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 – Ernest Haycox:

Ernest Haycox

Writer

October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Great Western Stories (2000); A Rider of the High Mesa (1956); Action by Night (1957); Action By Night / Trouble Shooter (1984); Alder Gulch (1942); Alder Gulch / Rider of the High Mesa (1983); Blizzard Camp (2022); Born to Conquer (1999); Brand Fires on the Ridge / aka Wipe Out the Brierlys (1959); Bugles in the Afternoon (1957); Bugles in the Night (1952); Bugle's Wake (1953); Burnt Creek (1996); By Rope and Lead / aka Stage to Lordsburg / Stage-coach (1949); Canyon Passage (1945); Chaffee of Roaring Horse (1949); Clouds on the Circle (1997); Dead Man Range / aka Son of the West (1930); Deep West (1955); Discovery Gulch (1929); Fighting Man / aka On the Prod (1961); Four Great Novels of the West (1997); Frank Peace, Trouble Shooter (1963); Free Grass (1958); Frontier Blood (1974); Great Tales of the West (1994); Grim Canyon (1960); Gun Talk (1956); Guns of Fury (1967); Guns Up (1994); Head of the Mountain (1959); High Wind (1999); Land Rush (1997); Lone Rider (1959); Long Storm (1956); Man in the Saddle (1953); Murder on the Frontier (1954); New Hope (1998); No Law and Order (1954); On a Silver Desert (2003); Outlaw (1953); Outlaw Guns (1964); Pioneer Loves (1948); Prairie Guns (1961); Rawhide Range (1954); Return of a Fighter (1956); Ride the Wild Trail (1974); Riders West (1959); Rim of the Desert (1953); Rim of the Desert / Dead Man's Range (1980); Rough Justice (1951); Saddle and Ride (1958); Saddle and Ride / the Feudists (1980); Scout Detail (1997); Secret River (1955); Sixgun Duo (1965); Stagecoach and Other Stories (1981); Starlight and Gunflame (1973); Starlight Rider (1958); Sundown (1955); Sundown Jim (1955); The Adventurers (1954); The Bold West (1999); The Border Trumpet (1939); The Earthbreakers (1960); The Feudists (1959); The Last Rodeo (1949); The Man From Montana (1964); The Silver Desert (1951); The Wild Bunch (1949); Trail Smoke (1954); Trail Town (1941); Trigger Trio (1966); Trouble Shooter (1954); Vengeance Trail (1960); Whispering Range (1955); Winds of Rebellion (1954).

Short stories:

A Battle Piece (1926); A Burnt Creek Yuletide (1924); A Girl Must Wait (1939); A Man Needs an Answer (1938); A Municipal Feud (1928); A New Deal in Sevensticks (1927); A Rider of the High Mesa (1927); A Wooing in the Wilds (1925); A Young Man's Fancy (1942); Against the Mob (1935); Always Remember (1942); An Interval in Youth (1938); At Anselm's (1944); At Wolf Creek Tavern (1933); Blizzard Camp (1932); Blizzard (1939); Born to Conquer (1936); Bound South (1928); Brand Fires on the Ridge (1929); Breed of the Frontier (1932); Budd Dabbles in Homesteads (1924); By Rope and Lead (1929); Call This Land Home (1948); Change of Station (1940); Contention—Two Miles Ahead (1929); Crossfire (1931); Cry Deep, Cry Still (1948); Custom of the Country (1948); Dark Land Waiting (1940); Dead-Man Trail (1948); Deep Winter (1943); Departure (1946); Deserter at Valley Forge (1927); Discovery Gulch (1929); Dispatch for the General (1942); Dolorosa, Here I Come (1931); Down the River (1938); Drums Roll (1927); Faithfully, Judith (1942); False Face (1926); Farewell, Laramie, Farewell! (1932); Fighting Man (1929); Five Hard Men (1929); Found Out (1932); Fourth Son (1939); Free Land (1937); From the Tuality (1943); Frontier Blood (1926); Gambler's Heart (1933); Guns Up! (1928); Hang Up My Gun (1932); High Wind (1935); Invitation by Bullet (1929); Light of the West (1926); Make Me Believe (1935); Manhunt (1931); Martinet (1941); McQuestion Rides (1931); Mrs. Benson (1948); Night of Parting (1948); Night Raid (1929); Odd Chance (1933); Old Tough Heart (1931); On Don Jaime Street (1940); Once and for All (1935); One Night in Blackfoot (1927); Only the Best (1943); Outlaw's Reckoning (1949); Paycheck (1943); Pistol Gap (1930); Prairie Yule (1925); Pride (1934); Proud People (1936); Red Knives (1925); Renegade Law (1929); Ride Out! (1931); Rockbound Honesty (1926); Room 515 (1940); Scout Detail (1938); Second Choice (1942); Second-Money Man (1933); Secret River (1928); Sevensticks Gambler (1928); Skirmish at Dry Fork (1942); Smoke Talk (1931); Smoky Pass (1934); Snow in the Canyon (1948); Some Were Brave (1940); Son of the West (1930); Stage to Lordsburg (1937); Starlight and Gunflame (1928); Stubborn People (1924); The Bandit from Paloma County (1929); The Belle of Sevensticks (1927); The Claim Jumpers (1940); The Code (1926); The Colonel's Choice (1942); The Coolie Catcher (1923); The Decision (1933); The Desert Eye (1928); The Ditch to Freedom (1924); The Drifter (1940); The Feudists (1932); The Fighting Call (1932); The Grim Canyon (1928); The Gun Singer (1931); The Gun-Shot Path (1927); The Hour of Fury (1933); The Inscrutable Man (1951); The Kid From River Red (1932); The Killers (1930); The Land That Women Hate (1949); The Long Years (1939); The Man From Montana (1927); The Man with Smoke Gray Eyes(1934); The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley (1928); The Quarrel (1941); The Return of a Fighter (1929); The Roaring Hour (1932); The Sheriff of Crooked Rib (1928); The Silver Saddle (1940); The Stranger (1936); The Timberline Fugitive (1927); The Trail of the Barefoot Pony (1929); The Trap Lifters (1922); Their Own Lights (1933); Their Own Lights (1933); Things Remembered (1949); This Woman and This Man (1938); Time of Change (1942); Under Western Skies (1927); Violent Interlude (1949); Way Up the Bozeman (1935); Weight of Command (1940); When Money Went to His Head (1924); Wild Horse Lode (1929); Winds of Rebellion (1927); Woman Hungry (1937).

Movies and television:

Abilene Town (1946); Actor's Studio (1949); Apache Trail (1942); Apache War Smoke (1952); Bugles in the Afternoon (1952); Canyon Passage (1946); Cimarron City (1959); General Electric Theater (1955–1958); Heaven Only Knows (1947); Man in the Saddle (1951); Medallion Theatre (1953); Montana (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Stagecoach (1939 / 1966 / 1986); Sundown Jim (1942); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1959); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); Theatre of the West (1955); Union Pacific (1939).

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).

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).