Born on this day – Brownie McGhee:

Brownie McGhee

Singer

Guitarist

Actor

November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996

Credits:

Songs:

Ain't Nothin' Like Whiskey; Better Day; Betty and Dupree; Big Legged Woman; Blues for the Lowlands; Born And Livin' With The Blues; Bring It On Home To Me; Change The Lock On The Door; Corn Bread, Peas And Black Molasses; Feed Me Baby; Fighting a Losing Battle; God and Man; Heart in Sorrow; Hootin' the Blues; I Love You Baby; Jesus Gonna Make It Alright; Life Is a Gamble; Midnight Special; On The Road Again; People Get Ready; Rainy, Rainy Day; Red River Blues; Sail Away; Southern Train; Stranger Blues; Thats How I Feel; The Battle Is Over; The Blues; Trouble in Mind; Walk On; Whoopin' the Blues; You Bring Out The Boogie In Me.

Albums:

A Long Way from Home (1969); Back Country Blues (2016); Blues Hoot (1961 / 1963); Blues Is Truth (1976); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry at the 2nd Fret (1962); Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing (1990); Brownie McGhee Blues (1955); Brownie McGhee Sings the Blues (1959); Brownie's Blues (1962); Down Home Blues (1960); Down South Summit Meetin' (1960); Facts of Life (1985); Folk Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1958); I Couldn't Believe My Eyes (1969 / 1973); Sonny & Brownie (1973); Sonny Is King (1963); The Folkways Years, 1945–1959 (1991); Traditional Blues, Vol. 1 (1951); Traditional Blues, Vol. 2 (1960); Washboard Band: Country Dance Music (1956).

Movies and television:

A Complete Unknown (2024); A Face in the Crowd (1957); A Matter of Degrees (1990); A Roomful of Music (1965); Acoustic Routes (1992); Anarchy in Manchester (2014); Angel Heart (1987); Arena (1988); Babysitting (1987); Bandstand (1966); Baseball (1994); Blues and Gospel Train (1964); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Book of Numbers (1973); Buck and the Preacher (1972); Dave's Place (1965); Dogfight (1991); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Family Ties (1988); Festival (1967); Folk America (2009); Folk Britannia (2006); Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (2001); From the Vaults (2018); Get Crazy (1983); Guy X (2005); House at the End of the Street (2012); House of Lies (2013); Leadbelly (1976); Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Library of Congress (1945); Loving (2016); Matlock (1989); Muromachi: Plate Lunch (1998); Physical Graffiti: A Classic Album Under Review (2008); Quest (1962); Superbad (2007); Thank You, M'am (1977); The Blues (1966 / 2003); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour (1970); The Jerk (1979); The Midnight Special (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); The Old Grey Whistle Test (1973); The Revlon Revue (1959); The Rosey Grier Show (1970); The Soul of a Man (2003); The Strolling '20s (1966); The Sunday Break (1958); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947.

Born on this day – Jean Gillie:

Jean Gillie

Actress

October 14, 1915 – February 19, 1949

Credits:

The Macomber Affair (1947); Decoy (1946); Flight from Folly (1945); Tawny Pipit (1944); The Gentle Sex (1943); The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941); A Call for Arms! (1940); Sailors Don't Care (1940); Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940); The Middle Watch (1940); The Spider (1939); What Would You Do, Chums? (1939); Sweet Devil (1938); The Live Wire (1937); The Girl in the Taxi (1937); This'll Make You Whistle (1936); His Majesty and Co (1935); While Parents Sleep (1935); School for Stars (1935); It Happened in Paris (1935); Brewster's Millions (1935); Smith's Wives (1935).

Born on this day – Blanchette Brunoy:

Blanchette Brunoy

Actress

October 5, 1915 – April 3, 2005

Born on this day – Anne Nagel:

Anne Nagel

Actress

September 29, 1915 – July 6, 1966

Credits:

100 Years of Horror (1996); A Bride for Henry (1937); An Innocent Affair (1948); Appointment for Love (1941); Argentine Nights (1940); Armored Car Robbery (1950); Black Friday (1940); Blondie's Holiday (1947); Breakdowns of 1936 (1936); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Bungalow 13 (1948); Call a Messenger (1939); China Clipper (1936); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2014); Circus Boy (1957); College Humor (1933); Coming Out Party (1934); Coming Soon (1982); Convict's Code (1939); Diamond Frontier (1940); Dog of the Wild (1949); Don Winslow of the Navy (1942); Down the Stretch (1936); Escape by Night (1937); Every Girl Should Be Married (1948); Everybody's Old Man (1936); Evil Deeds / Segment: Hell Beast (2004); Family Honeymoon (1948); Gang Bullets (1938); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Guns of the Pecos (1936); Here Comes Carter (1936); Homecoming (1948); Hoosier Schoolboy (1937); Hot Money (1936); Hot Steel (1940); Hypnotized (1932); I Found a Dog (1949); I Loved You Wednesday (1933); King of Hockey (1936); Legion of Lost Flyers (1939); Love Begins at 20 (1936); Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940); Man Made Monster (1941); Meet the Chump (1941); Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); Mighty Joe Young (1949); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); Music Is Magic (1935); Mutiny in the Arctic (1941); My Little Chickadee (1940); Mystery House (1938); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); One Touch of Venus (1948); Pal, Canine Detective (1950); Pal, Fugitive Dog (1950); Pal's Gallant Journey (1951); Pal's Return (1948); Polo Joe (1936); Prejudice (1949); Redheads on Parade (1935); Road Agent (1941); Romance Road (1938); Saleslady (1938); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Sealed Lips (1942); She Loved a Fireman (1937); Should a Girl Marry? (1939); Sitting Pretty (1933); Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); The Adventurous Blonde (1937); The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937); The Dawn Express (1942); The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937); The Footloose Heiress (1937); The Green Hornet (1940 / 1990); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Hucksters (1947); The Invisible Woman (1940); The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942); The Mad Monster (1942); The Range Rider (1951); The Secret Code (1942); The Spirit of West Point (1947); The Stratton Story (1949); The Trap (1946); The Witness Vanishes (1939); Three Legionnaires (1937); Traffic in Crime (1946); Under the Big Top (1938); Winners of the West (1940); Women in Bondage (1943).

Born on this day – Brenda Marshall:

Brenda Marshall

Actress

September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992

Born on this day – John Conte:

John Conte

Actor

September 15, 1915 – September 4, 2006

Born on this day – Edmond O'Brien:

Edmond O'Brien

Actor

Director

September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985

Born on this day – Ingrid Bergman:

Ingrid Bergman

Actress

August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982

Born on this day – Simon Oakland:

Simon Oakland

Actor

August 28, 1915 – August 29, 1983

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962); Alexander the Great (1963); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1957–1960); Ben Casey (1962); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Big Town (1951); Black Saddle (1959); Black Sheep Squadron (1976–1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Bonanza (1963–1969); Brenner (1959); Bret Maverick (1982); Bronco (1960); Bullitt (1968); Bus Stop (1962); Cade's County (1972); Cain's Hundred (1962); Captain David Grief (1960); Captain Nice (1967); Car 54, Where Are You? (1962); Celebrity Bowling (1973); Charlie's Angels (1980); Chato's Land (1972); Checkmate (1961); CHiPs (1979–1982); Chubasco (1968); Cimarron Strip (1967); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Combat! (1963–1965); Crosscurrent (1971); Dan August (1971); Daniel Boone (1965–1969); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978–1979); Deadline (1959–1961); Decoy (1957–1958); Directions (1964); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); East Side/West Side (1963); Ellery Queen (1975); Emperor of the North (1973); Evening in Byzantium (1978); Follow That Dream (1962); Follow the Sun (1961); General Electric Theater (1961); Gentle Ben (1967); Get Smart (1965); Gibbsville (1976); Good Morning World (1968); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Gunsmoke (1956–1965); Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1975); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); I Spy (1956); I Want to Live! (1958); Ironside (1969–1973); It Takes a Thief (1968); Judd for the Defense (1968); Key West (1973); Kojak (1976); Kolchak: Crackle of Death (1974); Kolchak: Demon and the Mummy (1975); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975); Kraft Theatre (1956–1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961–1962); Laramie (1960); Lou Grant (1982); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1976); Matt and Jenny (1980); Medical Center (1970–1972); Men Into Space (1959); Mission: Impossible (1967); Mod Squad (1969); Mr. Broadway (1964); Mr. Novak (1964); Murder, Inc. (1960); My Favorite Martian (1963); Naked City (1959); Off to See the Wizard (1968); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970); Outlaws (1961); Perry Mason (1960–1961); Police Story (1976); Producers' Showcase (1957); Profiles in Courage (1965); Psycho (1960); Purex Summer Specials (1962); Quincy, M.E. (1978–1982); Rawhide (1963–1965); Ready for the People (1964); Red Light (1949); Route 66 (1962); S.W.A.T. (1975); Saints and Sinners (1962); Scandalous John (1971); Slattery's People (1965); Stoney Burke (1963); Suspense (1950); Switch (1978); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Tarzan (1967); The Alaskans (1959); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Big Story (1956); The Big Valley (1969); The Bill Dana Show (1963); The Brothers Karamazov (1958); The Buccaneer (1958); The Defenders (1961–1965); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Desperate Hours (1955); The Detectives (1960); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1965); The F.B.I. (1969); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); The Felony Squad (1967); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1978); The Hunting Party (1971); The Law and Mr. Jones (1961); The Littlest Hobo (1982); The Man and the City (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1967); The Name of the Game (1968–1970); The New Breed (1961); The New Perry Mason (1973); The Night Stalker (1972); The Night Strangler (1973); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outsider (1968); The Plainsman (1966); The Raiders (1963); The Reporter (1964); The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); The Rockford Files (1977–1979); The Rogues (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Satan Bug (1965); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); The Silent Force (1970); The Silent Service (1958); The Starlost (1973); The Ten Commandments (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Third Man (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); The Twilight Zone (1961–1963); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1965); The Web (1953); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); The Wild Wild West (1968); The Young Lawyers (1970); Third of a Man (1962); Tightrope (1959); Toma (1973–1974); Tony Rome (1967); Tucker's Witch (1983); Unsolved (1960); Vega$ (1981); Wagon Train (1960–1962); Wall of Noise (1963); West Side Story (1961); Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965); Who Was That Lady? (1960); You Are There (1953–1955); Young Dr. Kildare (1973); Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977); Zane Grey Theatre (1959–1960).

Born on this day – Signe Hasso:

Signe Hasso

Actress

Writer

Composer, August 15, 1915 – June 7, 2002

Born on this day – Jean Parker:

Jean Parker

Actress

August 11, 1915 – November 30, 2005

Born on this day – Louise Platt:

Louise Platt

Actress

August 3, 1915 – September 6, 2003

Credits:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1958); Captain Caution (1940); Forgotten Girls (1940); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Guiding Light (1958-1959); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); I Met My Love Again (1938); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); Kraft Theatre (1956); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1957); Lamp Unto My Feet (1959); Look Up and Live (1959); Naked City (1963); New York Confidential (1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Spawn of the North (1938); Stagecoach (1939); Star Tonight (1956); Street of Chance (1942); Tell No Tales (1939).

Born on this day – Gary Merrill:

Gary Merrill

Actor

August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990

Born on this day – Jane Frazee:

Jane Frazee

Actress

July 18, 1915 – September 6, 1985

Credits:

A Guy Could Change (1946); Adventures of Superman (1953); Almost Married (1942); Angels with Broken Wings (1941); Arcade Varieties (1939); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Beulah (1952); Buck Privates (1941); Calendar Girl (1947); Captain Blue Blood (1937); Cowboy Canteen (1944); Death Valley Days (1953); Don't Get Personal (1942); George White's Scandals (1945); Get Hep to Love (1942); Grand Canyon Trail (1948); Hellzapoppin' (1941); Hi'Ya Chum (1943); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Incident (1948); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Last of the Wild Horses (1948); Melody and Moonlight (1940); Moonlight in Havana (1942); Moonlight in Hawaii (1941); Moonlight Masquerade (1942); Music in the Morgan Manner (1941); On the Old Spanish Trail (1947); Pharmacy Frolics (1939); Practically Yours (1944); Public Prosecutor (1947); Racket Squad (1952); Rhythm Inn (1951); Rhythm of the Islands (1943); Rollin' in Rhythm (1939); Rosie the Riveter (1944); San Antonio Rose (1941); She's a Sweetheart (1944); Sing Another Chorus (1941); So You Don't Trust Your Wife (1955); So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956); So You Want a Model Railroad (1955); So You Want to Be a Gladiator (1955); So You Want to Be Your Own Boss (1954); So You Want to Go to a Night Club (1954); So You Want to Know Your Relatives (1954); So You're Taking in a Roomer (1954); Sound Defects (1937); Springtime in the Sierras (1947); Stage 7 (1955); Study and Understudy (1936); Superman and Scotland Yard (1954); Swing in the Saddle (1944); Swing Styles (1939); Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945); Ten Cents a Dance (1945); The Abbott and Costello Show (1953); The Big Bonanza (1944); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Gay Ranchero (1948); The Gene Autry Show (1952); The Lineup (1955); The Lone Ranger (1950); The Range Rider (1952); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); Under Californian Stars (1948); Up in Lights (1938); What's Cookin' (1942); When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942).

Born on this day – Phyllis Brooks:

Phyllis Brooks

Actress

July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995

Credits:

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Another Face (1935); Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); City Girl (1938); Dangerous Passage (1944); Dangerously Yours (1937); Follow the Fleet (1936); Foolish Hearts (1935); Hi Ya, Sailor (1943); High Powered (1945); In Old Chicago (1938); I've Been Around (1935); Lady in the Dark (1944); Lady Tubbs (1935); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Lucky to Me (1939); McFadden's Flats (1935); No Place for a Lady (1943); One Exciting Adventure (1934); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4 (1938); Silver Spurs (1943); Slightly Honorable (1939); Straight Place and Show (1938); Strange Wives (1934); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); Suspense (1952); The Flying Squad (1940); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); The Unseen (1945); To Beat the Band (1935); Up the River (1938); Walking Down Broadway (1938); Wilson (1944); You Can't Have Everything (1937).

Born on this day – Yvonne Mitchell:

Yvonne Mitchell

Actress

Writer

July 7, 1915 – March 24, 1979

Credits:

Books:

But Answer Came There None a Novel (date?); But Wednesday Cried (1974); Cathy Away Mitchell Nw 115 (1967); Colette (1975); Colette a Taste for Life (date?); Fables (date?); Martha on Sunday a Novel (date?).

Movies and television:

1984 - BBC Live TV Productions (1954); 1990 (1978); Afternoon Film Festival (1956); Appointment with Drama (1955); Armchair Theatre (1956); Armchair Theatre (1956–1968); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1957); Cheri (1973); Children of Chance (1949); Conspiracy of Hearts (1960); Crucible of Horror (1971); Demons of the Mind (1972); Double Bill: Pariah and the Stronger (1958); Escapade (1955); Genghis Khan (1965); Interpol Calling (1959); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1966); ITV Playhouse (1969); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Johnny Nobody (1961); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Let's Imagine (1963); Love on the Dole (1941); Love Story (1965); Nido de viudas (1977); One Pair of Eyes (1970); Out of the Unknown (1966); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Sapphire (1959); Something to Read (1959); Storm Over Jamaica (1958); Suspicion (1972); The Book Programme (1975); The Divided Heart (1954); The Dybbuk (1952); The Great Waltz (1972); The Incredible Sarah (1976); The Infinite Shoeblack (1952); The Jazz Age (1968); The Legend of Robin Hood (1975); The Main Attraction (1962); The Mask (1952); The Queen of Spades (1949); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); This Is Show Business (1954); Thursday Theatre (1964); Tiger Bay (1959); Turn the Key Softly (1953); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1957 (1958); Who Said That? (1958); Whose Baby? (1973); Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957); Words and Music (1959); Yield to the Night (1956).

Born on this day – Willie Dixon:

Willie Dixon

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

Arranger

Producer

July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992

Born on this day – Jean Stafford:

Jean Stafford

Writer

July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979

Born on this day – Wanda McKay:

Wanda McKay

Actress

June 22, 1915 – April 11, 1996

Born on this day – Priscilla Lane:

Priscilla Lane

Actress

June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995

Credits:

3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); Blues in the Night (1941); Bodyguard (1948); Brother Rat (1938); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938); Daughters Courageous (1939); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Four Daughters (1938); Four Mothers (1941); Four Wives (1939); Fun on a Weekend (1947); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); La case du siècle (2022); Love, Honor and Behave (1938); Men Are Such Fools (1938); Million Dollar Baby (1941); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); Play Your Part (1941); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Saboteur (1942); Silver Queen (1942); Stars on Horseback (1943); Swingtime in the Movies (1938); The John Garfield Story (2003); The Meanest Man in the World (1943); The Roaring Twenties (1939); Varsity Show (1937); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939).