Born on this day – Yves Montand:

Yves Montand

Actor

Singer

October 13, 1921 – November 9, 1991

Born on this day – Linda Stirling:

Linda Stirling

Actress

Showgirl

Model

October 11, 1921 – July 20, 1997

Born on this day – Micheline Bourday:

Micheline Bourday

Actress

October 6, 1921 – November 26, 1988

Born on this day – James Whitmore:

James Whitmore

Actor

October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009

Born on this day – Deborah Kerr:

Deborah Kerr

Actress

September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); 20 heures le journal (2007); 20 to 1 (2007); A Woman of Substance (1985); A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002); All Eyes on Sharon Tate (1966); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2004); An Affair to Remember (1957); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Ann and Debbie (1986); Arena (1981); Backstory (2001); BBC2 Playhouse (1982); Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023); Beloved Infidel (1959); Best of British (1987); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2000); Birthday (1954); Black Narcissus (1947); Blackout (1940); Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); Casino Royale (1967); CBS Early Morning News (1982); Cinema mil (2005); Cinépanorama (1957); Compression (2024); Costa del Sol malaguena (1972); Count Your Blessings (1959); Courageous Mr. Penn (1942); Deborah Kerr, not just an English Rose (1986); Dinah! (1975–1977); Dream Wife (1953); Edward, My Son (1949); Empire of the Censors (1995); Entertainment Tonight (1987); Everything Is Copy (2015); Eye of the Devil (1966); Film '85 (1985); Film Preview (1966); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); From Here to Eternity (1953); Getaway (2005); Good Morning America (1978); Greatest Movie Love Scenes (2006); Grosse Fische, kleine Fische (1973); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957); Hold the Dream (1987); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Greats (1985); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); I See a Dark Stranger (1946); If Winter Comes (1947); ITV Play of the Week (1963); Jimmy Fund, Deborah Kerr (1956); John Huston, une âme libre (2021); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Julius Caesar (1953); Jungle Safari (1950); King Solomon's Mines (1950); L.A. Confidential (1997); Le Louvre, le plus grand musée du monde (1985–1988); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Love on the Dole (1941); Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024); Major Barbara (1941); Marriage on the Rocks (1965); Monty and the Movies (2024); My Name Is Lopez (2021); Nearest to Heaven (2002); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); On Location with 'The Sundowners' (1960); On the Trail of the Iguana (1964); Out of My Dreams: Oscar Hammerstein II (2012); Pam & Tommy (2022); Parkinson (1972); Person to Person (1954); Picture Parade (1956); Pierrot le fou (1965) / Cannes Film Festival (1984); Please Believe Me (1950); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); Prudence and the Pill (1968); Quo Vadis (1951); Reflets de Cannes (1962); Reunion at Fairborough (1985); Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood (2018); Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991); Rome, the Eternal City (1951); Scope (2017); Screen Goddesses (2005); Secret Voices of Hollywood (2013); Separate Tables (1958); Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000); Small World (1960); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Starman (1984); Talking Pictures (2014–2016); Tea and Sympathy (1956); The 1990 European Film Awards (1990); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 5th Annual People's Choice Awards (1979); The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (2008); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The Arrangement (1969); The Assam Garden (1985); The Avengers (1942); The Best of the Don Lane Show (1994); The Chalk Garden (1964); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1970–1972); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The End of the Affair (1955); The Grass Is Greener (1960); The Gypsy Moths (1969); The Hucksters (1947); The Innocents (1961); The Journey (1959); The King and I (1956); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943); The Lords of Flatbush (1974); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1971–1975); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1973–1975); The Naked Edge (1961); The Night of the Iguana (1964); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2008); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Second Annual West End Theatre Awards (1977); The Sky Divers (1969); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958); The Sundowners (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964–1975); This Is Scotland (1957); This Is Your Life (1963–1985); Thunder in the East (1952); Too Young to Die (2012); Trumbo (2015); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971 / 1974); Vacation from Marriage (1945); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1961 (1962); Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); What's My Line? (1953–1954); Witness for the Prosecution (1982); Young Bess (1953); Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King (1995).

Born on this day – Lizabeth Scott:

Lizabeth Scott

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1921 – January 31, 2015

Credits:

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); Adventures in Paradise (1960); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Bad for Each Other (1953); Burke's Law (1963); Century of Cinema (1995); Dark City (1950); Dead Reckoning (1946); Desert Fury (1947); Easy Living (1949); Empire State Building Murders (2008); Family Theatre (1949); Hit So Hard (2011); Home Stories (1990); I Walk Alone (1947); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); I've Got a Secret (1952); Loving You (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1952–1953); Mansfield 66/67 (2017); Paid in Full (1950); Pitfall (1948); Presley (1987); Pulp (1972); Red Mountain (1951); Scared Stiff (1953); Silver Lode (1954); Stolen Face (1952); Studio 57 (1955); Stump the Stars (1963); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Big Record (1958); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Company She Keeps (1951); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (2002); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Hollywood Collection: Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999); The Juke Box Jury (1958–1959); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The Movie Game (1970); The Oscars (2016); The Racket (1951); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); The Third Man (1965); The Weapon (1956); The World of Hammer (1994); Too Late for Tears (1949); Two of a Kind (1951); Variety Girl (1947); You Came Along (1945); You Don't Say (1963).

Born on this day – Virginia Belmont:

Virginia Belmont

Actress

September 20, 1921 – May 6, 2014

Credits:

A-Hunting They Did Go (1948); Bellezze in moto-scooter (1952); Betrayal from the East (1945); Black Arrow (1944); Conrad Nagel Theater (1955); Courtin' Trouble (1948); Crabbin' in the Cabin (1948); Cuore di spia (1953); Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (1948); Dead Woman's Kiss (1949); Ding Dong Williams (1946); George White's Scandals (1945); Girl Rush (1944); Having Wonderful Crime (1945); Ho pianto per te! (1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952); I misteri di Venezia (1951); I peggiori anni della nostra vita (1949); Il grande addio (1954); Il tiranno del Garda (1957); Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948); Johnny Angel (1945); Licenza premio (1951); Nessuno ha tradito (1952); Nevada (1944); Oklahoma Blues (1948); Overland Trails (1948); Pan-Americana (1945); Prairie Express (1947); R.C.M.P. and the Treasure of Genghis Khan (1966); Silent Conflict (1948); Sing Your Way Home (1945); Sweet Genevieve (1947); Taxi di notte (1950); The Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Falcon in Hollywood (1944); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); The Pirates of Capri (1949); The Rangers Ride (1948); Vivere a sbafo (1950); What a Blonde (1945).

Born on this day – Laura Alves:

Laura Alves

Actress

September 8, 1921 – May 6, 1986

Born on this day – Ruth Orkin:

Ruth Orkin

Photographer

Writer

Director

September 3, 1921 – January 16, 1985

Credits:

Books:

A Photo Journal (1981); A World Through My Window (1978); More Pictures from My Window (1983); Outside-Morris Engel Ruth Orkin, From Street Photography to Filmmaking (2014); Ruth Orkin (2023); Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit (2021); Ruth Orkin: Above and Beyond (1999); Ruth Orkin: American Girl in Italy The Making of a Classic (2005); Ruth Orkin: Bike Trip (2023); Ruth Orkin: ICP Exhibition (1995); Ruth Orkin: Photo Posch (2023); Ruth Orkin: Women (2023).

Movies and television:

Little Fugitive (1953 / 2006); Lovers and Lollipops (1956); Lunch Money (2010); Morris Engel Home Movies (2021); Morris Engel: The Independent (2008); Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life (1996); Something's Gotta Give (2003); The Dog Lover (1962).

Born on this day – Gene Roddenberry:

Gene Roddenberry

Writer

Producer

Creator of Star Trek

August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991

Born on this day – Carl Möhner:

Carl Möhner

Actor

Director

Writer

Painter

August 11, 1921 – January 14, 2005

Born on this day – Marilyn Maxwell:

Marilyn Maxwell

Actress

August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972

Credits:

3 Men in White (1944); 77 Sunset Strip (1960–1961); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); Abbott and Costello in the Movies (1990); Adventures in Paradise (1960–1961); ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005); American Masters (2017); Anatomy of a Crime (1969); Arizona Bushwhackers (1968); Between Two Women (1945); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star (1996); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Branded (1965); Brooklyn Goes to Las Vegas (1956); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Bus Stop (1961–1962); Cavalcade of Stars (1949); Celebrity Bowling (1972); Champion (1949); Critic's Choice (1963); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); East of Sumatra (1953); Forever, Darling (1956); Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer (2006); From Nashville with Music (1969); Front Row Center (1949); General Electric Theater (1953); Goodbye Mama (1942); Gunsmoke (1960); Havin' a Time in Havana (1942); Here's Hollywood (1961); Here's Lucy (1970); High Barbaree (1947); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); I've Got a Secret (1952–1962); Key to the City (1950); Lost in a Harem (1944); Matinee Theatre (1957); Max Liebman Spectaculars (1954); Men at Law (1971); New Mexico (1951); New York Confidential (1955); Off Limits (1952); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Outside the Wall (1950); Paris Model (1953); Password (1963); Pilot #5 (1943); Playhouse 90 (1957); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Race Street (1948); Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958); Salute to the Marines (1943); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Shower of Stars (1955); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Stand by for Action (1942); Star of the Family (1952); Stump the Stars (1950–1963); Summer Holiday (1948); Swing Fever (1943); Talent Scouts (1963); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The Alan Young Show (1950); The Arthur Murray Party (1957–1960); The Bob Hope Show (1950–1966); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1954); The Danny Thomas Show (1964); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The Garry Moore Show (1958); The George Gobel Show (1954–1957); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955–1956); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951); The Lively Set (1964); The Mike Douglas Show (1965); The Name's the Same (1953); The Outsider (1968); The Phynx (1970); The Red Skelton Hour (1956–1963); The Show-Off (1946); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966); Thousands Cheer (1943); Tune Time (1942); Twenty Years After (1944); Wagon Train (1964); What's My Line? (1953); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); What's This Song? (1965); Wild Women (1970); You Don't Say (1964); Your Show of Shows (1952–1954).

Born on this day – Frank De Felitta:

Frank De Felitta

Author

Director

Producer

Pilot

August 3, 1921 – March 29, 2016

Credits:

Books:

A Swift Death To Critics (2000); Audrey Rose (1975); For Love of Audrey Rose (1982); Funeral March / aka Funeral March of the Marionettes (1990); Golgotha Falls (1984); Oktoberfest (1973); Sea Trial (1980); The Entity (1978).

Movies and television:

Adventure (1954); Anzio (1968); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1954); Assignment: Underwater (1960–1961); Audrey Rose (1977); Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012); Bubba Didn't Do It!: 30 Years of Dark Night of the Scarecrow (2011); Cafe Society (1995); California's Most Haunted (2003); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1953–1954); Danger (1954–1955); Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981); Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Dateline NBC / Segment: Finding Booker's Place (2012); Doberman Patrol (1973); El retorno de Ana Rosa (1982); Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Killer in the Mirror (1986); Le Lab Secret (2016); Matinee Theatre (1957); Medallion Theatre (1953); Rich and Famous (1981); Scissors (1991); Sightings: Ghosts (1992); Suspense (1954); Tales of Tomorrow (1952–1953); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Entity (1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Penthouse (1989); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Savage Is Loose (1974); The Stately Ghosts of England (1965); The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979); Two Family House (2000); Windows (1955); Witchcraft (1961); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953); Z.P.G. (1972).

Born on this day – Barbra Fuller:

Barbra Fuller

Actress

July 31, 1921 – May 15, 2024

Credits:

Adventures of Superman (1953); Alias the Champ (1949); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951); City of Bad Men (1953); Colgate Theatre (1958); Daniel Boone (1970); Flame of Youth (1949); Four Star Playhouse (1955–1956); Harbor of Missing Men (1950); Lassie (1965); Lonely Heart Bandits (1950); Medic (1955); My Three Sons (1960); Perry Mason (1960–1964); Rock Island Trail (1950); Singing Guns (1950); State Trooper (1958); Tarnished (1950); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1958); The Lineup (1955); The Millionaire (1956); The Red Menace (1949); The Roommates (1973); The Savage Horde (1950); Trackdown (1958); Trial Without Jury (1950); U.S. Marshal (1960); Unmasked (1950); Visiting... with Huell Howser (1994); Women from Headquarters (1950); World of Giants (1959).

Born on this day – Chris Marker:

Chris Marker

Director

Writer

Photographer

July 29, 1921 – July 29, 2012

Born on this day – Jean Shepherd:

Jean Shepherd

Writer

Actor

Humorist

Radio and TV personality

July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999

Credits:

Books:

A Christmas Story (2003); A Fistful of Fig Newtons (1981); In God We Trust / aka In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (1966); The America of George Ade (1960); The Ferrari in the Bedroom (1972); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1978); Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (1970).

Albums:

Jean Shepherd – Into the Unknown With Jazz Music (1955); Jean Shepherd and Other Foibles (1959); Jean Shepherd Reads Poems of Robert Service (1975); “Live” At The Limelight (1965); The Declassified Jean Shepherd (1971); Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? (1960).

Movies and television:

A Christmas Story / Voice-over narration (1983); A Christmas Story 2 (2012); A Christmas Story Christmas (2022); A Christmas Story Live! (2017); A Fine Madness (1966); A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); America (1971); American Playhouse (1982–1985); Babe Ruth (1998); Chicago White Sox a Visual History (1987); Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (1997); Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius (1982); Flickers (1980); Jean Shepherd on Route 1... and Other Major Thoroughfares (1984); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Lenny Bruce: Without Tears (1972); Light Fantastic (1964); My Summer Story (1994); NET Playhouse (1970); New Faces (1954); No Whistles, Bells, or Bedlam (1973); Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (1987); Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988); Sesame Street (1976–2000); Shadows (1958); Shepherd's Pie (1978); Summer Incident (1960); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Driving Scene (1969); The Great American Road Racing Festival (1985); The Joe Franklin Show (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1969); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976 / 1978); The Radio Broadcast Vault (2019); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961–1962); Tiki Tiki (1971); Village Sunday (1960); Visions (1976).

Born on this day – Jeff Donnell:

Jeff Donnell

Actress

July 10, 1921 – April 11, 1988

Born on this day – Carol Andrews:

Carol Andrews

Actress

July 4, 1921 – February 27, 1956

Credits:

Blue Skies (1946); Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946); Ladies' Man (1947); Murder Is My Business (1946); Nob Hill (1945); Slightly Scandalous (1946); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Bullfighters (1945); The Guilty (1947); The Lady Confesses (1945).

Born on this day – Susan Peters:

Susan Peters

Actress

July 3, 1921 – October 23, 1952

Born on this day – Vici Raaf:

Vici Raaf

Actress

June 30, 1921 – April 6, 1984

Credits:

Because of You (1952); Big Town (1954); Champagne for Caesar (1950); Climax! (1955–1958); Code 3 (1957); Colt .45 (1957); Coronado 9 (1961); Death Valley Days (1959–1964); Dragnet (1957); Dreamboat (1952); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Foxfire (1955); Going My Way (1963); Gunsmoke (1964); Hazel (1962); He Ran All the Way (1951); Hopalong Cassidy (1954); It's About Time (1967); Jack the Ripper (1958); Johnny Staccato (1959); Let's Make It Legal (1951); Lock Up (1960); Lux Video Theatre (1955); M Squad (1957–1959); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957); Not for Hire (1959); Official Detective (1957); One Desire (1955); Rawhide (1960–1964); Run for the Hills (1953); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Squad Car (1960); The Andy Griffith Show (1965); The Big Trees (1952); The Californians (1958); The Clown (1953); The Lady Wants Mink (1953); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1957); The Lineup (1956–1959); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Pride of St. Louis (1952); The Red Skelton Hour (1952–1963); The Second Woman (1950); The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955); The Untouchables (1961); The Veil (1958); The Yellow Canary (1963); Trouble Along the Way (1953); Unsolved (1960); West Point (1956); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); You Are There (1955).