Born on this day – Vivienne Osborne:

Vivienne Osborne

Actress

December 10, 1896 – June 10, 1961

Born on this day – Stuart Heisler:

Stuart Heisler

Director

Editor

December 5, 1896 – August 21, 1979

Born on this day – Alfred L. Werker:

Alfred L. Werker

Director

Producer

December 2, 1896 – July 28, 1975

Born on this day – Jessie Royce Landis:

Jessie Royce Landis

Actress

November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972

Credits:

A Night with the Stars (1950); A Private's Affair (1959); Actor's Studio (1949); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Airport (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953–1955); Art Carney Special (1960); At Your Service (1930); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Bon Voyage! (1962); Boys' Night Out (1962); Climax! (1956); Columbo (1971); Critic's Choice (1963); Derelict (1930); Gidget Goes to Rome (1963); Goodbye Again (1961); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987); Here's Hollywood (1962); I Married a Woman (1958); Ironside (1969–1971); It Happens Every Spring (1949); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1953); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1960); Larger Than Life (1952); Les Chroniques du Mea (2022); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950); Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971); Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949); My Foolish Heart (1949); My Man Godfrey (1957); NET Playhouse (1970); North by Northwest (1959); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The Magical World of Disney (1970); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Swan (1956); The Web (1953); Thriller (1960); To Catch a Thief (1955); Tonight at 8:30 / Segment: Ways and Means (1952); Valentine's Day (1965).

Born on this day – Margery Wilson:

Margery Wilson

Actress

Director

Producer

Writer

October 31, 1896 – January 21, 1986

Credits:

A Corner in Colleens (1916); A Dark Horse (1915); A Woman of Nerve (1915); Bred in the Bone (1915); Crooked Straight (1919); Desert Gold (1919); Double Trouble (1915); Eye of the Night (1916); Flooey and Axel (1915); For the Honor of Bettina (1915); Insinuation (1922); Intolerance (1916); Jane Eyre (1914); Marked Cards (1918); Mountain Dew (1917); Old Love for New (1918); That Something (1920); The Bankhurst Mystery (1915); The Blooming Angel (1920); The Bride of Hate (1917); The Charcoal-Burner's Son (1939); The Clodhopper (1917); The Deadly Focus (1915); The Desert Man (1917); The Fatal Hour (1915); The Flames of Chance (1918); The Gunfighter (1917); The Hand at the Window (1918); The Hard Rock Breed (1918); The Honorable Algy (1916); The House of Whispers (1920); The Last of the Ingrams (1917); The Law of the Great Northwest (1918); The Lucky Transfer (1915); The Man of It (1915); The Mother Instinct (1917); The Offenders (1924); The Opal Pin (1915); The Primal Lure (1916); The Return of Draw Egan (1916); The Showdown (1915); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Sin Ye Do (1916); The Stab (1915); The Ten O'Clock Boat (1915); The Way of a Mother (1915); Two of a Kind (1920); Unwinding It (1915); Venus in the East (1919); Why Not Marry? (1922); Wild Sumac (1917); Without Honor (1918); Wolf Lowry (1917).

Born on this day – Ethel Waters:

Ethel Waters

Singer

Actress

October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977

Born on this day – Ruth Gordon:

Ruth Gordon

Actress

Writer

October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); A Double Life (1947); A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010); Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Adam's Rib (1949 / 1973); American Masters (1987 / 2011); Any Which Way You Can (1980); Blithe Spirit (1966); Boardwalk (1979); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Camille (1915); Cineficción Radio (2020); Columbo (1977); Delta Pi (1984); Donahue (1975); Don't Go to Sleep (1982); Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940); Edge of Darkness (1943); Emergency! (1976); Every Which Way But Loose (1978); Film '80 (1980); Flip (1971); Good Morning America (1976–1979); Hal (2018); Hardhat and Legs (1980); Harold and Maude (1971); Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004); Information Please: Series 1, No. 8 (1940); Information Please: Series 2, No. 2 (1940); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Isn't It Shocking? (1973); Jimmy the Kid (1982); Kojak (1975); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976); Looks Familiar (1980); Lord Love a Duck (1966); Madame Butterfly (1915); Maxie (1985); Medical Story (1975); Mia and Roman (1968); My Bodyguard (1980); Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982); Newhart (1983–1984); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Over 21 (1945); Pat and Mike (1952); Patti Smith, la poésie du punk (2022); Perfect Gentlemen (1978); Person to Person (1959); RHEMA: Combine Man (1984); Rhoda (1975); Rosemary's Baby (1968); Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective (2000); Rosie! (1967); Saturday Night Live (1977); Scavenger Hunt (1979); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Subaru BRAT Superbowl TV Comemrcial with Ruth Gordon (1982); Taxi (1979); That Was the Year That Was – 1976 (1976); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); That's Life (1979); The 38th Annual Academy Awards (1966); The 41st Annual Academy Awards (1969); The 6th People's Choice Awards (1980); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The Actress (1953); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Big Bus (1976); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1978); The DuPont Show of the Month (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The Ford Theatre Hour (1948); The Great Houdini (1976); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The John Davidson Show (1982); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Love Boat (1977); The Marrying Kind (1952); The Matchmaker (1954); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1980); The Movies (2019); The Prince of Central Park (1977); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); The Secret World of the Very Young (1984); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1977); The Trouble with Spies (1987); The Whirl of Life (1915); This Is Your Life (1971); Tom Cottle: Up Close (1983); Two-Faced Woman (1941); Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984); Welcome to the Basement (2015); What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969); Where's Poppa? (1970).

Born on this day – Lilyan Tashman:

Lilyan Tashman

Actress

October 23, 1896 – March 21, 1934

Born on this day – Suzy Prim:

Suzy Prim

Actress

October 11, 1896 – July 7, 1991

Born on this day – Julien Duvivier:

Julien Duvivier

Director

Writer

October 8, 1896 – October 29, 1967

Born on this day – F. Scott Fitzgerald:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writer

September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940

Credits:

Books:

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015); 40 Short Stories (2004); A Short Trip Home (1927); A Treasury of Civil War Stories (1991); All of the Belles (2020); All the Sad Young Men (1926); American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009); Babylon Revisited (2023); Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories (2019); Black Water 2 (1990); Classic Works (2018); Flappers and Philosophers (1920); Golden Age Whodunits (2024); I'd Die for You (2017); Parties (2020); Spires and Gargoyles (2010); Tales of the Jazz Age (1922); Taps at Reveille (1935); Tender Is the Night (1934); The Beautiful and Damned (1922); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008); The Best of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2021); The Complete Fitzgerald Collection (2019); The Crack-up (1945); The Cruise of the Rolling Junk (1924); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (2020); The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922); The Fantasy and Mystery Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald (1991); The Great Gatsby & Related Stories (2023); The Great Gatsby (1925); The Great Gatsby and Other Classic Works (2021); The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920 - 26 (2022); The Jelly-Bean (1920); The Last Tycoon / aka The Love of the Last Tycoon (1970); The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1964); The Love Boat and Other Stories (2019); The Moonlight Traveller (1949); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Pat Hobby Stories (1962); The Platform Edge (2019); The Popular Girl (2005); The Popular Girl (2018); The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951); This Side of Paradise (1920); Vampires, Wine and Roses (1997); White Fire (1991).

Movies and television:

A Curious World (2016); A Yank at Oxford (1938); American Playhouse (1984); Armchair Theatre (1959); Az édenen innen és túl (1971); Berenika (1995); Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976 / 2015); Biography (1997); Bookmark (1988); Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988); Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990); Climax! (1955); Contretemps (2007); Curtain Call (1952); Duels (2016); Einer meiner ältesten Freunde (1994); Ernest Hemingway, quatre mariages et un enterrement (2021); Everything Happens at Night (1939); F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'the Last of the Belles' (1974); F. Scott Fitzgerald's Head and Shoulders (2014); Fate's Shadow (2019); Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story (2021); Frankly Speaking: A Conversation with Frank Howson (2012); Front Row Center (1955–1956); Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story (2020); Gatsby: The Movie... Kind Of (2016); Grit (1924); Hemingway (2021); Honeymoon in Bali (1939); I riassuntini (2020); Indiánské léto (1995); Izmedju dva aviona (1964); Kraft Theatre (1955–1958); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1952); La France en face (2013); Look Up and Live (1958); Lux Video Theatre (1952); Marie Antoinette (1938); Million Dollar American Princesses (2016); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); New York: A Documentary Film (1999); Perfidi incanti / Segment: Il Viaggio (1985); Playhouse 90 (1957–1958); Ponds Theater (1954); Project Twenty (1956); Pusher-in-the-Face (1929); Raffles (1939); Red-Headed Woman (1932); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951–1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Star Tonight (1956); Starlight Theatre (1950–1951); Suspense (1953); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (1987); Taví zadok (1979); Teletale (1963); Tender Is the Night (1962 / 1985); The Beautiful and Damned (1922 / 2009); The Bridal Party - F. S. Fitzgerald (2021); The Chorus Girl's Romance (1920); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); The Dashing Mr. Lowell (2012); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Glimpses of the Moon (1923); The Great Gatsby (1926 / 1949 / 1974 / 2000 / 2013); The Great Gatsby Live Read! (2021); The Husband Hunter (1920); The Jazz Age (1968); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954); The Last Tycoon (1976); The Last Tycoon / TV series (2016–2017); The Lost Decade (2012); The Off-Shore Pirate (1921); The Offshore Pirate (2013); The Sensible Thing (1996); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Women (1939); Three Comrades (1938); To theatro tis Defteras (1977); Winter Carnival (1939); Zelig (1983).

Born on this day – Denise Grey:

Denise Grey

Actress

September 17, 1896 – January 13, 1996

Credits:

A Fine Romance (1991); À la folie, pas du tout (1987); À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957); Adieu Léonard (1943); Allô... je t'aime (1952); An Angel on Wheels (1959); Antenne 2 Midi (1987); April Fools' Day (1954); Art. 519 codice penale (1952); Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1984); Avis de recherche (1988); Bell' Antonio (1960); Boléro (1942); Bomben auf Monte Carlo (1960); Bonheur en location (1949); Boulevard des faits divers: 65-66 (1966); Carré de valets (1947); Carve Her Name with Pride (1958); Castles in Spain (1954); C'est la faute d'Adam (1958); Champs-Elysées (1982–1988); Chéri (1962); Coïncidences (1947); Demain nous divorçons (1951); Des jeunes filles dans la nuit (1943); Devil in the Flesh (1947); En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger (1983); En famille (1915); Entrez sans frapper (1972); Escalier de service (1954); Et dix de der (1948); Étrange destin (1946); Fan des années 80 (2009–2012); Fantaisie d'un jour (1955); Girls' Dormitory (1953); Hello-Goodbye (1970); Honneur d'artiste (1920); Il seduttore (1954); Jeunes filles à marier (1935); Joyeux anniversaire Monsieur Trenet (1995); Julietta (1953); La bonne soupe (1964); La dame de Vittel (1937); La derelitta / Cinéma 16 (1977–1982); La joie de vivre (1954); La maison de campagne (1969); La nuit des Molières (1987); La peau de l'ours (1957); La ronde des heures (1949); La rue des bouches peintes (1955); La soupière (1992); La une est à vous (1988); La villa Sans-Souci (1955); L'auberge en folie (1956); L'aventure est au coin de la rue (1944); Le chevalier Tempête (1967); Le confident de ces dames (1959); Le couple idéal (1946); Le divan (1988); Le gaffeur (1985); Le panier à crabes (1960); Le père de Mademoiselle (1953); Le petit monument (1961); Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1985); Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour (1955); Le tombeur (1958); Le voleur de feuilles (1984); L'entretien (1969); Les aventures de Babar (1968); Les caves du Majestic (1945); Les corsaires du Bois de Boulogne (1954); Les dames de la côte (1979–1980); Les moyens du bord (1979); Les petites Cardinal (1951); Les pique-assiettes (1989); Les quartiers de Paris (Clio dans le métro) (1967); Les rois maudits (1972); Les saisons du plaisir (1988); Les temps difficiles (1985); Les uns et les autres (1988); L'esprit de famille (1982); L'extravagante mission (1945); L'honorable Catherine (1943); L'insaisissable Frédéric (1946); L'oasis dans la tourmente (1942); Love and the Frenchwoman / Segment: Le Divorce (1960); Madame et son flirt (1946); Madame Rigadin modiste (1914); Mademoiselle Etchiko (1913); Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé? (1971); Mardi cinema (1984); Merci Sylvestre (1983); Midi-Première (1981); Mimi Pinson (1958); Mitsou (1956); Mon ami Sainfoin (1950); Monsieur Hector (1940); Montmartre sur Seine (1941); My Fair Lady (1964); Nemrod et compagnie (1916); N'oublie pas ton père au vestiaire... (1982); On demande un ménage (1946); Pas de caviar pour tante Olga (1965); Pas de week end pour notre amour (1950); Police judiciaire (1958); Raspoutine (1954); Regards de femme (1990); Retour de flamme (1943); Rigadin professeur de danse (1916); Romance à trois (1942); Rome Express (1950); Rouge (1960); Sacrée soirée (1987–1991); Samedi soir (1972); Serge Panine (1939); Six heures à perdre (1947); Stars 90 (1991); Summertime (1955); Sur la sellette (1978); Sylviane de mes nuits (1957); Tête blonde (1950); The Blue Veil (1942); The Blues (1918); The Party (1980); The Party 2 (1982); The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954); The Tour of the Grand Dukes (1953); Thé, soupçon et sympathie (1967); Tout pour le mieux (1969); Trois artilleurs à l'opéra (1938); Trois artilleurs au pensionnat (1937); Un curé de choc (1974); Un homme dans la maison (1962); Un ours pas comme les autres (1978); Une autre vie (1971); Une femme par jour (1949); Une nuit aux Baléares (1957); Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur (1943).

Born on this day – Walter Lang:

Walter Lang

Director

August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972

Credits:

Alice Through a Looking Glass (1928); Amor in montagna (1932); As a Man Lives (1923); Autodefensa (2022); Brothers (1930); But Not for Me (1959); By Whose Hand? (1927); Call Me Madam (1953); Can-Can (1960); Carnival (1935); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Claudia and David (1946); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Command Performance (1931); Coney Island (1943); Desk Set (1957); Greenwich Village (1944); Hell Bound (1931); Hello Sister (1930); Hooray for Love (1935); I'll Give a Million (1938); Lady Tubbs (1935); Love Before Breakfast (1936); Meet the Baron (1933); Money to Burn (1926); Moon Over Miami (1941); Mother Wore Tights (1947); No More Orchids (1932); On the Riviera (1951); Racetrack (1933); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Second Honeymoon (1937); Sentimental Journey (1946); Sitting Pretty (1948); Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961); Song of the Islands (1942); Star Dust (1940); State Fair (1945); Susannah of the Mounties (1939); The Baroness and the Butler (1938); The Big Fight (1930); The Blue Bird (1940); The Carnival Girl (1926); The College Hero (1927); The Costello Case (1930); The Desert Bride (1928); The Earth Woman (1926); The Golden Web (1926); The Great Profile (1940); The Jackpot (1950); The King and I (1956); The Ladybird (1927); The Little Princess (1939); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Mighty Barnum (1934); The Night Flyer (1928); The Party's Over (1934); The Red Kimono (1926); The Satin Woman (1927); The Spirit of Youth (1929); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Warrior's Husband (1933); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Your Life (1960); Tin Pan Alley (1940); Top of the Town (1937); Week-End in Havana (1941); When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948); Whom the Gods Destroy (1934); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); With a Song in My Heart (1952); Women Go on Forever (1931); You're My Everything (1949).

Born on this day – Irene Purcell:

Irene Purcell

Actress

August 7, 1896 – July 9, 1972

Credits:

Bachelor's Affairs (1932); Just a Gigolo (1931); Just One Word (1929); Le plombier amoureux (1932); The Crooked Circle (1932); The Man in Possession (1931); The Passionate Plumber (1932); Westward Passage (1932).

Born on this day – Erle C. Kenton:

Erle C. Kenton

Director

August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980

Born on this day – William Cameron Menzies:

William Cameron Menzies

Production designer

Director

Producer

July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957

Born on this day – Barbara La Marr:

Barbara La Marr

Actress

Writer

July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926

Credits:

Arabian Love (1922); Cinderella of the Hills (1921); Desperate Trails (1921); Domestic Relations (1922); Flame of Youth (1920); Harriet and the Piper (1920); Hello, 'Frisco (1924); March of the Movies (1933); Mary of the Movies (1923); Maurice Tourneur, tisseur de rêve (2024); Movie Memories #2 (1934); My Husband's Wives (1924); Personality Parade (1938); Poor Men's Wives (1923); Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922); Rose of Nome (1920); Sandra (1924); Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 20 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 25 (1923); Souls for Sale (1923); St. Elmo (1923); Strangers of the Night (1923); The Brass Bottle (1923); The Eternal City (1923); The Eternal Struggle (1923); The Girl from Montmartre (1926); The Heart of a Siren (1925); The Hero (1923); The Land of Jazz (1920); The Little Grey Mouse (1920); The Mother of His Children (1920); The Nut (1921); The Prisoner of Zenda (1922); The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924); The Three Musketeers (1921); The White Monkey (1925); The White Moth (1924); The White Moth (1924); Thy Name Is Woman (1924); Trifling Women (1922).

Born on this day – Evelyn Preer:

Evelyn Preer

Actress

Singer

July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932

Credits:

Birthright (1924); Blonde Venus (1932); Brown Gravy (1929); Deceit (1923); Georgia Rose (1930); Good Sport (1931); Husband's Holiday (1931); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Oft in the Silly Night (1929); The Brute (1920); The Conjure Woman (1926); The Devil's Disciple (1926); The Framing of the Shrew (1929); The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921); The Homesteader (1919); The Lady Fare (1929); The Melancholy Dame (1929); The Spider's Web (1927); The Widow's Bite (1929); Within Our Gates (1920).

Born on this day – Zena Keefe:

Zena Keefe

Actress

June 26, 1896 – November 16, 1977

Credits:

A Bunch of Violets (1912); A Game of Cards (1913); After Midnight (1921); All Is Fair in Love and War (1911); An Amateur Widow (1919); Another Man's Wife (1924); At the Eleventh Hour (1912); Betty, the Boy and the Bird (1916); Caprice of the Mountains (1916); Captain Jenks' Diplomacy (1912); Cutey Plays Detective (1913); Cutey Tries Reporting (1913); Does Advertising Pay? (1913); Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917); Father and Son (1912); Hearts Ablaze (1915); Her Choice (1912); Her Maternal Right (1916); Heroes of the Mutiny (1911); His Wife's Money (1920); In the Furnace Fire (1912); La vie de Bohème (1916); Life's Yesterdays (1915); Little Miss Happiness (1916); Marooned Hearts (1920); None So Blind (1923); Oh Boy! (1919); Omens and Oracles (1913); One Hour (1917); Out of the Snows (1920); Perils of Our Girl Reporters (1916); Piccadilly Jim (1919); Prejudice (1922); Proxies (1921); Putting Pep in Slowtown (1916); Red Foam (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 17-F (1921); Shame (1917); Sisters All (1913); The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction (1913); The Awakening of Bianca (1912); The Black Sheep (1912); The Broken Silence (1922); The Broken Violin (1923); The Cabin Boy (1911); The Carpenter (1913); The Challenge Accepted (1918); The Cross Roads (1912); The Eavesdropper (1912); The Esterbrook Case (1915); The Gamblers (1912); The Hero of Submarine D-2 (1916); The Hieroglyphic (1912); The Hindoo's Curse (1912); The Island of Surprise (1916); The Jade Necklace (1916); The Long Skirt (1911); The Lure of Love (1924); The Man Under the Bed (1912); The Mate of the 'John M' (1911); The Meeting (1917); The Mills of the Gods (1912); The Pink Pajama Girl (1912); The Rail Rider (1916); The Scarlet Runner (1916); The Spider's Web (1912); The Struggle (1912); The Tigress (1915); The Unforgiven (1915); The Woman God Sent (1920); Three Girls and a Man (1912); Tommy's Sister (1912); Trouping with Ellen (1924); When Love Is Young (1922); Who's Cheating? (1924).

Born on this day – Blanche Sweet:

Blanche Sweet

Actress

June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986