Born on this day – William C. DeMille:

William C. DeMille

Writer

Director

July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955

Credits:

Book:

Hollywood Saga (1939).

Movies and television:

A Trip to Paramountown (1922); After Five (1915); After the Show (1921); Almost Human (1927); Anton the Terrible (1916); Bought and Paid For (1922); Braveheart (1925); Cameo Kirby (1914); Captain Fury (1939); Carmen (1915); Clarence (1922); Classmates (1914 / 1924); Common Ground (1916); Craig's Wife (1928); Don't Call It Love (1923); Famous Scenes from Pagliacci (1934); For Alimony Only (1926); For Better, for Worse (1919); Gigolo (1926); Grumpy (1923); Hashimura Togo (1917); His Double Life (1933); Hollywood (1923); Icebound (1924); Jack Straw (1920); Joan the Woman (1916); Locked Doors (1925); Lost: A Wife (1925); Maria Rosa (1916); Men and Women (1925); Midsummer Madness (1920); Mirandy Smiles (1918); Miss Lulu Bett (1921); New Brooms (1925); Nice People (1922); One More American (1918); Only 38 (1923); Passion Flower (1930); Peg o' My Heart (1919); Quest of His Youth (1920); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Social Register (1934); Strongheart (1914); Temptation (1915); Tenth Avenue (1928); The Bedroom Window (1924); The Blacklist (1916); The Clown (1916); The DeMille Dynasty (1998); The Doctor's Secret (1929); The Emperor Jones (1933); The Explorer (1915); The Fast Set (1924); The Forbidden Woman (1927); The Ghost House (1917); The Goose Girl (1915); The Governor's Lady (1915); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); The Honor of His House (1918); The Idle Rich (1929); The Little Adventuress (1927); The Lost Romance (1921); The Man Higher Up (1929); The Marriage Maker (1923); The Master Mind (1914); The Mystery Girl (1918); The Night Club (1925); The Only Son (1914); The Prince Chap (1920); The Puppet Crown (1915); The Ragamuffin (1916); The Runaway (1926); The Secret Call (1931); The Secret Game (1917); The Secret Orchard (1915); The Sowers (1916); The Splendid Crime (1925); The Telephone Girl (1927); The Tree of Knowledge (1920); The Warrens of Virginia (1915 / 1924); The Widow's Might (1918); The Wild Goose Chase (1915); The Wise Wife (1927); The Woman (1915); The Woman God Forgot (1917); The World and the Woman (1916); The World's Applause (1923); This Mad World (1930); Two Kinds of Women (1932); We Can't Have Everything (1918); What Every Woman Knows (1921); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); Young Romance (1915).

Born on this day – James Oliver Curwood:

James Oliver Curwood

Writer

Conservationist

June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927

Credits:

Books:

A Gentleman of Courage (1924); Back to God's Country (1920); Baree, Son of Kazan (1917); Commerce on the Great Lakes (1907); Falkner of the Inland Seas (1931); Flower of the North (1912); Glory of Living (1928); God's Country (1921); God's County and the Woman (1915); Great Wilderness Stories (1997); Green Timber (1930); Isobel (1913); Kazan (1914); My Stories That I Like Best (1925); Nomads of the North (1919); Peter God (2005); Son Of A Hero (2004); Son of the Forests (1930); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1911); Swift Lightning (1926); The Alaskan (1922); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Black Hunter (1926); The Country Beyond (1922); The Courage of Captain Plum (1908); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1918); The Crippled Lady of Peribonka (1929); The Danger Trail (1910); The Fiddling Man (1917); The Flaming Forest (1921); The Gold Hunters (1909); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Lakes (1909); The Grizzly (1916); The Grizzly King / aka The Bear (1918); The Honor of Her People (1920); The Honor of the Big Snows (1911); The Hunted Woman (1916); The Match (1920); The Mouse (2005); The Plains of Abraham (1928); The River's End (1919); The Strength of Men (1920); The Valley of Silent Men (1920); The Wolf Hunters (1908); The Yellow Back (1920).

Movies and television:

A Captain's Courage (1926); A Fighting Chance (1913); A Flirt's Repentance (1914); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Pound for a Pound (1915); A Study in Tramps (1915); Back to God's Country (1919 / 1927 / 1953); Baree, Son of Kazan (1918 / 1925); Beautiful Belinda (1915); Beauty-Proof (1919); Betty in the Lions' Den (1913); Billy Smoke (1917); Call of the Klondike (1950); Call of the Yukon (1938); Caryl of the Mountains (1914 / 1936); Cats (1915); Clover's Rebellion (1917); Code of the Mounted (1935); Cupid Makes a Bull's Eye (1913); Danger Trail (1917); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Diamond Cut Diamond (1913); Duty and the Man (1913); Fangs of the Arctic (1953); Fathers of Men (1916); Fortune's Turn (1913); Four Minutes Late (1914); Galloping Dynamite (1937); Getting a Start in Life (1915); God's Country (1946); God's Country and the Law (1921); God's Country and the Woman (1916 / 1937); Gold Madness (1923); Hearts of Men (1914 / 1928); Her Fighting Chance (1917); His Dominant Passion (1914); His Fight (1914); His Fighting Blood (1915 / 1935); His Lordship Billy Smoke (1913); Husks (1916); I Am the Law (1922); In Defiance of the Law (1914); In the Days of Famine (1915); Isobel or the Trail's End (1920); Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers (1923); Jan of the Big Snows (1922); Kazan (1921 / 1949); Law of the Timber (1941); Looking Forward (1910); Love's Western Flight (1914); Man's Law (1915); Memories That Haunt (1914); My Neighbor's Wife (1925); 'Neath Canadian Skies (1946); Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961); Nomads of the North (1920); North of the Border (1946); Northern Frontier (1935); Northern Patrol (1953); Northwest Territory (1951); Northwest Trail (1945); Paid in Advance (1919); Phantom Patrol (1936); Playing with Fire (1914); Polishing Up (1914); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); Prisoners of the Storm (1926); Rags and the Girl (1915); Retribution (1915); River's End (1930 / 1940); Roaring Six Guns (1937); Rough Riding Rhythm (1937); Saturday Roundup (1951); Second Childhood (1914); Skull and Crown (1935); Snow Dog (1950); Soldiers of Chance (1917); Some Liar (1919); Song of the Trail (1936); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1925); Such a Little Pirate (1918); Tales of the Wild (1994–1995); Tangled Lives (1918); Tentacles of the North (1926); The Alaskan (1924); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Awakening (1915); The Battle of Frenchman's Run (1915); The Bear (1988); The Beauty Hunters (1916); The Broken Silence (1922); The Country Beyond (1926 / 1936); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920); The Coyote (1915); The Destroyers (1916); The Dream Girl (1914); The Eugenic Girl (1914); The Fatal Note (1914); The Feudists (1913); The Fifth Man (1914); The Fighting Texan (1937); The Fighting Trooper (1934); The Flaming Forest (1926); The Flashlight (1915); The Flower of the North (1921); The Girl from Porcupine (1921); The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918); The Gods Redeem (1915); The Gold Ship (1916); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Experiment (1915); The Hawk (1935); The Hunted Woman (1916 / 1925); The Jungle Lovers (1915); The Lady Killer (1915); The Last Man (1916); The Lone Trail (1932); The Lost Millionaire (1913); The Magical World of Disney (1964); The Man from Hell's River (1922); The Man Hater (1914 / 1917); The Midnight Call (1914); The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle (1915); The Mystery of the Seven Chests (1914); The Mystery of the Silver Skull (1913); The Northern Trail (1921); The Old Code (1915 / 1928); The Ordeal (1914); The Pirates (1913); The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915); The Queen of Jungle Land (1915); The Red Blood of Courage (1915 / 1935); The Richest Girl in the World (1915); The River's End (1920); The Silver Trail (1937); The Skull and the Crown (1914); The Slaver (1927); The Sole Survivor (1917); The Soul Master (1917); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spirit of the Violin (1915); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Princess Khan (1915); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Strength of Men (1913); The Test (1914 / 1935); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Trail Beyond (1934); The Treasure of Desert Isle (1913); The Valley of Silent Men (1922); The Vengeance of Rannah (1915); The Wandering Horde (1916); The Warmakers (1913); The Wheels of Fate (1913); The White Mouse (1914 / 1921); The Wilderness Mail (1914); The Wolf Hunters (1926 / 1949); The Yellow-Back (1929); The Young Man Who 'Figgered' (1915); Their Wives' Indiscretion (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Timber Fury (1950); Timber War (1935); Toll of Sin (1917); Trail of the Yukon (1949); Trails End (1935); Trails of the Wild (1935); Two Women (1914 / 1919); Untamed Justice (1929); Unto Those Who Sin (1916); V debryakh, gde reki begut... (1988); Valley of Terror (1937); Vengeance of Rannah (1936); Venus and Adonis (1914); When the Door Opened (1925); When Women Go on the Warpath; or, Why Jonesville Went Dry (1913); Where the North Begins (1947); Whistling Bullets (1937); Why I Am Here (1913); Wild Horse Round-Up (1936); Wildcat Trooper (1936); Wilderness Mail (1935); Ye Vengeful Vagabonds (1914); Yukon Gold (1952); Yukon Manhunt (1951); Yukon Vengeance (1954).

Born on this day – Wallace Worsley (1944):

Wallace Worsley

Director

Actor

December 8, 1878 – March 26, 1944

Wallace Worsley (left), with cameraman, Robert Newhard (right), filming The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).

Credits:

The Power of Silence (1928); Shadow of the Law (1926); The Man Who Fights Alone (1924); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); Is Divorce a Failure? (1923); Nobody's Money (1923); A Blind Bargain (1922); Enter Madame (1922); Rags to Riches (1922); When Husbands Deceive (1922); Grand Larceny (1922); Voices of the City (1921); The Beautiful Liar (1921); The Ace of Hearts (1921); Don't Neglect Your Wife (1921); The Highest Bidder (1921); The Penalty (1920); The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920); The Street Called Straight (1920); A Woman of Pleasure (1919); Playthings of Passion (1919); Diane of the Green Van (1919); Adele (1919); The Goddess of Lost Lake (1918); A Law Unto Herself (1918); Wedlock (1918); Social Ambition (1918); Honor's Cross (1918); An Alien Enemy (1918); The Turn of a Card (1918); Madam Who? (1918); Alimony (1917); A Man's Man (1917); Borrowed Plumage (1917).

Born on this day – Julia Swayne Gordon:

Julia Swayne Gordon

Actress

October 29, 1878 – May 28, 1933

Credits:

Hello, Everybody! (1933); Secrets of the French Police (1932); The Golden West (1932); Girl Crazy (1932); Broken Lullaby (1932); The False Madonna (1931); The Common Law (1931); Up for Murder (1931); The Drums of Jeopardy (1931); The Primrose Path (1931); Misbehaving Ladies (1931); Captain Applejack (1930); Today (1930); For the Love o' Lil (1930); The Dude Wrangler (1930); Dumbbells in Ermine (1930); Is Everybody Happy? (1929); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929); Scandal (1929); The Eternal Woman (1929); The Younger Generation (1929); The Divine Lady (1928); Three Week Ends (1928); The Viking (1928); Road House (1928); The Scarlet Dove (1928); The Smart Set (1928); Hearts of Men (1928); 13 Washington Square (1928); Wings (1927); The King of Kings (1927); Children of Divorce (1927); Heaven on Earth (1927); It (1927); Diplomacy (1926); Early to Wed (1926); Bride of the Storm (1926); The Far Cry (1926); Lights of Old Broadway (1925); The Wheel (1925); Not So Long Ago (1925); Scaramouche (1923); You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923); The Tie That Binds (1923); Dark Secrets (1923); The Darling of the Rich (1922); Women Men Marry (1922); Till We Meet Again (1922); How Women Love (1922); When the Desert Calls (1922); Wildness of Youth (1922); What's Wrong with the Women? (1922); My Old Kentucky Home (1922); Shams of Society (1921); Handcuffs or Kisses (1921); Why Girls Leave Home (1921); Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921); Love, Hate and a Woman (1921); Behind Masks (1921); The Silver Lining (1921); The Passionate Pilgrim (1921); Heliotrope (1920); For Love or Money (1920); A Child for Sale (1920); Lifting Shadows (1920); The Friendly Call (1920); Greater Than Fame (1920); The Moonshine Trail (1919); The Bramble Bush (1919); The Girl-Woman (1919); Shadows of the Past (1919); The Painted World (1919); A Stitch in Time (1919); Two Women (1919); Miss Dulcie from Dixie (1919); The Girl Problem (1919); The Captain's Captain (1919); Love Watches (1918); The Soap Girl (1918); Over the Top (1918); The Desired Woman (1918); In the Balance (1917); Soldiers of Chance (1917); The Message of the Mouse (1917); A Son of the Hills (1917); The Maelstrom (1917); The Soul Master (1917); Clover's Rebellion (1917); The Hawk (1917); Arsene Lupin (1917); Battle Hymn of the Republic (1917); Her Right to Live (1917); The Missing Chapter (1916); The Enemy (1916); The Scarlet Runner (1916); The Daring of Diana (1916); The Suspect (1916); Out of the Quagmire (1916); The Island of Surprise (1916); My Lady's Slipper (1916); The Thirteenth (1915); Wasted Lives (1915); Hearts Ablaze (1915); The Tigress (1915); Life's Yesterdays (1915); The Battle Cry of Peace (1915); The Esterbrook Case (1915); Mr. Jarr's Magnetic Friend (1915); Mr. Jarr and the Lady Reformer (1915); Lifting the Ban of Coventry (1915); The Juggernaut (1915); 413 (1914); The Sins of the Mothers (1914); An Affair for the Police (1914); Two Women (1914); Four Thirteen (1914); The Hidden Letters (1914); The Painted World (1914); Uncle Bill (1914); Shadows of the Past (1914); The Vanity Case (1914); He Never Knew (1914); The Battle of the Weak (1914); The Girl from Prosperity (1914); Old Reliable (1914); The Idler (1914); Back to Broadway (1914); A Million Bid (1914); Hearts of Women (1914); The Whimsical Threads of Destiny (1913); Daniel (1913); The Warmakers (1913); Luella's Love Story (1913); The Fruits of Vengeance (1913); The Kiss of Retribution (1913); The Lady and the Glove (1913); The Tiger Lily (1913); The Lion's Bride (1913); The Drop of Blood (1913); His House in Order; or, the Widower's Quest (1913); Tricks of the Trade (1913); The Artist's Great Madonna (1913); His Honor, the Mayor (1913); Red and White Roses (1913); Beau Brummel (1913); Buttercups (1913); When Mary Grew Up (1913); The Vengeance of Durand; or, the Two Portraits (1913); Thou Shalt Not Kill (1913); The Wings of a Moth (1913); Days of Terror (1912); Freckles (1912); Two Women and Two Men (1912); Ida's Christmas (1912); Song of the Shell (1912); Lord Browning and Cinderella (1912); Bettina's Substitute; or, There's No Fool Like an Old Fool (1912); Father's Hot Toddy (1912); Her Choice (1912); The Higher Mercy (1912); Coronets and Hearts (1912); Flirt or Heroine (1912); Vultures and Doves (1912); Conscience (1912); A Bunch of Violets (1912); The Troublesome Step-Daughters (1912); The Gamblers (1912); The Days of Terror; or, in the Reign of Terror (1912); The Light That Failed (1912); The Cylinder's Secret (1912); The Lady of the Lake (1912); The Victoria Cross (1912); The Pink Pajama Girl (1912); The Woman Haters (1912); The Jocular Winds of Fate (1912); At Scrogginses' Corner (1912); Burnt Cork (1912); Mrs. Carter's Necklace (1912); Cardinal Wolsey (1912); The Diamond Brooch (1912); Stenographers Wanted (1912); Her Last Shot (1912); The Love of John Ruskin (1912); The Chocolate Revolver (1912); Playmates (1912); Her Boy (1912); Tom Tilling's Baby (1912); The Meeting of the Ways (1912); Captain Jenks' Dilemma (1912); Fires of Driftwood (1911); Saving the Special (1911); Suffer Little Children (1911); A Message from Beyond (1911); The Foolishness of Jealousy (1911); Lady Godiva (1911); The Cabin Boy (1911); Selecting His Heiress (1911); The Missing Will (1911); Daddy's Boy and Mammy (1911); Carr's Regeneration (1911); Forgotten; or, an Answered Prayer (1911);  Friendly Marriage (1911); How Betty Won the School (1911); Billy the Kid (1911); Treasure Trove (1911); The Lure of Vanity (1911); Snowbound with a Woman Hater (1911); In Northern Forests (1911); The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1911); Courage of Sorts (1911); A Quaker Mother (1911); Barriers Burned Away (1911); The Sacrifice (1911); The Ends of the Earth (1911); A Dead Man's Honor (1911); The Welcome of the Unwelcome (1911); Hungry Hearts; or, the Children of Social Favorites (1911); The Peace Offering; or, the Absconding Bridget (1911); A Klondike Steal; or, the Stolen Claim (1911); Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet (1911); An Aching Void (1911); A Tale of Two Cities (1911); Society and the Man (1911); Clancy (1910); Jean Goes Fishing (1910); Twelfth Night (1910); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909); Napoleon and the Empress Josephine (1909); King Lear (1909); The Merchant of Venice (1908); Richard III (1908); Othello (1908).

Born on this day – Louise Dresser:

Louise Dresser

Actress

October 5, 1878 – April 24, 1965

Credits:

Maid of Salem (1937); The County Chairman (1935); A Girl of the Limberlost (1934); Servants' Entrance (1934); The World Moves On (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); David Harum (1934); Hollywood on Parade (1934); Cradle Song (1933); Doctor Bull (1933); Song of the Eagle (1933); State Fair (1933); Stepping Sisters (1932); Caught (1931); Lightnin' (1930); This Mad World (1930); The Three Sisters (1930); Mammy (1930); Madonna of Avenue A (1929); Not Quite Decent (1929); The Air Circus (1928); Mother Knows Best (1928); A Ship Comes In (1928); The Garden of Eden (1928); Mr. Wu (1927); White Flannels (1927); The Third Degree (1926); Everybody's Acting (1926); Gigolo (1926); Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926); Padlocked (1926); The Blind Goddess (1926); Fifth Avenue (1926); The Eagle (1925); The Goose Woman (1925); Enticement (1925); Percy (1925); Cheap Kisses (1924); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); What Shall I Do? (1924); The Next Corner (1924); To the Ladies (1923); Woman-Proof (1923); Ruggles of Red Gap (1923); Salomy Jane (1923); The Fog (1923); Prodigal Daughters (1923); Enter Madame (1922); Burning Sands (1922); The Glory of Clementina (1922).

Boating by Moonlight, by Arthur Parton (1878):

Lighthouse at Sunset, by Francis A. Silva (1878):