Born on this day – Ruth Selwyn:

Ruth Selwyn

Actress

Producer

November 6, 1905 – December 13, 1954

Credits:

Baby Face Harrington (1935); Five and Ten (1931); Fugitive Lovers (1934); Goofy Movies Number One (1933); Men Must Fight (1933); New Morals for Old (1932); Polly of the Circus (1932); Speak Easily (1932); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932).

Born on this day – Joel McCrea:

Joel McCrea

Actor

November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990

Credits:

Mustang Country (1976); The Young Rounders (1971); Cry Blood, Apache (1970); Ride the High Country (1962); The Crowning Experience (1960); Wichita Town (1959–1960); The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959); Fort Massacre (1958); Cattle Empire (1958); The Tall Stranger (1957); Gunsight Ridge (1957); Trooper Hook (1957); The Oklahoman (1957); The First Texan (1956); Wichita (1955); Stranger on Horseback (1955); Black Horse Canyon (1954); Border River (1954); Shoot First (1953); The Lone Hand (1953); The San Francisco Story (1952); Cattle Drive (1951); Hollywood Story (1951); Frenchie (1950); Saddle Tramp (1950); Stars in My Crown (1950); The Outriders (1950); Colorado Territory (1949); South of St. Louis (1949); Four Faces West (1948); Ramrod (1947); The Virginian (1946); The Unseen (1945); The Great Moment (1944); Buffalo Bill (1944); The More the Merrier (1943); The Palm Beach Story (1942); Sullivan's Travels (1941); The Great Man's Lady (1941); Reaching for the Sun (1941); Foreign Correspondent (1940); Primrose Path (1940); He Married His Wife (1940); Espionage Agent (1939); They Shall Have Music (1939); Union Pacific (1939); Youth Takes a Fling (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Wells Fargo (1937); Dead End (1937); Woman Chases Man (1937); Internes Can't Take Money (1937); Banjo on My Knee (1936); Come and Get It (1936); Adventure in Manhattan (1936); Two in a Crowd (1936); These Three (1936); Splendor (1935); Barbary Coast (1935); Woman Wanted (1935); Our Little Girl (1935); Private Worlds (1935); The Richest Girl in the World (1934); Half a Sinner (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); Chance at Heaven (1933); One Man's Journey (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Scarlet River (1933); Rockabye (1932); The Sport Parade (1932); The Most Dangerous Game (1932); Bird of Paradise (1932); The Lost Squadron (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Girls About Town (1931); The Common Law (1931); Born to Love (1931); Kept Husbands (1931); Once a Sinner (1931); Lightnin' (1930); The Silver Horde (1930); Framed (1930); Dynamite (1929); So This Is College (1929); The Single Standard (1929); The Jazz Age (1929); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); The Divine Lady (1928); Freedom of the Press (1928); Dead Man's Curve (1928); The Enemy (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Torrent (1926); A Self-Made Failure (1924); Penrod and Sam (1923).

Born on this day – Yves Allégret:

Yves Allégret

Director

Writer

October 13, 1905 – January 31, 1987

Born on this day – Michael Powell:

Michael Powell

Director

September 30, 1905 – February 19, 1990

Born on this day – Greta Garbo:

Greta Garbo

Actress

September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990

Credits:

1 a Minute / In memory of: Battled Breast Cancer (2010); 100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 30 Years of Fun (1963); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Man's Man (1929); A Woman of Affairs (1928); Absolutely Do Not Die! (2014); Adam & Yves (1974); Anita no perd el tren (2001); Anna Christie (1930); Anna Karenina (1935 / 2012); Annie (1982); Arena (1991–2012); As You Desire Me (1932); Avocado Toast the Series (2020); Azzedine Alaïa: Un couturier français (2022); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Biography (1998); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Camille (1936); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Century of Cinema (1995); Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2023); Conquest (1937); Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (1955); Diary for My Children (1984); Die Filmstadt Hollywood (1928); Dos reinas (1993); Duels (2015); Ein Idol hat Geburtstag - Die Karriere der Greta Garbo (1957); En lyckoriddare (1921); Film Time (1955); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); First Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Flesh and the Devil (1926); Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! (1931); From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Garabatos Greta Garbo (1944); Garbo (2005); Garbo Talks (1984); Gossip (2000); Grand Hotel (1932); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997); Greta (2019); Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1985); Grosse Fische, kleine Fische (1973); Haunted Hotels of Hollywood (2018); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood Party (1934); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood sul Tevere (2009); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); How Andy invented a superstar: true uncut tales from Andy Warhol's Factory People (2018); How Not to Dress (1920); Inspiration (1931); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996); Kärlekens ögon (1922); Konsumtionsföreningen Stockholm med omnejd (1921); Kvinnor, kvinnor, kvinnor (1997); Le petit prince, naissance d'une étoile (2023); Le vie della Recherche - Luchino Visconti (2006); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Leggende dietro la quinte: Greta Garbo (2020); Love (1927); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); Luffar-Petter (1922); Marlowe (1969); Mata Hari (1931); MGM Parade (1955–1956); Minns Ni? (1993); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moviestar Cartoons (1983); Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (2021); Ninotchka (1939); O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (1991); Prejudice & Pride: Swedish Film Queer (2022); PUB i City (1957); Queen Christina (1933); Romance (1930); S1m0ne (2002); Satin and Silk (2003); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Screen Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Second Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Sensationer (1992); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Siskel & Ebert (1990); Sixty Years of Seduction (1981); Some of the Best (1944); Spécial cinéma (1985); Star Life (1990); Stiller, Garbo & Me (1988); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Casting Couch (1995); The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1972); The Divine Garbo (1990); The Divine Woman (1928); The Dreamers (2003); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Happy Ending (1969); The Joyless Street (1925); The Kiss (1929); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movies March On (1939); The Mysterious Lady (1928); The Painted Veil (1934); The Picture Theatre (1967); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924); The Single Standard (1929); The South Bank Show (2001); The South Bank Show / Greta Garbo: A Lone Star (2001); The Story of Hollywood (1988); The Temptress (1926); The World's Most Photographed (2005); Third Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); Torrent (1926); Two-Faced Woman (1941); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1979); Vi mötte stormen (1943); Vito (2011); Voices Across the Sea (1928); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wild Orchids (1929); Wonderful Times (1950).

Born on this day – William Clemens:

William Clemens

Director

September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980

Born on this day – Meade Lux Lewis:

Meade Lux Lewis

Blues musician

Pianist

Composer

September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964

Credits:

Albums:

A Summer Sky Shines (2015); All That Jazz, Vol. 138: Jabouti! (2021); Barrel House Blues (2020); Barrel House Piano (1957); Bear Cat Crawl (2015); Blues De Lux' (2015); Boogie on Down (2015); Boogie Woogie (1941); Boogie Woogie Boys 1938-1944 (2014); Boogie Woogie Classic Blues Accompaniments (1955); Boogie Woogie Kings (2009); Boogie Woogie Piano and Drums (1955); Boogie Woogie Stomp (1998); Boogie Woogie Trio (2011); Boogie Woogie Trio, Vol. 1 (2017); Boogie Woogie Trio, Vol. 2 (1997); Cat House Piano (1955); Chicago Flyer (2016); Chicago Piano Blues and Boogie Woogie 1936–1951 Vol. 3, Oldie Blues OL 2827 (1984);Colours of Music History (2014); Complete Jazz Series 1939 – 1941 (2009); Complete Jazz Series 1941 – 1944 (2009); Complete Jazz Series 1946 – 1954 (2009); Far Ago Blues (2015); Frompy Stomp (2021); Giant of Blues and Boogie Woogie 1905–1964, Oldie Blues OL 2810 (1982); Gliding from Glendale to Chicago (2005); Honky Tonk Train Blues (2009); Jazz Piano Masters - Meade Lux Lewis (2011); Lux's Boogie (2012); Masters of Boogie Piano: Five Classic Albums Plus (2013); Meade "Lux" Lewis (1939 to late 1940s) (2005); Meade Lux Lewis Selected Favorites Volume 1 (2006); Melancholy (2016); Original Jazz Sound: Cat House Piano 1955 (2012); Shooboody (2023); Spirit of Boogie Woogie (2015); Tell Your Story, Oldie Blues OL 2805 (1975); The Best Boogie Woogie Piano (2013); The Blues Piano Artistry Of Meade Lux Lewis (1990); The Boogie Woogie Trio vol. 1 (1995); The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis (1983); The First Day (1992); The Original Boogie Woogie Piano Giants (2023); The Ultimate Jazz Archive 17 - Boogie Woogie (2 Of 4) (2007); Tidal Boogie (1996); Yancey's Last Ride (1957).

Movies and television:

A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (1999); Ain't Misbehavin' (1974); Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2018); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Cow-Cow Boogie (1943); Emily's First 100 Days of School (2006); Fuzzy Wuzzy (1946); I'll Be There (2003); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Low Down Dog (1944); Mississippi Masala (1991); New Orleans (1947); Nightmare (1956); Swingtime Jamboree (1946); The Blues (2003); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Mike Douglas Show (1962); The Roaring 20's (1961).

Born on this day – Maxwell Shane:

Maxwell Shane

Director

Writer

Producer

August 26, 1905 – October 25, 1983

Born on this day – Friz Freleng:

Friz Freleng

Animator

Cartoonist

Director

Producer

Composer

August 21, 1905 – May 26, 1995

Born on this day – Myrna Loy:

Myrna Loy

Actress

August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927); ABC Late Night (1974); Across the Pacific (1926); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976); After the Thin Man (1936); Airport 1975 (1974); American Experience (1996); American Masters (2009); Another Romance of Celluloid (1938); Another Thin Man (1939); Ants! (1977); Arena (1991); Arrowsmith (1931); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Beware of Married Men (1927); Biography (1995–1998); Bitter Apples (1927); Body and Soul (1931); Bride of the Regiment (1930); Broadway Bill (1934); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); California's Golden Parks (2007); Cameo Kirby (1930); CBS Mornings (1988); Celebrity Talent Scouts (1960); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Columbo (1972); Complicated Women (2003); Consolation Marriage (1931); Day at Night (1973); Death Takes a Holiday (1971); Die Stimme Österreichs (1949); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Don Juan (1926); Double Wedding (1937); Emma (1932); Entertainment Tonight (1993); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Evidence (1929); Exquisite Sinner (1926); Family Affair (1967); Fancy Baggage (1929); Fashion News (1930); Finger Prints (1927); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); From the Terrace (1960); Gala Adlai on Broadway (1960); General Electric Theater (1955–1957); Great Performances (1987); Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927); Hardboiled Rose (1929); Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' (1981); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); Hush Money (1931); I Love You Again (1940); If I Were Single (1927); If This Be Sin (1949); Indict and Convict (1974); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Ironside (1973); Isle of Escape (1930); I've Got a Secret (1960); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); Kilo tissa wa tissaine (1955); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Libeled Lady (1936); Lonelyhearts (1958); Love Crazy (1941); Love Me Tonight (1932); Love, Sidney (1982); Lucky Night (1939); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Man-Proof (1938); Meet Me in St. Louis (1959); Men in White (1934); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Midnight Lace (1960); Moonlighting (1987); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Myrna Loy Remembered (1993); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); New Morals for Old (1932); Night Flight (1933); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Noah's Ark (1928); Northward, Ho! (1940); Omnibus (1969); Parnell (1937); Pay as You Enter (1928); Penthouse (1933); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957); Petticoat Fever (1936); Philbin's People (1970); Pretty Ladies (1925); Rebound (1931); Remember Me (1978); Renegades (1930); Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004); Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930); Scarlet River (1933); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Goddesses (2006); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Show of Shows (1929); Show-Business at War (1943); Simple Sis (1927); Skyline (1931); So Goes My Love (1946); So This Is Paris (1926); Some of the Greatest (1955); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Sporting Life (1925); Stamboul Quest (1934); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); State Street Sadie (1928); Test Pilot (1938); Thalath Nessa (1968); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 32nd Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1967); The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The Ambassador's Daughter (1956); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The April Fools (1969); The Arlene Francis Show (1957); The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947); The Bad Man (1930); The Barbarian (1933); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Black Watch (1929); The Bob Braun Show (1978); The Bushido Blade / Summer Solstice (1981); The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937); The Caveman (1926); The Climbers (1927); The Couple Takes a Wife (1972); The Crimson City (1928); The David Frost Show (1969); The Desert Song (1929); The Devil to Pay! (1930); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1980); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1970); The Elevator (1974); The End (1978); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The George Gobel Show (1959); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Great Divide (1929); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Jazz Cinderella (1930); The Jazz Singer (1927); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Last of the Duanes (1930); The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Love Toy (1926); The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1980); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Midnight Taxi (1928); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1980); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movie Game (1972); The Movies (2019); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Rains Came (1939); The Red Pony (1949); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Sam Levenson Show (1959); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986); The Squall (1929); The Thin Man (1934); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Third Degree (1926); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967); The Truth About Youth (1930); The Virginian (1967); The Voice of Hollywood No. 8 (1930); The Wanderer (1925); The Wet Parade (1932); The Woman in Room 13 (1932); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Third Finger, Left Hand (1940); Thirteen Women (1932); This Is Your Life (1956); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); To Mary - with Love (1936); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1980); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Topaze (1933); Transatlantic (1931); Trifles of Importance (1940); Turn Back the Hours (1928); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twenty Years After (1944); Under a Texas Moon (1930); Vanity Fair (1932); Verdensberømtheder i København (1939); What Price Beauty? (1925); What's My Line? (1960); When a Man Loves (1927); When Ladies Meet (1933); Whipsaw (1935); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005); Wings in the Dark (1935).

Born on this day – Yvonne Howell:

Yvonne Howell

Actress

July 31, 1905 – May 27, 2010

Credits:

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Working Girls (1931); Take Me Home (1928); The Junior Year (1928); Hop Off (1928); The Great Mail Robbery (1927); Somewhere in Sonora (1927); Fashions for Women (1927); The Knight Before Christmas (1927); The Lady of Lyons, N.Y. (1926); A Fraternity Mixup (1926); Flaming Flappers (1925); Transients in Arcadia (1925); Harem Follies (1924).

Born on this day – Clara Bow:

Clara Bow

Actress

July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); All You Need Is Love (1977); Arena (2012); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Beyond the Rainbow (1922); Biography (2002); Black Lightning (1924); Black Oxen (1923); Call Her Savage (1932); Capital Punishment (1925); Children of Divorce (1927); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012); Dancing Mothers (1926); Dangerous Curves (1929); Daughters of Pleasure (1924); Down to the Sea in Ships (1922); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002); Empty Hearts (1924); Enemies of Women (1923); Eve's Lover (1925); Fascinating Youth (1926); Fashions in Love (1936); Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture (2010); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Free to Love (1925); Get Your Man (1927); Grit (1924); Helen's Babies (1924); Her Wedding Night (1930); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Babylon (1971); Hollywood on Parade (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934); Hollywood Rebellen (2013); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Snapshots #11 (1929); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hoopla (1933); Hula (1927); It (1927); Kick In (1931); Kid Boots (1926); Kiss Me Again (1925); Ladies of the Mob (1928); Love Among the Millionaires (1930); Love Lust (2011); Mantrap (1926); March of the Movies (1933); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Maytime (1923); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Monty and the Movies (2024); Movies Golden Age (1961); MsMojo (2023); My Lady of Whims (1925); My Lady's Lips (1925); No Limit (1931); Paramount on Parade (1930); Parisian Love (1925); Poisoned Paradise (1924); Red Hair (1928); Rough House Rosie (1927); Screen Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949); Screen Snapshots Series 12, No. 12 (1932); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 9 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 20, No. 1 (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 28, No. 6 (1948); Screen Snapshots Series 5, No. 4 (1924); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 15 (1924); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Sex in the 20th Century (2001); Shadow of the Law (1926); Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (1998); Shooting the Hollywood Stars (2011); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The Adventurous Sex (1925); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Best Bad Man (1925); The Casting Couch (1995); The Daring Years (1923); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Flapper Story (1985); The Fleet's In (1928); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Keeper of the Bees (1925); The Lawful Cheater (1925); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Pill Pounder (1923); The Plastic Age (1925); The Primrose Path (1925); The Runaway (1926); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); The Scarlet West (1925); The Wild Party (1929); This Woman (1924); Three Week Ends (1928); True to the Navy (1930); Two Can Play (1926); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wine (1924); Wings (1927); Yesterday and Today (1953).

Born on this day – Lila Lee:

Lila Lee

Actress

July 25, 1905 – November 13, 1973

Born on this day – Lionel White:

Lionel White

Writer

July 9, 1905 – December 26, 1985

Credits:

Books:

The Snatchers (1953); To Find a Killer (aka Before I Die) (1954); The Big Caper (1955); Flight Into Terror (1955); The Killing (aka Clean Break) (1955); Love Trap (1955); The House Next Door (1956); Operation - Murder (1956); Death Takes the Bus (1957); Hostage for a Hood (1957); Right for Murder (1957); Coffin for a Hood (1958); Invitation to Violence (1958); Too Young to Die (1958); The Merriweather File (1959); Rafferty (1959); Run, Killer, Run! (1959); Lament for a Virgin (1960); Marilyn K. (1960); Steal Big (1960); The Time of Terror (1960); A Death At Sea (1961); A Grave Undertaking (1961); Obsession (1962); The Money Trap (1963); The Ransomed Madonna (1964); The House On K Street (1965); A Party to Murder (1966); Spykill (1966); The Crimshaw Memorandum (1967); The Night Of The Rape (1967); Hijack (1969); Death of a City (1970); The Mexico Run (1974); A Rich and Dangerous Game (1974); Jailbreak (1976); The Walled Yard (1978); The Time of Terror / A Death At Sea (1961).

Movies and television:

Pierrot the Fool (1965); Rafferty (1980); Reservoir Dogs (1992); The Big Caper (1957); The Hair (1974); The Killing (1956); The Money Trap (1965); The Night of the Following Day (1969); Thriller (1961).

Born on this day – Mary Livingstone:

Mary Livingstone

Actress

Comedienne

June 25, 1905 – June 30, 1983

Credits:

50 Years of Funny Females (1995); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975); Biography (1996); Bright Moments (1928); Buck Benny Rides Again (1940); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Here's Lucy (1970); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); It's in the Bag! (1945); Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970); Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny (1995); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mr. Broadway (1933); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Pair of Jacks (1953); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Show-Business at War (1943); Shower of Stars (1958); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1957); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Jack Benny Program (1950–1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Mouse That Jack Built (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978); This Way Please (1937); Three of a Kind (1941).

Born on this day – Mildred Natwick:

Mildred Natwick

Actress

June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994

Credits:

3 Godfathers (1948); A Woman's Vengeance (1948); Addie and the King of Hearts (1976); Against All Flags (1952); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1958); Alice (1980); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953–1954); Arsenic & Old Lace (1962); At Long Last Love (1975); Barefoot in the Park (1967); Becoming Mike Nichols (2016); Bonanza (1969); Cameo Theatre (1950); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Captain Kangaroo (1978); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Daisy Miller (1974); Danger (1952–1953); Dangerous Liaisons (1988); Deadly Deception (1987); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002); Family (1976); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Goodyear Playhouse (1953); Hardcastle and McCormick (1985); Hawaii Five-O (1978–1979); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969); John Ford et Monument Valley (2013); Justice (1954); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982); Kraft Theatre (1947–1957); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950–1952); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Lights Out (1950); Little Women (1979); Love Story (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Maid in America (1982); Man Against Crime (1949); McMillan & Wife (1975); Medallion Theatre (1953); Money to Burn (1973); Murder, She Wrote (1986); Naked City (1961); Play of the Week (1959); Playhouse 90 (1956); Ponds Theater (1954); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950–1951); Sorry, Wrong Number (1946); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Star Stage (1955); Star Trek: Enterprise (2004); Starlight Theatre (1950); Studio One (1949–1955); Suspense (1949–1954); Tales of Tomorrow (1953); Tammy and the Bachelor (1957); Teenage Rebel (1956); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995); The Adventures of Alexander Hawkins (1985); The American West of John Ford (1971); The Bob Newhart Show (1977); The Booth / Segment: The 75th (1985); The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse (1949); The Clock (1950); The Court Jester (1955); The Doctor (1952–1953); The Easter Promise (1975); he Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Evil Touch (1973); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Kissing Bandit (1948); The Late George Apley (1947); The Long Voyage Home (1940); The Loretta Young Show (1956); The Love Boat (1980); The Maltese Bippy (1969); The Most Deadly Game (1971); The Quiet Man (1952); The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974); The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973); The Trouble with Harry (1955); The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over (2001); The Web (1953); Trapper John, M.D. (1981); Trilogy / Segment: Miriam (1969); Yolanda and the Thief (1945); You Are There (1954); You Can't Take It with You (1979).

Born on this day – Henry Fonda:

Henry Fonda

Actor

May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 12 Angry Men (1957); 13 Stars for Channel 13 (1966); 6 Bullets to Hell (2016); 70 Jahre Berlinale (2020); A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966); A Night at Ford's Theater (1968); A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012); A Salute to American Imagination (1978); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Advise & Consent (1962); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1988); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); All About People (1967); All in the Family (1974); All This and World War II (1976); All-Star Party for James Stewart (1978); Almos' a Man (1976); America Alive! (1978); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2008); America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978); Amérique, notre histoire (2006); An All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1977); An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (1969); An Opera of Violence (2003); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1976); Arena (1983); Ash Wednesday (1973); Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991); Barbra: The Concert (1994); Barn Burning (1980); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil (1968); Benjy (1951); Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Biography (1987–1999); Blockade (1938); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2020); Bob Dylan: Under Review 1978-1989 (2008); Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980); Born to Buck (1966); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Cadet Rousselle (1972); Call Me Kate (2023); Captains and the Kings (1976); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Chad Hanna (1940); Charles Bronson, Hollywood's Lone Wolf (2020); Citizen Jane, l'Amérique selon Fonda (2020); City on Fire (1979); Clarence Darrow (1974); Classic Movie Bloopers (1990); Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976); Comic Relief 2009 (2009); Compression (2023); Daisy Kenyon (1947); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978); Denk ich an Deutschland - Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge (1997); Die VII. Internationalen Filmfestspiele (1957); Dinah! (1975–1977); Directed by John Ford (1971); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Elvis Mitchell in Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (2008); Fail Safe (1964); Family (1979); Famous Nathan (2014); Fedora (1978); Film '78 (1978); Film Making Techniques: Acting (1973); Firecreek (1968); Fonda on Fonda (1992); Fort Apache (1948); Gala Adlai on Broadway (1960); Gala de l'Unicef (1969–1979); Gene Tierney, une star oubliée (2017); General Electric Theater (1955); General Electric's All-Star Anniversary (1978); Gideon's Trumpet (1980); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Good Morning America (1976–1980); Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013); Gunfighters of the Old West (1992); Hair, Let the Sun Shine In (2007); Happy Days (1970); Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer (1998–2008); Henry Fonda and the Family (1962); Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' (1981); Henry Fonda for President (2024); Henry Fonda oder Die Qualität der Prärie (1980); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hitchcock Confidential (2019); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hollywood Greats (1984); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (1962); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Home to Stay (1978); How the West Was Lost (2008); How the West Was Won (1962); Howdy (1970); I Dream Too Much (1935); I Met My Love Again (1938); I'm a Fool (1977); Immortal Sergeant (1943); In Harm's Way (1965); Inside Edition (2015); Inside the Jury Room (2008); Inside the Movie Kingdom – 1964 (1964); Inside 'the Swarm' (1978); It's Everybody's War (1942); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth (2020); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); Jerry Visits (1972); Jesse James (1939); Jezebel (1938); Jigsaw (1949); John Ford (1992); John Ford et Monument Valley (2013); John Ford Goes to War (2002); John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); La classe américaine (1993); La Marató 2005 (2005); Land of Liberty (1939); Laugh-In (1977–1978); Leaders of the Twentieth Century (1978–1979); Les Fonda, une dynastie de cinéma (2023); Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star (2016); Let Poland Be Poland (1982); Let Us Live (1939); Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972); Life Goes to the Movies (1976); Lillian Russell (1940); L'ultimo esploratore - Vita e avventure del barone Franchetti (2013); Madigan (1968); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen (1981); Maude (1976); Medallion Theatre (1953); Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); Meteor (1979); Midway (1976); Mister Roberts (1955); Moonlighting (1987); Movie Bloopers (1988); My Darling Clementine (1946); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); My Name Is Nobody (1973); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); NBC White Paper (1966); Norman Lear: A Life on Television (2023); Omnibus (1992); On Golden Pond (1981); On location with There Was a Crooked Man (1970); On Our Merry Way (1948); On Stage! (1949); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974); Parkinson (1975); Password (1971); Pat Paulsen for President (1968); Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour (1970); Paul's Case (1980); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Personne (2016); Pictura (1951); Playing Pappy (2012); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); President Hollywood (2008); President Kennedy's Birthday Salute (1962); Producers' Showcase (1955); Rangers of Yellowstone (1958); Rappaccini's Daughter (1980); Reframed: Marilyn Monroe (2022); Rings on Her Fingers (1942); Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg (2016); Rollercoaster (1977); Roma (2004); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Sacco and Vanzetti (2006); SAG Foundation Conversations (1979); Salute to Oscar Hammerstein II (1972); San Francisco Fire (1962); Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's (1980); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Sharks: The Death Machine (1978); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Slim (1937); Soldier's Home (1977); Sometimes a Great Notion / aka Never Give a Inch (1971); Southern Soul (2016); Spanish Western (2014); Spawn of the North (1938); Spencer's Mountain (1963); Spendthrift (1936); Sport en fête (1973); Sports Illustrated Greatest Highlights of the Super Bowl (1991); Stage Struck (1958); Stand Up and Cheer (1971); Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); Stranger on the Run (1967); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Summer Solstice (1981); Sunday Showcase (1959); Survival (1970); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Talking Film (1978–1979); Tentacles (1977); That Certain Woman (1937); That Regis Philbin Show (1965); The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961); The 1976 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1976); The 20th Annual Tony Awards (1966); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 28th Annual Tony Awards (1974); The 29th Annual Tony Awards (1975); The 2nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1976); The 30th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1973); The 33rd Annual Tony Awards (1979); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The 6th People's Choice Awards (1980); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The Alpha Caper (1973); The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special (1977); The American Parade (1975); The American West of John Ford (1971); The Battle of Midway (1942); The Bell Telephone Hour (1964); The Best Man (1964); The Best of Hollywood (1998); The Big Street (1942); The Biggest Battle (1978); The Blue Hotel (1977); The Boston Strangler (1968); The Brass Are Comin' (1969); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970); The Cowboy (2016); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball (1975); The Dean Martin Show (1973); The Deputy (1959–1961); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1972); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Displaced Person (1977); The Doris Day Show (1971); The Dream Team (1989); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952–1970); The Fabulous Fifties / Fifties Dead Sequence (1960); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935); The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge (1965); The Fugitive (1947); The George Gobel Show (1956–1959); The Glory Road West (1976); The Golden Honeymoon (1980); The Good Years (1962); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977); The Greatest Man in the World (1980); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1975); The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Jolly Corner (1975); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1979); The Kraft Music Hall (1969); The Lady Eve (1941); The Last 4 Days (1974); The Long Night (1947); The Longest Day (1962); The Mad Miss Manton (1938); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Male Animal (1942); The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980); The Man Who Loved Bears (1979); The Man Who Understood Women (1959); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1976); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1976); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Movie Game (1971); The Moviemakers (1984); The Movies (2019); The Music for UNICEF Concert: A Gift of Song (1979); The Music School (1974); The New Bike (2009); The New Steve Allen Show (1964); The Oldest Living Graduate (1980); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Real Miss America (1952); The Really Big Family (1967); The Red Pony (1973); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Rounders (1965); The Secret Agents (1965); The Serpent (1973); The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special (1989); The Sky Is Gray (1980); The Smith Family (1971–1972); The Star and the Story (1955–1956); The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (1977); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958–1960); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); The Swarm (1978); The Tin Star (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967–1992); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936); The Underground Doctors (1977); The Western (1959); The Wild West (1979); The Wrong Man (1956); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); This Is Your Life (1977); Time-Life Specials: The March of Time (1965); To Save a Soldier (1969); Today (1964–1980); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1980); Tonight on Broadway (1948); Too Late the Hero (1970); Troubled Waters (1965); Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda (1988); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1972 / 1979); Wanda Nevada (1979); War and Peace (1956); War Stories with Oliver North (2006); Warlock (1959); Way Down East (1935); Welcome to Hard Times (1967); Welcome to the Basement (2016); Western Union (1941); What's My Line? (1961–1966); Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories (2012); Wild Geese Calling (1941); Wings of the Morning (1937); You Belong to Me (1941); You Only Live Once (1937); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).

Born on this day – Joseph Cotton:

Joseph Cotton

Actor

May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994

Born on this day – Kansas Joe McCoy:

Kansas Joe McCoy

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950

Credits:

Songs:

Botherin' That Thing; Delta Bound; Evil devil woman blues; Hey Hey Loretta; Hoodoo Women; If You Take Me Back; If You're a Viper; I'm Going Back Home; Joliet Bound; Lake Providence Blues; Let's Get Drunk and Truck; Let'sTry It Again; Look Who's Coming Down The Road; Meat Cutter Blues; Motherless and Fatherless Blues; My Babe, My Babe; My Garbage Man; Oh! Red; Pile Driver Blues; Pile Drivin' Blues; Root Hog or Die; That will be alright; That'll Be Alright; The Candy Man; The World Is a Hard Place to Live In; Time A-Wastin'; Twenty Minutes To Hell; Well, Well; Wet It; When the Levee Breaks; Why Don’t You Do Right; You Done Tore Your Pants With me.

Born on this day – Bumble Bee Slim:

Bumble Bee Slim

Blues singer

Guitarist

May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968

Albums:

12 O clock Southern Train (2014); Aching Pain Blues (2023); Back in Town (2013); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 5 1935-1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 6 1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 8 1937-1951 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 9 (1934-1951) (2005); Chain Gang Bound (2015); From Georgia to Chicago 1931-1937 (1998); Got the Blues (2011); Greasy Greens And Blues (2012); Instinctively the Blues (2020); Jazz Figures (1934 -1935) Volume 3 (2011); Jazz Figures (1934) Volume 2 (2011); Jazz Figures (1935 - 1936) Volume 5 (2011); The Piedmont Blues (2024).