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

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).