Born on this day – María Félix:

María Félix

Actress

Singer

April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002

Born on this day – Alec Guinness:

Alec Guinness

Actor

April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000

Credits:

A Handful of Dust (1988); A Majority of One (1961); A Passage to India (1984); A Run for Your Money (1949); All at Sea (1957); Apostrophes (1986); Aquarius (1976); Arena (1976–1993); Baker's Dozen (1955); Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972); Caesar and Cleopatra (1976); Cromwell (1970); Damn the Defiant! (1962); Doctor Zhivago (1965); Edwin (1984); Evensong (1934); Eye on New York (1964); Farewell to the Vic (1963); Film '72 (1980–1987); Film Extra (1973); Great Expectations (1946); Great Performances (1986); Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hotel Paradiso (1966); Interview Day (1996); ITV Playhouse (1974); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); Kafka (1991); Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949); Last Holiday (1950); Late Night with David Letterman (1986); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Little Dorrit (1987); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980); Lovesick (1983); Malta Story (1953); Murder by Death (1976); Mute Witness (1995); Oliver Twist (1948); Omnibus (1983–1994); Our Man in Havana (1959); Parkinson (1977); Performance (1992); Q.E.D. (1994); Raise the Titanic (1980); Rowlandson's England (1955); Screen One (1993); Scrooge (1970); Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious (1965); Smiley's People (1982); Solo (1970); Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back: Deleted Scenes (2011); Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983); Startime (1959); The 12th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1960); The 18th Annual Tony Awards (1964); The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The British Academy Awards (1983); The Captain's Paradise (1953); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Detective (1954); The Ed Sullivan Show (1964); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Alec Guinness (1987); The Horse's Mouth (1958); The Ladykillers (1955); The Lavender Hill Mob (1951); The London Standard Film Awards (1986); The Making of 'Star Wars' (1977); The Man in the White Suit (1951); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1980); The Mudlark (1950); The Prisoner (1955); The Promoter (1952); The Quiller Memorandum (1966); The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958); The Scapegoat (1959); The Second Annual West End Theatre Awards (1977); The South Bank Show (1985); The Square Mile (1953); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Stratford Adventure (1954); The Swan (1956); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1969); Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979); To Paris with Love (1955); Tuesday's Documentary (1970); Tunes of Glory (1960); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1957 (1958); Zehn Minuten für den Kinogänger (1965).

Born on this day – Sonny Boy Williamson:

Sonny Boy Williamson

Blues singer

Harmonicist

Songwriter

March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948

Credits:

Music:

A Portrait in Blues (1963); Baby Let Me Come Back Home / November Boogie / All Nite Boogie / Leavin Blues (1966); Blues Classics by The Original Sonny Boy Williamson (1965); Born Blind / Ninety-Nine (1958); Bring It On Home / Down Child (1965); Bummer Road (1969); Bye Bye Bird / Help Me (1963); Come On Back Home / Stop Crying (1951); Cool, Cool Blues / Do It if You Wanta (1951); Crazy ‘Bout You, Baby / Eyesight to the Blind (1951); Cross My Heart / Dissatisfied (1958); Don’t Send Me No Flowers (1968); Don’t Start Me Talkin’/ All My Love in Vain (1955); Down and Out Blues (1959); Empty Bedroom / From the Bottom (1955); Fattening Frogs for Snakes / I Don’t Know (1957); From the Bottom / Empty Bedroom; Gettin’ Out of Town / She Brought Life Back to the Dead (1954); Going in Your Direction / Red Hot Kisses (1954); I Cross My Heart / West Memphis Blues (1954); In Memoriam (1965); Keep It to Yourself / The Key (To Your Door) (1956); King Biscuit Time (1989); Let Me Explain / Your Imagination (1956); Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide / Unseeing Eye (1959); Mighty Long Time / Nine Below Zero (1951); More Real Folk Blues (1966); Mr. Downchild / Stop Now Baby (1954); My Younger Days / I Want You Close to Me (1964); No Nights by Myself / Boppin’ with Sonny (1956); One Way Out / Nine Below Zero (1962); Pontiac Blues / Sonny Boy’s Christmas Blues (1951); Rock Generation Vol. 4 with the Animals (1973); Sonny Boy Williamson and Memphis Slim (1964); Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds (1966); Stop Right Now / The Hunt (1961); Temperature 110 / Lonesome Cabin (1960); The Blues of Sonny Boy Williamson (1963); The Goat / It’s Sad to Be Alone (1960); The Hunt / Little Village (1961); The Real Folk Blues (1966); This Is My Story (1972); Too Close Together / Cat Hop (1953); Trust My Baby / Too Close Together (1960); Trying to Get Back on My Feet / Decoration Day (1963); Your Funeral and My Trial / Wake Up Baby (1958).

Movies and television:

Af jazzens billedbog (1963); Almost Famous (2000); American Gangster (2007); American Made (2017); Animal House of Blues: 33.3 Special Edition (2018); Arena (1985); Barfly (1987); Blues Brothers 2000 (1998); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Charming the Hearts of Men (2021); Deadwood (2004); Dogfight (1991); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Frogs for Snakes (1998); Fuel (2008); Godfather of Harlem (2019); Green Book (2018); Groupies (1970); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); Hullabaloo! (1963–1964); Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988); Johnny Winter And: Live in Copenhagen (1971); Jonny Lang Live at Montreux 1999 (1999); Listening to You: The Who at the Isle of Wight 1970 (1998); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Long Strange Trip (2017); Lords of Dogtown (2005); Mae Mercer & Sonny Boy Williamson: Careless Love (1965); Mulholland Drive (2001); My Kinda People (2003); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2023); On Any Saturday (2006); Once Were Brothers (2019); Private Practice (2007); Ready, Steady, Go! (1965); Secondhand Lions (2003); Tempo (1964); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The Beat Room (1964); The Blues (2003); The Departed (2006); The Dukes of Hazzard (2005); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950); The Fall (2013); The Funeral (1996); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); Tommy (1975); Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008); Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964); Who Shot Pat? (1989).

Born on this day – Harriet Medin:

Harriet Medin

Actress

Casting Director

March 14, 1914 – May 20, 2005

Credits:

A Farewell to Arms (1957); Abdullah's Harem (1955); After the Fox (1966); Agent 8 3/4 (1964); All I Want for Christmas (1991); All-American Girl (1994); Baby M (1988); Beat the Devil (1953); Beautiful But Dangerous (1955); Black Magic (1949); Black Sabbath / Segment: La goccia d'acqua (1963); Blood and Black Lace (1964); Blood and Roses (1960); Blood Beach (1980); Bonanza (1968–1970); Conquered City (1962); Crossed Swords (1954); Daddy's Boys (1988); Death Race 2000 (1975); Esther and the King (1960); False Arrest (1991); Family (1979); Fast and Sexy (1958); Genoveffa di Brabante (1947); Ha da venì... don Calogero (1952); Helen of Troy (1956); Hunter (1987); It Happened in Athens (1962); It Started in Naples (1960); JAG (1996); La Dolce Vita (1960); Merkmale der Gotik am Beispiel von L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock (2018); Mill of the Stone Women (1960); Murder Can Hurt You! (1980); My Life and Times (1991); Never Take No for an Answer (1951); Northern Exposure (1993); Othello (1951); Paisan (1946); Panic Button (1964); Phaedra (1962); Quantum Leap (1989); Quo Vadis (1951); Schlock (1973); Solomon and Sheba (1959); Squares (1972); Stranger on the Prowl (1952); Sword of the Conqueror (1961); The 300 Spartans (1962); The Bermuda Triangle (1979); The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 (1976); The Colbys (1986); The Doris Day Show (1970); The Eye of the Needle (1963); The Fanelli Boys (1990); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1993); The Ghost (1963); The Hills Run Red (1966); The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Killing Time (1987); The Montecarlo Story (1956); The Murder Clinic (1966); The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962); The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968); The Quest (1976); The Tenth Month (1979); The Terminator (1984); The Whip and the Body (1963); The Witches of Eastwick (1987); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); Thirtysomething (1991); Those Secrets (1992); Time of Indifference (1964); Trapeze (1956); Troppo per vivere... poco per morire (1967); Troublemakers (1994); Vulcano (1950); Who's the Boss? (1990).

Born on this day – Etty Hillesum:

Etty Hillesum

Writer

January 15, 1914 – November 30, 1943

Credits:

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941–1943; Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum: Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality; Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941–1943 and Letters from Westerbork; Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters); Etty Hillesum: Letters from Westerbork; Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 (2002).

Born on this day – Arletta Duncan:

Arletta Duncan

Actress

December 31, 1914 – October 28, 1985

Credits:

Damaged Goods (1937); Mile a Minute Love (1937); Hook and Ladder (1935); Menace (1934); Unknown Blonde (1934); The Gallant Fool (1933); The Fighting Champ (1932); Back Street (1932); Fast Companions (1932); Night World (1932); Frankenstein (1931).

Born on this day – Dorris Bowdon:

Dorris Bowdon

Actress

December 27, 1914 – August 9, 2005

Credits:

The Moon Is Down (1943); Jennie (1940); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Down on the Farm (1938); Always Goodbye (1938).

Born on this day – Richard Widmark:

Richard Widmark

Actor

Producer

December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008

Born on this day – Nelly Corradi:

Nelly Corradi

Opera singer

Soprano

Actress

December 16, 1914 – April 16, 1968

Credits:

Gli orizzonti del sole (1955); House of Ricordi (1954); Puccini (1953); The Count of Saint Elmo (1951); La forza del destino (1950); Faust and the Devil (1949); The Lost One (1947); Barber of Seville (1947); Elixir of Love (1947); Lucia di Lammermoor (1946); La danza del fuoco (1943); Measure for Measure (1943); Fari nella nebbia (1942); Barbablù (1941); La zia smemorata (1940); Il ladro sono io (1940); Nobody's Land (1939); Il torrente (1938); Dimmed Lights (1936); Le scarpe al sole (1935); Everybody's Woman (1934).

Born on this day – Dorothy Lamour:

Dorothy Lamour

Actress

Singer

December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996

Born on this day – Frances Reid:

Frances Reid

Actress

December 9, 1914 – February 3, 2010

Born on this day – Odette Joyeux:

Odette Joyeux

Actress

Writer

December 5, 1914 – August 26, 2000

Born on this day – Vera Carmi:

Vera Carmi

Actress

November 23, 1914 – September 6, 1969

Born on this day – Ellen Drew:

Ellen Drew

Actress

November 23, 1914 – December 3, 2003

Born on this day – Mario Lattuada:

Mario Lattuada

Director

Writer

Actor

November 13, 1914 – July 3, 2005

Born on this day – Gianni Puccini:

Gianni Puccini

Writer

Director

November 9, 1914 – December 3, 1968

Born on this day – Hedy Lamarr:

Hedy Lamarr

Actress

Inventor

November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000

Born on this day – Norman Lloyd:

Norman Lloyd

Actor

Producer

Director

November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021

Born on this day – Jane Randolph:

Jane Randolph

Actress

October 30, 1914 – May 4, 2009

Credits:

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010); A Sporting Chance (1945); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Bambi (1942); Carioca Serenaders (1941); Cat People (1942); Century of Cinema (1995); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007–2011); Compression (2023); Dive Bomber (1941); Fast Company (1946); Fool's Gold (1946); Highways by Night (1942); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); Jealousy (1945); Manpower (1941); One Foot in Heaven (1941); Open Secret (1948); Railroaded! (1947); That Lady (1955); The Curse of the Cat People (1944); The Falcon Strikes Back (1943); The Falcon's Brother (1942); The Front Page (1945); The Male Animal (1942); The Mysterious Mr. M (1946); T-Men (1947).

Born on this day – Dody Goodman:

Dody Goodman

Actress

October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008