Born on this day – William Clemens:

William Clemens

Director

September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980

Born on this day – Bessie Love:

Bessie Love

Actress

September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986

Credits:

A Daughter of the Poor (1917); A Fighting Colleen (1919); A Harp in Hock (1927); A Little Sister of Everybody (1918); A Lost World (1938); A Sister of Six (1916); A Son of His Father (1925); A Yankee Princess (1919); Acquitted (1916); Alice Guy-Blaché (1997); Always a Bride (1953); Amateur Night (1927); Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928); Battle Beneath the Earth (1967); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1958); Beau Brummell (1954); Bonnie May (1920); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Bulldog Courage (1922); Carolyn of the Corners (1919); Catlow (1971); Chasing Rainbows (1930); Cheerful Givers (1917); Children of the Damned (1964); Conspiracy (1930); Cupid Forecloses (1919); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Don't Do It Dempsey (1960); Dress Parade (1927); Dynamite Smith (1924); Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978); Emergency-Ward 10 (1960); Fashions in Love (1936); Forget Me Not (1922); From a Bird's Eye View (1970); Gareth Hughes (2000); Gentle Julia (1923); Georgia Pearce (1915); Going Crooked (1926); Good News (1930); Gulliver's Travels (1977); Harpers West One (1961); Hearst-Pathé News, No. 87 (1917); Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Greats (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hotel Imperial (1958); How Could You, Caroline? (1918); Human Wreckage (1923); I Live Again (1936); I Think They Call Him John (1964); I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967); International Detective (1960); Intolerance (1916); Isadora (1968); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1960); ITV Playhouse (1968); ITV Television Playhouse (1957–1960); Johnny Frenchman (1945); Journey Together (1945); Kate (1970); Katy (1976); Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981); Late Show London (1966); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); London Playhouse (1955); London Scrapbook (1942); Long Distance (1958); Looks Familiar (1980); Loss of Innocence (1961); Lovey Mary (1926); Man of the World (1962); Mary of the Movies (1923); Meet the Prince (1926); Morals for Women (1931); Mousey (1974); My Partner the Ghost (1969); New Brooms (1925); Next to No Time! (1958); Night Life in Hollywood (1922); Nina, the Flower Girl (1917); No Highway in the Sky (1951); Nowhere to Go (1958); Omnibus (1969); On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Over the Garden Wall (1919); Pegeen (1920); Penny of Top Hill Trail (1921); Picture This (2022); Polly Ann (1917); Pollyanna (1973); Promise Her Anything (1966); Public Eye (1971); Ragtime (1981); Reds (1981); Reggie Mixes In (1916); Round About Hollywood (1931); Rubber Tires (1927); Sally of the Scandals (1928); San Demetrio London (1943); Saturday Playhouse (1959); Screen Snapshots No. 8 (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 11 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 3 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 14-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 5 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 8 (1923); See America Thirst (1930); Shades of Greene (1975); Slave of Desire (1923); Some of the Best (1944); Somerset Maugham Hour (1961); Sons of the Sea (1941); Soul-Fire (1925); Souls for Sale (1923); St. Elmo (1923); Stranded (1916); Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971); Sundown (1924); The Adventures of Prince Courageous (1923); The American (1927); The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962); The Aryan (1916); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); The Broadway Melody (1929); The Caves of Steel (1964); The Dawn of Understanding (1918); The Enchanted Barn (1919); The Eternal Three (1923); The Flying Torpedo (1916); The Front Page (1948); The Ghost Patrol (1923); The Girl in the Show (1929); The Good Bad-Man (1916); The Great Adventure (1918); The Heiress at Coffee Dan's (1916); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Honor of Rameriz (1921); The Hunger (1983); The Idle Rich (1929); The King on Main Street (1925); The Little Boss (1919); The Lost World (1925); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Magic Box (1951); The Male Animal (1956); The Matinee Idol (1928); The Midlanders (1920); The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916); The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966); The Purple Dawn (1923); The Ritz (1976); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961); The Sawdust Ring (1917); The Sea Lion (1921); The Sentimental Agent (1963); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Song and Dance Man (1926); The Spirit of the Lake (1921); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Swamp (1921); The Swell Head (1928); The Vermilion Pencil (1922); The Village Blacksmith (1922); The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (1930); The WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1922 (1922); The Wednesday Play (1965); The Western (1959); The Wild Affair (1965); The Wishing Ring Man (1919); The Woman on the Jury (1924); They Learned About Women (1930); This Is Your Life (1963–1978); Those Who Dance (1924); Three Who Paid (1923); Tongues of Flame (1924); Too Young to Love (1960); Torment (1924); Touch and Go (1955); Vampyres (1974); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); Wee Lady Betty (1917); Westward Bo (1926); You Can't Take It with You (1947); Young and Willing (1954); Young April (1926); Zero One (1962).

Born on this day – Jane Keckley:

Jane Keckley

Actress

September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963

Credits:

A Broken Spur (1912); A Crucial Test (1912); A Cup of Cold Water (1911); A Foolish Romance (1916); A Frontier Girl's Courage (1911); A Modern Rip (1911); A Mysterious Gallant (1912); A Painter's Idyl (1911); A Petticoat Pilot (1918); A Red Man's Love (1912); A Shot in the Dark (1912 / 1935); A Spanish Wooing (1911); A Virginia Courtship (1921); Abraham Lincoln (1930); Aflame in the Sky (1927); An Indian Ishmael (1912); And Sudden Death (1936); Are You a Failure? (1923); As Told by Princess Bess (1912); Bedtime Story (1941); Big Rock's Last Stand (1912); Buy Me That Town (1941); Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936); Children of Banishment (1919); City Limits (1934); Coals of Fire (1911); Colorado Sunset (1939); Conspiracy (1930); Convict's Code (1939); Corralling a School Marm (1940); Craig's Wife (1928); Curtain at Eight (1933); Dance Hall Hostess (1933); Dangerous Holiday (1937); Death from a Distance (1935); Detectives Wanted (1929); Diamond Jim (1935); Dick Tracy (1937); Dude Cowboy (1941); Dynamite (1929); Everything for Sale (1921); Fair Week (1924); False Pretenses (1935); Fighting Caravans (1931); For His Pal's Sake (1911); For Love, Life and Riches (1912); Gentle Julia (1936); George Warrington's Escape (1911); Ginger (1935); Girl of the Ozarks (1936); Git Along Little Dogies (1937); Going Hollywood (1933); Goldie Gets Along (1933); Great Guy (1936); Gun Justice (1933); Gunsmoke Ranch (1937); Harold Teen (1928); Her Bargain (1917); Hide-Out (1930); Hi-Yo Silver (1940); Honky Tonk (1941); Huck and Tom (1918); I Give My Love (1934); In Old Montana (1939); In the Shadow of the Pines (1911); John Oakhurst, Gambler (1911); Just Like a Woman (1923); Kit Carson's Wooing (1911); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Laughter in Hell (1933); Lieutenant Grey of the Confederacy (1911); Lightning Carson Rides Again (1938); Magnificent Obsession (1935); Man of Conquest (1939); McKee Rankin's '49' (1911); Melody Ranch (1940); Molly Entangled (1917); Mr. District Attorney (1941); Murder on the Campus (1933); Next Time We Love (1936); Noisy Neighbors (1929); North West Mounted Police (1940); Notorious But Nice (1933); Object: Alimony (1928); On to Reno (1927); One in a Million (1935); One Year Later (1933); Only 38 (1923); Paddy O'Day (1936); Paradise Express (1937); Pepper (1936); Persons in Hiding (1939); Pioneers of the West (1940); Rags to Riches (1922); Red Skins and Red Heads (1941); Redeeming Love (1916); Riding the Wind (1942); Road Demon (1938); Road House (1928); Roarin' Lead (1936); Romance of the Redwoods (1939); Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Sabotage (1939); Sacred and Profane Love (1921); Sauce for the Goose (1918); Scandal Street (1938); Show Boat (1936); Silly Billies (1936); Six-Shootin' Sheriff (1938); Souls at Sea (1937); South of Santa Fe (1942); Southward Ho! (1939); Spooks (1916); Star Eyes' Stratagem (1912); Stolen Sweets (1934); Strange People (1933); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); Sweet Lavender (1920); Tango (1936); That I May Live (1937); The Angel of Broadway (1927); The Bridge of Sighs (1936); The Buccaneer (1938); The Chief's Daughter (1911); The Circular Staircase (1915); The Country Doctor (1927); The Curtain Falls (1934); The Danites (1912); The Deadwood Coach (1924); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); The Girl of My Dreams (1918); The Godless Girl (1928); The Hill Billy (1924); The Homesteaders (1916); The Impatient Maiden (1932); The Isle of Content (1915); The King of Kings (1927); The Lady in Ermine (1927); The Little Widow (1911); The Lone Ranger (1938); The Lone Star Ranger (1930); The Masked Angel (1928); The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail (1912); The Mile-a-Minute Man (1926); The Miracle Man (1932); The Musical Bandit (1941); The Mystic Circle Murder (1938); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The New Superintendent (1911); The Night Herder (1911); The Night Riders (1939); The Painted Veil (1934); The Parson of Panamint (1916); The Plainsman (1936); The Quitter (1934); The Right Name, But the Wrong Man (1911); The Rookie Cop (1939); The Secret Wedding (1912); The Soul of Youth (1920); The Tattoo (1912); The Third Kiss (1919); The Throwback (1935); The Tonto Kid (1934); The Totem Mark (1911); The Winning of Jess (1915); The World Accuses (1934); Theodora Goes Wild (1936); There's Magic in Music (1941); Through Fire and Smoke (1911); Tight Shoes (1941); Today I Hang (1942); Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938); Trapper Bill, King of Scouts (1912); Two Kinds of Women (1932); Under Western Stars (1938); Union Pacific (1939); Walking Back (1928).

Coffee + book = happiness!

Coffee + book = happiness!

Recommended reading - Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (2020):

Devotions

The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Published by Penguin Books.

Published 2020.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0399563261

ISBN-13: 9780399563263

Description:

Now a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

“I love [Mary’s] work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human. . . . I find her poetry to be so cathartic and beautiful.” – Jenna Bush Hager.

“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love.” – The Washington Post.

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country’s best-selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

Recommended reading - The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962):

The Zebra-Striped Hearse

By Ross Macdonald.

First published in 1962.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0375701451

ISBN-13: 978-0375701450

“Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Ross Macdonald’s private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlán. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's – and Archer's – in a powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.

“A model of his excellence…. [The Zebra-Striped Hearse] has character, statement, and style.” – The New Yorker.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, on books:

I am simply a 'book drunkard.'

Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee.

I cannot withstand them.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery.