On this day in music history - Feast of Losses, by Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen (2022):

The album Feast of Losses,

by Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen,

was released on October 31, 2022.

On this day in music history - Angel Above My Piano, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2006):

The album Angel Above My Piano,

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

was released on October 31, 2006.

On this day in movie history - Sylvia (2003):

Sylvia,

directed by Christine Jeffs,

written by John Brownlow,

was released in the United States on October 31, 2003.
Music by Gabriel Yared.

Cast:
Gwyneth Paltrow, David Birkin, Alison Bruce, Amira Casar, Daniel Craig, Blythe Danner, Lucy Davenport, Julian Firth, Jeremy Fowlds, Michael Gambon, Sarah Guyler, Jared Harris, Andrew Havill, Theresa Healey, Liddy Holloway, Robyn Malcolm, Michael Mears, Siobhan Page, Derek Payne, Sonia Ritter, Billy Seymour, Antony Strachan, Katherine Tozer, Sam Troughton, Eliza Wade, Ben Want, Joel Want, Hannah Watkins, Tandi Wright, Rhys Bond, David House, James Hurn, William Palmer.

On this day in movie history - Borderline (1980):

Borderline,

directed by Jerrold Freedman,

written by Jerrold Freedman and Steve Kline,

was released in the United States on October 31, 1980.
Music by Gil Melle.

Cast:
Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Bert Remsen, Michael Lerner, Kenneth McMillan, Ed Harris, Karmin Murcelo, Enrique Castillo, Wilford Brimley, Norman Alden, James Victor, Panchito Gómez, John Ashton, Lawrence P. Casey, Charles Cyphers, John Roselius, Murray MacLeod, Jerry DeWilde, Katherine Pass, Virgil Frye, Luis Contreras, Eduardo Ricard, John O’Banion, Rodger LaRue, Cha Cha Sandoval-McMahon, Virginia Bingham, Anthony Munoz, Ray Ochoa, Ab Taylor, Frank Deatsch, Juan DeLira, Tammy Wilson, Chris Coronado, Tony Alvarenga, Ferdinand Pina, Arnold Diaz, Sy Fuentes, Carlos Muñoz, Norberto Hernández, Luther Fear.

On this day in movie history - The Night That Panicked America (1975):

The Night That Panicked America,

directed by Joseph Sargent,

written by Nicholas Meyer and Anthony Wilson,

based on a story by Nicholas Meyer,

was released in the United States on October 31, 1975.
TV movie, originally screened on the ABC network.
Based on Orson Welles’ dramatized radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds,

in turn based on the novel H. G. Wells,

broadcast as part of the CBS Radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air on October 30, 1938.

Music by Frank Comstock.

Cast:
Paul Shenar, Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine, Walter McGinn, Eileen Brennan, Meredith Baxter, Tom Bosley, Will Geer, John Ritter, Granville Van Dusen,   Burton Gilliam, Joshua Bryant, Liam Dunn, Shelley Morrison, Walker Edmiston, Marcus J. Grapes, Art Hannes, Casey Kasem, Ron Rifkin, Byron Webster, Clarke Gordon, Linda Dano, Tracy Brooks Swope, Hanna Landy, Robert Lussier, Ed Bakey, Bob Harks, Michelle Stacy.

On this day in movie history - They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968):

They Came to Rob Las Vegas,

directed by Antonio Isasi,

written by Antonio Isasi, Lluis Josep Comeron, Jorge Illa and Jo Eisinger, based on the novel by André Lay,

was released in Spain on October 31, 1968.
Music by Georges Garvarentz.

Cast:
Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Servais, Georges Géret, Jack Palance, Fabrizio Capucci, Roger Hanin, Gustavo Re, Daniel Martín, Maurizio Arena, Enrique Ávila, Gérard Tichy, Rubén Rojo, Ingrid Spaey, Carlos Ballesteros, Luis Barboo, Rossella Bergamonti, Antonio Casas, Beni Deus, Fernando Hilbeck, José Marco, Julio Pérez Tabernero, George Rigaud, Lorenzo Robledo.

Born on this day – John Candy:

John Candy

Actor

Comedian

October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994

Born on this day – David Ogden Stiers:

David Ogden Stiers

Actor

Conductor

October 31, 1942 – March 3, 2018

Born on this day – Bud Spencer:

Bud Spencer

Actor

Swimmer

Water polo player

October 31, 1929 – June 27, 2016

Born on this day – Dianne Foster:

Dianne Foster

Actress

October 31, 1928 – July 27, 2019

Born on this day – Cleo Moore:

Cleo Moore

Actress

October 31, 1924 – October 25, 1973

Born on this day – Barbara Bel Geddes:

Barbara Bel Geddes

Actress

Artist

Writer

October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005

Born on this day – Dale Evans:

Dale Evans

Actress

Singer

Songwriter

October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001

Born on this day – Sheila Bromley:

Sheila Bromley

Actress

October 31, 1907 – July 23, 2003

Born on this day – Ethel Waters:

Ethel Waters

Singer

Actress

October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977

Born on this day – John Keats:

John Keats

Writer

October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821

Poems:

A Galloway Song; A Song About Myself; A Song of Opposites; A Party Of Lovers; Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats; Addressed to Haydon; Addressed to the Same; After dark vapours have oppressed our plains; Apollo to the Graces; An Extempore; As from the darkening gloom a silver dove; As Hermes once took to his feathers light; Before he went to live with owls and bats; Ben Nevis: A Dialogue; Blue!—’Tis the life of heaven—the domain; Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art; Calidore: A Fragment; Character of C. B.; Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds; Endymion; Extracts from an Opera; Faery Songs; Fancy; Fill for me a brimming bowl; For there’s Bishop’s Teign; Fragment Of “The Castle Builder”; Fragment of an Ode to Maia; God of the meridian; Happy is England! I could be content; Hence burgundy, claret, and port; Hither, hither, love; How many bards gild the lapses of time; Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear; Hymn To Apollo; Hyperion; I am as brisk; I cry your mercy—pity—love!—aye, love; I had a dove, and the sweet dove died; I stoof tip-toe upon a little hill; Imitation of Spenser; In after time a sage of mickle lore; In drear nighted December; Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil; Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there; King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy; La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad; Lamia; Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern; Lines (Unfelt, unheard, unseen…); Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing; Meg Merrilies; Modern Love; Not Aladdin magian; O grant that like to Peter I; O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell; O thou whose face hath felt the winter’s wind; Ode (Bards of Passion and of Mirth); Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on a Melancholy; Ode on Indolence; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Apollo; Ode to Psyche; Of late two dainties were before me plac’d; Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve; On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me; On Fame (“Fame, like a wayward girl”); On Fame (“How fever’d is the man”); On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour; On Peace; On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies; On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles; On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again; On Some Skills in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness; On the Grasshopper and Cricket; On the Sea; On the Sonnet; On Visiting the Tomb of Burns; On Leigh Hunt’s Poem, the ‘Story of Rimini’; Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts; Over the hill and over the dale; Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud; Robin Hood; Sharing Eve’s Apple; Sleep and Poetry; Song of Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water; Sonnet to Byron; Sonnet to Chatterton; Sonnet to Sleep; Sonnet to Spenser; Specimen of an Induction to a Poem; Spirit here that reignest; Stay, ruby breated warbler, stay; Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes; The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone; The Eve of St. Agnes; The Eve of St. Mark; The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream; The Human Seasons; The Gadfly; The Gothic looks solemn; The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale (Unfinished); There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain; Think not of it, sweet one, so; This living hand, now warm and capable; This mortal body of a thousand days; Time’s sea hath been five years at its slow ebb; Tis the “witching time of night”; To.- (Had I a man’s fair form, then might my sighs); To.- (Hadst tho liv’d in days of old); To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses; To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown; To Ailsa Rock; To Autumn; To Charles Cowden Clarke; To Emma; To G. A. W.; To George Felton Mathew; To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on seeing the Elgin Marbles; To Homer; To Hope; To J. H. Reynolds; To Kosciusko; To Leigh Hunt, Esq.; To Mrs. Reynold’s Cat; To My Brother George (epistle); To My Brother George (sonnet); To My Brothers; To one who has been long in city pent; To Some Ladies; To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown’d; To the Nile; Translated From A Sonnet Of Ronsard; Two or three posies; What can I do to drive away; When I have fears that I may cease to be; Where by ye going, you Devon maid; Where’s the Poet? (Fragment); Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell; Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain; Women, wine, and snuff; Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition; Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison; Written On The Blank Space Of A Leaf At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe; You say you love, but with a voice.

Theodore Roosevelt, on books:

There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter

when the rocking chair in front of the fire

simply demands an accompanying book.

- Theodore Roosevelt.