Friday, October 10, 2025

Born on this day – Jane Winton:


Jane Winton


Actress

Dancer

Opera soprano

Writer

Painter

October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959

Credits:

Books:

Park Avenue Doctor; Passion Is the Gale.

Movies and television:

A Notorious Affair (1930); Across the Pacific (1926); Backstage (1937); Bare Knees (1928); Burning Daylight (1928); Captain Lash (1929); Don Juan (1926); Footloose Widows (1926); Hell's Angels (1930); Hired Wife (1934); His Supreme Moment (1925); Honeymoon Flats (1928); In the Next Room (1930); Lonesome Ladies (1927); Melody of Love (1928); Millionaires (1926); My Official Wife (1926); My Old Dutch (1926); Nothing to Wear (1928); Perch of the Devil (1927); Scandal (1929); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Sunrise (1927); The Beloved Rogue (1927); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929); The Crane Poison Case (1932); The Crystal Cup (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Furies (1930); The Gay Old Bird (1927); The Honeymoon Express (1926); The Light Fantastic (1935); The Love Toy (1926); The Monkey Talks (1927); The Passionate Quest (1926); The Patsy (1928); The Poor Nut (1927); The Week End Mystery (1931); Three Women (1924); Tomorrow's Love (1925); Upstream (1927); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Yellow Lily (1928).

Born on this day – Helen Hayes:


Helen Hayes


Actress

October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993

Credits:

Glitter (1985); Murder with Mirrors (1985); Highway to Heaven (1984); A Caribbean Mystery (1983); Love, Sidney (1982); Murder Is Easy (1982); The Love Boat (1980); A Family Upside Down (1978); Candleshoe (1977); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Victory at Entebbe (1976); Hawaii Five-O (1975); One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975); The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Circle of Fear (1972); Harvey (1972); Here's Lucy (1972); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); NET Playhouse (1964); Airport (1970); The Front Page (1970); Arsenic and Old Lace (1969); Tarzan (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Christophers (1963); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); Play of the Week (1959–1960); Cradle Song (1960); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Kraft Theatre (1954–1959); Third Man on the Mountain (1959); Ah, Wilderness! (1959); Omnibus (1952–1958); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Eighty Yard Run (1957); Anastasia (1956); Producers' Showcase (1955); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); Medallion Theatre (1953); Main Street to Broadway (1953); My Son John (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1951); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); Night Flight (1933); Another Language (1933); The White Sister (1933); The Son-Daughter (1932); A Farewell to Arms (1932); Arrowsmith (1931); The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931); The Dancing Town (1928); The Weavers of Life (1917); Jean and the Calico Doll (1910).

Born on this day – Carlo Campogalliani:


Carlo Campogalliani

Writer

Actor

Director

October 10, 1885 – August 10, 1974

Born on this day – Giuseppe Verdi:


Giuseppe Verdi


Composer

October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901

Recommended reading – Frozen Hell (2019):


Frozen Hell

By John W. Campbell Jr.

Published 2019.
Published by Wildside Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1479442828
ISBN-13: 978-1479442829

Description:

In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter's iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell's original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be shortened for publication.

The Frozen Hell manuscript remained unknown and unpublished for decades, and it was only recently rediscovered. Frozen Hell expands the Thing story dramatically, giving vital backstory and context to an already incredible tale. We are pleased and honored to offer Frozen Hell to you now, as Campbell intended it. You will be among the first people to ever read this completed version of the story.

Anne Rice, on writing:


When I write something, every word of it is meant.
I can't say it enough.

- Anne Rice.

Thursday, October 9, 2025

On this day in movie history - Vanishing of the Bees (2009):


Vanishing of the Bees

a documentary by Hive Mentality Films & Hipfuel Films,
directed by George Langworthy and Maryam Henein,
written by Maryam Henein, George Langworthy and James Erskine,
was released in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2009.
Music by Stars of the Lid.


Cast:

Elliot Page, Bret Adee, Dennis Cardoza, Henri Clement, Jay Feldman, Emilia Fox, Maryann Frazier, Jean Glavany, Davey Hackenberg, David Hackenberg, Gunther Hauk, Wayne Larsen, Dee Lusby, David Mendes, Philipp Mimkes, Mike Painter, Jeff Pettis, David Pettit, Michael Pollan, Billy Rhodes, Rick Smith, Randy Stone, Tom Theobald, Ava Tuenge, Tia Tuenge, Fred Westerhold.