Born on this day – Ian Holm:

Ian Holm

Actor

September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020

Credits:

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth (2009); 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 48th Annie Awards (2021); A Life Less Ordinary (1997); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 / 1969); A Season of Giants (1990); A Severed Head (1971); Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998); Alien (1979); Alien: Isolation (2014); Alien: Romulus (2024); All Quiet on the Western Front (1979); Animal Farm (1999); Another Woman (1988); Armchair Theatre (1963–1970); Artists and Models (1986); BBC Play of the Month (1972–1983); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); Beautiful Joe (2000); Big Night (1996); Bless the Child (2000); Blue Ice (1992); Brazil (1985); Chariots of Fire (1981); Chillers (1990); Chromophobia (2005); Conjugal Rights (1973); Dance with a Stranger (1985); D-Day 6.6.1944 (2004); Do You Remember? (1978); Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real (2004); Dreamchild (1985); Esther Kahn (2000); eXistenZ (1999); Festival: The Misanthrope (1980); Field of Fish (2000); Frog (1998); From Hell (2001); Game, Set, and Match (1988); Garden State (2004); Girls at Sea (1958); Gooseberries Don't Dance (1999); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Hamlet (1990); Henry V (1989); Holocaust (1978); Incognito (1997); Inside the Third Reich (1982); ITV Play of the Week (1957); ITV Playhouse (1969–1971); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1970); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); Joe Gould's Secret (2000); Jubilee (1977); Juggernaut (1974); Kafka (1991); Laughterhouse / aka Singleton's Pluck (1984); Les Miserables (1978); Little Red Riding Hood (1995); Loch Ness (1996); Lord of War (2005); March or Die (1977); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994); Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); Masquerade (1974); Mr & Mrs Edgehill (1985); Murder by the Book (1986); Mystery and Imagination (1966–1968); Naked Lunch (1991); Napoleon and Love (1974); Nicholas and Alexandra (1971); Night Falls on Manhattan (1996); O Jerusalem (2006); Oh! What a Lovely War (1969); Omnibus (1981); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Performance (1991–1998); Play for Today (1982); Private Affairs (1975); Ratatouille (2007); Ratatouille: The Video Game (2007); Renaissance (2006); Review (1971); Robert's Wife (1957); Robin and Marian (1976); S.O.S. Titanic (1979); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2024); Screen Two (1992); Secret Agent (2000); Shergar (1999); Shout at the Devil (1976); Simon Magus (1999); Spinning Wheels (2002); Strangers with Candy (2005); Tales of the Unexpected (1982); The Advocate (1993); The Aviator (2004); The Bell (1982); The Bofors Gun (1968); The Borrowers (1992); The Browning Version (1985); The Cherry Orchard (1962); The Day After Tomorrow (2004); The Emperor's New Clothes (2001); The Fifth Element (1997); The Fixer (1968); The Frighteners (1972); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012); The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014); The Holocaust on Trial (2000); The Homecoming (1973); The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000); The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974–1975); The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003); The Lost Boys (1978); The Madness of King George (1994); The Man from Haven (1972); The Man in the Iron Mask (1977); The Match (1999); The Miracle Maker (1999); The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science (2002); The Oscars (2021); The Power Game (1966); The Return of the Borrowers (1993); The Return of the Soldier (1982); The Sweet Hereafter (1997); The Tailor of Gloucester (1989); The Thief of Baghdad (1978); The Treatment (2006); The Wars of the Roses (1965–1966); The Wednesday Play (1970); The World About Us (1983); The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1993); Theatre Night (1961); Time Bandits (1981); Timewatch (1993); Treasures in Trust (1995); Waterbaby (2002); We, the Accused (1980); Wetherby (1985); Wisconsin Death Trip (1999); Young Winston (1972).

Born on this day – Silvia Pinal:

Silvia Pinal

Actress

Producer

September 12, 1931 – November 28, 2024

Credits:

70 Years the stars, shining together (2021); A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); Addict de Salsa (2009); Adiós, Mimí Pompón (1961); Adriana del Río, actress (1979); Adventures in Time (2001); Agent Macaw: Shaken & Stirred (2009); Alejandra Guzmán: The trajectory (2006); Love in Four Times (1955); Orange Blossoms for Your Wedding (1950); Bamba (1949); Bang Bang al Hoyo (1971); Good Night, New Year (1964); Corporal of Ovens (1956); Cachún cachún ra ra (1981); Cain, Abel and the Other (1971); Face de ángel (2000–2001); Charlotte: Love is... Veneno (1981); Mexican musical carousel (1964); Let's Celebrate Mexico: Made in Mexico (2005); Charleston (1959); Cinema 3 (2000); Cinema mil (2005); How There Are Shameless People (1972); When the children Pecan (1952); Cuando los hijos se van (1983); Care!... Women at work (2000); De película (1988); Derbez en cuando (1999); Right of admission (2006); Get undressed Lucrecia (1958); God forbid (1957); Divine Words (1978); Don Francis presents (2005); Doña Mariquita de mi corazón (1953); Two and two, five (1981); Eclipse (1984); The Love of María Isabel (1970); Love is not Ciego (1950); The Song of the Cicada (1980); El casto Susano (1954); The body of crime / Segment: La insatiable (1970); The awakening of the wolf (1970); The Scandalous Charm of Broken Egos (2024); The man I like (1958); The Innocent (1956); The Minute That Changed My Destiny (2016); The boy of his mother (1980); Laura's Sin (1949); The Doorman (1950); The privilege of amar (1999); The Master's Fist (1958); The Doll Seller (1955); School for married women (1949); Marriage Strategy (1966); Fire in the Blood (2008); Guns for San Sebastián (1968); Casaderas Daughters (1954); History of a mink coat (1955); Living History (2019); Historias engarzadas (2004–2006); Dangerous play / Segment: Divertimento (1967); The Adulteress (1956); The Sweet Enemy (1957); The Statue of Flesh (1951); The Great Illusion (2000); La guera Xóchitl (1971); The Sister Trinquete (1970); The Peak Hour (2002); The Mark of the Skunk (1950); The Fertile Memory (1986); The Golden Woman (1970); The Woman I Lost (1949); The incredible magazine by Silvia Pinal (1979); La soldadera (1966); The suspect (1955); Life Has Three Days (1955); Long Live Comedy (2005); The Locuras de Bárbara (1959); Lazos de amor (1995); Le cercle de minuit (1992); Them Échos du cinéma (1961); Locura pasional (1956); The Magnificent 5 (2007); The cacos (1972); Los caudillos (1968); Los cuervos están de luto (1965); The boyfriends (1971); Those Who Made Our Cinema (1983–1985); Luis Buñuel in the 60s (1984); Tomorrow is Spring (1982); María Isabel (1968); Maribel and the stranger family (1960); You bring me from a wing (1953); Memoria del cine mexicano (1993); Mexico De mis amores (1979); My Unknown Wife (1958); My husband has a family (2017–2019); My purpose is you (2018); My Three Merry Widows (1953); Woman of Midnight (1952); Woman, Real Life Cases (1985–2007); Female Murderers (2009); +Night (2020); Not very, very... not so, so... simply Tin Tan (2005); Ofelia Guilmáin... The Great Tragedy (2005); Pa'lante with Cristina (2004); Sin mortal (1955); Pedro Infante Lives (2007); Pedro Infante: La trayectoria (2008); Por ellas pero malpayen (1952); TV and Novelas Awards 2004 (2004); Awards TV y novelas 2007 (2007); Lend me your body (1958); Angelic Pubis (1982); Puppy-Go-Round (1996); Qué nos pasa (1985); Who (1973); Newlyweds... do not disturb (1951); Regarding Buñuel (2000); Resale of Slaves (1954); Revista de cine (1977); Secret de confesión (1971); Shark (1969); If You Came Back to Me (1954); Sí, mi vida (1953); Silvia Pinal behind the scenes (2019); Silvia Pinal... Frente a ti (2019); Silvia and Enrique (1973); Simon of the Desert (1965); Soy tu dueña (2010); Stuffed Butterflies (1978); T.A.P. Professional Actors Workshop (2013); Theatre of the crime (1957); The Exterminating Angel (1962); The Heart Is Never Wrong (2019); The King of the Neighborhood (1950); The Last Call (2013); The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel (2008); The Loving Women (1953); Tiempo de amar (1987); Tin Tan (2010); After Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015); Twenty-Four Hours of Pleasure (1969); Un Buñuel mexican (1997); A Stranger on the Staircase (1955); One Recuerdo Para Ellos de Gloria (2020); A Corner Near Heaven (1952); One Lucky Family (2011); A Family of Ten (2007–2021); A Galician dances mambo (1951); Una golfa (1958); A Woman Without a Shadow (2013); Uomini e Nobiluomini (1959); Video theaters: Véngan correr que les tengo un Muerto (1993); Vintage Model (1992); Viridiana (1961); Viva el amor (1958); XHDRbZ (2002); And now what? (1980); They don't make them like they used to (2003); Yo soy muy macho (1953).

Born on this day – Gianna Maria Canale:

Gianna Maria Canale

Actress

September 12, 1927 – February 13, 2009

Credits:

Alerte au sud (1953); Black Magic (1949); Clash of Steel (1962); Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960); Dead Woman's Kiss (1949); Donne sole (1956); Double Cross (1951); Go for Broke! (1951); Goliath and the Vampires (1961); Guarany (1950); Hercules (1958); Il coraggio (1955); Il corsaro della mezzaluna (1957); Il figlio di d'Artagnan (1950); Il treno del sabato (1964); Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977); La Gerusalemme liberata (1957); La leggenda del piave (1952); L'ombra (1954); Lust of the Vampire (1957); Lykke og krone (1962); Madame du Barry (1954); Napoleon (1955); O Caçula do Barulho (1949); Return of the Black Eagle (1946); Revenge of Black Eagle (1951); See Naples and Die (1953); Seven in the Sun (1960); Spartaco (1953); The Adventures of Scaramouche (1963); The Avenger of Venice (1964); The Boom (1963); The Centurion (1961); The Conqueror of the Orient (1960); The Devil's Cavaliers (1959); The Eternal Chain (1952); The Iron Swordsman (1949); The Lebanese Mission (1956); The Lion of St. Mark (1963); The Man from Cairo (1953); The Mysterious Rider (1948); The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960); The Queen of the Pirates (1960); The Secret of Monte Cristo (1961); The Silent Enemy (1958); The Slave (1962); The Sword and the Cross (1956); The Warrior and the Slave Girl (1958); The Whole Truth (1958); Theodora, Slave Empress (1954); Tiger of the Seven Seas (1962); Totò le moko (1949); Zwischen Glück und Krone (1959).

Born on this day – Gus Cannon:

Gus Cannon

Blues singer

Musician

September 12, 1883 – October 15, 1979

Credits:

Songs:

Big Railroad Blues; Boll Weevil; Bring It With You When You Come; Cairo Rag; Crawdad Hole; Feather Bed; Going to Germany; Hollywood Rag; Jazz Gypsy Blues; Jonestown Blues; Last Chance Blues; Madison Street Rag; Minglewood Blues; Mule Get Up in the Alley; Noah's Blues; Old John Booker - You Call That Gone; Pig Ankle Strut; Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home; Pretty Mama Blues; Prison Wall Blues; Riley’s Wagon; Ripley Blues; Springdale Blues; The Rooster's Crowing Blues; Viola Lee Blues; Walk Right In; Wolf River Blues.

Albums:

Gus Cannon & Noah Lewis Vol. 2 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Gus Cannon Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (2005); Jug Band Blues Essentials (2010); Last Sessions (2010); Memphis Blues Masters One (2013); Walk Right In (1962).

Movies and television:

All Things Must Pass (2015); Bandstand (1967); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Forrest Gump (1994); Get It Together (1978); Give Me the Banjo (2011); Good Morning Britain (1984); Hollywood a Go Go (1965); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Long Strange Trip (2017); My Way (2012); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1992); Sex Education (2019); Someone to Watch Over Me (1987); Soundstage (1979); The Blues (1962); The Danny Kaye Show (1963); The Flamingo Kid (1984).

Just one more chapter ... and another ... and another ...

Bookworms will rule the world ... as soon as we finish one more chapter.

Recommended reading - Jealous Woman (1950):

Jealous Woman

By James M. Cain.

First published in 1950.

Published by Black Lizard Books.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0887390889

ISBN-13: 978-0887390883

Description:

An ambitious Reno salesman. A wealthy would-be divorcée. An insurance policy. It’s a toxic combination in this noir thriller by an MWA Grand Master . . .

Jane Delvan had dark, red hair and plenty of shape of a nice, refined kind. To Ed Horner she was only a little fancy flirtation under the Nevada moon, but he found some peculiar circumstances developing when Jane’s husband, Tom Delavan, himself came to town, followed very shortly afterwards by his first wife, the beautiful but jealous Lady Sperry.

Ed wondered what kind of game Jane Delavan was playing with him, leading him on as she was? And why should Lady Sperry take a heated interest in him of a sudden? What were the cause of secret midnight callers roaming at will through hotel bedrooms? Suddenly Ed Horner found himself slowly being ringed about by a group of hard-hating, highly emotional people who all had motives that involved them in a case of murder and the Jealous Woman.

If Las Vegas is a city of lovers, in Reno, the business is divorce. Six weeks in Reno can erase the darkest marriages, and the only question is how to pass the time – craps or roulette? Jane Delavan is a roulette woman, a stately beauty from back East who is too classy for the motel where she’s shacked up. She’s come for a divorce, but her husband has other ideas. He wants an annulment, and in exchange offers to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on himself – just in case something happens to him before their paperwork goes through. Jane is cunning enough to make sure that if she wants something to happen, it will. Ed Horner is the insurance agent sent to settle the agreement, and it doesn’t take long for Jane to settle him. They fall in love over twenty-five-cent roulette and soon have a bigger score in mind. In the Biggest Little City in the World, a king-size scheme is brewing . . .

“Cleverly plotted.” – The New York Times.

“Swift and absorbing.” – The Wall Street Journal.

Mildred D. Taylor, on writing:

I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that,

and I decided to write them down,

but by the time I entered high school,

I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

- Mildred D. Taylor.