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

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