Born on this day – Dylan Thomas:

Dylan Thomas

Writer

October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953

Poems:

A Child's Christmas In Wales; A Grief Ago; A Letter To My Aunt; A Process In The Weather Of The Heart; A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London; A Saint About To Fall; A Winter's Tale; After The Funeral (In Memory Of Ann Jones); All All And All; All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever; All That I Owe The Fellows Of The Grave; Altarwise By Owl-Light; Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred; And Death Shall Have No Dominion; Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait; Because The Pleasure-Bird Whistles; Before I Knocked; Being But Men; Ceremony After A Fire Raid; Clown In The Moon; Deaths And Entrances; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Do You Not Father Me; Dylan Thomas - Holy Spring; Ears In The Turrets Hear; Elegy; Especially When The October Wind; Fern Hill; Find Meat On Bones; From Love's First Fever To Her Plague; Grief Thief Of Time; Here In This spring; Hold Hard The Ancient Minutes; Hold Hard, These Ancient Minutes In The Cuckoo's Month; Holy Spring; How Shall My Animal; How Soon The Servant Sun; I Dreamed My Genesis; I Fellowed Sleep; I Have Longed To Move Away; I Make This In A Warring Absence; I See The Boys Of Summer; I, In My Intricate Image; If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love; 'If my head hurt a hair's foot'; In Country Sleep; In My Craft Or Sullen Art; In The Beginning; In The White Giant's Thigh; Incarnate Devil; Into Her Lying Down Head; It Is The Sinners' Dust-Tongued Bell; January 1939; Lament; Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed; Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines; Limerick; Love In The Asylum; My Hero Bares His Nerves; My World Is Pyramid; Not From This Anger; Notes On The Art Of Poetry; O Make Me A Mask; On A Wedding Anniversary; On No Work Of Words; On The Marriage Of A Virgin; Once Below A Time; Once It Was The Colour Of Saying; Our Eunuch Dreams; Out Of The Sighs; Over Sir John's Hill; Poem In October; Poem On His Birthday; Prologue; Shall gods be said to thump the clouds; Should Lanterns Shine; Sometimes The Sky's Too Bright; The Conversation; The Conversation Of Prayer; The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower; The Hand That Signed The Paper; The Hunchback In The Park; The Seed-At-Zero; The Tombstone Told When She Died; Then Was My Neophyte; There Was A Saviour; This Bread I Break; This Side Of The Truth; To Others Than You; To-Day, This Insect; Twenty Four Years; Unluckily For A Death; Was There A Time; We Lying By Seasand; When All My Five And Country Senses See; When I Woke; When Once The Twilight Locks No Longer; When, Like A Running Grave; Why East Wind Chills.

Movies and television:

2nd House (1973); A Burning Hot Summer (2011); A Child's Christmas in Wales (1966 / 1987); A City Reborn (1945); A Dylan Thomas Memoir (1973); A Soldier Comes Home (1945); About Religion (1964); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Balloon Site 568 (1942); C.E.M.A. (1942); Camera Three (1961); Chaindance (1991); Chelsea Walls (2001); De schaduwlopers (1995); Doktor a besi (1966); Dylan Thomas: Return Journey (1990); Fern Hill (2005); Festival (1966); Folio (1959); Fuel for Battle (1944); Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014); Interstellar (2014); Le beau samedi (1974); Miralls (1999); N'entre pas sans violence dans cette bonne nuit (2005); New Towns for Old (1942); No Room at the Inn (1948); Omnibus / Segment: Dylan Thomas Memorial (1953); On David's Day (1959); Onder het Melkwoud (1958); Our Country (1944); Paul Kelly: And Death Shall Have No Dominion (2018); Puerto Rico (1961); Rebecca's Daughters (1992); Rijanon (1984); Speaking Personally (1951–1959); Stone (1974); Stone Forever (1999); Tenth Edinburgh International Festival: An extract from Under Milk Wood (1956); The Battle for Freedom (1942); The Doctor and the Devils (1985); The Dying of the light (2020); The Hunchback in the Park (2014); The Mouse and the Woman (1980); The Outing (2019); The Poet Writes His Wife (2002); The Respectful Prostitute / Festival (1964); The Sunday Programme (2003); The Three Weird Sisters (1948); These Are the Men (1943); This Is Colour (1942); Titus (2001); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Under Milk Wood (1957 / 1971 / 1992 / 2014 / 2015 / 2021); Unter dem Milchwald (1960); Wales: Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942); We Who Are Young Are Old (2010); Welsh Greats (2014).

Born on this day – Jackie Coogan:

Jackie Coogan

Actor

Comedian

October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984

Born on this day – John Berryman:

John Berryman

Writer

October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972

Books:

77 Dream Songs (1964); Berryman's Shakespeare (1999); Berryman's Sonnets (1967); Collected Poems 1937–1971 (1989); Conversations with John Berryman (2021); Delusions, Etc. of John Berryman (1972); Henry's Fate & Other Poems, 1967–1972 (1977); His Toy, His Dream His Rest (1968); Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956); Love & Fame (1970); Poems (1942); Recovery (1973); Selected Poems (2004); Stephen Crane (1950); The Dispossessed (1948); The Dream Songs (1969); The Freedom of the Poet (1976); The Heart Is Strange (2014); The Selected Letters of John Berryman (2020).

Documentary:

Rediscovering John Berryman (2014).

Born on this day – William F. Claxton:

William F. Claxton

Producer

Editor

Director

October 22, 1914 – February 11, 1996

Born on this day – Juanita Moore:

Juanita Moore

Actress

October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014

Credits:

Judging Amy (2001); ER (2000); The Kid (2000); The Sterling Chase (1999); Shades of LA (1990); Two Moon Junction (1988); And They're Off (1982); O'Hara's Wife (1982); Paternity (1981); ABC Weekend Specials (1981); The Richard Pryor Show (1977); Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976); Insight (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Fugitive Lovers (1975); Deliver Us from Evil (1975); Abby (1974); The Get-Man (1974); Thomasine & Bushrod (1974); A Dream for Christmas (1973); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972–1973); Fox Style (1973); The Mack (1973); Adam-12 (1973); Confessions of a Top Crime Buster (1971); The Partners (1971); Skin Game (1971); Ironside (1971); Mannix (1970); Angelitos negros (1970); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969); The Whole World Is Watching (1969); Uptight (1968); The Outsider (1968); Gentle Ben (1968); Rosie! (1967); Dragnet 1967 (1967); The Singing Nun (1966); Slattery's People (1965); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); Mr. Novak (1964); Ben Casey (1964); Breaking Point (1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); Wagon Train (1963); Going My Way (1963); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); A Child Is Waiting (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); Imitation of Life (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957); Bombers B-52 (1957); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); Band of Angels (1957); Something of Value (1957); The Girl Can't Help It (1956); Climax! (1956); The Opposite Sex (1956); Ransom! (1956); Not as a Stranger (1955); Lord of the Jungle (1955); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Women's Prison (1955); The Gambler from Natchez (1954); Witness to Murder (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); The Royal African Rifles (1953); Ramar of the Jungle (1952); The Iron Mistress (1952); Affair in Trinidad (1952); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Lydia Bailey (1952); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); No Questions Asked (1951); Tarzan's Peril (1951); Pinky (1949); A Song Is Born (1948); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Belle Starr (1941); Broken Strings (1940); Double Deal (1939); Show Boat (1936); Cleopatra (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Roman Scandals (1933); So This Is Africa (1933).

Born on this day – Michael D. Moore:

Michael D. Moore

Director

Second unit director

Writer

Actor

October 14, 1914 – March 4, 2013

Credits:

Danger Rangers (2003–2008); 102 Dalmatians (2000); Wrongfully Accused (1998); Flubber (1997); 101 Dalmatians (1996); Little Giants (1994); The Three Musketeers (1993); Cool Runnings (1993); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993); Chaplin (1992); The Mighty Ducks (1992); Toy Soldiers (1991); Ghostbusters II (1989); Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); Le palanquin des larmes (1988); Funny Farm (1988); Willow (1988); Ishtar (1987); Outrageous Fortune (1987); Amazing Stories (1985); National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985); Lady Blue (1985); Sylvester (1985); The Little Drummer Girl (1984); Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); Never Say Never Again (1983); Mister Deathman (1983); Six Pack (1982); Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Raise the Titanic (1980); The Electric Horseman (1979); The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978); Damnation Alley (1977); Airport '77 (1977); The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976); The Missouri Breaks (1976); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); Rooster Cogburn (1975); The Yakuza (1974); Mame (1974); Badge 373 (1973); Emperor of the North (1973); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); Portnoy's Complaint (1972); Sometimes a Great Notion (1971); Patton (1970); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); How to Commit Marriage (1969); Buckskin (1968); The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967); Bonanza (1967); Hondo (1967); Kill a Dragon (1967); An Eye for an Eye (1966); Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Roustabout (1964); Where Love Has Gone (1964); The Carpetbaggers (1964); Fun in Acapulco (1963); A New Kind of Love (1963); A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962); Blue Hawaii (1961); Summer and Smoke (1961); G.I. Blues (1960); Visit to a Small Planet (1960); Career (1959); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959); Don't Give Up the Ship (1959); The Trap (1959); Houseboat (1958); King Creole (1958); Hot Spell (1958); Wild Is the Wind (1957); The Tin Star (1957); Beau James (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); The Ten Commandments (1956); Pardners (1956); You're Never Too Young (1955); The Seven Little Foys (1955); Hell's Island (1955); Living It Up (1954); Casanova's Big Night (1954); Money from Home (1953); The Caddy (1953); Houdini (1953); The War of the Worlds (1953); The Turning Point (1952); When Worlds Collide (1951); The Furies (1950); Fancy Pants (1950); The Great Gatsby (1949); Streets of Laredo (1949); The Paleface (1948); Unconquered (1947); Welcome Stranger (1947); California (1947); Good as Gold (1927); The King of Kings (1927); No Man's Gold (1926); The Test of Donald Norton (1926); The Lady from Hell (1926); Flaming Waters (1925); The Man from Red Gulch (1925); Cytherea (1924); The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924); Mine to Keep (1923); Truxton King (1923); The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922); Manslaughter (1922); The Love Charm (1921); Exit the Vamp (1921); Shame (1921); The Mask (1921); I Am Guilty (1921); The Lost Romance (1921); All Souls' Eve (1921); Something to Think About (1920); The Price of Redemption (1920); Polly of the Storm Country (1920); Parted Curtains (1920); Out of the Dust (1920); The Unpainted Woman (1919).

Born on this day – Jack LaLanne:

Jack LaLanne

"Godfather of Fitness"

Fitness and nutrition guru

Motivational speaker

Writer

Actor

September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011

Credits:

Books:

Abundant Health and Vitality After 40; Abundant Health and Vitality After Forty; Celebrating 90 Plus Years Of Healthy Living; Cooking With Jack; Fiscal Fitness; Foods For Glamour; Jack La Lanne's Power Juicer Fresh Recipe Collection; Jack La Lanne's Slim and Trim Diet and Exercise Guide; Jack Lalanne Way To Vibrant Good Health; Jack Lalanne's Fresh Recipe Collection; Live Young Forever; Revitalize Your Life; Revitalize Your Life After 50; Slim & Trim Diet & Exercise Guide.

Movies and television:

Arli$$ (2002); As Seen on TV: Fifty Years of Fitness (2005); Batman: The Movie (1966); Beefcake (1998); Bridget Loves Bernie (1973); California's Gold (1999); CBS Mornings (2009); Crook & Chase (1996); Diet America Challenge (1989); Fame, Fortune and Romance (1986); Here's Hollywood (1961); Here's Lucy (1969); History 101 (2022); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (2003); Hour Magazine (1985); How to Live Forever (2009); Howard Stern (1995–2004); Jack LaLanne's Juiceman Blender (2005); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2007); KTLA at 40: A Celebration of Los Angeles Television (1987); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Life with Bonnie (2003); McEnroe (2004); Mister Ed (1961–1963); More Wild Wild West (1980); Muscle Beach Then and Now (2011); Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2004); Peter Gunn (1960); Philbin's People (1969); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (2011); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel / Segment: Still Jumping (2006); Relatively Speaking (1988); Repossessed (1990); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); That Little Monster (1994); The 35th Annual Thalians Gala (1990); The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011); The Addams Family (1966); The Alan Thicke Show (1980–1981); The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008); The Chevy Chase Show (1977); The David Frost Show (1970); The David Letterman Show (1980); The Fountain of Groovy (1970); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1989); The Happy Ending (1969); The Infinite Power Workout (1997); The Jack LaLanne Show (1951–1975); The Jay Leno Show (2009); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Joy of Health & Fitness with Elaine LaLanne (2021); The Ladies Man (1961); The Man Show (2003); The Mike Douglas Show (1979); The Simpsons (1999); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1970); The Tony Danza Show (2004–2005); The Wayne Brady Show (2004); The Wilton North Report (1987–1988); The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006); Today (2008); TV Nation (1994); When the World Breaks (2010); Where Muscles Were Born (2009); You Bet Your Life (1959).

Born on this day – Ken Hechler:

Ken Hechler

Writer

Politician

September 20, 1914 – December 10, 2016

Credits:

Books:

The Enemy Side of the Hill (1949); Endless Space Frontier (1982); Working With Truman (1982); Holding the line the 51st Engineer Combat Battalion and the Battle of the Bulge (1988); River-Horse (1991); Hero of the Rhine (2004); Super Marine! (2007); The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945 (1957).

Movies and television:

60 Minutes / Segment: King Coal (2000); All the Presidents' Movies: The Movie (2009); Frontline (2019); Independent Lens (2003); The Bridge at Remagen (1969); War Stories with Oliver North (2007).

Born on this day – Anna Karen:

Anna Karen

Actress

September 20, 1914 – July 1, 2009

Credits:

Gunsmoke (1966); Hands of Mystery (1951); Hazel (1964); Holiday for Lovers (1959); Iron Horse (1967); Jefferson Drum (1958); Lights Out (1950–1951); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972–1975); My True Story (1950); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); One Step Beyond (1960); Peyton Place (1965–1966); Project U.F.O. (1978); Rocky King, Detective (1951); Shadow of the Cloak (1952); Star Trek / episode entitled: All Our Yesterdays, originally aired March 14 (1969); Steve Randall (1952); The City of Gods (1968); The Doctor (1953); The Farmer's Daughter (1963); The Price of Fear (1956); The Rebel (1961); The Ski Bum (1971); The Wrong Man (1956); Wagon Train (1962).

Born on this day – Jack Cardiff:

Jack Cardiff

Cinematographer

Director

Photographer

September 18, 1914 – April 22, 2009

Credits:

3rd Irish Film and Television Awards (2005); 50 Films to See Before You Die (2006); A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979); A Matter of Life and Death (1946); A Matter of Michael & Emeric (1997); A Profile of 'Black Narcissus' (2000); A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' (2000); A Profile of 'The Red Shoes' (2000); A Road in India (1938); A Village in India (1938); All Night Long (2010); Arabian Bazaar (1938); As You Like It (1936); Avalanche Express (1979); Billy's Rose (1922); Black Narcissus (1947); Blame the Woman (1932); Border Weave (1942); Bored Games (2012); Breakfast (2004); Brewster's Millions (1935); Britain's Finest (2005); British Film Forever (2007); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); Call from Space (1989); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Cat's Eye (1985); Cinema 3 (2009); Colour in Clay (1942); Conan the Destroyer (1984); Crossed Swords (1954 / 1977); Dark Journey (1937); Dark of the Sun (1968); Death on the Nile (1978); Delhi (1938); Embracing Chaos: Making the African Queen (2010); Fanny (1961); Film '06 (2006); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Flamingo Blues (2004); Follyfoot (1972–1973); Ghost Story (1981); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Harmony Heaven (1930); Here's Hollywood (1961); Holiday in Spain (1960); Honeymoon for Three (1935); How to Make a Freak (2005); Indian Durbar (1939); Intent to Kill (1958); It Started in Paradise (1952); Jerusalem (1938); Jungle (1939); Knight Without Armor (1937); La caccia alla volpe nella campagna Romana (1938); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Legend of the Lost (1957); Lights2 (2005); Loose Ends (1930); Main Street of Paris (1939); Martin Scorsese on 'Age of Consent' (2009); Million Dollar Mystery (1987); Montmartre nocturne (1954); Moving Pictures (1990 / 1996); My Geisha (1962); My Son, My Son (1918); Omnibus (1993); One Precious Year (1933); Out of the Box (1942); Painting with Light (2001); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Paris (1951); Paris en Technicolor (1946); Paris on Parade (1938); Peasant Island (1940); Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973); Peintres et artistes montmartrois (1950); Penny Gold (1973); Petra (1938); Plastic Surgery in Wartime (1941); Queen Cotton (1941); Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985); Rear Window (1993); Rembrandt by Himself (1999); Reputations (1999); Ride a Wild Pony (1975); River Thames Yesterday (1939); Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek (1938); Scandalous (1984); Scott of the Antarctic (1948); Scottish Mazurka (1943); Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland (1965); Secret Lives (1996); Silence Becomes You (2005); Silent Britain (2006); Sinfonia di Roma (1937); Sons and Lovers (1960); Steel (1945); Tai-Pan (1986); TCM Remembers 2009 (2009); Temples of India (1938); The 1994 Annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards (1994); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The African Queen (1951); The American Prisoner (1929); The Awakening (1980); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); The Black Rose (1950); The Brave One (1956); The Cinema Show (2005–2006); The Colour Merchant (1998); The Coronation (1937); The Coronation of King George VI (1937); The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2006); The Dance of Shiva (1998); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); The Dogs of War (1980); The Eternal Fire (1938); The Far Pavilions (1984); The Fifth Musketeer (1979); The Flame of Love (1930); The Four Feathers (1939); The Ghost Goes West (1935); The Ghost Train (1931); The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968); The Great Mr. Handel (1942); The Green Girdle (1944); The Hate Ship (1929); The Informer (1929); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935 / 1984); The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943); The Lion (1962); The Liquidator (1965); The Little Picture Show (1994); The Long Ships (1964); The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923); The Magic Balloon (1990); The Magic Box (1951); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936); The Master of Ballantrae (1953); The Moviemakers (1985); The Mutations (1974); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2010); The Other Side of the Screen (2007); The Prince and the Showgirl (1957); The Prince, the Showgirl and Me (2004); The Raider (1944); The Red Shoes (1948); The Sacred Ganges (1938); The Skin Game (1931); The Story of William Tell (1953); The Suicidal Dog (2000); The Tell-Tale Heart (2004); The Vikings (1958); The Western Isles (1941); The Wicked Lady (1983); Things to Come (1936); This Is Colour (1942); Tiptoes (1927); Under Capricorn (1949); Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1991); Wanderers of the Desert (1938); War and Peace (1956); We Get to Win This Time (2002); Web of Evidence (1959); Wings of the Morning (1937); World Windows (1939); Young Cassidy (1965).

Born on this day – Robert Wise:

Robert Wise

Director

Producer

Editor

September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005

Credits:

A Game of Death (1945); A Storm in Summer (2000); Action in Arabia (1944); Albert Whitlock: A Master of Illusion (1981); At Night the Sun Shines (1992); Audrey Rose (1977); Bachelor Mother (1939); Biography (1997–1999); Blood on the Moon (1948); Bombardier (1943); Born to Kill (1947); Citizen Kane (1941); Criminal Court (1946); Dance, Girl, Dance (1940); Destination Gobi (1953); Executive Suite (1954); Femme Fatales (2011); Fifth Avenue Girl (1939); Frank Capra's American Dream (1997); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971); Helen of Troy (1956); I Want to Live! (1958); Mademoiselle Fifi (1944); Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994); Marine Raiders (1944); Memories of Navarone (2000); Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992); My Favorite Wife (1940); Mystery in Mexico (1948); Odds Against Tomorrow (1959); Of Human Bondage (1934); Precious Images (1986); Return to Paradise (1953); Rooftops (1989); Run Silent Run Deep (1958); Runamuk (1978); Salute to Oscar Hammerstein II (1972); Seven Days' Leave (1942); Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005); So Big (1953); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); Something for the Birds (1952); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Teaser (1979); Star! (1968); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 57th Annual Academy Awards (1985); The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Baby Maker (1970); The Body Snatcher (1945); The Captive City (1952); The Curse of the Cat People (1944); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); The Desert Rats (1953); The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941); The Fallen Sparrow (1943); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Gay Divorcee (1934); The Haunting (1963); The Hindenburg (1975); The House on Telegraph Hill (1951); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Informer (1935); The Iron Major (1943); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Set-Up (1949); The Sound of Music (1965); The Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon (1994); The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939); The Stupids (1996); This Could Be the Night (1957); Three Secrets (1950); Top Hat (1935); Tribute to a Bad Man (1956); Two Flags West (1950); Two for the Seesaw (1962); Two People (1973); Until They Sail (1957); Voice in Exile (1984); West Side Story (1961); Wisdom (1986).

Born on this day – Hillary Brooke:

Hillary Brooke

Actress

September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999

Credits:

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994); Africa Screams (1949); Alimony (1949); And the Angels Sing (1944); Beauty on Parade (1950); Bengazi (1955); Big Town (1946–1954); Big Town After Dark (1947); Big Town Scandal (1948); Bodyhold (1949); Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942); Cavalcade of America (1954); Chevron Theatre (1952); Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953–1958); Confidence Girl (1952); Counter-Espionage (1942); Country Fair (1941); Crossroads (1955); Dangerous Assignment (1952); December Bride (1957); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Dragon's Gold (1954); Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946); Editor's Roundtable (1949–1952); Eternally Yours (1939); Father Knows Best (1959); Fireside Theatre (1954–1955); Florian (1940); Four Star Playhouse (1952–1953); General Electric Theater (1959); Gruen Guild Theater (1951); Happy Go Lucky (1943); Heat Wave (1954); Hey, Abbott! (1978); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Hollywood Theatre Time (1950); House Party (1952); I Cover Big Town (1947); I Love Lucy (1956); Insurance Investigator (1951); Invaders from Mars (1953); Jane Eyre (1943); Lady in the Dark (1944); Lawman (1959); Let's Live Again (1948); Lost Continent (1951); Lucky Losers (1950); Maisie Was a Lady (1941); Married Bachelor (1941); Mexican Manhunt (1953); Michael Shayne (1960); Ministry of Fear (1944); Monsieur Beaucaire (1946); Mr. & Mrs. North (1954); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); My Little Margie (1952–1955); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); New Faces of 1937 (1937); New Moon (1940); Passport to Danger (1954); Perry Mason (1957); Practically Yours (1944); Private Secretary (1957); Public Defender (1955); Racket Squad (1952–1953); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959–1960); Road to Utopia (1945); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 25, No. 3: Fashions and Rodeo (1945); Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942); Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943); Ship Ahoy (1942); Skipalong Rosenbloom (1951); Sleepytime Gal (1942); Spoilers of the Forest (1957); Standing Room Only (1944); Stars Over Hollywood (1951); Strange Impersonation (1946); Strange Journey (1946); Studio 57 (1956); Stump the Stars (1949–1953); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1953); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Bob Hope Show (1954–1958); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Christophers (1954); The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945); The Crystal Ball (1943); The Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Fuller Brush Man (1948); The Gentleman Misbehaves (1946); The Great Detectives (1999); The Joe Palooka Story (1954); The Lady Wants Mink (1953); The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941); The Lone Rider Rides On (1941); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); The Maze (1953); The Mickey Rooney Show (1954–1955); The Millionaire (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Ray Milland Show (1954); The Star and the Story (1955–1956); The Strange Woman (1946); The Whistler (1955); The Woman in Green (1945); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Two-Faced Woman (1941); Unfinished Business (1941); Unmasked (1950); Up Goes Maisie (1946); Vendetta (1950); Wake Island (1942); West Point (1956); Willie and the Mouse (1941); Yancy Derringer (1959); Your Play Time (1953).

Born on this day – Richard Basehart:

Richard Basehart

Actor

August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984

Born on this day – Julie Bishop:

Julie Bishop

Actress

August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001

Credits:

Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Any Old Port! (1932); Back in the Saddle (1941); Behind Prison Gates (1939); Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923); Busses Roar (1942); Captain Blood (1924); Challenge the Wilderness (1951); Children of Jazz (1923); Cinderella Jones (1946); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Clancy of the Mounted (1933); Classified (1925); Coronado (1935); Counsel for Crime (1937); Dateline: Disneyland (1955); Deputy Marshal (1949); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924); Escape from Crime (1942); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Fireside Theatre (1954); Flight Into Nowhere (1938); Flight to Fame (1938); Girl in 313 (1940); Girls Can Play (1937); Happy Landing (1934); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius / Universal Horror (1998); Headline Hunters (1955); Her First Romance (1940); Heroes of the West (1932); High Tide (1947); Highway Patrol (1938); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood on Parade No. B-13 (1934); I Was Framed (1942); Idea Girl (1946); In Walked Charley (1932); International Squadron (1941); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); Lady Gangster (1942); Last of the Redmen (1947); Lights Out (1932); Little Miss Roughneck (1938); Maytime (1923); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); My Hero (1952–1953); My Son Is a Criminal (1939); My Son Is Guilty (1939); Night Cargo (1936); None But the Brave (1928); Northern Pursuit (1943); Paid to Dance (1937); Princess O'Rourke (1943); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Sabre Jet (1953); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); Scareheads (1931); Secrets of Beauty (1951); She Married an Artist (1937); Skip the Maloo! (1931); Spring Madness (1938); Square Shooter (1935); Steel Against the Sky (1941); Strange Conquest (1946); Tarzan the Fearless (1933 / 1964); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Bar-C Mystery (1926); The Big Land (1957); The Black Cat (1934); The Bob Cummings Show (1956); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Family Upstairs (1926); The Frame-Up (1937); The Golden Bed (1925); The Good Bad Boy (1924); The Hard Way (1943); The Hidden Hand (1942); The High and the Mighty (1954); The Home Maker (1925); The Kansas Terrors (1939); The Knockout (1932); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Little Adventuress (1938); The Loudspeaker (1934); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Main Event (1938); The Nurse's Secret (1941); The Ranger and the Lady (1940); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Threat (1949); Tillie and Gus (1933); Torture Ship (1939); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); Westward the Women (1951); When G-Men Step In (1938); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); You Came Along (1945); Young Bill Hickok (1940); You're Telling Me (1932); Zwei Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel (1932).

Born on this day – Jove Jansson:

Jove Jansson

Writer

Illustrator

Painter

August 9, 1914 – June 27, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Winter Book (2006); Art in Nature (2012); Comet in Moominland (1946); Dangerous Journey (1978); Fair Play (2007); Finn Family Moomintroll (1950); Letters from Tove (2019); Little My's Book of Thoughts (2011); Momminmamma's Book of Thoughts (2010); Moomin and Snufkin (1993); Moomin and the Birthday Button (2010); Moomin and the Comet (2013); Moomin and the Golden Tail (2014); Moomin and the Little Dragon (1993); Moomin and the Little Ghost (2013); Moomin and the Magic Hat (1993); Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure (2011); Moomin and the New Friend (2012); Moomin and the Sea (2013); Moomin and the Winter Snow (2011); Moomin Builds a House (2013); Moomin Falls in Love (2013); Moomin on the Riviera (2014); Moominland Midwinter (1958); Moominpappa at Sea (1966); Moominpappa's Book of Thoughts (2011); Moominpappa's Memoirs / aka The Exploits of Moominpappa (1952); Moomin's Brilliantly Busy Colouring Book (2010); Moomins Cookbook (2010); Moomin's Desert Island (2014); Moomin's Invisible Friend (1993); Moomin's Lift-the-flap Hide and Seek (2010); Moomin's Little Book of Colours (2011); Moomin's Little Book of Numbers (2010); Moomin's Little Book of Opposites (2011); Moomin's Little Book of Words (2010); Moomin's Most Magical Pop-Up Book (2011); Moomin's Secret Surprise Sticker Book (2011); Moomin's Splendid Summer Sticker Book (2010); Moomin's Winter Follies (2012); Moominsummer Madness (1954); Moomintrolls and Friends (1996); Moomintroll's Book of Thoughts (2010); Moominvalley for the Curious Explorer (2014); Moominvalley in November (1970); Moominvalley Turns Jungle (2012); Sculptor's Daughter (1969); Sniff's Book of Thoughts (2011); Snufkin's Book of Thoughts (2010); Spellbound (2007); Sun City (1976); Tales from Moominvalley (1963); The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020); The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My (1996); The Coal Man (1998); The Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters (1990); The Listener (2014); The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945); The Summer Book (1975); The True Deceiver (2009); The Woman Who Borrowed Memories (2014); Travelling Light (2010); Who Will Comfort Toffle? (1969).

Movie:

Tove (2020).

Born on this day – June Travis:

June Travis

Actress

August 7, 1914 – April 14, 2008

Credits:

Bengal Tiger (1936); Bright Lights (1935); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broadway Hostess (1935); Ceiling Zero (1936); Circus Girl (1937); Don't Bet on Blondes (1935); Dr. Socrates (1935); Earthworm Tractors (1936); Exiled to Shanghai (1937); Federal Man-Hunt (1938); Go Chase Yourself (1938); Jailbreak (1936); Join the Marines (1937); Little Orphan Annie (1938); Love Is on the Air (1937); Men in Exile (1937); Monster a Go-Go (1965); Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938); Over the Goal (1937); Over the Wall (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 8 (1937); Shipmates Forever (1935); Stranded (1935); The Big Game (1936); The Case of the Black Cat (1936); The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935); The ComicWeb: Old Time Radio Programs (2020); The Gladiator (1938); The Kid Comes Back (1937); The Marines Are Here (1938); The Night Hawk (1938); The Star (1952); Times Square Playboy (1936).

Born on this day – Beatrice Straight:

Beatrice Straight

Actress

August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001

Born on this day – Mario Bava:

Mario Bava

Director

Cinematographer

Special Effects

July 31, 1914 – April 27, 1980

Credits:

A Bay of Blood (1971); At Dog's Life (1950); I don't have love! But, however... (1951); Flavian Amphitheater (1947); Anthony of Padua (1949); Asesinato desde la Roja Oscuridad (2019); Attack of the Normans (1962); Toys and perfumes (1953); Barber of Seville (1947); Baron Blood (1972); Beautiful But Dangerous (1955); Ben-Hur (1959); Black Sabbath (1963); Black Sunday (1960); Blood and Black Lace (1964); Good night... lawyer! (1955); Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959); Spring Song (1951); Captain Storm (1942); Capriccio musicale (1950); City at night (1957); Cops and Robbers (1951); Crazy Things (1954); Danger: Diabolik (1968); Deducoria (2018); Doctor Stein (2019); Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966); Dream House (2009); The knight has arrived! (1950); Here is happiness (1940); Elixir of Love (1947); Erik the Conqueror (1961); Esther and the King (1960); Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970); Four Times That Night (1971); Gladiators 7 (1962); The Sunday Heroes (1952); Goya (1950); Grass Hook Massacre (2019); Graziella (1955); Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970); Hercules (1958); Hercules and the Captive Women (1961); Hercules in the Haunted World (1961); Hercules Unchained (1959); High School (1954); The Kiss of Dawn (1953); The lion of Damascus (1942); The Overbearing Turkey (1939); The Avenue of Hope (1953); Nightmare For a White Fly (2015); Inferno (1980); It Happened in the Park (1953); Kill Baby... Kill! (1966); King Ripple (2015); Knives of the Avenger (1966); The Compagnia della Teppa (1941); The Passaguai family (1951); The family Passaguai makes a fortune (1952); The Venus of Ille (1979); The Vispa Teresa (1939); The adventure of Annabella (1943); Legenda Sinfonica (1947); Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972); Lisa and the Devil (1973); The Ear (1946); The Hospital of the Crime (1950); Love of a Clown (1948); Lust of the Vampire (1957); Mad About Opera (1948); Mario Bava speaks (2006); Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre (2000); Mario Bava: Operation Fear (2004); Masks (2011); Minnesota Clay (1964); Miss Italy (1950); Morgan the Pirate (1960); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); Moxina (2012); Mysteria (2016); Naked You Die (1968); Christmas at Camp 119 (1947); Nero's Mistress (1956); No Greater Love (1955); Odyssey (1968); Orlando and the Paladins of France (1956); Dad Becomes a Mom (1952); Forgive me! (1953); Planet of the Vampires (1965); Rabid Dogs (1974 / 2015); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (1970); S.O.S. Submarine (1941); Holy Night (1947); Saint Helena, Small Island (1943); Savage Gringo (1966); Scream Creek (2024); Shock (1977); Silver Slime (1981); Sins of Casanova (1955); Son of Samson (1960); Spartacus (1953); Suspiria (1977); The Day the Sky Exploded (1958); The Evil Eye (1963); The Giant of Marathon (1959); The House of Exorcism (1975); The Last Days of Pompeii (1959); The Last of the Vikings (1961); The Old Man in the Rocking Chair (2022); The Road to Fort Alamo (1964); The Taming of Dorothy (1950); The Whip and the Body (1963); The White Ship (1941); The White Warrior (1959); The Wonders of Aladdin (1961); Two Guns and a Coward (1968); Ulysses (1954); Men and Skies (1947); Variations symphonic (1949); War of the Zombies (1964); Waterloo (1970); We Stole a Tram (1954); Winchester Jack (1970); Yellow (2006).

Born on this day – Carmen Dragon:

Carmen Dragon

Conductor

Composer

Arranger

July 28, 1914 – March 28, 1984

Born on this day – Woody Strode:

Woody Strode

Actor

Athlete

July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994