Born on this day – Margaret Wycherly:

Margaret Wycherly

Actress

October 26, 1881 – June 6, 1956

Credits:

General Electric Theater (1955); Studio One (1954); Ponds Theater (1954); Kraft Theatre (1953–1954); The President's Lady (1953); That Man from Tangier (1953); Lux Video Theatre (1951–1953); Claudia: The Story of a Marriage (1952); The Man with a Cloak (1951); Kraft Theatre (1950–1951); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); White Heat (1949); NBC Presents (1949); The Loves of Carmen (1948); Forever Amber (1947); Something in the Wind (1947); The Yearling (1946); Johnny Angel (1945); Experiment Perilous (1944); Hangmen Also Die! (1943); The Moon Is Down (1943); Assignment in Brittany (1943); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Random Harvest (1942); Crossroads (1942); Sergeant York (1941); Victory (1940); Wanderlust (1938); Midnight (1934); The Thirteenth Chair (1929); The Fight (1915).

Born on this day – Domenico Scarlatti:

Domenico Scarlatti

Composer

October 26, 1685 – July 23, 1757

Recommended reading - Hell Hath No Fury (1953):

Hell Hath No Fury

By Charles Williams.

Filmed as The Hot Spot (1990), directed by Dennis Hopper.

Paperback.

First published 1953.

Published by Vintage.

ISBN 13: 9780679733294

ISBN 10: 0679733299

ASIN: 0679733299

Description:

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony.

Madox wasn't all bad.  He was just half-bad.  But trap a man like Madox in a dead-end job in a stultifying small town, introduce him to a femme fatale like the Harshaw woman, and give him a shot at a fast fifteen thousand dollars--in a bank just begging to be knocked over--and his better nature doesn't stand a chance.

Merciless in its suspense, flawless in its grasp of the ways in which ordinary people hurtle over the edge, The Hot Spot is a superb example of fifties roman noir.

Enid Bagnold, on writing:

Who wants to become a writer?

And why?

Because it’s the answer to everything …

It’s the streaming reason for living.

To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.

- Enid Bagnold.

On this day in music history - The Legend of Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash (2005):

The album The Legend of Johnny Cash,

by Johnny Cash,

was released on October 25, 2005.

On this day in movie history - Ghost Ship (2002):

Ghost Ship

directed by Steve Beck,

written by Mark Hanlon and John Pogue,

was released in the United States on October 25, 2002.
Music by John Frizzell.

Cast:

Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington, Alex Dimitriades, Karl Urban, Emily Browning, Francesca Rettondini, Boris Brkic, Bob Ruggiero, Iain Gardiner, Adam Bieshaar, Cameron Watt, Jamie Giddens, Matthew Wollaston.

On this day in movie history - The Hollywood Detective (1989):

The Hollywood Detective

directed by Kevin Connor,

written by Christopher Crowe,

was released in the United States on October 25, 1989.
Music by Arthur B. Rubinstein.

Cast:

Telly Savalas, Helene Udy, George Coe, Joe Dallesandro, Tom Reese, William Bassett, James Green, Donald Hotton, Alan Shearman, Troy Evans, Paul Jones, David Katims, Mark Lowenthal, Herman Poppe, Randy Polk, Candace Savalas, Gus Savalas, John Wheeler, Greg Mullavey, John Michael Quinn.