Born on this day – June Clyde:

June Clyde

Actress

Singer

Dancer

December 2, 1909 – October 1, 1987

Credits:

A Strange Adventure (1932); A Study in Scarlet (1933); Affair in Monte Carlo (1952); After the Ball (1957); Aren't Men Beasts (1937); Arizona (1931); Back Street (1932); Behind the Mask (1946); Branded Men (1931); Charing Cross Road (1936); Country Fair (1941); Dance Band (1935); File 113 (1932); Forbidden Music (1936); Forgotten (1933); Her Resale Value (1933); Highlight: The Singing Cinema (1964); His Lordship Goes to Press (1938); Hit the Deck (1929); Hi'Ya Chum (1943); Hold Me Tight (1933); Hollywood (1932); Hollywood and Vine (1945); Hollywood Mystery (1934); Hollywood Party (1934); Humanettes No. 1 (1930); Humanettes No. 3 (1930); I Hate Women (1934); Intimate Relations (1937); King of the Castle (1936); Let's Make a Night of It (1937); Make-Up (1937); Midnight Mystery (1930); Moonlight and Monkey Business (1930); Morals for Women (1931); Night Without Stars (1951); No Monkey Business (1935); Oh! My Operation (1932); Only Yesterday (1933); Racing Youth (1932); Radio Patrol (1932); Room Mates (1933); Sam Small Leaves Town (1937); School for Husbands (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 8 (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Sealed Lips (1942); Seven Doors to Death (1944); She Shall Have Music (1935); Side Street (1929); Starlight (1937); Steady Company (1932); Street Girl (1929); Tanned Legs (1929); Tess of the Storm Country (1932); The All-American (1932); The Broadway Minstrel (1929); The Cuckoos (1930); The Finishing Touch (1932); The Love Lottery (1954); The Mad Parade (1931); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1947); The Secret Witness (1931); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Vise (1957); Thrill of Youth (1932); Treasure Hunt (1952); Unfinished Business (1941); Weddings Are Wonderful (1938).

Born on this day – David Miller:

David Miller

Director

Writer

Producer

November 28, 1909 – April 14, 1992

Directing Doris Day and Tony Curtis, on the set of Midnight Lace (1960).

Credits:

Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood (1981); Goldie and the Boxer (1979); Love for Rent (1979); The Best Place to Be (1979); Bittersweet Love (1976); Executive Action (1973); Hail, Hero! (1969); Hammerhead (1968); Captain Newman, M.D. (1963); Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Back Street (1961); Midnight Lace (1960); Happy Anniversary (1959); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Opposite Sex (1956); Diane (1956); Twist of Fate (1954); Sudden Fear (1952); Saturday's Hero (1951); Our Very Own (1950); Love Happy (1949); Top o' the Morning (1949); Women in Defense (1946); Flying Tigers (1942); Further Prophecies of Nostradamus (1942); Sunday Punch (1942); Billy the Kid (1941); More About Nostradamus (1941); The Happiest Man on Earth (1940); Drunk Driving (1939); Ice Antics (1939); The Great Heart (1938); Nostradamus (1938); Fisticuffs (1938); It's in the Stars (1938); Modeling for Money (1938); Penny's Party (1938); La Savate (1938); Equestrian Acrobats (1937); Tennis Tactics (1937); Penny Wisdom (1937); Gilding the Lily (1937); Dexterity (1937); Hurling (1936); Dare-Deviltry (1936); Aquatic Artistry (1936); Racing Canines (1936); Table Tennis (1936); Let's Dance (1936); A Sports Parade Subject: Crew Racing (1935); Trained Hoofs (1935).

Born on this day – James Agee:

James Agee

Writer

Actor

Director

November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955

Credits:

Books and screenplays:

A Death in the Family; Agee on Film; Agee on Film II; Cotton Tenants: Three Families, Melville House; Face to Face; Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families; Letters of James Agee to Father Flye; Permit Me Voyage; The African Queen; The Collected Poems of James Agee; The Collected Short Prose of James Agee; The Morning Watch; The Night of the Hunter; The Tramp's New World.

Movies and television:

20 Feet from Stardom (2013); A Death in the Family (2002); Agee (1979); All the Way Home (1963 / 1971 / 1981); American Experience (1988); Experimenter (2015); Face to Face / Segment: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1952); Festival (1961); Genghis Khan (1950); Green Magic (1953); In the Street (1948); Omnibus / Segment: Lincoln-Rutledge Debate (1953); Omnibus / Segments: Mr. Lincoln / Lincoln Part IV: New Salem (1953–1955); The African Queen (1951); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Quiet One (1948); Toutes les histoires / Histoire(s) du cinema (1999); Welcome to the Basement (2015); White Mane (1953).

Born on this day – Frances Dee:

Frances Dee

Actress

November 26, 1909 – March 6, 2004

Born on this day – Mona Goya:

Mona Goya

Actress

November 25, 1909 – October 8, 1961

Born on this day – Dria Paola:

Dria Paola

Actress

November 21, 1909 – November 12, 1993

Credits:

Adam's Tree (1938); Battles in the Shadow (1938); Black Crossing (1939); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Does the gentleman wish? (1934); Fanny (1933); Hearts in the Storm (1940); La canzone dell'amore (1930); La notte delle beffe / The night of mockery (1939); Lowered Sails (1931); Movie Star (1931); Ninna nanna delle dodici mamme (1930); Pergolesi (1932); Song to the Wind (1939); Sun! (1929); The Black Panther (1942); The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934); The Conquest of the Air (1939); The Doctor by Strength (1931); The girl from the other world (1934); The Great Light - Montevergine (1939); The Hotel of the Absent (1939); The Knight of St. Mark (1939); The Last Days of Pompeii (1926); The Last Street Urchin (1938); The Man with the Claw (1931); Think It Over Jack (1936); Yard (1931).

Born on this day – Dorothy Wilson:

Dorothy Wilson

Actress

November 14, 1909 – January 7, 1998

Credits:

8 Girls in a Boat (1934); Above the Clouds (1933); Bad Boy (1935); Before Dawn (1933); Circus Shadows (1935); Craig's Wife (1936); His Greatest Gamble (1934); Hollywood Boulevard (1936); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-7 (1934); In Old Kentucky (1935); Lucky Devils (1933); Men of America (1932); One in a Million (1935); Scarlet River (1933); Speed to Spare (1937); The Age of Consent (1932); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Merry Widow (1934); The Milky Way (1936); The White Parade (1934); When a Man's a Man (1935); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943).

Born on this day – Robert Ryan:

Robert Ryan

Actor

November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973

Recommended reading - The Machine Stops (1909):

The Machine Stops

By E. M. Forster.

Science Fiction short story.

Published by Suzeteo Enterprises.

First published 1909.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1645941566

ISBN-13: 9781645941569

Description:

In our modern era, we like to congratulate ourselves for our sophistication, knowing that we have doubtless created a world that our feckless ancestors could never have imagined. Actually reading the works of those ancestors would disabuse us of any such notion, and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops is a case in point. Not only does it seem that Forster has contemplated the ubiquitous 'Zoom' call, but he correctly sensed the deadening of the soul that would accompany the faux-mastery of Nature, expressing itself through technology.

In The Machine Stops the height of mankind's advances was The Machine, and it cared for every aspect of human experience, and anticipated every human need, until such time that there was nothing left for humans to do except eat, and, if the algorithm approved, procreate; and when the algorithm decided Euthanasia was due, then Euthanasia was happily accepted. The Machine was not just the pinnacle of human ingenuity, it was Progress Incarnate. And then... the Machine Stopped. Today, we hail our own progress, technological and societal. If our machine stops, what then? Do we really suppose it is eternal?

Born on this day – Henry Townsend:

Henry Townsend

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

Blues Piano and Guitar (2019); Cairo Blues (1973); Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas (2007); More Devil's Music (2006); Mule / Expanded Edition (1980); Mule's Blues (2015); My Story (2001); St. Louis Blues Ace (1996); The 88 Blues (1998); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 3: Henry Townsend (1984); The Real St. Louis Blues (2001).

Movies and television:

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (2007); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Story (2003); Thats the Way I Do It (1986); The Devil's Music (1979).

Born on this day – Whit Bissell:

Whit Bissell

Actor

October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996

In a scene from Star Trek, episode entitled: The Trouble with Tribbles, originally aired December 29, 1967.

Credits:

Stage:

Cafe Crown (1942); The American Way (1939); The Star-Wagon (1937); Two On An Island (1940); Winged Victory (1943).

Movies and television:

100 Years of Horror (1996); 12 O'Clock High (1966); 21 Beacon Street (1959); 5 Card Stud (1968); 7 Nights to Remember (1966); A Covenant with Death (1967); A Double Life (1947); A Life of Her Own (1950); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); A Tattered Web (1971); ABC Saturday Comedy Special (1976); Acapulco (1961); Advance to the Rear (1964); Airport (1970); Alcoa Theatre (1957); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962); Aliens from Another Planet (1982); And Baby Makes Three (1949); Anna Lucasta (1949); Another Part of the Forest (1948); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1952); Arrest and Trial (1964); At Gunpoint (1955); Bachelor Father (1958–1960); Barbary Coast (1976); Barnaby Jones (1973); Ben Casey (1964); Biography (1987); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); Bonanza (1962); Boots Malone (1952); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Box 13 (1956); Broken Arrow (1957); Brute Force (1947); Burke's Law (1965); Bus Stop (1962); Camp Runamuck (1966); Cannon (1971–1973); Canon City (1948); Casey's Shadow (1978); Cavalcade of America (1953–1955); Channing (1964); Cheyenne (1957–1960); Chicken Every Sunday (1949); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); City Beneath the Sea (1971); City Detective (1955); Climax! (1955–1956); Cluny Brown (1946); Code 3 (1957); Colgate Theatre (1958); Convicted (1950); Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954); Crossroads (1957); Cry Rape (1973); Dakota Incident (1956); Danger (1952); Daniel Boone (1965); Darkroom (1982); Days of Our Lives (1971); Destination Nightmare (1958); Destination Tokyo (1943); Devil's Canyon (1953); Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978); Dr. Christian (1957); Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1956); Dr. Kildare (1965); Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983); Exercise No. One (1962); Falcon Crest (1984); Father Knows Best (1956); Fireside Theatre (1950); Flood (1976); Fluffy (1965); Follow the Sun (1961); For Heaven's Sake (1950); Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991); Front Row Center (1956); Gang War (1958); General Electric Theater (1954–1960); Glynis (1963); Going My Way (1963); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1967); Goodyear Theatre (1958); Guestward Ho! (1961); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Hagen (1981); Harry O (1975); Hart to Hart (1982); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1962); He Walked by Night (1948); Headliners & Legends (1998–2008); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); Here's Lucy (1969); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hogan's Heroes (1966); Holy Matrimony (1943); Hoodlum Empire (1952); Horrible Horror (1986); Hour of Stars (2002); Hud (1963); I Dream of Jeannie (1966); I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957); I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957); Ike: The War Years (1979); In Broad Daylight (1971); Incredible Rocky Mountain Race (1977); Insight (1969); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Iron Horse (1967); Ironside (1973–1974); It Should Happen to You (1954); It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946); It Takes a Thief (1970); It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994); It's Only the Beginning (1951); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955–1957); Jericho (1966); Johnny Ringo (1960); Johnny Tremain (1957); Judd for the Defense (1968); Julia (1968); Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972); Klondike (1960); Kojak (1976); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre (1953); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1951); Land of the Giants (1970); Laredo (1966); Lassie (1954); Last of the Mohicans (1977); Lawman (1958–1962); Lincoln (1976); Lock Up (1959); Lost Continent (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1952); M Squad (1957); Man from Del Rio (1956); Man Without a Gun (1958); Mannix (1969); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970–1973); Markham (1959); Matt Helm (1975); Maverick (1960); McCloud (1974); Men at Law (1970); Men Into Space (1959); Mod Squad (1969); Monster on the Campus (1958); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957); Mr. Novak (1965); Never So Few (1959); Night Into Morning (1951); Night Song (1947); No Name on the Bullet (1959); Not as a Stranger (1955); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); One Step Beyond (1959); Out There (1951); Panic! (1957–1958); Perfect Strangers (1950); Perry Mason (1957–1965); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Peter Gunn (1958); Petrocelli (1976); Petticoat Junction (1965); Peyton Place (1965); Philip Marlowe (1960); Pioneers of Television (2011); Playhouse 90 (1956–1959); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1967); Police Story (1975); Profiles in Courage (1964–1965); Project U.F.O. (1978); Psychic Killer (1975); Public Defender (1955); Quincy, M.E. (1978–1979); Racket Squad (1953); Raw Deal (1948); Rawhide (1959–1960); Red Mountain (1951); Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954); Ripcord (1962); Route 66 (1960); Saints and Sinners (1963); Schlitz Playhouse (1956–1959); Science Fiction Theatre (1956); Sea Hunt (1958–1959); Sealed Cargo (1951); Search (1973); Seven Days in May (1964); Shack Out on 101 (1955); Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Side Street (1949); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Slattery's People (1965); Sneak Preview (1956); Somewhere in the Night (1946); Soylent Green (1973); Spencer's Mountain (1963); Stage 7 (1955); Stagecoach West (1961); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996); State Trooper (1958); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1955); Straightaway (1961); Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979); Studio 57 (1955–1956); Studio One (1952–1958); Surfside 6 (1960–1962); Suspicion (1958); Swiss Family Robinson (1976); Tales of Robin Hood (1951); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962); Target Earth (1954); That Lady in Ermine (1948); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Andersonville Trial (1970); The Atomic Kid (1954); The Big Combo (1955); The Big Step (1961); The Big Story (1952); The Bionic Woman (1977); The Black Orchid (1958); The Bob Cummings Show (1961); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1973); The Boston Tea Party (1966); The Brothers Brannagan (1960); The Caine Mutiny (1954); The Californians (1958); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Court of Last Resort (1957); The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949); The Dakotas (1963); The Defiant Ones (1958); The Deputy (1961); The Desperate Hours (1955); The Detectives (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Doctor (1952); The Donna Reed Show (1963); The Du Pont Story (1950); The Dukes of Hazzard (1980); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The F.B.I. (1966); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Family Secret (1951); The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995); The Felony Squad (1966); The Final Hour (1965); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1956); The Fugitive (1965); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1957); The Great Adventure (1964); The Great Missouri Raid (1951); The Hallelujah Trail (1965); The Halls of Ivy (1955); The Incredible Hulk (1979–1980); The Invaders (1967); The Jim Backus Show (1960); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Law and Mr. Jones (1961); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1959); The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977); The Lineup (1959); The Lone Ranger (1954–1955); The Loner (1965); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1972); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Man and the Challenge (1959); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Manchurian Candidate (1962); The Manhunter (1974); The Mighty O (1962); The Millionaire (1959); The Naked Street (1955); The Name of the Game (1968–1970); The New Perry Mason (1973); The Night Rider (1979); The Outer Limits (1963); The Outsider (1968); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Proud Ones (1956); The Real McCoys (1958–1959); The Red Badge of Courage (1951); The Restless Gun (1957); The Rifleman (1959–1961); The Roaring 20's (1960); The Salzburg Connection (1972); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea of Grass (1947); The Sellout (1952); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Shanghai Story (1954); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); The Sixties (2014); The Tall Stranger (1957); The Texan (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Time Machine (1960 / 1978); The Time Tunnel (1966–1967); The Tom Ewell Show (1961); The Turning Point (1952); The Untouchables (1959); The Veil (1958); The Virginian (1963–1964); The Wayward Girl (1957); The Web (1951–1952); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); The Young Lawyers (1970); The Young Stranger (1957); Third of a Man (1962); This Is the Life (1983); Three Hours to Kill (1954); Tightrope (1960); Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993); Tokyo Joe (1949); Trackdown (1958); Trial (1955); TV Reader's Digest (1955–1956); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); Wagon Train (1958–1964); Walking Tall (1981); Warlock (1959); West Point (1956); When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950); Where Love Has Gone (1964); Whirlybirds (1957–1958); Winged Victory (1944); Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991); Wyoming Mail (1950); You Are There (1953–1956); Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1960); Zorro (1958).

Born on this day – Lyne Clevers:

Lyne Clevers

Actress

October 22, 1909 – November 28, 1991.

Born on this day – Carla Laemmle:

Carla Laemmle

Actress

Dancer

October 20, 1909 – June 12, 2014

Born on this day – Molly O'Day:

Molly O'Day

Actress

October 16, 1909 – October 22, 1998

Credits:

Skull and Crown (1935); Lawless Border (1935); The Law of the 45's (1935); Bars of Hate (1935); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934); Hired Wife (1934); Divorce Sweets (1933); Gigolettes of Paris (1933); Playthings of Desire (1933); Get That Venus (1933); Devil on Deck (1932); Sob Sister (1931); Sea Devils (1931); Sisters (1930); Show of Shows (1929); The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928); The Shepherd of the Hills (1928); The Lovelorn (1927); Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927); The Patent Leather Kid (1927).

Born on this day – Nell O'Day:

Nell O'Day

Actress

Equestrian

September 22, 1909 – January 3, 1989

Credits:

A Roaming Romeo (1933); Arizona Cyclone (1941); Arizona Stage Coach (1942); Back Street (1941); Boss of Bullion City (1940); Boss of Rawhide (1943); Buck Privates (1941); Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941); Captain Blue Blood (1937); Convention Girl (1935); Double Date (1941); Fighting Bill Fargo (1941); Flight Angels (1940); Hello, Sucker (1941); Hooks and Jabs (1933); It's a Date (1940); King of Jazz (1930); Knight Duty (1933); Law and Order (1940); Law of the Range (1941); Man from Montana (1941); Mystery of Marie Roget (1942); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); Nice Girl? (1941); Perils of the Royal Mounted (1942); Pirates of the Prairie (1942); Pony Post (1940); Rackety Rax (1932); Ragtime Cowboy Joe (1940); Rawhide Rangers (1941); Return of the Rangers (1943); Rustler's Round-Up (1946); Saturday's Children (1940); Serves You Right (1935); Sing Another Chorus (1941); Smoke Lightning (1933); Son of Roaring Dan (1940); Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942); Star Tonight (1956); Studio One (1954); The Hope That Jack Built (1957); The Masked Rider (1941); The Monster Maker (1944); The Road to Ruin (1934); The Story of Kenneth W. Randall, M.D. (1946); There's One Born Every Minute (1942); This Side of Heaven (1934); Thundering Trails (1943); Tied for Life (1933); Twinkletoes (1926); Watch the Birdie (1935); Western Feud! (1949); Woman in the Dark (1934); You're Telling Me (1942).

Born on this day – Leith Stevens:

Leith Stevens

Composer

Conductor

September 13, 1909 – July 23, 1970

Born on this day – Anne Seymour:

Anne Seymour

Actress

September 11, 1909 – December 8, 1988

Born on this day – Clara Calamai:

Clara Calamai

Actress

September 7, 1909 – September 21, 1998

Born on this day – John Ridgely:

John Ridgely

Actor

September 6, 1909 – January 18, 1968

Born on this day – Ruby Keeler:

Ruby Keeler

Actress

Dancer

Singer

August 25, 1909 – February 28, 1993