Born on this day – Shepperd Strudwick:

Shepperd Strudwick

Actor

September 22, 1907 – January 15, 1983

Born on this day – Helen Vinson:

Helen Vinson

Actress

September 17, 1907 – October 7, 1999

Born on this day – Fay Wray:

Fay Wray

Actress

September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004

Born on this day – Miriam Seegar:

Miriam Seegar

Actress

September 1, 1907 – January 2, 2011

Credits:

Big Money (1930); Clancy in Wall Street (1930); False Faces (1932); Fashion News (1930); Fashions in Love (1929); I Used to Be in Pictures (2000); New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930); Out of Singapore (1932); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929); Strangers of the Evening (1932); Such Is the Law (1930); TCM Remembers (2011); The Dawn Trail (1930); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Lion and the Lamb (1931); The Love Doctor (1929); The Price of Divorce (1928); The Valley of Ghosts (1930); The Woman Between (1931); What a Man (1930); When Knights Were Bold (1929).

Born on this day – Lurene Tuttle:

Lurene Tuttle

Actress

Acting coach

August 29, 1907 – May 28, 1986

Credits:

A Life of Her Own (1950); Adam-12 (1973); Adam's Rib (1973); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alice (1976); Amazing Stories (1985); Bachelor Father (1959); Barnaby Jones (1980); Bonanza (1967); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Broken Arrow (1957); Buckskin (1958); Burke's Law (1964); Carlton Your Doorman (1980); Cavalcade of America (1953–1957); Charlie's Angels (1978); Cinderella Goes to a Party (1942); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2010); Colt .45 (1957–1960); Crash (1978); Crazy Like a Fox (1985); Critic's Choice (1963); Crusader (1956); Dennis the Menace (1960); Dirty Duck (1974); Don't Bother to Knock (1952); Dorothy in the Land of Oz (1980); Dr. Kildare (1963); Dynasty (1982); Evil Town (1985); Fantasy Island (1978–1979); Father of the Bride (1961–1962); Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977); For the Love of It (1980); Front Row Center (1956); General Electric Theater (1953–1958); Give a Girl a Break (1953); Goodbye, My Fancy (1951); Goodyear Theatre (1959–1960); Grand Jury (1959–1960); Gunsmoke (1960–1973); Hart to Hart (1981); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hazel (1961–1963); Heaven Only Knows (1947); Hello Mother, Goodbye! (1974); Hemo the Magnificent (1958); Hollywood Beat (1985); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Homecoming (1948); Human Experiments (1979); I Dream of Jeannie (1965); I Love Lucy (1953); Insight (1972); Iron Horse (1967); It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984); Johnny Midnight (1960); Johnny Ringo (1960); Judd for the Defense (1967); Julia (1968–1970); Karen (1965); Kickapoo Juice: Porkuliar Piggy / A Pee-kool-yar Sit-chee-ay-shun / Amoozin' But Confoozin' (1944); Law and Order (1976); Lawman (1959–1961); Leave It to Beaver (1959–1962); Life with Father (1953–1955); Little House on the Prairie (1975–1976); Live Again, Die Again (1974); Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960); Macbeth (1948); Mannix (1975); Matinee Theatre (1956–1958); Matt Houston (1985); Medical Center (1975); Michael Shayne (1960); Mod Squad (1972); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Mr. Novak (1963); Mrs. Sundance (1974); Murder, She Wrote (1985); My Favorite Martian (1965); My Friend Flicka (1956); My Living Doll (1964); My Three Sons (1968); NBC Comics (1950–1951); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); Niagara (1953); Nightmare in the Sun (1965); Nutcracker Fantasy (1979); Part 2: Walking Tall (1975); Perry Mason (1958–1966); Pete and Gladys (1961); Petticoat Junction (1964–1968); Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966); Playhouse 90 (1959); Police Woman (1977); Psycho (1960); Rawhide (1961); Ripcord (1963); Robert Young and the Family (1971); Room for One More (1952); Sadie Hawkins Day (1944); Saints and Sinners (1962); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Screen Snapshots 5852: Hollywood Night at '21' Club (1952); Shooting Stars (1983); Shotgun Slade (1961); Sincerely Yours (1955); Slander (1957); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); St. Elsewhere (1984); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Stars Over Hollywood (1950); Strike Force (1982); Studio 57 (1956–1957); Summer Playhouse (1964); Sweet Smell of Success (1957); Switch (1976–1977); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Tammy (1965); Testament (1983); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1981); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1957); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1953); The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953); The Americans (1961); The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1964); The Ann Sothern Show (1960–1961); The Asphalt Jungle (1961); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Beverly Hillbillies (1967); The Bob Cummings Show (1956); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); The Californians (1958–1959); The Clonus Horror (1979); The Cowboys (1974); The Danny Thomas Show (1957–1964); The Dukes of Hazzard (1979); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); The Fortune Cookie (1966); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1953); The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966); The Glass Slipper (1955); The Good Old Days of Radio (1976); The Gray Ghost (1957); The Great Grape Ape Show (1975); The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968); The Jimmy Stewart Show (1972); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1956); The Loretta Young Show (1954); The Love Boat (1982); The Magical World of Disney (1971); The Manitou (1978); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972); The Millionaire (1956–1958); The Munsters (1964); The Name of the Game (1971); The Partridge Family (1972); The Real McCoys (1958–1959); The Restless Gun (1957); The Restless Ones (1965); The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981); The Rookies (1974); The Second Hundred Years (1967); The Smith Family (1971); The Story of Heidi (1975); The Texan (1958); The Thin Man (1958); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Unexpected (1952); The Whip Hand (1951); The World Through the Eyes of Children (1975); These Are the Days (1974); This Is the Life (1959); Three Lives (1953); Tom, Dick and Harry (1941); Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951); Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1984); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Untamed Youth (1957); Valentine's Day (1965); Voyagers! (1983); Wagon Train (1960); Walking Tall (1973); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958); Watch the Birdie (1950); White Mama (1980); Wide Country (1962); You Are There (1953).

Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:

Gladys Bentley

Blues singer

Pianist

August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960

Born on this day – Adrienne Ames:

Adrienne Ames

Actress

August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947

Born on this day – Isabel Jewell:

Isabel Jewell

Actress

July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972

Credits:

A Tale of Two Cities (1935); Advice to the Forlorn (1933); Babies for Sale (1940); Badman's Territory (1946); Beauty for Sale (1933); Belle Starr's Daughter (1948); Bernardine (1957); Big Brown Eyes (1936); Blessed Event (1932); Bombshell (1933); Bondage (1933); Born to Kill (1947); Career Woman (1936); Ceiling Zero (1936); Ciao Manhattan (1972); Climax! (1957); Counsellor at Law (1933); Dancing Feet (1936); Danger! Women at Work (1943); Day of Reckoning (1933); Design for Living (1933); Dr. Christian (1956); Drum Beat (1954); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Fireside Theatre (1952–1953); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Go West Young Man (1936); Gone with the Wind (1939); Gunsmoke (1965); Here Comes the Groom (1934); High Sierra (1940); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Irene (1940); I've Been Around (1935); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Let's Be Ritzy (1934); Little Men (1940); Lock Up (1961); Lost Horizon (1937); Love on Toast (1937); Mad Love (1935); Man in the Attic (1953); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marked Men (1940); Marked Woman (1937); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Michael O'Halloran (1948); Missing Daughters (1939); Mr. & Mrs. North (1952); Northwest Passage (1940); Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940); catterbrain (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934); Sensation Hunters (1945); Shadow of Doubt (1935); She Had to Choose (1934); Small Town Girl (1936); Steppin' in Society (1945); Sweet Kill (1972); Swing It, Sailor! (1938); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952); The Aquanauts (1961); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Casino Murder Case (1935); The Crime of the Century (1933); The Crowd Roars (1938); The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1953); The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936); The Leopard Man (1943); The Making of 'Lost Horizon' (1999); The Man Who Lived Twice (1936); The Merry Monahans (1944); The New Cinema (1968); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Snake Pit (1948); The Story of Molly X (1949); The Unexpected (1952); The Untouchables (1962); The Week End Mystery (1931); The Women in His Life (1933); They Asked for It (1939); 36 Hours to Kill (1936); Times Square Lady (1935); Treasury Men in Action (1955); Unfaithfully Yours (1948); Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936).

Born on this day – Barbara Stanwyck:

Barbara Stanwyck

Actress

Dancer

July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990

Born on this day – Joan Davis:

Joan Davis

Actress

June 29, 1907 – May 23, 1961

Credits:

Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Angel's Holiday (1937); Around the World (1943); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Biography (1996); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bunker Bean (1936); Day-Time Wife (1939); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Free, Blonde and 21 (1940); George White's Scandals (1945); Harem Girl (1952); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942); He's My Guy (1943); Hold That Co-ed (1938); Hold That Ghost (1941); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); I Married Joan (1952–1955); If You Knew Susie (1948); Joan of Arkansas (1958); Josette (1938); Just Around the Corner (1938); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Keep Smiling (1938); Let's Join Joanie (1950); Life Begins in College (1937); Love and Hisses (1937); Love That Brute (1950); Make Mine Laughs (1949); Manhattan Heartbeat (1940); Millions in the Air (1935); My Lucky Star (1938); On the Avenue (1937); Sailor's Lady (1940); Sally, Irene and Mary (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1949); Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 1 (1941); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); She Gets Her Man (1945); She Wrote the Book (1946); Show Business (1944); Sing and Be Happy (1937); Sun Valley Serenade (1941); Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942); Tail Spin (1939); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1958); The Garry Moore Show (1959); The George Gobel Show (1958); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); The Groom Wore Spurs (1951); The Holy Terror (1937); The Milton Berle Show (1959); The Sound of Laughter (1963); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958); The Traveling Saleswoman (1950); Thin Ice (1937); Time Out for Romance (1937); Too Busy to Work (1939); Two Latins from Manhattan (1941); Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943); Wake Up and Live (1937); Way Up Thar (1935); Yokel Boy (1942).

Born on this day – Rosalind Russell:

Rosalind Russell

Actress

Comedienne

Writer

Singer

June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976

Credits:

A Majority of One (1961); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); A Woman of Distinction (1950); ABC Late Night (1975); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973); All Star Revue (1952); American Experience (1996); At Long Last Cole (1975); Auntie Mame (1958); Bates Motel (2013); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Biography (1999); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Breakdowns of 1944 (1945); China Seas (1935); Christmas with the Stars (1953); Coming Up Roses (1986); Craig's Wife (1936); Crawford at Warners (2008); Design for Scandal (1941); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Fast and Loose (1939); Film Time (1955); Five Finger Exercise (1962); Flight for Freedom (1943); Forsaking All Others (1934); Four's a Crowd (1938); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Gable and Crawford (2008); General Electric Theater (1956); Great Performances (1987); Gypsy (1962); Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1979); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hired Wife (1940); His Girl Friday (1940); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (1962); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); It Had to Happen (1936); Life Is a Banquet (2009); Live, Love and Learn (1937); Lost Forever (2011); Man-Proof (1938); Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997); Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival (1940); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Mourning Becomes Electra (1947); Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971); My Sister Eileen (1942); Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); Night Must Fall (1937); No Time for Comedy (1940); Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967); One Rogue Reporter (2014); Picnic (1955); Pioneers of Television (2014); Reckless (1935); Rendezvous (1935); Rosalind Russell: The Inside Scoop (2000); Rosie! (1967); Rosie! (1967); Roughly Speaking (1945); Roughly Speaking (1945); Salute to Oscar Hammerstein II (1972); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 10 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (1945); Screen Snapshots, Series 19, No. 4 (1940); Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers (1947); She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945); Sister Kenny (1946); Startime (1959); Summer Theatre (1958); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); Tell It to the Judge (1949); That's Entertainment! III (1994); The 16th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1959); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 1974 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1974); The 1975 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1975); The 19th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1962); The 20th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1963); The 29th Annual Tony Awards (1975); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 41st Annual Academy Awards (1969); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937); The Casino Murder Case (1935); The Citadel (1938); The Crooked Hearts (1972); The David Frost Show (1971); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Girl Rush (1955); The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947); The Half of It (2020); The Linkletter Show (1964); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movies (2019); The Movies March On (1939); The Night Is Young (1935); The President Vanishes (1934); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Trouble with Angels (1966); The Unguarded Moment (1956); The Velvet Touch (1948); The Women (1939); The Women (1939); They Met in Bombay (1941); This Thing Called Love (1940); Trouble for Two (1936); Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994); Under Two Flags (1936); West Point of the Air (1935); What a Woman! (1943); What's My Line? (1953); Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968); Women He's Undressed (2015); Wonderful Town (1958); You Can't Fool a Camera (1941).

Born on this day – Jacqueline Delubac:

Jacqueline Delubac

Actress

May 27, 1907 – October 14, 1997

Born on this day – John Wayne:

John Wayne

Actor

May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979

Credits:

The Shootist (1976); Rooster Cogburn (1975); Brannigan (1975); Maude (1972); McQ (1974); Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973); The Train Robbers (1973); Cancel My Reservation (1972); The Cowboys (1972); Big Jake (1971); Rio Lobo (1970); Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970); Chisum (1970); The Undefeated (1969); True Grit (1969); Hellfighters (1968); The Green Berets (1968); The War Wagon (1967); The Beverly Hillbillies (1962); El Dorado (1966); The Lucy Show (1966); Cast a Giant Shadow (1966); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); In Harm's Way (1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Circus World (1964); McLintock! (1963); Donovan's Reef (1963); How the West Was Won (1962); Alcoa Premiere (1961); The Longest Day (1962); Hatari! (1962); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); The Comancheros (1961); Wagon Train (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1950); North to Alaska (1960); The Alamo (1960); The Horse Soldiers (1959); Rio Bravo (1959); The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958); I Married a Woman (1958); Legend of the Lost (1957); Jet Pilot (1957); The Wings of Eagles (1957); The Searchers (1956); The Conqueror (1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); I Love Lucy (1955); Blood Alley (1955); Casablanca (1955); Gunsmoke (1955); The Sea Chase (1955); The High and the Mighty (1954); Hondo (1953); Island in the Sky (1953); Trouble Along the Way (1953); Big Jim McLain (1952); The Quiet Man (1952); Flying Leathernecks (1951); Operation Pacific (1951); Rio Grande (1950); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); The Fighting Kentuckian (1949); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949); Wake of the Red Witch (1948); 3 Godfathers (1948); Red River (1948); Fort Apache (1948); Tycoon (1947); Angel and the Badman (1947); Without Reservations (1946); They Were Expendable (1945); Dakota (1945); Back to Bataan (1945); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945); Tall in the Saddle (1944); The Fighting Seabees (1944); In Old Oklahoma (1943); A Lady Takes a Chance (1943); Reunion in France (1942); Pittsburgh (1942); Flying Tigers (1942); In Old California (1942); The Spoilers (1942); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Lady for a Night (1942); The Shepherd of the Hills (1941); Lady from Louisiana (1941); A Man Betrayed (1941); Seven Sinners (1940); The Long Voyage Home (1940); Three Faces West (1940); Dark Command (1940); Allegheny Uprising (1939); New Frontier (1939); Wyoming Outlaw (1939); Three Texas Steers (1939); The Night Riders (1939); Stagecoach (1939); Red River Range (1938); Santa Fe Stampede (1938); Overland Stage Raiders (1938); Pals of the Saddle (1938); Born to the West (1937); Adventure's End (1937); Idol of the Crowds (1937); I Cover the War! (1937); California Straight Ahead! (1937); Conflict (1936); The Sea Spoilers (1936); Winds of the Wasteland (1936); The Lonely Trail (1936); King of the Pecos (1936); The Lawless Nineties (1936); The Oregon Trail (1936); Lawless Range (1935); The New Frontier (1935); Westward Ho (1935); Paradise Canyon (1935); The Dawn Rider (1935); The Desert Trail (1935); Rainbow Valley (1935); Texas Terror (1935); 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934); The Lawless Frontier (1934); The Trail Beyond (1934); The Star Packer (1934); Randy Rides Alone (1934); The Man from Utah (1934); Blue Steel (1934); West of the Divide (1934); The Lucky Texan (1934); Sagebrush Trail (1933); College Coach (1933); Riders of Destiny (1933); The Man from Monterey (1933); Baby Face (1933); His Private Secretary (1933); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); Somewhere in Sonora (1933); Central Airport (1933); The Three Musketeers (1933); The Telegraph Trail (1933); Haunted Gold (1932); That's My Boy (1932); The Big Stampede (1932); Ride Him, Cowboy (1932); The Hurricane Express (1932); Lady and Gent (1932); Two-Fisted Law (1932); Texas Cyclone (1932); The Shadow of the Eagle (1932); Running Hollywood (1932); The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 (1932); Maker of Men (1931); The Deceiver (1931); The Range Feud (1931); Arizona (1931); Three Girls Lost (1931); Girls Demand Excitement (1931); The Big Trail (1930); Cheer Up and Smile (1930); Rough Romance (1930); Born Reckless (1930); Men Without Women (1930); The Forward Pass (1929); Salute (1929); Words and Music (1929); The Black Watch (1929); Speakeasy (1929); Noah's Ark (1928); Hangman's House (1928); A Home-Made Man (1928); Four Sons (1928); Seeing Stars (1927); The Drop Kick (1927); Mother Machree (1927); Annie Laurie (1927); The Draw-Back (1927); The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926); Bardelys the Magnificent (1926); Brown of Harvard (1926).

Born on this day – Laurence Olivier:

Laurence Olivier

Actor

Director

May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989

Born on this day – Hergé:

Hergé

Cartoonist

May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983

Born on this day – Adrienne Dore:

Adrienne Dore

Actress

May 22, 1907 – November 26, 1992

Credits:

Adam's Eve (1929); Alias the Doctor (1932); Beyond London Lights (1928); Delicious and Refreshing (1929); Hello, Baby (1930); Johnny's Week End (1930); Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933); Love's Hurdle (1926); Peaceful Alley (1929); Pep Up (1929); Play Girl (1932); Pointed Heels (1929); Smart Steppers (1929); Street of Women (1932); The Expert (1932); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Girl from Calgary (1932); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Swim Princess (1928); The Thirteenth Guest (1932); The Valley of Hunted Men (1928); The Wild Party (1929); Time to Expire (1929); Two Seconds (1932); Undercover Men (1934); Union Depot (1932); Wife Trouble (1928).

Born on this day – Daphne du Maurier:

Daphne du Maurier

Writer

May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989

Credits:

Books:

Birds of Prey (2010); Castle Dor (1940); Come Wind, Come Weather (1940); Cornish Tales of Terror (1970); Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre (1987); Don't Look Now (1971); Don't Look Now and Other Stories (1973); Early Stories (1954); Echoes From the Macabre (1971); Enchanted Cornwall (1989); Frenchman's Creek (1941); Gerald (1935); Golden Lads (1975); Happy Christmas (1953); Hungry Hill (1943); I'll Never Be Young Again (1932); Jamaica Inn (1936); Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953); Letters from Menabilly (1993); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); Mary Anne (1954); My Cousin Rachel (1951); Myself When Young (1977); Rebecca (1938); Rule Britannia (1972); Split Second and Other Stories (1981); Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (2021); The Apple Tree (1952); The Birds and Other Stories (1952); The Breaking Point / The Blue Lenses and Other Stories (1959); The Doll (2011); The Du Mauriers (1937); The Flight of the Falcon (1965); The Glass-Blowers (1963); The House on the Strand (1969); The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (1960); The King's General (1946); The Loving Spirit (1931); The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999); The Parasites (1949); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Progress of Julius / Julius (1933); The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories (1981); The Rendezvous and Other Stories (1980); The Scapegoat (1957); The Treasury of Du Maurier Short Stories (1960); The Winding Stair (1977); The Young George Du Maurier (1952); Vanishing Cornwall (1967); Witches' Brew (1984).

Movies and television:

Alta comedia (1973); Anamika: The Untold Story (2008); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); BBC2 Playhouse (1975); Broadway Television Theatre (1952); Danger (1955); Daphne du Maurier (1971); Daphné du Maurier: sur les traces de Rebecca (2017); Don't Look Now (1973); Frenchman's Creek (1944); Frenchman's Creek (1998); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952–1963); Guiding Light (1982); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Hostinec Jamaica (1972); Hungry Hill (1947); Jamaica Inn (1939); Jamaica Inn (1983); Jamaica Inn (2014); Kiskanç kadin (1966); Kraft Theatre (1950–1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); L'auberge de la Jamaïque (1995); Le général du roi (2014); 'Let's Pretend...' - The Make-Believe World of Daphne Du Maurier (1977); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Marea di Settembre (1963); Masterpiece Mystery (1985); Matinee Theatre (1956); Mi amor por ti (1969); Morning Patrol (1987); My Cousin Rachel (1952); My Cousin Rachel (1983); My Cousin Rachel (2017); Ocho estrellas en busca del amor (1964); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pursuit (1958); Rebecca (1940); Rebecca (1947); Rebecca (1969); Rebecca (1979); Rebecca (1997); Rebecca (2020); Rebecca, la prima moglie (2008); Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love / Kiss Me Again Stranger (1974); Rick Stein in du Maurier Country (2007); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); September Tide (1958); Suspense (1953); Suspicion (1958); The Birds (1963); The Birds II: Land's End (1994); The Bondwoman (1974); The Lifeforce Experiment (1994); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Scapegoat (1959); The Scapegoat (2012); The Unexpected (1952); The Years Between (1946); Theatre '62 (1962); Une seconde d'éternité (1977); Urangatha Sundary (1969); Utharam (1989).

Born on this day – Katharine Hepburn:

Katharine Hepburn

Actress

May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); 20/20 / Remembering Kate (2003); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); 60 Minutes / Katharine Hepburn (1979); A Bill of Divorcement (1932); A Delicate Balance (1973); A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); A Woman Rebels (1936); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); Adam's Rib (1949); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); Alice Adams (1935); All-Time Movie Greats (1988); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (1989–2009); Aspekte (1991); Biography (1993–1999); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2020); Break of Hearts (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Call Me Kate (2023); Call the Usual Suspects: The Craft of the Character Actor (2006); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Christopher Strong (1933); Cinema 3 (2009); City Confidential (2007); Clive James Meets Katharine Hepburn (1985); Complicated Women (2003); Desk Set (1957); Directed by John Ford (1971); Donahue (1991); Dragon Seed (1944); Embracing Chaos: Making the African Queen (2010); Entertainment Tonight (2014–2021); Fonda on Fonda (1992); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Good Morning America (1984–1985); Grace Quigley (1984); Great Performances (1987–1988); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1999); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Happy Accidents (2000); Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer (1998–2008); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); History vs. Hollywood (2004); Holiday (1938); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood Greats (1999); Hollywood Insider (2020); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Intimate Portrait (1995); Julianna: A Portrait (1984); Katharine Hepburn (2019); Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993); Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate (2014); Keeper of the Flame (1942); La Marató 2005 (2005); La otra sala: Clásicos (2016); Larry King Live (2003); Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988); Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell (1995); Legends of Entertainment Video (1995); Les couples mythiques du cinema (2017); Little Women (1933); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962); Love Affair (1994); Love Among the Ruins (1975); Lucy and Desi (2022); Mary of Scotland (1936); MGM Parade (1955); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moonlighting (1987); Morning Glory (1933); Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986); MsMojo (2016–2023); New England Music Hall of Fame (2019); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); Of Black America (1968); Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978); On Golden Pond (1981); One Christmas (1994); One on One: Classic Television Interviews (1993); Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992); Pat and Mike (1952); Private Screenings (2005–2006); Quality Street (1937); Recordando a Katharine Hepburn (2003); Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1993); Rooster Cogburn (1975); S1m0ne (2002); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Sendung ohne Namen (2002); Sexes (2005); Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (1998); Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (2018); Sixty Years of Seduction (1981); Smash His Camera (2010); Some of the Best (1949); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Song of Love (1947); Spécial cinéma (1986–1987); Spitfire (1934); Stage Door (1937); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981); State of the Union (1948); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Summertime (1955); Sylvia Scarlett (1935); Television Makers (1987); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 1974 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1974); The 24th Annual Tony Awards (1970); The 35th Annual Academy Awards (1963); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The African Queen (1951); The American Creed (1946); The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1981); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The CBS Morning News (1986); The Corn Is Green (1979); The Costume Designer (1950); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (2002); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1973); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Glass Menagerie (1973); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Iron Petticoat (1956); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1990); The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996); The Lion in Winter (1968); The Little Minister (1934); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Man Upstairs (1992); The Mike Douglas Show (1979); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movies (2019); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Rainmaker (1956); The Rat Pack (1999); The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021); The Roots of Roe (1993); The Schumann Story (1950); The Sea of Grass (1947); The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986); The Tales of Helpmann (1990); The Trojan Women (1971); These Amazing Shadows (2011); This Can't Be Love (1994); This Is Your Life (1992); True Love (2003); Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020); Twenty Years After (1944); Undercurrent (1946); War Stories with Oliver North (2005); What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018); Without Love (1945); Woman of the Year (1942); Women in Defense (1941); You Must Remember This (2016).

Born on this day – Fred Zinnemann:

Fred Zinnemann

Director

April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997

Credits:

A Hatful of Rain (1957); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Way in the Wilderness (1940); Act of Violence (1948); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1998); Behold a Pale Horse (1964); Benjy (1951); Biography (1998); Camille (1936); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents (2002); De película (1983–1987); Decision (1958); Die Öscars (2016); Elstree Britain's Hollywood (1989); Exercise No. One (1962); Eyes in the Night (1942); Film Profile (1961); Filmmakers in Action (2005); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Five Days One Summer (1982); Forbidden Passage (1941); Forgotten Victory (1939); Fred Zinnemann – Ein Hollywoodregisseur (1983); Friend Indeed (1937); From Here to Eternity (1953); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him (2001); Hands Up! (1981); Hawaii (1966); He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (2001); Help Wanted (1939); High Noon (1952); I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929); Julia (1977); Kid Glove Killer (1942); Little Mister Jim (1946); Making Montgomery Clift (2018); Man Trouble (1930); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); Nana (1934); Oklahoma! (1955); On Location with 'The Sundowners' (1960); One Against the World (1939); Our World (1987); People on Sunday (1930); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Redes (1936); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sonntagsgespräch (1986); Spécial cinéma (1983); Sprengbagger 1010 (1929); Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1991); Stuffie (1940); Teresa (1951); That Mothers Might Live (1938); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Ash Can Fleet (1939); The Clock (1945); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Dark Angel (1935); The David Susskind Show (1960); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Great Meddler (1940); The Greenie (1942); The Kid from Spain (1932); The Lady or the Tiger? (1942); The Making of 'High Noon' (1992); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The March of the Machines (1927); The Member of the Wedding (1952); The Men (1950); The Nun's Story (1959); The Old Man and the Sea (1958); The Old South (1940); The Search (1948); The Seventh Cross (1944); The Spy (1931); The Story of Doctor Carver (1938); The Sundowners (1960); The Wiser Sex (1932); They Live Again (1938); This Is Your Life (1956); Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 / The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); Weather Wizards (1939); While America Sleeps / Series: Crime Does Not Pay (1939); Your Last Act (1941).

Born on this day – Shirley Griffith:

Shirley Griffith

Blues singer

Guitarist

April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974

Credits:

Mississippi Blues (1973); The Blues of J. T. Adams and Shirley Griffith: Indiana Ave. Blues (1964); The Blues of Shirley Griffith: Saturday Blues (1965).

Book references:

Blues: A Regional Experience (Greenwood Guides to American Roots Music) 1st Edition, by Eric LeBlanc (2013); The Guinness Who's Who of Blues, by Colin Larkin (1995).