Born on this day – Vita Sackville-West:

Vita Sackville-West

Writer

Garden designer

March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962

Credits:

All Passion Spent (1931); All Passion Spent / Return of the Soldier / Two Days in Aragon (1987); Andrew Marvell (1933); Aphra Behn (1927); Berkeley Castle (1989); Challenge (1923); Country Notes (1940); Devil at Westease (1947); English Country Houses (1996); Even More for Your Garden (1958); Faces: Profiles of Dogs (1961); Family History (1932); Grand Canyon (1942); Grey Wethers (1923); Heir (1922); Heritage (1918); In Your Garden (1951); In Your Garden Again (1953); Joy of Gardening (1960); King's Daughter (1929); Knole and the Sackvilles (1922); Love Letters (2021); More for Your Garden (1955); No Signposts in the Sea (1960); Orchard and Vineyard (1921); Passenger to Teheran (1926); Pepita (1937); Poems of West and East (1917); Saint Joan of Arc (1936); Seducers in Ecuador (1924); Selected Poems (1941); Selected Writings (2002); Some Flowers (1937); The Dark Island (1934); The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Kuenstler (1932); The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921); The Eagle and the Dove (1943); The Easter Party (1953); The Edwardians (1930); The Garden (1946); The Illustrated Garden Book (1986); The Land (1926); The Land and The Garden (1989); The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1984); The Women's Land Army (1993); Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour (1932); Twelve Days (1987); Vita and Harold (1992); Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst (2014); Weather in the Streets / All Passion Spent / Frost in May (1994).

Born on this day – Dorothy Green:

Dorothy Green

Actress

March 5, 1892 – November 16, 1963

Credits:

A Parisian Romance (1916); After Dark (1915); Forest Rivals (1919); Her Mother's Secret (1915); My Favorite Husband (1953); Patria (1917); The A.B.C. of Love (1919); The American Way (1919); The Country Boy (1915); The Dark Star (1919); The Devil at His Elbow (1916); The Good-Bad Wife (1920); The Grouch (1918); The Lesson (1917); The Model (1915); The Praise Agent (1919); The Spirit of the Poppy (1914); The Wonderful Adventure (1915); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Born on this day – Augusto Genina:

Augusto Genina

Director

Writer

Producer

January 28, 1892 – September 18, 1957

Louise Brooks (left) with Augusto Genina (right) on the set of Prix de Beauté (1930).

Credits:

Frou-Frou (1955); Maddalena (1954); Three Forbidden Stories (1952); Devotion (1950); Sky over the swamp (1949); Benghazi (1942); The Siege of the Alcazar (1940); Castles in the Air (1939); Naples Under the Kiss of Fire (1937); Frauenliebe - Frauenleid (1937); Blumen aus Nizza (1936); The White Squadron (1936); La gondola aux chimères (1936); Not Forget-me-nots (1935); Vergiss mein nicht (1935); Nous ne sommes plus des Enfants (1934); Ne sois pas jalouse (1932); La femme en homme (1932); The Darling of Paris (1931); Mitternachtsliebe (1931); Les amours de minuit (1931); Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe); (1930); n drama at 16 (1929); Quartier Latin (1929); Liebeskarneval (1928); Remnant (1928); The story of a small Parisian (1928); Die Gefangene von Shanghai (1927); The White Slave (1927); Farewell youth! (1927); The Last Lord (1926); The Extinguished Hearth (1925); The wife Bella (1924); Il Corsaro (1923); Cyrano de Bergerac (1923) Germaine (1923); The sinless sinner (1922); Lucie de Trecoeur (1922); The castle of the Melancholy (1922); A Woman Passed (1922); Husband, wife and... (1921); The chained (1921); The Crisis (1921); A Black Point (1921); The Diabolical (1921); The three sentimental (1921); La douloureuse (1921); The Adventure of God (1920); The warmer (1920); The Wheel of Vice (1920); The Woman and the Corpse (1920); Debt of hatred (1920); The Two Crucifixes (1920); Bel ami (1919); Lucrezia Borgia (1919); The Adventures of Bijou (1919); Noris (1919); The Mask and the Face (1919); The Prince Dell'impossibile (1919); The End of a Vile (1918); The Emigrant (1918); Farewell youth! (1918); Female – Female (1918); The Throne and the Chair (1918); The lie (1918); The torpedoing of Oceania (1917); Kalidaa - the story of a mummy (1917); Tomboy (1917); Firefly (1917); The drama of the crown (1916); Miss Cyclone (1916); His Daughter's Second Husband (1916); The dream of One Day (1916); Cento H.P. (1915); The Last Disguise (1915); A Woman Wills (1915); The Butterfly with the Golden Wings (1915); Jealousy (1915); Midnight (1915); The 13 HP engine (1915); The Florist of Como (1915); The Ring of Siva (1914); The Lovers' Escape (1914); The Conquest of Diamonds (1914); After the New Year's Eve (1914); The Escape of the Diamonds (1914); The Mysteries of Monroe Castle (1914); Youth Triumphs! (1914); The Voice of Innocence (1914); The Little Candle Maker (1914); Lulu (1914); The Word That Kills (1914); The Broken Chain (1913); His wife's wife excellence (1913); Too late! (1912); Beatrix d'Este (1912).

Born on this day – Gladys Lehman:

Gladys Lehman

Writer

January 24, 1892 – April 7, 1993

Credits:

20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); A Lady Surrenders (1930); A Message to Garcia (1936); Captain January (1936); Back Street (1932); Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939); Broadway Scandals (1929); Clear the Decks (1929); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Double Door (1934); Hired Wife (1940); His Lucky Day (1929); Hold Me Tight (1933); In Old Kentucky (1935); Embarrassing Moments (1930); Enter Madame! (1934); Fast and Furious / Red Hot Speed (1928); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Golden Girl (1951); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Her First Beau (1941); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); It's a Small World (1935); La voluntad del muerto (1930); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Reunion (1936); Little Accident (1930); Little Miss Marker (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Luxury Liner (1948); Meet Joe Black (1998); Mexicali Rose (1929); Midnight Madonna (1937); Nice Girl? (1941); Nice Women (1931); On Your Toes (1927); Out All Night (1927); The Broadway Hoofer (1929); The Cat Creeps (1930); The County Chairman (1935); Papa sans le savoir (1932); Personality (1930); Rio Rita (1942); Seed (1931); White Woman (1933); She Married an Artist (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Song and Dance Man (1936); Sorrowful Jones (1949); Strictly Dishonorable (1931); The Fall of Eve (1929); The Ice Flood (1926); The Lady Objects (1938); The Shield of Honor (1927); The Thin Man (1959); There's Always a Woman (1938); There's That Woman Again (1938); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); This Time for Keeps (1947); Thrill of a Romance (1945); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944).

Born on this day – William Beaudine:

William Beaudine

Actor

Writer

Director

January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970

Credits:

20,000 Legs Under the Sea (1917); 3D Jamboree (1956); A Bad Little Good Man (1917); A Boob for Luck (1917); A Broadway Butterfly (1925); A Butler Bust-Up (1918); A Close Call (1912);  Crooked Mix-Up (1916); A Day's Outing (1912); A Delivery Package (1913); A Desert Dilemma (1917); A Disappointed Mama (1912); A Full Dress Fizzle (1918); A Game Gambler (1918); A Hollywood Theme Song (1930); A Home Spun Hero (1920); A Horse on Bill (1913); A Husband in Haste (1920); A Janitor's Vendetta (1916); A Jungle Cruise (1917); A Limited Divorce (1912); A Mixed Affair (1912); A Molar Mix-Up (1916); A Rainy Day (1913); A Riddle in Rascals (1916); A Rustic Romeo (1919); A Sanitarium Scandal (1917); A Seaside Siren (1920); A Self-Made Failure (1924); A Shadowed Shadow (1916); A Summer Tragedy (1910); A Tale of a Turk (1916); A Tell-Tale Shirt (1918); A Wonderful Life (1950); Adventure in Dairyland (1956); Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1953); Again... Pioneers (1950); All Jazzed Up (1920); Almost a King (1915); Almost a Wild Man (1913); An 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Troupe (1913); Angels' Alley (1948); Apartment 23 (1919); Are Honeymoons Happy? (1920); Are Wives Unreasonable? (1918); Art Aches (1917); Artful Artists (1916); At Bachelor's Roost (1916); Back from the Front (1920); Barred from the Bar (1917); Beans and Bullets (1916); Behind the Map (1917); Behind the Mask (1946); Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952); Below the Deadline (1946); Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966); Black Market Babies (1945); Blonde Comet (1941); Blonde Dynamite (1950); Blonde Ransom (1945); Blue Grass of Kentucky (1950); Blues Busters (1950); Bombs and Business (1916); Born to the Saddle (1953); Bowery Battalion (1951); Bowery Buckaroos (1947); Bowery Champs (1944); Boy of Mine (1923); Boys Will Be Boys (1935); Brides for Two (1919); Broadway Big Shot (1942); Broken Arrow (1957–1958); Canning the Cannibal King (1917); Catch My Smoke (1922); Circus Boy (1957); City Story (1954); Clancy Street Boys (1943); Come Out Fighting (1945); Corky and White Shadow (1956); Cornered (1924); Counting Out the Count (1916); County Fair (1950); Crazy Knights (1944); Crazy Over Horses (1951); Criswell Predicts (1953); Cuban Fireball (1951); Dan Cupid: M.D. (1918); Dandy Dick (1935); Daring Youth (1924); Daughters of Pleasure (1924); Dead Easy (1921); Design for Dreaming (1956); Desperate Cargo (1941); Detective Kitty O'Day (1944); Diana of the Farm (1915); Do Your Duty (1928); Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946); Double Trouble (1941); Dream Stuff (1933); Duke of the Navy (1942); Each According to His Faith (1955); Easy Payments (1919); Eat-a-Bite-a-Pie (1920); Eddie, Get the Mop (1918); Educated Evans (1936); Emergency Landing (1941); Fair But False (1920); Falling for Fanny (1921); Fashion and Fury (1916); Fashion Model (1945); Father's Son (1931); Feather Your Nest (1937); Federal Fugitives (1941); Feudin' Fools (1952); Fit to Fight (1920); Flapjacks (1918); Flight of the Cougar (1967); Flying Wild (1941); Follow the Leader (1944); Fools of Fate (1909); For Every Child (1953); For Sweet Charity (1916); Foreign Agent (1942); Forgotten Women (1931); Forgotten Women (1949); Four Shall Die (1940); Fresh from the Farm (1921); Frisco Sally Levy (1927); From Altar to Halter (1916); Fugitives (1929); Further Adventures of Spin and Marty (1956); Fury of the Dragon (1976); Gallant Lady (1942); Gas House Kids Go West (1947); Get Off My Foot (1935); Ghost Chasers (1951); Ghosts on the Loose (1943); Girl on the Spot (1946); Give and Take (1928); Gone, But Where? (1917); Guardian Angels (1916); Ham Agrees with Sherman (1916); Ham and Preparedness (1916); Ham and the Hermit's Daughter (1916); Ham Takes a Chance (1916); Ham the Diver (1916); Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947); Hard to Get (1929); Havana Rose (1951); Hawaiian Nuts (1917); He Had 'em Buffaloed (1917); He Who Hesitates (1919); Heart to Heart (1928); Hearts and Diamonds (1920); Helen's Marriage (1912); Her Bodyguard (1933); Her Fatal Millions (1923); Here Come the Marines (1952); Here Comes Kelly (1943); Hero Pro Tem (1921); Heroes of the Street (1922); Hey, Rube! (1921); High Society (1955); His Coming Out Party (1917); His Fatal Beauty (1917); Hold That Line (1952); Hold That Lion! (1926); Home Brew (1919); Home, James (1928); Hot Rhythm (1944); How Baxter Butted In (1925); Hubby Behave (1921); I Love Charles Albert (1918); In Love with a Fireman (1916); In the Money (1958); Incident (1948); Isn't It Warm? (1918); It Takes a Crook (1920); It's in the Bag (1936); Jags and Jealousy (1916); Jail Busters (1955); Jalopy (1953); Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (1913); Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966); Jet Job (1952); Jinx Money (1948); Kidnapped (1948); Kids and Kidlets (1920); Killer at Large (1947); Kissing Kate (1913); Lashed by Love (1916); Lassie (1960–1968); Lassie's Great Adventure (1963); Leather Stocking (1909); Leave It to the Irish (1944); Left in the Soup (1917); Let's Go Navy! (1951); Little Annie Rooney (1925); Love in Suspense (1917); Love Me, Love My Biscuits (1917); Lovers' Lane (1924); Lucky Ghost (1942); Lucky Losers (1950); Make Me a Star (1932); Marry Me (1920); Marrying Molly (1919); Maybe Moonshine (1916); Men in Her Life (1931); Men of San Quentin (1942); Millionaires by Mistake (1916); Mines and Matrimony (1917); Minnie the Tiger (1915); Misbehaving Husbands (1940); Misbehaving Ladies (1931); Mixed Wives (1919); Mom and Dad (1945); Movie Mad (1921); Movie-Town (1931); Mr. Briggs Closes the House (1918); Mr. Celebrity (1941); Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935); Mr. Grouch at the Seashore (1912); Mr. Hex (1946); Mr. Miller Muddles Through (1918); Mr. Miller's Economies (1918); Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943); Mr. Spriggs Buys a Dog (1913); Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941); Mud (1918); Mule Mates (1917); Murder Without Tears (1953); Musical Madness (1916); My Swedie (1925); Naked City (1958); News Hounds (1947); Ninety Days or Life (1921); No Holds Barred (1952); Officer, Call a Cop (1917); Oh Buddy! (1921); Oh, What a Boob! (1913); Oh, What a Night! (1944); Oh, You Kid (1920); O-My the Tent Mover (1917); One Damp Day (1917); One Exciting Week (1946); One Round O'Brien (1912); One Thrilling Night (1942); One Yard to Go (1931); Out Again, in Again (1917); Out for the Dough (1917); Papa by Proxy (1920); Papa's Baby (1913); Pardon My Glove (1922); Paris Playboys (1954); Pass the Apples, Eve (1920); Passing the Grip (1917); Penrod and Sam (1923); Penrod and Sam (1931); Petticoats and Pants (1920); Phantom Killer (1942); Philo Vance Returns (1947); Pride of the Blue Grass (1954); Priscilla's April Fool Joke (1911); Professor Creeps (1942); Punch the Clock (1922); Pure and Simple (1921); Racket Squad (1951–1953); Red Hicks Defies the World (1913); Rescue 8 (1958–1959); Road to Paradise (1930); Roar of the Crowd (1953); Rocky (1948); Rodeo (1952); Romeo of the Coal Wagon (1916); Rosie's Rancho (1917); Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937); Save Me, Sadie (1920); Scrappily Married (1916); Sea Sirens (1919); Second Chance (1950); Secret Servants (1917); See You Tonight (1933); Seven Bald Pates (1920); Shadow of Suspicion (1944); She Done Him Right (1940); Short and Snappy (1921); Short and Sweet (1921); Shuffle the Queens (1920); Slippery Slim Repents (1913); Smugglers' Cove (1948); Snoop Hounds (1916); So You Won't Talk (1935); Sparrows (1926); Spook Busters (1946); Spotlight Scandals (1943); Step Forward (1922); Stern Papa (1912); Stop, Look and Listen (1919); Strictly Modern (1922); Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946); Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945); Take Back Your Wife (1917); Take It from Me (1937); Tea for Two (1920); Ten Who Dared (1960); That's My Baby (1926); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1958–1959); The Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955); The Ape Man (1943); The Bandits of Macaroni Mountain (1915); The Baron (1912); The Battling Bellboy (1917); The Beginning (1955); The Big Idea (1934); The Boss of the Family (1917); The Canadian (1926); The Captivating Captive (1920); The Careless Cop (1917); The Caretaker's Dilemma (1915); The Chased Bride (1922); The Chinese Ring (1947); The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris (1928); The College Vamp (1931); The Congregation (1952); The Country Kid (1923); The Crime of the Century (1933); The Cross Eyed Submarine (1917); The Daylight Burglar (1913); The Diver's Last Kiss (1918); The Engagement Ring (1912); The Eveless Eden Club (1916); The Face of Marble (1946); The Feathered Serpent (1948); The Fountain of Trouble (1917); The Girl from Woolworth's (1929); The Golden Eye (1948); The Great Junction Hotel (1931); The Green Hornet (1966–1974); The Hidden Heart (1954); The Hoodoo's Busy Day (1915); The Inspector's Double (1916); The Irresistible Lover (1927); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Lady Who Dared (1930); The Last Alarm (1940); The Last Scent (1917); The Lawton Story (1949); The Leak (1917); The Life of Riley (1927); The Living Ghost (1942); The Mad Parade (1931); The Magical World of Disney (1955–1968); The Man Behind the Badge (1954); The Man with a Package (1917); The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show (1968); The Mickey Mouse Club (1955); The Miracle Kid (1941); The Missing Mummy (1916); The Miti Ranch (1917); The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943); The Narrow Street (1925); The Old Fashioned Way (1934); The Old Gray Mare (1913); The Panther's Claw (1942); The Pie Eyed Piper (1918); The Poor Fish (1918); The Printer's Devil (1923); The Rise and Fall of McDoo (1913); The Rose Bowl Story (1952); The Secret of the Gift (1959); The Shadow Returns (1946); The Shanghai Chest (1948); The Social Highwayman (1926); The Suffragette Minstrels (1913); The Tale of a Coat (1916); The Tenderfoot's Money (1913); The Trailing Tailor (1916); The Tramp Chef (1916); Their Dark Secret (1916); Their First Arrest (1916); Their First Kidnapping Case (1912); Their Idols (1912); Their Little Wife (1920); Their Taking Ways (1916); There Were Hoboes Three (1913); Those Hicksville Boys (1912); Those Who Dance (1930); Three Wise Girls (1931); Through Dumb Luck (1912); To Save Her Soul (1909); Too Many Sweethearts (1919); Too Many Winners (1947); Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939); Torchy Gets Her Man (1938); Toto Interferes (1916); Tough Assignment (1949); Tragedy of the Dress Suit (1912); Trail of the Yukon (1949); Trapping the Bachelor (1916); Treasury Men in Action (1954–1955); Trick Golf (1934); Tuna Clipper (1949); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Twin Husbands (1921); Two Hearts in Harmony (1935); Two Weeks Off (1929); Uneasy Money (1917); Up in Smoke (1957); Up Jumped the Devil (1941); Voodoo Man (1944); Wandering Husbands (1924); Wanta Make a Dollar? (1917); Watch Your Step (1922); Watch Your Step, Mother (1920); Wedding Rings (1929); Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956); What a Man! (1944); What the ---? (1917); What'll We Do with Uncle? (1917); When Damon Fell for Pythias (1917); When Hubby Forgot (1916); Where There's a Will (1936); While the Count Goes Bathing (1913); Who Done It? (1917); Who Kissed Me? (1921); Whose Baby? (1917); Why Be Jealous? (1920); Why He Gave Up (1911); Why They Left Home (1917); Why Wild Men Go Wild (1920); Wild Wallops (1927); Windbag the Sailor (1936); Winning a Widow (1916); With a Kodak (1912); Wives and Worries (1918); Won by a Fowl (1917); Wurra-Wurra (1916); Yukon Gold (1952); Yukon Vengeance (1954); Zulu Love (1921).

Born on this day – Francesca Bertini:

Francesca Bertini

Actress

January 5, 1892 – October 13, 1985

Credits:

1900 (1976); Una ragazza di Praga (1969); A sud niente di nuovo (1957); Dora la espía (1950); Odette (1935); La donna di una notte (1931); La femme d'une nuit (1930); Tu m'appartiens! (1929); La Possession (1929); Mein Leben für das Deine (1928); La fin de Monte-Carlo (1927); Fior di levante (1925); Consuelita (1925); La giovinezza del diavolo (1925); Ultimo sogno (1924); Marion (1923); Fatale bellezza (1922); La donna nuda (1922); Amore vince sempre (1921); La fanciulla d'Amalfi (1921); La donna, il diavolo, il tempo (1921); Oltre la legge (1921); Marion, artista di caffè-concerto (1920); Anima selvaggia (1920); Amore di donna (1920); Maddalena Ferat (1920); La ferita (1920); La sfinge (1920); L'ombra (1920); Lisa Fleuron (1920); La principessa Giorgio (1920); La serpe (1920); Il conquistatore del mondo (1919); Beatrice (1919); La principessa (1919); La contessa Sara (1919); Anima allegra (1919); La piovra (1919); La lussuria (1919); Spiritismo (1919); L'invidia (1919); L'accidia (1919); I sette peccati capitali (1918); L'avarizia (1918); Eugenia Grandet (1918); L'ira (1918); La gola (1918); L'orgoglio (1918); Mariute (1918); Frou-Frou (1918); Tosca (1918); Anima redenta (1917); Malìa (1917); Il processo Clémenceau (1917); La piccola fonte (1917); Andreina (1917); Baby l'indiavolata (1916); Vittima dell'ideale (1916); Il patto (1916); Nel gorgo della vita (1916); Maligno riflesso (1916); Fedora (1916); L'educanda monella (1916); Lacrymae rerum (1916); Il destino (1916); Eroismo d'amore (1916); La perla del cinema (1916); La colpa altrui (1916); Odette (1916); Don Pietro Caruso (1915); Diana, l'affascinatrice (1915); Assunta Spina (1915); La signora delle camelie (1915); Ivonne, la bella danzatrice (1915); Il capestro degli Asburgo (1915); Nelly la gigolette (1915); Nella furnace (1915); Hypocrites (1915); Una donna (1914); The Song of the Soul (1914); Sangue blu (1914); On Temptation's Trail (1914); Rose e spine (1914); La principessa straniera (1914); L'onestà che uccide (1914); Cabiria (1914); The Woman Who Dared (1914); Pierrot the Prodigal (1914); The Forbidden Trail (1913); L'arrivista (1913); L'arma dei vigliacchi (1913); L'anima del demi-monde (1913); L'ultima carta (1913); La bufera (1913); La vigilia di Natale (1913); La suocera (1913); His Symphony (1913); Tramonto (1913); The Artist's Model (1913); La maestrina (1913); L'ultimo atout (1913); Venomous Tongues (1913); The Land of Promise (1913); Ninì Verbena (1913); The Price of Silence (1913); Per il blasone (1913); L'avvoltoio (1913); Per la sua gioia (1913); The Bondage of Evil (1913); Panne d'auto (1912); Lagrime e sorrisi (1912); Idillio tragico (1912); Tragico amore (1912); Ritratto dell'amata (1912); All on a Summer's Day (1912); Il pappagallo della zia Berta (1912); Il fascino della violenza (1912); Cesare Borgia (1912); Un amore di Pietro de' Medici (1912); Rameses, King of Egypt (1912); Lucretia Borgia (1912); Tragedy at the Court of Milan (1912); I carbonari (1912); Red Falcon (1912); The Wandering Minstrel (1912); Beatrix d'Este (1912); Ruy-Blas (1912); Romeo and Juliet (1912); Florentine Drama (1912); Francesca da Rimini (1911); Marco Visconti (1911); The Countess de Challant (1911); Tristano e Isolda (1911); Cola di Rienzo (1911); Il mercante di Venezia (1911); Re Lear (1910); La morte civile (1910); Pia de' Tolomei (1910); Folchetto di Narbona (1910); Salomé (1910); Il trovatore (1910); La dea del mare (1907).

Born on this day – J.R.R. Tolkien:

J.R.R. Tolkien

Writer

January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973

Credits:

Books:

A Middle English Vocabulary; Sir Gawain & The Green Knight; The Hobbit: or There and Back Again; Farmer Giles of Ham; The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book; Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle; Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle; Bilbo’s Last Song; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo; The Father Christmas Letters; The Silmarillion; Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien; Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth; Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien; The Old English ‘Exodus’; Mr. Bliss; Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode; The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays; The Book of Lost Tales, Part I; The Book of Lost Tales, Part II; The Lays of Beleriand; The Shaping of Middle-earth; The Lost Road and Other Writings; The Return of the Shadow; The Treason of Isengard; The War of the Ring; Sauron Defeated; Morgoth’s Ring; The War of the Jewels; The Peoples of Middle-earth; Roverandom; Tales from the Perilous Realm; The Children of Húrin; The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún; The Fall of Arthur; Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell; Tolkien On Fairy-stories; The Story of Kullervo; A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages; The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun; Leaf by Niggle; Beren and Lúthien; The Fall of Gondolin; The Nature of Middle-earth; The Fall of Númenor; The Battle of Maldon, together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.

Movies and television:

A Passage to Middle-earth: The Making of 'Lord of the Rings' (2001); A Simple Walk Into Mordor (2012); Adventure Quest (1983); Allting i ett (2021); An Awfully Big Adventure (1998); An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold (1986); Angband (1993); Arte Journal (2023); Atop the Fourth Wall (2014); Bookstand (1962); Born of Hope (2009); Colossal Adventure (1983); Death Battle (2022); Der kleine Hobbit (1980 / (1984); Die gefährten (2010); Die zwei türme (2010); Dungeon Adventure (1984); Epic Rap Battles of History (2011); Fastitocalon (2006); Golden Moustache (2013); Guardians of Middle-Earth (2012); Hobitit (1993); Horn of Gondor (2020); Icons Unearthed (2024); J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings - The Definitive Guide to the World of the Rings (2004); J.R.R. Tolkien: The Origin of the Rings (2002); J.R.R.T.: A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien (1996); Jackanory (1979–1985); Jet Set Willy: Lord of the Rings (2000); Kingdom O' Magic (1996); Kot (2005); La fraternité de l'anneau (2018); La Somme, une bataille mondiale - Documentaire sur la Bataille de la Somme (2024); Lego the Hobbit (2014); Lego the Lord of the Rings (2012); Les deux tours (2018); Lingua Franca (2018); Lord of the Brush (2005); Lord of the Rings (1990); Lord of the Rings: Game One (1986); Making of Hunt for Gollum (2010); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Master of the Rings: The Unauthorized Story Behind J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' (2001); Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014); Minecraft Adventure Maps (2012); Moria (1975 / 1983); Mr. Bliss (2004); MultiVersus (2024); National Geographic Explorer (2001); Nerdrotic (2022–2024); Olifaunt (2006); Quest for the Ring (2001); Release (1968); Review (1972); Riders of Rohan (1991); Sagan om ringen (1971); Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' (2003); Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's 'the Hobbit' (2003); Seelenjäger (2014); Shadowfax (1982); Skazochnoe puteshestvie mistera Bilbo Begginsa, Khobbita (1985); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Story Box (1964); Super Power Beat Down (2012); Tale of a Timelord (2016); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The Crack of Doom (1989); The Fall of Gondolin (2019); The Fellowship of the Ring (1991); The Fellowship of the Ring Animated (2022); The Fellowship of the Ring: Book One of the Lord of the Rings (2012); The Hobbit (1966 / 1968 / 1977 / 1991 / 2003 / 2007 / 2012); The Hobbit Software Adventure (1982); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Extended Edition Scenes (2013); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012); The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Extended Edition Scenes (2015); The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014); The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Extended Edition Scenes (2014); The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013); The Hobbit: The Swedolation of Smaug (2014); The Hunt for Gollum (2009); The Last Journey (2021); The Lord of the Rings (1978); The Lord of the Rings Online (2007); The Lord of the Rings Starring Cats: A Meowy Earth Adventure (2025); The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest (2010); The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (2009); The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (2023); The Lord of the Rings: Sons of Elrond (2005); The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth (2004); The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king (2006); The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II (2006); The Lord of the Rings: The Empire of Saruman (2025); The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Special Extended Edition Scenes (2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 / 2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Special Extended Edition Scenes (2004); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003 / 2007); The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–2024); The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (2004); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Special Extended Edition Scenes (2003); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 / 2021); The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring (2003); The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024); The Lord of the Rings: Vol. I (1990); The Lord of the Rings: Vol. II (1992); The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (2011); The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2002); The Return of the King (1980); The Return of the King: Book Three of the Lord of the Rings (2012); The Shadows of Mordor (1988); The Silmarillion (2015 / 2023); The Standard Deviants: Rings, Kings & Things (2002); The Two Towers: Book Two of the Lord of the Rings (2012); The UnXplained (2022); The Worlds of Fantasy (2008); Tolkien Remembered (1984); War in Middle Earth (1988); Weekend Sunrise (2016); Who the 'Ell Is Tauriel? (2013); Wings Over Arda: The First Age (2011); Wonderland (2022).

Born on this day – Jason Robards:

Jason Robards

Actor

December 31, 1892 – April 4, 1963

Credits:

A Bird in the Hand (1929); A Game of Death (1945); A Likely Story (1947); A Night of Adventure (1944); A Strange Adventure (1932); Abraham Lincoln (1930); Acapulco (1961); Alaska Patrol (1949); All of Me (1934); Badman's Territory (1946); Banjo (1947); Bedlam (1946); Bermuda Mystery (1944); Betrayal from the East (1945); Born to Kill (1947); Break of Hearts (1935); Broadway Bill (1934); Broken Arrow (1958); Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934); Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934); Carnival Lady (1933); Casey Jones (1927); Caught Plastered (1931); Charlie Chan Carries On (1931); Cimarron City (1958); Cipher Bureau (1938); Clipped Wings (1937); Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934); Code of the West (1947); Colt .45 (1958); Corruption (1933); Crazy That Way (1930); Criminal Court (1946); Crimson Romance (1934); Damaged Lives (1933); Dance Hall Hostess (1933); Danger Flight (1939); Deadline at Dawn (1946); Desperate (1947); Dick Tracy (1945); Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947); Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946); Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947); Ding Dong Williams (1946); Discarded Lovers (1932); Do or Diet (1947); Docks of San Francisco (1932); Double Decoy (1931); Dynamite (1949); Employees' Entrance (1933); Ex-Bad Boy (1931); Feudin' Rhythm (1949); Fighting Father Dunne (1948); Flight to Fame (1938); Footloose Widows (1926); Gangs of Chicago (1940); General Electric Theater (1958–1961); George White's Scandals (1945); Give Out, Sisters (1942); Guns of Hate (1948); Hills of Kentucky (1927); His Exciting Night (1938); Horsemen of the Sierras (1949); Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941); I Live My Life (1935); I Love You Again (1940); I Stole a Million (1939); If You Knew Susie (1948); I'll Build It Myself (1946); I'll Take Milk (1946); Impact (1949); Irish Hearts (1927); Isle of the Dead (1945); It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1945); Jaws of Steel (1927); Joan of Ozark (1942); Johnny Angel (1945); Juarez (1939); Klondike (1932); Ladies Courageous (1944); Ladies Crave Excitement (1935); Laramie (1960); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Leave It to Beaver (1961); Let 'em Have It (1935); Let's Go Stepping (1945); Lightnin' (1930); Little Tough Guy (1938); Long Shot (1939); Looking for Trouble (1934); Mademoiselle Fifi (1944); Mama Loves Papa (1945); Man Alive (1945); Man of Conquest (1939); Manhunt (1960); Masked Raiders (1949); Massacre River (1949); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Music in Manhattan (1944); Mystery Plane (1939); Nurse from Brooklyn (1938); On Trial (1928); One Exciting Adventure (1934); Only Yesterday (1933); Paris (1929); Peacock Alley (1930); Polly of the Movies (1927); Post Office Investigator (1949); Prison Break (1938); Public Stenographer (1934); Race Street (1948); Radio Hams (1939); Radio Stars on Parade (1945); Range War (1939); Return of the Bad Men (1948); Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949); Riffraff (1947); Rimfire (1949); Risky Business (1939); Riverboat Rhythm (1946); Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936); Salvation Nell (1931); San Antonio Rose (1941); San Francisco (1936); Scouts to the Rescue (1939); Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States (1937); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947); Shed No Tears (1948); Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943); Ship of Wanted Men (1933); Silver Queen (1942); Sing a Jingle (1944); Sinners in Paradise (1938); Sisters (1930); Sky Patrol (1939); Slightly Married (1932); Smoky Mountain Melody (1948); Some Mother's Boy (1929); Son of God's Country (1948); South of Death Valley (1949); Stella Maris (1925); Step by Step (1946); Streets of Shanghai (1927); Studio One (1958); Stunt Pilot (1939); Subway Express (1931); Sugarfoot (1958–1960); Sweetheart of the Navy (1937); Swingtime Johnny (1943); Take the Stand (1934); Tales of Wells Fargo (19632); The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1963); The Bamboo Blonde (1946); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Cohens and Kellys (1926); The Conquerors (1932); The Crusades (1935); The Death Ship (1928); The Deputy (1961); The Devil's Mate (1933); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Falcon in San Francisco (1945); The Falcon's Adventure (1946); The Falcon's Alibi (1946); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Fatal Hour (1940); The Fighting Marines (1935); The Firefly (1937); The Flying Marine (1929); The Gamblers (1929); The Gilded Lily (1921); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Howards of Virginia (1940); The Isle of Lost Ships (1929); The Jazz Cinderella (1930); The Judge Steps Out (1948); The Kansan (1943); The Land of Hope (1921); The Last Dance (1930); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Law of the Tong (1931); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Mad Empress (1939); The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937); The Master Race (1944); The Merry Widow (1934); The Miracle Rider (1935); The Notorious Mr. Monks (1958); The President Vanishes (1934); The Pride of the Legion (1932); The Purple Vigilantes (1938); The Rage of Paris (1938); The Second Woman (1950); The Storm (1938); The Super Snooper (1934); The Third Degree (1926); The Threat (1949); The Way to Love (1933); The Woman Condemned (1934); Thunder Mountain (1947); Torture Money (1937); Tracked by the Police (1927); Traffic with the Devil (1946); Trail Street (1947); Trapped (1931); Trial Marriage (1929); Trifles (1930); Twin Husbands (1946); Under the Tonto Rim (1947); Unholy Love (1932); Union Depot (1932); Vacation in Reno (1946); Vagabond Lady (1935); Variety Time (1948); Vogues of 1938 (1937); Wagon Train (1961); Wagons Westward (1940); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945); West of the Pecos (1945); Western Heritage (1948); Western Pacific Agent (1950); What a Blonde (1945); What, No Cigarettes? (1945); White Eagle (1932); White Flannels (1927); White Legion (1936); Wild Geese (1927); Wild Horse Mesa (1947); Wild in the Country (1961); Woman Against Woman (1938); Woman Unafraid (1934); Zombies on Broadway (1945); Zorro Rides Again (1937); Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939).

Born on this day – Letizia Quaranta:

Letizia Quaranta

Actress

December 30, 1892 – January 9, 1977

Credits:

Acquazzone in montagna (1913); Addio giovinezza! (1913); Amor de Apache (1930); Astuzia di donna (1915); Bacio di morte (1916); Bersaglio umano (1921); Bob salva la vita all'Ammiraglio (1916); Cofanetto dei milioni (1914); Da boxeur a detective (1916); El consultorio de Madame René (1924); Fiamma tra le fiamme (1917); Fiori d'amore... fiori di morte (1914); Floretta e Patapon (1910); Forbidden Music (1942); Guerra in tempo di pace (1914); Hedda Gabler (1920); I mariti allegri (1914); Il caporal Simon (1917); Il germoglio della morte (1916); Il medico per forza (1931); Il mistero del messale (1919); Il mistero dell'educanda di Saint-Bon (1915); Il teschio d'oro (1920); Il testamento di Maciste (1920); Il treno degli spettri (1913); Il Trust dei diamanti (1916); Il viaggio di Maciste (1920); Il violino di Ketty (1914); La casa della paura (1921); La droga di Satana (1922); La gondola del diavolo (1946); La lanterna del diavolo (1931); La mujer de medianoche (1925); La nave dei morti (1921); La scala (1931); La signora delle miniere (1921); La tempesta in un cranio (1921); La trilogia di Maciste (1920); La vuelta del toro salvaje (1924); L'eterno romanzo (1914); L'immagine dell'altra (1914); L'innocente Casimiro (1945); L'inverosimile (1919); L'isola tenebrosa (1916); L'orfana del ghetto (1955); Love Everlasting (1914); Maciste contro la morte (1920); Maciste I (1919); Maciste innamorato (1919); Memoria dell'altro (1914); Nerone e Agrippina (1914); Più che Fratello (1916); Scacco matto (1919); Ted l'invisibile (1922); The Fatal Grotto (1913); The Queen's Jewel (1913); T'ho ancor baciato, or muoio lieta! (1912); Un dramma tra le belve (1915); Un simpatico mascalzone (1921); Vortice (1920).

Born on this day – Ruth Chatterton:

Ruth Chatterton

Actress

Aviator

Writer

December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961

Credits:

20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); A Royal Divorce (1938); Anybody's Woman (1930); Celanese Theatre (1951); Charming Sinners (1929); Complicated Women (2003); Dodsworth (1936); Female (1933); Frisco Jenny (1932); Girls' Dormitory (1936); Hamlet (1953); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Journal of a Crime (1934); Kraft Theatre (1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); Lady of Secrets (1936); Lilly Turner (1933); Madame X (1929); Mutual Weekly, No. 16 (1915); Once a Lady (1931); Paramount on Parade (1930); Playhouse 90 (1957); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); Sarah and Son (1930); Sins of the Fathers (1928); The Crash (1932); The Doctor's Secret (1929); The Dummy (1929); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Lady of Scandal (1930); The Laughing Lady (1929); The Magnificent Lie (1931); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); The Rat (1937); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Right to Love (1930); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1932); Unfaithful (1931).

Born on this day – John G. Blystone:

John G. Blystone

Director

December 2, 1892 – August 6, 1938

Born on this day – Otho Lovering:

Otho Lovering

Director

Writer

Editor

December 1, 1892 – October 25, 1968

Born on this day – Sol Polito:

Sol Polito

Cinematographer

November 12, 1892 – May 23, 1960

Sol Polito (right, behind the camera) filming Bette Davis, on the set of Now, Voyager (1942).

Credits:

Anna Lucasta (1949); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); The Voice of the Turtle (1947); Escape Me Never (1947); The Long Night (1947); Cloak and Dagger (1946); A Stolen Life (1946); Cinderella Jones (1946); Pride of the Marines (1945); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); The Corn Is Green (1945); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944); Old Acquaintance (1943); This Is the Army (1943); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); Now, Voyager (1942); The Gay Sisters (1942); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Navy Blues (1941); Sergeant York (1941); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Dog in the Orchard (1941); Santa Fe Trail (1940); City for Conquest (1940); The Sea Hawk (1940); Virginia City (1940); Four Wives (1939); On Your Toes (1939); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); Sons of Liberty (1939); Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939); Dodge City (1939); You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); Valley of the Giants (1938); Boy Meets Girl (1938); Gold Diggers in Paris (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Varsity Show (1937); The Prince and the Pauper (1937); Ready, Willing and Able (1937); Three Men on a Horse (1936); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936); Sons o' Guns (1936); Colleen (1936); The Petrified Forest (1936); Frisco Kid (1935); Shipmates Forever (1935); In Caliente (1935); Go Into Your Dance (1935); 'G' Men (1935); The Woman in Red (1935); Sweet Adeline (1934); Flirtation Walk (1934); Dames (1934); Dr. Monica (1934); Madame Du Barry (1934); Wonder Bar (1934); Dark Hazard (1934); Hi, Nellie (1934); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Picture Snatcher (1933); The Working Man (1933); The Mind Reader (1933); 42nd Street (1933); I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); Three on a Match (1932); Blessed Event (1932); The Dark Horse (1932); Two Seconds (1932); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Union Depot (1932); Local Boy Makes Good (1931); Suicide Fleet (1931); The Ruling Voice (1931); Five Star Final (1931); The Bargain (1931); Big Business Girl (1931); Woman Hungry (1931); The Hot Heiress (1931); Going Wild (1930); Madonna of the Streets (1930); The Widow from Chicago (1930); The Girl of the Golden West (1930); Numbered Men (1930); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Playing Around (1930); No, No, Nanette (1930); Paris (1929); The Isle of Lost Ships (1929); Twin Beds (1929); The Man and the Moment (1929); Broadway Babies (1929); House of Horror (1929); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Scarlet Seas (1928); The Border Patrol (1928); The Haunted House (1928); Burning Bridges (1928); Show Girl (1928); Heart to Heart (1928); The Hawk's Nest (1928); Burning Daylight (1928); The Shepherd of the Hills (1928); Gun Gospel (1927); Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927); Lonesome Ladies (1927); The Land Beyond the Law (1927); Somewhere in Sonora (1927); The Overland Stage (1927); The Unknown Cavalier (1926); Satan Town (1926); Senor Daredevil (1926); The Frontier Trail (1926); The Seventh Bandit (1926); Driftin' Thru (1926); The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925); Paint and Powder (1925); The Bad Lands (1925); Silent Sanderson (1925); The Crimson Runner (1925); Beyond the Border (1925); Soft Shoes (1925); The Flaming Forties (1924); A Cafe in Cairo (1924); Roaring Rails (1924); The Siren of Seville (1924); The Lightning Rider (1924); Why Men Leave Home (1924); The Bad Man (1923); The Girl of the Golden West (1923); Mighty Lak' a Rose (1923); The Bishop of the Ozarks (1923); The Loaded Door (1922); Trimmed (1922); Strength of the Pines (1922); The Roof Tree (1921); The Misleading Lady (1920); The Price of Redemption (1920); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920); The Right of Way (1920); Should a Woman Tell? (1919); In Wrong (1919); Are You Legally Married? (1919); Burglar by Proxy (1919); Bill Apperson's Boy (1919); The Love Defender (1919); What Love Forgives (1919); Ruling Passions (1918); The Reckoning Day (1918); Treason (1918); Her Husband's Honor (1918); The Heart of a Girl (1918); Who Loved Him Best? (1918); Her Second Husband (1917); The Runaway (1917); The World Against Him (1916); Paying the Price (1916); Fate's Boomerang (1916); Fruits of Desire (1916); The Sins of Society (1915); A Butterfly on the Wheel (1915); The Cotton King (1915); The Butterfly (1915); M'Liss (1915); Wildfire (1915); Rip Van Winkle (1914).

Born on this day – Alice Brady:

Alice Brady

Actress

November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939

Credits:

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Zenobia (1939); Joy of Living (1938); Goodbye Broadway (1938); In Old Chicago (1938); Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937); One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937); Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937); Call It a Day (1937); Mama Steps Out (1937); Three Smart Girls (1936); Mind Your Own Business (1936); Go West Young Man (1936); My Man Godfrey (1936); The Harvester (1936); Metropolitan (1935); Lady Tubbs (1935); Let 'em Have It (1935); Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935); The Gay Divorcee (1934); Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934); Should Ladies Behave (1933); Stage Mother (1933); Broadway to Hollywood (1933); Beauty for Sale (1933); When Ladies Meet (1933); The Snow Bride (1923); The Leopardess (1923); Anna Ascends (1922); Missing Millions (1922); Hush Money (1921); Dawn of the East (1921); Little Italy (1921); The Land of Hope (1921); Out of the Chorus (1921); The New York Idea (1920); A Dark Lantern (1920); Sinners (1920); The Fear Market (1920); His Bridal Night (1919); The Redhead (1919); Marie, Ltd. (1919); The World to Live In (1919); The End of the Road (1919); The Indestructible Wife (1919); In the Hollow of Her Hand (1918); Her Great Chance (1918); The Better Half (1918); The Death Dance (1918); The Whirlpool (1918); The Ordeal of Rosetta (1918); At the Mercy of Men (1918); The Trap (1918); The Spurs of Sybil (1918); The Knife (1918); Woman and Wife (1918); Her Silent Sacrifice (1917); A Maid of Belgium (1917); Betsy Ross (1917); A Self-Made Widow (1917); The Divorce Game (1917); Maternity (1917); The Dancer's Peril (1917); A Hungry Heart (1917); A Woman Alone (1917); The Rack (1916); Bought and Paid For (1916); The Gilded Cage (1916); The Gilded Cage (1916); Miss Petticoats (1916); La vie de Bohème (1916); Tangled Fates (1916); Then I'll Come Back to You (1916); The Woman in 47 (1916); The Ballet Girl (1916); The Lure of Woman (1915); The Cup of Chance (1915); The Boss (1915); As Ye Sow (1914).

Born on this day – Helen Gibson:

Helen Gibson

Actress

Vaudeville performer

Producer

Rodeo rider

Stunt woman

August 27, 1892 – October 10, 1977

Credits:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Johnny Ringo (1959); Bonanza (1959); The Horse Soldiers (1959); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954); The Man from the Alamo (1953); City That Never Sleeps (1953); Horizons West (1952); Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952); The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952); The Dakota Kid (1951); Hollywood Story (1951); Kansas Raiders (1950); Lonely Heart Bandits (1950); Crooked River (1950); Outcasts of the Trail (1949); Cheyenne Cowboy (1949); The Scarlet Horseman (1946); The Climax (1944); The Blocked Trail (1943); The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942); The Sombrero Kid (1942); Wyoming (1941); Sheriff of Tombstone (1941); The Singing Hill (1941); Young Bill Hickok (1940); The Trail Blazers (1940); Deadwood Dick (1940); Covered Wagon Trails (1940); Cowboys from Texas (1939); Saga of Death Valley (1939); The Marshal of Mesa City (1939); New Frontier (1939); The Oregon Trail (1939); Spoilers of the Range (1939); Southward Ho! (1939); Stagecoach (1939); Flaming Frontiers (1938); The Old Barn Dance (1938); Luck of Roaring Camp (1937); Danger Valley (1937); Range Defenders (1937); Git Along Little Dogies (1937); Jungle Jim (1937); Roarin' Lead (1936); Ride, Ranger, Ride (1936); Winds of the Wasteland (1936); Last of the Warrens (1936); Lady of Secrets (1936); The Lawless Nineties (1936); Custer's Last Stand (1936); Gun Play (1935); Fighting Caballero (1935); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); The Drunkard (1935); Cyclone of the Saddle (1935); The Pecos Kid (1935); 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934); The Way of the West (1934); Rocky Rhodes (1934); Wheels of Destiny (1934); King of the Arena (1933); Law and Lawless (1932); The Silver Lining (1932); Single-Handed Sanders (1932); Human Targets (1932); The Cheyenne Cyclone (1931); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Vanishing West (1928); The Chinatown Mystery (1928); Heroes of the Wild (1927); Thorobred (1922); Nine Points of the Law (1922); The Wolverine (1921); No Man's Woman (1921); No Man's Woman (1921); Wires Down (1920); Winning the Franchise (1920); Trail of the Rails (1920); The Payroll Pirates (1920); The Overland Express (1920); The Golden Star Bandit (1920); Flirting with Terror (1920); The Daring Daughter (1920); Clutch of the Law (1920); The Broken Trestle (1920); The Broken Brake (1920); The Ghost of the Canyon (1920); Border Watch Dogs (1920); Daring Danger (1919); Loot (1919); Down But Not Out (1919); Ace High (1919); Gun Law (1919); Rustlers (1919); The Black Horse Bandit (1919); Riding Wild (1919); The Canyon Mystery (1919); The Secret Peril (1919); Wolves of the Range (1918); The Robber (1918); Captured Alive (1918); The Silent Sentinel (1918); The Dead Shot (1918); The Fast Mail (1918); Under False Pretenses (1918); Danger Ahead (1918); Bawled Out (1918); The Pay Roll Express (1918); The Branded Man (1918); The Midnight Flyer (1918); Play Straight or Fight (1918); The Deserted Engine (1917); Fighting Mad (1917); The Detective's Danger (1917); Danger Ahead (1917); The End of the Run (1917); Saving the Fast Mail (1917); The Dynamite Special (1917); A Perilous Leap (1917); The Wrong Man (1917); A Race to the Drawbridge (1917); The Railroad Smugglers (1917); The Munitions Plot (1917); The Lone Point Feud (1917); The Mystery of the Burning Freight (1917); The College Boys' Special (1917); The Borrowed Engine (1917); The Registered Pouch (1917); In the Path of Peril (1917); The Sidetracked Sleeper (1917); The Prima Donna's Special (1917); The Death Siding (1917); The Railroad Claim Intrigue (1917); The Wrecked Station (1917); The Fireman's Nemesis (1917); The Mogul Mountain Mystery (1917); A Race with Death (1916); The Vanishing Box Car (1916); The Midnight Express (1916); The Lineman's Peril (1916); The Trial Run (1916); The Forgotten Train Order (1916); The Runaway Sleeper (1916); The Lone Point Mystery (1916); The Gate of Death (1916); The Lost Messenger (1916); A Daring Chance (1916); To Save the Special (1916); The Blocked Track (1916); The Death Swing (1916); Defying Death (1916); The Hoodoo of Division B (1916); Ablaze on the Rails (1916); The Secret of the Box Car (1916); At Danger's Call (1916); With the Aid of the Wrecker (1916); Hurled Through the Drawbridge (1916); A Mystery of the Rails (1916); A Plunge from the Sky (1916); In Death's Pathway (1916); The Broken Brake (1916); To Save the Road (1916); The Engineer's Honor (1916); The Mysterious Cipher (1916); A Race Through the Air (1916); The Treasure Train (1916); The Spiked Switch (1916); The Capture of Red Stanley (1916); One Chance in a Hundred (1916); The Bridge of Danger (1916); The Human Telegram (1916); The Trail of Danger (1916); The Governor's Special (1916); The Race for a Siding (1916); The Record Run (1916); The Trapping of 'Peeler' White (1916); The Detective's Peril (1916); The Girl Who Dared (1916); A Race for a Life (1916); The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve (1916); The Switchman's Story (1916); The Perilous Swing (1916); The Peril of the Rails (1916); The Broken Wire (1916); Tapped Wires (1916); The Open Track (1916); The Haunted Station (1916); When Seconds Count (1916); At the Risk of Her Life (1916); Boy at the Throttle (1915); The Wrong Train Order (1915); Crossed Wires (1915); The Tramp Telegrapher (1915); The Dynamite Train (1915); The Girl on the Bridge (1915); The Girl and the Special (1915); Danger Ahead! (1915); The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children (1915); A Mile a Minute (1915); The Hazards of Helen (1914); A Girl of the Range (1913); Old Moddington's Daughters (1913); Ranch Girls on a Rampage (1912).

Born on this day – Edna Maison:

Edna Maison

Actress

August 17, 1892 – January 11, 1946

Credits:

The Mysterious Mr. Browning (1918); A Rich Man's Darling (1918); Love's Turmoil (1917); The Jewel of Death (1917); Mister Vampire (1916); Through Baby's Voice (1916); The Dumb Bandit (1916); The One Woman (1916); After the Play (1916); Undine (1916); The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916); A Daughter of Penance (1916); Buck Simmons, Puncher (1916); Manna (1915); Was She a Vampire? (1915); Vanity (1915); Her Mysterious Escort (1915); One Man's Evil (1915); Under the Crescent (1915); Roses and Thorns (1915); Courage (1915); The Grim Messenger (1915); The Love of Mary West (1915); When Jealousy Tumbled (1915); Her Adopted Mother (1915); The Recoil (1915); The Vaudry Jewels (1915); Lure of the West (1915); The Unmasking (1915); Their Island of Happiness (1915); A Girl of the Pines (1915); The King and the Man (1914); The Heart of a Magdalene (1914); Siss Dobbins, Oil Magnate (1914); Nan of the Hills (1914); The Senator's Lady (1914); Suspended Sentence (1914); The Padrone's Ward (1914); The Mayor's Manicure (1914); The Actress (1914); Richelieu (1914); Be Neutral (1914); A Modern Melnotte (1914); The Angel of the Camp (1914); The Storm Bird (1914); This Is the Life (1914); The Divorcee (1914); The Barnstormers (1914); Kate Waters of the Secret Service (1914); The Pearl of the Sea (1914); The Spy (1914); The Woman in Black (1914); The Brand of Cain (1914); The Masked Rider (1914); Heart Strings (1914); The Transformation of Prudence (1914); Old California (1914); The Taint of an Alien (1914); Risen from the Ashes (1914); Pitfalls (1914); Dangers of the Veldt (1914); Cupid Incognito (1914); The Way of a Woman (1914); By Radium's Rays (1914); The Merchant of Venice (1914); The Option (1914); The Cycle of Adversity (1914); Them Ol' Letters (1914); Three Children (1913); What Happened to Freckles (1913); Freckles' Fight for His Bride (1913); Her Legacy (1913); How Freckles Won His Bride (1913); The Lesson the Children Taught (1913); Playmates (1913); The Kid (1913); The Revelation (1913); The Struggle (1913); Mother (1913); The Little Skipper (1913); The Village Blacksmith (1913); The Death Stone of India (1913); The Second Home-Coming (1913); The Proof of the Man (1913); Poleon the Trapper (1913); The Idol of Bonanza Camp (1913); In Slavery Days (1913); On El Camino Real (1913); A Pig's a Pig (1913); The Bear Hunter (1913); The Spectre Bridegroom (1913); The Faithful Yuma Servant (1913); The Bear Trap (1912); The Padre's Gift (1912); Fate's Decree (1912); A Double Reward (1912); The Branded Arm (1912); Misleading Evidence (1912); For the Sake of the Papoose (1912); A Redman's Friendship (1912); The Girl Sheriff (1912).

Born on this day – Otto Messmer:

Otto Messmer

Cartoonist

Animator

August 16, 1892 – October 28, 1983

Works include: Felix the Cat.

Credits:

A Study in Crayon (1913); A Tale of Two Kitties (1926); Antics in Ink by Hy Mayer (1913); April Maze (1930); Arabiantics (1928); Arena (1985); Art for Heart's Sake (1927); Astronomeous (1928); At the Rainbow's End (1925); Backyard Serenade (1931); Baffled by Banjos (1924); Bargain Counter Attack (1946); Barn Yarns (1927); Bold King Cole (1936); Camera Three (1977); A Good Liar (1917);Cartoon Carnival (2021); Casper the Friendly Ghost (1945); Charley at the Beach (1919); Charley at the Circus (1919); Charley on the Farm (1919); Charley Out West (1919); Charlie in Turkey (1919); Charlie Treats 'Em Rough (1919); Chestnuts (1916); Daze and Knights (1927); Dough-Nutty (1927); Draggin' the Dragon (1928); Eats Are West (1925); Eskimotive (1928); Eye Jinks (1927); Felix All at Sea (1922); Felix All Balled Up (1924); Felix and the Radio (1923); Felix at the Fair (1922); Felix Behind in Front (1927); Felix Brings Home the Bacon (1924); Felix Calms His Conscience (1923); Felix Cashes In (1924); Felix Comes Back (1922); Felix Cops the Prize (1925); Felix Crosses the Crooks (1924); Felix Dopes It Out (1925); Felix Doubles for Darwin (1924); Felix Fairy Tales (1924); Felix Fills a Shortage (1923); Felix Finds a Way (1922); Felix Finds 'Em Fickle (1925); Felix Finds Out (1924); Felix Finishes First (1924); Felix Follows the Swallows (1925); Felix Full o' Fight (1925); Felix Gets Broadcasted (1923); Felix Gets His Fill (1925); Felix Gets Left (1922); Felix Gets Revenge (1922); Felix Gets the Can (1925); Felix Goes A-Hunting (1923); Felix Goes Hungry (1924); Felix Goes on Strike (1921); Felix Goes West (1924); Felix Grabs His Grub (1924); Felix Hits the Hipps (1924); Felix Hits the North Pole (1920); Felix 'Hyps' the Hippo (1924); Felix in Fairyland (1923); Felix in Love (1922); Felix in the Bone Age (1922); Felix in the Swim (1922); Felix Laughs Last (1923); Felix Left at Home (1921); Felix Lends a Hand (1922); Felix Loses Out (1924); Felix Makes Good (1922); Felix Minds His Business (1924); Felix Minds the Kid (1922); Felix Monkeys with Magic (1925); Felix on the Trail (1922); Felix Out of Luck (1924); Felix Outwits Cupid (1925); Felix Pinches the Pole (1924); Felix Puts It Over (1924); Felix Rests in Peace (1925); Felix Revolts (1923); Felix Strikes It Rich (1923); Felix the Cat (1958–1961); Felix the Cat 100 Years in the Making (2020); Felix the Cat as Romeeow (1927); Felix the Cat Braves the Briny (1926); Felix the Cat Busts a Bubble (1926); Felix the Cat Busts Into Business (1925); Felix the Cat Collars the Button (1926); Felix the Cat Dines and Pines (1927); Felix the Cat Ducks His Duty (1927); Felix the Cat Fans the Flames (1926); Felix the Cat Flirts with Fate (1926); Felix the Cat Hits the Deck (1927); Felix the Cat Hunts the Hunter (1926); Felix the Cat in Blunderland (1926); Felix the Cat in False Vases (1929); Felix the Cat in Forty Winks (1930); Felix the Cat in Gym Gems (1926); Felix the Cat in Skulls and Sculls (1930); Felix the Cat Kept on Walking (1925); Felix the Cat Laughs It Off (1926); Felix the Cat Misses His Swiss (1926); Felix the Cat Misses the Cue (1926); Felix the Cat on the Farm (1925); Felix the Cat on the Job (1925); Felix the Cat Rings the Ringer (1926); Felix the Cat Scoots Through Scotland (1926); Felix the Cat Seeks Solitude (1926); Felix the Cat Sees 'Em in Season (1927); Felix the Cat Shatters the Sheik (1926); Felix the Cat Spots the Spooks (1926); Felix the Cat Switches Witches (1927); Felix the Cat Tries the Trades (1925); Felix the Cat Trips Thru Toyland (1925); Felix the Cat Trumps the Ace (1926); Felix the Cat Uses His Head (1926); Felix the Cat Weathers the Weather (1926); Felix the Gay Dog (1921); Felix the Ghost Breaker (1923); Felix the Globe Trotter (1923); Felix the Goat Getter (1923); Felix the Landlord (1920); Felix Tries for Treasure (1923); Felix Tries to Rest (1924); Felix Trifles with Time (1925); Felix Turns the Tide (1922); Felix Wakes Up (1922); Felix Wins and Loses (1925); Felix Win's Out (1923); Fifty-Fifty (1922); Filmograph Cartoons (1913); Flim Flam Films (1927); Free Lunch (1921); Friend in Need (1924); Frolics at the Circus (1920); Fun in Film by Hy Mayer (1913); Funny Fancies by Hy Mayer (1913); Germ Mania (1927); Hilarities by Hy Mayer (1913); Hootchy Cootchy Parlais Vous (1930); How Charlie Captured the Kaiser (1918); Humors of Summer (1913); Hy Mayer: His Magic Hand (1913); Hy Mayer: His Merry Pen (1913); Hy Mayer's Cartoons (1913); Icy Eyes (1927); In and Out-Laws (1928); In Cartoonland with Hy Mayer (1913); In Laughland with Hy Mayer (1913); Jack from All Trades (1927); Japanicky (1928); Jolly Jottings by Hy Mayer (1913); Jungle Bungles (1928); Kill or Cure (1920); Land O'Fancy (1926); Leaves from Hy Mayer's Sketchbook (1913); Lightning Sketches by Hy Mayer (1913); 'Loco' Motive (1927); Los comienzos de la animación (1995); Lulu's Birthday Party (1944); Mess Production (1945); Motor Mat and His Flivver (1916); Movie-Wheels Presents Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (1960); Musical Mews (1919); Musica-Lulu (1947); My Hero (1920); No Fuelin' (1927); Oceantics (1930); Ohm Sweet Ohm (1928); Old MacDonald Had a Farm (1946); On the Wind Mill (1919); One Good Turn (1929); Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977); Out of Luck (1921); Outdoor Indore (1928); Over the Rhine with Charlie (1918); Pedigreedy (1927); Peep in the Deep (1946); Pen Laughs (1914); Pen Talks by Hy Mayer (1913); Polly-tics (1928); Popeye, the Ace of Space (1953); Reverse English (1926); Rocket to Mars (1946); Sammie Johnsin and His Wonderful Lamp (1916); Sammie Johnsin at the Seaside (1916); Sammie Johnsin Gets a Job (1916); Sammie Johnsin Hunter (1916); Sammie Johnsin in Mexico (1916); Sammie Johnsin Magician (1916); Sammie Johnsin Minds the Baby (1916); Sammie Johnsin Slumbers Not (1916); Sammie Johnsin Strong Man (1916); Sammie Johnsin's Love Affair (1916); Sax Appeal (1927); School Daze (1926); Scrambled Yeggs (1926); She-Sick Sailors (1944); Sketches from Life by Hy Mayer (1913); Spree for All (1946); Stars and Stripes (1927); Summer Caricatures (1913); Sure-Locked Homes (1928); Tee Time (1930); The Adventures of Felix (1919); The Adventures of Mr. Phiffles (1913); The Cold Rush (1925); The Hypnotist (1921); The Last Life (1928); The Love Affair of Ima Knut (1917); The Love Punch (1921); The Non-Stop Fright (1927); The Oily Bird (1928); The Smoke Scream (1928); The Travel-Hog (1927); The Trials of a Movie Cartoonist (1916); The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995–1997); Them Were the Happy Days (1917); To 'Frisco by the Cartoon Route (1915); Topical Topics (1914); Topical War Cartoons (1914); Topical War Cartoons No. 2 (1914); Two-Lip Time (1926); Uncle Tom's Crabbin' (1927); War Cartoons by Hy Mayer (1914); Whimsicalities by Hy Mayer (1913); Whys and Otherwise (1927); Wise Guise (1927); Woos Whoopee (1928); Woos Whoopee / Comicalamities (1928); Woos Whoopee / Feline Follies (1919); Woos Whoopee / Felix All Puzzled (1925); Woos Whoopee / Felix in Hollywood (1923); Woos Whoopee / Felix Saves the Day (1922); Woos Whoopee / Futuritzy (1928); Zoo Logic (1926).