Born on this day – Colleen Moore:

Colleen Moore

Actress

August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988

Credits:

75 Years of Cinema Museum (1972); A Hoosier Romance (1918); A Roman Scandal (1919); Affinities (1922); AFI Life Achievement Award (1984); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); An Old Fashioned Young Man (1917); April Showers (1923); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Broken Chains (1922); Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923); Come on Over (1922); Common Property (1919); Dinty (1920); Ella Cinders (1926); Fashion News (1930); Flaming Youth (1923); Flirting with Love (1924); Footlights and Fools (1929); Forsaking All Others (1922); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Gypsy (1968); Hands Up! (1917); Happiness Ahead (1928); Her Bridal Night-Mare (1920); Her Wild Oat (1927); His Nibs (1921); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Irene (1926); It Must Be Love (1926); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Lilac Time (1928); Little Orphant Annie (1918); Look Your Best (1923); Naughty But Nice (1927); Oh Kay! (1928); Orchids and Ermine (1927); Painted People (1924); Personality Parade (1938); Sally (1925); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 21 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 24 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 9 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 2 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 4 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 14 (1926); Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 15 (1926); Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 16 (1926); Slippy McGee (1923); Smiling Irish Eyes (1929); So Big (1924); So Long Letty (1920); Social Register (1934); Success at Any Price (1934); Synthetic Sin (1929); The Bad Boy (1917); The Busher (1919); The Cyclone (1920); The David Frost Show (1971); The Desert Flower (1925); The Devil's Claim (1920); The Egg Crate Wallop (1919); The Huntress (1923); The Lee Phillip Show (1971); The Linkletter Show (1953); The Little American (1917); The Lotus Eater (1921); The Man in the Moonlight (1919); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1969); The Ninety and Nine (1922); The Nth Commandment (1923); The Perfect Flapper (1924); The Power and the Glory (1933); The Prince of Graustark (1916); The Roy Leonard Show (1971); The Savage (1917); The Scarlet Letter (1934); The Sky Pilot (1921); The Smart Aleck (1920); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968); The Voice of Hollywood No. 15 (1930); The Wall Flower (1922); The WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1922 (1922); The Wilderness Trail (1919); This Is Your Life (1960); Through the Dark (1924); Twinkletoes (1926); Voyage a Galveston (1980); We Moderns (1925); When Dawn Came (1920); Why Be Good? (1929); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007).

Born on this day – Janet Lewis:

Janet Lewis

Writer

August 17, 1899 – December 1, 1998

Credits:

Poems:

A Farewell; A Gull-following Song; A Lullaby; A Lullaby; A Song for the Grandmother; A Song for the Wife of Manibozho; At Carmel Highlands; Austerity; Child in a Garden; Country Burial; Days; For Louise; Fossil; Geology; Helen Grown Old; Helen, the Sad Queen; In the Woods; Lines with a Gift of Herbs; Manibush and the Grandmother; Old Love; On an Old Woman Dying; Sunday Morning at the Artists' House; The April Hill; The Clock; The End of the Age; The Hangar.

Books, music and articles:

Against a Darkening Sky (1943 / 1985); American Poetry Review, November/December (1981); Bookman (November, 1932); Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books (February 22, 1959); Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 41 (1987); Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, winter (1964-65); Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1987 (1988); Good-Bye, Son, and Other Stories (1946 / 1986); Keiko's Bubble (1961); Late Offerings (1988); Librettist for "Easter Laudate," 1977, and "A Christmas Canticle," 1978, (1981); Los Angeles Times Book Review (November 3, 1985); Mulberry Street: An Opera (1981 / 1988); New York Times Book Review (October 2, 1932 / January 24, 1943 / April 8, 1951); Poems Old and New, 1918-1978 (1981); Poems, 1924-1944 (1950); Poetry (January, 1947); Southern Review (winter, 1966 / spring, 1980 / spring, 1982); The Ancient Ones: Poems (1979); The Birthday of the Infanta: An Opera in One Act (1977 / 1979); The Dear Past and Other Poems ,1919–1994 (1994); The Earth-Bound, 1924-1944 (1946); The Friendly Adventures of Ollie Ostrich (1923); The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959); The Indians in the Woods (1922 / 1980); The Invasion: A Narrative of Events Concerning the Johnston Family of St. Mary's (1932 / 1964); The Last of the Mohicans (1976 / 1978); The Legend (1987 / 1987); The Swans: An Opera in Three Acts (1986); The Trial of Soren Qvist (1947 / 1989); The Wheel in Midsummer (1927); The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941 / 1970); The Wife of Martin Guerre: An Opera / aka The Wife: A Libretto (For an Opera in Three Acts) (1956 / 1958 / 1988); Times Literary Supplement (April 10, 1987); Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their Lives and Careers (1983).

Movies and television:

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982); Writers of Northern California (1990).

Born on this day – Alfred Hitchcock:

Alfred Hitchcock

Director

August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980

Born on this day – P.L. Travers:

P.L. Travers

Writer

August 9, 1899 – April 23, 1996

Credits:

Books:

About the Sleeping Beauty (1975); Aunt Sass (2014); Essential Modern Classics Collection for Girls (2010); Fox at the Manger (1962); Friend Monkey (1971); Gingerbread Shop (1952); I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1941); Mary Poppins - the Complete Collection (2013); Mary Poppins (1934); Mary Poppins / Mary Poppins Comes Back (2007); Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988); Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935); Mary Poppins From A-Z (1962); Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982); Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1999); Mary Poppins in the Kitchen (1975); Mary Poppins in the Park (1935); Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943); Mary Poppins Vintage Boxed Set (2007); Mr. Wigg's Birthday Party (1952); Stories from Mary Poppins (1952); The Magic Compass (1953); Two Pairs of Shoes (1976); What the Bee Knows (1989).

Movies and television:

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980 (1977); Diminishing Returns (2018); Hollywood goes to a World Premiere (1964); Hollywood Insider (2021); I riassuntini (2018); Jackanory (1966–1967); Mary Poppins (1964); Mary Poppins Returns (2018); Mary Poppins: From Page to Stage (2009); Saving Mr. Banks (2013); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Studio One (1949); The Cat That Looked at a King (2004); The Culture Show (2013); The Real Mary Poppins (2013).

Born on this day – Victor Young:

Victor Young

Composer

Violinist

Actor

August 8, 1899 – November 10, 1956

Credits:

7th Heaven (2001); 44 Inch Chest (2009); $1000 a Touchdown (1939); A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); A Doctor's Diary (1937); A Good Man in Africa (1994); A Grande Família: O Filme (2007); A Mail Bride (1932); A Man Alone (1955); A Man of No Importance (1994); A Medal for Benny (1945); A Millionaire for Christy (1951); A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940); A Night at the Roxbury (1998); A Perilous Journey (1953); A Place in the Sun (1951); A Strange Adventure (1956); A Woman's Devotion (1956); About Mrs. Leslie (1954); About Time (2013); Accused of Murder (1956); Affair in Reno (1957); After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943); Alaska Seas (1954); Alias Billy the Kid (1946); Alison Moyet: Love Letters (1987); All of You (2024); All That Jazz (1979); All the Way (2003); All Women Have Secrets (1939); Aloha Summer (1988); Aloma of the South Seas (1941); Ambulance (2017); Ambush (1939); American Idol (2002–2006); American Masters (1997); And Now Tomorrow (1944); And the Angels Sing (1944); Andere Zeiten - Andere Sitten (1967); Anna palaa (1987); Anything Can Happen (1952); Anything Goes (1936); Apache Ambush (1955); Appointment with Danger (1950); Arbitrage (2012); Arise, My Love (1940); Arizona (1940); Army Girl (1938); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Artist and Models (1937); Away from It All (1979); Bajo las estrellas (2007); Bandits of the West (1953); Bandstand (1961–1966); Barbed Wire (1952); Battle Cry (1955); Beach House (1977); Beau James (1957); Belle Le Grand (1951); Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934); Beverly Hills Cop III (1994); Beyond Glory (1948); Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942); Billy the Kid Returns (1938); Bing Presents Oreste (1956); Bitter & Twisted (2008); Black Book (2006); Black Eagle (1948); Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952); Blazing Across the Pecos (1948); Blue Canadian Rockies (1952); Blue Montana Skies (1939); Blue Velvet (1986); Bob Crosby and His Orchestra (1938); Bodyhold (1949); Bomb Girls (2012); Born to the West (1937); Boston (2009); Boys Town (1938); Brave Warrior (1952); Breakfast on Pluto (2005); Breaking the Ice (1938); Bride of Vengeance (1949); Bright Leaf (1950); Bring on the Girls (1945); Broadway Highlights No. 1 (1935); Bros (2022); Buck Benny Rides Again (1940); Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (1951); Buckskin Frontier (1943); Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947); Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937); Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938); Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939); Bullfighter and the Lady (1951); BumtsiBum! (2021); Buy Me That Town (1941); Cadets on Parade (1942); Calcutta (1946); California (1947); Call the Midwife (2012); Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018); Canadian Idol (2005); Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953); Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995); Carolina Cannonball (1955); Carolina Moon (1940); Carpenters: Interpretations - A 25th Anniversary Celebration (1995); Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010); Casino (1995); Caught in the Draft (1941); Céline Dion & Clive Griffin: When I Fall in Love (1993); Champagne Waltz (1937); Change Nothing (2009); Chicago Deadline (1949); Child of Manhattan (1933); China (1943); China Gate (1957); Chinese Coffee (2000); Cinema Falado (1986); City of Shadows (1955); City That Never Sleeps (1953); Claire Dolan (1998); Cocoanut Grove (1938); College Swing (1938); Colorado (1940); Colorado Pioneers (1945); Colorado Sunset (1939); Colt Comrades (1943); Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982); Come on, Leathernecks! (1938); Come on, Rangers! (1938); Confess, Fletch (2022); Covered Wagon Days (1940); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); Crimes of Passion: Death of a Loved One (2013); Crossing Jordan (2002); Dancing on a Dime (1940); Dancing with the Stars (2008–2012); Daredevils of the West (1943); Dark Command (1940); Dark Horse (2011); Days of Buffalo Bill (1946); Death of a Champion (1939); Desert of Lost Men (1951); Designed for Women (1949–1951); Detective Story (1951); Diva (2006); Dlaczego nie! (2007); Domestic Disturbance (2001); Don Daredevil Rides Again (1951); Doomed Caravan (1941); Double or Nothing (1937); Down in 'Arkansaw' (1938); Down Laredo Way (1953); Down to You (2000); Dream Girl (1948); Drum Beat (1954); Duck Amuck (1953); DuckTales (1987); Due South (1996); Duel at Apache Wells (1957); Duffy's Tavern (1945); EastEnders (1989–2008); Easy Living (1937); Easy to Take (1936); Ebb Tide (1937); El Paso Stampede (1953); Elvis: The Last 24 Hours (2005); Enkelin silmin - 10-vuotisjuhlakonsertti (1999); Escape to Paradise (1939); Estradilla: Agents & Elvis (2003); Estradilla: Topi Sorsakoski - kulkukoira (2002); Everything's on Ice (1939); Eye for an Eye (1996); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Face/Off (1997); Fair Wind to Java (1953); Falling for You (1995); Fallout: New Vegas (2010); False Colors (1943); Fame (1982); Family Ties (2000); Fatal Attraction (1987); Fatal Lady (1936); Federal Man-Hunt (1938); Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939); Fisherman's Wharf (1939); Flame of Youth (1949); Flaming Fury (1949); Flight Nurse (1953); Flirting with Fate (1938); Flying Tigers (1942); Folies Bergère de Paris (1935); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); Forced Landing (1941); Forever Female (1953); Forged Passport (1939); Forlorn River (1937); Forty Guns (1957); Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019); Frank Lloyd Wright (1998); Frankie and Johnnie (1936); Frenchman's Creek (1944); Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984); Friendly Neighbors (1940); Frontier Pony Express (1939); General Motors Motorama / TV Special (1955); Geraldine (1953); Ghost Valley Raiders (1940); Ginger & Rosa (2012); Girl from Havana (1940); Glamour Boy (1941); Golden Boy (1939); Golden Earrings (1947); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005); Good Ol' Freda (2013); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Grand Ole Opry (1940); Gulliver's Travels (1939); Gun Crazy (1950); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1961); Headline Hunters (1955); Heart of the West (1936); Heartbeat (2007); Hell's Crossroads (1957); Hell's Half Acre (1954); Hell's Island (1955); Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942); Henry and Dizzy (1942); Her Kind of Man (1946); Heritage of the Desert (1939); Heroes of the Saddle (1940); Hidden Gold (1940); Hideaway Girl (1936); Hills of Oklahoma (1950); Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (2004); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); Hold That Blonde! (1945); Hold That Tiger (1940); Home Improvement (1992); Home on the Prairie (1939); Honeychile (1951); Honeymoon in Bali (1939); Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943); Hostages (1943); House of Strangers (1949); Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin (1983); Hunted Men (1938); I Cover the Underworld (1955); I Love Lucy (1954); I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958); I Married a Witch (1942); I Stand Accused (1938); I Surrender Dear (1948); I Walk Alone (1947); I Want a Divorce (1940); I Wanted Wings (1941); I Was a Convict (1939); I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941); Idol (2004 / 2005); Illegal (1932); In Concert with Chris Botti and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (2021); In Old Caliente (1939); In Old Cheyenne (1941); In Old Monterey (1939); Indian Uprising (1952); Insurance Investigator (1951); Internes Can't Take Money (1937); Iron Mountain Trail (1953); Island of Lost Men (1939); Istanbul (1957); It's a Panic (1932); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (2009); Jesse James at Bay (1941); Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951); John Meade's Woman (1937); Johnny Guitar (1954); Jubilee Trail (1954); Junior Army (1942); Just Like a Woman (1992); Juvenile Jungle (1958); Keith Jarrett: Standards (1985); Kesäillan valssi (2004); Killing Them Softly (2012); King Leonardo and His Short Subjects (1961); King of the Carnival (1955); King of the Hill (1993); King of the Wild Horses (1947); Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941); Kitty (1945); Klondike Annie (1936); Knights of the Range (1940); Knock on Wood (1954); La boîte à musique (2016); Lady Bodyguard (1943); Lady from Louisiana (1941); Las Vegas Nights (1941); Last Night (1963); Last of the Redmen (1947); Law of the Barbary Coast (1949); Law of the Pampas (1939); Leadville Gunslinger (1952); Let's Get Lost (1988); Lightnin' in the Forest (1948); Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954); Little Boy Lost (1953); Living Out Loud (1998); Living Single (1995); Loan Shark (1952); Logan (2017); Lone Star Raiders (1940); Los simuladores (2002); Lost Canyon (1942); Lost Planet Airmen (1951); Love Again (2023); Love Letters (1945); Love on Toast (1937); Love Thy Neighbor (1940); Lumberjack (1944); M*A*S*H (1976); Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (1973); Maid of Salem (1937); Make Way for Tomorrow (1937); Malaysian Idol (2004); Man About Town (1939); Man of Conquest (1939); Man Wanted (1932); Manhattan Angel (1948); Marshal of Cripple Creek (1947); Masquerade in Mexico (1945); Massacre Mafia Style (1974); Medic (1954–1956); Melinda and Melinda (2004); Melody Magic (1935); Melody Ranch (1940); Metro Movietone Revue (1930); Mexicali Rose (1939); Million Dollar Pursuit (1951); Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1934); Ministry of Fear (1944); Minnie and Moskowitz (1971); Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948); Missing Women (1951); Mona Lisa (1986); Money to Burn (1939); Monsieur Beaucaire (1946); Monty Python's Flying Circus (1973); Moog (2004); Moon Over Burma (1940); Mountain Music (1937); Mountain Rhythm (1943); Movietone Melodies: Red Ingle and His Gang (1950); Mr. Reckless (1948); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942); Murder with Pictures (1936); Music in the Sky (1945); Musical Novelties (1945); My American Wife (1936); My Favorite Spy (1951); My Foolish Heart (1949); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); Mystery Man (1944); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1993–1998); Mystery Sea Raider (1940); Mystery Ship (1941); Nat King Cole's Greatest Songs (2019); Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole: When I Fall in Love (1996); Natural Born Killers (1994); Naval Academy (1941); NDR Jazz Workshops (1959–1965); Nevada City (1941); New Frontier (1939); New York Stories (1989); Night Club Scandal (1937); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948); Night in New Orleans (1942); Night of Mystery (1937); No Love in the City (2009); No Man's Woman (1955); No Time for Love (1943); Nocturne (2020); North West Mounted Police (1940); Nothing But the Truth (1941); Of Men and Music (1951); Oklahoma Badlands (1948); Old Oklahoma Plains (1952); Old Overland Trail (1953); Omar Khayyam (1957); Once Upon an Eastertime (1954); One Minute to Zero (1952); One Night in Lisbon (1941); Only Murders in the Building (2024); Oregon Trail Scouts (1947); Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946); Our Leading Citizen (1939); Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939); Our Very Own (1950); Out of This World (1945); Ozark Jubilee (1960); Pacific Blackout (1941); Paid in Full (1950); Palm Springs (1936); Pals of the Pecos (1941); Pals of the Saddle (1938); Pan Am (2011); Pardners (1956); Parole Fixer (1940); Partners of the Plains (1938); Paternity (1981); Payment on Demand (1951); Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1958–1960); Perry Mason (2020); Person of Interest (2016); Petticoat Junction (1969); Phantom Stallion (1954); Phantom Thread (2017); Pioneer Marshal (1949); Pioneers of the West (1940); Pirates on Horseback (1941); Planet of the Astronauts (2022); Please (1933); Pop Idol (2003); Poppy (1936); Powder River Rustlers (1949); Practically Yours (1944); Prairie Moon (1938); Prairie Pioneers (1941); Pretextos (2008); Pride of Maryland (1951); Pride of the West (1938); Primary Colors (1998); Priorities on Parade (1942); Prison Farm (1938); Prisoners in Petticoats (1950); Professor Beware (1938); Purple Heart Diary (1951); Queen of the Mob (1940); Radar Men from the Moon (1952); Raffles (1939); Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952); Rambling 'Round Radio Row #3 (1933); Range War (1939); Reaching for the Sun (1941); Real Haunts 3 (2022); Real Haunts: Ghost Towns (2021); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Reborn in the USA (2003); Red Betsy (2003); Red River Shore (1953); Red River Valley (1941); Remember Pearl Harbor (1942); Rhythm of the Saddle (1938); Rhythm on the River (1940); Rick Astley: When I Fall in Love (1987); Riders of the Deadline (1943); Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941); Riding High (1943 / 1950); Rio Grande (1950); Road to Mandalay (1991); Road to Morocco (1942); Road to Singapore (1940); Road to Zanzibar (1941); Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941); Rockin' in the Rockies (1945); Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951); Roman Holiday (1953); Romance & Cigarettes (2005); Romance in the Dark (1938); Rope of Sand (1949); Rough Riders' Round-up (1939); Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939); Run of the Arrow (1957); Sabrina (1995); Saga of Death Valley (1939); Salute for Three (1943); Samson and Delilah (1949); San Antone (1953); San Antone Ambush (1949); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); Santa Fe Marshal (1940); Saturday Night Live (1983); Scaramouche (1952); Scared Stiff (1953); Sea of Lost Ships (1953); Second Chorus (1940); Secrets of Monte Carlo (1951); Secrets of the Heart (1997); See You in the Morning (1989); September Affair (1950); Sergeant Mike (1944); Seven Hills of Rome (1957); Shadows of Tombstone (1953); Shane (1953 / 1966); Shepherd of the Ozarks (1942); Sheriff of Cimarron (1945); Sheriff of Tombstone (1941); She's a Soldier Too (1944); Shindig! (1964); Short Cut to Hell (1957); Shotgun Slade (1960); Silver City Bonanza (1951); Silver Queen (1942); Sinatra (1969 / 1992); Since I Don't Have You (2013); Sing a Jingle (1944); Skylark (1941); Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Sleepytime Gal (1942); Slipstream (2007); Snow Day (2000); So Evil My Love (1948); Some Like It Hot (1959); Something to Live For (1952); Son of Sinbad (1955); Sonata Julieta (2022); Song of Surrender (1949); Souls at Sea (1937); Sounds of the 80s (2017); South of Rio (1949); South of the Border (1939); South Pacific Trail (1952); Southward Ho! (1939); Speed to Spare (1948); Spendthrift (1936); Spoilers of the Forest (1957); Stagecoach War (1940); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Stars in Their Eyes (1991–1994); State of the Union (1948); Stonewall (1995); Straight from the Shoulder (1936); Straight Is the Way (1934); Stranger at My Door (1956); Strapless (1989); Strategic Air Command (1955); Street Bandits (1951); Street of Missing Men (1939); Streets of Laredo (1949); Strictly Come Dancing (2013–2015); Submarine Raider (1942); Suburbicon (2017); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Suklaasydän (1991); Sullivan's Travels (1941); Sunburn (1979); Sunset in Wyoming (1941); Sunset on the Desert (1942); Sunset Trail (1938); Suomalainen elokuvaohjaaja: Peter von Bagh (2010); Sweater Girl (1942); Sweet and Lowdown (1999); Sweet Sue (1945); Swing High, Swing Low (1937); Tähdet, tähdet (2014); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); Talking It Over (1930); Tanga-Tika (1953); Tangomarkkinat (1993–1999); Target Tokyo (1945); Teenage Babylon (1989); Television Spy (1939); Television Theater (2000); Terms of Endearment (1983); Terror at Midnight (1956); Terror Trail (1946); Texas (1941); Texas Masquerade (1944); Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940); Texas Terrors (1940); Thank You for Smoking (2005); That Goes Double (1933); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 7th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1955); The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971); The Accused (1949); The Accusing Finger (1936); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1960); The Anthem of the Heart (2015); The Arizona Cowboy (1950); The Arthur Haynes Show (1961); The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006); The Bette Midler Show (1976); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Big Clock (1948); The Blonde Bandit (1949); The Blue Dahlia (1946); The Blues (2003); The Bold and the Beautiful (2002); The Bold Frontiersman (1948); The Brave One (1956); The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979); The Buick Circus Hour (1952–1953); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Butcher's Wife (1991); The Carpenters at Christmas (1977); The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music (1980); The Carpenters: When I Fall in Love (1980); The Carson City Kid (1940); The Conqueror (1956); The Country Girl (1954); The Court Jester (1955); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963); The Cowboy and the Indians (1949); The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949); The Crooked Web (1955); The Crossing (1990); The Crystal Ball (1943); The Dakota Kid (1951); The Dancer and the Thief (2009); The Danny Thomas Show (1958); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Dean Martin Show (1968); The Deuce (2017); The Devil Commands (1941); The Devil's Mask (1946); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1954); The Emperor Waltz (1948); The Fabelmans (2022); The Farmer's Daughter (1940); The Fighting Chance (1955); The File on Thelma Jordon (1949); The Fireball (1950); The Firm (1993); The Fleet's In (1942); The Forest Rangers (1942); The Gentleman Misbehaves (1946); The Ghost Breakers (1940); The Girl from Missouri (1934); The Gladiator (1938); The Glass Key (1942); The Go!! Show (1966); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939); The Great John L. (1945); The Great Man's Lady (1941); The Great Moment (1944); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); The Imperfect Lady (1946); The Jack Benny Program (1950–1964); The Joey Bishop Show (1964); The Kansan (1943); The Kansas Terrors (1939); The Last Post (2017); The Lawrence Welk Show (1969–1972); The Leather Saint (1956); The Left Hand of God (1955); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951); The Light of Western Stars (1940); The Light That Failed (1939); The Llano Kid (1939); The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941); The Long Day Closes (1992); The Lucky Stiff (1949); The Mad Doctor (1940); The Major and the Minor (1942); The Mantrap (1943); The Mark of Beauty (2013); The Marrying Man (1991); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018); The Master (2012); The Maverick Queen (1956); The Milky Way (1936); The Milton Berle Show (1955–1956); The Missing Person (2009); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1971); The Mummy (1932); The Muppet Show (1980); The Nat King Cole Show (1956); The Nebraskan (1953); The Night of January 16th (1941); The Night of Nights (1939); The Nutty Professor (1963); The Old Man of the Mountain (1933); The Outlaw (1943); The Pacific (2010); The Paleface (1948); The Palm Beach Story (1942); The Phantom Stagecoach (1957); The Plot Against America (2020); The Prince and Me (2004); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Quarterback (1940); The Quiet Man (1952); The Racket Man (1944); The Ranger and the Lady (1940); The Remarkable Andrew (1942); The Return of Sophie Lang (1936); The Round Up (1941); The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956); The Searching Wind (1946); The Sign of the Cross (1932); The Singing Hill (1941); The Sound of Petula (1974); The Star (1952); The Stars Are Singing (1953); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Story of Will Rogers (1952); The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953); The Strawberry Roan (1948); The Sun Shines Bright (1953); The Tall Men (1955); The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009); The Trail Blazers (1940); The Trap (1959); The Trouble with Women (1947); The Tulsa Kid (1940); The Turning Point (1952); The Uninvited (1944); The Unwritten Code (1944); The Vagabond King (1956); The Vanishing American (1955); The Vicar of Dibley (1998); The Way of All Flesh (1940); The Week Of (2018); The Wild Blue Yonder (1951); The Wild Frontier (1947); The Wonder Years (1989); The Wrecking Crew! (2008); The X Factor UK (2004); The Zero Hour (1939); They All Laughed (1981); They Live in Fear (1944); They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969); This Is My Moment (2001); Those Were the Days! (1940); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Three Faces West (1940); Three Men from Texas (1940); Three Texas Steers (1939); Three's a Crowd (1932); Thrill of a Lifetime (1937); Thunder Over Arizona (1956); Thunderbirds (1952); Thunderhoof (1948); Timberjack (1955); To Each His Own (1946); Top of the Pops (1966); Torch Song (1993); Tornado - En tittarstorm (1993); Toughest Man in Arizona (1952); Trader Tom of the China Seas (1954); Três Irmãs (2008–2009); Trial Without Jury (1950); Trouble in the Glen (1954); True Detective (2019); True to Life (1943); True to the Army (1942); Tu cara me suena (2018); Tudo Bem (1978); Tulisuudelma (1992); Turn Off the Moon (1937); Two Years Before the Mast (1946); Typhoon (1940); U-Boat Prisoner (1944); Un día volveré (1993); Unconquered (1947); Undercover Doctor (1939); Union Pacific (1939); Union Station (1950); Untamed (1940); Utah Wagon Train (1951); Vaudeville (1934); Vertigo (1958); Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947); Village Barn Dance (1940); Virginia (1941); Visit to a Small Planet (1960); Vitaphone Internationals (1936); Vivement dimanche (2014); Vogues of 1938 (1937); Wagon Team (1952); Waikiki Wedding (1937); Wall Street Cowboy (1939); Watching (1988); Way Down South (1939); Wells Fargo (1937); West Point Widow (1941); Western Jamboree (1938); When Gangland Strikes (1956); When I Fall in Love (1951 / 1986); When the Redskins Rode (1951); Where the Boys Are (1960); Where There's Life (1947); While You Were Away (2019); Whirlwind (1951); Whispers in the Dark (1992); Wide Open Town (1941); Widows (2018); Wild Money (1937); Wild Wife (1954); Winning of the West (1953); Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022); Woman in the Dark (1952); Woman They Almost Lynched (1953); Women from Headquarters (1950); Women Without Names (1940); World Premiere (1941); Written on the Wind (1956); Wrongfully Accused (1998); Wyoming Outlaw (1939); You Came Along (1945); Young and Willing (1943); Young Buffalo Bill (1940); Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952); Zorro's Black Whip (1944).

Born on this day – Chief Dan George:

Chief Dan George

Actor

Musician

Writer

July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981

Born on this day – Alice Terry:

Alice Terry

Actress

Director

July 24, 1899 – December 22, 1987

Born on this day – Hart Crane:

Hart Crane

Writer

July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932

Credits:

Books:

Complete poems (1984); Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane (1966); Hart Crane and Yvor Winters (1978); Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: Their Literary Correspondence (1978); Hart Crane to Charles Harris (1978); Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters (2006); Last letters of Hart Crane (1934); Letters of Hart Crane and His Family (1974); O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane (1997); Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane, 1923–1932 (1968); The Bridge (1930); The Collected Poems of Hart Crane (date?); The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (1986); The Letters of Hart Crane, 1916–1932 (1952); The poet's vocation: selections from letters of Hölderlin, Rimbaud, & Hart Crane (1967); Twenty-one letters from Hart Crane to George Bryan (1968); Two letters: Hart Crane (1934); White Buildings (1926).

Documentary:

In Search of Hart Crane (1966).

Born on this day – Ernest Hemingway:

Ernest Hemingway

Writer

July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961

Credits:

Books:

100 Years Of Fishing: The Ultimate Tribute To Our Fishing Tradition (2002); 3 Short Stories and 10 Poems (1923); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Clean Well Lighted Place (1926); A Farewell To Arms (1929); A Moveable Feast (1964); Across the River and into the Trees (1950); Alaska Stories (1995); An Alpine Idyll (1927); Articles for The Kansas City Star (1970); Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Big Two-Hearted River (1925); Bullfighting, Sport & Industry (1974); Camping Out (1920); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Conversations with Ernest Hemingway (1986); Cross Country Snow (1924); Dateline Toronto (1985); David Bowie (2016); Death in the Afternoon (1932); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Florida Stories (1993); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Great First World War Stories (1930); Green Hills of Africa (1935); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hemingway at Oak Park High (1993); Hemingway on Fishing (2000); Hemingway on War (2003); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Our Time (1925); Islands in the Stream (1970); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Men Without Women (1927); New Orleans Stories (1992); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); On Paris (2008); On Writing (1986); Philip K. Dick (2015); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Complete Short Stories (1925); The Dangerous Summer (1985); The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1938); The First Forty-Nine Stories (1938); The Garden of Eden (1985); The Killers and Other Short Stories (1982); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922 (2011); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 (2013); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929 (2015); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 4, 1929–1931 (2017); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932–1934 (2020); The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 – 1950 (2004); The Nick Adams Stories (1966); The Old Man and the Sea (1952); The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber & Other Stories (1936); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (1936); The Sun Also Rises (1926); The Torrents of Spring (1926); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Undefeated (1965); To Have and Have Not (1937); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); True At First Light (1999); Under Kilimanjaro (2005); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); War: An Anthology (1969); Winner Take Nothing (1933); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (2002 / 2005 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010); A Curious World (2016); A Farewell to Arms (1932 / 1957 / 1966); A Teen-ager Takes a Look at Europe (1955); Abandoned Engineering (2020); Abrupt Ending (2014); Across the River and Into the Trees (2022); Adeus às Armas (1961); After the Storm (2001); Baby Shoes (2012); Best of Friends (1981); Bokser ide u raj (2007); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1959–1960); Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990); Captain Khorshid (1987); Carry Me Away (2013); Cat in the Rain (2011); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2016); Cheyenne (1956); Circle of Honor (2003); Climax! (1955); Democracy Now! (2013); Dieu a choisi Paris (1969); Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (2016); Duels (2016); Elefants blancs (2016); Ernest Hemingway, quatre mariages et un enterrement (2021); Ernest Hemingway's Out of Season (2014); Explained (2018); Fiesta (1971); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943 / 1965); For Whom the Bell Tolls: Recording of an Opera in Progress (2016); From D-Day to Germany (1944); Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989); Gifts Like White Elephants (2008); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (2005); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (1942); Hemingway (2021); Hemingway Unknown (2012); Hemingway: Winner Take Nothing (1998); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); Hills (2009); Hills Like White Elephants (2002 / 2017 / 2018); History of Swear Words (2021); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hormigas blancas (2020); I riassuntini (2018); Islands in the Stream (1977); Killarna - en far og seks syv brødre (2006); Kraft Theatre (1958); La France en face / Histoire immediate (2013); La ironía del dinero / Segment: Toros (1957); La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales (2016); Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017); Life and Times (2000); Little Sleep, Little Slumber (2024); Los asesinos (2006 / 2009); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Mia hara (1995); My Old Man (1969 / 1979); Njeriu kurrë nuk vdes (1961); Nochnoy ekspress (2006); Norman Mailer: The American (2010); Omnibus (1953–1954); Peta kolona (1973); Playhouse 90 (1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Project Twenty (1963); Randy Writes a Novel (2018); Renaud: Les mots (2016); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Salinger (2013); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Secrets of War (1999); Soldier's Home (1977); Teledrama (1956); Television Theater (1955–1958); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Breaking Point (1950); The Color of War (2002); The Devil's Den: A Nick Adams Story (2023); The Fifth Column (1960); The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio (1960); The Garden of Eden (2008); The Gun Runners (1958); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Killers (1946 / 1956 / 1964 / 2009 / 2013 / 2018); The Killers II (2013); The Leisure Seeker (2017); The Macomber Affair (1947); The Old Man and the Sea (1958 / 1990 / 1999 / 2021); The Reader (2008); The Sea (1958); The Sea Change (2006 / 2014); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); The Spanish Earth (1937); The Sun Also Rises (1957 / 1984); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Unknown War (1978); Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock (2019); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today Is Friday (2010); Ubice (2008); Un lugar limpio y bien iluminado (1991); Under My Skin (1950); Vrasësit (2014); Wave-189 (2016); Wemedge (2021); White Elephants (2012 / 2014); White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); Zabijáci (1990).

Born on this day – James Cagney:

James Cagney

Actor

Dancer

Director

July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986

Born on this day – Martha Mansfield:

Martha Mansfield

Actress

July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923

Credits:

A Man of Stone (1921); A Social Sleuth (1920); Broadway Bill (1918); Civilian Clothes (1920); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920); Fog Bound (1923); Gilded Lies (1921); His Brother's Keeper (1921); Is Money Everything? (1923); Little Red School House (1923); Max Comes Across (1917); Max in a Taxi (1917); Max Wants a Divorce (1917); Mothers of Men (1920); Potash and Perlmutter (1923); Queen of the Moulin Rouge (1922); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); Society Snobs (1921); Some Mind Reader (1920); The Hand Invisible (1919); The Last Door (1921); The Leavenworth Case (1923); The Passion of Jekyll & Hyde (2019); The Perfect Lover (1919); The Silent Command (1923); The Spoiled Girl (1918); The Warrens of Virginia (1924); The Woman in Chains (1923); The Wonderful Chance (1920); Till We Meet Again (1922); Women Men Love (1921); Youthful Cheaters (1923).

Born on this day – E. B. White:

E. B. White

Writer

July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985

Credits:

Stuart Little (1945); Charlotte's Web (1952); The Points of My Compass (1962); The Trumpet of the Swan (1970); The Fox of Peapack (poems) (1928); The Lady Is Cold (1928); The Second Tree from the Corner (1954); E. B. White Reader (1966); Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (poems) (1981); The Subtreasury of American Humor (1941); Wilbur's Adventure (2007); Ho-hum (1931); Another Ho-hum (1932); Every Day Is Saturday (1934); Quo Vadimus (1939); One Man's Meat (1942); The Wild Flag (1946); The Elements of Style (1959); Is Sex Necessary? (1960); Letters of E. B. White (1976); Essays of E. B. White (1977); Writings from the New Yorker, 1925-76 (1990); On Democracy (2019); Reading I've Liked (1946); Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952); Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956); A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1959); American Gothic Tales (1996); The Supremacy of Uraguay (1933); The Door (1939); The Morning of the Day They Did It (1950); The Hour of Letdown (1952).

Movies, television and video:

Alien Tales (1995); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Charlotte's Web (1973 / 2003 / 2006); Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2002); Here Is New York (2000); Jackanory (1966–1990); NBC Children's Theatre (1966); Omnibus / Segment: A Maine Lobsterman (1954); Stuart Little (1999 / 2003); Stuart Little 2 (2002); Stuart Little 2 (PlayStation Commerical) (2002); Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005); The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973); The French Dispatch (2021); The Trumpet of the Swan (2001); Wilbur und Charlotte (2007).

Born on this day – George Cukor:

George Cukor

Director

Producer

July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983

Credits:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); A Bill of Divorcement (1932); A Double Life (1947); A Life of Her Own (1950); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); A Woman of Substance: Katharine Hepburn Remembered (2003); A Woman's Face (1941); Adam's Rib (1949); AFI Life Achievement Award (1981); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); American Masters (2000–2004); Anna Karina, souviens-toi (2017); Arena (2012–2016); Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (2017); Bhowani Junction (1956); Biography (1996–2003); Born Yesterday (1950); Ça c'est l'amour (2003); Call Me Kate (2023); Camille (1936); Cinéastes de notre temps (1969); Cinema (1968); Cinéma cinémas (1982); David Copperfield (1935); Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (1963); Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (1955); Desire Me (1947); Dinner at Eight (1933); Edward, My Son (1949); Escape (1940); Étoiles et toiles (1983); Eyewitness to History (1962); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Film '72 (1973–1981); Film Night (1970); Film Time (1955); Garbo (1969 / 2005); Gaslight (1944); George Cukor at the National Film Theatre (1981); Girls About Town (1931); Gone with the Wind (1939); Great Performances (1987); Grumpy (1930); Heller in Pink Tights (1960); Her Cardboard Lover (1942); Holiday (1938); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Greats (1977–1978); Hollywood maudit (2021); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hot Spell (1958); Hour Magazine (1981); I Met My Love Again (1938); I Think I Do (1997); I'll Be Seeing You (1944); It Should Happen to You (1954); Justine (1969); Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les Girls (1957); Let's Make Love (1960); Little Women (1933); Love Among the Ruins (1975); Love, Cecil (2017); Love, Marilyn (2012); Lust for Life (1956); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001); Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (1990); MGM Parade (1956); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); My Fair Lady (1964); NET Festival (1970); No More Ladies (1935); On Location with Rich and Famous (1981); One Hour with You (1932); Our Betters (1933); Pat and Mike (1952); Reflections on 'Gaslight' (2003); Resistance and Ohm's Law (1943); Rich and Famous (1981); Rockabye (1932); Romeo and Juliet (1936); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Sid & Judy (2019); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Social Security in Action (1958–1968); Something's Got to Give (1962); Song Without End (1960); Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981); Susan and God (1940); Sylvia Scarlett (1935); Talking Film (1978); Talking Pictures (2016); Tarnished Lady (1931); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The Actress (1953); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Blue Bird (1976); The British Greats (1980); The Chapman Report (1962); The Corn Is Green (1979); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The David Susskind Show (1960); The Dick Cavett Show (1972 / 1981); The Fairest Fair Lady (1964); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995); The Marrying Kind (1952); The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1976); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021); The River of Romance (1929); The RKO Years (1979); The Royal Family of Broadway (1930); The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (1977); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Virtuous Sin (1930); The Women (1939); This Is Your Life (1962); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Two-Faced Woman (1941); W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Wild Is the Wind (1957); Winged Victory (1944); Zaza (1938).

Born on this day – Mignon G. Eberhart:

Mignon G. Eberhart

Writer

July 6, 1899 – October 8, 1996

Credits:

Written work:

Patient in Room 18 (1929); The Mystery of Hunting's End (1930); While the Patient Slept (1930); From This Dark Stairway (1931); Murder by an Aristocrat (aka Murder of My Patient) (1932); Wolf in Man's Clothing (1942); Man Missing (1954); The Cases of Susan Dare (1934); Death in the Fog (aka The Dark Garden) (1933); The White Cockatoo (1933); The House on the Roof (1935); Fair Warning (1936); Danger in the Dark (aka Hand in Glove) (1937); The Pattern (1937); The Glass Slipper (1938); Hasty Wedding (1938); Brief Return (1939); Chiffon Scarf (1939); The Hangman's Whip (1940); Speak No Evil (1941); With This Ring (1941); Fourth Mystery Book (1942); The Man Next Door (1943); Unidentified Woman (1943); Escape the Night (1944); Wings of Fear (1945); Five Passengers from Lisbon (1946); The White Dress (1946); Another Woman's House (1947); House of Storm (1949); Hunt With the Hounds (1950); Never Look Back (1951); Dead Men's Plans (1952); The Unknown Quantity (1953); Postmark Murder (1956); Another Man's Murder (1957); Melora (aka Promise of Murder) (1959); Jury of One (1960); The Crime at Honotassa (aka The Cup, the Blade or the Gun) (1961); Enemy in the House (1962); Run Scared (1963); Call After Midnight (1964); R.S.V.P. Murder (1965); Witness at Large (1966); Woman on the Roof (1967); Message from Hong Kong (1969); El Rancho Rio (1970); Two Little Rich Girls (1971); Murder in Waiting (1973); Nine O'Clock Tide (1975); Danger Money (1975); Family Fortune (1976); Bayou Road (1979); Casa Madrone (1980); Family Affair (1981); Next of Kin (1982); The Patient in Cabin C (1983); Alpine Condo Crossfire (1984); A Fighting Chance (1986); Three Days for Emeralds (1988); Five of My Best (1949); Deadly Is the Diamond (1958); The Crimson Paw (1959); Best Mystery Stories (1988); Mignon G. Eberhart's Best Mystery Stories (1988); Dead Yesterday and Other Stories (2007); Patient in Room 18 / While the Patient Slept (1930); Speak No Evil / with This Ring (1945); Another Woman's House / Cheer for the Dead / Shadow for a Lady (1947); Murder Of A Nymph/ Hunt With The Hounds/ Jews For A Shroud (1950); Melora / Black Gold Murders / Prelude to Murder (1959); Danger Money / Romanov Succession / Horn of Roland (1974); American Detective Stories (1943); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983); Two short stories: Introducing Susan Dare & Spider (dates unknown).

Movies and television:

Murder by an Aristocrat (1936); Mystery House (1938); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); The Dark Stairway (1938); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1935); The Patient in Room 18 (1938); The White Cockatoo (1935); Three's a Crowd (1945); While the Patient Slept (1935).

Born on this day – Charles Laughton:

Charles Laughton

Actor

Writer

Producer

July 1, 1899 – December 15, 1962

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959); Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994); Advise & Consent (1962); Alexander Korda, Kt (1956); American Horror Story (2012); American Masters (1995); Angels of Mercy (1940); Arch of Triumph (1948); Because of Him (1946); Biography (2001–2005); Blue Bottles (1928); Callow's Laughton (1987); Captain Kidd (1945); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Charles Laughton (1952); Charles Laughton Directs 'the Night of the Hunter' (2002); Checkmate (1961); Chelsea at Nine (1957); Christmas Eve with Charles Laughton (1955); Ciclo Agatha Christie (2006); Cineficción Radio (2019); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009–2014); Comets (1930); Compression (2015–2025); Daughter of Frankenstein: A Conversation with Sara Karloff (2017); Day-Dreams (1928); Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982); Devil and the Deep (1932); Down River (1931); Entertainment Tonight (1987); Festival / The Respectful Prostitute (1964); Film Night (1971); Film Review (1968); Ford Star Jubilee (1955); Forever and a Day (1943); Galileo (1961 / 1975); General Electric Theater (1957–1959); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1998); History Brought to Life (1950); Hobson's Choice (1954); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Greats (1978); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hungarian Emergency Relief Organization Christmas Day Special (1956); I, Claudius (1937); If I Had a Million (1932); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); Island of Lost Souls (1932); It Started with Eve (1941); Jamaica Inn (1939); Josef von Sternberg Interview (1968); Josef von Sternberg, the Man Who Made Dietrich (1994); Leben des Galilei (1947); Les Misérables (1935); MGM Parade (1955); Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999); Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014); Moving Pictures (1995); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); News of the Day (1952); Night Gallery (1971); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); O. Henry's Full House (1952); On Our Merry Way (1948); One in a Million (1936); Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982); Payment Deferred (1932); Piccadilly (1929); Picture People No. 6 (1941); Playhouse 90 (1960); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); Producers' Showcase (1956); Rembrandt (1936); Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood (2018); Robert Redford: The Golden Look (2019); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Salome (1953); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 11 (1935); Screen Snapshots, Series 20, No. 9 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 10 (1944); Screen Snapshots, Series 24, No. 1 (1944); Screen Snapshots, Series 26, No. 10: So This Is 'ollywood (1947); Screen Snapshots, Series 35, No. 10: Fabulous Hollywood (1956); Sidewalks of London (1938); Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma (2020); Some of the Best (1944); Spartacus (1960); Sprockets (1995); Stand by for Action (1942); Startime (1960); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Studio 57 (1958); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Television (1985); That's Action (1977); The 15th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1958); The 6th Annual Academy Awards (1934); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Art Director (1949); The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934); The Beachcomber (1938); The Bear (2024); The Best of Gleason 3 (1989); The Best of Hollywood (2018); The Big Clock (1948); The Blue Veil (1951); The Bribe (1949); The Canterville Ghost (1944); The Clock (2010); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (2002); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959–1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1963); The Ed Wynn Show (1950); The Eddie Fisher Show (1957–1958); The English Programme (1994); The Epic That Never Was (1965); The Generation Game (1974); The George Gobel Show (1957–1958); The Girl from Manhattan (1948); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Horror Show (1979); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Jackie Gleason Show (1953); The Jimmy Durante Show (1956); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1959); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1951); The Lux Show (1957); The Man from Down Under (1943); The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949); The Naked Archaeologist (2008); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Old Dark House (1932); The Oscars Library: A Tribute to the Academy Awards (2019); The Our Gang Story (1994); he Paradine Case (1947); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1949); The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933); The Radio Broadcast Vault (2019); The Sign of the Cross (1932); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958–1960); The Strange Door (1951); The Suspect (1944); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1957–1961); The Tonic (1928); The Tonight Show (1956–1957); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); They Knew What They Wanted (1940); This Is Charles Laughton (1953); This Is Your Life (1961); This Land Is Mine (1943); Time to Remember (2010); Twenty Years of Academy Awards (1948); ...und sie bewegt sich doch (1978); Under Ten Flags (1960); Wagon Train (1960); Washington Square (1956); We, the People (1949); What's My Line? (1956–1960); White Woman (1933); Witness for the Prosecution (1957); Wolves (1930); Young Bess (1953).

Born on this day – Dorothy Devore:

Dorothy Devore

Actress

Comedian

June 22, 1899 – September 10, 1976

Credits:

Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 3: Funny Girls (1998); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); Miracle on Main Street (1939); Take the Heir (1930); Auntie's Mistake (1929); Misplaced Husbands (1928); Companionate Service (1928); Rah! Rah! Rah! (1928); Circus Blues (1928); Cutie (1928); The Little Rube (1927); Kilties (1927); Better Days (1927); Up in Arms (1927); Mountains of Manhattan (1927); The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927); The First Night (1927); Money to Burn (1926); No Babies Wanted (1926); Senor Daredevil (1926); The Social Highwayman (1926); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Man Upstairs (1926); The Midnight Flyer (1925); Three Weeks in Paris (1925); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Fighting the Flames (1925); How Baxter Butted In (1925); A Broadway Butterfly (1925); The Prairie Wife (1925); Who Cares (1925); The Narrow Street (1925); The Tomboy (1924); Hold Your Breath (1924); Getting Gertie's Goat (1924); Stay Single (1924); Kidding Katie (1923); When Odds Are Even (1923); Navy Blues (1923); Pick and Shovel (1923); Winter Has Came (1923); Babies Welcome (1923); Hazel from Hollywood (1923); Chop Suey (1922); Let 'Er Run (1922); Mile-a-Minute Mary (1922); Fair Enough (1922); One Stormy Knight (1922); Saving Sister Susie (1921); Paying Patients (1921); Nothing Like It (1921); Sneakers (1921); The Magnificent Brute (1921); Naughty Mary Brown (1921); The Reckless Sex (1921); Man vs. Woman (1921); Mind Your Business (1921); Movie Mad (1921); Call a Cop (1920); Should Husbands Dance (1920); 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920); Seven Bald Pates (1920); Biff Bang Bomb (1920); A Home Made Hero (1920); Her Perfect Husband (1920); Should a Wife Come Back? (1920); Neat But Not Gaudy (1920); All Jazzed Up (1920); No Babies Allowed (1920); Nearly Newlyweds (1920); It Takes a Crook (1920); Should a Husband Tell? (1920); Twas Midnight (1919); Her Bear Escape (1919); A Flirt There Was (1919); Love in a Hurry (1919); Anybody's Widow (1919); A Cheerful Liar (1919); A Full House (1919); All in the Swim (1919); Kiss the Bride (1919); Oh, Susie, Be Careful (1919); Too Many Wives (1919); Lost: A Bridegroom (1919); Marrying Molly (1919); Brides for Two (1919); Oh, What a Night! (1919); Bobby Comes Marching Home (1919); Welcome Home (1919); Four of a Kind (1919); Salvation Sue (1919); The Girl Dodger (1919); You Couldn't Blame Her (1919); Marry My Wife (1919); Good Gracious, Bobby (1919); Sing, Rosa, Sing! (1919); How's Your Husband? (1919); Know Thy Wife (1918); Swat the Flirt (1918); String Beans (1918); Camping Out (1918); Maid Wanted (1918); The Price of a Rotten Time (1918); Frenzied Film (1918); Please Hit Me (1918); The Law of the North (1918); The Extra Bridegroom (1918); The House Cleaning Horrors (1918).

Born on this day – William K. Howard:

William K. Howard

Director

Writer

Producer

June 16, 1899 – February 21, 1954

Credits:

A Guy Could Change (1946); A Ship Comes In (1928); Bachelor Brides (1926); Back Door to Heaven (1939); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); Captain Fly-by-Night (1922); Christina (1929); Code of the West (1925); Danger Ahead (1923); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Dillinger (1945); Don't Bet on Women (1931); East of Broadway (1924); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Extra! Extra! (1922); Fire Over England (1937); Get Your Man (1921); Gigolo (1926); Good Intentions (1930); Johnny Come Lately (1943); Klondike Fury (1942); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Let's Go (1923); Love, Live and Laugh (1929); Lucky Dan (1922); Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935); Money and the Woman (1940); Murder on Diamond Row (1937); Over the Moon (1939); Play Square (1921); Red Dice (1926); Rendezvous (1935); Round the Film Studios (1937); Scotland Yard (1930); Sherlock Holmes (1932); Sin Town (1929); Surrender (1931); The Adorable Savage (1920); The Border Legion (1924); The Cat and the Fiddle (1934); The Crusader (1922); The First Year (1932); The Fourth Musketeer (1923); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Light of Western Stars (1925); The Main Event (1927); The One-Man Trail (1921); The Power and the Glory (1933); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The River Pirate (1928); The Thundering Herd (1925); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); The Valiant (1929); This Side of Heaven (1934); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Top Gun Academy: The Real Story (1997); Transatlantic (1931); Trooper O'Neill (1922); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Volcano (1926); What Love Will Do (1921); When the Lights Go on Again (1944); White Gold (1927).