Monday, November 10, 2025

Born on this day – Rossella Falk:


Rossella Falk

Actress

November 10, 1926 – May 5, 2013

Born on this day – Richard Burton:


Richard Burton

Actor

November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984

Born on this day – Jane Froman:


Jane Froman


Actress

Singer

November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980

Credits:

The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Arthur Murray Party (1956–1960); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); The Walter Winchell Show (1956); The Vic Damone Show (1956); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955); The Jane Froman Show (1952–1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1954); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1954); The Larry Storch Show (1953); Answer the Call (1953); What's My Line? (1953); This Is Show Business (1950–1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950–1952); The Jane Froman Show (1952); The Ezio Pinza Show (1951); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1950–1951); All Star Revue (1951); The Voice of Firestone (1950–1951); The Alan Young Show (1950); Radio City Revels (1938); Stars Over Broadway (1935); Kissing Time (1933).

Born on this day – Claude Rains:


Claude Rains


Actor

November 10, 1889 – May 30, 1967

Credits:

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Reporter (1964); Dr. Kildare (1964); Twilight of Honor (1963); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962–1963); Rawhide (1963); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Sam Benedict (1962); Wagon Train (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962); Battle of the Worlds (1961); Mel-O-Toons (1960); Naked City (1960); Shangri-La (1960); The Lost World (1960); Once Upon a Christmas Time (1959); This Earth Is Mine (1959); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1959); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); On Borrowed Time (1957); Eye on New York (1956); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); Lisbon (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956); Kraft Theatre (1956); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Confidential Clerk) (1954); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Bentons at Home) (1953); Medallion Theatre (1953); The Paris Express (1952); Sealed Cargo (1951); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951); Where Danger Lives (1950); The White Tower (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Rope of Sand (1949); The Passionate Friends (1949); The Unsuspected (1947); Deception (1946); Angel on My Shoulder (1946); Notorious (1946); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); Strange Holiday (1945); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Passage to Marseille (1944); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Casablanca (1942); Now, Voyager (1942); Moontide (1942); Kings Row (1942); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); The Wolf Man (1941); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Four Mothers (1941); Lady with Red Hair (1940); The Sea Hawk (1940); Saturday's Children (1940); The Invisible Man Returns (1940); Four Wives (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); Sons of Liberty (1939); Juarez (1939); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); Four Daughters (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); White Banners (1938); Breakdowns of 1937 (1937); They Won't Forget (1937); The Prince and the Pauper (1937); Stolen Holiday (1937); Hearts Divided (1936); Anthony Adverse (1936); Scrooge (1935); The Last Outpost (1935); The Clairvoyant (1935); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); The Invisible Man (1933); Build Thy House (1920).

Born on this day – Vachel Lindsay:


Vachel Lindsay


Writer

November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931

Credits:

Poems:

A Curse for Kings; A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten; A Net to Snare the Moonlight; A Prayer To All The Dead Among Mine Own People; A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign; A Sense of Humor; Above the Battle's Front; Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Aladdin and the Jinn; Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie; An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic; An Argument; An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie; At Mass; Beyond the Moon; Blanche Sweet; Buddha; By the Spring, at Sunset; Caught in a Net; Concerning Emperors; Darling Daughter of Babylon; Drying Their Wings; Eden in Winter; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Epilogue; Epitaphs For Two Players; Euclid; Factory Windows Are Always Broken; Foreign Missions in Battle Array; Galahad, Knight Who Perished; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Genesis; Ghosts in Love; Heart of God; Here's to the Mice!; Honor Among Scamps; How a Little Girl Danced; How a Little Girl Sang; How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven; How Samson Bore Away the Gates of GazaI Heard Immanuel Singing; I Went Down into the Desert; In Memory of a Child; In Praise of Songs that Die; Incense; King Arthur's Men Have Come Again; Lincoln; Look You, I'll Go Pray; Love and Law; Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress; Mark Twain and Joan of Arc; Michaelangelo; My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl; Niagara; On Reading Omar Khayyam; On the Building of Springfield; On the Garden Wall; On the Road to Nowhere; Our Guardian Angels and Their Children; Our Mother Pocahontas; Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries; Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread; Queen Mab in the Village; Rhymes for Gloriana; Shakespeare; Springfield Magical; St. Francis of Assisi; Star of My Heart; Sunshine; Sweet Briars of the Stairways; Sweethearts of the Year; The Alchemist's Petition; The Amaranth; The Angel and the Clown; The Bankrupt Peace-Maker; The Beggar's Valentine; The Black Hawk War of the Artists; The Booker Washington Trilogy; The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken; The Chinese Nightingale; The City That Will Not Repent; The Congo; The Cornfields; The Dandelion; The Drunkard's Funeral; The Drunkards in the Street; The Eagle That Is Forgotten; The Empty Boats; The Encyclopaedia; The Fairy Bridal-Hymn; The Firemen's Ball; The Flower of Mending; The Flower-Fed Buffaloes; The Gamblers; The Ghosts of the Buffaloes; The Haughty Snail-King; The Hearth Eternal; The Hope of the Resurrection; The Illinois Village; The Jingo and the Minstrel; The King of Yellow Butterflies; The Knight in Disguise; The Leaden-Eyed; The Light o' the Moon; The Lion; The Little Turtle; The Master of the Dance; The Merciful Hand; The Moon is a Painter; The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky; The Mysterious Cat; The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son; The Perfect Marriage; The Potatoes' Dance; The Prairie Battlements; The Proud Farmer; The Queen of Bubbles; The Raft; The Rose of Midnight; The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque); The Scissors-Grinder; The Song of the Garden-Toad; The Sorceress!; The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit; The Spice-Tree; The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly; The Strength of the Lonely; The Sun Says His Prayers; The Tale Of The Tiger-Tree; The Trap; The Traveller-Heart; The Tree of Laughing Bells; The Unpardonable Sin; The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos; The Wizard in the Street; This Section is a Christmas Tree; This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky; TitianTo Buddha; To Gloriana; To Jane Addams at the Hague; To Lady Jane; To Mary Pickford; To Reformers in Despair; To the United States Senate; Two Old Crows; Upon Returning to the Country Road; We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not; What Semiramis Said; What the Coal-Heaver Said; What the Ghost of the Gambler Said; What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said; What the Miner in the Desert Said; What the Moon Saw; What the Rattlesnake Said; What the Sexton Said; When Bryan Speaks; When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich; Where Is David, the Next King of Israel?; Where Is the Real Non-Resistant; Who Knows?; Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket; With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses; Written for a Musician; Yankee Doodle; Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be.

Movie and television:

Dead Poets Society (poem The Congo quoted) (1989); The Fantasmagori (2017).

C. S. Lewis, on experience and inspiration:


Experience: that most brutal of teachers.
But you learn, my God do you learn.

- C. S. Lewis.

Sunday, November 9, 2025

On this day in music history - It's a Man's World, by Anastacia (2012):


It’s a Man’s World

Album by Anastacia,
released November 9, 2012.

Track list:

Ramble On; Best of You; Sweet Child O’ Mine; You Can’t Always Get What You Want; One; Back in Black; Dream On; Use Somebody; You Give Love a Bad Name; Wonderwall.