Born on this day – Greer Garson:

Greer Garson

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996

Credits:

Radio:

Brief Encounter (1946); Mrs. Parkington (1946); My Favorite Wife (1945); The African Queen (1952); The Philadelphia Story (1942); Twas the Night Before Christmas (1953).

Movies and television:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 24th Annual Academy Awards (1952); 60 Minutes Of (2023); A Gift of Music (1981); A Report from Miss Greer Garson (1944); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); Adventure (1945); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976–1980); American Masters (1986); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); At This Very Moment (1962); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bogart: The Untold Story (1997); Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960); Crown Matrimonial (1974); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978); Desire Me (1947); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Extraordinary Women (2011); Father Knows Best (1957); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); General Electric Theater (1956–1960); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939); Her Twelve Men (1954); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Hist-o-Rama (1961); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hour Magazine (1986); How He Lied to Her Husband (1937); Inasmuch... (1934); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963); James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (2017); Julia Misbehaves (1948); Julius Caesar (1953); Little Women (1978); Madame Curie (1943); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Mrs. Miniver (1942); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Father Gave Me America (1973); Pepe (1960); Perry Como's Christmas in New Mexico (1979); Personalities (1942); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005); Producers' Showcase (1955); Random Harvest (1942); Remember? (1939); Rockette: A Holiday Tribute to Radio City Music Hall (1978); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970); Scandal at Scourie (1953); Screen Actors (1950); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Some of the Best (1949); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Sophia Loren (2019); Star Stage (1955); Strange Lady in Town (1955); Sunrise at Campobello (1960); Talking Pictures (1988); Telephone Time (1957); That Forsyte Woman (1949); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Art Linkletter Show (1968); The Big Party (1959); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Heart of Variety (1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Law and the Lady (1951); The Linkletter Show (1967–1968); The Little Drummer Boy (1968); The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976); The Little Foxes (1956); The Love Boat (1982); The Merv Griffin Show (1963–1971); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Miniver Story (1950); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Red Skelton Hour (1964–1966); The School for Scandal (1937); The Singing Nun (1966); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1972); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Virginian (1970); The Youngest Profession (1943); Theatre Parade (1937); This Is Your Life (1960); This Proud Land (1966); Twenty Years After (1944); Victory in the Pacific (1995); What's My Line? (1953–1958); When Ladies Meet (1941).

Recommended reading - The Chair for Martin Rome (1947):

The Chair for Martin Rome

By Henry Edward Helseth.

ASIN: B0007I5CI0

First published 1947.

Published by Pocket Books.

Paperback.

Description:

Condemned killer escapes.

Martin Rome killed a policeman during a robbery. For this the State sentenced him to the electric chair. But before that bleak final moment Martin Rome had business to finish outside the jail – matters of stolen jewels and some human rats and a girl whose very existence he denied to the detectives but whose reality for him transcended all things. The swift, terrifying story of his mad undertaking, the grim revelation it brought to the police and, even more grimly, to Rome itself, is an emotional experience that leaves the reader thrilled and unnerved at the closing page.

“Just about the most real and convincing tough-job that has come in this season. Not easily forgettable.”

– Saturday Review of Literature.

Iris Murdoch, on reading and writing:

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms

and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of

is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

 – Iris Murdoch.

National Coffee Day - September 29:

On this day in movie history - Feel Like Going Home (2003):

Feel Like Going Home

documentary directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Peter Guralnick,

part 1 of the documentary series The Blues,

produced by Martin Scorsese,

was released in the United States on September 28, 2003.

Additional music by Davis Coen and John McCullough.

Cast:

Sam Carr, Toumani Diabaté, Corey Harris, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Salif Keïta, Willie King, Habib Koité, Leadbelly, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', Bernice Turner Pratcher, Martin Scorsese, Johnny Shines, Sharde Thomas, Ali Farka Touré, Otha Turner, Dick Waterman, Muddy Waters.

On this day in movie history - Ed Wood (1994):

Ed Wood

directed by Tim Burton,

written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski,

based on the book Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr. by Rudolph Grey,

was released in the United States on September 28, 1994.
Music by Howard Shore.

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie, Jeffrey Jones, Max Casella, Bill Murray, George "The Animal" Steele, Juliet Landau, Ned Bellamy, Mike Starr, Stanley DeSantis, Rance Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Maurice LaMarche, G. D. Spradlin, Korla Pandit, Gregory Walcott, Conrad Brooks.

On this day in movie history - À la folie (1994):

À la folie

English translation: To the Madness,

aka 6 Days, 6 Nights,

directed by Diane Kurys,

written by Diane Kurys and Antoine Lacomblez,

was released in France on September 28, 1994.
Music by Michael Nyman.

Cast:

Anne Parillaud, Béatrice Dalle, Patrick Aurignac, Bernard Verley, Alain Chabat, Jean-Claude de Goros, Marie Guillard, Robert Benitah, Greg Engler, Michael Massee.