Reading has made such a profound difference to
my life.
I'm sure I became a writer because of the
power of literature in my own life.
- Katherine Paterson.
- Katherine Paterson.
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Born on this day – Eleonora Duse:
Eleonora Duse
Actress
Writer
October 3, 1858 – April 21, 1924
Credit:
Stage actress who starred in only one movie during her entire career: Cenere (1917).
Born on this day – Wade Boteler:
Wade Boteler
Actor
Writer
October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943
Credits:
23 1/2
Hours' Leave (1919); 24 Hours (1931); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); 52nd
Street (1937); A Fight to the Finish (1937); A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941); A
Man of Action (1923); A Man's Game (1934); A Poor Fish (1931); A Slight Case of
Murder (1938); A Star Is Born (1937); A Very Good Young Man (1919); A Very
Honorable Guy (1934); A Woman Against the World (1928); Adventure in Manhattan
(1936); Advice to the Forlorn (1933); Afraid to Fight (1922); Against the Rules
(1931); A-Haunting We Will Go (1942); Air Mail (1932); Alias the Night Wind
(1923); Alibi for Murder (1936); Alibi Ike (1935); Ambush (1939); Among the
Missing (1934); An Old Fashioned Boy (1920); And So They Were Married (1936);
Are You Listening? (1932); Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923); At the
Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922); Baby Face Harrington (1935); Bad Company
(1931); Bad Little Angel (1939); Bad Men of Missouri (1941); Bed of Roses
(1933); Belle of the Nineties (1934); Between Us Girls (1942); Beyond Victory
(1931); Big News (1929); Billy the Kid Returns (1938); Bird of Paradise (1932);
Black Fury (1935); Black Sheep (1935); Blackmail (1939); Blackwell's Island
(1939); Blind Hearts (1921); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blondie Takes a Vacation
(1939); Blood Money (1933); Blue, White and Perfect (1942); Blues in the Night
(1941); Bombay Clipper (1941); Border Cafe (1937); Bordertown (1935); Born to
Be Bad (1934); Breezing Home (1937); Bright Eyes (1934); Brother Rat and a Baby
(1940); Buck Rogers (1939); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); Butch Minds the Baby
(1942); Call of the Wild (1935); Capital Punishment (1925); Captain Hurricane
(1935); Captain Kidd's Treasure (1938); Captains Courageous (1937); Carnival
(1935); Carnival Queen (1937); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Central Park
(1932); Chained (1934); Change of Heart (1938); Charlie Chan at the Circus
(1936); Charlie Chan's Courage (1934); Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940);
Cheers of the Crowd (1935); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); City for Conquest
(1940); City Girl (1938); Clancy at the Bat (1929); Close Harmony (1929); Code
of the Streets (1939); Coffins on Wheels (1941); College Humor (1933); College
Lovers (1930); Come on Danger! (1932); Counterfeit (1936); Country Gentlemen
(1936); Crooked Straight (1919); Crooked Streets (1920); Dance, Girl, Dance
(1940); Dangerous Holiday (1937); Dangerous to Know (1938); Days of Jesse James
(1939); Dead End (1937); Derelict (1930); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Diamond
Jim (1935); Dimples (1936); Divorced Sweethearts (1930); Dog Daze (1939); Don Winslow
of the Navy (1942); Don't Shoot (1922); Double Alibi (1940); Down in San Diego
(1941); Duck Soup (1933); Ducks and Drakes (1921); Ducky Dear (1933); Dust Be
My Destiny (1939); Dynamite (1929); East Side of Heaven (1939); Emergency Squad
(1940); Emma (1932); End of the Trail (1932); Escape from Crime (1942);
Everything's on Ice (1939); Exclusive Story (1936); Ex-Sweeties (1931); Eyes of
the Underworld (1942); Fifty Candles (1921); Fighting Youth (1935); Find the
Blackmailer (1943); Find the Witness (1937); Fired Wife (1943); Fireman, Save
My Child! (1932); Fly-By-Night (1942); Footsteps in the Dark (1941); For the
Love of Ludwig (1932); Four's a Crowd (1938); Framed (1940); Freckles (1935);
Frisco Kid (1935); Front Page Woman (1935); Fugitive Lady (1934); Fugitive
Lovers (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); Gaucho Serenade (1940); Gentleman Jim
(1942); Get Hep to Love (1942); Ginger (1935); Girl from Avenue A (1940); Girls
on Probation (1938); Goin' to Town (1935); Going Up (1923); Good Dame (1934);
Green Light (1937); Havoc (1925); Helldorado (1934); Hello, Everybody! (1933);
Hello, Sister! (1933); Here Comes Trouble (1936); Hi, Buddy (1943); High School
(1940); High School Hero (1927); High Sierra (1941); High Tension (1936);
Highway West (1941); His Girl Friday (1940); Hit and Run (1924); Hit the Ice
(1943); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); Hold That Lion! (1926); Hold Your Man (1933);
Honeymoon Zeppelin (1930); Hot Steel (1940); Human Cargo (1936); Humanity
(1933); Hurricane Smith (1941); I Give My Love (1934); I Married a Witch
(1942); I Wake Up Screaming (1941); I Was Framed (1942); In Old Chicago (1938);
Introduce Me (1925); Invisible Stripes (1939); It Ain't Hay (1943); It Can't
Last Forever (1937); It Happened in Hollywood (1937); It Happened in New York
(1935); It Started with Eve (1941); Jackass Mail (1942); Jim Hanvey, Detective
(1937); Jimmie's Millions (1925); Just Married (1928); Kathleen (1941); Keep
'Em Slugging (1943); Kick In (1931); King for a Night (1933); Know Your Money
(1940); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Lady
of Secrets (1936); Lahoma (1920); Laugh and Get Rich (1931); Lawyer Man (1932);
Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1927); Let It Rain (1927); Let's Be Fashionable (1920);
Little Miss Roughneck (1938); Living on Velvet (1935); Local Boy Makes Good
(1931); Love Crazy (1941); Love in Bloom (1935); Love Is News (1937); Love Thy
Neighbor (1940); Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940); Made on Broadway (1933);
Madison Square Garden (1932); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Manhattan Tower (1932);
Mannequin (1937); Marriage in Transit (1925); Married Before Breakfast (1937);
Meet the Senator (1932); Melody in Spring (1934); Melody Trail (1935); Men Are
Such Fools (1938); Men of Boys Town (1941); Midnight Daddies (1930); Mind Your
Own Business (1936); Missing Daughters (1939); Mississippi Gambler (1942);
Moonlight in Havana (1942); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Murder on the
Blackboard (1934); Music Is Magic (1935); My Favorite Blonde (1942); My Kingdom
for a Cook (1943); My Little Chickadee (1940); Mystery of the Wax Museum
(1933); Mystery Ship (1941); Navy Blues (1929); Never Say Die (1924); News Is
Made at Night (1939); Night Class (1931); Night Life of the Gods (1935);
Nobody's Fool (1936); Off the Record (1939); On Your Toes (1939); One Man in a
Million (1921); One Wild Night (1938); Operator 13 (1934); O'Shaughnessy's Boy
(1935); Pacific Blackout (1941); Parnell (1937); Passport Husband (1938);
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938); Penrod and Sam (1931); Pepper (1936);
Pittsburgh (1942); Planet Outlaws (1953); Poker Widows (1931); Pony Express
Days (1940); Poppy (1936); Possessed (1931); Private Buckaroo (1942); Professor
Beware (1938); Queen Christina (1933); Reckless (1935); Red Barry (1938); Red
Hot Tires (1935); Remember Last Night? (1935); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Ridin'
Wild (1922); Riding High (1943); Riffraff (1935); Robin Hood of the Pecos
(1941); Romance in Manhattan (1934); Rule 'Em and Weep (1932); Rulers of the
Sea (1939); Sabotage (1939); Sadie McKee (1934); Scandal Street (1938); Second
Hand Rose (1922); Second Honeymoon (1937); Secrets of a Nurse (1938); Sergeant
Madden (1939); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925); Shakedown (1936); She Couldn't
Help It (1920); She Done Him Wrong (1933); She Made Her Bed (1934); She's No
Lady (1937); Silence (1931); Silver Dollar (1932); Sing Your Worries Away
(1942); Sinner Take All (1936); Sitting Pretty (1933); Six Lessons from Madame
La Zonga (1941); Ski Patrol (1940); Slide, Speedy, Slide (1931); Slim (1937);
So You Won't Talk (1940); Society Doctor (1935); Soft Cushions (1927); Soldiers
and Women (1930); Southward Ho! (1939); Spawn of the North (1938); Speed Demon
(1932); Speed Madness (1932); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935); The Flirty
Sleepwalker (1932); The Flying Fleet (1929); The Forest Rangers (1942); The
Frame-Up (1937); The Gay Deception (1935); The Getaway (1941); The Ghost Patrol
(1923); Sporting Goods (1928); Spring Parade (1940); St. Louis Blues (1939);
Strange Alibi (1941); Stranger Than Fiction (1921); Streamline Express (1935);
Street of Memories (1940); Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942); Television Spy
(1939); That's My Baby (1926); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939); The
Adventures of Jane Arden (1939); The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942); The
Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938); The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943); The Baby
Cyclone (1928); The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937); The Big Game (1936); The Body
Disappears (1941); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Crash (1928); The Crosby
Case (1934); The Cup of Fury (1920); The Death Kiss (1932); The Devil's Holiday
(1930); The Fainting Lover (1931); The False Road (1920); The Godless Girl
(1928); The Good Fellows (1943); The Goose and the Gander (1935); The Gorgeous
Hussy (1936); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); The Great Night (1922); The
Green Hornet (1940 / 1990); The Green Hornet Movie Edition (2011); The Green
Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Man Who Played God (1932); The Man with Two
Faces (1934); The Mandarin Mystery (1936); The Marines Are Here (1938); The
Headline Woman (1935); The Hidden Hand (1942); The Home Stretch (1921); The
Howards of Virginia (1940); The Human Side (1934); The Ice Follies of 1939
(1939); The Iron Man (1931); The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble (1937); The
Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Kid from Kansas (1941); The Lady from Cheyenne
(1941); The Last Edition (1925); The Last Gangster (1937); The Last Ride
(1944); The Leather Necker (1935); The Leather Pushers (1940); The Leatherneck
(1929); The Little Adventuress (1938); The Lone Avenger (1933); The Lying Truth
(1922); Youth on Parole (1937); Youth Takes a Fling (1938); The Mad Doctor of
Market Street (1942); The Magnificent Brute (1936); The Man from Dakota (1940);
The Man in the Trunk (1942); The Merry Frinks (1934); The Mysterious Miss X
(1939); The New Half Back (1929); The Night Mayor (1932); The Oklahoma Kid
(1939); The Painted Desert (1931); The Painted Woman (1932); The Phantom
Horseman (1924); The President's Mystery (1936); The Rage of Paris (1938); The
Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936); The Richest Girl in the World (1934); The
Roaring Twenties (1939); The Secret Bride (1934); The Secret Code (1942); The
Shopworn Angel (1938); The Singing Hill (1941); The Single Standard (1929); The
Social Buccaneer (1923); The Son-Daughter (1932); The St. Louis Kid (1934); The
Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); The Three
Musketeers (1935); The Toilers (1928); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); The
Unfoldment (1922); The Walking Dead (1936); The Way of All Flesh (1940); The
Way of All Men (1930); The Westerner (1934); The Whipping Boss (1924); The Wide
Open Spaces (1931); The Woman's Side (1922); There's Always a Woman (1938);
They Shall Have Music (1939); This Day and Age (1933); Three Faces West (1940);
Three Smart Girls (1936); Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939); Through a Glass
Window (1922); Through the Dark (1924); Thunder Afloat (1939); 'Til We Meet
Again (1940); Timber! (1942); Tip-Off Girls (1938); Top Sergeant Mulligan
(1928); Top Speed (1930); Topper Takes a Trip (1938); Trapped by Television
(1936); Two Alone (1934); Under Eighteen (1931); Under Texas Skies (1940);
Undercover Doctor (1939); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Unknown Valley (1933);
Vacation from Love (1938); Valley of the Giants (1938); Warming Up (1928);
Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); Way Back Home (1931); We Who Are Young (1940);
Wells Fargo (1937); When Tomorrow Comes (1939); Where Did You Get That Girl?
(1941); While Satan Sleeps (1922); Whipsaw (1935); Wild Boys of the Road
(1933); Winds of Chance (1925); Women in Hiding (1940); World Premiere (1941);
You Only Live Once (1937); Young Buffalo Bill (1940); Young Tom Edison (1940);
You're a Sweetheart (1937).
Born on this day – Leo McCarey:
Leo McCarey
Director
Writer
Producer
October 3, 1898 – July 5,
1969
Credits:
A
Ten-Minute Egg (1924); Accidental Accidents (1924); All Wet (1924); An Affair
to Remember (1957); Bad Boy (1925); Be Your Age (1926); Belle of the Nineties
(1934); Big Business (1929); Big Red Riding Hood (1925); Blow by Blow (1928);
Bromo and Juliet (1926); Bungalow Boobs (1924); Came the Dawn (1928); Charley
My Boy! (1926); Crazy Like a Fox (1926); Do Gentlemen Snore? (1928); Dog Shy
(1926); Don't Tell Everything (1927); Duck Soup (1933); Eve's Love Letters
(1927); Fighting Fathers (1927); Fighting Fluid (1925); Flaming Fathers (1927);
Freed 'em and Weep (1929); From Soup to Nuts (1928); Going My Way (1944); Good
Sam (1948); Habeas Corpus (1928); Hard Boiled (1925); Hello Baby! (1925); His
Wooden Wedding (1925); Hold Everything (1925); Imagine My Embarrassment (1928);
Indiscreet (1931); Innocent Husbands (1925); Is Marriage the Bunk? (1925);
Isn't Life Terrible? (1925); Jeffries Jr. (1924); Jewish Prudence (1927); Leave
'em Laughing (1928); Let's Go Native (1930); Liberty (1929); Long Fliv the King
(1926); Looking for Sally (1925); Love Affair (1939); Make Way for Tomorrow
(1937); Mama Behave (1926); May I Come In (1930); Mighty Like a Moose (1926);
Mum's the Word (1926); My Son John (1952); No Father to Guide Him (1925); Once
Upon a Honeymoon (1942); Outdoor Pajamas (1924); Plain and Fancy Girls (1925);
Publicity Pays (1924); Red Hot Rhythm (1929); 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958);
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Satan Never Sleeps (1962); Screen Directors
Playhouse (1955); Seeing Nellie Home (1924); Should Husbands Be Watched?
(1925); Should Married Men Go Home? (1928); Should Men Walk Home? (1927);
Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927); Should Women Drive? (1928); Sittin'
Pretty (1924); Six of a Kind (1934); Society Secrets (1921); Stolen Goods
(1924); Sugar Daddies (1927); Sweet Daddy (1924); Tell 'Em Nothing (1926); Tell
It to the Judge (1928); That Night (1928); The Awful Truth (1937); The Battle
of the Century (1927); The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); The Boy Friend (1928);
The Caretaker's Daughter (1925); The Family Entrance (1925); The Family Group
(1928); The Fight Pest (1928); The Finishing Touch (1928); The Kid from Spain
(1932); The Milky Way (1936); The Poor Fish (1924); The Rat's Knuckles (1925);
The Royal Razz (1924); The Sophomore (1929); The Uneasy Three (1925); The
Unkissed Man (1929); Too Many Mammas (1924); We Faw Down (1928); What Every
Iceman Knows (1927); What Price Goofy? (1925); When Money Comes (1929); Why
Girls Say No (1927); Why Husbands Go Mad (1924); Why Is a Plumber? (1929); Why
Men Work (1924); Wild Company (1930); Wrong Again (1929); You Can Change the
World (1950); Young Oldfield (1924).
Born on this day – Thomas Wolfe:
Thomas Wolfe
Writer
October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938
Credits:
Books:
Look Homeward, Angel (1929); Of Time and the River (1935); The Web and the Rock (1939); You Can't Go Home Again (1940) The Good Child's River (1991); The Web and the Root (2009); From Death to Morning (1935); The Hills Beyond (1941); A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (poems) (1945); The Story of a Novel (1936); The Face of a Nation (1939); Letters of Thomas Wolfe (1956).
Movies and television:
Camera Three (1976); Charles Laughton (1952); Crusade Report (1951); Days in the Yellow Leaf (1989); Die Herren von der Presse (1965); Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin (1972); Herrenhaus (1966); Look Homeward, Angel (1972); Of Time and the River (1953); Of Time and the River (II); (1953); Schau heimwärts, Engel (1961); Willkommen in Altamont (1965); You Can't Go Home Again (1979).
Born on this day – James Herriot:
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James Herriot
Veterinary surgeon
Writer
October 3, 1916 –
February 23, 1995
Credits:
Books:
If Only They Could Talk (1970); All Creatures Great and Small (1972); It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972); Vet in Harness (1974); All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974); Vets Might Fly (1976); All Things Wise and Wonderful (1976); The Lord God Made Them All (1981); The Best of James Herriot (1983); Vet in a Spin (1984); Smudge, The Little Lost Lamb (1991); Smudge's Day Out (1991); Horse & Pony Stories (1986); Bonny's Big Day (1972); Moses the Kitten (1984); Only One Woof (1985); The Christmas Day Kitten (1986); Blossom Comes Home (1988); The Market Square Dog (1989); Oscar, Cat-About-Town (1990); The Animals at Diamond Woods (2009); Animal Stories, Tame & Wild (1979); James Herriot's Yorkshire (1979); All Creatures Great and Small Annual 1982 (1981); James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories (1986); James Herriot's Dog Stories (1986); Greatest Cat Stories (1989); James Herriot Story Book (1992); Every Living Thing (1992); James Herriot's Treasury for Children (1992); James Herriot's Cat Stories (1994); Seven Yorkshire tales (1995); James Herriot's Yorkshire Stories (1995); James Herriot's Yorkshire Village (1995); James Herriot's Animal Stories (1997); Yorkshire Stories (1998); James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited (1999).
Movies and television:
All Creatures Great and Small (1975 / 2024); All Creatures Great and Small / TV Series (1978–1990); All Creatures Great and Small / TV Series (2020–2024); It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976); James Herriot's Yorkshire (1993); Pebble Mill at One (1975); Read All About It (1976); The Lively Arts (1976–1977); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); To Tell the Truth (1973); Young James Herriot (2011).
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