Monday, October 27, 2025

Born on this day – Jane Murfin:


Jane Murfin


Writer

Producer

Director

October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955

Credits:

The Women (2008); Ponds Theater (1953); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); Dragon Seed (1944); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Flight for Freedom (1943); Smilin' Through (1941); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Northwest Passage (1940); The Women (1939); Stand Up and Fight (1939); The Shining Hour (1938); I'll Take Romance (1937); That Girl from Paris (1936); Come and Get It (1936); Alice Adams (1935); Roberta (1935); The Little Minister (1934); Romance in Manhattan (1934); The Fountain (1934); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); This Man Is Mine (1934); The Crime Doctor (1934); Spitfire (1934); Little Women (1933); After Tonight (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); Double Harness (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Our Betters (1933); Rockabye (1932); Smilin' Through (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Young Bride (1932); Way Back Home (1931); Friends and Lovers (1931); Caught Plastered (1931); Too Many Cooks (1931); White Shoulders (1931); The Pay-Off (1930); Lawful Larceny (1930); The Runaway Bride (1930); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929); Dance Hall (1929); Half Marriage (1929); Side Street (1929); Street Girl (1929); Lilac Time (1928); The Prince of Headwaiters (1927); The Notorious Lady (1927); Meet the Prince (1926); The Savage (1926); A Slave of Fashion (1925); White Fang (1925); The Love Master (1924); Flapper Wives / play entitled: The Flaming Sign (1924); Brawn of the North (1922); Smilin' Through/ play entitled: Smiling Through (1922); Flapper Wives (1924); The Silent Call (1921); Playthings of Destiny (1921); The Amateur Wife (1920); The Right to Lie (1919); A Temperamental Wife / play entitled: Information Please (1919); Marie, Ltd. (1919); Daybreak (1918).

Born on this day – Niccolò Paganini:


Niccolò Paganini

Violinist

Composer

October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840

Mortimer Adler, on books:


In the case of good books,
the point is not how many of them you can get through,
but rather how many can get through to you.

- Mortimer Adler.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

On this day in movie history - Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023):


Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

documentary directed by Rob Reiner,
was released at the AFI Fest in the United States on October 26, 2023.
Music by Marc Shaiman.


Cast:

Albert Brooks, Judd Apatow, James L. Brooks, Larry David, Nikki Glaser, Alana Haim, Jonah Hill, Conan O'Brien, Rob Reiner, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Steven Spielberg, Ben Stiller, Sharon Stone, Wanda Sykes, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

On this day in movie history - Interstellar (2014):


Interstellar

directed by Christopher Nolan,
written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan,
was released in the United States on October 26, 2014.
Music by Hans Zimmer.

Cast:

Ellen Burstyn, Matthew McConaughey, Mackenzie Foy, John Lithgow, Timothée Chalamet, David Oyelowo, Collette Wolfe, Francis X. McCarthy, Bill Irwin, Anne Hathaway, Andrew Borba, Wes Bentley, William Devane, Michael Caine, David Gyasi, Josh Stewart, Casey Affleck, Leah Cairns, Jessica Chastain, Liam Dickinson, Topher Grace, Matt Damon, Flora Nolan, Griffen Fraser, Jeff Hephner, Lena Georgas, Elyes Gabel, Brooke Smith, Russ Fega, William Patrick Brown, Cici Leah Campbell, Belle Doyle, Mark Casimir Dyniewicz Jr., Troy Fyhn, Benjamin Hardy, Alexander Michael Helisek, Ryan Irving, Alexander Lu, Derek McEntire, Joseph Oliveira, Benjamin Pitz, Marlon Sanders, Bryan Stamp, Kristian Van der Heyden, Kevan Weber.

On this day in music history - Sanctuary II: Earth, by Sherry Finzer (2011):


Sanctuary II: Earth

Album by Sherry Finzer,
released October 26, 2011.
Track list:

Earth; Dream Flight; Tranquil Waters; Woodlands; At Dawn’s First Light; Redwoods.

On this day in music history - The Art of Susan Graham, by Susan Graham (2010):


The Art of Susan Graham

Album by Susan Graham,
released October 26, 2010.

Track list:

O del mio dolce ardor bramato oggetto!; Le nozze de Figaro; Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio; La clemenza di Tito; Parto, ma tu, ben mio; Iphigénie en Tauride; Non, je n’espère plus... Ô toi qui prolongeas mes jours; Ô malheureuse Iphigénie!; Non, cet affreux devoir je ne puis le remplir... Je t’implore et je tremble; Voi che sapete che cosa è amor; Deh, per questo istante solo; Qu’entends-Je? Qu’a-t-il dit?... Amour, viens rendre à mon âme; Non ho colpa, e mi condanni; J’ai perdu mon Eurydice; Dunque sperer poss’io... Il tenero momento; He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten ein!; Hochgetürmte Rimaflut; Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen am allerschönsten ist?; Lieber Gott, du weißt, wie oft bereut ich hab; Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze; Röslein dreie in der Reihe blüh’n so rot; Kommt dir manchmal in del Sinn, mein süßes Lieb; Rote Abendwolken ziehn am Firmament; De rêve; De grève; De fleurs; De soir; Nacht; Schilflied; Die Nachtigall; Traumgekrönt; Im Zimmer; Liebesode; Sommertage; L’Anguille; Carte postale; Avant le cinema; 1904; Vois-tu, je m’en veux; J’ai deux amants; Vagabonde; À Chloris; Fantoches; Liebst du um Schönheit; Sexy Lady; La Fleur des eaux; Interlude; La Mort de l’amour; Asie; La Flûte enchantée; L’Indifférent; Le Balcon; Harmonie du soir; Le Jet d’eau; Recueillement; C’est ça la vie, c’est ça l’amour!; J’ai deux amants; Yes; Si vous saviez; Ô mon bel inconnu; Je ne vois rien... Lorsque je n’étais qu’une enfant; Les hommes sont biens tous les mêmes; Air de la Lettre; L’amour est un oiseau rebelle; Vous-tu, je m’en veux à moi-même; Être adore; Je regrette mon Pressigny; Amour! Amour! quel est donc ton pouvoir; Mon rêve; C’est très vilain d’être infidèle; C’est pas Paris, c’est sa banlieue; Vagabonde; Di te mi rido; Mi lusinga il dolce affetto; Autrefois un roi de Thulé; Dieu! Que viens-je d’entendre?; The Things Our Fathers Loved; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; Swimmers; Memories (A - Very Pleasant, B - Rather Sad); Ann Street; Serenity (A unison chant); 1, 2, 3; Songs My Mother Taught Me; The Circus Band; The Cage; The Indians; Like a Sick Eagle; A sound of a distant horn; September; Soliloquy (or A Study in Sevenths and Other Things); A Farewell to Land; Thoreau; This journey. This journey to Christ; Who will walk with me?; He will gather us around; Sonnet; Clouds; Early in the Morning; The Serpent; Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal; Opus 101; I Strolled Across an Open Field; To a Young Girl; Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair; Ode: Je te salute, heureuse Paix; For Poulenc; Little Elgy; Alleluia; Look Down, Fair Moon; O You Whom I Often and Silently Come; I Will Always Love You; The Tulip Tree; The Wintry Mind; I am Rose; The Lordly Hudson; O Do Not Love Too Long; Far - Far – Away; For Susan; A Journey; Sometimes with One I Love; Love; Orchids; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Do I Love You More Than a Day?; Ferry Me Across the Water; The Sowers; That Shadow, My Likeness.