Born on this day – Doris Miles Disney:

Doris Miles Disney

Writer

December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976

Credits:

Books:

A Compound for Death (1943); Murder on a Tangent (1945); Appointment at Nine (1947); Fire at Will (1950); The Last Straw (aka Driven to Kill) (1954); Dark Road (aka Dead Stop) (1946); Family Skeleton (1949); Straw Man (1951); Trick or Treat (aka The Halloween Murder) (1955); Method in Madness (aka Quiet Violence) (1957); Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? (1959); Find the Woman (1962); The Chandler Policy (1971); Unappointed Rounds (1956); Black Mail (1958); Mrs Meeker's Money (1961); Shadow of a Man (1940); Who Rides a Tiger? (aka Sow the Wind) (1946); Enduring Old Charms (aka Death for My Beloved) (1947); Testimony by Silence (1948); That Which Is Crooked (1948); Count the Ways (1949); Look Back on Murder (1951); Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952); Do unto Others (1953); Prescription: Murder (1953); Room for Murder (1955); My Neighbor's Wife (1957); No Next of Kin (1959); Dark Lady (aka Sinister Lady (1961); Should Auld Acquaintance (1962); Here Lies... (1963); The Hospitality of the House (aka Unsuspected Evil (1964); The Departure of Mr. Gaudette (aka Fateful Departure) (1965); At Some Forgotten Door (1966); The Magic Grandfather (aka Mask of Evil (1966); Night of Clear Choice (aka Flame of Evil (1967); Money for the Taking (1968); Voice from the Grave (1968); Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (aka Death by Computer) (1970); Fatal Choice (1970); Three's a Crowd (1972); The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972); Only Couples Need Apply (1973); Don't Go into the Woods Today (1974); Cry for Help (1975); Winifred (1976); Muppets Most Wanted (2014); The Last Straw / The Pale Door / The Dead Don't Speak (1955).

Movies and television:

Betrayal (1974); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Kraft Theatre (1958); La strada buia (1950); Stella (1950); The Straw Man (1953); Yesterday's Child (1977).

Born on this day – Fred M. Wilcox:

Fred M. Wilcox

Director

December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964

Photographed with Pal (as Lassie), on the set of Lassie Come Home (1943).

Born on this day – Barbara Kent:

Barbara Kent

Actress

December 16, 1907 – October 13, 2011

Credits:

Beauty Parlor (1932); Chinatown After Dark (1931); Dumbbells in Ermine (1930); Emma (1932); Exposed (1932); Feet First (1930); Flesh and the Devil (1926); Freighters of Destiny (1931); Grief Street (1931); Guard That Girl (1935); Her Forgotten Past (1933); His Destiny (1928); Indiscreet (1931); Lonesome (1928); Marriage on Approval (1933); Modern Mothers (1928); No Living Witness (1932); No Man's Law (1927); Old Man Rhythm (1935); Oliver Twist (1933); Prowlers of the Night (1926); Self Defense (1932); Stop That Man! (1928); Swellhead (1935); That's My Daddy (1927); The Drop Kick (1927); The Lone Eagle (1927); The Night Ride (1930); The Peace Deputy (1927); The Pride of the Legion (1932); The Shakedown (1929); The Small Bachelor (1927); Under Age (1941); Vanity Fair (1932); Welcome Danger (1929); What Men Want (1930).

Born on this day – Gordon Douglas:

Gordon Douglas

Director

Actor

Writer

December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993

Born on this day – Virginia Kellogg:

Virginia Kellogg

Writer

December 3, 1907 – April 8, 1981

Credits:

Caged (1950); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Meet the People (1944); Screaming Eagles (1956); Stolen Holiday (1937); The Road to Reno (1931); T-Men (1947); TV de Vanguarda (1953); We, the People (1950); White Heat (1949).

Born on this day – Jack Schaefer:

Jack Schaefer

Writer

November 19, 1907 – January 1991

Credits:

Books:

Shane (1949); The Canyon (1953); The Pioneers (1954); First Blood (1954); Company of Cowards (1957); Out West (1959); Old Ramon (1960); Monte Walsh (1963); Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1966); Mavericks (1974); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1964); The Big Range (1953); First Blood and Other Stories (1954); The Kean Land (1960); Tales from the West (1961); The Plainsmen (1963); The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer (1966); The Great Endurance Horse Race (1963); Heroes Without Glory (1965); Jack Schaefer And The American West (1978); Conversations with a Pocket Gopher (1978).

Movies and television:

Advance to the Rear (1964); Cavalcade of America (1956); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Konyakçi (1965); Monte Walsh (1970 / 2003); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Shane (1953 / 1966); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978); Studio 57 (1957); The Silver Whip (1953); Tribute to a Bad Man (1956); Trooper Hook (1957).

Born on this day – Les Clark:

Les Clark

Animator

Director

November 17, 1907 - September 12, 1979

Born on this day – Burgess Meredith:

Burgess Meredith

Actor

Director

November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997

Born on this day – Jane Froman:

Jane Froman

Actress

Singer

November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980

Credits:

The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Arthur Murray Party (1956–1960); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); The Walter Winchell Show (1956); The Vic Damone Show (1956); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955); The Jane Froman Show (1952–1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1954); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1954); The Larry Storch Show (1953); Answer the Call (1953); What's My Line? (1953); This Is Show Business (1950–1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950–1952); The Jane Froman Show (1952); The Ezio Pinza Show (1951); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1950–1951); All Star Revue (1951); The Voice of Firestone (1950–1951); The Alan Young Show (1950); Radio City Revels (1938); Stars Over Broadway (1935); Kissing Time (1933).

Born on this day – Sheila Bromley:

Sheila Bromley

Actress

October 31, 1907 – July 23, 2003

Born on this day – Edwige Feuillère:

Edwige Feuillère

Actress

October 29, 1907 – November 13, 1998

Born on this day – Buddy Messinger:

Buddy Messinger

Actor

Assistant director

Stunts

October 26, 1907 – October 25, 1965

Credits:

A Family Row (1924); A Front Page Story (1922); A Howling Success (1923); A Lady of Chance (1928); A Regular Boy (1923); A Sorority Mixup (1927); A Star Is Born (1937); A Young Tenderfoot (1924); Ah Wilderness! (1935); Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917); Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918); All for a Girl (1925); All Over Twist (1923); Almost a Husband (1925); An All American Toothache (1936); Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Atlantic Flight (1937); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Blonde Trouble (1937); Bondage (1933); Boyhood Days (1923); Bringing Up Buddy (1923); Brooklyn Orchid (1942); Buckin' the Line (1923); Budding Youth (1924); Buddy at the Bat (1923); Cheer Up and Smile (1930); Citizen Kane (1941); Clear the Way (1925); College Coach (1933); College Holiday (1936); Crime by Night (1944); Dad's Boy (1923); Devil's Doorway (1950); Don't Fall (1924); Don't Get Fresh (1923); Don't Kidd Me, Monkey (1926); Dumb Belles (1927); Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920); Edgar Camps Out (1920); Edgar Takes the Cake (1920); Edgar, the Detective (1921); Edgar, the Explorer (1920); Edgar's Country Cousin (1921); Edgar's Feast Day (1921); Edgar's Hamlet (1920); Edgar's Jonah Day (1920); Edgar's Little Saw (1920); Edgar's Sunday Courtship (1920); Eyes of Hollywood (1925); Fan Fan (1918); Fast and Furious (1939); Fast and Loose (1939); Fighting Joe (1916); Flame of the Islands (1955); Four Girls in White (1939); Giant (1956); Gloriana (1916); Good Scouts (1927); Happy Days (1924); Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943); Here He Comes! (1924); His First Degree (1924); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); Hold That Kiss (1938); Hot Stuff (1929); Hullabaloo (1940); Idiot's Delight (1939); Jack and the Beanstalk (1917); Jack Slade (1953); Jinx (1919); Keeping Company (1940); Kelly the Second (1936); Keyhole Katie (1933); Let 'em Have It (1935); Libeled Lady (1936); Love Thy Neighbor (1940); Low Bridge (1924); Midnight Madonna (1937); Mister Cinderella (1936); Modern Times (1936); Monkey Hula (1927); Monkeys Prefer Blondes (1926); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Nize Monkey (1926); Oh, Monkey, Be Good (1926); One, Two, Three, Kick! (1927); Our Relations (1936); Penrod and Sam (1923); Please, Teacher! (1924); Quit Kidding (1924); Ringside Romeos (1928); Sailing Along (1925); Sandwiches and Tea (1928); Sergeant Madden (1939); Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1956–1957); Shadows (1922); She's a He (1923); Six-Shooter Andy (1918); Smarty (1923); So Long, Buddy (1923); Some Pets (1928); So's Your Monk (1927); Stage Mother (1933); Summer Knights (1928); Super-Sleuth (1937); Swell Clothes (1927); Taming the East (1925); Test Pilot (1938); Thanks a Million (1935); That's My Mummy (1927); The 3 Wise Guys (1936); The Abysmal Brute (1923); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Age of Consent (1932); The Aggravatin' Kid (1925); The Andy Griffith Show (1962); The Atomic Kid (1954); The Babes in the Woods (1917); The Big Store (1941); The Blow Out (1924); The Caddy (1924); The Campus Hoofer (1934); The Clown and the Kid (1961); The Danny Thomas Show (1963); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Flirt (1922); The Gay Amigo (1949); The Gay Sisters (1942); The Godless Girl (1928); The Hoodlum (1919); The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939); The King of Shebas (1928); The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939); The Luck of the Irish (1920); The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941); The Old Nest (1921); The Public Menace (1935); The Racing Kid (1924); The Road to Denver (1955); The Sergeant Was a Lady (1961); The Shining Hour (1938); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Valiant Hombre (1948); The Whispered Name (1924); This Side of Heaven (1934); Three of a Kind (1936); Timberjack (1955); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Trailing Trouble (1924); Treasure Island (1917); Trifling with Honor (1923); Turnabout (1940); Two Arabian Sights (1927); Undressed (1928); What an Eye (1924); When Love Comes (1922); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wings Over Honolulu (1937); Yellow Jack (1938); Young Ideas (1924); Zero Hour! (1957).

Born on this day – John Marley:

John Marley

Actor

Director

October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984

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

Credits:

24 Hours (1931); A Bedtime Story (1933); Abdul the Damned (1935); Beautiful Dreamer (1935); Black Sheep (1935); Broadway Bad (1933); City Girl (1938); Disgraced (1933); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Fugitives for a Night (1938); George White's Scandals (1934); Gigolette (1935); Girls About Town (1931); Guilty as Hell (1932); Harmony Lane (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hotel Imperial (1927); Husband's Holiday (1931); I Take This Woman (1940); La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935); Ladies Love Danger (1935); Panama Patrol (1939); Sally (1929); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Slander House (1938); The Avenger (1933); The Death Kiss (1932); The Road to Reno (1931); The Zero Hour (1939); Two Kinds of Women (1932); Woman Wanted (1935); Working Girls (1931); You're Telling Me! (1934).