Born on this day – Richard Burton:

Richard Burton

Actor

November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984

Born on this day – Jane Froman:

Jane Froman

Actress

Singer

November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980

Credits:

The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Arthur Murray Party (1956–1960); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); The Walter Winchell Show (1956); The Vic Damone Show (1956); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955); The Jane Froman Show (1952–1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1954); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1954); The Larry Storch Show (1953); Answer the Call (1953); What's My Line? (1953); This Is Show Business (1950–1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950–1952); The Jane Froman Show (1952); The Ezio Pinza Show (1951); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1950–1951); All Star Revue (1951); The Voice of Firestone (1950–1951); The Alan Young Show (1950); Radio City Revels (1938); Stars Over Broadway (1935); Kissing Time (1933).

Born on this day – Claude Rains:

Claude Rains

Actor

November 10, 1889 – May 30, 1967

Credits:

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Reporter (1964); Dr. Kildare (1964); Twilight of Honor (1963); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962–1963); Rawhide (1963); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Sam Benedict (1962); Wagon Train (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962); Battle of the Worlds (1961); Mel-O-Toons (1960); Naked City (1960); Shangri-La (1960); The Lost World (1960); Once Upon a Christmas Time (1959); This Earth Is Mine (1959); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1959); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); On Borrowed Time (1957); Eye on New York (1956); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); Lisbon (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956); Kraft Theatre (1956); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Confidential Clerk) (1954); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Bentons at Home) (1953); Medallion Theatre (1953); The Paris Express (1952); Sealed Cargo (1951); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951); Where Danger Lives (1950); The White Tower (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Rope of Sand (1949); The Passionate Friends (1949); The Unsuspected (1947); Deception (1946); Angel on My Shoulder (1946); Notorious (1946); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); Strange Holiday (1945); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Passage to Marseille (1944); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Casablanca (1942); Now, Voyager (1942); Moontide (1942); Kings Row (1942); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); The Wolf Man (1941); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Four Mothers (1941); Lady with Red Hair (1940); The Sea Hawk (1940); Saturday's Children (1940); The Invisible Man Returns (1940); Four Wives (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); Sons of Liberty (1939); Juarez (1939); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); Four Daughters (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); White Banners (1938); Breakdowns of 1937 (1937); They Won't Forget (1937); The Prince and the Pauper (1937); Stolen Holiday (1937); Hearts Divided (1936); Anthony Adverse (1936); Scrooge (1935); The Last Outpost (1935); The Clairvoyant (1935); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); The Invisible Man (1933); Build Thy House (1920).

Born on this day – Vachel Lindsay:

Vachel Lindsay

Writer

November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931

Credits:

Poems:

A Curse for Kings; A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten; A Net to Snare the Moonlight; A Prayer To All The Dead Among Mine Own People; A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign; A Sense of Humor; Above the Battle's Front; Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Aladdin and the Jinn; Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie; An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic; An Argument; An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie; At Mass; Beyond the Moon; Blanche Sweet; Buddha; By the Spring, at Sunset; Caught in a Net; Concerning Emperors; Darling Daughter of Babylon; Drying Their Wings; Eden in Winter; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Epilogue; Epitaphs For Two Players; Euclid; Factory Windows Are Always Broken; Foreign Missions in Battle Array; Galahad, Knight Who Perished; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Genesis; Ghosts in Love; Heart of God; Here's to the Mice!; Honor Among Scamps; How a Little Girl Danced; How a Little Girl Sang; How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven; How Samson Bore Away the Gates of GazaI Heard Immanuel Singing; I Went Down into the Desert; In Memory of a Child; In Praise of Songs that Die; Incense; King Arthur's Men Have Come Again; Lincoln; Look You, I'll Go Pray; Love and Law; Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress; Mark Twain and Joan of Arc; Michaelangelo; My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl; Niagara; On Reading Omar Khayyam; On the Building of Springfield; On the Garden Wall; On the Road to Nowhere; Our Guardian Angels and Their Children; Our Mother Pocahontas; Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries; Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread; Queen Mab in the Village; Rhymes for Gloriana; Shakespeare; Springfield Magical; St. Francis of Assisi; Star of My Heart; Sunshine; Sweet Briars of the Stairways; Sweethearts of the Year; The Alchemist's Petition; The Amaranth; The Angel and the Clown; The Bankrupt Peace-Maker; The Beggar's Valentine; The Black Hawk War of the Artists; The Booker Washington Trilogy; The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken; The Chinese Nightingale; The City That Will Not Repent; The Congo; The Cornfields; The Dandelion; The Drunkard's Funeral; The Drunkards in the Street; The Eagle That Is Forgotten; The Empty Boats; The Encyclopaedia; The Fairy Bridal-Hymn; The Firemen's Ball; The Flower of Mending; The Flower-Fed Buffaloes; The Gamblers; The Ghosts of the Buffaloes; The Haughty Snail-King; The Hearth Eternal; The Hope of the Resurrection; The Illinois Village; The Jingo and the Minstrel; The King of Yellow Butterflies; The Knight in Disguise; The Leaden-Eyed; The Light o' the Moon; The Lion; The Little Turtle; The Master of the Dance; The Merciful Hand; The Moon is a Painter; The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky; The Mysterious Cat; The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son; The Perfect Marriage; The Potatoes' Dance; The Prairie Battlements; The Proud Farmer; The Queen of Bubbles; The Raft; The Rose of Midnight; The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque); The Scissors-Grinder; The Song of the Garden-Toad; The Sorceress!; The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit; The Spice-Tree; The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly; The Strength of the Lonely; The Sun Says His Prayers; The Tale Of The Tiger-Tree; The Trap; The Traveller-Heart; The Tree of Laughing Bells; The Unpardonable Sin; The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos; The Wizard in the Street; This Section is a Christmas Tree; This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky; TitianTo Buddha; To Gloriana; To Jane Addams at the Hague; To Lady Jane; To Mary Pickford; To Reformers in Despair; To the United States Senate; Two Old Crows; Upon Returning to the Country Road; We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not; What Semiramis Said; What the Coal-Heaver Said; What the Ghost of the Gambler Said; What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said; What the Miner in the Desert Said; What the Moon Saw; What the Rattlesnake Said; What the Sexton Said; When Bryan Speaks; When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich; Where Is David, the Next King of Israel?; Where Is the Real Non-Resistant; Who Knows?; Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket; With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses; Written for a Musician; Yankee Doodle; Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be.

Movie and television:

Dead Poets Society (poem The Congo quoted) (1989); The Fantasmagori (2017).

Recommended reading - Lenny: A Play, Based on the Life and Words of Lenny Bruce (1971):

Lenny: A Play, Based on the Life and Words of Lenny Bruce

By Julian Barry.

Published 1971.
Mass Market Paperback.
Published by Grove Press.
ISBN 13: 9780394177625
ISBN 10: 0394177622
ASIN: 0394177622

Recommended reading - Miami Mayhem (1960):

Miami Mayhem

By Marvin Albert.

Filmed as Tony Rome (1967), directed by Gordon Douglas.

Published 1960.

Published by Fawcett.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0449133869

ISBN-13: 978-0449133866

Description:

Miami. The city.

Rome. The man.

He’s a hard-living, hard-loving private detective, who’s been muscling through Miami’s vice longer than any punk in a baggy suit. He gets his fill of offers from women. But the brand of cruising he prefers is aboard his luxury power boat, the Straight Pass. The roads of pleasure and danger are many. But all the roads lead to Rome….

Filmed as "Tony Rome" in 1967. Then released as "Tony Rome"(1967) by the author based on the film script. It seemed a routine little job.... Just return a high-flying heiress to her worried papa. But some of a man's worst messes start out as routine little jobs. This one really hits the pedal, with a body on the floor of Tony's office, the head smashed by a bullet. The bait to catch the filler: a daisy-shaped, gold-and-diamond pin that couldn't bring enough to be worth anybody's trouble. Or worth murdering for...

C. S. Lewis, on experience and inspiration:

Experience: that most brutal of teachers.

But you learn, my God do you learn.

- C. S. Lewis.