Born on this day – Margaret Dumont:

Margaret Dumont

Actress

October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); A Day at the Races (1937); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); About Face (1942); After Office Hours (1935); Animal Crackers (1930); Anything Goes (1936); Arbor Day (1936); At the Circus (1939); Auntie Mame (1958); Bathing Beauty (1944); Biography (1993); Born to Sing (1942); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Buster Keaton in Wildwest (1962); Chevron Theatre (1952); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); De qué te ríes (2006); Diamond Horseshoe (1945); Dramatic School (1938); Duck Soup (1933); Enemies of Women (1923); Fifteen Wives (1934); For Beauty's Sake (1940); Funny Business (1992); Gridiron Flash (1934); Gypsy Sweetheart (1935); Here, Prince (1932); Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999); High Flyers (1937); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); Kentucky Kernels (1934); Little Giant (1946); Morir de humor (2008); My Friend Irma (1953); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! (2004); Orchids to You (1935); Racket Squad (1951); Reckless (1935); Remarks on Marx (2004); Rendezvous (1935); Rhythm Parade (1942); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Seven Days Ashore (1944); Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); Song and Dance Man (1936); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Storm at Daybreak (1933); Studio 57 (1956); Sunset in El Dorado (1945); Susie Steps Out (1946); Tales of Manhattan (1942); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Big Store (1941); The Bob Hope Show (1954 / 1956); The Buster Keaton Show (1951); The Cocoanuts (1929); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Dancing Masters (1943); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1960); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The Girl Habit (1931); The Hollywood Clowns (1979); The Hollywood Palace (1965); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); The Life of the Party (1937); The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982); The Stu Erwin Show (1951–1952); The Unknown Marx Brothers (1993); The Women (1939); Three for Bedroom C (1952); Up in Arms (1944); We're Rich Again (1934); What a Way to Go! (1964); Wise Girl (1937); Wonderland of California (1933); Youth on Parole (1937); Zotz! (1962).

Born on this day – Edgar Selwyn:

Edgar Selwyn

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

October 20, 1875 – February 13, 1944

Credits:

Pierre of the Plains (1942); Washington Melodrama (1941); Dulcy (1940); The Golden Fleecing (1940); Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Bridal Suite (1939); The Kid from Texas (1939); Baby Face Harrington (1935); The Mystery of Mr. X (1934); Chained (1934); Men Must Fight (1933); Turn Back the Clock (1933); The Barbarian (1933); Skyscraper Souls (1932); The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931); Men Call It Love (1931); Possessed (1931); War Nurse (1930); The Girl in the Show (1929); Dancing Mothers (1926); Night Life of New York (1925); The Crowded Hour (1925); The Mirage (1924); The Arab (1924); The Primitive Lover (1922); Lonely Heart (1921); For Better, for Worse (1919); Heart of the Wilds (1918); Dodging a Million (1918); Nearly Married (1917); Rolling Stones (1916); The Arab (1915); The Country Boy (1915); Pierre of the Plains (1914).

Recommended reading - Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction (1992):

Murder Plus

True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction

Edited by Marc Gerald

Paperback

Published 1992.

Published by Pharos Books.

ISBN 13: 9780886876623

ISBN 10: 0886876621

ASIN: 0886876621

Description:

A collection of twenty-five true crime stories culled from the pages of old pulp magazines features works by such masters of detective fiction as Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Bloch, Ellery Queen, Harlan Ellison, and others. Simultaneous.

Carol Higgins Clark, on writers and writing:

A writer is always observant, of course ...

You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.

- Carol Higgins Clark.

On this day in movie history - Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006):

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film

a documentary directed by Tom Thurman,

written by Tom Marksbury,

was released at the Hollywood Film Festival in the United States on October 19, 2006.
Music by Otto Helmuth and Frank Schaap.
Narrated by Nick Nolte.

Cast:

Ed Bradley, Bob Braudis, Douglas Brinkley, William F. Buckley, Gary Busey, John Cusack, Benicio Del Toro, Johnny Depp, F.X. Feeney, Gary Hart, Art Linson, Leonard Maltin, George McGovern, Bill Murray, Laila Nabulsi, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Ralph Steadman, Anita Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson, Juan Thompson, Nick Tosches, Jann Wenner, Tom Wolfe.

On this day in movie history - Clerks (1994):

Clerks

directed and written by Kevin Smith,

was released in the United States on October 19, 1994.

“You know, there’s a million fine-looking women in the world, dude, but they don’t all bring you lasagna at work.

Most of ‘em just cheat on you.”

– Kevin Smith, as Silent Bob, speaking his only dialogue in the movie.

Cast:

Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa Spoonauer, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier, Scott Schiaffo, Al Berkowitz, Walt Flanagan, Ed Hapstak, Pattijean Csik, Ken Clark, Ernest O'Donnell, Kimberly Loughran, Gary Stern, John Henry Westhead, Betsy Broussard, Grace Smith, Frances Cresci, Donna Jeanne, Virginia Smith, Leslie Hope, Connie O'Connor.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 5. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Disaster.

Released October 19, 1991.

Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Ron Jarvis, Philip A. Scorza, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Rosalind Chao, Colm Meaney, Michelle Forbes, Erika Flores, John Christian Graas, Max Supera, Cameron Arnett, Jana Marie Hupp, K.C. Amos, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Michael Echols, Grace Harrell, Gary Hunter, Randy James, Alex Landi, Mark Lentry, Christina Wegler Miles, Ivonne Perez Montijo, Denise Lynne Roberts, Nanci Rogers.