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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Born on this day – Edna Purviance:


Edna Purviance


Actress

October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958

Credits:

Limelight (1952); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Éducation de prince (1927); A Woman of the Sea (1926); A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Pay Day (1922); The Idle Class (1921); The Kid (1921); A Day's Pleasure (1919); Sunnyside (1919); How to Make Movies (1918); Shoulder Arms (1918); The Bond (1918); Triple Trouble (1918); A Dog's Life (1918); The Adventurer (1917); The Immigrant (1917); The Cure (1917); Easy Street (1917); The Rink (1916); Behind the Screen (1916); The Pawnshop (1916); The Count (1916); The Vagabond (1916); The Fireman (1916); The Floorwalker (1916); Police (1916); A Burlesque on Carmen (1915); A Night in the Show (1915); Shanghaied (1915); The Bank (1915); A Woman (1915); Work (1915); By the Sea (1915); The Tramp (1915); A Jitney Elopement (1915); In the Park (1915); The Champion (1915); A Night Out (1915).

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Born on this day – Evelyn Brent:


Evelyn Brent


Actress

October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975

Credits:

A Gentleman from Mississippi (1914); A Night of Mystery (1928); Again... Pioneers (1950); Alias Mary Flynn (1925); Attorney for the Defense (1932); Beau Sabreur (1928); Blind Alleys (1927); Border River (1919); Bowery Champs (1944); Broadway (1929); Broadway Lady (1925); Circus Jim (1921); Dangerous Lady (1941); Darkened Rooms (1929); Daughter of Shanghai (1937); Daughter of the Tong (1939); Daybreak (1918); Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941); Emergency Landing (1941); Fast Company (1929); Flame of the Argentine (1926); Fool's Gold (1919); Forbidden Cargo (1925); Forced Landing (1941); Framed (1930); Held to Answer (1923); Help! Help! Police! (1919); High Pressure (1932); His Tiger Wife (1928); Holt of the Secret Service (1941); Home on the Range (1935); Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936); In the River (1920); Interference (1928); It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) (1936); Jungle Jim (1937); King of Gamblers (1937); Lady Robinhood (1925); Laughter and Tears (1921); Life of St. Paul Series (1949); Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); Love's Greatest Mistake (1927); Loving Lies (1924); Madonna of the Streets (1930); Married to a Mormon (1922); Midnight Molly (1925); Mr. Wong, Detective (1938); My Husband's Wives (1924); Night Club Scandal (1937); Pagan Lady (1931); Pages of Life (1922); Panama Lady (1939); Paramount on Parade (1930); Playing with Fire (1916); Queen o' Diamonds (1926); Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917); Raiders of the South (1947); Robin Hood of Monterey (1947); Secret Orders (1926); Silent Witness (1943); Silk Stocking Sal (1924); Slightly Scarlet (1930); Smooth as Satin (1925); Song of the Trail (1936); Sonia (1921); Speed Limited (1935); Spy Train (1943); Stage Struck (1948); Sudden Bill Dorn (1937); Sybil (1921); Symphony of Living (1935); The Arizona Express (1924); The Crusader (1932); The Cyclone Rider (1924); The Dangerous Flirt (1924); The Desert Outlaw (1924); The Door That Has No Key (1921); The Dragnet (1928); The Experiment (1922); The Glorious Lady (1919); The Golden Eye (1948); The Heart of a Painted Woman (1915); The Impostor (1926); The Iron Will (1916); The Iron Woman (1916); The Jade Cup (1926); The Last Command (1928); The Last Train from Madrid (1937); The Law Divine (1920); The Law West of Tombstone (1938); The Lone Chance (1924); The Lure of Heart's Desire (1916); The Mad Empress (1939); The Mad Parade (1931); The Mating Call (1928); The Millionaire's Double (1917); The Nitwits (1935); The Other Man's Wife (1919); The Pay Off (1942); The Plunderer (1924); The President's Mystery (1936); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Shadow of the East (1924); The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915); The Showdown (1928); The Shuttle of Life (1920); The Silver Horde (1930); The Soul Market (1916); The Spanish Jade (1922); The Spell of the Yukon (1916); The Weakness of Strength (1916); The World Gone Mad (1933); Three Wise Crooks (1925); Tip-Off Girls (1938); To the Death (1917); Trapped by the Mormons (1922); Traveling Husbands (1931); Underworld (1927); Wagon Train (1960); Westward Ho! (1942); When Love Laughs (1915); Who's Your Neighbor? (1917); Why Bring That Up? (1929); Why Men Forget (1921); Wide Open Town (1941); Without Children (1935); Woman Trap (1929); Women's Wares (1927); Wrecking Crew (1942).

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Born on this day – Paul Wellman:


Paul Wellman


Writer

October 14, 1895 – September 17, 1966

Credits:

Books:

A Dynasty of Western Outlaws (1962); Angel with Spurs (1942); Broncho Apache (1936); Death in the Desert (1935); Death On Horseback (1947); Death On the Prairie (1956); Glory, God and Gold (1954); Gold in California (1958); Good Soldiers Do Die (1951); Jericho's Daughters (1956); Jubal Troop (1939); Magnificent Destiny (1962); Portage Bay (1957); Race to the Golden Spike (1961); Ride the Red Earth (1958); Spawn of Evil (1964); Stuart Symington (1960); The Blazing Southwest (1961); The Bowl of Brass (1944); The Buckstones (1967); The Chain (1950); The Comancheros (1954); The Devil's Disciples (1964); The Female City (1953); The Fiery Flower (1959); The Greatest Cattle Drive (1964); The House Divides (1966); The Indian Wars of the West (1947); The Iron Mistress (1951); The Trampling Herd (1939); The Walls of Jericho (1948).

Movies and television:

Apache (1954); Cheyenne (1947); Jubal (1956); McCoy of Abilene (1953); The Comancheros (1961); The Iron Mistress (1952); The Walls of Jericho (1948).

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Born on this day – Gladys Lloyd:


Gladys Lloyd


Actress

October 11, 1895 – June 6, 1971

Credits:

Clive of India (1935); Five Star Final (1931); Little Caesar (1931); Lust for Life (1956); Round About Hollywood (1931); Smart Money (1931); The Hatchet Man (1932); Two Seconds (1932).

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Born on this day – Benjamin Stoloff:


Benjamin Stoloff


Director

Producer

Production Manager

October 6, 1895 – September 8, 1960

Credits:

Home Run Derby (1960); Footlight Varieties (1951); It's a Joke, Son! (1947); Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946); Take It or Leave It (1944); Bermuda Mystery (1944); The Mysterious Doctor (1943); The Hidden Hand (1942); Secret Enemies (1942); Three Sons o' Guns (1941); The Great Mr. Nobody (1941); The Marines Fly High (1940); The Lady and the Mob (1939); The Affairs of Annabel (1938); Radio City Revels (1938); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Super-Sleuth (1937); Sea Devils (1937); Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936); Two in the Dark (1936); To Beat the Band (1935); Swellhead (1935); Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934); Palooka (1934); Night of Terror (1933); Obey the Law (1933); The Devil Is Driving (1932); The Night Mayor (1932); By Whose Hand? (1932); Destry Rides Again (1932); Just Pals (1932); Perfect Control (1932); Slide, Babe, Slide (1932); Goldie (1931); Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931); Soup to Nuts (1930); Rough Romance (1930); New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930); The Girl from Havana (1929); Happy Days (1929); Protection (1929); Speakeasy (1929); Mind Your Business (1928); The Bath Between (1928); Plastered in Paris (1928); Horseman of the Plains (1928); Silver Valley (1927); The Gay Retreat (1927); The Circus Ace (1927); The Canyon of Light (1926); It's a Pipe (1926); A1 Society (1926); Matrimony Blues (1926); The Mad Racer (1926); Pawnshop Politics (1926); The Fighting Tailor (1926); East Side, West Side (1925); The Heart Breaker (1925); Love and Lions (1925); Sweet Marie (1925); On the Go (1925); A High Jinx (1925); Papa's Darling (1925); Say It with Flour (1925); Help Yourself! (1925); The House of Flickers (1925); Lion Love (1925); Grief in Bagdad (1925); Roaring Lions at Home (1924); Stolen Sweeties (1924); In-Bad the Sailor (1924); Stretching the Truth (1924); When Wise Ducks Meet (1924); On the Job (1924); Be Yourself (1924); Highly Recommended (1924); Slow and Sure (1923); Full Speed Ahead (1923); Play Ball with Babe Ruth (1920).

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Born on this day – Buster Keaton:


Buster Keaton


Actor

Comedian

Director

Stuntman

October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 30 Years of Fun (1963); 4 Clowns (1970); A Country Hero (1917); A Desert Hero (1919); A Forbidden Orange (2021); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Reckless Romeo (1917); A Southern Yankee (1948); A Tribute to Lucy (1989); Alberto Mazarro: Desvesiculado (2025); All Star Summer Revue (1952); Allez Oop! (1934); America After Dark (1957); America at the Movies (1976); American Experience (2021); American Masters (1989–2000); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Astronogeek (2025); At the Circus (1939); Back Stage (1919); Bathing Beauty (1944); Battling Butler (1926); Beach Blanket Bingo (1965); Beer Commercials of the 50s & 60s (2015); Best of Buster Keaton (2024); Big Band Treasures (2008); Biography (1987–2004); Blue Blazes (1936); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes (2004); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Bollywood Hero (2009); Breath Death (1964); Broken Horses (2015); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); Burke's Law (1964); Buster Keaton and Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle (2002); Buster Keaton in Wildwest (1962); Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965); Buster Keaton, the Genius Destroyed by Hollywood (2016); Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987); Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts (2006); Buster Keaton: Head Over Heels in Hollywood (2008); Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face (1968); Buster se marie (1931); Buster's Bedroom (1991); Ça c'est du cinéma (1951); Calendar (1962); Camera Three (1970); Candid Camera (1962–1967); Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles (2005); Candid Camera's 50th Anniversary (1996); Casanova wider Willen (1931); Casanova wider Willen (1931); Catalogue of Ships (2008); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); Celebrity Time (1950–1952); Century of Cinema (1995); Character Studies (1927); Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (2020); Cinéphiles de notre temps (2012); Clapper Board (1976); College (1927); Columbia Laff Hour (1956); Compression (2023); Coney Island (1917); Convict 13 (1920); Cops (1922); Court-circuit (2010); Crazy Days (1962); Cynthia (1947); Dans les yeux de Johnny Depp (2022); Day Dreams (1922); De frente, marchen (1930); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Ditto (1937); Doughboys (1930); Duels (2016); Easy Go (2010); Easy to Wed (1946); Edge of Outside (2006); Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015); El moderno Barba Azul (1946); E-penser (2022–2025); Es darf gelacht werden (1962); Estrellados (1930); Excuse My Dust (1951); Fast Company (1938); Film (1965); Film Breaks (1999); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Flicker Flashbacks No. 3, Series 2 (1944); Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By (2021); Forever and a Day (1943); Four Star Revue (1950–1952); Fractured Flickers (1963); Free and Easy (1930); Funny Business (1992); Funny Show Part Two: The Video - Movie (2012); General Nuisance (1941); George Jessel Show (1958); Go West (1925 / 1940); God's Country (1946); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Good Night, Nurse! (1918); Grand Slam Opera (1936); Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Hard Luck (1921); Harold Lloyd: Hollywood's Timeless Comedy Genius (2017); Hayseed Romance (1935); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999); His Ex Marks the Spot (1940); His Wedding Night (1917); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Babylon (1971); Hollywood Cavalcade (1939); Hollywood Handicap (1938); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood in Spanien (1966); Hollywood on Parade (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Television (1949–1953); Hollywood Rivals (2001); Hollywood Rivals: Chaplin vs Keaton (2006); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (2004); Hypertelia (2015); I Dood It (1943); In the Good Old Summertime (1949); In the Good Old Summertime Intro (2004); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); It's Showtime (1976); I've Got a Secret (1952–1957); Jail Bait (1937); Jeopardy! (2004); June Night (2020); Kaleidoscope (2015); Keaton: The Great Stone Face (1982); La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935); La profondeur de champs (2017); Landesschau (1962); L'Art de Buster Keaton (2001); Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (2011); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2017); Le plombier amoureux (1932); Le roi des Champs-Élysées (1934); Legends (2008); Legends of Comedy (1993); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les Douze Glorieuses de Buster Keaton (2017); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Life Begins at Eighty (1954); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938); Life with Buster Keaton (1951); Lifetime of Comedy (1960); Li'l Abner (1940); Limelight (1952); L'incantevole nemica (1953); Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died (2022); Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938); Love Nest on Wheels (1937); Lucy and Desi (2022); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Magic with the Stars (1982); Make 'Em Laugh (1982); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Make the Connection (1955); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Matinee in New York (1952); Medicine Man (1962); Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! (2026); Mixed Magic (1936); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Mooching Through Georgia (1939); Moonage Daydream (2022); Moonshine (1918); Morir de humor (2008); Movie Star Commercials and Important Messages (1983); Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning (2004); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1963); Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007); Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (2022); My Wife's Relations (1922); Neighbors (1920); New Moon (1940); Nickelodeon Days (1962); Nordschau-Magazin (1962); Nothing But Pleasure (1940); Nothing But Trouble (1944); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Oh Buster, Where Art Thou? (2022); Oh Doctor! (1917); One Run Elmer (1935); One Week (1920); Our Hospitality (1923); Our Turn (2020); Out West (1918); Pajama Party (1964); Palooka from Paducah (1935); Paradise for Buster (1952); Pardon My Berth Marks (1940); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931); Pest from the West (1939); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pritzker Military Library Presents (2009); Producers' Showcase (1956); Quick Millions (1939); Return of the General (1962); Révolutions surréalistes (2024); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Route 66 (1962); Salute to Stan Laurel (1965); San Diego I Love You (1944); Savoring the Scarecrow: Or Buster & the Sybil Trilogy (2011); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Screen Snapshots (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots, Series 19, No. 6: Hollywood Recreations (1940); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 1 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 24, No. 9 (1945); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 15 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 5 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 30, No. 9: Hollywood Pie Throwers (1951); Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 1 (1924); Screen Snapshots, Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Seeing Stars (1922); Sergeant Dead Head (1965); Serling (2026); Seven Chances (1925); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); She Went to the Races (1945); Sherlock Jr. (1924); She's Oil Mine (1941); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Sidewalks of New York (1931); Silent Clowns (2006); Silver Rainbow (2009); Slaphappy (2001–2003); Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 4: Keaton, Arbuckle & St. John (1998); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Snarbuckled (2010); So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004); So You Won't Squawk? (1941); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Speak Easily (1932); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Spite Marriage (1929); Sprockets (1991); Stan Laurel Funeral (1965); Star of the Family (1950); Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025); Stars of the Silver Screen (2014); Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928); Streamlined Swing (1938); Stu's Show (2023); Sunday Showcase (1960); Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936); Sunset Boulevard (1950); Take It or Leave It (1944); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Tars and Stripes (1935); Telescope (1964); Televisión registrada (2012); Ten Girls Ago (1962); That Night with You (1945); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); That's the Spirit (1945); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Actor's Society Benefit Gala (1949); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); The Adventures of Mr. Pastry (1958); The All New Truth or Consequences (1963–1965); The Art of Action: Martial Arts in Motion Picture (2002); The Art of Buster Keaton (1995); The Arthur Murray Party (1951–1952); The Baby Cyclone (1928); The Balloonatic (1923); The Bell Boy (1918); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Betty White Show (1958); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Blacksmith (1922); The Boat (1921); The Buster Keaton Collector's Classic (1984); The Buster Keaton Show (1949–1951); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Butcher Boy (1917); The Cameraman (1928); The Chemist (1936); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Comic Kino-Eye (2013); The Cook (1918); The Dead Sullivan Show (2017); The Devil to Pay (1960); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Donna Reed Show (1958–1965); The Double-Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973); The Dreamers (2003); The Dunninger Show (1955); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950–1963); The Ed Wynn Show (1949–1950); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The E-Flat Man (1935); The Electric House (1922); The Fall Guy (1965); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Footage Detectives (2023); The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle (2005); The Frank Sinatra Show (1952); The Frozen North (1922); The Garage (1919); The Garry Moore Show (1958); The General (1926); The Giant Mechanical Man (2012); The Goat (1921); The Gold Ghost (1934); The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979); The Great Buster (2018); The Great Chase (1962); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Haunted House (1921); The Hayseed (1919); The 'High Sign' (1921); The Hollywood Clowns (1979); The Hollywood Palace (1964); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Home Owner (1961); The Image Book (2018); The Invader (1936); The Iron Mule (1925); The James Melton Show (1952); The Jerry Lewis Show (1963); The Jonathan Winters Specials (1965); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Ken Murray Show (1952); The Lovable Cheat (1949); The Love Nest (1923); The Man Who Bought Paradise (1965); The March of Time (1930); The March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 12: The Movies March On (1939); The Martha Raye Show (1956); The Misadventures of Buster Keaton (1950); The Navigator (1924); The New Bike (2009); The New Flesh (2024); The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962); The One Show (2011); The Paleface (1922); The Passionate Plumber (1932); The Play House (1921); The Railrodder (1965); The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021); The Red Skelton Hour (1951–1952); The Revlon Revue (1960); The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956); The Rough House (1917); The Round-up (1920); The Saphead (1920); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1951); The Scarecrow (1920); The Scribe (1966); The Secret Genius of Modern Life (2023); The Smelly Janitor (2008); The Sound of Laughter (1963); The Spook Speaks (1940); The Steve Allen Show (1956); The Stolen Jools (1931); The Sunday Spectacular: Show Biz from Vaudeville to Video (1955); The Taming of the Snood (1940); The Three Stooges Follies (1974); The Timid Young Man (1935); The Tonight Show (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958–1961); The Triumph of Lester Snapwell (1963); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940); The Voice of Hollywood (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 26 (1931); The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 (1930); The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988); This Is Show Business (1951); This Is Your Life (1957); Three Ages (1923); Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations (2010); Three on a Limb (1936); Tide of Empire (1929); Timeshift (2005); Today (1963); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Un duel à mort (1947); Walt Disney World 4th of July Spectacular (1988); War Italian Style (1965); Welcome to the Basement (2016); What-No Beer? (1933); What's My Line? (1951–1957); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When Comedy Was King (1960); White Rabbit (2011); Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931); Wonderful Times (1950); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); You Asked for It (1958); You Must Remember This (2015); You're My Everything (1949); Zaz: Prends garde à ta langue (2018).

Monday, September 14, 2026

Born on this day – Alfred Santell:


Alfred Santell


Director

Producer

September 14, 1895 – June 19, 1981

Credits:

A Bathtub Bandit (1917); A Day Out of Jail (1917); A Feather in Her Hat (1935); A Million for Mary (1916); A Misfit Millionaire (1917); A Studio Satire (1916); A Wild Night (1920); All at Sea (1922); Aloma of the South Seas (1941); As You Were (1919); At Swords' Point (1918); Babies Is Babies (1919); Bandit Beware! (1917); Beauty and the Feast (1923); Beloved Rogues (1917); Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942); Bill Settles Down (1918); Billy Van Deusen's Ancestry (1916); Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925); Bluff (1916); Body and Soul (1931); Bondage (1933); Breakfast for Two (1937); Breaking the Ice (1925); Bulls or Bullets (1917); But a Butler! (1922); Classified (1925); Cocoanut Grove (1938); Daddy Long Legs (1931); Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915); Doubles and Troubles (1917); Efficiency Experts (1917); Empty Hearts (1924); Fools in the Dark (1924); Hale and Hearty (1922); Hard Times in Hard Scrapple (1917); Having Wonderful Time (1938); High Flyers (1922); Home, James (1918); Internes Can't Take Money (1937); Introduce Me (1925); It Might Happen to You (1920); Jack London (1943); Just Another Blonde (1926); Lights Out (1923); Lonesome Town (1916); Main 1-2-3 (1918); Mexicana (1945); Monkeying Around (1923); My Mistake (1922); O, Susie Behave (1918); Oh, Baby! (1920); One Lovely Night (1919); Only a Husband (1923); Orchids and Ermine (1927); Our Leading Citizen (1939); Out of the Bag (1917); Parisian Nights (1925); People Will Talk (1935); Pills for Papa (1920); Pink Pajamas (1918); Politics in Pumpkin Center (1917); Polly of the Circus (1932); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932); Rented Trouble (1922); Rings and Things (1920); Romance of the Rio Grande (1929); Seaside Romeos (1917); Seeing Things (1919); Show Girl (1928); Sob Sister (1931); Some Job (1918); Stop, Cease, Hesitate (1919); Subway Sadie (1926); Sweet Daddies (1926); Tess of the Storm Country (1932); That Brennan Girl (1946); The Arizona Kid (1930); The Arkansas Traveler (1938); The Bogus Bride (1917); The Boot and the Loot (1917); The Dancer of Paris (1926); The Deadly Doughnut (1917); The Gilded Youth (1917); The Gorilla (1927); The Hairy Ape (1944); The Hobo Raid (1917); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928); The Magic Jazz-Bo (1917); The Man Who Played Square (1924); The Marriage Whirl (1925); The New Mama (1922); The Onion Magnate's Revenge (1917); The Patent Leather Kid (1927); The Pork Plotters (1916); The Pursuing Package (1918); The Right to Romance (1933); The Sea Wolf (1930); The Stolen Keyhole (1918); The Switching Hour (1924); The Three Pals (1916); Thirty Minutes in Havana (1920); This Is Heaven (1929); Tin Knights in a Hallroom (1923); Twin Beds (1929); Two Tired (1919); Vamping the Vamp (1918); West Is East (1923); Wheel of Chance (1928); When Adam Had 'Em (1916); Whirlwind of Whiskers (1917); Wildcat Jordan (1922); Winner Take All (1923); Winterset (1936).

Monday, August 24, 2026

Born on this day – Victor Halperin:


Victor Halperin


Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

August 24, 1895 – May 17, 1983

Credits:

Bachelor Bait (1934); Buried Alive (1939); Convoy (1927); Dance Magic (1927); Double Reward (1922); Ex-Flame (1930); Girls' Town (1942); Greater Than Marriage (1924); I Conquer the Sea! (1936); In Borrowed Plumes (1926); Nation Aflame (1937); Party Girl (1930); Racing Blood (1936); Revolt of the Zombies (1936); School for Wives (1925); She Goes to War (1929); Supernatural (1933); Tea: With a Kick! (1923); The Danger Point (1922); The Lone Star Trail (1943); The Unknown Lover (1925); Torture Ship (1939); Underseas (2018); When a Girl Loves (1924); White Zombie (1932).

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Born on this day – W. Howard Greene (1956):


W. Howard Greene


Cinematographer

August 16, 1895 – February 28, 1956

Credits:

Meet Mrs. Swenson (1956); Three for Jamie Dawn (1956); The Violent Men (1955); Man-Made Miracles (1954); Of Men and Molecules (1954); Gun Belt (1953); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953); The Brigand (1952); It's Only the Beginning (1951); When Worlds Collide (1951); Quebec (1951); Oklahoma (1951); High Lonesome (1950); The Big Cat (1949); Tycoon (1947); Pirates of Monterey (1947); Slave Girl (1947); Night in Paradise (1946); Salome, Where She Danced (1945); Can't Help Singing (1944); The Climax (1944); Gypsy Wildcat (1944); Cobra Woman (1944); It's All True (1943); The Story of Samba (1943); Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1943); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Salute to the Marines (1943); The Jungle Book (1942); The Shepherd of the Hills (1941); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); North West Mounted Police (1940); The Bill of Rights (1939); Jesse James (1939); The Declaration of Independence (1938); Men with Wings (1938); Nothing Sacred (1937); Little Pioneer (1937); A Star Is Born (1937); Under Southern Stars (1937); Give Me Liberty (1936); The Garden of Allah (1936); Changing of the Guard (1936); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936); Kliou, the Killer (1935); Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935); Hollywood Beauty Hints (1932); Sports of Many Lands (1929); West of the Golden Gate (1929); When Dreams Come True (1928); Springtime of Love (1927).

Born on this day – Liane Haid:


Liana Haid


Actress

August 16, 1895 – November 28, 2000

Credits:

The Five Rabbits (1953); The Imperfect Love (1940); Peter in the Snow (1937); Who kisses last... (1936); Mozart (1936); dance music (1935); The Trip to Youth (1935); An Evening Visit (1934); At the Blond Katherine's (1934); No Fear of Love (1933); The Castle in the South (1933); Her Serene Highness, the Saleswoman (1933); Novel einer Nacht (1933); The Star of Valencia (1933); Sag' mir, wer Du bist (1933); Police file 909 (1933); A Woman Like You (1933); Madame Wants No Children (1933); The Diamond of the Tsar (1932); I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are (1932); The Prince of Arcadia (1932); Madame hat Ende (1931); Die Männer um Lucie (1931); Mu Cousin from Warsaw (1931); Opera Ball (1931); Grock in Grock (1931); Circus Leben (1931); Kaiserliebchen (1931); Petit officier... Adieu! (1930); The Song Is Ended (1930); Twice Wedding (1930); The Immortal Scoundrel (1930); Black Forest Girl (1929); Spiel um den Mann (1929); S.O.S. Ship in Distress (1929); Der Weiberkrieg (1928); Marquis d'Eon, the Spy of the Pompadour (1928); Vienna, City of My Dreams (1928); Two Red Roses (1928); The Lady in Black (1928); Die Csardasfürstin (1927); The Dollar Princess and Her Six Suitors (1927); The Golden Abyss (1927); The last waltz (1927); The White Slave (1927); Die Czardasfürstin (1927); The dashing Archduke (1927); The Son of Hannibal (1926); When I Came Back (1926); Im weißen Rößl (1926); The Provincial Uncle (1926); Two Brothers (1926); Love Fire (1925); The Island of Dreams (1925); I Love You (1925); A Woman's Secret (1924); Bride of Vengeance (1923) Der Pantoffelheld (1923); Schlagende Wetter (1923); Lucrezia Borgia (1922); Money on the Street (1922); The Money on the Street (1922); Lady Hamilton (1921); The Novel of a Maid (1921); The films of the Princess Fantoche (1921); The Woman in White (1921); Sein Lebenslicht (1921); Doctor Ruhland (1920); Snowy (1920); Eve, the Sin (1920); Der Leiermann (1920); The Voice of Conscience (1920); The Dancing Death (1920); Rejoice in life (1920); Durch Wahrheit zum Narren (1920); Let the little ones come to me (1920); Der Herr des Lebens (1920); Die Ahnfrau (1919); So Fall the Lots of Life (1918); The King Amuses Himself (1918); The Double Suicide (1918); Der Schandfleck (1917); Der Verschwender (1917); Mir kommt keiner aus (1917); Lebenswogen (1917); On der Höhe (1916); Die Tragödie auf Schloss Rottersheim (1916); The Tramps (1916); Mit Gott für Kaiser und Reich (1916); Sommeridylle (1916); With heart and Hand fürs Vaterland (1915).

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Born on this day – Sam Taylor:



Sam Taylor


Director

Writer

Producer

August 13, 1895 – March 6, 1958

Credits:

A Lunch Room Legacy (1916); A Pair of Sexes (1921); A Sailor-Made Man (1921); Ambassador Bill (1931); Among Those Present (1921); Coquette (1929); Counting Out the Count (1916); Devil's Lottery (1932); Dr. Jack (1922); Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930); Exit Smiling (1926); For Heaven's Sake (1926); Funny Side of Life (1963); Girl Shy (1924); Grandma's Boy (1922); Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection: Mini Biographies (2005); Her Great Invention (1916); Hot Water (1924); Human Collateral (1920); I Do (1921); In Honor's Web (1919); Juggling Justice (1916); Kiki (1931); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Lady of the Pavements (1929); Married Bachelor (1941); My Best Girl (1927); Never Weaken (1921); Nothing But Trouble (1944); Now or Never (1921); Out All Night (1933); Over the Garden Wall (1919); Princess Jones (1921); Safety Last! (1923); Setting the Fashion (1916); Skyline (1931); Tempest (1928); The Artful Dodger (1916); The Cat's-Paw (1934); The Freshman (1925); The Gamblers (1919); The Gray Towers Mystery (1919); The Midnight Bride (1920); The Mohican's Daughter (1922); The Quack Quakers (1916); The Taming of the Shrew (1929); The Woman Disputed (1928); The Wrecked Station (1917); Vagabond Lady (1935); Why Worry? (1923).

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Born on this day – Gracie Allen:


Gracie Allen


Vaudevillian

Singer

Actress

Comedian

July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964

Credits:

100% Service (1931); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); 5th Annual TV Academy Hall of Fame (1989); A Damsel in Distress (1937); American Masters (1997–2017); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Biography (2002); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); Classic Stand-Up Comedy of Television (1996); Climax! (1956); College Holiday (1936); College Humor (1933); College Swing (1938); Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest (1995); Fit to Be Tied (1930); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Here Comes Cookie (1935); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 (1932); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Honolulu (1939); International House (1933); Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970); Lambchops (1929); Larry King Live (2003); Legends of Comedy (1992); Let's Dance (1933); Love in Bloom (1935); Many Happy Returns (1934); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); Murphy Brown (1989); Oh, My Operation (1931); Olympic Fund Telethon (1952); Once Over, Light (1931); Our World (1987); Patents Pending (1932); Paul Henning & The Hillbillies (2005); Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Pioneers of Primetime (1995); Pioneers of Television (2014); Pulling a Bone (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 33, No. 10: Hollywood Grows Up (1954); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Shower of Stars (1955); Six of a Kind (1934); Stars in the Eye (1952); Startime (1959); Stu's Show (2023); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The 8th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1956); The Actor's Society Benefit Gala (1949); The Antique Shop (1931); The Babbling Book (1932); The Big Broadcast (1932); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Bob Cummings Show (1957); The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957); The Factor (2008); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame (1993); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939); The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Great Standups (1984); The History of Comedy (2017); The Hollywood Palace (1982); The Jack Benny Program (1952–1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957); The World Our Stage (1957); This Is Your Life (1955); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Walking the Baby (1933); We're Not Dressing (1934); What's My Line? (1954); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Your Hat (1932).

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Born on this day – Aileen Pringle:


Aileen Pringle


Actress

July 23, 1895 – December 16, 1989

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); A Kiss in the Dark (1925); A Single Man (1929); A Thief in Paradise (1925); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); Adam and Evil (1927); Appointment for Love (1941); Beau Broadway (1928); Between Us Girls (1942); Body and Soul (1927); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951); By Appointment Only (1933); Calling Dr. Kildare (1939); Camille (1926); Convicted (1931); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Don't Marry for Money (1923); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Dream of Love (1928); Earthbound (1920); Happy Land (1943); His Hour (1924); Hollywood Guests at San Simeon (Hearst Castle);  (1931); In the Palace of the King (1923); Jane Eyre (1934); John Meade's Woman (1937); Laura (1944); Life in Hollywood No. 4 / 7 (1927); Love Past Thirty (1934); Man-Proof (1938); Married Flirts (1924); Murder at Midnight (1931); My American Wife (1922); Name the Man! (1924); Night Parade (1929); Nothing Sacred (1937); Oath-Bound (1922); Once to Every Bachelor (1934); One Year to Live (1925); Piccadilly Jim (1936); Police Court (1932); Prince of Diamonds (1930); Puttin' on the Ritz (1930); Screen Snapshots No. 2 (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930); She's No Lady (1937); Should a Girl Marry? (1939); Show People (1928); Since You Went Away (1944); Soldiers and Women (1930); Sons of Steel (1934); Soul Mates (1925); Souls for Sale (1923); Stolen Moments (1920); Subway Express (1931); Tea for Three (1927); Telephone Time (1956); Thanks for Listening (1937); The Age of Consent (1932); The Baby Cyclone (1928); The Bride's Bereavement; or, the Snake in the Grass (1932); The Christian (1923); The Cost (1920); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); The Great Deception (1926); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); The Mystic (1925); The Night of Nights (1939); The Phantom of Crestwood (1932); The Sport of Kings (1920); The Strangers' Banquet (1922); The Tiger's Claw (1923); The Unguarded Hour (1936); The Wife of the Centaur (1924); The Wilderness Woman (1926); The Women (1939); The Youngest Profession (1943); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); Three Weeks (1924); Tin Gods (1926); Too Hot to Handle (1938); True As Steel (1924); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Wall Street (1929); Wanted! Jane Turner (1936); Wickedness Preferred (1928); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); Wildfire (1925).

Born on this day – Florence Vidor:


Florence Vidor


Actress

July 23, 1895 – November 3, 1977

Credits:

A Heart in Pawn (1919); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1920); A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920); Afraid to Love (1927); Alice Adams (1923); American Methods (1917); Are Parents People? (1925); Barbara Frietchie (1924); Beau Revel (1921); Bill Peter's Kid (1916); Borrowed Husbands (1924); Chinatown Nights (1929); Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924); Conquering the Woman (1922); Curfew at Simpton Center (1916); Doomsday (1928); Dusk to Dawn (1922); Grounds for Divorce (1925); Hail the Woman (1921); Hashimura Togo (1917); Honeymoon Hate (1927); Husbands and Lovers (1924); Lying Lips (1921); Main Street (1923); Marry Me (1925); Old Wives for New (1918); One Woman to Another (1927); Poor Relations (1919); Real Adventure (1922); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 19 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 2 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 11 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 2 (1922); Sea Horses (1926); Skin Deep (1922); Souls for Sale (1923); The Bravest Way (1918); The Cook of Canyon Camp (1917); The Countess Charming (1917); The Eagle of the Sea (1926); The Enchanted Hill (1926); The Family Honor (1920); The Girl of Gold (1925); The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926); The Hidden Pearls (1918); The Honor of His House (1918); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Intrigue (1916); The Jack-Knife Man (1920); The Magnificent Flirt (1928); The Marriage Circle (1924); The Mirage (1924); The Other Half (1919); The Patriot (1928); The Popular Sin (1926); The Secret Game (1917); The Trouble with Wives (1925); The Virginian (1923); The White Man's Law (1918); The Widow's Might (1918); The World at Her Feet (1927); The Yellow Girl (1916); Till I Come Back to You (1918); Welcome Stranger (1924); Woman, Wake Up (1922); You Never Know Women (1926).

Friday, July 17, 2026

Born on this day – Connie Gilchrist:


Connie Gilchrist


Actress

July 17, 1895 – March 3, 1985

Credits:

A House Is Not a Home (1964); A Letter to Three Wives (1949); A Really Important Person (1947); A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950); A Tiger Walks (1964); A Woman's Face (1941); Act of Violence (1948); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962); Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944); Apache Trail (1942); Arrest and Trial (1963); Auntie Mame (1958); Bachelor Father (1960–1962); Bad Bascomb (1946); Barnacle Bill (1941); Big City (1948); Billy the Kid (1941); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1966); Born to Sing (1942); Buccaneer's Girl (1950); Chain of Circumstance (1951); Chicken Every Sunday (1949); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Daniel Boone (1965); Down in San Diego (1941); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941); Faithful in My Fashion (1946); Flesh and Fury (1952); Fluffy (1965); Further Adventures of Spin and Marty (1956); General Electric Theater (1960–1961); Going My Way (1962–1963); Good News (1947); Grand Central Murder (1942); H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Here Comes the Groom (1951); Houdini (1953); Hullabaloo (1940); Important Business (1944); It Should Happen to You (1954); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956–1958); Johnny Eager (1941); Junior Miss (1945); Leave It to Beaver (1957); Little Women (1949); Lock Up (1960); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Louisa (1950); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Luxury Liner (1948); M Squad (1960); Machine-Gun Kelly (1958); Married Bachelor (1941); Mr. Novak (1963); Music for Millions (1944); Nothing But Trouble (1944); One Big Affair (1952); Our Man Higgins (1963); Patrolling the Ether (1944); Peggy (1950); Perry Mason (1964–1966); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Rationing (1944); Sam Benedict (1962); Say One for Me (1959); Some Came Running (1958); Some Kind of a Nut (1969); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Stars in My Crown (1950); Sunday Punch (1942); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); Swingin' Along (1961); Sylvia (1965); Telephone Time (1956); Tenth Avenue Angel (1948); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1957); The Adventures of Long John Silver (1956–1957); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Bob Cummings Show (1962); The Bride Goes Wild (1948); The Danny Thomas Show (1957); The F.B.I. (1965–1968); The Far Country (1954); The Fugitive (1964); The Great Diamond Robbery (1954); The Half-Breed (1952); The Heavenly Body (1944); The Hucksters (1947); The Interns (1962); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1957); The Loretta Young Show (1954); The Magical World of Disney (1966–1967); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964); The Monkey's Uncle (1965); The Real McCoys (1961); The Restless Gun (1957–1958); The Seventh Cross (1944); The Story of Molly X (1949); The Tall Man (1961); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The Valley of Decision (1945); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); The Wild Man of Borneo (1941); This Time for Keeps (1942); Thunder on the Hill (1951); Tickle Me (1965); Tortilla Flat (1942); Tripoli (1950); Two on a Guillotine (1965); Undercover Girl (1950); Up Goes Maisie (1946); Wagon Train (1960); Waterfront (1955); We Were Dancing (1942); Westinghouse Playhouse (1961); Young Widow (1946).

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Born on this day – Dorothea Lange:


Dorothea Lange


Photographer

May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965

Credits:

Books:

A Sky; An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion; Aperture Masters of Photography Series; Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman: A Photographic Essay; Dorothea Lange. Ediz. Inglese; Dorothea Lange: 500 FSA Photographs; Dorothea Lange: Life Through the Camera; Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum; Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer; Dorothea Lange's Ireland; Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment; Photographing the Second Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and the East Bay at War, 1941-1945; Photographs of a Lifetime; Photographs of Dorothea Lange; The Making of a Documentary Photographer; The Thunderbird Remembered: Maynard Dixon, the Man and the Artist; To a Cabin.

Television:

American Masters (2014); Dust to Eat (2021); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit (2007).

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Born on this day – George W. Hill:


George W. Hill


Director

Cinematographer

April 25, 1895 – August 10, 1934

Credits:

Big House (1931); Buckshot John (1915); Burning Daylight: The Adventures of ‘Burning Daylight’ in Civilization (1914); Buttons (1927); Buttons (1927); Clear All Wires! (1933); Fields of Honor (1918); Get Your Man (1921); Held Up for the Makin’s (1920); Hell Divers (1931); His Picture in the Papers (1916); Hypocrites (1915); Intolerance (1916); Less Than the Dust (1916); Macbeth (1916); Martin Eden (1914); Mary Ellen Comes to Town (1920); Min and Bill (1930); Our Little Wife (1918); Polly of the Circus (1917); Pretty Mrs. Smith (1915); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Sunshine Alley (1917); Tell It to the Marines (1926); The Barrier (1926); The Beloved Traitor (1918); The Big House (1930); The Big Parade (1925); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Caprices of Kitty (1915); The Cinderella Man (1917); The Cossacks (1928); The Flying Fleet (1929); The Flying Torpedo (1916); The Foolish Virgin (1924); The Good Earth (1937); The Hill Billy (1924); The Limited Mail (1925); The Midnight Express (1924); The Painted Veil (1934); The Pursuit of the Phantom (1914); The Sea Wolf (1913); The Secret 6 (1931); The Waiting Soul (1917); Through the Dark (1924); Turning the Tables (1919); While the Devil Laughs (1921); Zander the Great (1925).

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Born on this day – Ngaio Marsh:


Ngaio Marsh


Writer

Theatre director

April 23, 1895 – February 18, 1982

Written work:

A Fool about Money (1973); A Knotty Problem / Bodies from the Library: Volume 3 (2020); A Man Lay Dead (1934); A National Theatre (1949); A Play Toward (1946); An Author's Defence of the Hackneyed Classics (1949); Artists in Crime (1938); Black As He's Painted (1974); Black Beech and Honeydew (19651981); Chapter and Verse: The Little Copplestone Mystery (1974); Clutch of Constables (1968); Colour Scheme (1943); Columbine and Pantaloon (1919); Dead Water (1963); Death and the Dancing Footman (1941); Death at the Bar (1940); Death at the Dolphin (1966); Death in a White Tie (1938); Death in Ecstasy (1936); Death on the Air (1937); Died in the Wool (1945); Enter a Murderer (1935); Evil Liver (1975); Exit Sir Derek by Henry Jellett (1935); False Scent (1959); Final Curtain (1947); Grave Mistake (1978); Hand in Glove (1962); I Can Find My Way Out (1946); Last Ditch (1977); Light Thickens (1982); Little House Bound (1924); Marie Tempest by Hector Bolitho (1937); Money in the Morgue (2018); Moonshine / aka Yours and Mine: Stories by Young New Zealanders (1936); Morepork (1979); Mrs 'obson (1914); My Poor Boy (1959); New Zealand (1942); New Zealand: Welfare Paradise (1960); Noel (1912); Off With His Head (1956); Opening Night (1951); Overture to Death (1939); Photo Finish (1980); Scales of Justice (1955); Singing in the Shrouds (1958); Singing Land (1974); Slipknot (1967); So Much for Nothing (1921); Speech of New Zealanders (1939); Spinsters in Jeopardy (1953); Stratford-upon-Avon (1967); Surfeit of Lampreys (1941); Swing Brother Swing (1949); The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh / aka Death on the Air and Other Stories (1995); The Cupid Mirror (1972); The Development of the Arts in New Zealand / Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts (1951); The Figure Quoted (1927); The Gift (1920); The Hand in the Sand (1953); The Hawthorn Gate (1920); The Moon Princess (1913); The Night Train from Grey (1919); The Novelist's Problem (1934); The Nursing Home Murder (1935); The Quick Forge (1964); The Wyvern and the Unicorn (1962); Theatre in a Young Country (1951); Theatre: A Note on the Status Quo (1947); Tied Up in Tinsel (1972); Vintage Murder / aka The Case of the Greenstone Tiki (1937); When in Rome (1970).

Movies and television:

Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994); Colour Scheme (1977); Crown Court (1975); Detective (1964–1968); Died in the Wool (1978); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1951); Opening Night (1977); Poslední opona (1965); Smrt s fotografiou (1988); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960); Vintage Murder (1977).

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Born on this day – Mance Lipscomb:


Mance Lipscomb


Blues singer

Guitarist

April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976

Credits:

Albums:

Captain, Captain! (1996); Mama Don't Allow (1996); Navasota (2021); So Different Blues (1993); Texas Sharecropper and Songster (1960); Texas Songster: Volume 2 (1964); Trouble in Mind (1969); Vol. 4 (1967); Vol. 5: Texas Blues and 3 Other Songs (1970); Volume 6 (1974).

Movies and television:

A Well-Spent Life (1971); Blues Under the Skin (1973); Singin' the Yodeling Blues (1983); The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970); The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996).

Book:

I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman (1993).