Born on this day – Edward G. Robinson:

Edward G. Robinson

Actor

December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973

Born on this day – Fay Bainter:

Fay Bainter

Actress

December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968

Credits:

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Dr. Kildare (1963); The Donna Reed Show (1962); The Children's Hour (1961); Thriller (1960); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Studio One (1953–1957); Matinee Theatre (1956); Kraft Theatre (1956); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953–1955); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1955); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1955); The Elgin Hour (1954); Goodyear Playhouse (1954); The Web (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Story of Ruth (1954); The President's Lady (1953); Eye Witness (1953); Suspense (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1953); Close to My Heart (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Danger (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1948–1949); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); June Bride (1948); Give My Regards to Broadway (1948); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); Deep Valley (1947); The Virginian (1946); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); State Fair (1945); Three Is a Family (1944); Dark Waters (1944); The Heavenly Body (1944); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Salute to the Marines (1943); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); The Human Comedy (1943); Journey for Margaret (1942); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); Mister Gardenia Jones (1942); Woman of the Year (1942); Babes on Broadway (1941); Maryland (1940); A Bill of Divorcement (1940); Our Town (1940); Young Tom Edison (1940); Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); The Lady and the Mob (1939); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939); The Shining Hour (1938); The Arkansas Traveler (1938); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Jezebel (1938); White Banners (1938); Make Way for Tomorrow (1937); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); Quality Street (1937); This Side of Heaven (1934).

Born on this day – Bert Glennon:

Bert Glennon (left) and John Ford (right) filming Stagecoach (1939)

Bert Glennon

Cinematographer

Director

November 19, 1893 – June 29, 1967

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959–1964); The Man from Galveston (1963); G.E. True (1963); The Dakotas (1962–1963); Cheyenne (1961–1962); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1962); Surfside 6 (1960); Lawman (1960–1962); Lad: A Dog (1962); Maverick (1960–1961); The Roaring 20's (1961); Coronado 9 (1961); Sugarfoot (1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Sergeant Rutledge (1960); The Alaskans (1960); Bronco (1960); M Squad (1958–1960); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); Laramie (1959); The Betty Hutton Show (1959); Bonanza (1959); Markham (1959); Cimarron City (1959); The Restless Gun (1958); State Trooper (1958); Cavalcade of America (1957); Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Mad Magician (1954); Riding Shotgun (1954); Thunder Over the Plains (1953); Crime Wave (1953); The Moonlighter (1953); House of Wax (1953); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); About Face (1952); The Big Trees (1952); The Sea Hornet (1951); Operation Pacific (1951); Rio Grande (1950); Wagon Master (1950); Red Light (1949); Ruthless (1948); Copacabana (1947); Mr. District Attorney (1947); The Red House (1947); Shadow of a Woman (1946); Night and Day (1946); One More Tomorrow (1946); Rhythm on Ice (1946); Jan Savitt and His Band (1946); San Antonio (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Very Thought of You (1944); The Desert Song (1943); Destination Tokyo (1943); This Is the Army (1943); Vaudeville Days (1942); Desperate Journey (1942); Juke Girl (1942); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); The Tanks Are Coming (1941); Dive Bomber (1941); One Night in Lisbon (1941); Virginia (1941); The Reluctant Dragon (1941); The Howards of Virginia (1940); Our Town (1940); Swanee River (1939); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); The Rains Came (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Stagecoach (1939); The Young in Heart (1938); Kidnapped (1938); Swiss Miss (1938); The Hurricane (1937); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); Lloyd's of London (1936); Can This Be Dixie? (1936); Dimples (1936); Little Miss Nobody (1936); Half Angel (1936); The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936); Show Them No Mercy! (1935); Bad Boy (1935); Thunder in the Night (1935); Ginger (1935); Lottery Lover (1935); Hell in the Heavens (1934); She Was a Lady (1934); Grand Canary (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); Thru Thin and Thicket, or Who's Zoo in Africa (1933); Alice in Wonderland (1933); Morning Glory (1933); So This Is Harris (1933); Melody Cruise (1933); Gabriel Over the White House (1933); Christopher Strong (1933); Art in the Raw (1933); The Half-Naked Truth (1932); Blonde Venus (1932); South of Santa Fe (1932); In Line of Duty (1931); Heaven on Earth (1931); Paradise Island (1930); Around the Corner (1930); Girl of the Port (1930); Joy Ride (1929); Syncopation (1929); The Air Legion (1929); Gang War (1928); The Perfect Crime (1928); The Patriot (1928); Street of Sin (1928); The Last Command (1928); The City Gone Wild (1927); The Woman on Trial (1927); We're All Gamblers (1927); Underworld (1927); Barbed Wire (1927); Hotel Imperial (1927); Good and Naughty (1926); The Crown of Lies (1926); A Woman of the World (1925); Flower of Night (1925); Wild Horse Mesa (1925); Grounds for Divorce (1925); Are Parents People? (1925); Tomorrow's Love (1925); Worldly Goods (1924); Open All Night (1924); Changing Husbands (1924); Triumph (1924); The Ten Commandments (1923); You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923); Java Head (1923); Ebb Tide (1922); Burning Sands (1922); The Woman Who Walked Alone (1922); Moran of the Lady Letty (1922); A Daughter of the Law (1921); Nobody's Fool (1921); Moonlight Follies (1921); The Kiss (1921); Cheated Love (1921); The Dangerous Moment (1921); The Torrent (1921); The Society Bug (1920); The Kentucky Colonel (1920); A Scrambled Romance (1920); The Ragged Road to Romance (1920); Lightning Bryce (1919); The Eyes of the World (1917); Ramona (1916); The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914); A Hospital Hoax (1912).

Born on this day – Mabel Normand:

Mabel Normand

Actress

Writer

Director

Producer

Comedian

November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930

Born on this day – Richard Connell:

Richard Connell

Writer

October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949

Credits:

Books:

The Mad Lover (1927); Murder at Sea (1929); Playboy (1936); What Ho! (1937); The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Other Humorous Tales (1922); The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2021); The Most Dangerous Game (aka The Hounds of Zaroff) (1924); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); The Ghouls Book 1 (1971).

Movies and television:

A Game of Death (1945); Actor's Studio (1949); Balalaika (1939); Bloodlust! (1961); Bright Lights (1925); Brother Orchid (1940); Cheer Up and Smile (1930); Dark Streets (1929); Doctor Rhythm (1938); Double Trouble (1953); East of Broadway (1924); F-Man (1936); General Electric Theater (1958); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); Hired Wife (1940); Hounds of Zaroff (2016); Love on Toast (1937); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Luxury Liner (1948); Meet John Doe (1941); Most Dangerous Game (2020–2023); New Year's Eve (1929); Nice Girl? (1941); No Place to Go (1927); Okusama ni shirasu bekarazu (1937); Our Relations (1936); Painted People (1924); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Rio Rita (1942); Run for the Sun (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Seven Faces (1929); Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Dangerous Game (1953); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); The Milky Way (1936); The most compassionate game (2021); The Most Dangerous Game (1932 / 2022); The Suckers (1972); The Woman Hunt (1972); Thrill of a Romance (1945); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944).

Born on this day – Ina Claire:

Ina Claire

Actress

October 15, 1893 – February 21, 1985

Born on this day – Faith Baldwin:

Faith Baldwin

Writer

October 1, 1893 – March 18, 1978

Credits:

Mavis of Green Hill (1921); Those Difficult Years (1925); Laurel of Stonystream (1923); Magic and Mary Rose (1924); Sign Posts (1924); Thresholds (1925); Three Women (1926); Departing Wings (1927); Alimony (1928); Betty (1928); Rosalie's Career (1928); Broadway Interlude (1929); Garden Oats (1929); Incredible Year (1929); Broadway Sensation (1930); Judy: A Story of Divine Corners (1930); Make-Believe (1930); The Office Wife (1929); Babs, A Story of Devine Corners (1931); Mary Lou, A Story of Divine Corners (1931); Skyscraper (1931); Today's Virtue (1931); District Nurse (1932); Girl on the Make (1932); Myra, A Story of Divine Corners (1932); Self-Made Woman (1932); Weekend Marriage (1932); Beauty (1933); Love's a Puzzle (1933); White Collar Girl (1933); American Family (1934); Honor Bound (1934); Innocent Bystander (1934); Within a Year (1934); Wife vs. Secretary (1935); The Puritan Strain (1935); Men Are Such Fools (1936); The Moon's Our Home (1936); Private Duty (1936); Heart Has Wings (1937); Manhattan Nights (1937); That Man Is Mine (1937); Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1937); Enchanted Oasis (1938); Hotel Hostess (1938); Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1938); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Career by Proxy (1939); High Road (1939); Station Wagon Set (1939); White Magic (1939); The High Road (1939); Arizona Star (1940); Letty and the Law (1940); Medical Center (1940); Rehearsal for Love (1940); Something Special (1940); And New Stars Burn (1941); Heart Remembers (1941); Temporary Address: Reno (1941); Blue Horizons (1942); Breath of Life (1942); Rest of My Life with You (1942); Washington USA (1943); You Can't Escape (1943); Change of Heart (1944); He Married a Doctor (1944); A Job for Jenny (1945); No Private Heaven (1946); Woman on Her Way (1946); Give Love the Air (1947); Sleeping Beauty (1947); An Apartment for Jenny (1947); Marry for Money (1948); Golden Shoestring (1949); For Richer, For Poorer (1949); Look Out for Liza (1950); Tell Me My Heart (1950); The Whole Armour (1951); Juniper Tree (1952); Widow's Walk, Variations on a Theme (1954); Face Towards the Spring (1956); Many Windows: Seasons of the Heart (1958); Three Faces of Love (1958); Blaze of Sunlight (1960); Testament of Trust (1960); Harvest of Hope (1962); The West Wind (1963); Living by Faith (1964); Lonely Man (1964); The Lonely Doctor (1964); Search For Tomorrow (1966); Evening Star (1966); There Is a Season (1966); Velvet Hammer (1969); Take What You Want (1971); Any Village (1972); One More Time (1972); No Bed of Roses (1973); New Girl in Town (1975); Time and the Hour (1975); Hold on to Your Heart (1976); Thursday's Child (1976); Adam's Eden (1977).

Born on this day – Dorothy Dalton:

Dorothy Dalton

Actress

September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972

Born on this day – F. Richard Jones:

F. Richard Jones

Director

Writer

Producer

September 7, 1893 – December 14, 1930

Credits:

A Game Old Knight (1915); A Love Riot (1916); All Night Long (1924); Along Came Auntie (1926); Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914); Are Married Policemen Safe? (1918); Asleep at the Switch (1923); Baby Clothes (1926); Bad Boy (1925); Be Reasonable (1921); Be Your Age (1926); Boys Will Be Joys (1925); Bring Home the Turkey (1927); Bromo and Juliet (1926); Bulldog Drummond (1929); Buried Treasure (1926); By Heck (1921); Caught in a Park (1915); Caught in the Act (1915); Charley My Boy! (1926); Chasing the Chaser (1925); Crazy Like a Fox (1926); Cupid's Boots (1925); Dizzy Daddies (1926); Dog Shy (1926); Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926); Down on the Farm (1920); East of the Water Plug (1924); Feet of Mud (1924); Flickering Youth (1924); Flying Pat (1920); Galloping Bungalows (1924); Galloping Ghosts (1928); Gee Whiz (1920); Get 'Em Young (1926); Giddy, Gay, and Ticklish (1915); Good Cheer (1926); Gussle, the Golfer (1914); Gussle's Day of Rest (1915); Gymnasium Jim (1922); Her First Mistake (1918); Her Marble Heart (1916); Her Painted Hero (1915); His Hereafter (1916); His Last False Step (1919); His Uncle Dudley (1917); Home Made Movies (1922); Inbad the Sailor (1923); Innocent Husbands (1925); Isn't Life Terrible? (1925); It Pays to Exercise (1918); Lazy Days (1929); Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924); Lizzies of the Field (1924); Long Fliv the King (1926); Love 'Em and Weep (1927); Love, Honor and Behave! (1920); Love's False Faces (1919); Love's Sweet Piffle (1924); Ma and Pa (1922); Madame Mystery (1926); Mama Behave (1926); Mary, Queen of Tots (1925); Mickey (1918); Mighty Like a Moose (1926); Molly O' (1921); Monkey Business (1926); Moonlight and Noses (1925); Never Too Old (1919); Nip and Tuck (1923); No Man's Law (1927); No One to Guide Him (1915); On Patrol (1922); On the Front Page (1926); One Cylinder Love (1923); One Hour Married (1927); One Spooky Night (1924); One Wild Ride (1925); Picking Peaches (1924); Pills of Peril (1916); Pitfalls of a Big City (1923); Raggedy Rose (1926); Reilly's Wash Day (1919); Riders of the Purple Cows (1924); Romeo and Juliet (1924); Rough and Ready (1923); Saucy Madeline (1918); Scarem Much (1924); Seeing the World (1927); Shanghaied Lovers (1924); She Loved Him Plenty (1918); She Needed a Doctor (1917); Shivering Spooks (1926); Should Husbands Pay? (1926); Should Men Walk Home? (1927); Should Sailors Marry? (1925); Skylarking (1923); Sleuths (1918); Smile Please (1924); Someone to Love (1928); Son of a Gun (1918); Starvation Blues (1925); Step Forward (1922); Suzanna (1923); Tell 'Em Nothing (1926); Telling Whoppers (1926); Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924); Ten Years Old (1927); That Springtime Feeling (1915); The Battle Royal (1918); The Big Killing (1928); The Cannon Ball Express (1924); The Caretaker's Daughter (1925); The Cat's Meow (1924); The Country Flapper (1922); The Crossroads of New York (1922); The Dare-Devil (1923); The Dentist (1919); The Extra Girl (1923); The First 100 Years (1924); The Foolish Age (1919); The Fourth Alarm (1926); The Gaucho (1927); The Ghost in the Garret (1921); The Great Vacuum Robbery (1915); The Half-Back of Notre Dame (1924); The Hollywood Kid (1924); The Judge (1916); The Lion and the Souse (1924); The Nickel-Hopper (1926); The Reel Virginian (1924); The Sea Squawk (1925); The Shriek of Araby (1923); The Speakeasy (1919); The Village Smithy (1919); The Water Hole (1928); The Water Nymph (1912); The Way of All Pants (1927); Their Social Splash (1915); Those Bitter Sweets (1915); Those College Girls (1915); Three Foolish Weeks (1924); Thundering Fleas (1926); Trying to Get Along (1919); Two Tough Tenderfeet (1918); Two-Time Mama (1927); Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926); Unfriendly Enemies (1925); Up in Alf's Place (1919); Wall Street Blues (1924); Wandering Papas (1926); Wandering Waistlines (1924); What's the World Coming To (1926); When Summer Comes (1922); Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? (1923); Why Beaches Are Popular (1919); Why Girls Say No (1927); Wife Tamers (1926); Wild Papa (1925); Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926); Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919); Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925); Your Own Back Yard (1925); Yukon Jake (1924).

Born on this day – Dorothy Parker:

Dorothy Parker

Writer

August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967

Credits:

Poems:

A Certain Lady; A Dream Lies Dead; A Fairly Sad Tale; A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature; A Portrait; A Very Short Song; A Well-Worn Story; After Spanish Proverb; Afternoon; Alexandre Dumas And His Son; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Anecdote; August; Autobiography; Autumn Valentine; Ballade at Thirty-five; Ballade Of A Great Weariness; Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals; Bohemia; Braggart; Bric-a-Brac; But Not Forgotten; Chant For Dark Hours; Charles Dickens; Coda; Comment; Condolence; Convalescent; D.G. Rossetti; Daylight Saving; De Profundis; Dilemma; Distance; Epitaph; Experience; Fable; Fair Weather; Faute De Mieux; Fighting Words; Finis; For A Favorite Granddaughter; For A Lady Who Must Write Verse; For A Sad Lady; For An Unknown Lady; From A Letter From Lesbia; Frustration; Fulfillment; Garden-Spot; General Review Of The Sex Situation; George Gissing; George Sand; Godmother; Godspeed; Guinevere at Her Fireside; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Healed; Hearthside; I Know I Have Been Happiest; I Shall Come Back; Incurable; Indian Summer; Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom; Interior; Interview; Inventory; Iseult Of Brittany; Landscape; Liebestod; Light Of Love; Lines On Reading Too Many Poets; Little Words; Love Song; Lullaby; Men; Midnight; Mortal Enemy; My Own; Neither Bloody Nor Bowed; News Item; Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday; Nocturne; Now At Liberty; Observation; Of a Woman, Dead Young; On Being A Woman; One Perfect Rose; Ornithology For Beginners; Oscar Wilde; Parable For A Certain Virgin; Partial Comfort; Paths; Pattern; Penelope; Philosophy; Plea; Portrait of the Artist; Post-Graduate; Pour Prendre Conge; Prayer For a New Mother; Prayer For A Prayer; Prisoner; Prologue to a Saga; Prophetic Soul; Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song; Rainy Night; Recurrence; Renunciation; Requiescat; Rhyme Against Living; Roundel; Salome's Dancing-Lesson; Sanctuary; Sight; Social Note; Solace; Somebody's Song; Song in a Minor Key; Song Of One Of The Girls; Song of Perfect Propriety; Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence; Sonnet On An Alpine Night; Summary; Superfluous Advice; Surprise; Sweet Violets; Symptom Recital; Temps Perdu; Testament; The Apple Tree; The Burned Child; The Choice; The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse; The Dark Girl's Rhyme; The Dramatists; The Evening Primrose; The False Friends; The Flaw In Paganism; The Gentlest Lady; The Homebody; The Immortals; The Lady's Reward; The Last Question; The Leal; The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk; The New Love; The Red Dress; The Satin Dress; The Sea; The Searched Soul; The Second Oldest Story; The Small Hours; The Thin Edge; The Trifler; The Trusting Heart; The Veteran; The Whistling Girl; The White Lady; The Willow; Theory; There Was One; They Part; Thomas Carlyle; Thought For A Sunshiny Morning; Threnody; To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady; Tombstones in the Starlight; Transition; Two-Volume Novel; Ultimatum; Unfortunate Coincidence; Vers Demode; Verse For a Certain Dog; Victoria; Wail; Walter Savage Landor; Wisdom; Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror.

Books:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); After Such Pleasures (1940); Alaska Stories (1995); Big Blonde and Other Stories (1929); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Death and Taxes (1931); Enough Rope (1926); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Here Lies (1939); Here We Are, a Telephone Call (2001); Laments for the Living (1930); Life Stories (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Men I'm Not Married To (1922); New Orleans Stories (1992); Not Much Fun (1996); Not So Deep as a Well (1937); Points of View (1956); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Sayings of Dorothy Parker (1992); Secret Ingredients (2007); Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker (1976); Selected Stories (1995); Sisters (2009); Southwest Stories (1993); Such a Pretty Little Picture and Other Stories (2023); Sunset Gun: Poems (1940); Texas Stories (1995); The Coast of Illyria (1990); The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker (1944); The Collected Short Stories (1942); The Ladies of the Corridor (1954); The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944); The Sexes (1944); Women Writers at Work (1989); Wonderful Town (2000).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Star Is Born (1954); A Telephone Call (2014); American Masters (1987); August (2013); Big Blonde (1980); Bomb Girls (2012); Candide (1988 / 2024); Desert Hearts (1985); Dick Stabile and His Orchestra (1952); Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place (1982); Dynamite (1929); Een heel kleintje maar (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952); Hands Across the Table (1935); Here Is My Heart (1934); I Live on Your Visits (2024); I Wished on the Moon (1935); In the Pink (1982); ITV Play of the Week (1960); Jerry Gray and the Band of Today (1950); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Lady Be Careful (1936); Language of Love (1964); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life Together (2016); Madonna Feat. Massive Attack: I Want You (1995); Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (2009); Movie Melodies on Parade (1936); Moving Pictures (1995); O Telefonema (2010); Pakinateatteri (1960); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Public Speaking (2010); Queen for a Day (1951); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Saboteur (1942); Shoestring Theatre (1959–1962); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Something to Read (1959); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Stranded in Canton (2005); Suzy (1936); Sweethearts (1938); Teatterituokio (1966); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The David Susskind Show (1959); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Fan (1949); The Flower of My Secret (1995); The Game (2004); The Green Helmet (1961); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Little Foxes (1941); The Lovely Leave (1999); The Maker (1997); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Night Before Christmas (1957); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Sexes (2008); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); Three Married Men (1936); T'odio, amor meu (1996); Trade Winds (1938); Weekend for Three (1941); Woman Chases Man (1937); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); You Were Perfectly Fine (2009).

Born on this day – Mae West:

Mae West

Actress

Singer

Comedian

Writer

August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980

Born on this day – Alice Hechy:

Alice Hechy

Actress

Opera singer (soprano)

July 21, 1893 – May 26, 1973

Credits:

Nanon (1938); His Late Excellency (1935); 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931); Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930); Das Mädel aus U.S.A. (1930); Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille (1928); Zuflucht (1928); Batalla de damas (1928); Der rosa Diamant (1926); Variety (1925); Die abenteuerliche Hochzeit (1925); Die Puppe vom Lunapark (1925); This Ancient Law (1923); So sind die Männer (1923); Wien, du Stadt der Lieder (1923); Der Kampf ums Ich (1922); Tobias Buntschuh - Das Drama eines Einsamen (1921); Zpev zlata (1921); Das Land der Sehnsucht (1918); Dorittchens Vergnügungsreise (1916); Der Mann, den das Schicksal sandte (1916); Dorrits Eheglück (1916); Die Verkaufte Braut (1916); Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916); Teufelchen (1915); Liebet die Männer (1915); Sugar and Spice (1915); Problematische Naturen (1915); Kammermusik (1915); Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum (1915); Miss Piccolo (1915); Wenn Wunden heilen (1914); Pauline (1914); The Man in the Cellar (1914); Ilse und ihre drei Freier (1913); Red Powder (1913); Im Schatten der Schuld (1912).

Born on this day – Enid Bennett:

Enid Bennett

Actress

July 15, 1893 – May 14, 1969

Credits:

A Desert Wooing (1918); A Fool's Awakening (1924); A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1920); A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920); A Woman's Heart (1926); Coals of Fire (1918); Enid Bennett in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Fuss and Feathers (1918); Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1916); Good Medicine (1929); Hairpins (1920); Happiness (1917); Happy Though Married (1919); Her Husband's Friend (1920); Intermezzo (1939); Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921); Meet Dr. Christian (1939); Naughty, Naughty! (1918); Officer 666 (1916); Partners Three (1919); Princess of the Dark (1917); Robin Hood (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 7 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 2 (1925); Silk Hosiery (1920); Skippy (1931); Sooky (1931); Stepping Out (1919); Strangers of the Night (1923); Strike Up the Band (1940); The Aryan (1916); The Bad Man (1923); The Big Store (1941); The Biggest Show on Earth (1918); The Bootlegger's Daughter (1922); The Courtship of Myles Standish (1923); The False Road (1920); The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross (1927); The Girl, Glory (1917); The Haunted Bedroom (1919); The Keys of the Righteous (1918); The Law of Men (1919); The Little Brother (1917); The Marriage Ring (1918); The Mother Instinct (1917); The Red Lily (1924); The Sea Hawk (1924); The Vamp (1918); The Virtuous Thief (1919); The Woman in the Suitcase (1920); The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927); They're Off (1917); Waterloo Bridge (1931); What Every Woman Learns (1919); When Do We Eat? (1918); World of Robin Hood (2006); Your Friend and Mine (1923).

Born on this day – Anthony Berkeley Cox:

Anthony Berkeley Cox

Writer

July 5, 1893 – March 9, 1971

Credits:

Books:

A Scream in Soho (1940); A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (2020); Antidote to Venom (1938); Ask a Policeman (1933); Bats in the Belfry (1937); Blood on the Tracks (2018); Bodies from the Library (2019); Calamity in Kent (1950); Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (2015); Castle Skull (1931); Checkmate to Murder (1944); Continental Crimes (2017); Crimson Snow (2016); Crossed Skis (1952); Dead Mrs. Stratton / Jumping Jenny (1933); Death Has Deep Roots (1951); Death in Fancy Dress (1933); Death in the House (1939); Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel (1936); Death Makes a Prophet (1947); Death of a Busybody (1942); Death of an Airman (1934); Death of an Author (2024); Death of Anton (1936); Death on the Cherwell (1935); Death on the Riviera (1952); Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves (2019); Due to a Death (1963); Excellent Intentions (1938); Family Matters (1933); Fell Murder (1944); Fire in the Thatch (1946); Foreign Bodies (2017); Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book (2018); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (2021); It Walks by Night (1930); Jumping Jenny (1933); Malice Aforethought (1931); Miraculous Mysteries (2017); Mr Priestley's Problem (1927); Murder at the Manor (2016); Murder by Matchlight (1945); Murder in Piccadilly (1936); Murder in the Basement (1932); Murder in the Mill-Race (1952); Murder in the Museum (1938); Murder of a Lady (1931); Murder Takes a Holiday: Classic Crime Stories for Summer (2021); Murder Underground (1934); Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery (1943); Mystery in the Channel (1931); Mystery in White (1937); Not to Be Taken (1937); Panic Party (1934); Portrait of a Murderer (1933); Quick Curtain (1934); Resorting to Murder (2015); Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery (1927); Scarweather (1934); Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm (1960); Serpents in Eden (2016); Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (2020); Seven Dead (1939); Silent Nights (2015); Six Against the Yard (1937); Smallbone Deceased (1950); Somebody at the Door (1943); Surfeit of Suspects (1964); The 12.30 from Croydon (1934); The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939); The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook (2004); The Belting Inheritance (1965); The Body in the Dumb River (1961); The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937); The Chianti Flask (1934); The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (2018); The Christmas Egg (1958); The Colour Of Murder (1957); The Cornish Coast Murder (1935); The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder (1932); The Danger Within / Death in Captivity (1952); The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (1942); The Division Bell Mystery (1932); The End of the Web (1976); The Hog's Back Mystery (1933); The Incredible Crime (1931); The Lake District Murder (1935); The Last Best Friend (1967); The Layton Court Mystery (1925); The Long Arm of the Law (2017); The Lost Gallows (1931); The Man Who Didn't Fly (1955); The Measure of Malice (2019); The Mysterious Mr. Badman (1934); The Notting Hill Mystery (1862); The Piccadilly Murder (1929); The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums (2019); The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929); The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929); The Port of London Murders (1938); The Progress of a Crime (1960); The Santa Klaus Murder (1936); The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983); The Second Shot (1930); The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham (1930); The Silk Stocking Murders (1928); The Spoilt Kill (1961); The Spy Paramount (1934); The Sussex Downs Murder (1936); The Traitor (1936); The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears (1926); The Wychford Poisoning Case (1926); The Z Murders (1931); Thirteen Guests (1938); Top Storey Murder (1931); Trial and Error (1937); Trouble on the Thames (1945); Two-Way Murder (2021); Verdict of Twelve (1940); Weekend at Thrackley (1934).

Movies and television:

American Playhouse (1987); Detective (1968); Flight from Destiny (1941); Leave It to Todhunter (1958); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Malice Aforethought (2005); Mystery!: Malice Aforethought (1979); Smrt pocestné paní (1969); Suspicion (1941 / 1948); TV Teatro (1958).

Born on this day – Big Bill Broonzy:

Big Bill Broonzy

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

June 26, 1893 – August 14, 1958

Credits:

Albums:

1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1937, 1938 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1938, 1939 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1939, 1940 (2005); A Retrospective Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Amazing Performance (2013); Amsterdam Concerts 1953 (2006); Barrelhouse of Blues (2015); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Big Bill Broonzy (2011); Big Bill Blues (2014); Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Selected Favorites (2006); Big Bill Broonzy Sings (1956); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues (1957); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 13 (1949-1951) (2013); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 4 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 5 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 6 1937 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 7 1937 – 1938 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy's Pig Meat Blues (2006); Big Bill's Blues (1957); Blues and Gospel No. 3: Big Bill Broonzy (Mono Version) (1962); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); C.C.Rider Meets Lonesome Road Blues (2014); Chicago Blues (2013); Classic Box Set: The Bill Broonzy Story (2015); Hey Hey (2012); I Believe I'll Go Back Home (2014); Introducing Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Just a Dream for Big Bill Broonzy (2009); Key to the Highway (2010); Little Bug (2000); On Tour in Britain, 1952 (2002); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 1 (1993); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 2 (1993); Rockin' In Chicago 1949-53 (2007); St. Louis Blues (2007); Tell Me Baby (2014); The 1955 London Sessions (1990); The Blues Volume 2 (2008); The Hip Star (2014); The Historic Concert Recordings (2013); The Southern Blues (1996); Trouble In Mind - Previously Unissued Live Concert Recordings (1990); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1940 – 1941 (2007); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1945 – 1949 (2007); What a Wonderful Blues World (2013).

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); Arena (1985); Big Bill Blues (1957); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Masters (1999); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Cold Case (2006); Deadwood (2005); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Eric Clapton: One More Car, One More Rider - Live on Tour 2001 (2002); Folk Britannia (2006); Frank's Place (1987); Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019); Holiday (1957); Home Sweet Home (2013); I Go Back Home: Jimmy Scott (2016); I Love You (1986); Intolerable Cruelty (2003); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Love Hurts (2012); Matlock (1992); Mississippi Grind (2015); Panoptikum (1970); Passage to Mars (2016); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Presley (1987); Six-Five Special (1957); Supernatural (2006); The Beatles Anthology (1995–1996); The Big Something (2011); The Blues (2003); The Buttercup Project (2010); The Roaring 20s: Mick Jagger's Glory Years (2011); The Terminal (2004); Toxic Apocalypse (2016); Traveller (1997); Unplugged (1992).

Born on this day – Hattie McDaniel:

Hattie McDaniel

Actress

Singer

Songwriter

Comedian

June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952

Credits:

1 a Minute (2010); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); A Century of Black Cinema (2003); A Certain Magical Pimpdex: Extended Edition (2019); Affectionately Yours (1941); Alice Adams (1935); America in Color (2018); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Anniversary Trouble (1935); Another Face (1935); Arbor Day (1936); Are You Listening? (1932); Babbitt (1934); Banda sonora (2008); Battle of Broadway (1938); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Beulah (1952); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Black Pop: Celebrating the Power of Black Culture (2023); Blonde Venus (1932); Can This Be Dixie? (1936); Carefree (1938); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); China Seas (1935); City Park (1934); Classified X (2007); Corazón de... (2006); Crooner (1932); Deep South (1930); Democracy Now! (2010); Don't Tell the Wife (1937); Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003); Everybody's Baby (1939); Explained (2018); Family Honeymoon (1948); Fate's Fathead (1934); 45 Fathers (1937); Flirtation (1934); Gentle Julia (1936); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); George Washington Slept Here (1942); Gone with the Wind (1939); Good-bye Love (1933); Harmony Lane (1935); Hello, Sister! (1933); Hi, Beautiful (1944); High Tension (1936); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hypnotized (1932); I'm No Angel (1933); Imitation of Life (1934); Janie (1944); Janie Gets Married (1946); John Ford (1992); Johnny Come Lately (1943); Judge Priest (1934); King Kelly of the U.S.A. (1934); Libeled Lady (1936); Little Men (1934); Lost in the Stratosphere (1934); Margie (1946); Maryland (1940); Merry Wives of Reno (1934); Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937); Mickey (1948); Mickey's Rescue (1934); Mississippi Moods (1937); Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America (1993); Murder by Television (1935); Music Is Magic (1935); Musical Comedy Tonight III (1985); Never Say Goodbye (1946); Next Time We Love (1936); Nothing Sacred (1937); Of Black America (1968); Okay Toots! (1935); Operator 13 (1934); Over the Goal (1937); Postal Inspector (1936); Quick Money (1937); Racing Lady (1937); Reunion (1936); Roots Remembered (2007); Saratoga (1937); Saratoga (1937); Show Boat (1936); Since You Went Away (1944); Sky Racket (1937); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Song of the South (1946); Star for a Night (1936); Thank You Hattie (2021); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); The Big Wheel (1949); The Boiling Point (1932); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Chases of Pimple Street (1934); The Crime Nobody Saw (1937); The Ed Wynn Show (1949); The First Baby (1936); The Flame (1947); The Four Star Boarder (1935); The Golden West (1932); The Great Lie (1941); The Impatient Maiden (1932); The Ingraham Angle (2020); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Little Colonel (1935); The Mad Miss Manton (1938); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Male Animal (1942); The Movies (2019); The Oscars (2017); The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021); The Shining Hour (1938); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The Singing Kid (1936); The Washington Masquerade (1932); The Watermelon Woman (1996); The Wildcatter (1937); The Young and the Dead (2000); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); They've Gotta Have Us (2018); This Our Life (1942); Three Is a Family (1944); Transient Lady (1935); Traveling Saleslady (1935); True Confession (1937); TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004); Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936); Vivacious Lady (1938); We're Only Human (1935); Wig-Wag (1935); You Must Remember This (2014); Zenobia (1939).

Born on this day – Ernest B. Schoedsack:

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

June 8, 1893 – December 23, 1979

Born on this day – Harold Lloyd:

Harold Lloyd

Actor

Comedian

Stuntman

April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971

Born on this day – Grace Cunard:

Grace Cunard

Actress

Writer

Director

April 8, 1893 – January 19, 1967

Born on this day – Mississippi John Hurt:

Mississippi John Hurt

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966