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

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

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).