Born on this day – William Lindsay Gresham:

William Lindsay Gresham

Writer

August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962

Credits:

Books:

Grindshow: The Selected Writings of William Lindsay Gresham (2013); Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1959); Limbo Tower (1949); Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny (1954); Nightmare Alley (1946); The Book of Strength: Body Building the Safe, Correct Way (1961).

Movies and television:

Checkmate (1961); Nightmare Alley (1947 / 2021).

Born on this day – Joan Peers:

Joan Peers

Actress

August 19, 1909 – July 11, 1975

Credits:

Anybody's War (1930); Applause (1929); Around the Corner (1930); Over the Hill (1931); Paramount on Parade (1930); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931); Rain or Shine (1930); Rosita (1923); The Tip-Off (1931); Tol'able David (1930).

Born on this day – Raffaello Matarazzo:

Raffaello Matarazzo

Director

August 17, 1909 – May 17, 1966

Born on this day – Angela Clarke:

Angela Clarke

Actress

August 14, 1909 – December 16, 2010

Credits:

A Double Life (1947); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); All in the Family (1979); Arnie (1970); Backlash (1947); Baretta (1977–1978); Ben Casey (1961); Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953); Blindfold (1966); Bonanza (1965–1970); Bracken's World (1970); Brookside (1983); Cagney & Lacey (1984); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Combat! (1963); Daniel Boone (1966); Darling, How Could You! (1951); Death Valley Days (1965–1969); Dr. Kildare (1966); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Fantasy Island (1978); Going My Way (1962); Gunsmoke (1962–1964); Harrad Summer (1974); Her Sister's Secret (1946); Houdini (1953); House of Wax (1953); Insight (1974–1980); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Killer in the Mirror (1986); Kojak (1974); MacGyver (1985); Mission: Impossible (1967); Mr. Novak (1965); Mr. Soft Touch (1949); Mrs. Mike (1949); My Favorite Spy (1951); Night Song (1947); Nightmare Honeymoon (1974); Outrage (1950); Petrocelli (1974–1975); Rich Man, Poor Man (1976); St. Elsewhere (1984); The Bounty Hunter (1954); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); The Egyptian (1954); The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978); The Girl Most Likely to... (1973); The Great Caruso (1951); The Gunfighter (1950); The Harlem Globetrotters (1951); The High Chaparral (1968); The Interns (1962); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952); The Outer Limits (1964); The Partridge Family (1973); The Savage (1952); The Seven Little Foys (1955); The Snake Pit (1948); The Undercover Man (1949); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1966); The Young Lawyers (1970); Undercover Girl (1950); Visions (1977); Voyagers! (1983); Woman in Hiding (1950).

Born on this day – John Beal:

John Beal

Actor

August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997

Born on this day – Charles Williams:

Charles Williams

Writer

August 13, 1909 – April 5, 1975

Credits:

Books:

A Touch of Death / aka Mix Yourself a Redhead; based on 1953 novella And Share Alike (1954); Aground (1960); All the Way / aka The Concrete Flamingo (1958); And The Deep Blue Sea (1971); Big City Girl (1951); Dead Calm; based on the novella Pacific Honeymoon (1963); Girl Out Back / aka Operator; based on 1957 novella entitled either Operator or Operation (1958); Go Home, Stranger (1954); Hell Hath No Fury / aka The Hot Spot (1953); Hill Girl (1951); Man on a Leash (1973); Man on the Run / aka Man in Motion (1958); Nothing in Her Way (1953); River Girl / aka The Catfish Tangle (1951); Scorpion Reef / aka Gulf Coast Girl; based on novella Flight to Nowhere (1955); Talk of the Town / aka Stain of Suspicion (1958); The Big Bite (1956); The Diamond Bikini (1956); The Long Saturday Night / aka Confidentially Yours; Finally, Sunday! (1962); The Sailcloth Shroud (1960); The Wrong Venus / aka Don't Just Stand There (1966); Uncle Sagamore and His Girls (1959).

Movies and television:

Banana Peel (1963); Confidentially Yours (1983); Dead Calm (1989); Diamond Bikini (1971); Don't Just Stand There (1968); Folio (1955); Joy House (1964); La fille des collines (1990); Le gros coup (1964); Mieux vaut courir (1989); The 3rd Voice (1960); The Deep (1970); The Dictator's Guns (1965); The Hot Spot (1990); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1975); The Pink Jungle (1968).

Born on this day – Chester Himes:

Chester Himes

Writer

July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984

Credits:

Books:

A Rage in Harlem / aka For Love of Imabelle (1957); A Century of Noir (2002); A Case of Rape (1980); All God's Chillun Got Pride (2025); All Shot Up (1960); Black Noir (2009); Black On Black (1973); Blind Man with a Pistol / aka Hot Day Hot Night (1969); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (2023); Hard-boiled (1995); If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945); Lonely Crusade (1947); Murderous Schemes (1996); My Life of Absurdity (1976); Pinktoes (1961); Plan B (1993); Run Man Run (1966); The Big Gold Dream (1960); The Collected Stories of Chester Himes (1990); The Crazy Kill (1959); The End of a Primitive (1955); The Heat's On / aka Come Back, Charleston Blue (1966); The Quality of Hurt (1972); The Real Cool Killers (1959); The Third Generation (1954); Yesterday Will Make You Cry / aka Cast the First Stone (1952).

Movies and television:

A Rage in Harlem (1991); Camera Three (1972); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972); Come Back Charleston Blue (1972); Cosmic Slop (1994); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); Dossier Souvenirs (1970); If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968); Three and a Half Thoughts (2006); Un sang d'encre (1998).

Born on this day – Harriet Nelson:

Harriet Nelson

Actress

July 18, 1909 – October 2, 1994

Credits:

A Christmas for Boomer (1979); ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978); Aloha Paradise (1981); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Biography (1998); Bridget Loves Bernie (1973); Canal Zone (1942); Cocoanut Grove (1938); Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941); Death Car on the Freeway (1979); Dinah! (1976–1977); Disneyland '59 (1959); Fantasy Island (1978); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987); Follow the Fleet (1936); Follow the Fleet: The Origins of Those Dancing Feet (2005); Gals, Incorporated (1943); Glitter (1985); Happy Days (1982); Harem Scarem (1932); Here Come the Nelsons (1952); Hi, Buddy (1943); Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944); High School U.S.A. (1984); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Honeymoon Lodge (1943); It's Your Bet (1970); Juke Box Jenny (1942); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Unmarriage; Love and the Only Child; Love and Take Me Along (1969–1973); Musical Justice (1931); My Music: Starlight Ballroom (2015); NBC Special Treat (1977); New Faces of 1937 (1937); Night Gallery / Segment: You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan (1972); Once an Eagle (1976); Our World (1987); Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (1943); Ozzie's Girls (1973); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Pioneers of Television (2014); Rick Nelson: A Brother Remembers (1987); Ricky Nelson & Fats Domino: Live at the Universal Amphitheatre (1985); Ricky Nelson Sings (2005); Rockin' Ricky (2023); Screen Snapshots Series 34, No. 6: Hollywood Shower of Stars (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood on a Sunday Afternoon (1952); Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976); Stu's Show (2021); Super Duper Bloopers and Silly Shorts (1986); Sweetheart of the Campus (1941); Swingtime Johnny (1943); Take It Big (1944); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1953–1962); The Andy Williams Show (1971); The Barbara McNair Show (1969); The Campus Mystery (1932); The David Frost Show (1969); The Falcon Strikes Back (1943); The First Time (1982); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1973); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kid with the 200 I.Q. (1983); The Life of the Party (1937); The Love Boat (1977); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1973); The Red Skelton Hour (1967 / 1968); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1973); This Is Your Life (1953); Time Out for Dad (1987); Uncle Tom (2020); What's My Line? (1956 / 1973).

Born on this day – Irene Hervey:

Irene Hervey

Actress

July 11, 1909 – December 20, 1998

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1962); A Cry in the Night (1956); A Thrill for Thelma (1935); Absolute Quiet (1936); Alibi Racket (1935); Along Came Love (1936); Attention Suckers (1934); Bombay Clipper (1941); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Buried Loot (1935); Burke's Law (1964); Cactus Flower (1969); Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935); Charlie's Angels (1978); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Chicago Deadline (1949); Circus Boy (1957); Climax! (1955–1957); Crash Landing (1958); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Delta House (1979); Destination Unknown (1942); Destry Rides Again (1939); Dr. Kildare (1962); East Side of Heaven (1939); Family Affair (1968–1970); Fireside Theatre (1954–1955); Follow the Sun (1962); Frisco Lil (1942); Gang Busters (1942); Going Steady (1958); Goliath Awaits (1981); Halfway to Shanghai (1942); Hard Rock Harrigan (1935); Hawaiian Eye (1961–1963); Here's Hollywood (1962); He's My Guy (1943); His Night Out (1935); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood Party (1934); Honey West (1965–1966); Honeymoon Limited (1935); Ironside (1968); Keeping Fit (1942); Let's Try Again (1934); Love on a Rooftop (1967); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1956); Manhandled (1949); Markham (1960); Matinee Theatre (1955–1958); Mickey (1948); Missing Evidence (1939); Mod Squad (1968); Monsanto Night Presents Jack Jones (1974); Most Wanted (1976); Motive for Revenge (1935); Mr. Dynamite (1941); Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948); My Three Sons (1969–1972); Night Monster (1942); O'Conner's Ocean (1960); Panic! (1957); Perry Mason (1958–1963); Peter Gunn (1961); Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935); Play Misty for Me (1971); Playhouse 90 (1959); Public Defender (1955); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); Roberta (1969); San Francisco Docks (1940); Say It in French (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 2 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 5 (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 (1939); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961); Sneak Preview (1956); Soaring Stars (1942); Society Smugglers (1939); Stage 7 (1955); Straightaway (1962); Studio 57 (1955); Studio One (1958); Surfside 6 (1961); Taking Care of Baby (1934); Target: The Corruptors (1962); Teenage Rebel (1956); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); The Baileys of Balboa (1964); The Boys from Syracuse (1940); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); The Count of Monte Cristo (1934); The Crooked Road (1940); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Dude Ranger (1934); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961); The Ed Wynn Show (1950); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1955–1958); The Girl Said No (1937); The Gulf Playhouse (1952); The Hollywood Movie Parade (1934); The House of Fear (1939); The Lady Fights Back (1937); The League of Frightened Men (1937); The Lone Wolf (1955); The Lucky Stiff (1949); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Millionaire (1956); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1955); The Smith Family (1972); The Stranger's Return (1933); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Winning Ticket (1935); The Women in His Life (1933); The Young Marrieds (1964–1965); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Three Godfathers (1936); Three on a Honeymoon (1934); Thriller (1960); Turn Back the Clock (1933); Unseen Enemy (1942); White Lies (1934); Wide Country (1962); Woman in Distress (1937); Your Play Time (1954).

Born on this day – Isa Miranda:

Isa Miranda

Actress

July 5, 1909 – July 8, 1982

Credits:

A Bay of Blood (1971); A Kiss for a Killer (1957); A Little Big Business (1965); A New World (1966); A Song of Sixpence (1961); Adventure in Diamonds (1940); Affairs of Maupassant (1935); Apocalisse di un terremoto (1982); Appuntamento a Piazza di Spagna (1947); Armchair Theatre (1959–1960); Arrivano i dollari! (1957); Bambina (1974); Before the Deluge (1954); Between Two Worlds (1936); Botta e risposta (1950); Boyd Q.C. (1963); Camilla (1976); Caroline chérie (1968); Colpo rovente (1970); Compact (1963–1964); Compression (2023–2025); Creature della notte (1934); Die große Postraub (1967); Die Liebe des Maharadscha (1936); Disonora il padre (1978); Do You Know This Voice? (1964); Documento Z-3 (1942); Dorian Gray (1970); È caduta una donna (1941); Einer frisst den anderen (1964); Espionage (1964); Everybody's Woman (1934); Ghost Squad (1964); Gli sbandati (1955); Hardi Pardaillan! (1964); He and She (1969); Hell Is Empty (1967); Hotel Imperial (1939); I colpevoli (1957); I pinguini ci guardano (1955); Il cardinale Lambertini (1934); Il caso Haller (1933); Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937); La carne e l'anima (1945); La corruzione (1963); La donna a una dimensione (1969); La lunga strada senza polvere (1977); La maschera e il volto (1954); La Ronde (1950); L'assassinio di Federico Garcia Lorca (1976); L'aventure commence demain (1948); Le secret d'Hélène Marimon (1954); Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959); Leckerbissen (1948); Like the Leaves (1935); L'ombra (1954); Maigret (1963); Malombra (1942); Marta (1971); My Widow and I (1945); Night on the Highway (1960); Passaporto rosso (1935); Patto col diavolo (1949); Paul Temple (1971); Playdate (1961); Position Wanted (1951); Raspoutine (1954); Rommel's Treasure (1955); Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (1970); Scipione l'africano (1937); Senza cielo (1940); Sergeant Cork (1963); Sherlock Holmes (1968); Shirley's World (1972); Sulle strade di notte (1956); Summertime (1955); Tenebre (1934); The Avengers (1967); The Baron (1966); The Empty Canvas (1963); The Flying Swan (1965); The Great British Train Robbery (1966); The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Man from Nowhere (1937); The Night Porter (1974); The Secret Conclave (1952); The Seven Deadly Sins (1952); The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968); The Walls of Malapaga (1949); The Wednesday Play (1966); The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964); The Younger Generation (1961); Thou Art My Joy (1936); Un estate con sentimento (1970); Una storia di notte (1964); Vendetta (1967); We, the Women / Segment: Isa Miranda (1953); We'll Call Him Andrea (1972); Zazà (1944).

Born on this day – Madge Evans:

Madge Evans

Actress

July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981

Credits:

Adventures of Carol (1917); Age of Indiscretion (1935); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915); Are You Listening? (1932); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953); Army Girl (1938); Beauty for Sale (1933); Beloved Adventuress (1917); Broadway to Hollywood (1933); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Calm Yourself (1935); Cameo Theatre (1951); Classmates (1924); David Copperfield (1935); Day of Reckoning (1933); Death on the Diamond (1934); Dinner at Eight (1933); Envy (1930); Espionage (1937); Exclusive Story (1936); Fast Life (1932); From the Valley of the Missing (1915); Fugitive Lovers (1934); Good Times (1931); Grand Canary (1934); Guilty Hands (1931); Hallelujah I'm a Bum (1933); Heartbreak (1931); Heidi (1920); Hell Below (1933); Helldorado (1934); Heredity (1918); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Home Wanted (1919); Huddle (1932); Husband and Wife (1916); Justice (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1950); Lovers Courageous (1932); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Made on Broadway (1933); Many Happy Returns (1930); Masquerade Party (1952); Maternity (1917); Matinee Theatre (1955); Medallion Theatre (1953); Men Without Names (1935); Moonlight Murder (1936); Mrs. Thanksgiving (1952); Neighbor Nelly (1921); Neighbors (1918); On the Banks of the Wabash (1923); Paris Interlude (1934); Pennies from Heaven (1936); Piccadilly Jim (1936); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 (1936); Seventeen (1916); Shore Acres (1914); Sinners in Paradise (1938); Son of India (1931); Sporting Blood (1931); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Stolen Orders (1918); Studio One (1954); Sudden Riches (1916); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Bard of Broadway (1930); The Burglar (1917); The Corner Grocer (1917); The Devil's Toy (1916); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The Gates of Gladness (1918); The Gob (1930); The Golden Wall (1918); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Hidden Scar (1916); The Investigator (1958); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1951); The Little Church Around the Corner (1915); The Little Duchess (1917); The Little Match Girl (1921); The Little Patriot (1917); The Love Defender (1919); The Love Net (1918); The Man Who Found Himself (1915); The Master Hand (1915); The Mayor of Hell (1933); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); The New South (1916); The Nuisance (1933); The Power and the Glory (1918); The Revolt (1916); The Seven Sisters (1915); The Show-Off (1934); The Sign of the Cross (1914); The Thirteenth Chair (1937); The Volunteer (1917); The Web of Desire (1917); Three Green Eyes (1919); Transatlantic Tunnel (1935); True Blue (1918); Vengeance (1918); Wanted: A Mother (1918); We, the People (1949); West of Broadway (1931); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Woman and Wife (1918); Your Show of Shows (1951); Zaza (1915).

On this day in movie history - Her First Biscuits (1909):

Her First Biscuits

directed by D.W. Griffith,

written by Frank E. Woods,

released in the United States on June 17, 1909.

Cast: John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson, Charles Avery, Dorothy Bernard, Clara T. Bracy, Charles Craig, Flora Finch, Guy Hedlund, Anita Hendrie, Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Jeanie Macpherson, Violet Mersereau, David Miles, Mrs. Herbert Miles, Owen Moore, George Nichols, Anthony O'Sullivan, Mary Pickford, Herbert Prior, Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Marion Sunshine.

Born on this day – Burl Ives:

Burl Ives

Actor

Writer

Singer

Musician

June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995

Born on this day – Jessica Tandy:

Jessica Tandy

Actress

June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); A Century of Cinema (1994); A Certain Magical Pimpdex: Extended Edition (2019); A Streetcar on Broadway (2006); A Woman's Vengeance (1948); Actor's Studio (1948); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1958); Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat: The Theater of War (2005); All About 'the Birds' (2000); An African Love Story (1996); *batteries not included (1987); Becoming Mike Nichols (2016); Best Friends (1982); Betty Crocker Star Matinee (1951); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (1999); Blonde Fever (1944); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Brando (2007); Breaking Point (1964); Butley (1974); Camilla (1994); CBS This Morning (1988); Cocoon (1985); Cocoon: The Return (1988); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Dinah! (1975); Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck (2013); Dragonwyck (1946); Dream On (1992); Driving Miss Daisy (1989); E.T. - Entretenimento Total (1992); Entertainment Tonight (1986–1990); Fiat Justitia (1939); Film Önü / Arkasi (2019); Forever Amber (1947); Fox in the Morning (1939); Foxfire (1987); Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); 'Fried Green Tomatoes': The Moments of Discovery (1998); General Electric Theater (1956); Glorious Morning (1938); Golden Globe Awards (1992); Goodyear Playhouse (1955–1956); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); Here's Hollywood (1962); Home Stories (1990); Honky Tonk Freeway (1981); Inside the White House (1995); Intimate Portrait (1990–2005); James Dean: Forever Young (2005); Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star (2003); Judd for the Defense (1968); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1955); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956); Lights Out (1951); Luncheon Date (1968); Masterpiece Playhouse (1950); Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen (2003); Murder in the Family (1938); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); NET Playhouse (1970); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); Nobody's Fool (1994); Norman Corwin Presents (1972); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1972); Omnibus / Segments: The Better Half / Minds over Manners / Children's Books / Courtship (1953–1956); Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (2008); Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992); Over Easy (1979); Password (1964); Person to Person (1958); Producers' Showcase (1955); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1990); Ruth Page: Once Upon A Dancer (1988); Schlitz Playhouse (1957–1958); September Affair (1950); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Star Stage (1956); Still of the Night (1982); Studio 57 (1957); Studio One (1951–1957); Suspicion (1957); Telephone Time (1958); Tennessee Williams' South (1973); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961); The 15th Annual Women in Film Crystal Awards (1991); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); The 38th Annual Tony Awards (1984); The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1988); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987); The 44th Annual Tony Awards (1990); The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1990 (1990); The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992); The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993); The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995); The 8th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Birds (1963); The Bostonians (1984); The British Greats (1980); The Christmas Tree (1958); The David Frost Show (1970); The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951); The Dick Cavett Show (1981); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951–1959); The F.B.I. (1972); The Fred Waring Show (1951); The Gin Game (1981); The Green Years (1946); The House on Carroll Street (1988); The Indiscretions of Eve (1932); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1986 / 1987); The Light in the Forest (1958); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The Marriage (1954); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Moon and Sixpence (1959); The Movies (2019); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1951); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1951); The Sam Levenson Show (1959); The Seventh Cross (1944); The Story Lady (1991); The Valley of Decision (1945); The World According to Garp (1982); To Dance with the White Dog (1993); Today (1967–1987); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Used People (1992); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); Wogan (1990–1992); Working in the Theatre (1983).

Born on this day – Benny Goodman:

Benny Goodman

Clarinetist

Composer

Bandleader

Actor

May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986

Credits:

Albums:

At Click 1948 (1992); B.G. in Hi-Fi (1954); Bangkok 1956 (1997); Bartók Contrasts Mikrokosmos (1991); Bartók: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1940); Basel 1959 (1997); Benny Goodman - Let’s Dance (2012); Benny Goodman at the Tivoli (1990); Benny Goodman Combos (1955); Benny Goodman On Planet Swing (2012); Benny Goodman Sextet Session (1946); Benny in Brussels (1958); BG and Big Tea in NYC (1929); Blue Moon (1936) (2000); Body & Soul (2011); Complete Jazz Series 1946 – 1947 (2009); Live At Carnegie Hall (2008); Live at Carnegie Hall: 40th Anniversary Concert (1978); Meeting at the Summit (2015); Mozart At Tanglewood (1997); New Sextet Sessions (2003); Nielsen & Aho Clarinet Concertos (2007); One O'Clock Jump (2010); Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman (1957); Roll 'Em, Vol. 2 (1937); Sing, Sing, Sing (2010); Swing Greats: Benny Goodman (2008); Swinging 34 Vols. 1 & 2 (1934); The Benny Goodman Band (2006); The Benny Goodman Story, Vol. 1 (1955); The Benny Goodman Treasure Chest (1959); The Birth of Swing (1991); The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (1950); The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, Vol.2 (2012); The Yale University Archives, Volume 4: Big Band Recordings (2009); Timeless Jazz: Benny Goodman, Vol. 1 (2011); Volume 15: 1943 (2012).

Songs:

All the Cats Join In; Always and Always; Begin The Beguine; Bugle Call Rag; Chicago; Don't Be That Way; Exactly Like You; If I Had You; Jersey Bounce; Jingle Bells; King Porter Stomp; Memories Of You; Moonglow; On the Sunny Side of the Street; One O'Clock Jump; Sing Sing Sing; Sing, Sing, Sing; Someday Sweetheart; Stompin' At The Savoy; Sugar Foot Stomp; Swingtime in the Rockies; That’s a Plenty; Theme - Let's Dance; We’ll Meet Again; Where Or When; Whispering; Why Don’t You Do Right?; Winter Weather; You're a Sweet Little Headache.

Movies and television:

A League of Their Own (1992 / 2022); A Song Is Born (1948); ABC's Nightlife (1965); African Patrol (1958); After You've Gone (1946); Ahto. Chasing a Dream (2018); Air Mail Special (1941); Åke Hasselgård story (1983); Akkaa päälle (1996); All the Cats Join In (1946); All You Need Is Love (1977); Allen in Movieland (1955); Alleyn Mysteries (1993); Allied (2016); Amanda (2018); American Experience (1991); American Horror Story (2015); American Masters (1993–1999); American Modern Art: The Secret Weapon of the Cold War (2019); Army of Shadows (1969); August (2008); Automatic at Sea (2016); Average Consumer (2013); Banda sonora (2008–2012); Baseball (1994); Below (2002); Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra (1929); Benny Goodman Orchestra (1957); Benny Goodman: Legends in Concert - The Last Performance (2004); Benny Goodman: Let's Dance - A Musical Tribute (1986); Benny Goodman's Greatest Hits (1997); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Big Band Treasures (2008); Big Business (1988); Big Love (2007); Bill W. (2012); Billie (2019); Biography (1998); Bio's Bahnhof (1981); Birth of the Blues (1941); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Ça va plaire (1980); Caesar's Hour (1954); Café Society (2016); California's Gold (1999); Cari fottutissimi amici (1994); Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (1961); Carnivàle (2005); Celebrity Time (1952); Cesar Chavez (2014); Cinderella Man (2005); Cold Case (2005–2009); Country Music (2019); Crooked Lines (2003); Crossing Delancey (1988); Dancing with the Stars (2014); Deconstructing Harry (1997); Diff'rent Strokes (1984); Drei mal neun (1971); End of the Spear (2005); Evening at Pops (1974); Exit (2023); Exorcist: The Beginning (2004); F.I.S.T. (1978); Fanfare for America: The Composer Aaron Copland (2001); Fantasma d'amore (1981); Finding Your Feet (2017); Florence Foster Jenkins (2016); For Auld Lang Syne (1938); Frank DeVol and His Orchestra (1953); Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967); Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (1990); Frankie Manning: Ambassador of the Lindy Hop (2010); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Gala Performance (1964); George Hall and His Orchestra (1937); Girl on the Bridge (1999); Glorious 39 (2009); Going West (2017); Good Morning America (1979); Great Performances (1976–2005); Great Performances: Dance in America (2001); Happy Days (1970); Hart's War (2002); Here (2024); Hi, Gang! (1941); Hollywood at War: A Compilation of War Time Shorts (1980); Hollywood Ending (2002); Hollywood Hotel (1937); Hollywoodland (2006); Hope and Glory (1987); How to Make an American Quilt (1995); I Capture the Castle (2003); I Love Lucy (1953); I'll Get By (1950); Illinois Special: I Remember Illinois (1968); Impossible Peace (2017); In the Mood (1987); Independent Lens (2004); Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l'Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz (2010); It's in the Stars (1938); Jazz (2001); Jazz Party (1958); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969–1970); Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew (2002); Joe Albany... a Jazz Life (1980); John Gunther's High Road (1959); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Kiss Them for Me (1957); Kreisler Bandstand (1951); Laguna Heat (1987); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Le grand échiquier (1972); Little Boy (2015); Live Hampton (1983); Livshunger (2002); Los nuevos y clásicos bloopers (2010); Love on Tap (1939); Lucky Luke (1991); Mad Men (2009); Mafia II (2010); Make Mine Music (1946); Malcolm X (1992); Manhattan (2014); Man-Proof (1938); Me (1987); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Me and the Boys (1929); Melba Moore: Live in Concert (2007); Melody Time (1946); Memphis Belle (1990); Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (2010); Mildred Pierce (2011); Miss Mary (1986); Miss Match (2003); Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years (2008); Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not (1978); Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006); Mona Lisa Smile (2003); Monsanto Night Presents Benny Goodman (1974); Mr. Saturday Night (1992); Music and Lyrics (2007); Music Land (1955); My Fellow Americans (1996); My Music: Starlight Ballroom (2015); My Music: The Big Band Years (2009); NCIS (2019); NDR Jazz Workshops (1959–1960); New York Stories (1989); No Way Out (2023); Northern Exposure (1992); Omnibus / Segment: Jazz Stylings (1953); Our World (1987); Parkinson (1971); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957–1959); Person to Person (1954); Peter Pan (1953); Poirot (2005); Pollock (2000); Power (1986); Private Parts (1997); Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013); Queer (2024); Quidam dégomme (2007); Radio Days (1987); Raggedy Man (1981); Raging Bull (1980); Reinvention (1998); Rogue Heroes (2022); Saturday Night Live (1979–1988); Save the Tiger (1973); Screen Two (1987); Show Time at the Apollo (1955); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Signature (1981); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sinner Take All (1936); Six by Sondheim (2013); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Slither (1973); Small Time Crooks (2000); So You Think You Can Dance (2005–2006); Soft Lights and Sweet Music (1960); Soundstage (1975–1978); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Star 80 (1983); Star of the Family (1951); Star Time (1950); Stardust Memories (1980); Studio One (1958); Sunday Night (1966); Sweet and Low-Down (1944); Swing Into Spring! (1959); Swing Kids (1993); Syncopation (1942); tap tap tap (2015); Television (1988); Television: The Enchanted Mirror (1981); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The 28th Annual Grammy Awards (1986); The 32nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1958); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 7th Annual American Music Awards (1980); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Annual Friars Club Tribute Present a Salute to Cary Grant (1982); The Atomic Cafe (1982); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960–1967); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Big Party (1959); The Big Record (1957); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1976); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Confessional (1995); The Danny Kaye Show (1965–1966); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1960); The Drummer Man (1947); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1960); The English Patient (1996); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The Future (2011); The Game (1997); The Gang's All Here (1943); The Garry Moore Show (1959); The Grass Harp (1995); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); The Intern (2015); The Jackie Gleason Show (1953); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1952); The Kate Smith Hour (1957); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998); The Lively Ones (1963); The Lonely Night (1954); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The March of Time, Vol. 10, No. 5: Upbeat in Music (1943); The Marrying Man (1991); The Martha Raye Show (1955); The Marty Stuart Show (2014); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Messiah (2023); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1978); The Myth of Fingerprints (1997); The Notebook (2004); The Pacific (2010); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1952); The Plot Against America (2020); The Powers Girl (1943); The Pride of St. Louis (1952); The Restorers (They Were All Volunteers); (2011); The Road to Victory (1944); The Shining Future (1944); The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000); The Six Triple Eight (2024); The Sopranos (2000–2007); The South Bank Show (1988–1993); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Stork Club (1950); The Stratton Story (1949); The Subject Is Jazz (1958); The Tonight Show (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 25th Anniversary Special (1987); The War (2007); The Water Horse (2007); The World of Benny Goodman (1963); The X-Files (1998); They All Laughed (1981); This Is Your Life (1973); Timex All-Star Swing Festival (1972); Tove (2020); True Confessions (1981); Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008); Two Shadows (1938); U-571 (2000); Washington Square (1957); Waterloo Road (2013); We, the People (1949); Westinghouse Preview Theatre (1961); What's My Line? (1950–1962); When Harry Met Sally... (1989); While New York Sleeps (1938); Wish for Christmas (2019); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); World's Most Expensive Hobby (2017); Yarasa Adam Betmen (1973); Zoot Suit (1981).

Born on this day – Papa Charlie McCoy:

Papa Charlie McCoy

Blues musician

Songwriter

May 26, 1909 – July 26, 1950

Credits:

Music:

Always In Love With You; Blue Heaven Blues; Charlie McCoy – Complete Recorded Works (1928-1932); Glad Hand Blues; Ha-Ha Blues; Hidin’ On Me; I’ve Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away; It Ain’t No Good – Part I; It Ain’t No Good – Part II; It Is So Good – Part 1; It Is So Good – Part 2; It’s Hot Like That; Last Time Blues; Mississippi I’m Longing For You; Staggering Blues; Sunset Waltz; Sweet Alberta; That Lonesome Train Took My Baby Away; The Northern Starvers Are Returning Home; Times Ain’t What They Used To Be; Too Long; Vicksburg Stomp; You Gonna Need Me; Your Valves Need Grinding.

Born on this day – Phoebe Atwood Taylor:

Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Writer

May 18, 1909 – January 9, 1976

Credits:

Banbury Bog (1938); Beginning with a Bash (1937); Cold Steal (1939); Dead Ernest (1944); Death Lights a Candle (1932); Deathblow Hill (1935); Diplomatic Corpse (1951); Figure Away (1937); File for Record (1943); Going, Going, Gone (1943); Murder and Mystery in Boston (1987); Murder At the New York World's Fair (1938); Octagon House (1937); Out of Order (1936); Proof of the Pudding (1945); Punch with Care (1946); Sandbar Sinister (1934); Spring Harrowing (1939); The Annulet of Gilt (1938); The Cape Cod Mystery (1931); The Criminal C. O. D (1940); The Crimson Patch (1936); The Cut Direct (1938); The Deadly Sunshade (1940); The Hollow Chest (1941); The Iron Clew / aka The Iron Hand (1947); The Left Leg (1940); The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933); The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934); The Perennial Boarder (1941); The Six Iron Spiders (1942); The Tinkling Symbol (1935).

Born on this day – James Mason:

James Mason

Actor

May 15, 1909 – July 27, 1984

Credits:

11 Harrowhouse (1974); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); 5 Fingers (1952); A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Dangerous Summer (1982); A Dangerous Summer: Rekindled (2006); A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009); A Place of One's Own (1945); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); A Touch of Larceny (1960); A.D. (1985); A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942); ABC Stage 67 (1966); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1983); Age of Consent (1969); Age of Consent: Helen Mirren - A Conversation with Cora (2009); Alexandre (1983); Alibi (1942); All Star Revue (1952); Alle origini della mafia (1976); Allons au cinéma (1977); Appointment with Destiny (1971); Apropos Film (1967); Arena (1977–1995); Autobiography of a Princess (1975); Bad Man's River (1971); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); Best of British (1987); Bigger Than Life (1956); Biography (1987 / 1995); Blind Man's Bluff (1936); Blood, Sweat and Tears (1971); Bloodline (1979); Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life (2020); Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Botany Bay (1952); Cadence 3 (1983); Candlelight in Algeria (1943); Casino Royale: The Royal Premiere (1967); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Catch As Catch Can (1937); Caught (1949); Charade (1954); Charlie Rose (1999); Child's Play (1972); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Clapper Board (1979); Cold Sweat (1970); Collector's World (1972); Compression (2023); Cop-Out (1967); Corazón de... (2006); Crepa padrone, crepa tranquillo (1970); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cross of Iron (1977); Cry Terror! (1958); Cyrano de Bergerac (1938); Death Cell (1941); Dee Time (1969); Della (1969); Dix de der (1975); Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983); Down Under with Ron and Valerie Taylor (2009); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); Dr. Kildare (1965); Duffy (1968); East Side, West Side (1949); Ellis in Freedomland (1952); Escape from Zahrain (1962); Evil Under the Sun (1982); Face to Face (1952); Far into the Night (1943); Film '72 (1972); Film Preview (1966); Filmworker (2017); Fire Over England (1937); Forever, Darling (1956); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Gala de l'Unicef (1966); Gala de l'union (1970); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Electric Theater (1957); Genghis Khan (1965); George Washington (1984); Georgy Girl (1966); Girl Talk (1968); Good Morning America (1979–1981); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Great Expectations (1974); Great Performances (1988); Group Madness (1983); Gypsy (1967); Halloween Monster Bash (1991); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hero's Island (1962); History of World Cinema: Part I (2021); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977); Home James (1972); Hot Stuff (1976); Hotel Reserve (1944); I Met a Murderer (1939); In Search of Rembrandt (1969); Inside Edition (2015); Inside Out (1975); Island in the Sun (1957); ITV Play of the Week (1966); ITV Sunday Night Drama (1965); Ivanhoe (1982); I've Got a Secret (1956); James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1958); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); John Brown's Raid (1960); John Keats: His Life and Death (1973); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959); Julius Caesar (1953); Kidnap Syndicate (1975); Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971); Kubrick by Kubrick (2020); Kubrick Remembered (2014); La nuit des Césars (1985); Lady Possessed (1952); Late Extra (1935); L'avare (1939); Lena (1964); Les nouveaux rendez-vous (1980); Lolita (1962); Lolita, méprise sur un fantasme (2021); Lord Jim (1965); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); Madame Bovary (1949); Man of Evil (1944); Mandingo (1975); Martin Scorsese on 'Age of Consent' (2009); Max & James & Danielle (2015); Mayerling (1968); Murder by Decree (1979); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); NBC White Paper (1983); NET Festival (1970); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); North by Northwest (1959); North Sea Hijack (1980); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Odd Man Out (1947); Omnibus / Napoleon's Love Letters (1953); One Way Street (1950); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Panic! (1957); Parkinson (1972); Passion & Poetry: Sam's War (2011); Password (1962–1967); People of the Wind (1976); Person to Person (1959); Personality (1967); Playhouse 90 (1957–1960); Prince Valiant (1954); Prison Breaker (1936); Release (1968); Rome in Madrid (1964); Room 237 (2012); Salem's Lot (1979); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); Secret Mission (1942); Sid & Judy (2019); Six Fifty-Five Special (1981); Socrates (1982); Spring and Port Wine (1970); Square Pegs (1939); Stars on Sunday (1970–1979); Stoney Burke (1962); Studio of the Stars: The Elstree Story (1967); Survival (1974); Talking Pictures (2013); Telephone Time (1957); Terror House (1942); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The Agatha Christie Code (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Assisi Underground (1985); The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Blue Max (1966); The Bob Hope Show (1955–1966); The Boys from Brazil (1978); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Chevy Show (1955); The Child (1954); The Circle (1939); The David Frost Show (1969); The Deadly Affair (1967); The Decks Ran Red (1958); The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951); The Desert Rats (1953); The Destructors (1974); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Directors (2018); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951–1955); The Fabulous Fox (2004); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); The Flower in His Mouth (1975); The Frank Sinatra Show (1952); The Golden Gong (1985); The Golden Years of Alexander Korda (1968); The High Command (1937); The James Mason Show (1953); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Last of Sheila (1973); The Late Show (1992); The Left Hand of the Law (1975); The Legend of Silent Night (1968); The Linkletter Show (1960); The London Nobody Knows (1968); The Look of the Week (1966–1967); The MacKintosh Man (1973); The Magical World of Disney (1954 / 1976); The Making of '20000 Leagues Under the Sea' (2003); The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' (1982); The Making of 'the Verdict' (1982); The Man Between (1953); The Man in Grey (1943); The Many Faces of... (2013); The Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1969); The Mill on the Floss (1936); The Moon in the Yellow River (1938); The Passage (1979); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1962); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); The Pumpkin Eater (1964); The Reckless Moment (1949); The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937); The River Nile (1962); The Royal Variety Performance 1979 (1979); The Sea Gull (1968); The Sea in Your Future (1971); The Search for Alexander the Great (1981); The Search for the Nile (1971); The Seventh Veil (1945); The Shooting Party (1984); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Spy in White (1936); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Story of Three Loves / The Jealous Lover (1953); The Tell-Tale Heart (1953); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965–1983); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); The Uninhibited (1965); The Upturned Glass (1947); The Verdict (1982); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Water Babies (1978); The Wicked Lady (1945); The Wind in the Wires (1972); The World About Us (1968); The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970); Theatre '62 (1962); They Met in the Dark (1943); They Were Sisters (1945); This Is Your Life (1961–1973); Thunder Rock (1942); Tiara Tahiti (1962); Today (1956); Torpedo Bay (1963); Troubled Waters (1936); TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twice Branded (1936); Unknown Chaplin (1983); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1975); Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); Vienna: The Years Remembered (1968); Voyage of the Damned (1976); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); What's My Line? (1951–1966); Yellowbeard (1983); Your Show of Shows / Caesar's Hour (1956); You're Putting Me On (1969).

Born on this day – Ted Bogan:

Ted Bogan

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

May 10, 1909 – January 29, 1990

Credits:

Albums:

Louie Bluie (1978); Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong (1974); That Old Gang of Mine (1978).

Documentary:

Louie Bluie (1985).

Born on this day – Eudora Welty:

Eudora Welty

Writer

Photographer

April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001

Credits:

A Curtain of Green (1941); Bride of the Innisfallen (1940); Delta Wedding (1946); Delta Wedding / The Ponder Heart (2011); Eudora Welty Photographs (1989); Losing Battles (1970); Moon Lake (2011); Occasions (2009); One Time, One Place (1971); One Writer's Beginnings (1983); Selected Stories of Eudora Welty (1977); Stories, Essays and Memoirs (1998); The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980); The Eye of the Story (1978); The Golden Apples (1949); The Optimist's Daughter (1972); The Ponder Heart (1954); The Robber Bridegroom (1942); The Shoe Bird (1964); The Wide Net (1943); Thirteen Stories (1965); Why I Live at the P.O. And Other Stories (1995).

Movies and television:

A Visit of Charity (2009); A Worn Path (1994); American Experience (1989); American Masters (1986); American Playhouse (1987); Camera Three (1959); Camera Three (1959–1963); Eudora's Fable: The Shoe Bird (2022); Firing Line (1972); Great Drives / TV Mini Series: volume 1: Highway 61 (1996); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Omnibus (1987); Radio Play Revival (2023); Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White (1998); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Frost Whistle (2008); The Hitch-Hikers (1989); The Key (1996); The Ponder Heart (2001); The Purple Hat (2010); To Dance for Gold (1982); Why I Live at the P.O. (1998).