Born on this day – Jack Arnold:

Jack Arnold

Actor

Director

October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992

Born on this day – Jean Gillie:

Jean Gillie

Actress

October 14, 1915 – February 19, 1949

Credits:

The Macomber Affair (1947); Decoy (1946); Flight from Folly (1945); Tawny Pipit (1944); The Gentle Sex (1943); The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941); A Call for Arms! (1940); Sailors Don't Care (1940); Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940); The Middle Watch (1940); The Spider (1939); What Would You Do, Chums? (1939); Sweet Devil (1938); The Live Wire (1937); The Girl in the Taxi (1937); This'll Make You Whistle (1936); His Majesty and Co (1935); While Parents Sleep (1935); School for Stars (1935); It Happened in Paris (1935); Brewster's Millions (1935); Smith's Wives (1935).

Born on this day – Michael D. Moore:

Michael D. Moore

Director

Second unit director

Writer

Actor

October 14, 1914 – March 4, 2013

Credits:

Danger Rangers (2003–2008); 102 Dalmatians (2000); Wrongfully Accused (1998); Flubber (1997); 101 Dalmatians (1996); Little Giants (1994); The Three Musketeers (1993); Cool Runnings (1993); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993); Chaplin (1992); The Mighty Ducks (1992); Toy Soldiers (1991); Ghostbusters II (1989); Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); Le palanquin des larmes (1988); Funny Farm (1988); Willow (1988); Ishtar (1987); Outrageous Fortune (1987); Amazing Stories (1985); National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985); Lady Blue (1985); Sylvester (1985); The Little Drummer Girl (1984); Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); Never Say Never Again (1983); Mister Deathman (1983); Six Pack (1982); Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Raise the Titanic (1980); The Electric Horseman (1979); The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978); Damnation Alley (1977); Airport '77 (1977); The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976); The Missouri Breaks (1976); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); Rooster Cogburn (1975); The Yakuza (1974); Mame (1974); Badge 373 (1973); Emperor of the North (1973); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); Portnoy's Complaint (1972); Sometimes a Great Notion (1971); Patton (1970); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); How to Commit Marriage (1969); Buckskin (1968); The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967); Bonanza (1967); Hondo (1967); Kill a Dragon (1967); An Eye for an Eye (1966); Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Roustabout (1964); Where Love Has Gone (1964); The Carpetbaggers (1964); Fun in Acapulco (1963); A New Kind of Love (1963); A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962); Blue Hawaii (1961); Summer and Smoke (1961); G.I. Blues (1960); Visit to a Small Planet (1960); Career (1959); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959); Don't Give Up the Ship (1959); The Trap (1959); Houseboat (1958); King Creole (1958); Hot Spell (1958); Wild Is the Wind (1957); The Tin Star (1957); Beau James (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); The Ten Commandments (1956); Pardners (1956); You're Never Too Young (1955); The Seven Little Foys (1955); Hell's Island (1955); Living It Up (1954); Casanova's Big Night (1954); Money from Home (1953); The Caddy (1953); Houdini (1953); The War of the Worlds (1953); The Turning Point (1952); When Worlds Collide (1951); The Furies (1950); Fancy Pants (1950); The Great Gatsby (1949); Streets of Laredo (1949); The Paleface (1948); Unconquered (1947); Welcome Stranger (1947); California (1947); Good as Gold (1927); The King of Kings (1927); No Man's Gold (1926); The Test of Donald Norton (1926); The Lady from Hell (1926); Flaming Waters (1925); The Man from Red Gulch (1925); Cytherea (1924); The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924); Mine to Keep (1923); Truxton King (1923); The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922); Manslaughter (1922); The Love Charm (1921); Exit the Vamp (1921); Shame (1921); The Mask (1921); I Am Guilty (1921); The Lost Romance (1921); All Souls' Eve (1921); Something to Think About (1920); The Price of Redemption (1920); Polly of the Storm Country (1920); Parted Curtains (1920); Out of the Dust (1920); The Unpainted Woman (1919).

Recommended reading - Send Me No Flowers (1960):

Send Me No Flowers

A play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore.

Originally published 1960.

Published by Concord Theatricals.

Paperback.

ASIN: B0D5SYSRF9

ISBN-10: 057361525X

ISBN-13: 978-0573615252

Description:

A comedy in three acts.

David Wayne starred on Broadway as George Kimball, a Westchester commuter whose favorite hobby is hypochondria. When he mistakenly overhears his doctor discussing another patient with heart trouble, he prepares to meet the end bravely, sure it is 'his time'. Putting his affairs in order, he writes a heartbreaking letter to his wife to be read as his eulogy. He even arranges a good second husband for his soon-to-be widow, with a cemetery plot for three: himself, his wife and the new future 'Mister Kimball'.

Recommended reading - The Big Heat (1953):

The Big Heat

By William P. McGivern.

First published 1953.

Published by Ibooks.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0743452704

ISBN-13: 978-0743452700

Description:

A tough suspense novel of hero cops, cool killers and hot broads...

“A powerful story, powerfully told.” – New York Times.

MURDER WAS IN THE AIR. A COP HAD KILLED HIMSELF, AND EVERY CROOK IN TOWN KNEW THAT WOULD BE SURE TO BRING ON THE BIG HEAT. It started almost innocently when a cop committed suicide – worry over ill health, said his wife. Detective Dave Bannion wasn’t so sure, but when he started digging, he was told to lay off – fast! Instead, he turned in his badge and started stalking the city streets and bars in search of the truth where he uncovers a red-hot story of murder and corruption that would blow Philadelphia’s underworld sky high. Bannion was big, strong, and angry enough to kill, but he was only one honest man in a city full of mobsters and crooked cops. The big heat was on.

Victor Hugo, on books and reading:

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

- Victor Hugo.

On this day in movie history - Warning (2021):

Warning

directed by Agata Alexander,

written by Agata Alexander, Rob Michaelson and Jason Kaye,

was released at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain on October 13, 2021.

Music by Gregory Tripi.

Cast:

Thomas Jane, Tomasz Kot, Toni Garrn, Rupert Everett, Przemyslaw Wyszynski, Alice Eve, James D'Arcy, Aleksandra Zagrodzka, Billy Howerdel, Kylie Bunbury, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Jakub Wypler, Annabelle Wallis, Alex Pettyfer, Annabel Mullion, Richard Pettyfer, Garance Marillier, Izabela Kuna, Izabela Perez, Sebastian Perdek, Karolina Adamczyk, Benedict Samuel, Blu Mantic, Olga Boladz, Alma Asuai, Charlotte Le Bon, Janina Pruszkowska, Piotr Polak, Stephen Mao, Cybill Lui Eppich.