Born on this day – Robert Montgomery:

Robert Montgomery

Actor

Director

Producer

May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981

Credits:

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006); Another Language (1933); Arena (1983); Art Heritage (1960); Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2021); Biography (2001); Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Breakdowns of 1949 (1949); But the Flesh Is Weak (1932); Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004); Complicated Women (2003); Estrellados (1930); Ever Since Eve (1937); Eye Witness (1950); Faithless (1932); Fast and Loose (1939); Forsaking All Others (1934); Free and Easy (1930); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Fugitive Lovers (1934); Going Hollywood (1933); Haunted Honeymoon (1940); Hell Below (1933); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Hide-Out (1934); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); Hollywood Greats (1978–1979); Hollywood Handicap (1938); Hollywood on Parade (1934); Hollywood on Trial (1976); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Ingrid (1984); Inspiration (1931); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); John Ford (1992); June Bride (1948); Lady in the Lake (1946); Land of Liberty (1939); Letty Lynton (1932); Live, Love and Learn (1937); Love in the Rough (1930); Lovers Courageous (1932); Lusitania Illusion (2010); Made on Broadway (1933); Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941); Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths (2004); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); Navy Log (1958); Night Flight (1933); Night Must Fall (1937); No More Ladies (1935); Once More, My Darling (1949); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Petticoat Fever (1936); Piccadilly Jim (1936); President Hollywood (2008); Private Lives (1931); Rage in Heaven (1941); Reagan (2011); Review (1970); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); Riptide (1934); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1957); Screen Snapshots (1932); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 8 (1936); Shipmates (1931); So This Is College (1929); Some of the Best (1949); Starlit Days at the Lido (1935); Strangers May Kiss (1931); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Big House (1930); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Divorcee (1930); The Earl of Chicago (1940); The Easiest Way (1931); The First Hundred Years (1937); The Gallant Hours (1960); The Jack Benny Program (1951); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); The Man in Possession (1931); The Merv Griffin Show (1963–1966); The Mike Douglas Show (1963); The Milton Berle Show (1950); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Mystery of Mr. X (1934); The Name's the Same (1953); The Perfect Match - The Sport of Polo in the US (2018); The Reagans (2020); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Saxon Charm (1948); The Secret Land (1948); The Single Standard (1929); The Sins of the Children (1930); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960–1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969); The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 (Second Series) (1931); Their Own Desire (1929); They Were Expendable (1945); This Side of Heaven (1934); Three Live Ghosts (1929); Three Loves Has Nancy (1938); Today (1960); Trouble for Two (1936); Unfinished Business (1941); Untamed (1929); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); War Nurse (1930); What's My Line? (1957); When Ladies Meet (1933).

Born on this day – Margery Allingham:

Margery Allingham

Writer

May 20, 1904 – June 30, 1966

Credits:

Books:

A Brief History of Witchcraft (1998); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Surprise for Christmas (2020); A Very Murderous Christmas (2018); Black Plumes (1940); Blackkerchief Dick (1923); Bodies from the Library 2 (2019); Bodies from the Library 6 (2023); Canine Crimes (1993); Capital Crimes (2015); Cargo of Eagles (1968); Christmas Crimes (1996); Classic Christmas Crime Stories (2023); Coroner's Pidgin / aka Pearls Before Swine (1945); Crime and Mr Campion (1959); Crimson Snow (2016); Dance of the Years / aka The Gallantrys (1943); Dancers in Mourning / aka Who Killed Chloe? (1937); Deadlier / 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women (2017); Deadly Duo / aka Take Two at Bedtime (1949); Death of a Ghost (1934); Detective Duos (1997); Fifty Best Mysteries (2004); Flowers for the Judge (1936); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Hide my Eyes / aka Tether's End (1958); Look to the Lady / aka The Gyrth Chalice Mystery (1931); Miraculous Mysteries (2017); More Work for the Undertaker (1948); Mr Campion, Criminologist (1977); Mr. Campion and Others (1937); Mr. Campion's Clowns (1967); Mr. Campion's Falcon / aka Mr. Campion's Quarry (1969); Mr. Campion's Farthing (1969); Mr. Campion's Lady (1965); Murder at Christmas (2019); Murder at the Manor (2016); Murder in a Heatwave (2023); Murder In Midsummer (2019); Murder in Midwinter (2020); Murder on a Winter's Night (2021); Murder On Christmas Eve (2017); Murder Under the Christmas Tree (2016); Murder Under the Mistletoe (1992); My Friend Mr Campion (2011); Mysterious Pleasures (2003); Mystery for Christmas (1993); Mystery Mile (1930); Nine Detective Stories (1964); No Love Lost (1954); Police at the Funeral (1931); Rogues' Holiday (1935); Safer Than Love (1954); Serpents in Eden (2016); Silent Nights (2015); Six Against the Yard (1989); Sweet Danger / aka The Fear Sign (1933); The Allingham Case-Book (1969); The Allingham Minibus / aka Mr. Campion's Lucky Day and Other Short Stories (1973); The Beckoning Lady / aka The Estate of the Beckoning Lady (1955); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Case of the Late Pig (1937); The Casebook of Mr Campion (1947); The China Governess (1962); The Crime At Black Dudley / aka The Black Dudley Murder (1929); The Darings of the Red Rose (1995); The Devil and Her Son (1936); The Fashion in Shrouds (1938); The Man of Dangerous Secrets / aka Other Man's Danger (1933); The Margery Allingham Omnibus (1983); The Mind Readers (1965); The Mysterious Mr. Campion (1963); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Patient at Peacocks Hall (1954); The Return of Mr. Campion (1989); The Tiger in the Smoke (1952); The White Cottage Mystery (1928); Traitor's Purse (1941); Wanted: Someone Innocent (1946); Water in a Sieve (1925).

Movies and television:

Dancers in Mourning (1959); Death of a Ghost (1960); Detective (1968); Die Kriminalerzählung (1973); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1962); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Mystery!: Campion (1989–1990); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); Panorama (1958); Room to Let (1950); The Unforeseen (1959); Tiger in the Smoke (1956).

Born on this day – Jean Gabin:

Jean Gabin

Actor

Singer

May 17, 1904 – November 15, 1976

Born on this day – Ethel Moses:

Ethel Moses

Actress

April 29, 1904 – June 1, 1982

Credits:

Stage:

Black Birds of 1935 (1935); Keep Shuffling (1928); Show Boat (1932).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2008); Birthright (1924); Birthright (1938); Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934); Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935); God's Step Children (1938); Gone Harlem (1938); Temptation (1935); Underworld (1937).

Born on this day – Bruce Cabot:

Bruce Cabot

Actor

April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972

Born on this day – Richard Eberhart:

Richard Eberhart

Writer

April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005

Born on this day – Leroy Carr:

Leroy Carr

Blues singer

Songwriter

Pianist

March 27, 1904 – April 29, 1935

Credits:

Albums:

(1930-1958) Remaining Titles & Alternate Takes (1989); A City Man (2015); A Summer Sky Shines (2015); ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 (2010); American Blues Legend (2006); Another Side of Leroy Carr (2023); Bad Liquor Blues (2020); Blues Before Sunrise (1960); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 4: 1932–1934 (1992); Florida (2018); Hard Time Blues (2006); Hurry Down Sunshine (1995); I Keep the Blues (2018); It's Just a Rag! The Mighty Piano of Leroy Carr (2020); Leroy Carr Maestro (2015); Leroy Carr Sings Vintage Blues (2013); Leroy Carr Vol. 1 (1928-1929) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 2 (1929-1930) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 3 (1930-1932) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 4 (1932-1934) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 5 (1934) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 6 (1934-1935) (2005); Let's Spend an Evening with Leroy Carr (2020); Midnight Hour Blues (2021); Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962); Naptown Blues 1929-1934 (1983); Presenting Leroy Carr (1928); Prison Bound Blues (2004); Rocks In My Bed (2016); Tennessee Bluesman (2020); The Blues Collective -Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell (2023); The Blues of Leroy Carr 2011); The Essential (2002); The Essential Leroy Carr (2014); The Piano Blues 1930-1935 (2014); The Piano Blues Vol. 2: 1929-1935 (2014); Tonight in Time (2015); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD A (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD B (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD C (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD D (2008); When The Sun Goes Down 1934-1941 (2011); Whiskey Is My Habit, Good Women Is All I Crave: The Best Of Leroy Carr (2004).

Songs:

Alabama Women Blues; Barrel House Woman; Blues Before Sunrise; Christmas in Jail - Ain't That a Pain; Don't Start No Stuff; E Blues; Four Day Rider; George Street Blues; Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog; How Long - How Long Blues; How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone; Kokomo Blues; Let's Disagree; Little Boy Blue; Low Down Dog Blues; Mean Mistreater Mama No. 2; Midnight Hour Blues; My Own Lonesome Blues; Naptown Blues; Papa's on the House Top; Penal Farm Blues; Prison Bound Blues; Shady Lane; Six Cold Feet in the Ground; Six Cold Feet of Ground; Sloppy Drunk Blues; Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 1; Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 2; Suicide Blues; That's All Right for You; Trouble Blues, Part 2; When the Sun Goes Down.

Born on this day – Patrick Hamilton:

Patrick Hamilton

Writer

March 17, 1904 – September 23, 1962

Credits:

Books and plays:

Craven House (1926); Gas Light / aka Angel Street (1942); Hangover Square (1941); Impromptu in Moribundia (1939); John Brown's Body (1930); Monday Morning (1925); Money with Menaces (1939); Rope / aka Rope's End (1929); The Charmer / aka Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953); The Duke in Darkness (1942); The Man Upstairs (1954); The Midnight Bell (1929); The Plains of Cement (1934); The Siege of Pleasure (1932); The Slaves of Solitude (1947); The West Pier (1952); Twopence Coloured (1928); Unknown Assailant (1955).

Movies and television:

Alta comedia (1971); Anatomie eines Unfalls (1965); Angel Street (1946); Au théâtre ce soir (1971); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1957); Bitter Harvest (1963); Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1953); Craven House (1950); De strop (1965 / 1968); Der Herr im ersten Stock (1957); Drohung bei Mondlicht (1987); El mundo del espectáculo (1979); Encounter (1952–1954); Gas Light (1939 / 1948); Gaslicht (1956 / 1960 / 1962 / 1977); Gaslight (1940 / 1944 / 1947 / 1958 / 1959); Gaslight / Podcast Series (2023); Gaslys (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952–1958); Hangover Square (1945 / 2009); ITV Play of the Week / Angel Street; Rope's End (1957–1960); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Köysi (1967); Luce a gas (1958 / 1966); Matinee Theatre (1958); Obsession (1966); Ponds Theater (1954); Rope (1939 / 1947 / 1948 / 1953 / 1957 / 2020); Saturday Playhouse (1958); Shell Presents (1959); Suspense (1963); Suspicion (1958); Teatro de misterio (1970); The Charmer (1987); The Duke in Darkness (1948 / 1957); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Governess (1949 / 1957 / 1958); The Man Upstairs (1954); To the Public Danger (1948); To theatro tis Defteras (1981); Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005).

Born on this day – Dr. Seuss:

Dr. Seuss

Writer

Illustrator

Animator

Director

March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991

Credits:

Horton Hatches the Egg (1940); Horton Hears a Who! (1954); The Cat in the Hat (1957); The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958); The Cat in the Hat Songbook (1967); The Cat's Quizzer (1976); I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978); And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937); The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938); The Seven Lady Godivas (1939); The King's Stilts (1939); McElligot's Pool (1947); Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948); Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949); If I Ran the Zoo (1950); Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953); On Beyond Zebra! (1955); If I Ran the Circus (1956); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957); Happy Birthday to You! (1959); Green Eggs and Ham (1960); One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960); Ten Apples Up on Top! (1961); Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962); Hop on Pop (1963); Dr. Seuss's ABC (1963); Fox in Socks (1965); I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965); I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (1965); Come over to My House (1966); The Foot Book (1968); The Eye Book (1968); My Book about Me (1969); Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1970); The Lorax (1971); I Can Write! (1971); In a People House (1972); Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (1972); The Shape of Me and Other Stuff (1973); Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973); There's a Wocket in my Pocket! (1974); Great Day for Up (1974); The Many Mice of Mr. Brice (1974); Wacky Wednesday (1974); Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog? (1975); Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! (1975); Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (1975); Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! (1976); Please Try to Remember the First of Octember! (1977); Oh Say Can You Say? (1979); Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! (1980); Hunches in Bunches (1982); The Butter Battle Book (1984); The Tooth Book (1984); You're Only Old Once! (1986); I Am Not Going to Get up Today! (1987); Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990); Daisy-Head Mayzie (1994); My Many Colored Days (1996); Seuss-isms (1997); Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (1998); Dr. Seuss's Clever Creatures (2008); What Was I Scared Of? (2009); Fox in Socks, Bricks and Blocks (2011); Sneetches on Beaches (2012); Dr. Seuss's Sleep Softly Book (2012); My, Oh My--A Butterfly! (2014); The Grinch's Great Big Flap Book (2014); What Pet Should I Get? (2015); Oh, the Places I'll Go! (2016); My Book About Christmas (2016); Happy Birthday to Me! by Me, Myself (2017); Gerald McBoing Boing (2017); Dr. Seuss's 1 2 3 (2019); Dr. Seuss's I Love Pop! (2019); Dr. Seuss's People, Places, and Things (2019); Dr. Seuss's Oh, What I've Learned: Thanks to My Teachers! (2022); I Can Draw It Myself, By Me, Myself (1970); Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958); The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961); A Hatful of Seuss (1967); I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories (1969); The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs the Dough (1987); The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories (2011); Dr. Seuss on the Loose (2011); A Who's Who of the Dr. Seuss Crew (2013); Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories (2014).

Born on this day – Glen Miller:

Glen Miller

Composer

Musician

March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944

Born on this day – Frank Gruber:

Frank Gruber

Writer

February 2, 1904 – December 9, 1969

Credits:

Beagle Scented Murder (1946); Billy the Kid (1957); Bitter Sage (1954); Bitter Sage and the Bushwhackers (1984); Black Cat Weekly #98 (2023); Brass Knuckles (1966); Bridge of Sand (1963); Broken Lance (1949); Brothers of Silence (1962); Buffalo Grass aka The Big Land (1956); Bugles West (1961); Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense (1999); Fall-Guy for a Killer aka The Yellow Overcoat (1942); Fighting Man (1948); Fort Starvation (1953); Fourth Postman / Among Those Absent / Lock and the Key (1948); Gunsight (1953); Horatio Alger, Jr (1961); Johnny Vengeance (1954); Little Hercules (1965); Lonesome River (1957); Market for Murder (1947); Missing Widow / Scarlet Feather / I Want to Go Home (1948); Murder '97 (1948); Outlaw (1941); Peace Marshal (1957); Quantrell's Raider / Town Tamer (1984); Quantrell's Raiders (1953); Ride to Hell (1955); Ride to Hell / Lonesome River (1983); Run, Fool, Run aka The Lock and the Key (1948); Simon Lash: Private Detective (1945); Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948); Swing Low, Swing Dead (1964); Tales of Terror (1967); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); The Books of Horatio Alger, Jr (1948); The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965); The Buffalo Box (1942); The Bushwhackers (1959); The Corpse Moved Upstairs (1964); The Curly Wolf (1969); The Dawn Riders (1968); The Etruscan Bull (1969); The Fourth Letter (1947); The French Key aka The French Key Mystery (1940); The Gift Horse (1942); The Gold Gap (1968); The Greek Affair (1965); The Highwayman (1955); The Honest Dealer aka Double Dealer (1947); The Hungry Dog Murders aka Die Like a Dog (1941); The Laughing Fox (1943); The Leather Duke aka A Job of Murder (1950); The Limping Goose aka Murder One (1955); The Lone Gunhawk aka Smoky Road (1949); The Lonesome Badger aka Mood for Murder (1954); The Man From Missouri (1956); The Marshal (1958); The Mighty Blockhead (1945); The Navy Colt (1941); The Pulp Jungle (1967); The Scarlet Feather (1948); The Silver Jackass (1947); The Silver Tombstone Mystery (1948); The Spanish Prisoner (1969); The Talking Clock (1944); The Thirteenth Floor (1948); The Twilight Man (1967); The Whispering Master (1956); This Gun Is Still (1967); Town Tamer (1957); Twenty Plus Two (1961); Wanted (1971); Zane Grey (1928).

Born on this day – Cary Grant:

Cary Grant

Actor

January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986

Credits:

Walk Don't Run (1966); Father Goose (1964); Charade (1963); That Touch of Mink (1962); The Grass Is Greener (1960); Operation Petticoat (1959); North by Northwest (1959); Houseboat (1958); Indiscreet (1958); Kiss Them for Me (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957); The Pride and the Passion (1957); To Catch a Thief (1955); Dream Wife (1953); Monkey Business (1952); Room for One More (1952); People Will Talk (1951); Crisis (1950); I Was a Male War Bride (1949); Every Girl Should Be Married (1948); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947); Notorious (1946); Night and Day (1946); Without Reservations (1946); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); The Road to Victory (1944); Once Upon a Time (1944); The Shining Future (1944); Destination Tokyo (1943); Mr. Lucky (1943); Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942); The Talk of the Town (1942); Suspicion (1941); Penny Serenade (1941); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Howards of Virginia (1940); My Favorite Wife (1940); His Girl Friday (1940); In Name Only (1939); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Gunga Din (1939); Holiday (1938); Bringing Up Baby (1938); The Awful Truth (1937); The Toast of New York (1937); Topper (1937); When You're in Love (1937); Wedding Present (1936); The Amazing Adventure (1936); Suzy (1936); Big Brown Eyes (1936); Sylvia Scarlett (1935); Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935); The Last Outpost (1935); Wings in the Dark (1935); Enter Madame! (1934); Ladies Should Listen (1934); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); Thirty Day Princess (1934); Born to Be Bad (1934); Alice in Wonderland (1933); I'm No Angel (1933); Gambling Ship (1933); The Eagle and the Hawk (1933); The Woman Accused (1933); She Done Him Wrong (1933); Madame Butterfly (1932); Hot Saturday (1932); Blonde Venus (1932); Devil and the Deep (1932); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Singapore Sue (1932); Sinners in the Sun (1932); This Is the Night (1932).

Born on this day – Mississippi Fred McDowell:

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

61 Highway Blues (2011); A Dose Of Double Dynamite (2006); ABC Of The Blues Vol 33 (2010); Amazing Grace & My Home Is in the Delta (2013); Amazing Grace (1966); Ann Arbor, 1971 (Live) (2021); Best Live Country Blues (2022); Blues Masters: Mississippi Fred McDowell (1969); Come and Found You Gone: The Bill Ferris Recordings (2010); Downhome Blues, Vol. 1 (2009); Eight Years Ramblin' (1972); Fred Mcdowell (2014); Fred McDowell, Vol. 2 (1966); Going Down to the River - Mississippi Fred McDowell 1959 (2020); Heritage Of The Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2003); I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll (1969); Jesus On The Mainline (2023); Les pionniers du Blues, Vol. 15 : Mississippi Fred McDowell (2019); Levee Camp Blues (1980); Live at the Gaslight: Set One (2000); Live at the Gaslight: Set Two (2000); Live in New York (1972); Long Way From Home (1966); Long Way From Home: The Blues of Fred McDowell (1990); Mama Says I'm Crazy (2002); Mighty Mississippi (Rerecorded) (2009); Mississippi Delta Blues (1964); Mississippi Fred McDowell (1995); Mississippi Fred McDowell in London (Volume Two) (1970); Mojo Hand: Previously Unreleased (2022); Ole Miss Blues (2022);Portraits: The First Recordings (1997); Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On (2012); Shake 'Em on Down (2015); Shake 'Em On Down: Live In NYC (2016); Standing At The Burying Ground (1996); The Alan Lomax Recordings (2011); The Best of Mississippi Fred Mcdowell (2001); The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Live) (2024); The Essential Fred McDowell (Live) (2022); The First Recordings (1997); The Man from Como, Miss (2020); The Train I Ride (1993); This Ain't No Rock n' Roll (1995); Timeless Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2011); You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore (2010); You Gotta Move (1989).

Songs:

61 Highway; Baby Please Don't Go; Como; Do My Baby Ever Think of Me; Everybody's Down on Me; Fred's Rambling Blues; Frisco Line; Get Right Church; Goin’ Down to the River; Going Away - Won't Be Gone Long; Going Down the River; Gravel Road Blues; Highway 61; I Heard Somebody Call; I Looked at the Sun; Jesus Is On The Main Line; John Henry; Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning; Levee Camp Blues; Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom; My Baby; My Bottleneck; Red Cross Store Blues; Shake 'em on Down; That's Alright; What's the Matter Now?; When I Lay My Burden Down; When the Saints Go Marching In; Write Me a Few Lines; Write Me a Few of Your Lines; You Got to Move.

Born on this day – George Stevens:

George Stevens

Director

Producer

Writer

Cinematographer

December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975

Credits:

The Spirit of Liberation (2017); D-Day: The Color Footage (1999); George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994); D-Day to Berlin: Newsnight Special (1985); The Only Game in Town (1970); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); Giant (1956); Shane (1953); Something to Live For (1952); A Place in the Sun (1951); I Remember Mama (1948); On Our Merry Way (1948); George Stevens' World War II Footage (1946); The Nazi Plan (1945); Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945); That Justice Be Done (1945); The More the Merrier (1943); The Talk of the Town (1942); Woman of the Year (1942); Penny Serenade (1941); Vigil in the Night (1940); Gunga Din (1939); Vivacious Lady (1938); A Damsel in Distress (1937); Quality Street (1937); Swing Time (1936); Annie Oakley (1935); Alice Adams (1935); The Nitwits (1935); Laddie (1935); Kentucky Kernels (1934); Ocean Swells (1934); Bachelor Bait (1934); Hollywood Party (1934); Cracked Shots (1934); Rough Necking (1934); Strictly Fresh Yeggs (1934); The Undie-World (1934); Bridal Bail (1934); A Divorce Courtship (1933); Grin and Bear It (1933); Walking Back Home (1933); What Fur (1933); Flirting in the Park (1933); Quiet Please! (1933); Room Mates (1933); The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933); Should Crooners Marry (1933); Rock-a-Bye Cowboy (1933); Family Troubles (1933); Boys Will Be Boys (1932); The Finishing Touch (1932); The All-American (1932); Who, Me? (1932); The Kick-Off! (1931); Mama Loves Papa (1931); Call a Cop! (1931); Air-Tight (1931); High Gear (1931); Blood and Thunder (1931); The Panic Is On (1931); Let's Do Things (1931); Spuk um Mitternacht (1931); Glückliche Kindheit (1931); Pêle-Mêle (1930); Bigger and Better (1930); Noche de duendes (1930); The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930); Radiomanía (1930); Tiembla y Titubea (1930); Below Zero (1930); La vida nocturna (1930); The Big Kick (1930); Brats (1930); Blotto (1930); The Fighting Parson (1930); The Real McCoy (1930); The Head Guy (1930); Ladrones (1930); Night Owls (1930); Angora Love (1929); Skirt Shy (1929); The Hoose-Gow (1929); Bacon Grabbers (1929); Shy Boy (1929); They Go Boom! (1929); Crazy Feet (1929); Snappy Sneezer (1929); Dad's Day (1929); Men O'War (1929); Leaping Love (1929); Madame Q (1929); Double Whoopee (1929); Hurdy Gurdy (1929); Unaccustomed As We Are (1929); Big Business (1929); That's My Wife (1929); Wrong Again (1929); Liberty (1929); We Faw Down (1928); Feed 'em and Weep (1928); Two Tars (1928); All Parts (1928); Do Gentlemen Snore? (1928); Early to Bed (1928); Should Married Men Go Home? (1928); Should Women Drive? (1928); Their Purple Moment (1928); Tell It to the Judge (1928); Blow by Blow (1928); Came the Dawn (1928); The Finishing Touch (1928); Dumb Daddies (1928); Leave 'em Laughing (1928); Should Tall Men Marry? (1928); Pass the Gravy (1928); The Battle of the Century (1927); Putting Pants on Philip (1927); Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927); Hats Off (1927); The Girl from Gay Paree (1927); Sugar Daddies (1927); Lightning (1927); No Man's Law (1927); The Second 100 Years (1927); The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927); Slipping Wives (1927); The Valley of Hell (1927); The Desert's Toll (1926); The Devil Horse (1926); No Man's Law (1925); Black Cyclone (1925); Looking for Sally (1925); The White Sheep (1924); The Battling Orioles (1924); Roughest Africa (1923); Ladies Last (1930).

Born on this day – Claire Rommer:

Claire Rommer

Actress

December 7, 1904 – August 19, 1996

Born on this day – Elissa Landi:

Elissa Landi

Actress

December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948

Born on this day – Mozelle Alderson:

Mozelle Alderson

Blues singer

November 20, 1904 – February 15, 1994

Credits:

Songs:

Mobile Central Blues; Mozelle Blues; Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat; Room Rent Blues; Sobbin' The Blues; State Street Special; Tall Man Blues; Tight Whoopee.

Born on this day – Renée Saint-Cyr:

Renée Saint-Cyr

Actress

Producer

November 16, 1904 – July 11, 2004

Credits:

27 rue de la Paix (1936); À la recherche de Fernandel (1973); An der schönen blauen Donau (1955); Arlette et ses papas (1934); Capitaine Ardant (1951); Chacun pour soi (1994); Cinéphiles de notre temps (2012); Coctail party (1960); D'amour et d'eau fraîche (1933); Déclic et des claques (1965); Des mots de minuit (2002); Dieu a choisi Paris (1969); Donogoo (1936); En votre âme et conscience (1966); Est-ce bien raisonnable? (1981); Étrange destin (1946); Fleur d'oseille (1967); Il cavaliere di Maison Rouge (1954); Ils sont fous ces sorciers (1978); Incognito (1934); Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1999); La Continental: Le mystère Greven (2017); La femme perdue (1942); La misère et la gloire (1965); La symphonie fantastique (1942); La trilogie des 'Monocle' (2003); La voix du rêve (1949); Lafayette (1962); Le beau voyage (1947); Le billet de mille (1935); Le chemin de l'honneur (1939); Le coeur dispose (1936); Le cowboy (1985); Le dernier milliardaire (1934); L'école des cocottes (1935); L'erreur est humaine (1984); Les femmes du monde (1977); Les loups entre eux (1936); Les Nuits de France Culture (2014–2016); Les pattes de mouche (1936); L'insaisissable Frédéric (1946); L'invité surprise (1989); Madame et le mort (1943); Marie-Martine (1943); Marked Girls (1938); Matin Bonheur (1988); Midi-Première (1981); My Other Husband (1983); Ne rien savoir (1979); Night in December (1939); Now We've Seen It All! (1976); O.K. patron (1974); Palace (1988–1989); Paméla (1945); Paris (1937); Pas de problème! (1975); Pierre et Jean (1943); Prisoner of Paradise (2002); Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973); Red Roses (1940); Retour de flamme (1943); Room Service (1992); Secret Document: Vienna (1950); Si Paris nous était conté (1956); Strange Boarders (1938); Sup de fric (1992); Témoignages (1973); The Knight of the Night (1953); The Monocle (1964); The Pearls of the Crown (1937); The Sexy Dozen (1968); The Two Orphans (1933); Toto (1933); Tous les deux (1949); Trois... six... neuf (1937); Une fois dans la vie (1934); Valse éternelle (1936); Valse royale (1936); Vous intéressez-vous à la chose? (1974).

Born on this day – H.C. Potter:

H.C. Potter

Producer

Director

November 13, 1904 – August 31, 1977

Born on this day – Selena Royle:

Selena Royle

Actress

Writer

November 6, 1904 – April 23, 1983

Credits:

A Date with Judy (1948); As the World Turns (1956); Bad Boy (1949); Bill Slater Show (1950); Branded (1950); Cass Timberlane (1947); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2010); Come Fill the Cup (1951); Courage of Lassie (1946); Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1952–1953); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Gallant Journey (1946); Gruen Guild Theater (1952); Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952); He Ran All the Way (1951); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Joan of Arc (1948); Main Street After Dark (1945); Matinee Theatre (1957); Moonrise (1948); Mrs. Parkington (1944); Murder Is My Beat (1955); My Dream Is Yours (1949); Night and Day (1946); No Leave, No Love (1946); Okay, Mother (1950); Robot Monster (1953); Smart Woman (1948); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Summer Holiday (1948); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Big Hangover (1950); The Damned Don't Cry (1950); The Fighting Sullivans (1944); The Good Samaritan (1954); The Green Years (1946); The Harvey Girls (1946); The Heiress (1949); The Misleading Lady (1932); The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947); The Web (1950); Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944); This Man's Navy (1945); Till the End of Time (1946); You Were Meant for Me (1948); Your Show Time (1949); You're My Everything (1949).