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

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

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).

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 – 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).

Born on this day – Nelson Algren:

Nelson Algren

Writer

March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981

Credits:

Books:

A Walk on the Wild Side (1956); Chicago, a City On the Make (poems) (1951); Never Come Morning (1942); Somebody in Boots (1935); The Devil's Stocking (1983); The Last Carousel (1973); The Man with the Golden Arm (1949); The Neon Wilderness (1947); The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren (1995).

Movies and television:

Algren's Last Night (2003); America After Dark (1957); Book Beat (1963–1974); Calendar (1963); Danger (1951); Day at Night (1974); Down You Go (1951); Fearless Frank (1967); Goldstein (1964); Nelson Algren Live (2016); Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day (2001); NET Playhouse (1970); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Shoestring Theatre (1960); The David Susskind Show (1963); The Man with the Golden Arm (1955); The Merv Griffin Show (1965); The New Deal for Artists (1976); Today (1965); Walk on the Wild Side (1962).

Born on this day – Maxine Jennings:

Maxine Jennings

Actress

March 8, 1909 – January 11, 1991

Credits:

Hawaii Five-O (1968); My Three Sons (1964); G.I. War Brides (1946); Mr. Wong, Detective (1938); The Dummy Owner (1938); Breakfast for Two (1937); The Big Shot (1937); On Again-Off Again (1937); There Goes My Girl (1937); Wrong Romance (1937); You Can't Buy Luck (1937); The Woman I Love (1937); Sea Devils (1937); We're on the Jury (1937); They Wanted to Marry (1937); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Dog Blight (1936); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936); Walking on Air (1936); Mary of Scotland (1936); Bunker Bean (1936); The Last Outlaw (1936); Fight is Right (1936); The Witness Chair (1936); Murder on a Bridle Path (1936); The Farmer in the Dell (1936); Love on a Bet (1936); Follow the Fleet (1936); Radio Barred (1936); Muss 'em Up (1936); Chatterbox (1936); I Dream Too Much (1935); Counselitis (1935); Another Face (1935); Old Man Rhythm (1935); A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935); Roberta (1935); Maybe It's Love (1935); Honeymooniacs (1929); The Godless Girl (1928).