Born on this day – Helen Vinson:

Helen Vinson

Actress

September 17, 1907 – October 7, 1999

Credits:

A Notorious Gentleman (1935); Age of Indiscretion (1935); Are These Our Parents? (1944); As Husbands Go (1934); Beyond Tomorrow (1940); Bowery Boy (1940); Broadway Bill (1934); Chip Off the Old Block (1944); Curtain Call (1940); Enemy Agent (1940); Gift of Gab (1934); Grand Slam (1933); I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); In Name Only (1939); Jewel Robbery (1932); King of the Damned (1935); Lawyer Man (1932); Let's Try Again (1934); Live, Love and Learn (1937); Love in Exile (1936); Married and in Love (1940); Midnight Club (1933); Nothing But the Truth (1941); Private Worlds (1935); Reunion (1936); Second Hand Wife (1933); The Captain Hates the Sea (1934); The Crash (1932); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Lady and the Monster (1944); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Little Giant (1933); The Power and the Glory (1933); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Wedding Night (1935); They Call It Sin (1932); Torrid Zone (1940); Transatlantic Tunnel (1935); Two Against the World (1932); Vogues of 1938 (1937).

Born on this day – Dolores Costello:

Dolores Costello

Actress

September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979

Credits:

A Birthday Gift (1913); A Juvenile Love Affair (1912); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909); A Million Bid (1927); A Reformed Santa Claus (1911); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); American Masters (2008); Biography (2002); Bobbed Hair (1925); Bobby's Father (1912); Breaking the Ice (1938); Bride of the Storm (1926); Captain Barnacle's Legacy (1912); Captain Jenks' Dilemma (1912); Consuming Love; or, St. Valentine's Day in Greenaway Land (1911); Etta of the Footlights (1914); Expensive Women (1931); Fellow Voyagers (1913); For the Honor of the Family (1912); Gaslight Follies (1945); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Glorious Betsy (1928); Greater Than a Crown (1925); Hearts in Exile (1929); Her Grandchild (1912); His Sister's Children (1911); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); How Cissy Made Good (1914); Ida's Christmas (1912); In the Shadow (1913); King of the Turf (1939); Lawful Larceny (1923); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); Lulu's Doctor (1912); Madonna of Avenue A (1929); Magic Movie Moments (1953); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Mannequin (1926); March of the Movies (1933); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); Noah's Ark (1928); Northern Exposure (1993); Old San Francisco (1927); Outside These Walls (1939); Screen Snapshots, Series 22, No. 5 (1942); Second Choice (1930); She Never Knew (1912); Show of Shows (1929); Some Good in All (1911); Some Steamer Scooping (1914); Song of the Shell (1912); Splendor in the Grass (1961); Tenderloin (1928); The Beloved Brat (1938); The Child Crusoes (1911); The College Widow (1927); The Evil Men Do (1915); The Geranium (1911); The Glimpses of the Moon (1923); The Golden Twenties (1950); The Heart of Jim Brice (1915); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Hindoo Charm (1913); The Irony of Fate (1912); The Little Irish Girl (1926); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Mandela Catalogue (2023); The Meeting of the Ways (1912); The Money Kings (1912); The Movie Album #2 (1932); The Redeeming Sin (1929); The Sea Beast (1926); The Telephone (1910); The Third Degree (1926); The Toymaker (1912); The Troublesome Step-Daughters (1912); This Is the Army (1943); Thrills from the Past (1954); Too Much Burglar (1914); Vultures and Doves (1912); WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926); Wanted... a Grandmother (1912); When a Man Loves (1927); Whispering Enemies (1939); Yours for the Asking (1936).

Born on this day – Edith Roberts:

Edith Roberts

Actress

September 17, 1899 – August 20, 1935

Credits:

3 Keys (1925); A Baby Doll Bandit (1920); A Bundle of Trouble (1917); A College Boomerang (1916); A Dark Deed (1917); A Duck Out of Water (1918); A Front Page Story (1922); A Hasty Hazing (1917); A Macaroni Sleuth (1917); A Million in Sight (1917); A Pigskin Hero (1918); A Ripping Time (1918); A Taste of Life (1919); A Village Venus (1919); Alias Miss Dodd (1920); All Bound Around (1919); Animated Weekly, No. 8 (1916); Backbone (1923); Bad News (1918); Beans (1918); Berth Control (1918); Big Brother (1923); Bill Henry (1919); Billy's College Job (1915); Black Cargos of the South Seas (1928); Burglar by Request (1917); Chasing Her Future (1919); Cinders (1916); Claudia (1916); Don't Shoot! (1918); Don't Weaken! (1918); Down Went the Key (1917); Downing an Uprising (1920); Dreary House (1928); Evil Hands (1917); Felix Gets in Wrong (1916); Flesh and Blood (1922); Follow the Tracks (1917); Give Her Gas (1918); Guilty (1918); He Married His Wife (1919); Heir-Loons (1925); Her City Beau (1917); Her Five-Foot Highness (1920); Her Mother's Sweetheart (1916); Her Wonderful Secret (1916); High Speed (1916); His Wife's Relatives (1917); Hot Applications (1917); In Society (1921); In the Good Old Days (1919); Jilted in Jail (1917); Just Kitty (1916); Kitchen Police (1919); Klever Kiddies (1919); Lasca (1919); Looking 'Em Over (1917); Lost in Babylon (1916); Luring Lips (1921); Married by Accident (1917); Minding the Baby (1917); Mixed Matrimony (1917); Move Over (1917); Moving Day (1917); Mum's the Word (1918); Nailed at the Plate (1918); Nearly a Chaperone (1918); No Ordinary Guy (1928); Oh! Oh! Nursie! (1919); On Thin Ice (1925); One Thousand Miles an Hour (1917); Opened Shutters (1921); Pawned (1922); Peggy and the Law (1916); Penny Ante (1919); Personality Parade (1938); Pete, the Prowler (1917); Poor Peter Pious (1917); Practice What You Preach (1917); Pretty Baby (1916); Roaring Rails (1924); Roulette (1924); Saturday Night (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 14 (1920); Seeing Things (1917); Set Free (1918); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925); Shameful Behavior? (1926); Shattered Lives (1925); Shot in the Dumbwaiter (1918); Shot in the West (1917); Some Specimens (1917); Speed Mad (1925); Stepping Some (1918); Straight Crooks (1918); Sue of the South (1919); Taking Their Medicine (1917); Tell Morgan's Girl (1917); The Adorable Savage (1920); The Age of Innocence (1924); The Boulevard Speed Hounds (1917); The Bowery Bishop (1924); The Brazen Beauty (1918); The Call of the Unborn (1916); The Clever Mrs. Carter (1916); The Crimson Trail (1916); The Dangerous Age (1922); The Deciding Kiss (1918); The Doctor of the Afternoon Arm (1916); The Dodgers (1918); The Fire Cat (1921); The Good Ship Rock 'n' Rye (1919); The Heart Wrecker (1916); The Heritage of Valor (1916); The Home Wreckers (1917); The Jazz Girl (1926); The Knockout (1918); The Little Grey Mouse (1916); The Little Moccasins (1917); The Lost Appetite (1917); The Love Slacker (1917); The Love Swindle (1918); The Man from Headquarters (1928); The Mystery Club (1926); The New Champion (1925); The Nightcap (1917); The Phantom of the North (1929); The Road to Broadway (1926); The Rogue's Nest (1917); The Rushin' Dancers (1917); The Son of the Wolf (1922); The Sunshine Trail (1923); The Taxi Mystery (1926); The Trail of the Wild Wolf (1916); The Triflers (1920); The Unconventional Girl (1916); The Unknown Wife (1921); The Vamp Cure (1918); The Wagon Master (1929); The War Bridegroom (1917); The Whelp (1917); The Wrong Mary Wright (1917); There You Are! (1926); Thorns and Orange Blossoms (1922); Thunder Island (1921); Thy Name Is Woman (1924); To Be or Not to Be Married (1917); To Oblige a Vampire (1917); Toto of the Byways (1916); Treat 'Em Rough (1917); Twenty Dollars a Week (1924); Under the Bed (1917); Up the Flue (1919); Wasted Lives (1925); Welcome Home (1917); What a Clue Will Do (1917); When the Call Came (1915); When the Cat's Away (1917); White Youth (1920); Whose Baby Are You? (1918); Why, Uncle! (1917); Wild and Woolly Women (1917).

Born on this day – Denise Grey:

Denise Grey

Actress

September 17, 1896 – January 13, 1996

Credits:

A Fine Romance (1991); À la folie, pas du tout (1987); À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957); Adieu Léonard (1943); Allô... je t'aime (1952); An Angel on Wheels (1959); Antenne 2 Midi (1987); April Fools' Day (1954); Art. 519 codice penale (1952); Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1984); Avis de recherche (1988); Bell' Antonio (1960); Boléro (1942); Bomben auf Monte Carlo (1960); Bonheur en location (1949); Boulevard des faits divers: 65-66 (1966); Carré de valets (1947); Carve Her Name with Pride (1958); Castles in Spain (1954); C'est la faute d'Adam (1958); Champs-Elysées (1982–1988); Chéri (1962); Coïncidences (1947); Demain nous divorçons (1951); Des jeunes filles dans la nuit (1943); Devil in the Flesh (1947); En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger (1983); En famille (1915); Entrez sans frapper (1972); Escalier de service (1954); Et dix de der (1948); Étrange destin (1946); Fan des années 80 (2009–2012); Fantaisie d'un jour (1955); Girls' Dormitory (1953); Hello-Goodbye (1970); Honneur d'artiste (1920); Il seduttore (1954); Jeunes filles à marier (1935); Joyeux anniversaire Monsieur Trenet (1995); Julietta (1953); La bonne soupe (1964); La dame de Vittel (1937); La derelitta / Cinéma 16 (1977–1982); La joie de vivre (1954); La maison de campagne (1969); La nuit des Molières (1987); La peau de l'ours (1957); La ronde des heures (1949); La rue des bouches peintes (1955); La soupière (1992); La une est à vous (1988); La villa Sans-Souci (1955); L'auberge en folie (1956); L'aventure est au coin de la rue (1944); Le chevalier Tempête (1967); Le confident de ces dames (1959); Le couple idéal (1946); Le divan (1988); Le gaffeur (1985); Le panier à crabes (1960); Le père de Mademoiselle (1953); Le petit monument (1961); Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1985); Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour (1955); Le tombeur (1958); Le voleur de feuilles (1984); L'entretien (1969); Les aventures de Babar (1968); Les caves du Majestic (1945); Les corsaires du Bois de Boulogne (1954); Les dames de la côte (1979–1980); Les moyens du bord (1979); Les petites Cardinal (1951); Les pique-assiettes (1989); Les quartiers de Paris (Clio dans le métro) (1967); Les rois maudits (1972); Les saisons du plaisir (1988); Les temps difficiles (1985); Les uns et les autres (1988); L'esprit de famille (1982); L'extravagante mission (1945); L'honorable Catherine (1943); L'insaisissable Frédéric (1946); L'oasis dans la tourmente (1942); Love and the Frenchwoman / Segment: Le Divorce (1960); Madame et son flirt (1946); Madame Rigadin modiste (1914); Mademoiselle Etchiko (1913); Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé? (1971); Mardi cinema (1984); Merci Sylvestre (1983); Midi-Première (1981); Mimi Pinson (1958); Mitsou (1956); Mon ami Sainfoin (1950); Monsieur Hector (1940); Montmartre sur Seine (1941); My Fair Lady (1964); Nemrod et compagnie (1916); N'oublie pas ton père au vestiaire... (1982); On demande un ménage (1946); Pas de caviar pour tante Olga (1965); Pas de week end pour notre amour (1950); Police judiciaire (1958); Raspoutine (1954); Regards de femme (1990); Retour de flamme (1943); Rigadin professeur de danse (1916); Romance à trois (1942); Rome Express (1950); Rouge (1960); Sacrée soirée (1987–1991); Samedi soir (1972); Serge Panine (1939); Six heures à perdre (1947); Stars 90 (1991); Summertime (1955); Sur la sellette (1978); Sylviane de mes nuits (1957); Tête blonde (1950); The Blue Veil (1942); The Blues (1918); The Party (1980); The Party 2 (1982); The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954); The Tour of the Grand Dukes (1953); Thé, soupçon et sympathie (1967); Tout pour le mieux (1969); Trois artilleurs à l'opéra (1938); Trois artilleurs au pensionnat (1937); Un curé de choc (1974); Un homme dans la maison (1962); Un ours pas comme les autres (1978); Une autre vie (1971); Une femme par jour (1949); Une nuit aux Baléares (1957); Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur (1943).

The magic of imagination:

Books don't just go with you; they take you where you've never been.

- Anonymous.

Recommended reading - A Man Called Spade (1944):

A Man Called Spade

By Dashiell Hammett.

Published by Dell.
First Edition.
Paperback.
First published 1944.
ASIN: B000JWUE5A

Description:

Collection of short stories by this master writer of the Sam Spade detective series. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Dell Mapback #90. Sam Spade is featured in five short stories. The original hard-boiled American detective is featured in this vintage mapback edition.

Margery Allingham, on writing:

I write every paragraph four times –

once to get my meaning down,

once to put in anything I have left out,

once to take out anything that seems unnecessary,

and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

- Margery Allingham.