Friday, October 31, 2025

Born on this day – Dale Evans:


Dale Evans

Actress

Singer

Songwriter

October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001

Born on this day – Sheila Bromley:


Sheila Bromley

Actress

October 31, 1907 – July 23, 2003

Born on this day – Margery Wilson:


Margery Wilson


Actress

Director

Producer

Writer

October 31, 1896 – January 21, 1986

Credits:

A Corner in Colleens (1916); A Dark Horse (1915); A Woman of Nerve (1915); Bred in the Bone (1915); Crooked Straight (1919); Desert Gold (1919); Double Trouble (1915); Eye of the Night (1916); Flooey and Axel (1915); For the Honor of Bettina (1915); Insinuation (1922); Intolerance (1916); Jane Eyre (1914); Marked Cards (1918); Mountain Dew (1917); Old Love for New (1918); That Something (1920); The Bankhurst Mystery (1915); The Blooming Angel (1920); The Bride of Hate (1917); The Charcoal-Burner's Son (1939); The Clodhopper (1917); The Deadly Focus (1915); The Desert Man (1917); The Fatal Hour (1915); The Flames of Chance (1918); The Gunfighter (1917); The Hand at the Window (1918); The Hard Rock Breed (1918); The Honorable Algy (1916); The House of Whispers (1920); The Last of the Ingrams (1917); The Law of the Great Northwest (1918); The Lucky Transfer (1915); The Man of It (1915); The Mother Instinct (1917); The Offenders (1924); The Opal Pin (1915); The Primal Lure (1916); The Return of Draw Egan (1916); The Showdown (1915); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Sin Ye Do (1916); The Stab (1915); The Ten O'Clock Boat (1915); The Way of a Mother (1915); Two of a Kind (1920); Unwinding It (1915); Venus in the East (1919); Why Not Marry? (1922); Wild Sumac (1917); Without Honor (1918); Wolf Lowry (1917).

Born on this day – Ethel Waters:


Ethel Waters

Singer

Actress

October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977

Born on this day – John Keats:


John Keats


Writer

October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821

Credits:

Poems:

A Galloway Song; A Song About Myself; A Song of Opposites; A Party Of Lovers; Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats; Addressed to Haydon; Addressed to the Same; After dark vapours have oppressed our plains; Apollo to the Graces; An Extempore; As from the darkening gloom a silver dove; As Hermes once took to his feathers light; Before he went to live with owls and bats; Ben Nevis: A Dialogue; Blue!—’Tis the life of heaven—the domain; Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art; Calidore: A Fragment; Character of C. B.; Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds; Endymion; Extracts from an Opera; Faery Songs; Fancy; Fill for me a brimming bowl; For there’s Bishop’s Teign; Fragment Of “The Castle Builder”; Fragment of an Ode to Maia; God of the meridian; Happy is England! I could be content; Hence burgundy, claret, and port; Hither, hither, love; How many bards gild the lapses of time; Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear; Hymn To Apollo; Hyperion; I am as brisk; I cry your mercy—pity—love!—aye, love; I had a dove, and the sweet dove died; I stoof tip-toe upon a little hill; Imitation of Spenser; In after time a sage of mickle lore; In drear nighted December; Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil; Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there; King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy; La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad; Lamia; Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern; Lines (Unfelt, unheard, unseen…); Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing; Meg Merrilies; Modern Love; Not Aladdin magian; O grant that like to Peter I; O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell; O thou whose face hath felt the winter’s wind; Ode (Bards of Passion and of Mirth); Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on a Melancholy; Ode on Indolence; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Apollo; Ode to Psyche; Of late two dainties were before me plac’d; Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve; On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me; On Fame (“Fame, like a wayward girl”); On Fame (“How fever’d is the man”); On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour; On Peace; On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies; On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles; On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again; On Some Skills in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness; On the Grasshopper and Cricket; On the Sea; On the Sonnet; On Visiting the Tomb of Burns; On Leigh Hunt’s Poem, the ‘Story of Rimini’; Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts; Over the hill and over the dale; Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud; Robin Hood; Sharing Eve’s Apple; Sleep and Poetry; Song of Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water; Sonnet to Byron; Sonnet to Chatterton; Sonnet to Sleep; Sonnet to Spenser; Specimen of an Induction to a Poem; Spirit here that reignest; Stay, ruby breated warbler, stay; Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes; The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone; The Eve of St. Agnes; The Eve of St. Mark; The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream; The Human Seasons; The Gadfly; The Gothic looks solemn; The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale (Unfinished); There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain; Think not of it, sweet one, so; This living hand, now warm and capable; This mortal body of a thousand days; Time’s sea hath been five years at its slow ebb; Tis the “witching time of night”; To.- (Had I a man’s fair form, then might my sighs); To.- (Hadst tho liv’d in days of old); To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses; To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown; To Ailsa Rock; To Autumn; To Charles Cowden Clarke; To Emma; To G. A. W.; To George Felton Mathew; To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on seeing the Elgin Marbles; To Homer; To Hope; To J. H. Reynolds; To Kosciusko; To Leigh Hunt, Esq.; To Mrs. Reynold’s Cat; To My Brother George (epistle); To My Brother George (sonnet); To My Brothers; To one who has been long in city pent; To Some Ladies; To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown’d; To the Nile; Translated From A Sonnet Of Ronsard; Two or three posies; What can I do to drive away; When I have fears that I may cease to be; Where by ye going, you Devon maid; Where’s the Poet? (Fragment); Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell; Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain; Women, wine, and snuff; Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition; Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison; Written On The Blank Space Of A Leaf At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe; You say you love, but with a voice.

Movies and television:

Bright Star (2009); Camera Three (1958); CariƱo, sabes que soy de otro planeta (2022); Count the Ways (1975); Isabella and the Pot of Basil (2004); La belle dame sans merci (2005); La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (1997); New in November 2011 (2012); The Eve of St. Agnes (1950); The Merciless Beauty (2016); The Sunday Programme (2003); Venus Blue (1998).

Theodore Roosevelt, on books:


There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter
when the rocking chair in front of the fire
simply demands an accompanying book.

- Theodore Roosevelt.

Happy Halloween:

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