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).

Born on this day – Laura La Plante:

Laura La Plante

Actress

November 1, 1904 – October 14, 1996

Credits:

A Bottle Baby (1922); A Movie Mixup (1922); A Shaky Family Tree (1922); A Treacherous Rival (1922); Arizona (1931); Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923); Back from the Front (1920); Beware of Widows (1927); Big Town Ideas (1921); Brand of Courage (1921); Burning Words (1923); Butterflies in the Rain (1926); Butterfly (1924); Captain of the Guard (1930); Crooked Alley (1923); Dangerous Innocence (1925); Dead Game (1923); Desperation (1922); 813 (1920); Easy to Cop (1922); Excitement (1924); Fashion News (1930); Father's Close Shave (1920); Fighting Back (1922); Finders Keepers (1928); Gaslight Follies (1945); God's Gift to Women (1931); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1998); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952); Her Big Night (1926); Her Imaginary Lover (1933); His Four Fathers (1921); His Inheritance Taxi (1922); Hold Your Man (1929); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Home, James (1928); It's a Great Life (1955); Jiggs and the Social Lion (1920); Jiggs in Society (1920); King of Jazz (1930); Little Mister Jim (1946); Lonely Wives (1931); Lost in Limehouse (1933); Man of the Moment (1935); Matching Wits (1922); Meet the Wife (1931); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Old Dynamite (1921); Out of Luck (1923); Perils of the Yukon (1922); Play Square (1921); Poker Faces (1926); Ride for Your Life (1924); Scandal (1929); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 8 (1931); Shootin' for Love (1923); Should Husbands Do Housework? (1921); Should Watchmen Sleep? (1922); Show Boat (1929); Silk Stockings (1927); Skinner's Dress Suit (1926); Smouldering Fires (1925); Society Sailors (1922); Sporting Youth (1924); Spring Reunion (1956); Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931); Taking Things Easy (1922); Telephone Time (1956); Thanks for the Buggy Ride (1928); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 42nd. Street Special (1933); The Alarm (1921); The Beautiful Cheat (1926); The Big Ranger (1922); The Big Town Round-Up (1921); The Call of Courage (1922); The Call of the Blood (1921); The Cat and the Canary (1927); The Church Mouse (1934); The City of Stars (1924); The Dangerous Blonde (1924); The Deputy's Double Cross (1922); The Fast Worker (1924); The Fatal Plunge (1924); The Girl in Possession (1934); The Great Gamble (1919); The Last Warning (1928); The Linkletter Show (1954); The Love Thrill (1927); The Love Trap (1929); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Midnight Sun (1926); The Minute Man (1922); The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921); The Ramblin' Kid (1923); The Ranger's Reward (1922); The Sea Ghost (1931); The Show Boat Story (1989); The Speed Boy (1922); The Teaser (1925); The Thrill Chaser (1923); The Trail of the Wolf (1922); The Wall Flower (1922); True Gold (1923); Widow's Might (1935); Won't You Worry? (1923); You Bet Your Life (1954); Young Ideas (1924).

Born on this day – Moss Hart:

Moss Hart

Playwright

Librettist

Theater director

October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961

Credits:

Plays:

George Washington Slept Here (Kaufman and Hart) (1940); I'd Rather Be Right (Kaufman and Hart) (1937); Lady in the Dark, with Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin (1941); Light Up the Sky (1948); Merrily We Roll Along (Kaufman and Hart) (1934); Once In A Lifetime (Kaufman and Hart) (1930): The American Way (Kaufman and Hart) (1939); The Fabulous Invalid (Kaufman and Hart) (1938); The Man Who Came to Dinner (Kaufman and Hart) (1939); Winged Victory (1943); You Can't Take It with You (Kaufman and Hart / awarded the Pulitzer Prize) (1936).

Movies and television:

A Star Is Born (1954 / 2018); Act One (1963); Answer Yes or No (1950); Au théâtre ce soir (1978); Bam kai kato (1996); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1956); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Camelot (1967); Drei gegen Hollywood (1982); Flesh (1932); Frankie and Johnnie (1936); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); George Washington Slept Here (1942); Gran teatro (1961); Great Performances (1984); Hans Christian Andersen (1952); Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009); Lady in the Dark (1944 / 1954 / 1990 / 2001); Live from Lincoln Center (2015); Make Me a Star (1932); Merrily We Roll Along (2013 / 2024); Miss America Pageant (1958); Musical Comedy Time (1951); Nothing Sacred (1937); Omnibus / Segment: The Nature of the Beast (1953); Once in a Lifetime (1932 / 1937); Person to Person (1959); Play of the Week (1960); Prince of Players (1955); Prisel na veceri (1981); Probe and Night Beat (1956); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1951); Richard Rodgers' Jubilee Show (1951); Saturday Playhouse (1960); Ship's Reporter (1950); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Simple Gifts / Segment: A Memory of Christmas (1978); That Lucky Touch (1975); The 11th Annual Tony Awards (1957); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Good Shepherd (2006); The Great Waltz (1955); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941 / 1947 / 1972 / 2000); The Masquerader (1933); The Mike Wallace Interview (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959–1960); TV de Vanguarda (1954); Una volta nella vita (1963); We, the People (1948); What's My Line? (1951); Winged Victory (1944); You Can't Take It with You (1938 / 1945 / 1947 / 1979 / 1987).

Born on this day – Constance Bennett:

Constance Bennett

Actress

Producer

October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965

Born on this day – Anna Neagle:

Anna Neagle

Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 20, 1904 – June 3, 1986

Born on this day – Lester Dent:

Lester Dent

Writer

October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959

Credits:

The Man of Bronze (1933); The Land of Terror (1933); Quest of the Spider (1933); The Polar Treasure (1933); Pirate of the Pacific (1933); The Red Skull (1933); The Lost Oasis (1933); The Sargasso Ogre (1933); The Phantom City (1933); Brand of the Werewolf (1934); The Man Who Shook the Earth (1934); Meteor Menace (1934); The Monsters (1934); The Mystery on the Snow (1934); The Thousand-Headed Man (1934); The Squeaking Goblin (1934); Fear Cay (1934); Death in Silver (1934); The Sea Magician (1934); The Annihilist (1934); The Land of Always-Night (1935); The Spook Legion (aka The Ghost Legion) (1935); The Secret in the Sky (1935); The Roar Devil (1935); Spook Hole (1935); Dust of Death (1935); Murder Melody (1935); The Fantastic Island (1935); Murder Mirage (1936); Mystery Under the Sea (1936); The Metal Master (1936); The Men Who Smiled No More (1936); The Seven Agate Devils (1936); The Haunted Ocean (1936); The Black Spot (1936); The Midas Man (1936); Cold Death (1936); The South Pole Terror (1936); Resurrection Day (1936); The Vanisher (1936); Land of Long Juju (1937); The Derrick Devil (1937); The Mental Wizard (1937); Mad Eyes (1937); The Land of Fear (1937); The Feathered Octopus (1937); Repel (aka The Deadly Dwarf) (1937); The Golden Peril (1937); The Living-Fire Menace (1938); The Mountain Monster (1938); Devil on the Moon (1938); The Pirate's Ghost (1938); The Motion Menace (1938); The Submarine Mystery (1938); The Giggling Ghosts (1938); The Munitions Master (1938); Fortress of Solitude (1938); The Green Death (1938); The Devil Genghis (1938); Mad Mesa (1939); The Yellow Cloud (1939); The Freckled Shark (1939); World's Fair Goblin (1939); The Gold Ogre (1939); The Flaming Falcons (1939); Merchants of Disaster (1939); The Crimson Serpent (1939); Poison Island (1939); The Stone Man (1939); Hex (1939); The Dagger in the Sky (1939); The Other World (1939); The Angry Ghost (1940); The Spotted Men (1940); The Evil Gnome (1940); Tunnel Terror (1940); The Purple Dragon (1940); Devils of the Deep (1940); The Awful Dynasty (1940); The Men Vanished (1940); The Devil's Playground (1941); Bequest of Evil (1941); The Golden Man (1941); The Pink Lady (1941); The Headless Men (1941); The Green Eagle (1941); Mystery Island (1941); The Mindless Monsters (1941); Birds of Death (1941); The Invisible Box Murders (1941); Peril in the North (1941); The Rustling Death (1942); Men of Fear (1942); The Too-Wise Owl (1942); The Magic Forest (1942); Pirate Isle (1942); The Speaking Stone (1942); The Man Who Fell Up (1942); The Three Wild Men (1942); The Fiery Menace (1942); The Laugh of Death (1942); They Died Twice (1942); The Devil's Black Rock (1942); The Time Terror (1943); Waves of Death (1943); The Black, Black Witch (1943); The King of Terror (1943); The Talking Devil (1943); The Running Skeletons (1943); Mystery on Happy Bones (1943); The Mental Monster (1943); Hell Below (1943); The Goblins (1943); The Secret of the Su (1943); The Spook of Grandpa Eden (1943); According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic (1944); Death Had Yellow Eyes (1944); The Derelict of Skull Shoal (1944); The Whisker of Hercules (1944); The Three Devils (1944); The Pharaoh's Ghost (1944); The Man Who Was Scared (1944); The Shape of Terror (1944); Weird Valley (1944); Jiu San (1944); Satan Black (1944); The Lost Giant (1944); Violent Night (aka The Hate Genius) (1945); Strange Fish (1945); The Ten Ton Snakes (1945); Cargo Unknown (1945); Rock Sinister (1945); The Terrible Stork (1945); King Joe Cay (1945); The Wee Ones (1945); Terror Takes 7 (1945); The Thing That Pursued (1945); Trouble on Parade (1945); The Screaming Man (1945); Measures for a Coffin (1946); Terror and the Lonely Widow (1946); Five Fathoms Dead (1946); Death is a Round Black Spot (1946); Colors for Murder (1946); Fire and Ice (1946); Three Times a Corpse (1946); The Exploding Lake (1946); Death in Little Houses (1946); The Devil is Jones (1946); The Disappearing Lady (1946); Target for Death (1947); The Death Lady (1947); Danger Lies East (1947); No Light to Die By (1947); The Monkey Suit (1947); Let's Kill Ames (1947); Once Over Lightly (1947); I Died Yesterday (1948); The Pure Evil (1948); Terror Wears No Shoes (1948); The Angry Canary (1948); The Swooning Lady (1948); The Green Master (1949); Return From Cormoral (1949); Up From Earth's Center (1949); The Red Spider (1979); Dead at the Take-Off (1946); Lady to Kill (1947); Lady Afraid (1950); Cry at Dusk (1952); Lady in Peril (1959); Hades & Hocus Pocus (1979); Sinister Ray (1987); Honey in his Mouth (2009); Genius Jones (2015); Hell's Hoofprints: The Complete Western Trails Tales of Lester Dent (2009); Dead Men's Bones: The Air Adventure Stories of Lester Dent (2009); The Skull Squadron: The Air War Stories of Lester Dent (2009); Fists of Fury: The Adventures of Curt Flagg (2011); Terror, Inc.: The Weird Mysteries of Lent Dent (2013); Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales (2006); The Weird Adventures Of The Blond Adder (2010); Radio Western Adventures (2010); Hell in Boxes: The Exploits of Lynn Lash and Foster Fade (2012); Doc Savage: The Lost Radio Scripts Of Lester Dent (2007); Six Scarlet Scorpions (2016); Justice, Inc. (1939); The Yellow Hoard (1939); The Sky Walker (1939); The Devil's Horns (1939); The Frosted Death (1940); The Blood Ring (1940); Stockholders in Death (1940); The Glass Mountain (1940); Tuned for Murder (1940); The Smiling Dogs (1940); River of Ice (1940); The Flame Breathers (1940); Murder on Wheels (1940); Three Gold Crowns (1941); House of Death (1941); The Hate Master (1941); Nevlo (1941); Death in Slow Motion (1941); Pictures of Death (1941); The Green Killer (1942); The Happy Killers (1942); The Black Death (1942); The Wilder Curse (1942); Midnight Murder (1942); The Man From Atlantis (1974); Red Moon (1974); The Purple Zombie (1974); Dr. Time (1974); The Nightwitch Devil (1974); Black Chariots (1974); The Cartoon Crimes (1974); The Blood Countess (1975); The Death Machine (1975); The Glass Man (1975); The Iron Skull (1975); Demon Island (1975); Roaring Heart of the Crucible (2013); Python Isle (1991); White Eyes (1992); The Frightened Fish (1992); The Jade Ogre (1992); Flight into Fear (1993); The Whistling Wraith (1993); The Forgotten Realm (1993); The Desert Demons (2011); Horror in Gold (2011); The Infernal Buddha (2012); Death's Dark Domain (2012); The Miracle Menace (2013); Skull Island (2013); Phantom Lagoon (2013); The War Makers (2014); The Ice Genius (2014); The Sinister Shadow (2015); The Secret of Satan's Spine (2015); Glare of the Gorgon (2016); Empire of Doom (2017); Mr. Calamity (2018); Famous Fantastic Mysteries (2017); Black Mask (2017); Thrilling Adventure Yarns (2019); Miami Noir (2020).

Born on this day – Graham Greene:

Graham Greene

Writer

October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991

Credits:

Books:

A Burnt-Out Case (1960); A Chance For Mr Lever (1936); A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire (1936); A Sense of Reality (1950); A Sort of Life (1971); A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992); Across the Bridge and Other Stories (1981); Alaska Stories (1995); Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006); Babbling April (1925); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Blood River (2007); Brighton Rock (1938); British Dramatists (1942); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Carving a Statue (1964); Chicago Stories (1993); Child's Ploy (1984); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Collected Essays (1969); Collected Stories (1973); Complete Short Stories (1990); Contemporary British Short Stories I (1971); Crime Never Pays (2001); David Bowie (2016); Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980); England Made Me / The Shipwrecked (1935); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Fragments of Autobiography (1991); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Friendship (1990); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Getting to Know the General (1984); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories (1947); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Patagonia (1977); In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961); It's a Battlefield (1934); J. D. Salinger (2016); J'Accuse (1982); 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); Journey Without Maps (1936); 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); Little Fire Engine (1950); London Stories (2013); Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Loser Takes All (1955); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (1967); Monsignor Quixote (1982); New Orleans Stories (1992); No Man's Land (2004); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); Orient Express / Stamboul Train (1932); Our Man in Havana (1958); Philip K. Dick (2015); Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 (1972); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Reflections (1990); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Rumour at Nightfall (1931); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Shades of Greene (1975); Shadow of the Silk Road (2007); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Bear Fell Free (1935); The Captain and the Enemy (1988); The Collected Plays (1985); The Comedians (1966); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The Confidential Agent (1939); The Destructors (1955); The End of the Affair (1951); The Great Jowett (1981); The Heart of the Matter (1948); The Honorary Consul (1973); The Human Factor (1978); The Killing Spirit (1996); The Last Word and Other Stories (1990); The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico (1939); The Little Fire Engine (1973); The Little Horse Bus (1952); The Little Steamroller (1955); The Little Train (1946); The Living Room (1954); The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951); The Man Within (1929); The Ministry of Fear (1943); The Name of Action (1930); The Old School (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987); The Portable Graham Greene (1973); The Potting Shed (1957); The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways (1940); The Quiet American (1955); The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975); The Rings of Saturn (1995); The Tenth Man (1985); The Third Man (1949); The Third Man and Other Stories (2011); Third Man (1977); Three Entertainments (1952); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Travels with My Aunt (1969); Triple Pursuit! (1971); Twenty-One Stories (1954); Under the Garden (1963); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); Victorian Villainies (1984); Ways of Escape (1980); Why Do I Write? (1975); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 (1991).

Movies and television:

21 Days Together (1940); A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2013); A Shocking Accident (1982); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); About Religion (1964); Across the Bridge (1957); Alta comedia (1971); Arena (1987 / 1993); Au théâtre ce soir (1980); Beyond the Limit (1983); Brighton Rock (1948 / 2010); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Cineficción Radio (2020); Confidential Agent (1945); Cüneyt Arkin in Yarali Kurt (1972); Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013); Das Geheimnis (1957); Das Herz aller Dinge (1971); Day for Night (1973); De kamer waarin wij leven (1959); Den føjelige elsker (1963); Den nøysomme elsker (1967); Der letzte raum (1966); Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit (1957); Double Take (2001); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); El teatro (1974); Empire of the Censors (1995); England Made Me (1973); Estudio 1 (1982); François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death (1996); Frontiers of Faith (1955); Great Performances (1986); Günes dogmasin (1961); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Honorární konzul (1991); Il treno per Istanbul (1980–1981); ITV Play of the Week (1956); Jádro veci (1968); La fine dell'avventura (1969); La mano dello straniero (1954); Late Night Story (1978); Lights Out (1951); Los exclusivos del Nueve (1982); Loser Takes All (1956); May We Borrow Your Husband? (1986); Ministerstvo strachu (1966); Ministry of Fear (1944); Neodcudzitelný majetok (1984); Noche de teatro (1974); Novela (1976); Omnibus (1968); Orient Express (1934); Our Man in Havana (1959); Pelon talo (1966); Play of the Week (1959–1961); Primera función (1989); Quinta colonna (1966); Saint Joan (1957); Saturday Review (1986); Secrets of the Content (2010); Shades of Greene (1975–1976); Shadowing the Third Man (2004); Ship's Reporter (1950); Short Cut to Hell (1957); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Strike It Rich (1990); Studio 4 (1962); Studio One (1951); Tajný agent (1974); Television Theater (1998); Terror Toons 4 (2022); The Art of Dissent (2021); The Book Programme (1978); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The End of the Affair (1955 / 1999 / 2006); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Fugitive (1947); The Future's in the Air (1937); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Heart of the Matter (1953 / 1983); The Human Factor (1979); The Making of 'Saint Joan' (1957); The New Britain (1940); The Power and the Glory (1957 / 1961); The Quiet American (1958 / 2002); The Smugglers (1947); The Tenth Man (1988); The Third Man (1949–1965); The Unforeseen (1960); This Gun for Hire (1942 / 1991); Thursday Theatre (1965); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Una pistola in vendita (1970); Verschlossene Räume (1958); Went the Day Well? (1942).

Born on this day – Greer Garson:

Greer Garson

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996

Credits:

Radio:

Brief Encounter (1946); Mrs. Parkington (1946); My Favorite Wife (1945); The African Queen (1952); The Philadelphia Story (1942); Twas the Night Before Christmas (1953).

Movies and television:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 24th Annual Academy Awards (1952); 60 Minutes Of (2023); A Gift of Music (1981); A Report from Miss Greer Garson (1944); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); Adventure (1945); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976–1980); American Masters (1986); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); At This Very Moment (1962); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bogart: The Untold Story (1997); Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960); Crown Matrimonial (1974); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978); Desire Me (1947); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Extraordinary Women (2011); Father Knows Best (1957); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); General Electric Theater (1956–1960); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939); Her Twelve Men (1954); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Hist-o-Rama (1961); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hour Magazine (1986); How He Lied to Her Husband (1937); Inasmuch... (1934); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963); James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (2017); Julia Misbehaves (1948); Julius Caesar (1953); Little Women (1978); Madame Curie (1943); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Mrs. Miniver (1942); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Father Gave Me America (1973); Pepe (1960); Perry Como's Christmas in New Mexico (1979); Personalities (1942); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005); Producers' Showcase (1955); Random Harvest (1942); Remember? (1939); Rockette: A Holiday Tribute to Radio City Music Hall (1978); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970); Scandal at Scourie (1953); Screen Actors (1950); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Some of the Best (1949); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Sophia Loren (2019); Star Stage (1955); Strange Lady in Town (1955); Sunrise at Campobello (1960); Talking Pictures (1988); Telephone Time (1957); That Forsyte Woman (1949); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Art Linkletter Show (1968); The Big Party (1959); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Heart of Variety (1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Law and the Lady (1951); The Linkletter Show (1967–1968); The Little Drummer Boy (1968); The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976); The Little Foxes (1956); The Love Boat (1982); The Merv Griffin Show (1963–1971); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Miniver Story (1950); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Red Skelton Hour (1964–1966); The School for Scandal (1937); The Singing Nun (1966); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1972); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Virginian (1970); The Youngest Profession (1943); Theatre Parade (1937); This Is Your Life (1960); This Proud Land (1966); Twenty Years After (1944); Victory in the Pacific (1995); What's My Line? (1953–1958); When Ladies Meet (1941).

Born on this day – Gladys George:

Gladys George

Actress

September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954

Born on this day – Jazz Gillum:

Jazz Gillum

Blues harmonicist

September 11, 1904 – March 29, 1966

Credits:

Songs:

Alberta Blues; Boar Hog Blues; Crazy About You; Down south blues; Early in the Morning; Gillum's Windy Blues; Go Back to the Country; Good Old 51 Highway; Got to Reap What You Sow; Harmonica Stomp; I Want You by My Side; I'll Get Along Somehow; I'm Gonna Get It; I'm Gonna Train My Baby; Is That a Monkey You Got?; Jazz Gillum's Blues; Just Like Jesse James; Key to the Highway; Look on Yonder Wall; Mule Blues; Reefer Head Woman; Sarah Jane; Signifying Woman; Stavin' chain; Sweet Sweet Woman; Take A Little Walk With Me; Take One More Chance With Me; The Race of the Jim Lee and the Katy Adam; War Time Blues; Worried and Bothered; You Got to Run Me Down; You're Laughing Now.

Born on this day – Alice White:

Alice White

Actress

August 25, 1904 – February 19, 1983

Credits:

3-Ring Marriage (1928); A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935); A Very Honorable Guy (1934); A Woman of the Sea (1926); Annabel Takes a Tour (1938); Big City (1937); Breakfast at Sunrise (1927); Broadway Babies (1929); Broadway Highlights No. 2 (1935); Coronado (1935); Cross Country Cruise (1934); Employees' Entrance (1933); Fashion News (1930); Flamingo Road (1949); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928); Gift of Gab (1934); Girls' Town (1942); Girls Will Be Boys (1929); Harold Teen (1928); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 (1934); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hot Stuff (1929); Jimmy the Gent (1934); King for a Night (1933); King of the Newsboys (1938); Lingerie (1928); Luxury Liner (1933); Mad Hour (1928); Naughty Baby (1928); Picture Snatcher (1933); Playing Around (1930); Secret of the Chateau (1934); Show Girl (1928); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Show of Shows (1929); Sweet Mama (1930); Sweet Music (1935); Sweethearts on Parade (1930); Telephone Operator (1937); The American Beauty (1927); The Ann Sothern Show (1958); The Big Noise (1928); The Dice Woman (1926); The Dove (1927); The Girl from Woolworth's (1929); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Night of January 16th (1941); The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927); The Satin Woman (1927); The Sea Tiger (1927); The Widow from Chicago (1930).

Born on this day – Dorothy B. Hughes:

Dorothy B. Hughes

Writer

August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993

Credits:

Books:

Dark Certainty (1931); Dread Journey (1945); Erle Stanley Gardner (1978); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); In a Lonely Place (1947); Johnnie (1944); Mr. President, Private Eye (2004); Ride the Pink Horse (1946); The Bamboo Blonde (1941); The Blackbirder (1943); The Candy Kid (1950); The Cross Eyed Bear Murders (1940); The Davidian Report (1952); The Delicate Ape (1944); The Expendable Man (1963); The Fallen Sparrow (1942); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999); The Scarlet Imperial (1946); The So Blue Marble (1940).

Movies and television:

The Hanged Man (1964); Destry (1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Climax! (1958); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1952); In a Lonely Place (1950); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); Follow the Boys (1944); The Fallen Sparrow (1943).

Born on this day – Helen Kane:

Helen Kane

Singer

Actress

August 4, 1904 – September 26, 1966

Credits:

Babylon (2022); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); BioShock Infinite (2013); Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930); Favorite Melodies / A Lesson in Love (1931); Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer (2024); Grand Piano (2013); Happy Days (1970–1976); Heads Up (1930); Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (1932); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); House of 1000 Corpses (2003); I've Got a Secret (1954); Moon Rock City (2017); Nothing But the Truth (1929); Paramount on Parade (1930); Pennies from Heaven (1981); Pointed Heels (1929); Sweetie (1929); That's Entertainment! (1974); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Chevy Showroom Starring Andy Williams (1959); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1961); The Milton Berle Show (1951); he Tonight Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Vaudeville Show (1953); This Is Your Life (1958); Three Little Words (1950); Unseen Community (2020); We, the People (1950).

Born on this day – Dolores del Río:

Dolores del Río

Actress

August 3, 1904 – April 11, 1983