Born on this day – Jean Harlow:

Jean Harlow

Actress

March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937

Credits:

Saratoga (1937); Personal Property (1937); The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937); Libeled Lady (1936); Suzy (1936); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); Riffraff (1935); China Seas (1935); Reckless (1935); The Girl from Missouri (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (1934); Bombshell (1933); Dinner at Eight (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); Screen Snapshots (1932); Red Dust (1932); Red-Headed Woman (1932); Scarface (1932); The Beast of the City (1932); Three Wise Girls (1931); Beau Hunks (1931); Platinum Blonde (1931); Goldie (1931); The Iron Man (1931); The Public Enemy (1931); The Secret 6 (1931); City Lights (1931); Hell's Angels (1930); New York Nights (1929); Weak But Willing (1929); This Thing Called Love (1929); The Love Parade (1929); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); Bacon Grabbers (1929); Masquerade (1929); Thundering Toupees (1929); Double Whoopee (1929); The Unkissed Man (1929); Close Harmony (1929); Why Is a Plumber? (1929); Why Be Good? (1929); Fugitives (1929); Liberty (1929); Chasing Husbands (1928); Moran of the Marines (1928); Honor Bound (1928).

Born on this day – Walter Davis:

Walter Davis

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

March 1, 1911 – October 22, 1963

Born on this day – Billie Van Every:

Billie Van Every

Actress

February 24, 1911 – date of death unknown

Credits:

A Woman's Man (1934); Atlantic Flight (1937); Blind Date (1934); Broadway Bill (1934); Carnival (1935); City Limits (1934); Crime Takes a Holiday (1938); Death Flies East (1935); I'll Love You Always (1935); Keyhole Katie (1933); Million Dollar Ransom (1934); Monte Carlo Nights (1934); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Navy Born (1936); Sadie McKee (1934); She Married Her Boss (1935); SOS Coast Guard (1937); The Girl Friend (1935); The Girl Who Came Back (1935); The Godless Girl (1928); The Hell Cat (1934); The Loudspeaker (1934); The Party's Over (1934); Whirlpool (1934).

Born on this day – Margot Grahame:

Margot Grahame

Actress

February 20, 1911 – January 1, 1982

Credits:

A Letter of Warning (1932); Black Magic (1949); Broken Journey (1948); Compromised (1930); Counterfeit (1936); Crime Over London (1936); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Easy Money (1934); Eight to a Bar (1952); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Forever Amber (1947); Forging Ahead (1933); Glamour (1931); Hotel Imperial (1958); House of Dreams (1934); I Adore You (1933); Illegal (1932); ITV Television Playhouse (1959); King's Rhapsody (1957); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1956); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Naughty Arlette (1949); Night Waitress (1936); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Orders Are Orders (1954); Postal Orders (1932); Prince of Arcadia (1933); Rheingold Theatre (1956); Saint Joan (1957); Sorrell and Son (1933); Stamboul (1931); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); The Arizonian (1935); The Assassin (1952); The Beggar's Opera (1953); The Buccaneer (1938); The Crimson Pirate (1952); The Fabulous Joe (1947); The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947); The Inch Man (1951); The Informer (1935); The Limping Man (1931); The Love Habit (1931); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1958); The Rosary (1931); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Three Musketeers (1935); Timbuctoo (1933); Trouble Ahead (1934); Two in the Dark (1936); Uneasy Virtue (1931); Vagabond Violinist (1934); Whacko! (1957); Why Saps Leave Home (1932); Without You (1934); Yes, Mr. Brown (1933).

Born on this day – Merle Oberon:

Merle Oberon

Actress

Writer

Producer

February 19, 1911 – November 23, 1979

Credits:

A Birthday Gala Tribute Noel Coward (1970); A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Song to Remember (1945); A Warm Corner (1930); ABC Late Night (1974); Affair in Monte Carlo (1952); Affectionately Yours (1941); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976–1978); Alf's Button (1930); Allons au cinéma (1976); American Masters (2001); Aren't We All? (1932); Assignment Foreign Legion (1956–1957); Beloved Enemy (1936); Berlin Express (1948); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); British Film Forever (2007); Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (2024); Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019); Climax! (1956); Compression (2023); Dans la vie tout s'arrange (1952); Dark Waters (1944); Deep in My Heart (1954); Désirée (1954); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2001); Ebb Tide (1932); Fascination (1931); First Comes Courage (1943); Folies Bergère de Paris (1935); For the Love of Mike (1932); Forever and a Day (1943); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1955); Gallery (1975); General Electric Theater (1957); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee (1978); Hotel (1967); I, Claudius (1937); Interval (1973); I've Got a Secret (1954); Lydia (1941); Men of Tomorrow (1932); Never Trouble Trouble (1931); Night in Paradise (1946); Night Song (1947); Of Love and Desire (1963); Over the Moon (1939); Pardon My French (1951); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Reserved for Ladies (1932); Round the Film Studios (1937); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 4 (1936); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Strange Evidence (1933); Temptation (1946); That Uncertain Feeling (1941); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Bob Hope Show (1966); The Brontes at the BBC (2016); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Dark Angel (1935); The David Frost Show (1970); The Divorce of Lady X (1938); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952–1954); The Epic That Never Was (1965); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1955); The Golden Years of Alexander Korda (1968); The Igor Cassini Show (1954); The Lion Has Wings (1939); The Lodger (1944); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); The Name's the Same (1954); The Oscar (1966); The Other World of Winston Churchill (1964); The Price of Fear (1956); The Private Life of Don Juan (1934); The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933); The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934); The Three Passions (1928); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1973); The Trouble with Merle (2002); The W Plan (1930); These Three (1936); This Love of Ours (1945); Thunder in the East (1934); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Today (1963); Todo es posible en Granada (1954); Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies (2008); Vagabond Violinist (1934); We, the People (1948); Wedding Rehearsal (1932); Welcome to the Basement (2014); What's My Line? (1954); Wuthering Heights (1939).

Born on this day – Ida Mae McKenzie:

Ida Mae McKenzie

Actress

January 15, 1911 – June 29, 1986

Credits:

A Prohibition Monkey (1920); A Tray Full of Trouble (1920); All in the Family (1971); An Overall Hero (1920); Beat It (1921); Broncho Billy and the Posse (1915); Distilled Love (1920); Dr. Kildare (1962); Four Times Foiled (1920); Gypsy (1966–1967); Jane Goes A' Wooing (1919); Just in Time (1921); Ladies' Pets (1921); Las Vegas Gambit (1980); Lepke (1975); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969); Merry-Go-Round (1923); Mod Squad (1969); My Three Sons (1960–1962); Neptune's Naughty Daughter (1917); Perry Mason (1963); Ready to Serve (1921); Shadows of Conscience (1921); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961); Snakeville's Twins (1915); So Long, Buddy (1923); Soylent Green (1973); That's Rich (1924); The Andy Griffith Show (1967); The Big Show (1920); The Big Valley (1968); The Donna Reed Show (1963); The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924); The Felony Squad (1968); The Godless Girl (1928); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1980); The Indian's Narrow Escape (1915); The Little Prospector (1915); The New High Rollers (1979–1980); The One Best Pet (1920); The Red Skelton Hour (1965–1971); The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (1970); The Village Blacksmith (1922); Too Much Turkey (1915); You'll Be S'prised (1920).

Born on this day – Butterfly McQueen:

Butterfly McQueen

Actress

January 8, 1911 – December 22, 1995

Credits:

The Magical World of Disney (1989); The Mosquito Coast (1986); American Playhouse (1986); ABC Afterschool Specials (1972); ABC Weekend Specials (1977); Amazing Grace (1974); The Phynx (1970); The Green Pastures (1957); Beulah (1950); Lux Video Theatre (1950); Studio One (1948); Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947); Duel in the Sun (1946); Mildred Pierce (1945); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945); Since You Went Away (1944); I Dood It (1943); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Affectionately Yours (1941); Gone with the Wind (1939); The Women (1939).

Born on this day – Basil Dearden:

Basil Dearden

Director

January 1, 1911 – March 23, 1971

Credits:

Mission: Monte Carlo (1974); The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970); The Assassination Bureau (1969); Only When I Larf (1968); Khartoum (1966); Masquerade (1965); Woman of Straw (1964); A Place to Go (1963); The Mind Benders (1963); Walk in the Shadow (1962); All Night Long (1962); Victim (1961); The Secret Partner (1961); Man in the Moon (1960); The Four Just Men (1959); The League of Gentlemen (1960); Sapphire (1959); Nowhere to Go (1958); Violent Playground (1958); Big Time Operators (1957); The Green Man (1956); Who Done It? (1956); PT Raiders (1955); Out of the Clouds (1955); The Rainbow Jacket (1954); The Square Ring (1953); The Gentle Gunman (1952); I Believe in You (1952); Pool of London (1951); Cage of Gold (1950); The Blue Lamp (1950); Train of Events (1949); Saraband (1948); Frieda (1947); The Captive Heart (1946); Dead of Night (1945); They Came to a City (1944); The Halfway House (1944); Did You Ever See a Dream Talking (1943); My Learned Friend (1943); The Bells Go Down (1943); The Goose Steps Out (1942); Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942); Under Suspicion (1939).

Born on this day – Janet Chandler:

Janet Chandler

Actress

Model

December 31, 1911 – March 16, 1994

Credits:

Rough Riding Ranger (1935); Now or Never (1935); Million Dollar Haul (1935); The Drunkard (1935); Cyclone of the Saddle (1935); Cowboy Holiday (1934); The Great Gamble (1934); Born to Fight (1932); The Golden West (1932); She Wanted a Millionaire (1932); Inez from Hollywood (1924); The Three Musketeers (1921).

Born on this day – Jeanette Nolan:

Jeanette Nolan

Actress

December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998

Born on this day – Junie Astor:

Junie Astor

Actress

Producer

December 21, 1911 – August 22, 1967

Born on this day – Julius Dassin:

Julius Dassin

Director

Producer

Writer

Actor

December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008

Born on this day – Richard Sale:

Richard Sale

Writer

Producer

Director

December 17, 1911 – March 4, 1993

Born on this day – Val Guest:

Val Guest

Director

Writer

December 11, 1911 – May 10, 2006

Born on this day – Lee J. Cobb:

Lee J. Cobb

Actor

December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976

Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Alle origini della mafia (1976); American Masters (1989–2003); Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970); Arthur Miller on Home Ground (1979); Bad Men of the West (1974); Blood, Sweat and Fear (1975); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Boomerang! (1947); Buckskin Frontier (1943); But Not for Me (1959); Call Northside 777 (1948); Captain from Castile (1947); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Come Blow Your Horn (1963); Compression (2024); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Danger on the Air (1938); Day of Triumph (1954); Death of a Salesman (1966); Double Indemnity (1973); Dr. Max (1974); Exodus (1960); Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane (1944); Frontier Justice (1958); General Electric Theater (1960–1962); Golden Boy (1939); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Gorilla at Large (1954); Green Mansions (1959); Gunsmoke (1974); Heat of Anger (1972); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hopalong Cassidy: Public Hero #1 (2001); How the West Was Won (1962); In Like Flint (1967); Incendiary Attack for Japanese Cities (1945); Inside the Jury Room (2008); Johnny O'Clock (1947); La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine (1976); La polizia sta a guardare (1973); Last Moments (1974); Lawman (1971); Lights Out (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Macho Callahan (1970); Mackenna's Gold (1969); Mafia (1968); Man of the West (1958); Mark il poliziotto spara per primo (1975); McCloud (1973); Medic (1955); Men of Boys Town (1941); Miami Exposé (1956); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Naked City (1961); Nick the Sting (1976); North of the Rio Grande (1937); On the Waterfront (1954); Our Man Flint (1966); Paris Calling (1941); Party Girl (1958); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Producers' Showcase (1955); Role Model: Gene Wilder (2008); Rustlers' Valley (1937); Sirocco (1951); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Startime (1960); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Studio One (1957); Suddenly an Eagle (1976); Tales of Tomorrow (1951); That Lucky Touch (1975); The 12th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1960); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Brazen Bell (1962); The Brothers Karamazov (1958); The Bull of the West (1972); The Dark Past (1948); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Devil's Children (1962); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959–1960); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961); The Exorcist (1973); The Family Secret (1951); The Fighter (1952); The Final Hour (1965); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Great Ice Rip-Off (1974); The Left Hand of God (1955); The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Luck of the Irish (1948); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950); The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Moon Is Down (1943); The Phantom Creeps (1939 / 1949); The Racers (1955); The Road to Denver (1955); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Tall Texan (1953); The Three Faces of Eve (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Trap (1959); The Vanishing Shadow (1934); The Virginian (1962–1966); The Young Lawyers (1970–1971); They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968); Thieves' Highway (1949); This Thing Called Love (1940); To Confuse the Angel (1970); Tonight We Raid Calais (1943); Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974); Ultimatum (1973); Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (1961); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Winged Victory (1944); Yankee Pasha (1954); Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1958).

Born on this day – Nino Rota:

Nino Rota

Composer

Pianist

Conductor

December 3, 1911 – April 10, 1979

Born on this day – Ray Patterson:

Ray Patterson

Animator

Producer

Director

November 23, 1911 – December 30, 2001

Born on this day – Dorothy Granger:

Dorothy Granger

Actress

November 21, 1911 – January 4, 1995

Born on this day – Roy Rogers:

Roy Rogers

Singer

Actor

Television host

November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998

Born on this day – Victoria Horne:

Victoria Horne

Actress

November 1, 1911 – October 10, 2003