Born on this day – Betty Bronson:

Betty Bronson

Actress

November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971

Credits:

A Kiss for Cinderella (1925); A Modern Sappho (1929); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); American Masters (2008); Anna Ascends (1922); Are Parents People? (1925); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Blackbeard's Ghost (1968); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Brass Knuckles (1927); Companionate Marriage (1928); Compression (2023–2024); Dr. Kildare (1962); Evel Knievel (1971); Everybody's Acting (1926); Grindl (1964); His Children's Children (1923); Java Head (1923); Lover Come Back (1931); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); My Three Sons (1960–1963); Not So Long Ago (1925); One Stolen Night (1929); Open Range (1927); Paradise (1926); Paradise for Two (1927); Peter Pan (1924); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Ritzy (1927); Run for Your Life (1965); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Shannon (1962); Sonny Boy (1929); The Bellamy Trial (1929); The Cat's Pajamas (1926); The Eternal City (1923); The Go-Getter (1923); The Golden Princess (1925); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Human Mill (1923); The Locked Door (1929); The Medicine Man (1930); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Midnight Patrol (1932); The Naked Kiss (1964); The Singing Fool (1928); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); Twenty-One (1923); Who's Got the Action? (1962); Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937).

Born on this day – Lee Strasberg:

Lee Strasberg

Actor

Director

Acting coach

Drama teacher

November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982

Credits:

Skokie (1981); Going in Style (1979); And Justice for All (1979); Boardwalk (1979); The Last Tenant (1978); The Godfather Saga (1977); The Cassandra Crossing (1976); The Godfather Part II (1974); The Three Sisters (1966); Tempo (1965); China Venture (1953); Somewhere in the Night (1946); Story with Two Endings (1945); Winged Victory (1944).

Born on this day – Crane Wilbur:

Crane Wilbur

Writer

Actor

Director

November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973

Born on this day – Charles Rosher (1885):

Charles Rosher

Cinematographer

November 17, 1885 – January 15, 1974

Charles Rosher (left) and Mickey Rooney (right)

Credits:

Jupiter's Darling (1955); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Young Bess (1953); The Story of Three Loves (1953); Scaramouche (1952); Show Boat (1951); Pagan Love Song (1950); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); East Side, West Side (1949); The Red Danube (1949); Neptune's Daughter (1949); Words and Music (1948); On an Island with You (1948); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Dark Delusion (1947); Fiesta (1947); The Yearling (1946); Yolanda and the Thief (1945); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); Kismet (1944); Swing Fever (1943); I Dood It (1943); The All American Bands (1943); Assignment in Brittany (1943); Stand by for Action (1942); Pierre of the Plains (1942); Mokey (1942); One Foot in Heaven (1941); Million Dollar Baby (1941); Four Mothers (1941); My Love Came Back (1940); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); A Child Is Born (1939); Espionage Agent (1939); Hell's Kitchen (1939); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939); Off the Record (1939); Hard to Get (1938); White Banners (1938); Hollywood Hotel (1937); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Woman I Love (1937); Men Are Not Gods (1936); Small Town Girl (1936); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Call of the Wild (1935); After Office Hours (1935); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Outcast Lady (1934); The Affairs of Cellini (1934); Moulin Rouge (1934); After Tonight (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Our Betters (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Rockabye (1932); Flaming Gold (1932); Two Against the World (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Husband's Holiday (1931); Beloved Bachelor (1931); This Modern Age (1931); Silence (1931); Laughing Sinners (1931); Dance, Fools, Dance (1931); Les deux mondes (1930); Paid (1930); War Nurse (1930); Atlantis (1930); Zwei Welten (1930); Two Worlds (1930); The Price of Things (1930); Knowing Men (1930); La route est belle (1929); Atlantic (1929); Atlantik (1929); The Vagabond Queen (1929); Eternal Love (1929); Coquette (1929); Tempest (1928); My Best Girl (1927); Sunrise (1927); Sparrows (1926); Little Annie Rooney (1925); Three Women (1924); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924); Tiger Rose (1923); Rosita (1923); Sant'Ilario (1923); Tess of the Storm Country (1922); Smilin' Through (1922); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Through the Back Door (1921); The Love Light (1921); Dinty (1920); The White Circle (1920); Suds (1920); Pollyanna (1920); Heart o' the Hills (1919); The Hoodlum (1919); Daddy-Long-Legs (1919); Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919); The Dub (1919); Too Many Millions (1918); Johanna Enlists (1918); How Could You, Jean? (1918); The White Man's Law (1918); The Honor of His House (1918); One More American (1918); The Widow's Might (1918); The Secret Game (1917); A Little Princess (1917); Hashimura Togo (1917); At First Sight (1917); The Primrose Ring (1917); A Mormon Maid (1917); On Record (1917); The Plow Girl (1916); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); Anton the Terrible (1916); Common Ground (1916); The Clown (1916); The Sowers (1916); The Blacklist (1916); Blackbirds (1915); The Voice in the Fog (1915); Gene of the Northland (1915); The Mad Maid of the Forest (1915); The Smuggler's Lass (1915); The Mystery of the Poison Pool (1914); The Oath of a Viking (1914); The Next in Command (1914); With General Pancho Villa in Mexico (1913); Life of Villa (1912); Early Days in the West (1912); The Indian Raiders (1912).

Recommended reading - The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich (1944):

The Black Path of Fear

By Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as The Chase (1946), directed by Arthur Ripley.

ASIN: B000TZ32I8

Published by Ace.

Published 1944.

Mass Market Paperback.

Description:

The Black Path of Fear (1944) tells of a man who runs away to Havana with an American gangster's wife, followed by the vengeful husband, who kills the woman and frames her lover, leaving him a stranger in a strange land, menaced on all sides and fighting for his life.

“A fiendishly ingenious plot … thrilling episodes.” – New York Times.

Caroline Gordon, on books and reading:

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

– Caroline Gordon.

On this day in music history - Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments At The MET (2022):

The album Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments At The MET, 

by Renée Fleming, 

was released on November 16, 2022.