Born on this day – Marcella Albani:

Marcella Albani

Actress

Writer

December 7, 1899 – May 11, 1959

Born on this day – Sam Newfield:

Sam Newfield

Director

Writer

Producer

December 6, 1899 – November 10, 1964

Credits:

The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964); Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959); Flaming Frontier (1958); Wolf Dog (1958); The Pathfinder and the Mohican (1957); Along the Mohawk Trail (1957); The Adventures of Tugboat Annie (1957); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Frontier Gambler (1956); The Three Outlaws (1956); The Wild Dakotas (1956); Last of the Desperados (1955); Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (1955); Thunder Over Sangoland (1955); Ramar of the Jungle (1953–1954); The Gambler and the Lady (1952); Scotland Yard Inspector (1952); Outlaw Women (1952); Sky High (1951); Leave It to the Marines (1951); Lost Continent (1951); Skipalong Rosenbloom (1951); Mask of the Dragon (1951); Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951); Three Desperate Men (1951); Hi-Jacked (1950); Motor Patrol (1950); Western Pacific Agent (1950); Radar Secret Service (1950); Wild Weed (1949); State Department: File 649 (1949); The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948); Miraculous Journey (1948); Lady at Midnight (1948); The Counterfeiters (1948); Money Madness (1948); The Sea Hound (1947); Adventure Island (1947); Jungle Flight (1947); Three on a Ticket (1947); Mantan Messes Up (1946); House-Rent Party (1946); Fight That Ghost (1946); Lady Chaser (1946); Gas House Kids (1946); Outlaws of the Plains (1946); Overland Riders (1946); Queen of Burlesque (1946); Prairie Badmen (1946); Blonde for a Day (1946); Ghost of Hidden Valley (1946); Larceny in Her Heart (1946); Terrors on Horseback (1946); Gentlemen with Guns (1946); Murder Is My Business (1946); The Flying Serpent (1946); Lightning Raiders (1946); Prairie Rustlers (1945); Fighting Bill Carson (1945); White Pongo (1945); Border Badmen (1945); Apology for Murder (1945); Stagecoach Outlaws (1945); Gangster's Den (1945); The Lady Confesses (1945); Shadows of Death (1945); The Kid Sister (1945); His Brother's Ghost (1945); Oath of Vengeance (1944); I Accuse My Parents (1944); Wild Horse Phantom (1944); Swing Hostess (1944); Rustlers' Hideout (1945); Fuzzy Settles Down (1944); The Drifter (1944); The Contender (1944); Valley of Vengeance (1944); The Monster Maker (1944); Thundering Gun Slingers (1944); Frontier Outlaws (1944); Nabonga (1944); Harvest Melody (1943); Devil Riders (1943); Raiders of Red Gap (1943); Tiger Fangs (1943); Blazing Frontier (1943); The Renegade (1943); Danger! Women at Work (1943); Cattle Stampede (1943); Wolves of the Range (1943); Western Cyclone (1943); The Black Raven (1943); Death Rides the Plains (1943); Fugitive of the Plains (1943); Wild Horse Rustlers (1943); Dead Men Walk (1943); The Kid Rides Again (1943); Outlaws of Boulder Pass (1942); Queen of Broadway (1942); The Mysterious Rider (1942); Overland Stagecoach (1942); Along the Sundown Trail (1942); Border Roundup (1942); Prairie Pals (1942); Sheriff of Sage Valley (1942); Law and Order (1942); Jungle Siren (1942); Tumbleweed Trail (1942); Texas Justice (1942); The Mad Monster (1942); Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942); Rolling Down the Great Divide (1942); The Lone Rider in Cheyenne (1942); Billy the Kid Trapped (1942); Raiders of the West (1942); The Lone Rider and the Bandit (1942); Texas Man Hunt (1942); Billy the Kid's Round-Up (1941); The Lone Rider Fights Back (1941); Billy the Kid Wanted (1941); The Lone Rider Ambushed (1941); The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941); The Texas Marshal (1941); Billy the Kid in Santa Fe (1941); The Lone Rider in Ghost Town (1941); Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals (1941); The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio (1941); Outlaws of the Rio Grande (1941); Billy the Kid's Range War (1941); The Lone Rider Rides On (1941); Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940); Riders of Black Mountain (1940); Marked Men (1940); Billy the Kid in Texas (1940); Arizona Gang Busters (1940); Gun Code (1940); Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940); Hold That Woman! (1940); Am I Guilty? (1940); Frontier Crusader (1940); I Take This Oath (1940); Secrets of a Model (1940); The Sagebrush Family Trails West (1940); Texas Renegades (1940); Death Rides the Range (1939); The Invisible Killer (1939); Fighting Mad (1939); Trigger Fingers (1939); Flaming Lead (1939); Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939); The Fighting Renegade (1939); Straight Shooter (1939); Outlaws' Paradise (1939); Texas Wildcats (1939); Code of the Cactus (1939); Six-Gun Rhythm (1939); Trigger Pals (1939); The Terror of Tiny Town (1938); Six-Gun Trail (1938); Lightning Carson Rides Again (1938); Frontier Scout (1938); Durango Valley Raiders (1938); Desert Patrol (1938); Phantom Ranger (1938); Gunsmoke Trail (1938); The Feud Maker (1938); Code of the Rangers (1938); Songs and Bullets (1938); Knight of the Plains (1938); Thunder in the Desert (1938); The Rangers' Round-Up (1938); Paroled - To Die (1938); Harlem on the Prairie (1937); Colorado Kid (1937); The Fighting Deputy (1937); Moonlight on the Range (1937); Arizona Gunfighter (1937); Ridin' the Lone Trail (1937); Boothill Brigade (1937); Doomed at Sundown (1937); A Lawman Is Born (1937); Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937); Guns in the Dark (1937); Bar-Z Bad Men (1937); Melody of the Plains (1937); Trail of Vengeance (1937); Lightnin' Crandall (1937); The Gambling Terror (1937); Stormy Trails (1936); Roarin' Lead (1936); The Traitor (1936); Ghost Patrol (1936); The Lion's Den (1936); Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936); Aces and Eights (1936); Thoroughbred (1936); Crashing Through Danger (1936); Lightnin' Bill Carson (1936); Federal Agent (1936); Burning Gold (1936); Border Caballero (1936); Roarin' Guns (1936); Bulldog Courage (1935); You Can Be Had (1935); Timber War (1935); Racing Luck (1935); Trails of the Wild (1935); Branded a Coward (1935); Code of the Mounted (1935); Northern Frontier (1935); Undercover Men (1934); Beggar's Holiday (1934); Marrying Widows (1934); Under Secret Orders (1933); Big Time or Bust (1933); The Important Witness (1933); Reform Girl (1933); Sweet Patootie (1932); Wedding Belles (1931); She's a He (1930); Fellow Students (1930); Peek-A-Boo (1930); The Beauty Parade (1930); Sid's Long Count (1930); Her Bashful Beau (1930); All Wet (1930); French Leave (1930); Too Many Women (1929); Night Owls (1929); Stop Barking (1929); Buster's Spooks (1929); Buster's Choice (1929); Outdoor Sports (1929); Chaperons (1929); Delivering the Goods (1929); Magic (1929); This Way Please (1929); Tige's Girl Friend (1929); She's a Pippin (1929); Take Your Pick (1929); Have Patience (1929); Hold Your Horses (1929); Out at Home (1929); Watch the Birdie (1928); The Newlyweds' Visit (1928); Teacher's Pest (1928); Buster Trims Up (1928); Halfback Buster (1928); Busting Buster (1928); Good Scout Buster (1928); Buster Minds the Baby (1928); Sailor George (1928); She's My Girl (1928); Big Game George (1928); George's School Daze (1928); George Meets George (1928); When George Hops (1928); Watch, George! (1928); Man of Letters (1928); George's False Alarm (1928); High Flyin' George (1928); On Deck (1927); The Disordered Orderly (1927); Rushing Business (1927); On Furlough (1927); What an Excuse (1927); My Mistake (1927); Jane's Sleuth (1927); A Gym Dandy (1927); Auntie's Ante (1927); All Wet (1927); Ask Dad (1927); What's Your Hurry? (1927); Jane's Predicament (1926); Jane's Engagement Party (1926); Please Excuse Me (1926); Which Is Which? (1926).

Recommended reading - Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (1899):

Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad.

Mass Market Paperback

First published 1899.

Published by Penguin Books.

ISBN 13: 9780140431681

ISBN 10: 0140431683

ASIN: B001KTM47C

Author Joseph Conrad based this novella on his own personal experiences, during a voyage up the Congo River in 1890.

This novella was the inspiration for the movie Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Description:

Written in the last year of the nineteenth century, Heart of Darkness can be seen in many ways as the first twentieth-century novel.

Its climate of doubt and vagueness, its loss of moral confidence and its need for belief in the midst of spiritual wilderness, its exploration of the subconscious and its affirmation of individual freedom are all themes that were to have an influence on writers such as Orwell, Godling Céline, Borges and Eliot.

In Heart of Darkness Conrad unfolds the story of Marlow’s search for Mr Kurtz, the company agent whose ‘unlawful soul’ has been ‘beguiled beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations’ in his dealings with the natives of the Belgian Congo. Marlow’s adventure involves him in a crucial reappraisal of his own values. It is Kurtz, however, who attains to a vision of the inexpressible, terrifying reality of the heart in this extraordinary exploration of human savagery and despair.

Book cover image: The Steamer Stanley, by F. Hens.

Born on this day – Genevieve Tobin:

Genevieve Tobin

Actress

November 29, 1899 – July 31, 1995

Credits:

A Lady Surrenders (1930); Breakdowns of 1936 (1936); Broadway Hostess (1935); By Your Leave (1934); Dark Hazard (1934); Dramatic School (1938); Easy to Love (1934); Free Love (1930); Golden Harvest (1933); Goodbye Again (1933); Here's to Romance (1935); Hollywood Speaks (1932); I Loved a Woman (1933); Infernal Machine (1933); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); No Mother to Guide Her (1923); No Time for Comedy (1940); One Hour with You (1932); Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939); Perfect Understanding (1933); Pleasure Cruise (1933); Queen of Crime (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934); Seed (1931); Snowed Under (1936); Success at Any Price (1934); The 9th Guest (1934); The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935); The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932); The Country Cousin (1919); The Duke Comes Back (1937); The Gay Diplomat (1931); The Goose and the Gander (1935); The Great Gambini (1937); The Man in the Mirror (1936); The Petrified Forest (1936); The Woman in Red (1935); The Wrecker (1933); Uncertain Lady (1934); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910); Up for Murder (1931); Victory Plays (1932); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939); Zaza (1938).

Born on this day – W. R. Burnett:

W. R. Burnett

Writer

November 25, 1899 – April 25, 1982

Credits:

Books:

Little Caesar (1929); The Silver Eagle (1931); Dark Hazard (1933); The Goodhues of Sinking Creek (1934); High Sierra (1940); Nobody Lives Forever (1943); The Quick Brown Fox (1943); Tomorrow's Another Day (1945); Romelle (1946); The Asphalt Jungle (1949); Little Men, Big World (1951); Vanity Row (1952); Underdog (1957); Conant (1961); Round the Clock At Volari's (1961); The Widow Barony (1962); The Abilene Samson (1963); The Cool Man (1968); Good-bye, Chicago (1981); Four novel omnibus: Little Caesar / The Asphalt Jungle / High Sierra / Vanity Row (1984).

Movies and television:

4 for Texas (1963); 36 Hours to Kill (1936); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); Accused of Murder (1956); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Arrowhead (1953); Background to Danger (1943); Belle Starr's Daughter (1948); Bonanza (1968); Cairo (1963); Captain Lightfoot (1955); Colorado Territory (1949); Cool Breeze (1972); Crash Dive (1943); Dance Hall (1941); Danger (1950); Dangerous Mission (1954); Dark Command (1940); Dark Hazard (1934); Dr. Socrates (1935); High Sierra (1940); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); Ice Station Zebra (1968); Illegal (1955); Iron Man (1951); King of the Underworld (1939); Kraft Theatre (1949); Law and Order (1932/ 1940 / 1953); Little Caesar (1931); Naked City (1960); Night People (1954); Nobody Lives Forever (1946); Off to See the Wizard (1967); San Antonio (1945); Scarface (1932); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); September Storm (1960); Sergeants 3 (1962); Short Cut to Hell (1957); Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937); Stiletto (1969); Studio 57 (1956); Studio One (1952); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); The Asphalt Jungle (1961); The Badlanders (1958); The Beast of the City (1932); The Finger Points (1931); The Getaway (1941); The Great Escape (1963); The Hangman (1959); The Iron Man (1931); The Jackals (1967); The Lawbreakers (1961); The Legend of Jesse James (1965); The Man I Love (1946); The Racket (1951); The Untouchables (1960); The Virginian (1967); The Westerner (1940); The Whole Town's Talking (1935); This Gun for Hire (1942); Vendetta (1950); Wake Island (1942); Wild West Days (1937); Wine, Women and Horses (1937); Yellow Sky (1948).

Born on this day – Whistlin' Alex Moore:

Whistlin' Alex Moore

Blues singer

Pianist

Whistler

November 22, 1899 – January 20, 1989

Credits:

Albums:

Finding My Way (2015); From North Dallas to the East Side (1994); In Europe (1970); Miracle Working God (2020); Whistlin' Alex Moore (1929-1951) (2005); Whistling Alexander Moore (1961); Wiggle Tail: Original, Eccentric, Legendary and Lascivious Piano Playing and Stories (1988).

Songs:

Across The Atlantic Ocean; Alex's Blues; Alex's Boogie; Alex's Rag; Alex's Wild Blues; Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls; Blue Bloomer Blues; Boogie In The Barrel; Boogiein' in Strassburg; Bull Con Blues; Chock House Boogie; Frisky Gal; Going Back to Foggy Bottom; Hard Hearted Woman; Heart Wrecked Blues; I Want My Mary; Ice Pick Blues; If I Lose You Woman; It Wouldn't Be So Hard; July Boogie; Lillie Mae Boogie; Miss No-Good Weed; New Miss No-Good Weed; Pretty Woman with a Sack Dress On; Rock and Roll Bed; Rubber Tired Hack; Sometime I Feel Worried; They May Not Be My Toes; West Texas Woman; Whistling Alex Moore's Blues; You Got Me Dissatisfied; You Say I'm a Bad Feller.

Born on this day – Jobyna Ralston:

Jobyna Ralston

Actress

November 21, 1899 – January 22, 1967

Credits:

Sheer Luck (1931); Rough Waters (1930); The College Coquette (1929); Some Mother's Boy (1929); The Power of the Press (1928); The Toilers (1928); Black Butterflies (1928); The Big Hop (1928); The Count of Ten (1928); The Night Flyer (1928); Little Mickey Grogan (1927); Pretty Clothes (1927); A Racing Romeo (1927); Lightning (1927); Wings (1927); Special Delivery (1927); The Kid Brother (1927); Gigolo (1926); Sweet Daddies (1926); For Heaven's Sake (1926); Soft Pedal (1926); Don't Butt In (1926); Between Meals (1926); Whispering Lions (1925); Are Parents Pickles? (1925); The Freshman (1925); Hot Water (1924); Girl Shy (1924); Winner Take All (1923); Why Worry? (1923); For Guests Only (1923); For Art's Sake (1923); Speed the Swede (1923); Bowled Over (1923); For Safe Keeping (1923); Shoot Straight (1923); Do Your Stuff (1923); Tight Shoes (1923); A Loose Tightwad (1923); Jailed and Bailed (1923); Once Over (1923); Don't Say Die (1923); Mr. Hyppo (1923); Paste and Paper (1923); Watch Your Wife (1923); Fire the Fireman (1922); The White Blacksmith (1922); Fair Week (1922); I’ll Take Vanilla (1922); Blaze Away (1922); The Flivver (1922); Harvest Hands (1922); Washed Ashore (1922); Shine 'em Up! (1922); The Golf Bug (1922); Shiver and Shake (1922); Out on Bail (1922); The Uppercut (1922); Face the Camera (1922); Soak the Sheik (1922); Bone Dry (1922); The Landlubber (1922); Wet Weather (1922); Rough on Romeo (1922); The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922); The Truth Juggler (1922); Touch All the Bases (1922); Take Next Car (1922); The Bride-to-Be (1922); Friday, the Thirteenth (1922); The Call of Home (1922); The Brown Derby (1921); Don't Marry (1921); An Eastern Breeze (1921); Humor Risk (1921); A Sailor-Made Man (1921); Bride and Broom (1921); Ball Bearing, But Hard Running (1920); The Sultan of Djazz (1919); The Shimmy Gym (1919); Starting Out in Life (1919).

Born on this day – Frank McDonald:

Frank McDonald

Director

Actor

November 9, 1899 – March 8, 1980

Born on this day – Little Hat Jones:

Little Hat Jones

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 5, 1899 – March 7, 1981

Credits:

Songs:

Awful Moaning Blues, Pt. 1; Awful Moaning Blues, Pt. 2; Boe Hog Blues; Bye Bye Baby; Bye Bye Baby Blues; Cherry Street Blues; Corpus Blues; Cross The Water Blues; Frost Texas Tornado Blues; Gold Tooth Blues; Hurry Blues; Johnny Behren's Blues; Kentucky Blues; Little Hat Blues; New Two Sixteen Blues; Ninety-Eight Degree Blues; Rolled From Side To Side Blues; Seen Better Days; Two String Blues; Water Bound Blues.

Born on this day – Josephine Hill:

Josephine Hill

Actress

October 3, 1899 – December 17, 1989

Born on this day – Edith Roberts:

Edith Roberts

Actress

September 17, 1899 – August 20, 1935

Born on this day – May McAvoy:

May McAvoy

Actress

September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984

Credits:

1-2-3-Go! (1941); A Date with Judy (1948); A Homespun Vamp (1922); A Perfect Lady (1918); A Private Scandal (1921); A Reno Divorce (1927); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); A Virginia Courtship (1921); Air Raid Wardens (1943); Almonds and Raisins (1984); Assignment in Brittany (1943); Ben-Hur (1959); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Born to Sing (1942); Caught in the Fog (1928); Clarence (1922); Classified X (2007); Compression (2023); Designing Woman (1957); Dulcy (1940); Everything for Sale (1921); Executive Suite (1954); Gareth Hughes (2000); Grumpy (1923); Gun Glory (1957); Hate (1917); Her Reputation (1923); Historia del cine: Epoca muda (1983); Hollywood (1923); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); If I Were Single (1927); I'll Say So (1918); Irish Hearts (1927); Jailhouse Rock (1957); Kick In (1922); Lady Windermere's Fan (1925); Love Crazy (1941); Love Wins (1919); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Luxury Liner (1948); Main Street on the March! (1941); Man and His Woman (1920); Married Flirts (1924); Matinee Ladies (1927); Morals (1921); Movie Pests (1944); Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919); My Husband's Other Wife (1920); My Old Dutch (1926); My Tomato (1943); Mystery Street (1950); No Defense (1929); Nothing But Trouble (1944); Only 38 (1923); Personality Parade (1938); Phantom Raiders (1940); Ransom! (1956); Ringside Maisie (1941); Rio Rita (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 25 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 17-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 24 (1923); Sentimental Tommy (1921); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Slightly Used (1927); Stolen Kisses (1929); Sucker List (1941); Sunny California (1928); Tarnish (1924); Tessie (1925); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); The Bedroom Window (1924); The City of Stars (1924); The Devil's Garden (1920); The Enchanted Cottage (1924); The Fire Brigade (1926); The Forbidden Valley (1920); The Getaway (1941); The Glass Slipper (1955); The House of the Tolling Bell (1920); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Jazz Singer (1927); The Lion and the Mouse (1928); The Little Snob (1928); The Mad Whirl (1925); The New Pupil (1940); The Passionate Quest (1926); The Road to Glory (1926); The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947); The Savage (1926); The Sporting Duchess (1920); The Tender Trap (1955); The Terror (1928); The Top of New York (1922); The Truth About Husbands (1920); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The Way of a Woman (1919); The Wings of Eagles (1957); The Woman Under Oath (1919); The Yellow Cab Man (1950); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Third Finger, Left Hand (1940); Three Women (1924); Through a Glass Window (1922); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Watch the Birdie (1950); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); West of the Water Tower (1923); Whispers (1941).

Born on this day – George Macready:

George Macready

Actor

August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973

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 – 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 – 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).