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"Give us the future… We’ve had enough of your past… Give us back our country… to live in, – to grow in, – to Love."

🇮🇪 #MichaelCollins, Irish revolutionary general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance, was #BOTD 16 October 1890. #Politics

"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."

✒ #EugeneONeill, American playwright and Nobel Laureate 1936, was #BOTD 16 October 1888. #Theatre #Literature

⚒ #RembrandtBugatti, Italian sculptor, was #BOTD 16 October 1884. #Art #Sculpture

"The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government."

✒ #KarlKautsky, Austrian-born Marxist theorist, was #BOTD 16 October 1854. #Philosophy

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature

🎨 #DanielChodowiecki, German painter and printmaker of Polish and French Huguenot descent, was #BOTD 16 October 1726. #Art #Painting #Illustration

🎨 #PierrePaulPuget, French Baroque artist, was #BOTD 16 October 1620. #Art #Painting #Sculpture

Bon dia!!

#BOTD Tim Robbins.

Penny Marshall #BOTD with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall on THE ODD COUPLE in 1974.

"When Cindy and I did LAVERNE & SHIRLEY, she was more like Tony, and I did what I had learned from Jack," Marshall said in 2013. #TVSky #ClassicTV

Director Mervyn LeRoy born Oct 15, 1900!
Over 75 films & shorts incl Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Random Harvest, Madame Curie, Quo Vadis, Million Dollar Mermaid, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, No Time for Sergeants, Gypsy!
#botd https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/mervyn-leroy/

#botd Linda Darnell, while filming Slattery's Hurricane (1949).

Born Today, Oct 15, in 1900, Fritz Feld.
Over 200 film and TV roles including At the Circus, Mexican Hayride, Bringing Up Baby, Barefoot in the Park, and Hello Dolly.
#botd https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/fritz-feld/

the gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates
#michelfoucault #botd

"Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places."
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

#botd #books #literature

Born Today, Oct 15, in 1926, Jean Peters.
Over 20 roles including Captain from Castile, Pickup on South St, Niagara, Three Coins in the Fountain, Viva Zapata, It Happens Every Spring.
#botd https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/jean-peters/

Remembering a personal favourite, Jean Peters #botd

“I love a flashy, sexy role — when it’s in character. But to be built up purely as a sex queen — no thanks.”

Happy birthday to the beautiful actress Lynn Lowry #BOTD 🥳🍾🥂