Born on this day – Merian C. Cooper:

Merian C. Cooper

Director

Writer

Producer

Cinematographer

Air Force Pilot

October 24, 1893 – April 21, 1973

Credits:

3 Godfathers (1948); Ace of Aces (1933); After Tonight (1933); Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); Banglar King Kong (2010); Bed of Roses (1933); Before Dawn (1933); Best of Cinerama (1963); Blind Adventure (1933); Captain Salisbury's Ra-Mu (1929); Chance at Heaven (1933); Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927); Cinerama Adventure (2002); Creation (1931); Cross Fire (1933); Dancing Pirate (1936); Dead of Conspiracy (2006); Diplomaniacs (1933); Double Harness (1933); Dr. Cyclops (1940); Emergency Call (1933); FilmToons Logic (2021); Finishing School (1934); Flaming Gold (1932); Flying Devils (1933); Flying Down to Rio (1933); Fort Apache (1948); Gorillaville (2014–2017); Gow (1931); Gow the Head Hunter (1928); Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925); Headline Shooter (1933); Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934); Hollywood Stuntmakers (1999); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); If I Were Free (1933); I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005); Keep 'Em Rolling (1934); Kentucky Kernels (1934); King Kong - FAN FILM (2016); King Kong (1933 / 1976 / 2005); King Kong Lives (1986); King Kong Skull Island (2019); King Kong, le coeur des ténèbres (2025); King Kong: Audio Commentary (2005); Kingu Kongu Tsû: Ikari no Megaton Panchi / video game (1986); Kong (2000); Kong: King of Atlantis (2005); Kong: The Animated Series (2000–2001); Le documentaire culturel (2024); Little Women (1933); Long Lost Father (1934); Lucky Devils (1933); Man of Two Worlds (1934); Melody Cruise (1933); Midshipman Jack (1933); Mighty Joe Young (1949 / 1998); Morning Glory (1933); No Marriage Ties (1933); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); One Man's Journey (1933); Professional Sweetheart (1933); Rafter Romance (1933); Rio Grande (1950); Roar of the Dragon (1932); Seven Wonders of the World (1956); She (1935); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949); Sing and Like It (1934); Son of Kong (1933); Spitfire (1934); Stingaree (1934); Success at Any Price (1934); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The Four Feathers (1929); The Fugitive (1947); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Lost EmpireThe Lost Patrol (1934); The Lost Spider Pit Sequence (2005); The Meanest Gal in Town (1934); The Mighty Kong (1998); The Monkey's Paw (1933); The Most Dangerous Game (1932); The Phantom of Crestwood (1932); The Quiet Man (1952); The Right to Romance (1933); The Searchers (1956); The Silver Cord (1933); The Sun Shines Bright (1953); The Toy Wife (1938); This Is Cinerama (1952); This Man Is Mine (1934); Two Alone (1934); Wagon Master (1950).

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

Credits:

Claudia (1943); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); I Take This Woman (1940); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); Ninotchka (1939); Polly with a Past (1920); Rebound (1931); Screen Snapshots, Series 9, No. 23 (1930); Stage Door Canteen (1943); The Awful Truth (1929); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Puppet Crown (1915); The Royal Family of Broadway (1930); The Wild Goose Chase (1915).

Born on this day – Lillian Gish:

Lillian Gish

Actress

Director

Writer

October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993

Books:

A Moment with Miss Gish (1995); An Actor's Life for Me (1987); Dorothy and Lillian Gish (1973); Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s (2011); Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen (2000); Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life (2002); Never Let the Camera Catch Me Acting: Lillian Gish as Actress, Star, and Theorist (2016); Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis (1977); The Movies in the Age of Innocence (1962); The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me (1969).

Album:

Show Boat (1988).

Movies and television:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955); 90 Minutes Live (1978); A Cry for Help (1912); A Duel for Love (1914); A Gift of Music (1981); A Misunderstood Boy (1913); A Modest Hero (1913); A Romance of Happy Valley (1919); A Sétima Arte (2021); A Timely Interception (1913); A Wedding (1978); A Woman in the Ultimate (1913); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–1984); AFI Life Achievement Award (1988); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); American Masters (1988–1993); American Playhouse (1986); An Indian's Loyalty (1913); An Innocent Magdalene (1916); An Unseen Enemy (1912); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Annie Laurie (1927); Arena (2012); Arsenic and Old Lace (1969); At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper (1993); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Bienvenue à Cannes (2007); Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Breaking Point (1963); Broken Blossoms (1919); Brutality (1912); Camera Three (1975); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Captain Macklin (1915); CBS Early Morning News (1982); Celanese Theatre (1951); Celebrity Time (1950); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Festival Hour of Music (1953); Cineficción Radio (2021); Citizen Langlois (1995); Classified X (2007); Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942); Compression (2023–2025); D.W. Griffith (1975); Daphne and the Pirate (1916); Day for Night (1973); De película (1987); Diane of the Follies (1916); Dinah! (1978); Duel in the Sun (1946); During the Round-Up (1913); Enoch Arden (1915); Entertainment Tonight (1983); Épreuves d'artistes (2004); Et la femme créa Hollywood (2016); Fashions in Love (1936); Film '74 (1974); Film Fun (1955); Flicker Flashbacks No. 1, Series 5 (1947); Flicker Flashbacks No. 5, Series 2 (1945); Flicker Flashbacks No. 6, Series 2 (1945); Follow Me, Boys! (1966); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); From Farm to Fame (1922); Gaslight Follies (1945); Gold and Glitter (1912); Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1985); Hallelujah the Hills (1963); Hambone and Hillie (1983); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Harty (1983); Hearts of the World (1918); His Double Life (1933); His Lesson (1915); Hobson's Choice (1983); Hollywood (1972 / 1980); Hollywood Greats (1978); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee (1978); Home, Sweet Home (1914); Hometown Legend (2002); Howard K. Smith (1962); In Concert at the Met (1984); In the Aisles of the Wild (1912); Intolerance (1916); Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017); Judith of Bethulia (1914); Just Gold (1913); Kraft Theatre (1955); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1953); La Bohème (1926); Langlois (1970); Late Night Line-Up (1969); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les évangéliques à la conquête du monde (2023); Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972); Lillian Gish (1984); Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Lionpower from MGM (1967); Lord Chumley (1914); Madonna of the Storm (1913); Man's Enemy (1914); Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Miss Susie Slagle's (1946); Movies Golden Age (1961); Moving Pictures (1995); Mr. Novak (1963); Mrs. Winchester's House (1963); My Baby (1912); Never Apologize (2007); Night Hunter (2011); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Oil and Water (1913); One Romantic Night (1930); Orders to Kill (1958); Orphans of the Storm (1921); Over Easy (1980); Parkinson (1980); Pathways of Life (1916); Person to Person (1954); Play of the Week (1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Project Twenty (1957–1961); Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951–1954); Romola (1924); Royal Variety Performance (1980); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 20 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 4 (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 9 (1944); Screen Snapshots, Series 28, No. 3: Stars to Remember (1948); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Ship's Reporter (1948–1952); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Silver Glory (1951); So Near, Yet So Far (1912); So Runs the Way (1913); Sold for Marriage (1916); Souls Triumphant (1917); Sparrow (1978); Star Power: The Creation of United Artists (1998); Sweet Liberty (1986); The 11th Annual Tony Awards (1957); The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961); The 1974 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1974); The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Angel of Contention (1914); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913); The Battle of the Sexes (1914); The Birth of a Nation (1915); The Burglar's Dilemma (1912); The Carol Burnett Show (1978); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1979); The Children Pay (1916); The Cobweb (1955); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913); The David Frost Show (1969–1972); The Defenders (1962–1964); The Dick Cavett Show (1971 / 1979); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955 / 1961); The Enemy (1927); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1986); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Laurence Olivier (1983); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Folly of Anne (1914); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Great Chase (1962); The Great Director (1966); The Great Love (1918); The Greatest Question (1919); The Greatest Thing in Life (1918); The Green-Eyed Devil (1914); The House Built Upon Sand (1916); The House of Darkness (1913); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Hunchback (1914); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982); The Lady and the Mouse (1913); The Left-Handed Man (1913); The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961); The Lily and the Rose (1915); The Lost House (1915); The Love Boat (1981); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1981); The Making of 'the Birth of a Nation' (1998); The March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 12: The Movies March On (1939); The Merv Griffin Show (1969–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1978); The Mothering Heart (1913); The Movie Album (1932); The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975); The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912); The New York Hat (1912); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Painted Lady (1912); The Quicksands (1914); The Rebellion of Kitty Belle (1914); The Scarlet Letter (1926); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Silent Years (1975); The Sisters (1914); The Spiral Staircase (1961); The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (1977); The Tear That Burned (1914); The Trip to Bountiful (1953); The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022); The Unforgiven (1960); The Unwelcome Guest (1913); The Whales of August (1987); The White Sister (1923); The Wind (1928); Theatre '62 (1961); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Thin Ice (1981); This Is Your Life (1985); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1975); Top Man (1943); True Heart Susie (1919); Twin Detectives (1976); Two Daughters of Eve (1912); Valkokangas (1989); VM Show Vol. 2 (2005); Warning Shot (1966); Way Down East (1920); Wide Wide World (1955); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951).

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

Credits:

A Gamble in Souls (1916); A Romantic Adventuress (1920); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); Across the Pacific (1914); Back of the Man (1917); Behind Masks (1921); Black Is White (1920); Chicken Casey (1917); Civilization's Child (1916); Dark Secrets (1923); Dorothy Dalton in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Extravagance (1919); Flare-Up Sal (1918); Fog Bound (1923); Fool's Paradise (1921); Green Eyes (1918); Guilty of Love (1920); Half an Hour (1920); Hard Boiled (1919); His Wife's Friend (1919); L'apache (1919); Law of the Lawless (1923); Love Letters (1917); Love Me (1918); Moran of the Lady Letty (1922); On the High Seas (1922); Other Men's Wives (1919); Pierre of the Plains (1914); Quicksand (1918); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 25 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 8 (1923); Ten of Diamonds (1917); The Camera Speaks (1934); The Captive God (1916); The Crimson Challenge (1922); The Dark Mirror (1920); The Dark Road (1917); The Disciple (1915); The Female of the Species (1916); The Flame of the Yukon (1917); The Homebreaker (1919); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Idol of the North (1921); The Jungle Child (1916); The Kaiser's Shadow (1918); The Lady of Red Butte (1919); The Lone Wolf (1924); The Market of Souls (1919); The Mating of Marcella (1918); The Moral Sinner (1924); The Price Mark (1917); The Raiders (1916); The Siren Call (1922); The Three Musketeers (1916); The Vagabond Prince (1916); The Weaker Sex (1917); The Woman Who Walked Alone (1922); Tyrant Fear (1918); Unfaithful (1918); United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (1918); Vive la France! (1918); Wild Winship's Widow (1917).

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

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); All You Need Is Love (1977); America in Color (2018); American Masters (2020); Arena (1999–2012); Backlot USA (1976); Backstory (2001); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Belle of the Nineties (1934); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biography (1995); Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes (2024); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bruce Lee in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); Carol Doda Topless at the Condor (2023); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); CBS News Special Report (1974); Cleavage (2002); Complicated Women (2003); Dead Famous (2006); DeTour (2010); Die Wicherts von nebenan (1989); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Et la femme créa Hollywood (2016); Every Day's a Holiday (1937); Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993); Fashions in Love (1936); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Go West Young Man (1936); Goin' to Town (1935); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (1992); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Blue (1970); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood on Parade (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Rebellen (2013); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Sex Symbols (1988); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); How to Fly a Lazy Eight (1943); I'm No Angel (1933); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); Intimate Portrait (1999); Invitation au voyage (2021); Junket Whore (1998); Klondike Annie (1936); Legends of Comedy (1993); Living Famously (2003); Look Me Over: Liberace (2021); Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994); Mae West: Die verruchte Blonde (2021); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Mister Ed (1964); Mondo Trasho (1969); My Little Chickadee (1940); My Mom Jayne (2025); My Tongue Is - Quick! (1971); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Naughty Bits (2004); Night After Night (1932); Person to Person (1959); Prisoner in Concert (1981); Russian Doll (2019); Say It with Acting (1949); Screen Goddesses (2006); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Sextette (1977); She Done Him Wrong (1933); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (2018); Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema (2009); Sur nos lèvres: Rouge un jour, rouge toujours? (2022); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The Best of Laurel and Hardy (1968); The Casting Couch (1995); The Craig Caddell Show (2017); The Dean Martin Show (1959); The Dick Cavett Show (1976); The Ed Sullivan Show (1948); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Heat's On (1943); The Hollywood Collection: Anthony Quinn an Original (1990); The Hollywood Fashion Machine (1999); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Real Las Vegas (1996); The Red Skelton Hour (1960); The Second Annual Rock Music Awards (1976); The Twentieth Century (1959); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); USArt: The Gift of Ourselves (1975); Vito (2011); Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... (1964–1965); Welcome to the Basement (2014–2015); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wisecracks (1991).

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, the last days before the world conflagration (1931); The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari (1930); The Girl from U.S.A. (1930); Gustav Mond, Du geht so stille (1928); Zuflucht (1928); Batalla de damas (1928) The pink diamond (1926); Variety (1925); The Adventurous Wedding (1925); The Doll from the Lunapark (1925); This Ancient Law (1923); So sind die Männer (1923); Vienna du Stadt der Lieder (1923); The Struggle for the Self (1922); Tobias Buntschuh - The Drama eines Einsamen (1921); Zpev zlata (1921); Das Land der Sehnsucht (1918); Dorittchens Pleasure Trip (1916); The Man Whom Fate Sent (1916); Dorrits Eheglück (1916); The Bartered Bride (1916); The Tales of Hoffmann (1916); Imp (1915); Liebet die Männer (1915); Sugar and Spice (1915); Problematic Naturen (1915); chamber music (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); In the shade 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

Credits:

A Dark Room Secret (1917); A Love Case (1917); Beach of Dreams (1921); Blind Adventure (1933); Captain Salisbury's Ra-Mu (1929); Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927); Charlot, Charlot! (1919); Dr. Cyclops (1940); Eagle Squadron (1942); Gow in Gow (1931); Gow the Head Hunter (1928); Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925); Greed (1924); Her Fame and Shame (1917); Her Marble Heart (1916); Her Painted Hero (1915); Her Torpedoed Love (1917); His Widow's Might (1917); Hollywood Stuntmakers (1999); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005); King Kong (1933 / 2005); Léonard de Vinci: La manière moderne / Le documentaire culturel (2024); Long Lost Father (1934); Mighty Joe Young (1949 / 1998); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); Outlaws of the Orient (1937); Rango (1931); Son of Kong (1933); The Four Feathers (1929); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935); The Lost Empire (1929); The Monkey's Paw (1933); The Most Dangerous Game (1932); This Is Cinerama (1952); Trouble in Morocco (1937).

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 – Bo Carter:

Bo Carter

Blues musician

Songwriter

March 21, 1893 – September 21, 1964

Credits:

Albums:

Blue Comedy Bluesman (2023); Blues Essentials (1928-1950) (2012); Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks, Vol. Two (2012); Bo Carter Vol. 1 (1928 - 1931) (2005); Bo Carter Vol. 2 (1931 - 1934) (2005); Bo Carter, Bluer Than Blues (2012); Bo Carter, Vol. 5 (1938-1940) (2014); Bo Carter's Advice (2020); Instinctively the Blues - Bo Carter (2020); Banana in Your Fruit Basket (1978); Let Me Roll Your Lemon (2024); Policy Blues (2016); Policy Blues: Bo Carter 1931 – 1940 (2013); Presenting Bo Carter (1930); Pussy Cat Blues (2007); Reality (2009); Sorry Feeling Blues (2015); Twist and Shake (2018); Twist It Babe (1931-1940) (1992); Volume One (2012).

Movies and television:

8th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1974); A Star Is Born (2018); Ambros pur! II (2008); Aufgspuit! (2008); Bandstand (1961); Corrina, Corrina (1994); Dolezal Backstage (2016); Enlightened (2011); Glädjekällan (1993); Hollywood a Go Go (1965); I'm Not There (2007); Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007); Life (1999); Ranch Party (1958); Rhythm Round-Up (1945); Rockin' the Night Away (1988); The Blues (2003); The Buddy Holly Story (1978); The United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps Band (1944); The Year My Voice Broke (1987).

Born on this day – Mississippi John Hurt:

Mississippi John Hurt

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966

Credits:

Albums:

1928 Sessions (1979); Ain't Nobody's Business (2008); American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt (2017); Avalon (2018); Avalon Blues (2012); Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings (1996); Blues Essentials (2008); Blues Routes Mississippi John Hurt (2009); Bluesville Presents (2024); Candy Man (2009); Candy Man Blues (2019); Christian Hymns - Delta Blues (2018); Coffee Blues (1995); D.C. Blues - The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2 (2000); D.C. Blues: The Library of Congress Recordings, Volume 1 (2004); Discovery (2021); Folk Songs and Blues (1963); Frankie & Albert (2005); Got The Blues (Can't Be Satisfied) (2008); I'm Satisfied (2005); Last Sessions (1966); Legend (1997); Live (2002); Live Blue Notes (2015); Louis Collins (2015); Make Me A Pallet (1991); Mississippi John Hurt Memorial Anthology (1994); Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (2021); Rediscovered (1998); Remastered from the Archives (2018); Satisfied (1960); Spike Driver Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings (Bonus Track Version) (2016); Stack O' Lee (2019); Stack o' Lee Blues (2015); The Best Of (1971); The Candy Man (2017); The Complete Studio Recordings (2000); The Greatest Songsters: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, 1927-1929 (1990); The Immortal (2006); The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt (1967); The Library of Congress Sessions, July 1963 (2014); The Rough Guide to Mississippi John Hurt (2019); Today! (1966); Vanguard Visionaries (2007); Worried Blues (1964).

Songs:

Ain't No Tellin'; Avalon Blues; Avalon, My Home Town; Beulah Land; Big Leg Blues; Blue Harvest Blues; Boys, You're Welcome; Candy Man Blues; Coffee Blues; Corrinna, Corrinna; Goodnight Irene; Got the Blues; Hey, Honey, Right Away; Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight; If You Don’t Want Me, Baby; I'm Satisfied; Joe Turner Blues; Louis Collins; Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor; Monday Morning Blues; My Creole Belle; Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home; Praying on the Old Camp Ground; Richland Women Blues; Shortnin' Bread; Spanish Fandang; Spider, Spider; Spike Driver Blues; Stack O'Lee Blues; Stagolee; The Chicken; You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley.

Movies and television:

A Man Called Hurt: The Life and Music of Mississippi John Hurt (2024); A Rosewood Daydream (1970); American Epic (2017); Dead Season (2012); Deadwood (2004); Festival (1967); Field Day (2004); Following Sean (2005); Infinitely Polar Bear (2014); Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2013); Mr. Mercedes (2017–2018); P.O.V. (2007); Passage to Mars (2016); Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013); Shadrach (1998); Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021); The Blues (2003); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); The Natural History of the Chicken (2000); The Yellow Handkerchief (2008); This Hour Has Seven Days (1966); Two Trains Runnin' (2016); Walk the Line (2005); Welcome to the Basement (2015).