Born on this day – Kathryn Grayson:

Kathryn Grayson

Actress

Singer

February 9, 1922 – February 17, 2010

Credits:

Murder, She Wrote (1987–1989); Baretta (1978); Lux Playhouse (1958); Playhouse 90 (1957); General Electric Theater (1955–1956); The Vagabond King (1956); Kiss Me Kate (1953); So This Is Love (1953); The Desert Song (1953); Lovely to Look At (1952); Show Boat (1951); Grounds for Marriage (1951); The Toast of New Orleans (1950); That Midnight Kiss (1949); The Kissing Bandit (1948); It Happened in Brooklyn (1947); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); Two Sisters from Boston (1946); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); Anchors Aweigh (1945); Thousands Cheer (1943); Seven Sweethearts (1942); Rio Rita (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941).

Born on this day – Amy Lowell:

Amy Lowell

Writer

February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

Credits:

A Critical Fable (1922); A Dome of Many-Colored Glass (1912); Amy Lowell (1925); Amy Lowell: A Chronicle, With Extracts from her Correspondence (1935); Ballads for Sale (1927); Can Grande's Castle (1919); Complete Poetical Works and Selected Writings in 6 vols; East Wind (1926); Fireworks: The Atlantic Monthly (1915); Fir-Flower Tablets (1921); Legends (1921); Men, Women and Ghosts (1916); Pictures of the Floating World (1919); Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (2002); Some imagist poets (1917); Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914); The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell (1955); The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell (1955); The Touch of You Amy Lowell's Poems of Love and Beauty (1972); What's O'Clock (1925).

Arthur Schopenhauer, on reading:

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Arthur Schopenhauer.

On this day in movie history - Cold Pursuit (2019):

Cold Pursuit

directed by Hans Petter Moland,

written by Frank Baldwin,

was released in the United States on February 8, 2019.
A remake of In Order of Disappearance aka Kraftidioten (2014), directed by Hans Petter Moland.
Music by George Fenton.

Cast:

Liam Neeson, Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson, Emmy Rossum, Domenick Lombardozzi, Julia Jones, John Doman, Laura Dern, Aleks Paunovic, William Forsythe, Raoul Trujillo, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Michael Eklund, Bradley Stryker, David O'Hara, Christopher Logan, Nathaniel Arcand, Ben Cotton, Micheál Richardson, Mitchell Saddleback, Manna Nichols, Arnold Pinnock, Wesley MacInnes, Elysia Rotaru, Nicholas Holmes, Michael Adamthwaite, Elizabeth Thai, Gus Halper, Kyle Nobess, Glen Gould, Glenn Wrage, Michael Bean, Nels Lennarson.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 5. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: The Masterpiece Society.

Released February 8, 1992.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Written by Adam Belanoff, Michael Piller, James Kahn, 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, John Snyder, Dey Young, Ron Canada, Sheila Franklin, Larry De Russy, Gunnel Eriksson, Daniel Fawcett, Star Halm, Grace Harrell, Andray Johnson, Mark Lentry, Marianne Lewis, Christina Wegler Miles, Joyce Robinson, Sissy Sessions, Warren Tabata, J.T. Thibodeau, Guy Vardaman.

On this day in music history:

Rossini Recital by Cecilia Bartoli (1991)

Careless Loving by Roxanne Potvin (2004)

Rossini Recital

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released February 8, 1991.

Track list: La Pastorella; Belta Crudele; Il Trovatore; La Regata Veneziana; Mi Lagnero Tacendo; Il Risentimento; La Grande Coquette; Ariette a Lancienne; L'orpheline Du Tyrol; La Legende de Marguerita; Nizza; L'ame Delaissee; Canzonetta Spagnuola; Giovanni D'arco.

Careless Loving

Album by Roxanne Potvin,

released February 8, 2004.

Track list: I Don't Want Nobody (To Have My Love But You); Make Me Yours; Ain't It a Shame; If I Can't Have You; Missing You; My Book; Don't Get Close to Me; Careless Loving; Wild Wild Young Men; Long John Blues.

On this day in movie history - Witness (1985):

Witness

directed by Peter Weir,

written by Earl W. Wallace and William Kelley,

based on a story by Earl W. Wallace, Pamela Wallace and William Kelley,

was released in the United States on February 8, 1985.
Music by Maurice Jarre.

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubeš, Josef Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover, Brent Jennings, Patti LuPone, Angus MacInnes, Viggo Mortensen, Frederick Rolf, John Garson, Ed Crowley, Timothy Carhart, Beverly May, Richard Chaves, Robert Earl Jones, Sylvia Kauders.