Born on this day – Phil Silvers:

Phil Silvers

Actor

Comedian

May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985

Born on this day – Robert Johnson:

Robert Johnson

Blues singer

Guitarist

Harmonic player

Songwriter

May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938

Credits:

Album:

Robert Johnson: The Centennial Collection (2011).

Movies, video and television:

11.6 (2013); Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990); American Epic (2017); Among Giants (1998); Animal House of Blues: How a Community Helped Create a Hollywood Blockbuster or Two (2012); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Bank Roll (2012); Baseball (1994); Beat the Devil (2002); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Boys on the Side (1995); Cadillac Records (2008); Chocolat (2000); Crepuscular Suburban Blues (2009); Crossroads (1986); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009); Dancing with the Stars (2007); Danville 2nd Ward Young Men (2010); Dark (2017); Deep Water (2022); Desperate Man Blues (2003); Dickey Betts & Great Southern: Back Where It All Begins - Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum (2005); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995); Down Terrace (2009); EarthBound (1994); Elementary (2013); Employee of the Month (2004); Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert: A Benefit for the Crossroads Centre at Antigua (1999); Eric Clapton and Friends (1988); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert J (2004); Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads (2021); For the Boys (1991); Freaks and Geeks (1999); Fringe (2009); Get on Up (2014); Ghosts of Mississippi (1996); Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2005); Greenleaf (2017); Grudge Match (2013); Guardami (1999); Guitar Hero (2005); Guitar Man (2015); Holes (2003); Hounddog (2007); I Am Not Okay with This (2020); iBrain (2013); Kings of the Road (1976); Kopps (2003); Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1973); Late Show with David Letterman (2011); Led Zeppelin (2003); Led Zeppelin: Travelling Riverside Blues (1990); Life on Mars (2007); Luck (2011); Luther (2013); Matlock (1989); Misfits (2010–2011); Music High Classroom (2012); Not Fade Away (2012); Patti Cake$ (2017); Phoenix (1998); Post Mortem (1999); Power (2015); Pump Up the Volume (1990); Red Tails (2012); Rush: R30 (2005); Saturday Night Live (1991–1995); Scratch (2001); SeaChange (1998–1999); Sid Meier's Railroads! (2006); Soap&Skin: Me and the Devil (2015); Starbuck in Rock Concert (1973); Stoned (2005); Suck (2009); Supernatural (2006); Sweet Talk (2015); The Blues (2003); The Blues Brothers (1980); The Cream of Eric Clapton (1990); The Demons (2015); The Downbeat (2010); The Ed Sullivan Show (1969); The Five Devils (2022); The Good Wife (2014); The Jeff Healey Band: Live at Montreux 1999 (2005); The Last Summer (2019); The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022); The Missing (2014); The Music Never Stopped (2011); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); The Search for Robert Johnson (1992); The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982); The Skeleton Key (2005); The Stones in the Park (1969); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2010); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); Thunderground (1989); Tu cara me suena - Argentina (2015); Two Trains Runnin' (2016); Under the Rainbow (2013); Unplugged (1992); When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979); Where the Road Runs Out (2014); Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016); Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2006).

Born on this day – Maurice Noble:

Maurice Noble

Cartoonist

Animator

Director

May 1, 1911 – May 18, 2001

Credits:

90 Day Wondering (1956); A Lecture on Camouflage (1944); A Scent of the Matterhorn (1961); A Sheep in the Deep (1962); About Time (1962); Advance and Be Mechanized (1967); Adventures of the Road-Runner (1962); Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life (1965); Ali Baba Bunny (1957); Ant Pasted (1953); Apes of Wrath (1959); Bad Day at Cat Rock (1965); Bambi (1942); Baton Bunny (1959); Beep Prepared (1961); Behind the Tunes: Crash! Bang! Boom! - The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown (2004); Behind the Tunes: The Art of the Gag (2006); Behind the Tunes: The Charm of Stink - On the Scent of Pepe le Pew (2005); Behind the Tunes: Tish Tash - The Animated World of Frank Tashlin (2005); Behind the Tunes: Twilight in Tunes - The Music of Raymond Scott (2006); Ben and Me (1953); Bewitched Bunny (1954); Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure (2007); Boyhood Daze (1957); Bugs Bunny in Space (1977); Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time (1999); Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982); Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers (1979); Bugs Bunny's Holiday Diet (1979); Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977); Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes (1991); Bugs Bunny's Silly Seals (1997); Bully for Bugs (1953); Cannery Rodent (1967); Carmelo (2000); Cartoon Alley (2005); Cat and Dupli-cat (1967); Cat Feud (1958); Catty-Cornered (1966); Chariots of Fur (1994); Chuck Amuck: The Movie (1991); Claws for Alarm (1954); Compressed Hare (1961); Cow and Chicken (1997); Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983); Daffy Duck's Quackbusters / Segments: Claws for Alarm; Punch Trunk (1988); Daffy Duck's Quackbusters / Segments: Transylvania 6-5000; The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1988); Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980); Dangerous When Wet (1953); Darkwing Duck (1991); Day of the Tentacle (1993); Deduce, You Say (1956); Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973); Drafty, Isn't It? (1957); Duck Amuck (1953); Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980); Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953); Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953); Duel Personality (1966); Dumbo (1941); Earthworm Jim (1995); Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999); Elmer Elephant (1936); Fantasia (1940); Father of the Bird (1997); Feline Frame-Up (1954); Ferdinand the Bull (1938); Filet Meow (1966); Forward March Hare (1953); Freeze Frame (1979); From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1953); From Hare to Eternity (1997); Gas (1944); Gateways to the Mind (1958); Go Fly a Kit (1957); Gotham Girls (2000); Great Performances (2000); Guided Mouse-Ille (1967); Guided Muscle (1955); Happy Birthday, Bugs!: 50 Looney Years (1990); Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963); Hare-Less Wolf (1958); Haunted Mouse (1965); Hell-Bent for Election (1958); High Note (1960); Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958); Hopalong Casualty (1960); Horizons of Hope (1954); Horton Hears a Who! (1970); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966); Hyde and Go Tweet (1960); I Was a Teenage Thumb (1963); I'm Just Wild About Jerry (1965); Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes (2003); Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? (1964); It's Everybody's Business (1954); It's Murder She Says... (1945); Jackie Chan Adventures (2000); Jackie Chan Adventures: Rely on Relics (2006); Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary (1966); Jerry-Go-Round (1966); Jumpin' Jupiter (1955); Jungle Boy (1996); Kiss Me Cat (1953); Lickety-Splat (1961); Lobo (2000); Lobo: Jukebox of Pain (2000); Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal (2007); Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor (2008); Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck (2007); Louvre Come Back to Me! (1962); Love Me, Love My Mouse (1966); Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953); Mad as a Mars Hare (1963); Martian Through Georgia (1962); Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth (1998); Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes (1998); Merbabies (1938); Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990); Mother Pluto (1936); Much Ado About Mousing (1964); Much Ado About Nutting (1953); My Little Duckaroo (1954); Nelly's Folly (1961); No 73 (1986); No Barking (1954); Now Hear This (1962); Of Feline Bondage (1965); Off to See the Wizard (1967–1968); Oliver & Company (1988); Omnibus (2001); Operation Snafu (1945); O-Solar-Meow (1967); Pent-House Mouse (1963); Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit (2002); Pinocchio (1940); Plastic Man in 'Puddle Trouble' (2006); Pullet Surprise (1997); Punch Trunk (1953); Purr-Chance to Dream (1967); Puss 'N' Boats (1966); Rabbit of Seville (1950); Rabbit Seasoning (1952); Ready, Woolen and Able (1960); Ready.. Set.. Zoom! (1955); Rhapsody of Steel (1959); Roadrunner a Go-Go (1965); Robin Hood Daffy (1958); Rock 'n' Rodent (1967); Samurai Jack (2001); Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie (2001); Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku (2004); Scrambled Aches (1957); Sheep Ahoy (1954); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937); Snowbody Loves Me (1964); Steal Wool (1957); Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954); Stork Naked (1955); Surf-Bored Cat (1967); Teacher's Pet (2004); Teacher's Pet: Food Fight (2002); Teacher's Pet: Thrash Canned (2002); That's Warner Bros.! (1995); The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961); The A-Tom-inable Snowman (1966); The A-Tom-inable Snowman (1966); The Bear That Wasn't (1967); The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off (1965); The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986–1992); The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980); The Bugs Bunny Show (1960–1971); The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour (1985–1986); The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (1978–1985); The Bugs n' Daffy Show (1996–1999); The Cat Above and the Mouse Below (1964); The Cat in the Hat (1971); The Cats Bah (1954); The Cat's Me-Ouch (1965); The Count of Monte Cristo (1997); The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965); The Dragon Slayer (1956); The Golden Touch (1935); The Good Egg (1945); The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003); The Iceman Ducketh (1964); The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964); The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame (1991); The Lorax (1972); The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992); The Mask (1995); The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. (1967); The Mouse on 57th Street (1961); The Phantom Tollbooth (1970); The Pink Panther (1969); The Plucky Duck Show (1992); The Powerpuff Girls (1998); The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002); The PowerPuff Girls: Relish Rampage (2002); The Pumpkin of Nyefar (2004); The Road Runner Show (1966–1973); The Tick (1994); The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse (1964); The Year of the Mouse (1965); This Is a Life? (1955); Three Little Bops (1957); Three Little Wolves (1936); Timber Wolf (2001); Tiny Toon Adventures / Segment: Duck Dodgers Jr. (1991); To Beep or Not to Beep (1963); To Hare Is Human (1956); To Itch His Own (1958); Tom and Jerry's Magical Misadventures (2013); Tom-ic Energy (1965); ToonHeads (1992–2003); Touché and Go (1957); Transylvania 6-5000 (1963); Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000); Two Scent's Worth (1955); Ugly Duckling (1939); War and Pieces (1964); Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures (1985); Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues... (1985); Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers (1985); Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales (1985); What's Opera, Doc? (1957); Who Scent You? (1960); Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958); Wild Over You (1953); Woolen Under Where (1963); Zip Zip Hooray! (1965); Zipping Along (1953); Zoom and Bored (1957); Zoom at the Top (1962).

Born on this day – Loretta Andrews:

Loretta Andrews

Actress

April 27, 1911 – July 23, 2004

Credits:

42nd Street (1933); A Pain in the Pullman (1936); Dames (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); Flying High (1931); Fog Over Frisco (1934); Footlight Parade (1933); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Good Morning, Eve! (1934); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Palmy Days (1931); Plane Nuts (1933); Redheads on Parade (1935); She Had to Say Yes (1933); Sis Hopkins (1941); Slippery Silks (1936); Speak Easily (1932); The Cheat (1931); The Kid from Spain (1932); The Little Giant (1933); The Mind Reader (1933); Wonder Bar (1934).

Born on this day – Christine McIntyre:

Christine McIntyre

Actress

Singer

April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984

Credits:

A Blunderful Time (1950); A Knight and a Blonde (1944); A Modern Marriage (1950); A Pinch in Time (1948); All Gummed Up (1947); Back from the Front (1944); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Behind the Mask (1946); Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939); Border Buckaroos (1943); Boston Blackie (1951); Bride and Gloom (1947); Brideless Groom (1947); Bubble Trouble (1953); Cinderella Swings It (1943); Clunked in the Clink (1949); Colorado Ambush (1951); Community Sing: Strauss Waltzes (1939); Crazy Like a Fox (1944); Crime on Their Hands (1948); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Defective Detectives (1944); Doctor, Feel My Pulse (1944); Doggie in the Bedroom (1954); Dopey Dicks (1950); Flung by a Fling (1949); Forbidden Trails (1941); French Fried Frolic (1949); From Rogues to Riches (1951); Frontier Feud (1945); Fuelin' Around (1949); Garden of Eatin' (1943); Gasoline Alley (1951); Get Along Little Zombie (1946); Gun Talk (1947); Hectic Honeymoon (1947); He's in Again (1949); His Baiting Beauty (1950); His Hotel Sweet (1944); His Tale Is Told (1944); Honeymoon Blues (1946); Hot Heir (1947); Hot Water (1946); Hugs and Mugs (1950); Innocently Guilty (1950); Jiggers, My Wife (1946); Jitter Bughouse (1948); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Knutzy Knights (1954); Land of the Lawless (1947); Louisiana Hayride (1944); Love at First Bite (1950); Man from Headquarters (1942); Mark Saber (1952); Meet Mr. Mischief (1947); Men in Her Diary (1945); Micro-Phonies (1945); Microspook (1949); Missing Daughters (1939); Mopey Dope (1944); Mr. Wright Goes Wrong (1946); News Hounds (1947); No Dough Boys (1944); Of Cash and Hash (1955); Off Again, on Again (1945); Oh, Say Can You Sue (1953); Open Season for Saps (1944); Out West (1947); Pals and Gals (1954); Pardon My Terror (1946); Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath (1948); Partners of the Trail (1944); Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945); Punchy Cowpunchers (1950); Racket Squad (1951); Radio Romeo (1947); Riders of the West (1942); Rock River Renegades (1942); Rolling Down to Reno (1947); Scotched in Scotland (1954); Sea Racketeers (1937); She Took a Powder (1951); Shivering Sherlocks (1948); Should Husbands Marry? (1947); Slappily Married (1946); Society Mugs (1946); Squareheads of the Round Table (1948); Studio Stoops (1950); Super Wolf (1949); Swing Fever (1937); Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948); The Blonde Stayed On (1946); The Blue Danube (1941); The Crimson Canary (1945); The Fire Chaser (1954); The Gentleman from Texas (1946); The Gink at the Sink (1952); The Gunman from Bodie (1941); The Hot Scots (1948); The Mayor's Husband (1945); The Power of God (1942); The Range Rider (1951–1952); The Rangers' Round-Up (1938); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Sheepish Wolf (1948); The Stranger from Pecos (1943); The Three Troubledoers (1946); They Stooge to Conga (1943); Three Hams on Rye (1950); Three Little Pirates (1946); To Heir Is Human (1944); Trapped by a Blonde (1949); Two Jills and a Jack (1947); Two Nuts in a Rut (1948); Vagabond Loafers (1949); Valley of Fear (1947); Waiting in the Lurch (1949); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1951); Wedded Bliss (1944); Wedding Belle (1947); Wedlock Deadlock (1947); West of the Rio Grande (1944); When the Wife's Away (1946); Where the Pest Begins (1945); Who Done It? (1949); Who's Hugh? (1943); Wife Decoy (1945); Wife to Spare (1947); Wine, Women and Bong (1951); Woo, Woo! (1945).

Born on this day – Joseph Barbera:

Joseph Barbera

Animator

Director

Producer

Artist

March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006

Born on this day – Raymond Z. Gallun:

Raymond Z. Gallun

Writer

March 22, 1911 – April 2, 1994

Credits:

A Step Farther Out (1950); Apollo at Go (1963); Avalanche (1935); Big Pill (1952); Bioblast (1985); Child of the Stars (1936); Editorial (1984); Old Faithful (1934); Passport to Jupiter (1951); People Minus X (1957); Seeds of the Dusk (1938); Skyclimber (1981); Starclimber (1991); The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun (1978); The Crystal Ray (1929); The Eden Cycle (1974); The Machine That Thought (1939); The Planet Strappers (1961); The Revolt of the Starmen (1932); The Son of Old Faithful (1935); The Space Dwellers (1929).

Born on this day – Simone Renant:

Simone Renant

Actress

March 19, 1911 – March 29, 2004

Credits:

After Love (1947); Asmodeus (1963); In the Cinema Tonight (1971); Au théâtre ce soir (1967–1975); Aurora and Victorien (1975); Cupid's Ball (1949); Bedevilled (1955); Corpses on holiday (1963); Champs-Elysées (1983); Danger Flight 931 (1955); Dangerous Liaisons (1959); Dear Inspector (1977); Domino (1943); Failure to Carry (1958); School stars (1962); They Were Twelve Women (1940); Il figlio di Lagardère (1952); Jenny Lamour (1947); La folle nuit (1932); The Joy of Living (1956); The mould (1934); The Mysterious Lady (1936); The Night Is Ours (1953); The Barbizon Temptation (1946); The Angel of the Home (1937); The angel I was given (1946); The Mysterious Monsieur Sylvain (1947); Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1979); The School of Journalists (1936); Echoes of Cinema (1962); The stars of the song (1971); Les parents terribles (1960); The Railroad Pirates (1938); Letters d'amour (1942); The Man of Joy (1950); Liberté-liberté (1983); Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! (1961); Love and the Frenchwoman (1960); Love Is a Funny Thing (1969) Mam'zelle Bonaparte (1942); Monsieur Cinéma (1969); We will go to Valparaiso (1954); On ne roule pas Antoinette (1936); No mercy for women (1950); What a family! (1965); Romance à trois (1942); If Paris Was Told to Us (1956); Nocturnal Tapage (1951); That Man from Rio (1964); The Adventures of Remi (1958); The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957) The Pearls of the Crown (1937); Thirteen Days of Love (1935) Three Men to Kill (1980); Three Murderesses (1959); Journey Without Hope (1943); Wicked Duchess (1942)

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