Friday, October 2, 2026

Born on this day – Graham Greene:


Graham Greene


Writer

October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991


Credits:

Books:

A Burnt-Out Case (1960); A Chance For Mr Lever (1936); A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire (1936); A Sense of Reality (1950); A Sort of Life (1971); A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992); Across the Bridge and Other Stories (1981); Alaska Stories (1995); Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006); Babbling April (1925); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Blood River (2007); Brighton Rock (1938); British Dramatists (1942); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Carving a Statue (1964); Chicago Stories (1993); Child's Ploy (1984); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Collected Essays (1969); Collected Stories (1973); Complete Short Stories (1990); Contemporary British Short Stories I (1971); Crime Never Pays (2001); David Bowie (2016); Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980); England Made Me / The Shipwrecked (1935); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Fragments of Autobiography (1991); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Friendship (1990); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Getting to Know the General (1984); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories (1947); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Patagonia (1977); In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961); It's a Battlefield (1934); J. D. Salinger (2016); J'Accuse (1982); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Journey Without Maps (1936); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Little Fire Engine (1950); London Stories (2013); Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Loser Takes All (1955); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (1967); Monsignor Quixote (1982); New Orleans Stories (1992); No Man's Land (2004); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); Orient Express / Stamboul Train (1932); Our Man in Havana (1958); Philip K. Dick (2015); Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 (1972); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Reflections (1990); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Rumour at Nightfall (1931); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Shades of Greene (1975); Shadow of the Silk Road (2007); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Bear Fell Free (1935); The Captain and the Enemy (1988); The Collected Plays (1985); The Comedians (1966); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The Confidential Agent (1939); The Destructors (1955); The End of the Affair (1951); The Great Jowett (1981); The Heart of the Matter (1948); The Honorary Consul (1973); The Human Factor (1978); The Killing Spirit (1996); The Last Word and Other Stories (1990); The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico (1939); The Little Fire Engine (1973); The Little Horse Bus (1952); The Little Steamroller (1955); The Little Train (1946); The Living Room (1954); The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951); The Man Within (1929); The Ministry of Fear (1943); The Name of Action (1930); The Old School (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987); The Portable Graham Greene (1973); The Potting Shed (1957); The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways (1940); The Quiet American (1955); The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975); The Rings of Saturn (1995); The Tenth Man (1985); The Third Man (1949); The Third Man and Other Stories (2011); Third Man (1977); Three Entertainments (1952); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Travels with My Aunt (1969); Triple Pursuit! (1971); Twenty-One Stories (1954); Under the Garden (1963); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); Victorian Villainies (1984); Ways of Escape (1980); Why Do I Write? (1975); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 (1991).

Movies and television:

21 Days Together (1940); A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2013); A Shocking Accident (1982); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); About Religion (1964); Across the Bridge (1957); Alta comedia (1971); Arena (1987 / 1993); Au théâtre ce soir (1980); Beyond the Limit (1983); Brighton Rock (1948 / 2010); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Cineficción Radio (2020); Confidential Agent (1945); Cüneyt Arkin in Yarali Kurt (1972); Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013); Das Geheimnis (1957); Das Herz aller Dinge (1971); Day for Night (1973); De kamer waarin wij leven (1959); Den føjelige elsker (1963); Den nøysomme elsker (1967); Der letzte raum (1966); Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit (1957); Double Take (2001); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); El teatro (1974); Empire of the Censors (1995); England Made Me (1973); Estudio 1 (1982); François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death (1996); Frontiers of Faith (1955); Great Performances (1986); Günes dogmasin (1961); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Honorární konzul (1991); Il treno per Istanbul (1980–1981); ITV Play of the Week (1956); Jádro veci (1968); La fine dell'avventura (1969); La mano dello straniero (1954); Late Night Story (1978); Lights Out (1951); Los exclusivos del Nueve (1982); Loser Takes All (1956); May We Borrow Your Husband? (1986); Ministerstvo strachu (1966); Ministry of Fear (1944); Neodcudzitelný majetok (1984); Noche de teatro (1974); Novela (1976); Omnibus (1968); Orient Express (1934); Our Man in Havana (1959); Pelon talo (1966); Play of the Week (1959–1961); Primera función (1989); Quinta colonna (1966); Saint Joan (1957); Saturday Review (1986); Secrets of the Content (2010); Shades of Greene (1975–1976); Shadowing the Third Man (2004); Ship's Reporter (1950); Short Cut to Hell (1957); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Strike It Rich (1990); Studio 4 (1962); Studio One (1951); Tajný agent (1974); Television Theater (1998); Terror Toons 4 (2022); The Art of Dissent (2021); The Book Programme (1978); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The End of the Affair (1955 / 1999 / 2006); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Fugitive (1947); The Future's in the Air (1937); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Heart of the Matter (1953 / 1983); The Human Factor (1979); The Making of 'Saint Joan' (1957); The New Britain (1940); The Power and the Glory (1957 / 1961); The Quiet American (1958 / 2002); The Smugglers (1947); The Tenth Man (1988); The Third Man (1949–1965); The Unforeseen (1960); This Gun for Hire (1942 / 1991); Thursday Theatre (1965); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Una pistola in vendita (1970); Verschlossene Räume (1958); Went the Day Well? (1942).

Born on this day – Alice Ernestine Prin:


Alice Ernestine Prin


Stage names: Queen of Montparnasse & Kiki de Montparnasse

Writer

Actress

Singer

Model

Painter

Chanteuse

Actress

October 2, 1901 – April 29, 1953

Book:

Kiki's Memoirs (1929).

Movies and television:

Ballet mécanique (1924); Cette vieille canaille (1933); Compression (2024); Emak-Bakia (1926); Histoire immédiate (2013); Kiki of Montparnasse (2013); La galerie des monstres (1924); Le capitaine jaune (1930); Le doc Stupéfiant (2021); Le lion des Mogols (1924); Legendary Sin Cities (2005); Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse (1963); L'Étoile de mer (1928); L'inhumaine (1924); Paris express (1928); Return to Reason (1923); Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray (2023); Révolutions surrealists (2024); The Search for Emak Bakia (2012); The Twentieth Century (1960); Walking on Air (1946).

Born on this day – Groucho Marx:


Groucho Marx


Actor

Comedian

Writer

Singer

October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977

Books:

Beds (1930 / 1976); Groucho and Me (1959); Many Happy Returns (1942); Memoirs of a Mangy Lover (1963); The Groucho Letters: Letters From and To Groucho Marx (1967); The Groucho Phile: An Illustrated Life by Groucho Marx with Hector Arce (1976); The Marx Bros (1973); The Secret Word Is Groucho with Hector Arce (1976).

Movies and television:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 10 Things You Don't Know About (2012); A Day at the Races (1937); A Girl in Every Port (1952); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Night in Casablanca (1946); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); A Tribute to Lucy (1989); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975–1976); All Star Revue (1952); America After Dark (1957); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (1997–2022); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Animal Crackers (1930); At the Circus (1939); Beatles Diary (1996); Beatles Stories (2011); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Behind the Music (1998); Biography (1993–2012); Birds Do It (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Breaking Bad (2013); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Can We Take a Joke? (2015); Candid Hollywood (1962); Cartola, the Samba Legend (2007); Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid (2024); Cavett Remembers the Comic Legends (2006); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976); Celebrity Billiards (1968); Celebrity Commercials (1987); Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (2020); Classic Cars of the 50'S & 60'S, Nostalgic Films & TV Commercials (1990); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); Comedy Connections (2004); Copacabana (1947); De dónde salen estos doblajes (2019); De qué te ríes (2006); Dick Cavett und... (1979); Discovering Film (2015); Donyale Luna: Supermodel (2023); Double Dynamite (1951); Duck Soup (1933); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000); Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man (2012); Film Breaks (1999); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Firing Line (1967); Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (2023); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Funny Business (1992); Game Changers (2018); Game Show Moments Gone Bananas (2005); General Electric Theater (1959–1962); General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (1954); Geno in the Evening (2016); George Jessel Show (1959); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Glickman (2013); Go West (1940); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Great Performances (2005); Groucho (1965); Groucho Marx's Home Movies (1933); Gypsy (1967); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Hello I Must Be Going (2012); Here's Dick Cavett (1969); History's Greatest Mysteries (2023); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood Invasion (2011); Hollywood on Parade (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. 11 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-5 (1932); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); Horse Feathers (1932); Humor Risk (1921); Hy Gardner Calling (1961); I Dream of Jeannie (1967); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); I've Got a Secret (1959–1963); Jack (2021); Jonathan Creek (2003); Joys! (1976); Julia (1968); Kraft Theatre (1949); Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021); L'antre du Mea (2018); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2015); Legends of Stand Up Comedy (2024); Les Chroniques du Mea (2021–2022); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Life with Linkletter (1970); Life's a Dive (2014); Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (2004); Lives Well Lived (2025); Looking for Lenny (2011); Love Happy (1949); Love, Marilyn (2012); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Marilyn's Man (2004); Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love (2013); Merrily We Roll Along: The Early Days of the Automobile (1961); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Midi Trente (1972); Mike Wallace Is Here (2019); Milton Berle's Mad Mad Mad World of Comedy (1974); Monkey Business (1931); More of 'The Best of the Hollywood Palace' (1993); Morir de humor (2008); Movie Star Commercials and Important Messages (1983); Moviestar Cartoons (1983); Mr. Music (1950); Muppet Babies (1988); Music Scene (1970); Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003); My Mom Jayne (2025); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus (1972); On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! (2004); Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1954); Phil Collins: I Wish It Would Rain Down (1990); Pioneers of Television (2008); Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2024); Remarks on Marx (2004); Remember ... 1938 (1955); Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996); Room Service (1938); Salsa (1976); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 3 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 8 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 9 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 22, No. 5 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 22, No. 8 (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 2 (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 24, No. 9 (1945); Screen Snapshots, Series 29, No. 10: Hollywood's Famous Feet (1950); Screen Snapshots, Series 29, No. 6: It Was Only Yesterday (1950); Screen Snapshots, Series 31, No. 5: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Screen Snapshots, Series 32, No. 8: Hollywood's Greatest Comedians (1953); Screen Snapshots, Series 35, No. 2: The Great Al Jolson (1955); Screen Snapshots, Series 35, No. 8: Playtime in Hollywood (1956); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956); Shower of Stars (1954); Skidoo (1968); Special Collector's Edition (2011–2012); Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); Supermensch (2013); Television (1988); Tell It to Groucho (1961–1962); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (2006); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2005); The Alan Hamel Show (1977); The Arthur Murray Party (1953); The Beatles... Off the Record: Newsreel Footage 1964-1966 (2001); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Big Store (1941); The Bob Hope Show (1964); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Cocoanuts (1929); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Comedians' Comedian (2005); The Dating Game (1967); The David Frost Show (1970); The David Susskind Show (1960–1963); The Dead Sullivan Show (2017); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995); The Groucho Marx Collector's Classic (1985); The History of Comedy (2018); The Hollywood Palace (1964–1982); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1971); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1967–1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The King and the Chorus Girl (1937); The Kraft Music Hall (1967–1968); The Last Laugh (2016); The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1965); The Les Crane Show (1964); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998); The Life of Riley (1949); The Life of Riley (1953–1958); The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (1970); The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971); The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1976); The Michael Knowles Show (2017); The Mike Douglas Show (1974); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movie Orgy (1968); The Movies (2019); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The New Steve Allen Show (1963); The One, the Only... Groucho (1991); The Our Gang Story (1994); The Plot Thickens (1963); The Popsicle Parade of Stars (1950); The Project (2025); The Sixties (2014); The Source (1999); The Sparks Brothers (2021); The Steve Allen Show (1956–1958); The Story of Mankind (1957); The Sunday Spectacular: Show Biz from Vaudeville to Video (1955); The Swift Show Wagon with Horace Heidt and the American Way (1955); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958–1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 25th Anniversary Special (1987); The Unknown Marx Brothers (1993); The UnXplained (2020); The Walking Dead (2020); The Wonder Years (1990); These Amazing Shadows (2011); This Is Elvis (1981); This Is Your Life (1955); Today (1963); TV: The Fabulous Fifties (1978); TV's Censored Bloopers #4 (1982); TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984); Un jour, une histoire (2014); V.O.S.: Lo que NO te cuentan (2021); Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... (1965); We Remember Marilyn (1996); Welcome to the Basement (2013); Whatever Works (2009); What's My Line? (1959–1967); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When We Went MAD! (2025); Who Said That? (1953–1955); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Wonderland of California (1933); You Bet Your Life (1950–1961); You Bet Your Life: The Lost Episodes (2003); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zaz: Prends garde à ta langue (2018).

Born on this day – Bud Abbott:


Bud Abbott


Actor

Comedian

Producer

October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974

Credits:

Abbott & Costello (1967); General Electric Theater (1961); Dance with Me, Henry (1956); Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955); Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955); Fireman Save My Child (1954); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1954); Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Lost in Alaska (1952); Jack and the Beanstalk (1952); Comin' Round the Mountain (1951); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950); Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949); Africa Screams (1949); Mexican Hayride (1948); 10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); The Noose Hangs High (1948); The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); The Time of Their Lives (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Little Giant (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); The Naughty Nineties (1945); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Lost in a Harem (1944); In Society (1944); Hit the Ice (1943); It Ain't Hay (1943); Who Done It? (1942); Pardon My Sarong (1942); Rio Rita (1942); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Keep 'Em Flying (1941); Hold That Ghost (1941); In the Navy (1941); The Andrews Sisters in Buck Privates (1941); One Night in the Tropics (1940).

Born on this day – Wallace Stevens:


Wallace Stevens


Writer

October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955

Credits:

Books:

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman; Anecdote of the Jar; Collected poetry and prose; Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock; Earthy Anecdote; Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs; Gubbinal; Harmonium; How to Live, what to Do; Idées de l'ordre; Infanta Marina; Last Looks at the Lilacs; Letters of Wallace Stevens; Life Is Motion; Lunar Paraphrase; Nomad Exquisite; Of Modern Poetry; Opus posthumous; Palace of the Babies; Peter Quince at the Clavier; Ploughing on Sunday; Poems; Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo; Selected Poems; Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens; Sunday Morning; The Auroras of Autumn; The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; The Collected Poems: The Corrected Edition; The Comedian as the Letter C; The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician; The Emperor of Ice-Cream; The emperor of ice-cream, and other poems; The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad; The man with the blue guitar; The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination; The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play; The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage; The Place of the Solitaires; The Plot Against the Giant; The Poetry of Wallace Stevens; The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade; The Worms at Heaven's Gate; Theory; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; Transport to summer; Wallace Stevens Reads; Wallace Stevens: Poems.

Movies and television:

The Emperor of Ice Cream (2015); The Extravagant Shadows (2012); Thirteen Ways... (2001).

Julia Alvarez, on books:


A book does not discriminate against any reader.
All are welcome at the table of literature.

– Julia Alvarez.

Thursday, October 1, 2026

On this day in movie history - Old Henry (2021):


Old Henry

directed and written by Potsy Ponciroli,
was released in the United States on October 1, 2021.
Music by Jordan Lehning.


Cast:

Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins, Stephen Dorff, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, Brad Carter, Kent Shelton.