Born on this day – Janet Blair:

Janet Blair

Actress

Singer

April 23, 1921 – February 19, 2007

Credits:

14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); A Connecticut Yankee (1955); A String of Beads (1961); Alcoa Theatre (1958); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Around the World with Nellie Bly (1960); Ben Casey (1966); Blondie Goes to College (1942); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Boys' Night Out (1962); Broadway (1942); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Cavalcade of Stars (1949–1950); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Climax! (1955); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Destry (1964); Fantasy Island (1980); Front Row Center (1955); Gallant Journey (1946); Girl Talk (1963); Goodyear Playhouse (1955); Hal Kemp and His Orchestra (1941); Here's Hollywood (1960); Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (1992); I Love Trouble (1948); Igor Cassini's Million Dollar Showcase (1956); I'll Bet (1965); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Leave It to the Girls (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970–1973); Max Liebman Presents: Promenade (1955); Max Liebman Spectaculars (1956); Murder, She Wrote (1991); My Sister Eileen (1942); Night of the Eagle (1962); Once Upon a Time (1944); One Touch of Venus (1955); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1961); Person to Person (1954); Producers' Showcase (1955); Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957); Salute to Oscar Hammerstein II (1972); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 7 (1942); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Laugh Parade (1953); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960); Something to Shout About (1943); Stump the Stars (1962); Switch (1977); Tars and Spars (1946); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (1987); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards (1991); The Arthur Murray Party (1957); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960–1966); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Black Arrow (1948); The Bob Braun Show (1976–1977); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Chevy Show (1960–1961); The Dean Martin Show (1967); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1958–1961); The Dinah Shore Show (1956); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1963); The Elgin Hour (1954); The Fabulous Dorseys (1947); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); The Ford Theatre Hour (1948); The Fuller Brush Man (1948); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967–1968); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The Juke Box Jury (1959); The Lady and the Stock Exchange (1962); The Larry Storch Show (1953); The Love Boat (1982); The Magical World of Disney (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1966); The Milton Berle Show (1948–1954); The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968); The Outer Limits (1963); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1959–1960); The Red Rowe Show (1960); The Red Skelton Hour (1963–1964); The Smith Family (1971–1972); The Stork Club (1953); The Strawberry Blonde (1959); The Tonight Show (1956); The Vic Damone Show (1956); The Woody Woodbury Show (1967); This Is Your Life (1959); Three Girls About Town (1941); Tonight and Every Night (1945); Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1957–1961); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1957 (1958); We, the People (1949); What's My Line? (1957); What's This Song? (1964); Win with the Stars (1968–1969); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); You Don't Say (1964); Your Show of Shows / Caesar's Hour (1956–1957).

Born on this day – Don Sharp:

Don Sharp

Director

Writer

Actor

April 19, 1921 – December 14, 2011

Credits:

A Woman of Substance (1985); Act of Will (1989); Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966); Bear Island (1979); Callan (1974); Carve Her Name with Pride (1958); Child's Play (1954); Curse of the Fly (1965); Dark Places (1974); Edge of Divorce (1953); Film '78 (1978); Fuss Over Feathers (1954); Ghost Squad (1961–1962); Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! (1987); Ha'penny Breeze (1950); Harry Black and the Tiger (1958); Hennessy (1975); Hold the Dream (1987); Kraft Mystery Theater (1961); Legend of a Gunfighter (1964); Linda (1960); My Hero (1953); Navy Heroes (1955); Outpost in Malaya (1952); Puppet on a Chain (1970); Q.E.D. (1982); Raiders in the Sky (1953); Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966); SyberVision Neuro-Muscular Programming - Bowling with Marshall Holman and Johnny Petraglia (1983); SyberVision Neuro-Muscular Programming - Golf with Al Geiberger (1983); Taste of Excitement (1969); Tears in the Rain (1988); The Adventures of Hal 5 (1958); The Avengers (1968); The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966); The Champions (1968); The Cruel Sea (1953); The Death Wheelers (1973); The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964); The Dream Maker (1963); The Face of Fu Manchu (1965); The Fast Lady (1962); The Four Feathers (1978); The Human Jungle (1963); The Inbetween Age (1958); The Inbetween Age (1958); The Kiss of the Vampire (1963); The Professionals (1960); The Stolen Airliner (1955); The Thirty Nine Steps (1978); The Violent Enemy (1967); This Is Your Life (1987); Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967); Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965); To the Devil a Daughter (1976); Tusitala (1986); Two Guys Abroad (1962); What Waits Below (1984); Witchcraft (1964); You Know What Sailors Are (1954).

On this day in movie history - The High Sign (1921):

The High Sign

21-minute short movie,

directed and written by Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton,

released in the United States on April 18, 1921.

Cast:

Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety, Ingram B. Pickett, Joe Roberts, Al St. John.

Born on this day – Peter Ustinov:

Peter Ustinov

Actor

Director

Writer

April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004

Born on this day – Bill Butler:

Bill Butler

Cinematographer

April 7, 1921 – April 5, 2023

Credits:

The Boys at the Bar (2016); Evil Angel (2009); Limousine (2008); Looking Up Dresses (2008); Redline (2007); The Plague (2006); Funny Money (2006); Zombie Prom (2006); Berserker (2005); Joe and Max (2002); Frailty (2001); Hendrix (2000); Ropewalk (2000); Good vs Evil (1999); Passing Glory (1999); Don King: Only in America (1997); Deceiver (1997); Anaconda (1997); Dark Skies (1996); Flipper (1996); A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain (1982); Beethoven's 2nd (1993); Cop & ½ (1993); Sniper (1993); Brooklyn Bridge (1991); Hot Shots! (1991); Graffiti Bridge (1990); When We Were Young (1989); Child's Play (1988); Wildfire (1988); Biloxi Blues (1988); Bates Motel (1987); Big Trouble (1986); Rocky IV (1985); Beer (1985); A Streetcar Named Desire (1984); The Thorn Birds (1983); The Sting II (1983); Rocky III (1982); Killing at Hell's Gate (1981); Stripes (1981); The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981); It's My Turn (1980); Can't Stop the Music (1980); Death Ray 2000 (1980); Rocky II (1979); Ice Castles (1978); Uncle Joe Shannon (1978); Grease (1978); Damien: Omen II (1978); Capricorn One (1977); Mary White (1977); Demon Seed (1977); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Alex & the Gypsy (1976); The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976); Lipstick (1976); Fear on Trial (1975); Jaws (1975); The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975); McCoy (1975); Hustling (1975); Target Risk (1975); The Conversation (1974); The Execution of Private Slovik (1974); Indict and Convict (1974); I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973); Sunshine (1973); Deliver Us from Evil (1973); Running Wild (1973); Savage (1973); Circle of Fear (1972); Hickey & Boggs (1972); Deliverance (1972); Melinda (1972); Something Evil (1972); Deathmaster (1972); The Return of Count Yorga (1971); Drive, He Said (1971); A Clear and Present Danger (1970); Adam's Woman (1970); The Rain People (1969); A Space to Grow (1968); Fearless Frank (1967); The Bold Men (1965); The People vs. Paul Crump (1962).

Born on this day – Jan Sterling:

Jan Sterling

Actress

April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004

Credits:

About Faces (1960); Ace in the Hole (1951); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Alaska Seas (1954); Alcoa Theatre (1960); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1961); American in Paris (1964); Appointment with Danger (1950); Baby Boom (1988); Backstairs at the White House (1979); Bonanza (1960); Bracken's World (1970); Breaking Point (1963); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Caged (1950); Cannibal Hookers (1987); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Climax! (1956–1957); Dangerous Company (1982); Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (1963); Donahue (1971); Female on the Beach (1955); First Monday in October (1981); Flesh and Fury (1952); Front Row Center (1956); General Electric Theater (1960); George Jessel Show (1958); Get the Message (1964); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Gunfire (1950); Gypsy (1968); Having Babies (1976); Here's Hollywood (1960); High School Confidential! (1958); Hollywood Today (1955); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1958); Johnny Belinda (1948); Kathy O' (1958); King of Diamonds (1961); Kraft Mystery Theater (1962); Kraft Theatre (1958); Kung Fu (1974); Little House on the Prairie (1976); Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961); Lux Playhouse (1959); Lux Video Theatre (1955–1957); Made in America (1964); Man with the Gun (1955); Mannix (1968); Medallion Theatre (1954); Medical Center (1971); My Kidnapper, My Love (1980); Mystery Street (1950); Naked City (1961); Night Line (1964); 1984 (1956); Password (1964); Person to Person (1957); Picture This (1963); Playhouse 90 (1957); Pony Express (1953); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Pursuit (1959); Return from the Sea (1954); Rhubarb (1951); Riptide (1985); Riverboat (1959); Run for Your Life (1966); Sammy Somebody (1971); Sky Full of Moon (1952); Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957); Split Second (1953); Stage 7 (1955); Suspicion (1958); Talking Pictures (1968); Tempo (1968); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The All New Truth or Consequences (1962); The Angry Breed (1968); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961–1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Female Animal (1958); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The George Gobel Show (1955); The Harder They Fall (1956); The High and the Mighty (1954); The Human Jungle (1954); The Incident (1967); The Incredible Hulk (1981); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Les Crane Show (1964); The Loretta Young Show (1957); The Mating Season (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1962–1964); The Milton Berle Show (1954); The Minx (1969); The Movie Quiz (1973–1974); The Name of the Game (1969); The Plot Thickens (1963); The Price Is Right (1964); The Road West (1967); The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950); The Star and the Story (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959–1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1964); The Untouchables (1960); The Vanquished (1953); The Virginian (1971); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); This Is Your Life (1954); This Is Your Life (1975); Three's Company (1976); To Tell the Truth (1963); Tycoon (1947); Union Station (1950); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Wagon Train (1959–1961); WGN-TV Salute to Chicago (1948); Women's Prison (1955); You Don't Say (1968); Your First Impression (1962); You're in the Picture (1961).

Born on this day – Simone Signoret:

Simone Signoret

Actress

March 25, 1921 – September 30, 1985

Born on this day – Nancy Kelly:

Nancy Kelly

Actress

March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995

Credits:

A Very Young Lady (1941); Alcoa Theatre (1958); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Betrayal from the East (1945); Bronk (1975); Celebrity Time (1950); Climax! (1957); Compression (2024); Double Exposure (1944); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); Fly-By-Night (1942); Follow That Woman (1945); Friendly Enemies (1942); Frontier Marshal (1939); Gambler's Choice (1944); Girl Talk (1963); Glorifying the American Girl (1929); He Married His Wife (1940); Hollywood Preview (1956); Jesse James (1939); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1954); Leave It to the Girls (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1954); Medallion Theatre (1954); Medical Center (1974); Mismates (1926); Murder at the World Series (1977); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); One Night in the Tropics (1940); Parachute Battalion (1941); Picture People No. 3 (1940); Playhouse 90 (1957); Ponds Theater (1954); Private Affairs (1940); Sailor's Lady (1940); Sam Benedict (1962); Scotland Yard (1941); Show Business (1944); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Song of the Sarong (1945); Stanley and Livingstone (1939); Starlight Theatre (1950); Studio One (1953–1956); Submarine Patrol (1938); Suspense (1954); Suspicion (1957); Tail Spin (1939); Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943); The 11th Annual Tony Awards (1957); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Bad Seed (1956); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Girl on the Barge (1929); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Igor Cassini Show (1955); The Impostor (1975); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Mike Douglas Show (1962–1963); The Pig's Curly Tail (1926); The Roy Leonard Show (1972); The Silver Theatre (1950); The Untamed Lady (1926); Thriller (1962); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Tornado (1943); Woman Who Came Back (1945); Women in Bondage (1943); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951).

Born on this day – Diana Barrymore:

Diana Barrymore

Actress

March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960

Credits:

Between Us Girls (1942); Eagle Squadron (1942); Fired Wife (1943); Frontier Badmen (1943); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Ladies Courageous (1944); Manpower (1941); Nightmare (1942); The Ben Hecht Show (1958); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949); The Eyes Have It (1949); The Mike Wallace Interview (1957); The Steve Allen Show (1951); Too Much, Too Soon (1958).

Born on this day – Jack Clayton:

Jack Clayton

Director

Producer

March 1, 1921 – February 26, 1995

Born on this day – Betty Hutton:

Betty Hutton

Actress

Comedian

Dancer

Singer

February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007

Credits:

Baretta (1977); Gunsmoke (1965); Burke's Law (1964–1965); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Betty Hutton Show (1959–1960); Spring Reunion (1956); Satins and Spurs (1954); Somebody Loves Me (1952); Sailor Beware (1952); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); Let's Dance (1950); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Red, Hot and Blue (1949); Dream Girl (1948); The Perils of Pauline (1947); Cross My Heart (1946); The Stork Club (1945); Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945); Duffy's Tavern (1945); Incendiary Blonde (1945); Here Come the Waves (1944); Skirmish on the Home Front (1944); And the Angels Sing (1944); The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943); Let's Face It (1943); Happy Go Lucky (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); The Fleet's In (1942); One for the Book (1940); Public Jitterbug No. 1 (1939); Three Kings and a Queen (1939); Queens of the Air (1938).

Born on this day – Angela Greene:

Angela Greene

Actress

February 24, 1921 – February 9, 1978

Credits:

Futureworld (1976); Baretta (1975); Medical Center (1973–1975); The Day of the Locust (1975); Police Story (1974); The Waltons (1973); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Room 222 (1972); Banacek (1972); Adam-12 (1969–1972); Love, American Style / Love and the Waitress (1971); Lassie (1970); Nancy (1970); The Immortal (1970); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969); The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969); Mod Squad (1969); The F.B.I. (1968); The Fugitive (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Batman (1966); Tickle Me (1965); The Rogues (1965); Ben Casey (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Donna Reed Show (1958–1963); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Lawman (1962); The Law and Mr. Jones (1962); 77 Sunset Strip (1961–1962); Bus Stop (1962); Surfside 6 (1961–1962); The Joey Bishop Show (1961); Cheyenne (1961); Thriller (1961); Lock Up (1961); U.S. Marshal (1960); Bachelor Father (1960); Johnny Midnight (1960); Markham (1960); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1956–1960); General Electric Theater (1960); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Perry Mason (1959); Whirlybirds (1958–1959); Frontier Doctor (1959); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); The Cosmic Man (1959); The Danny Thomas Show (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1955–1958); Behind Closed Doors (1958); Night of the Blood Beast (1958); Sally (1958); M Squad (1958); El coyote (1957); Spoilers of the Forest (1957); Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1957); Affair in Reno (1957); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1956); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Four Star Playhouse (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1956); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1956); Waterfront (1955); Crossroads (1955); Shotgun (1955); Stage 7 (1955); The Whistler (1955); Adventures of the Falcon (1955); Patrick Henry (1955); Passport to Danger (1954); Topper (1954); The Royal African Rifles (1953); Chevron Theatre (1953); Loose in London (1953); A Perilous Journey (1953); The Lady Wants Mink (1953); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); Fireside Theatre (1952); Racket Squad (1952); Sky King (1952); Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952); Dick Tracy (1950); At War with the Army (1950); Wallflower (1948); King of the Bandits (1947); Escape Me Never (1947); Love and Learn (1947); Stallion Road (1947); That Way with Women (1947); The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946); Humoresque (1946); Cinderella Jones (1946); Too Young to Know (1945); Mildred Pierce (1945); Coney Island Honeymoon (1945); Law of the Badlands (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Very Thought of You (1944); Musical Movieland (1944); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Grandfather's Follies.

Born on this day – Jean Heather:

Jean Heather

Actress

February 21, 1921 – October 29, 1995

Credits:

Double Indemnity (1944); Duffy's Tavern (1945); Going My Way (1944); Holiday Inn (1942); Knots Landing (1989); Murder, He Says (1945); National Barn Dance (1944); Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944); Red Stallion in the Rockies (1949); The Last Round-up (1947); The Well Groomed Bride (1946).

Born on this day – Ann Savage:

Ann Savage

Actress

February 19, 1921 – December 25, 2008

Credits:

My Winnipeg (2007); Saved by the Bell (1991); Fire with Fire (1986); Gang Busters (1955); City Detective (1954–1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); Death Valley Days (1953); I'm the Law (1953); Woman They Almost Lynched (1953); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); Fireside Theatre (1950–1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Boston Blackie (1951); Pier 23 (1951); Pygmy Island (1950); On the Right Side (1949); The Daring Caballero (1949); Jungle Flight (1947); Renegade Girl (1946); Lady Chaser (1946); The Last Crooked Mile (1946); The Dark Horse (1946); The Spider (1945); Detour (1945); Apology for Murder (1945); Midnight Manhunt (1945); Scared Stiff (1945); Manhattan (1944); The Unwritten Code (1944); Ever Since Venus (1944); The Last Horseman (1944); Two-Man Submarine (1944); What a Woman! (1943); Klondike Kate (1943); Footlight Glamour (1943); Dangerous Blondes (1943); Passport to Suez (1943); Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943); The More the Merrier (1943); Saddles and Sagebrush (1943); Murder in Times Square (1943); Boston Blackie (1943); One Dangerous Night (1942).

Born on this day – Vera-Ellen:

Vera-Ellen

Actress

Dancer

February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981

Credits:

Let’s Be Happy (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1954); White Christmas (1954); Big Leaguer (1953); Call Me Madam (1953); The Belle of New York (1952); Happy Go Lovely (1951); Three Little Words (1950); On the Town (1949); Love Happy (1949); Words and Music (1948); Costa Rica (1947); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); Wonder Man (1945).

Born on this day – Lana Turner:

Lana Turner

Actress

February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995

Born on this day – Betty Friedan:

Betty Friedan

Writer

Actress

February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006

Credits:

Books:

Beyond Gender (1997); It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (1976); Life So Far (2000); The Feminine Mystique (1963); The Fountain of Age (1993); The Second Stage (1981).

Movies and television:

A Century of Women (1994); American Experience (2014); Beatles '64 (2024); Before Stonewall (1984); Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Camera Three (1968); Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004); Debunked (2022); Donahue (1972); Ex Libris (1990); Femme d'aujourd'hui (1965–1982); Firing Line (1971); Five Day Bicycle Race (2011); Gloria: In Her Own Words (2011); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Headliners & Legends (1998); History 101 (2020); Independent Lens (2005); Intimate Portrait (1999); Makers: Women Who Make America (2013); Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm (2007); Quelques féministes américaines (1977); Superpowered: The DC Story (2023); Take Thirty (1984); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Eighties (2016); The First Measured Century (2000); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1971); The Last Party (1993); The Many Lives of Martha Stewart (2024); The Merv Griffin Show (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1976); The Seventies (2015); The Sixties (2014); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg (1996); Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie (2018); Town Bloody Hall (1979); Women's Day: The Making of a Bill (1998); Year of the Woman (1973).

Born on this day – Donna Reed:

Donna Reed

Actress

January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986

Credits:

Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1990); Dallas (1984–1985); The Love Boat (1984); Deadly Lessons (1983); The Best Place to Be (1979); The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966); Pepe (1960); The Whole Truth (1958); Suspicion (1957); General Electric Theater (1957); Beyond Mombasa (1956); Backlash (1956); Ransom! (1956); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); Tales of Hans Anderson (1955); The Far Horizons (1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954); They Rode West (1954); Three Hours to Kill (1954); The Big Moment (1954); Gun Fury (1953); The Caddy (1953); From Here to Eternity (1953); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); Trouble Along the Way (1953); Hangman's Knot (1952); Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952); Scandal Sheet (1952); Saturday's Hero (1951); Chicago Deadline (1949); Beyond Glory (1948); Green Dolphin Street (1947); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Faithful in My Fashion (1946); They Were Expendable (1945); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945); Gentle Annie (1944); See Here, Private Hargrove (1944); Sucker Bait (1943); Thousands Cheer (1943); The Man from Down Under (1943); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); The Human Comedy (1943); Personalities (1942); Eyes in the Night (1942); Apache Trail (1942); Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942); Mokey (1942); The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942); The Bugle Sounds (1942); Babes on Broadway (1941); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); The Getaway (1941).

Born on this day – Bill Hickman:

Bill Hickman

Actor

Stunt driver

Stunt coordinator

January 25, 1921 – February 24, 1986

Credits:

Bullitt: Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality (1998); Capricorn One (1977); The Hindenburg (1975); Electra Glide in Blue (1973); Charley and the Angel (1973); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); The Anatomy of a Chase: Behind the Scenes of the Filming of 'the Seven-Ups' (1973); The Seven-Ups (1973); Shaft (1973); Madigan (1973); Rage (1972); What's Up, Doc? (1972); Hickey & Boggs (1972); The War Between Men and Women (1972); Diamonds Are Forever (1971); Vanishing Point (1971); They Call It Murder (1971); The French Connection (1971); Columbo (1971); The Bold Ones: The Senator (1971); Zabriskie Point (1970); The F.B.I. (1966–1970); Patton (1970); Daughter of the Mind (1969); The Love Bug (1969); The Wrecking Crew (1968); Bullitt (1968); The Flim-Flam Man (1967); Gunsmoke (1967); Batman (1967); Judd for the Defense (1967); Point Blank (1967); The Felony Squad (1967); Bonanza (1963–1967); The Invaders (1967); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1967); A Fine Madness (1966); Get Smart (1966); Jericho (1966); The Rounders (1966); The Fugitive (1966); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1966); Branded (1965–1966); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); The Great Race (1965); Honey West (1965); The Outer Limits (1964); The Fugitive (1963); The Twilight Zone (1963); Temple Houston (1963); Take Her, She's Mine (1963); Johnny Cool (1963); Toys in the Attic (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); It Happened at the World's Fair (1963); California (1963); Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962); Outlaws (1962); The Andy Griffith Show (1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); The Lawless Years (1959–1961); The Deputy (1961); Klondike (1960–1961); Lock Up (1960); Bat Masterson (1960); Not for Hire (1959–1960); Tombstone Territory (1960); Home from the Hill (1960); Peter Gunn (1959); Mr. Lucky (1959); The Big Operator (1959); Don't Give Up the Ship (1959); The Beat Generation (1959); The Thin Man (1957–1959); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959); Ask Any Girl (1959); The Mating Game (1959); Perry Mason (1959); Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958); The Perfect Furlough (1958); Houseboat (1958); High School Confidential! (1958); Attack of the Puppet People (1958); Adventures of Superman (1958); Maverick (1958); Kiss Them for Me (1957); Jailhouse Rock (1957); Raintree County (1957); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); Appointment with a Shadow (1957); The Joker Is Wild (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957); Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957); Highway Patrol (1957); The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956); He Laughed Last (1956); Four Star Playhouse (1956); Outside the Law (1956); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); The Square Jungle (1955); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); The Far Horizons (1955); High Society (1955); A Bullet for Joey (1955); Phffft (1954); Woman's World (1954); Tobor the Great (1954); Living It Up (1954); Public Defender (1954); Lucky Me (1954); Loophole (1954); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Jennifer (1953); Half a Hero (1953); Latin Lovers (1953); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Code Two (1953); My Pal Gus (1952); Because You're Mine (1952); Love Is Better Than Ever (1952); Phone Call from a Stranger (1952); The Red Badge of Courage (1951); Fixed Bayonets! (1951); The Unknown Man (1951); Angels in the Outfield (1951); Iron Man (1951); Meet Me After the Show (1951); To Please a Lady (1950); Tulsa (1949); It Happened in Brooklyn (1947); The Beginning or the End (1947); See Here, Private Hargrove (1944); Salute to the Marines (1943).

Born on this day – Patricia Highsmith:

Patricia Highsmith

Writer

January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Dog's Ransom (1972); A Game for the Living (1958); A New Omnibus of Crime (2005); A Suspension of Mercy / The Story-Teller (1965); Books to Die For (2012); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Chillers (1990); Crime Never Pays (2001); Crime Story Collection (2000); Deep Water (1957); Edith's Diary (1977); Eleven / The Snail Watcher and Other Stories (1970); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); Found in the Street (1986); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Little Tales of Misogyny (1974); Mermaids on the Golf Course (1984); Murder Intercontinental (1996); Murder On The Railways (2003); Mystery Cats (1991); Nothing That Meets the Eye (1968); Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 (2021); People Who Knock on the Door (1983); Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966); Ripley Under Ground (1970); Ripley Under Water (1991); Ripley's Game (1974); Simply The Best Mysteries, Edgar Award Winners And Front Runners (1970); Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979); Small g (1994); Sour Tales for Sweethearts (2015); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Strangers on a Train (1950); Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987); The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1977); The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1983); The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975); The Black House (1981); The Blunderer (1954); The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980); The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night (2003); The Cry of the Owl (1962); The Glass Cell (1964); The Price of Salt / Carol (1952); The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); The Tremor of Forgery (1969); The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories (1971); The Two Faces of January (1964); The Web She Weaves (1983); This Sweet Sickness (1960); Those Who Walk Away (1967); Verdict of Thirteen (1979).

Movies and television:

15! (2007); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); A Kind of Murder (2016); A Mighty Nice Man (2014); After Dark (1988); Armchair Thriller (1978); Carol (2015); Chillers (1990); Climax! (1956); Cover to Cover (1987); Deep Water (1981 / 2022); Der Geschichtenerzähler (1989); Der Schrei der Eule (1987); Die zwei Gesichter des Januar (1986); Ediths Tagebuch (1983); Enough Rope (1963); Húkanie sovy (1988); ITV Play of the Week (1967); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Kulturplatz (2006); La rançon du chien (1996); Loving Highsmith (2022); Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990); Muy personal (1987); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); Once You Meet a Stranger (1996); Perfect Days (2023); Petits contes misògins (1995); Purple Noon (1960); Read All About It (1978); Ripley (2024); Ripley Under Ground (2005); Ripley's Game (2002); Saturday Review (1986); Strangers on a Train (1951); Studio One (1956); Tales of the Unexpected (1984); Tell Her That I Love Her (1977); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The American Friend (1977); The Book Programme (1976–1980); The Cry of the Owl (1987); The Cry of the Owl (2009); The Glass Cell (1978); The Late Show (1990); The South Bank Show (1982); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); The Two Faces of January (2014); The Wednesday Thriller (1965); Tiefe Wasser (1983); Trip nach Tunis (1993); Trossos (1986).