaret Dubuisson, Robert Earle, Ron Flagge, Larry Gamell Jr., Leslie Fortenberry, C. Robert Holloway, George Jones, Danny Kamin, Eliott Keener, Fred Lerner, Soline McLain, Marco St. John, Taylor Simpson, Carol Sutton.