Born on this day – Charles Barton:

Charles Barton

Actor

Director

May 25, 1902 – December 5, 1981

Credits:

10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948); A Lady's Profession (1933); A Man's World (1942); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Africa Screams (1949); And Sudden Death (1936); Avalanche (1928); Babies for Sale (1940); Beau Geste (1939); Beau Sabreur (1928); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Beggars of Life (1928); Behind Prison Gates (1939); Born to the West (1937); Broadside (1964–1965); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949); Camp Runamuck (1966); Car 99 (1935); Chinatown Nights (1929); Dance with Me, Henry (1956); Dangerous Paradise (1930); Dennis the Menace (1960–1963); Double Crossbones (1951); Family Affair (1967–1971); Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939); Five Little Peppers at Home (1940); Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940); Forlorn River (1937); Free for All (1949); Grindl (1964); Harmon of Michigan (1941); Hazel (1965–1966); Hello, Annapolis (1942); Hello, Everybody! (1933); Hey, Rookie (1944); Honolulu Lu (1941); Horse Feathers (1932); Is Everybody Happy? (1943); Island of Doomed Men (1940); Jam Session (1944); June Moon (1931); Ladies of the Mob (1928); Lady and Gent (1932); Laugh Your Blues Away (1942); Let's Have Fun (1943); Louisiana Hayride (1944); Lucky Legs (1942); Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952); McHale's Navy (1964–1965); Medicine Man (1962); Meet the O'Briens (1954); Men in Her Diary (1945); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Mexican Hayride (1948); Monkey Business (1931); Murder with Pictures (1936); My Brother the Angel (1965); My Son Is Guilty (1939); Nevada (1935); Nobody's Children (1940); Oh, My Achin' Tooth! (1954); Out West with the Peppers (1940); Parachute Nurse (1942); Petticoat Junction (1965–1967); Reveille with Beverly (1943); Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935); Rose Bowl (1936); She Has What It Takes (1943); Shut My Big Mouth (1942); Sing for Your Supper (1941); Smooth as Silk (1946); Spellbound (1945); Studio 57 (1956); Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942); Swingin' Along (1961); The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1955); The Baileys of Balboa (1964–1965); The Beautiful Cheat (1945); The Big Boss (1941); The Comedy Spot (1960); The County Fair (1920); The Crime Nobody Saw (1937); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956–1958); The Great Gildersleeve (1955–1956); The Last Outpost (1935); The Legion of the Condemned (1928); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1964); The Man I Love (1929); The Milkman (1950); The Miracle Man (1932); The Munsters (1965); The New Adventures of Spin and Marty (1957); The Noose Hangs High (1948); The Patty Duke Show (1966); The Phantom Submarine (1940); The Ray Milland Show (1953–1954); The Real McCoys (1960–1961); The Richest Man in Town (1941); The Sea God (1930); The Shaggy Dog (1959); The Spirit of Stanford (1942); The Stu Erwin Show (1955); The Time of Their Lives (1946); The Trumpet Blows (1934); The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947); Thunder Trail (1937); Timothy's Quest (1936); To Rome with Love (1970); Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942); Two Latins from Manhattan (1941); Union Pacific (1939); Wagon Wheels (1934); Wagon Wheels (1953); What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943); White Tie and Tails (1946); Wings (1927); Woman Trap (1929); Young Eagles (1930); Zorro (1958–1959); Zorro, the Avenger (1959).

Recommended reading - Brewster’s Millions, by George Barr McCutcheon (1902):

Brewster’s Millions

By George Barr McCutcheon.

Filmed as Brewster’s Millions (1985), directed by Walter Hill.

Published by Loki's Publishing.

First published 1902.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1636004865

ISBN-13: 978-1636004860

Description:

With the passing of his beloved grandfather, Monty Brewster inherits a long-anticipated million dollars. But he suddenly discovers that he can inherit seven times as much from his eccentric uncle if he spends every cent of his grandfather's money within a year. The carefree prospect of running through a fortune in order to receive an even greater windfall turns into a comic burden because of his uncle's Monty must spend responsibly, showing good business sense, limiting his charitable contributions, and maintaining utter secrecy about the second inheritance.

Can Monty run through the million according to his uncle's terms? His friends are aghast at his madcap extravagance – the gambling, the risky investments, the lavish parties – and Monty's romance with a banker's daughter is imperiled by his seemingly reckless spending. This sprightly comedy, originally published in 1902, offers an atmospheric picture of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century and its intriguing premise has served as the source of ten movie adaptations.

Born on this day – Meredith Willson:

Meredith Willson

Flutist

Composer

Conductor

Musical arranger

Bandleader

Writer

May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984

Born on this day – Thomas H. Johnson:

Thomas H. Johnson

Writer

Teacher

Editor

April 27, 1902 – January 3, 1985

Credits:

Emily Dickinson: An Interpretative Biography (1955); Literary History of the United States (1948); The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960); The Oxford Companion to American History (1966).

Born on this day – Mary Miles Minter:

Mary Miles Minter

Actress

April 25, 1902 – August 4, 1984

Credits:

A Bachelor's Wife (1919); A Bit of Jade (1918); A Cumberland Romance (1920); A Dream or Two Ago (1916); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); All Souls' Eve (1921); Always in the Way (1915); Anne of Green Gables (1919); Annie-for-Spite (1917); Barbara Frietchie (1915); Beauty and the Rogue (1918); Charity Castle (1917); City Confidential (2007); Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016); Dimples (1916); Don't Call Me Little Girl (1921); Drums of Fate (1923); Dulcie's Adventure (1916); Emmy of Stork's Nest (1915); Environment (1917); Eyes of the Heart (1920); Faith (1916); Her Country's Call (1917); Her Winning Way (1921); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Jenny Be Good (1920); Judy of Rogues' Harbor (1920); Lovely Mary (1916); Melissa of the Hills (1917); Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1921); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Nurse Marjorie (1920); Onze filmsterren (1919); Peggy Leads the Way (1917); Periwinkle (1917); Powers That Prey (1918); Reel Life #23 (1916); Rose of the Alley (1916); Rosemary Climbs the Heights (1918); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 22 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 16 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 24 (1923); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Social Briars (1918); Somewhere in America (1917); South of Suva (1922); Stars of Yesterday (1931); Sweet Lavender (1920); The Amazing Impostor (1919); The Cowboy and the Lady (1922); The Eyes of Julia Deep (1918); The Fairy and the Waif (1915); The Gentle Intruder (1917); The Ghost of Rosy Taylor (1918); The Heart Specialist (1922); The Innocence of Lizette (1916); The Intrusion of Isabel (1919); The Little Clown (1921); The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917); The Nurse (1912); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1923); Tillie (1922); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wives and Other Wives (1918); Youth's Endearing Charm (1916); Yvonne from Paris (1919).

Born on this day – Marguerite Henry:

Marguerite Henry

Writer

April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997

Credits:

Books:

A Pictorial Life Story of Misty (1976); Album of Dogs (1978); Album of Horses (1978); All About Horses (1962); An Innkeeper’s Horse (1988); Battle of the Stallions (1988); Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin (1947); Birds at Home (1972); Black Gold (1957); Born to Trot (1950); Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1953); Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley (1996); Cinnabar, the One O’Clock Fox (2014); Dear Margueritte Henry (1978); Dear Readers and Riders (1969); Five o’clock Charlie (1963); Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio / aka The Palio (1960); Going Home (1987); Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1954); King of the Wind (1948); Little Fellow (1978); Marguerite Henry’s Horseshoe Library (1992); Marguerite Henry’s Misty Treasury (1982); Misty of Chincoteague (1947); Misty’s Twilight (1996); Mustang (1966); One Man’s Horse (1978); Our First Pony (1984); San Domingo (1972); Sea Star (1947); Sire of Champions (1988); Stormy, Misty’s Foal (1965); The Auction (1987); The Big Race (1987); The Capture (1987); The Illustrated Marguerite Henry (1980); The Rescue of Sham (1988); The Storm (1987); The Whirlpool (1987); The White Stallion of Lipizza (1976); Treasury of Horses (2007).

Movies and television:

Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1966); Jackanory (1977); Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972); King of the Wind (1989); Misty (1961); Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (1977); The Magical World of Disney (1972).

Born on this day – Shirley Grey:

Shirley Grey

Actress

April 11, 1902 – August 12, 1981

Credits:

City for Conquest (1940); Phantom Ship (1935); The Public Menace (1935); The Girl Who Came Back (1935); The People's Enemy (1935); Circumstantial Evidence (1935); Public Opinion (1935); Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934); Wednesday's Child (1934); Girl in Danger (1934); Beyond the Law (1934); His Greatest Gamble (1934); The Defense Rests (1934); Green Eyes (1934); One Is Guilty (1934); The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934); Sisters Under the Skin (1934); I Like It That Way (1934); Bombay Mail (1934); Twin Husbands (1933); Murder on the Campus (1933); Hold the Press (1933); Too Much Harmony (1933); Don't Bet on Love (1933); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Girl in 419 (1933); Terror Aboard (1933); The Little Giant (1933); Out All Night (1933); Private Jones (1933); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Treason (1933); Uptown New York (1932); Virtue (1932); Drifting Souls (1932); Cornered (1932); Back Street (1932); The Hurricane Express (1932); Get That Girl (1932); The Riding Tornado (1932); Texas Cyclone (1932); Air Eagles (1931); One Man Law (1931); Secret Service (1931); The Public Defender (1931); The Golf Specialist (1930); Who's Got the Body? (1930); Hot Bridge (1930).

Born on this day – Marion Mack:

Marion Mack

Actress

Writer

April 8, 1902 – May 1, 1989

Born on this day – Betty Balfour:

Betty Balfour

Actress

March 27, 1902 – November 4, 1977

Credits:

The Facts of Love (1945); Eliza Comes to Stay (1936); Born for Glory (1935); Squibs (1935); My Old Dutch (1934); Evergreen (1934); The Brat (1930); Raise the Roof (1930); The Vagabond Queen (1929); Bright Eyes (1929); Die Regimentstochter (1929); Paradise (1928); Champagne (1928); Skirts (1928); Croquette (1927); The Devil in the Heart (1927); A Sister of Six (1926); The Cabaret Kid (1926); Blinkeyes (1926); La petite bonne du palace (1926); Monte Carlo (1925); Somebody's Darling (1925); Satan's Sister (1925); Réveille (1924); Squibs' Honeymoon (1923); Squibs M.P. (1923); Love, Life and Laughter (1923); Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922); Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart (1922); Me and My Girl (1922); Squibs (1921); Mary-Find-the-Gold (1921); Nothing Else Matters (1920).

Born on this day – Son House:

Son House

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988

Credits:

Albums:

Been Here and Gone (2003); Country Farm Blues (2010); Death Letter (1998); Delta Blues (1991); Delta Blues and Spirituals (1995); Essential Blues Masters (2009); Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions (1992); Feel Like Going Home - A Film By Martin Scorsese (2003); Forever On My Mind (2022); Got the Blues (2012); Grinnin’ in Your Face (2015); J.D. Short and Son House: Blues from the Mississippi Delta (1963); John The Revelator (Live Radio Broadcast) (2017); King Of The Delta Blues (2006); Legends of Country Blues (CD B) (2006); Les Pionniers Du Blues, Vol. 11: Son House (2019); Live at Oberlin College (Live) (2018); Live At Oberlin College, April 15, 1965 (2018); Live... (2013); Low Down Dirty Dog Blues (2000); Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Son House (2003); Milestones of a Legend - Delta Blues, Vol. 3 (2017); New York Central (2007); Rare Country Farm Blues (2017); Revisited (2002); Son House - At Home - Rochester 1969 (2005); Son House in Seattle 1968 (2018); Son House Library of Congress Recordings 1941-1942 (2014); Son House Live At The Gaslight Cafe Jan 3rd 1965 (2000); Son House Revisited Vol. 1 (2006); Son House Selected Favorites Volume 2 (2006); Special Rider (2000); The 1930-42 Mississippi and Wisconsin Recordings (2021); The Classic Years (2012); The Complete Library Of Congress Sessions, 1941-1942 (Hd Remastered Edition, Doxy Collection) (1990); The Delta Blues Of Son House (2003); Walking blues (2021 Remastered Version) (2022); Wonderful Soundtrack (2016).

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); American Epic (2017); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Better Things (2017); Black Snake Moan (2006); Blues Brothers 2000 (1998); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1994); Blues Masters (1999); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Cold Case (2006); Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 (1996); Fargo (2017); Fear the Walking Dead (2019); Festival (1967); Goliath (2016); Hard Target (1993); In the Aisles (2018); It Might Get Loud (2008); King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story (2018); Later... With Jools Holland (2009); On the Road (2012); ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019); Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (2017); Supernatural (2006); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues (2003); The Blues (2003); The Howlin’ Wolf Story (2003); The Originals (2014); The Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll (2009); The Search for Robert Johnson (1992); The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009); True Detective (2019); Two Trains Runnin’ (2016); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? (1979); White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights (2004).

Born on this day – Louise Beavers:

Louise Beavers

Actress

March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962

Credits:

The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961); The Facts of Life (1960); All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Frontier Doctor (1959); The Goddess (1958); Tammy and the Bachelor (1957); Playhouse 90 (1957); Teenage Rebel (1956); You Can't Run Away from It (1956); Good-bye, My Lady (1956); Star Stage (1956); General Electric Theater (1955); The Danny Thomas Show (1953–1954); Stories of the Century (1954); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); Beulah (1952); I Dream of Jeanie (1952); Colorado Sundown (1952); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951); The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951); My Blue Heaven (1950); The Jackie Robinson Story (1950); Girls' School (1950); Tell It to the Judge (1949); For the Love of Mary (1948); Good Sam (1948); A Southern Yankee (1948); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Banjo (1947); Lover Come Back (1946); Young Widow (1946); Delightfully Dangerous (1945); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Dixie Jamboree (1944); South of Dixie (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); Jack London (1943); Top Man (1943); All by Myself (1943); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Good Morning, Judge (1943); Tennessee Johnson (1942); Seven Sweethearts (1942); The Big Street (1942); Holiday Inn (1942); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Young America (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Belle Starr (1941); Kisses for Breakfast (1941); Sign of the Wolf (1941); Virginia (1941); I Want a Divorce (1940); No Time for Comedy (1940); Primrose Path (1940); Women Without Names (1940); Parole Fixer (1940); Reform School (1939); The Lady's from Kentucky (1939); Made for Each Other (1939); Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938); The Headleys at Home (1938); Brother Rat (1938); Life Goes On (1938); Scandal Street (1938); The Last Gangster (1937); Love in a Bungalow (1937); Wings Over Honolulu (1937); Make Way for Tomorrow (1937); Rainbow on the River (1936); General Spanky (1936); Wives Never Know (1936); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Annapolis Farewell (1935); Million Dollar Baby (1934); West of the Pecos (1934); Imitation of Life (1934); I Give My Love (1934); Dr. Monica (1934); Beggar's Holiday (1934); The Merry Frinks (1934); Cheaters (1934); Merry Wives of Reno (1934); I Believed in You (1934); Glamour (1934); Registered Nurse (1934); Strictly Fresh Yeggs (1934); The Woman Condemned (1934); A Modern Hero (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); I've Got Your Number (1934); Bedside (1934); Palooka (1934); Grin and Bear It (1933); Jimmy and Sally (1933); In the Money (1933); Only Yesterday (1933); Bombshell (1933); Notorious But Nice (1933); A Shriek in the Night (1933); Her Bodyguard (1933); Midnight Mary (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); What Price Innocence? (1933); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Big Cage (1933); Central Airport (1933); Pick-up (1933); The Phantom Broadcast (1933); Girl Missing (1933); 42nd Street (1933); Hunting Trouble (1933); Her Splendid Folly (1933); She Done Him Wrong (1933); Too Busy to Work (1932); Hesitating Love (1932); Wild Girl (1932); Hell's Highway (1932); Divorce in the Family (1932); Doctor X (1932); Unashamed (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); The Dark Horse (1932); Street of Women (1932); The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932); Night World (1932); Young America (1932); You're Telling Me (1932); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); The Expert (1932); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Good Sport (1931); Girls About Town (1931); Reckless Living (1931); Sundown Trail (1931); Annabelle's Affairs (1931); Party Husband (1931); 6 Cylinder Love (1931); Don't Bet on Women (1931); Millie (1931); Paid (1930); Knights Before Christmas (1930); Bright Lights (1930); Outside the Law (1930); Manslaughter (1930); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Recaptured Love (1930); Back Pay (1930); Safety in Numbers (1930); True to the Navy (1930); Honey (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1930); Wide Open (1930); Second Choice (1930); Nix on Dames (1929); Wall Street (1929); Barnum Was Right (1929); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Thunderbolt (1929); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Coquette (1929); Seeing the World (1927); Oriental Hugs (1928); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927).

Born on this day – John Steinbeck:

John Steinbeck

Writer

February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

Credits:

Books:

Burning Bright (1950); Cannery Row (1945); Cup of Gold (1929); East of Eden (1952); Five Best Sellers (1989); In Dubious Battle (1936); Nothing So Monstrous (1936); Of Mice and Men (1937); Of Mice and Men and Short Stories (1937); Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (1978); Sweet Thursday (1954); The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976); The Forgotten Village (1941); The Gift (1992); The Grapes of Wrath (1939); The Long Valley (1938); The Moon Is Down (1942); The Moon Is Down and Short Stories (1942); The Pastures of Heaven (1932); The Pearl (1948); The Red Pony (1933); The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (1953); The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957); The Vigilante (2018); The Wayward Bus (1947); The Winter of Our Discontent (1961); To A God Unknown (1933); Tortilla Flat (1935); Viva Zapata (1975); Zapata (1993).

Movies and television:

A Medal for Benny (1945); A Pérola (1967); A Scene from 'Of Mice and Men' (2020); ABC News Close-Up (1961); Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat: The Theater of War (2005); American Playhouse (1991); Anthropoi kai pontikia (1977); Back in Time (2014); Biography (1999); Breakfast (2021); Cannery Row (1982); Chubby (1972); Curtain Call (1952); Der Rattenkönig (2002); Des souris et des hommes (1971 / 1976); East of Eden (1955 / 1981 / 2026); East of Eden: Art in Search of Life (2005); Fareler ve Insanlar (1975); Film Önü / Arkasi (2019); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Grapes (2017); Grapes of Wrath: The Ghost of Modern America (2019); Helmi (1962); Hiiriä ja ihmisiä (1977); I riassuntini (2018); Ikimize bir dünya (1962); Immortals (2017); In Dubious Battle (2016); Invitation au voyage (2021); Laser Grapes of Space Wrath (2008); Lement a Hold (1992); Lifeboat (1944); Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954); Livsflammen (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Mahalle arkadaslari (1961); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mooso-the Mouse (2019); Möss och människor (1977); Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita (2023); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); O. Henry's Full House (1952); Of Mice and Men (1939 / 1968 / 1981 / 1992 / 2010 / 2014); Omnibus (1954); Ondu Muthina Kathe (1987); Play of the Week (1959); Producers' Showcase (1955); Skids (2016); Studio One (1956); Teatr Polskiego Radia (2015); Television Theater (1957); The English Programme (1988); The Forgotten Village (1941); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Grapes of Wrath: We Shall Overcome (2015); The Harness (1971); The Innocents (2022); The Log from the Sea of Cortez (2025); The Moon Is Down (1943); The Pearl (1947 / 1948 / 2004); The Red Pony (1949 / 1973); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); The Wayward Bus (1957); The Winter of Our Discontent (1983); To theatro tis Defteras (1977); Tortilla Flat (1942); Travels with Charley (1968); TV de Vanguarda (1953–1963); Un siècle d'écrivains (1995); Viva Zapata! (1952); Von Mäusen und Menschen (1968); World in Action (1968).

Born on this day – Ansel Adams:

Ansel Adams

Photographer

Environmentalist

February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984

Credits:

Books:

Basic Photo Book 1, Camera & Lens: Studio, Darkroom, Equipment; Basic Photo Book 2, The Negative: Exposure and Development; Basic Photo Book 3, The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging; Basic Photo Book 4, Natural Light Photography; Basic Photo Book 5, Artificial Light Photography; Images 1923–1974; Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography; Polaroid Land Photography Manual; Polaroid Land Photography; Yosemite and the Range of Light.

Movies and television:

American Experience (2002); Ansel Adams, Photographer (1957); Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002); Ben Casey (1962); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); Electrode Universe (2013); Invitation au voyage (2021); The Other Side of Mars (2019); Today (1985).

Born on this day – Thelma Ritter:

Thelma Ritter

Actress

February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969

Credits:

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968); The Incident (1967); Boeing, Boeing (1965); Move Over, Darling (1963); A New Kind of Love (1963); For Love or Money (1963); How the West Was Won (1962); Wagon Train (1962); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); The Second Time Around (1961); Frontier Circus (1961); The Misfits (1961); Startime (1960); General Electric Theater (1960); Pillow Talk (1959); A Hole in the Head (1959); Telephone Time (1957); Kraft Theatre (1957); The Proud and Profane (1956); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955); Lucy Gallant (1955); Kraft Theatre (1955); Goodyear Playhouse (1955); Daddy Long Legs (1955); The Best of Broadway (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Rear Window (1954); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953); Pickup on South Street (1953); Titanic (1953); With a Song in My Heart (1952); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); As Young as You Feel (1951); The Mating Season (1951); All About Eve (1950); I'll Get By (1950); Perfect Strangers (1950); Father Was a Fullback (1949); City Across the River (1949); A Letter to Three Wives (1949); Call Northside 777 (1948); Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Born on this day – Lyle Talbot:

Lyle Talbot

Actor

February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996

Born on this day – Tallulah Bankhead:

Tallulah Bankhead

Actress

January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968

Credits:

A Royal Scandal (1945); A Streetcar Named Desire (1956); Antony and Cleopatra (1937); Batman (1967); Clash by Night (1942); Dark Victory (1934); Dear Charles (1955); Devil and the Deep (1932); Die! Die! My Darling! (1965); Eugenia (1957); Everyday (1921–1922); Faithless (1932); Foolish Notion (1945); Footloose (1920); Forsaking All Others (1933); General Electric Theater (1957); Her Cardboard Lover (1929); His House in Order (1928); Kraft Theatre (1954–1962); Lifeboat (1944); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Make Me a Star (1932); Midgie Purvis (1961); My Sin (1931); Nice People (1921); Private Lives (1949); Rain (1935); Reflected Glory (1937); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Something Gay (1935); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Tarnished Lady (1931); The Boy Who Owned a Melephant (1959); The Cheat (1931); The Circle (1938); The Daydreamer (1966); The Eagle Has Two Heads (1947); The Exciters (1922); The Little Foxes (1940); The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957); The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1965); The Skin of Our Teeth (1942–1943); The Squab Farm (1918); The Trap (1919); Thirty a Week (1918); Thunder Below (1932); When Men Betray (1918); Who Loved Him Best? (aka His Inspiration) (1918).

Born on this day – Viora Daniel:

Viora Daniel

Actress

January 24, 1902 – May 9, 1980

Credits:

Bulldog Pluck (1927); One Chance in a Million (1927); Quarantined Rivals (1927); Old Shoes (1925); The Cowboy and the Lady (1922); The Son of a Sheik (1922); Cold Feet (1922); 'Twas Ever Thus (1922); Saturday Night (1922); A Barnyard Cavalier (1922); Be My Wife (1921); A Pair of Sexes (1921); In for Life (1921); Let Me Explain (1921); The Easy Road (1921); The Life of the Party (1920); The Fourteenth Man (1920); The Sins of St. Anthony (1920); Thou Art the Man (1920); Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920).

Born on this day – J. D. Short:

J. D. Short

Blues singer

Guitarist

Harmonicist

December 26, 1902 – October 21, 1962

Credits:

Albums:

Blues from the Mississippi Delta, with Son House (1963); Legacy of the Blues Vol. 8 (1973); Stavin' Chain Blues, with Big Joe Williams (1961).

Television:

The Blues (1962).

Born on this day – Peetie Wheatstraw:

Peetie Wheatstraw

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

December 21, 1902 – December 21, 1941

Credits:

Songs:

Ain’t It a Pity and a Shame; Blues At My Door; C and A Blues; Chicago Mill Blues; Crazy With the Blues; Devil’s Son‐In‐Law; Don’t Feel Welcome Blues; Drinking Man Blues; Four O'Clock in the Morning; Gangster Blues; Gangster’s Blues; Good Whiskey Blues; Hog-Love Blues; I'm A Little Piece Of Leather; Long Time Ago Blues; Midnight Blues; More Good Whiskey Blues; Packin' Up Blues; Pete Wheatstraw; Police Station Blues; Saturday Night Blues; Shack Bully Stomp; Six Weeks Old Blues; So Long Blues; Strange Man Blues; Suicide Blues; Sweet Home Blues; Tennessee Peaches Blues; The Break I'm Getting'; The Rising Sun Blues; Working on the Project; You Can't Stop Me from Drinking.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 48 (2010); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Peetie Wheatstraw (2012); Blues Legend 1934-1941 (2011); Blues Legends: Peetie Wheatstraw (2014); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: 1930-1932 (date?); Crazy With The Blues (2007); Macho Persona (2015); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 1930-1932 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 2 1934-1935 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 3 1935-1936 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 4 1936-1937 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 5 1937-1938 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 6 1938-1940 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 7 1940-1941 (2005); Saint Louis - Chicago - New York 1931-1941 (The Blues) (1996); This Is the Blues, Vol. 8 (Mono Version) (1962, EP).

Recommended reading:

The Devil's son-in-law: The story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his songs

By Paul Garon.

Paperback.

Published 1971.

Published by Studio Vista.

ISBN 13: 9780289702116

ISBN 10: 0289702119

ASIN: 0289702119

Description:

Blue-singer, songwriter, piano and guitar player, William Bunch (1902-1941) was well-known as Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law and the High Sheriff from Hell. Long recognized by connoisseurs as one of the most influential blues people of all time, his life and work are little known to the broad public. Blues scholar Paul Garon's important and abundantly illustrated study - drawing on his own extensive interviews with Wheatstraw's relatives, and fellow musicians - brings the exciting Whatstraw saga to life at last. With insight and imagination, Garon explores Peetie Wheatstraw's crucial role not only in blues history, but also in African American urban mythology, and - via a penetrating analysis of song lyrics - his appreciable contributions to blues poetry and to vernacular surrealism. Originally published in the UK in 1971, this substantially revised and expanded edition includes a mass of new information and images, as well as an updated bibliography, discography and index. Also included is a 24-track CD portraying Peetie at his best, with a bonus track by Harmon Ray, the previously unissued Xmas Blues!

Born on this day – Ralph Richardson:

Ralph Richardson

Actor

December 19, 1902 – October 10, 1983

Credits:

Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984); Six Centuries of Verse (1984); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Wagner (1983); Invitation to the Wedding (1983); Witness for the Prosecution (1982); Early Days (1981); Time Bandits (1981); Dragonslayer (1981); The Double Dealer (1980); A Deadly Game (1979); Watership Down (1978); No Man's Land (1978); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); The Man in the Iron Mask (1977); Comet Amongst the Stars (1975); Rollerball (1975); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); O Lucky Man! (1973); A Doll's House (1973); ABC Afterschool Specials (1973); Lady Caroline Lamb (1972); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972); Tales from the Crypt (1972); Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972); Eagle in a Cage (1972); Play for Today (1972); Great Performances (1971); She Stoops to Conquer (1971); Upon This Rock (1970); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); David Copperfield (1970); The Looking Glass War (1970); The Battle of Britain (1969); The Bed Sitting Room (1969); Midas Run (1969); Oh! What a Lovely War (1969); NET Playhouse (1968); Blandings Castle (1967); Khartoum (1966); The Wrong Box (1966); Chimes at Midnight (1965); Doctor Zhivago (1965); Thursday Theatre (1965); The Great War (1964); Woman of Straw (1964); The Largest Theatre in the World: Heart to Heart (1962); Hedda Gabler (1962); The 300 Spartans (1962); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962); Exodus (1960); Oscar Wilde (1960); Our Man in Havana (1959); Theatre Night (1958); A Novel Affair (1957); Smiley (1956); Richard III (1955); Richard III (1955); The Holly and the Ivy (1952); The Sound Barrier (1952); Murder on Monday (1952); Fireside Theatre (1951); Outcast of the Islands (1951); The Heiress (1949); The Fallen Idol (1948); Anna Karenina (1948); An Ideal Husband (1947); Everyman (1947); Secret Flight (1946); The Silver Fleet (1943); The Avengers (1942); The Lion Has Wings (1939); The Fugitive (1939); Smith (1939); The Four Feathers (1939); Q Planes (1939); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); The Citadel (1938); The Divorce of Lady X (1938); South Riding (1938); Othello (1937); Thunder in the City (1937); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936); Things to Come (1936); Alias Bulldog Drummond (1935); Thunder in the Air (1934); The King of Paris (1934); Java Head (1934); The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934); Friday the Thirteenth (1933); The Ghoul (1933).