On this day in music history - Calm Within, by Laura Sullivan (2015):

The album Calm Within,

by Laura Sullivan,

was released on December 11, 2015.

On this day in music history - Ama, by Cecilia Chailly (2001):

The album Ama,

by Cecilia Chailly,

was released on December 11, 2001.

On this day in movie history - Driving Miss Daisy (1989):

Driving Miss Daisy,

directed by Bruce Beresford,

written by Alfred Uhry,

based on the play by Alfred Uhry,

was released in the United States on December 11, 1989.
Music by Hans Zimmer.

Cast:
Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Joann Havrilla, William Hall Jr., Alvin M. Sugarman, Clarice F. Geigerman, Muriel Moore, Sylvia Kaler, Carolyn Gold, Crystal Fox, Bob Hannah, Ray McKinnon, Ashley Josey, Jack Rousso, Fred Faser, Indra A. Thomas, Trilby Beresford, Dean DuBois, Jay Freer, Jen Harper, Martin Luther King, D. Taylor Loeb.

On this day in movie history - Pittsburgh (1942):

Pittsburgh,

directed by Lewis Seiler,

written by Kenneth Gamet, Tom Reed, John Twist, Robert Fellows and Winston Miller,

based on a story by George Owen and Tom Reed,

was released in the United States on December 11, 1942.
Music by Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner.

Cast:
Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Frank Craven, Louise Allbritton, Shemp Howard, Thomas Gomez, Ludwig Stössel, Samuel S. Hinds, Paul Fix, William Haade, Charles Coleman, Nestor Paiva, John Alban, Charles Arnt, Lois Austin, Don Barclay, Robert Barron, Brandon Beach, Brooks Benedict, Edward Biby, Ted Billings, Wade Boteler, Chet Brandenburg, Tex Brodus, James Carlisle, Hobart Cavanaugh, Jack Chefe, James Conaty, Harry Cording, Victor Cox, Hal Craig, Oliver Cross, Grace Cunard, Sayre Dearing, Jack Deery, William Desmond, Helen Dickson, John Dilson, Jimmy Dime, Ed Emerson, Bess Flowers, Douglas Fowley, Joe Garcio, Jack Gardner, Jack Gargan, Kenneth Gibson, Gus Glassmire, George Golden, Dick Gordon, William Gould, Bobbie Hale, Eddie Hall, Chuck Hamilton, Sam Harris, Winifred Harris, Carol Henry, Edward Keane, Joe Kirk, Ethan Laidlaw, Nolan Leary, Kay Linaker, Frank Marlowe, Alphonse Martell, Johnny Marvin, Larry McGrath, Mira McKinney, Paul McVey, Robert Milasch, Irving Mitchell, Sandra Morgan, Frances Morris, Edmund Mortimer, Charles Morton, Broderick O'Farrell, Monty O'Grady, Bob Perry, Lorin Raker, Bob Reeves, Cyril Ring, Robert Robinson, William Ruhl, Virginia Sale, Paul Scott, Harry Seymour, John Sheehan, Charles Sherlock, Jack C. Smith, Tom Steele, Sammy Stein, Brick Sullivan, Charles Sullivan, Ben Taggart, Dale Van Sickel, Frankie Van, Ray Walker, Glen Walters, Anthony Warde, Phil Warren.

Born on this day – Jim Harrison:

Jim Harrison

Writer

December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016

Credits:

A Good Day to Die (1973); A Really Big Lunch (2017); After Ikkyu and Other Poems (1996); Braided Creek (2003); Brown Dog (2013); Conversations with Jim Harrison (2002); Dalva (1988); Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (2013); Dead Man's Float (2015); Farmer (1976); Great Leader (2011); In Search of Small Gods (2009); Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals (2020); Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems (2019); Julip (1994); Just Before Dark (1993); Legends of the Fall (1979); Letters to Yesenin (1973); Locations (1968); New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry (2000); Off to the Side (2002); Outlyer and Ghazals (1971); Plain Song (1965); Returning to Earth (2007); Saving Daylight (2006); Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 (1982); Songs of Unreason (2011); Sundog (1984); The Ancient Minstrel (2016); The Beast God Forgot to Invent (2000); The Big Seven (2015); The Boy Who Ran to the Woods (2000); The English Major (2008); The Etiquette of Freedom (2010); The Farmer's Daughter (2009); The Raw and the Cooked (2001); The River Swimmer (2013); The Road Home (1998); The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (2022); The Shape of the Journey (1998); The Summer He Didn't Die (2005); The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems (1990); The Woman Lit by Fireflies (1990); True North (2004); Warlock (1982); Wild Stories (2002); Wolf (1971).

Born on this day – Nancy Holloway:

Nancy Holloway

Singer

Actress

December 11, 1932 – August 28, 2019

Born on this day – Chus Lampreave:

Chus Lampreave

Actress

December 11, 1930 – April 4, 2016

Born on this day – Jean-Louis Trintignant:

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Actor

December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022

Born on this day – Betsy Blair:

Betsy Blair

Actress

December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009

Born on this day – Maila Nurmi:

Maila Nurmi

Actress

December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008

Portrayed the character Vampira

Born on this day – Marie Windsor:

Marie Windsor

Actress

December 11, 1919 – December 10, 2000

Born on this day – Gisèle Préville:

Gisèle Préville

Actress

December 11, 1918 – November 26, 2006

Born on this day – Val Guest:

Val Guest

Director

Writer

December 11, 1911 – May 10, 2006

Born on this day – Sally Eilers:

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:

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 we may feel again their majesty and power?

- from The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard.