Born on this day – Madeline Kahn:

Madeline Kahn

Actress

Comedian

Singer

September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999

Born on this day – Tracy Reed:

Tracy Reed

Actress

September 21, 1942 – May 2, 2012

Born on this day – Carol Wayne:

Carol Wayne

Actress

Comedienne

September 6, 1942 – January 13, 1985

Credits:

American Masters / Archive footage / uncredited (2012); Best Chest in the West (1984); Bewitched (1969); Celebrity Sweepstakes (1974–1977); Dinah! (1975); Don Adams' Screen Test (1975); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000); E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind (1984); Emergency! (1974); Every Man Needs One (1972); Funny You Should Ask (1969); Gunn (1967); Gypsy Angels (1990); Heartbreakers (1984); Heaven on Earth (1979); I Dream of Jeannie (1967); I Spy (1967); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Little Black Book; Love and the Newscasters; Love and the Lady Killers (1970–1972); Mannix (1972); Mantrap (1971); Medical Center (1974); Mindreaders (1979); Monterey Pop (1968); Occasional Wife (1967); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967–1968); Raising the Dead: Re-Examining Night of the Living Dead (2020); Sarge (1971); Savannah Smiles (1982); Scavenger Hunt (1979); Surf II (1983); The Alan Thicke Show (1980–1981); The Big Black Pill (1981); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1971); The David Steinberg Show (1972); The Fall Guy (1981); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Girl with Something Extra (1973); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1972); The Hollywood Squares (Syndication) (1972); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Party (1968); The Pat Boone Show (1966); The Red Skelton Hour (1970); The Steve Allen Show (1969); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1984); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); Tony Orlando and Dawn (1974); Two Top Bananas (1982); Whew! (1979); You Are What You Eat (1968).

Born on this day – Suzanne Roquette:

Suzanne Roquette

Actress

August 30, 1942 – May 28, 2020

Credits:

Airline (1982); Alien Attack (1976); An Englishman's Castle (1978); Band of Brothers (2001); Barriers (1981); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); Bedroom Stewardesses (1978); Call My Bluff (1978); Das Geheimnis der drei Dschunken (1965); Das Millionenspiel (1970); Der Bucklige von Soho (1966); Die Safeknacker-Suite (1963); Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin (1969); Drüben bei Lehmanns (1971); Females for Hire (1968); Frühstück mit dem Tod (1964); Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1997); Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten: Magic Moments (1999); Hadleigh (1976); Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); International Velvet (1978); ITV Playhouse (1977–1980); Jenseits von Oder und Neiße - Heute (1965); John Klings Abenteuer (1969); Journey Through the Black Sun (1982); Liebesgeschichten (1967); Lovejoy (1993); Mr. Arcularis (1967); Shining Through (1992); Sorry! (1982); Space: 1999 (1975–1976); Spearhead (1979); Special Branch (1974); Sperrbezirk (1966); Tatort (1977); The College Girl Murders (1967); The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967); Und Ihr Steckenpferd? (1963).

Born on this day – Isaac Hayes:

Isaac Hayes

Singer

Actor

Writer

Composer

August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008

Born on this day – Fred Thompson:

Fred Thompson

Actor

Writer

August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015

Born on this day – Sabine Sinjen:

Sabine Sinjen

Actress

August 18, 1942 – May 18, 1995

Born on this day – Laurel Goodwin:

Laurel Goodwin

Actress

August 11, 1942 – February 25, 2022

Credits:

Birth of a Timeless Legacy (2004); Call to Danger (1968); Get Smart (1966); Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962); Here's Hollywood (1962); Law of the Lawless (1964); Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories (1984); Mannix (1969); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); Premiere (1968); Run Buddy Run (1966); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Star Trek (1966); Stroker Ace (1983); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); The Beverly Hillbillies (1967); The Bob Hope Show (1963); The Dain Curse (1978); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Glory Guys (1965); The Hero (1966); The Partners (1971); The Roddenberry Archive: The Cage (2022); The Virginian (1964).

Born on this day – Barbara Ferris:

Barbara Ferris

Actress

Model

July 27, 1942 – May 23, 2025

Credits:

Stage:

Can-Can (1954); Saved (1965); There's a Girl in My Soup (1966).

Movies and television:

A Chorus of Disapproval (1989); A Nice Girl Like Me (1969); A Pair of Briefs (1962); A Place to Go (1963); A Slight Case of... (1965); All in Good Faith (1985–1987); Bitter Harvest (1963); Brothers in Law (1962); Children of the Damned (1964); Conjugal Rights (1973); Contrasts (1968); Coronation Street (1961); Five Guineas a Week (1956); Having a Wild Weekend (1965); Interlude (1968); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1973); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); Juke Box Jury (1965); Mr & Mrs Edgehill / BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Murder at the Wedding (1979); Oranges and Lemons (1973); Play for Today (1973); Rush Hour (1958); Sparrows Can't Sing (1963); Term of Trial (1962); The Cheaters (1962); The Girl-Getters (1964); The Human Jungle (1964); The ITV Play (1980); The Krays (1990); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Strauss Family (1972); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968); This Is Your Life (1985); Tom Thumb (1958); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1966 (1967); Zero One (1963).

Born on this day – Lanny Flaherty:

Lanny Flaherty

Actor

July 27, 1942 – February 18, 2024

Credits:

Little America (2020); Cold in July (2014); Alpha House (2013); Men in Black 3 (2012); All Good Things (2010); Forged (2010); White Collar (2009); The Exonerated (2005); Signs (2002); The Education of Max Bickford (2001–2002); Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000); Maze (2000); Third Watch (1999–2000); Homicide: The Movie (2000); Double Parked (2000); Home Fries (1998); A Simple Wish (1997); Tom and Huck (1995); New York News (1995); Waterworld (1995); Someone Else's America (1995); Natural Born Killers (1994); Sommersby (1993); Blood In, Blood Out (1993); Benny Hill's World Tour: New York! (1991); Mathnet (1991); The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991); Miller's Crossing (1990); Lonesome Dove (1989); Winter People (1989); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1988); Home at Last (1988); The Dirty Dozen (1988); The Equalizer (1985); The Edge of Night (1984).

Born on this day – Hannelore Elsner:

Hannelore Elsner

Actress

July 26, 1942 – April 21, 2019

Born on this day – Richard Roundtree:

Richard Roundtree

Actor

July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023

Credits:

1 a Minute (2010); 13th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards (1998); 16th Annual Trumpet Awards (2008); 1-800-Missing (2003); 1994 MTV Movie Awards (1994); 19th Annual Trumpet Awards (2011); 2003 Trumpet Awards (2003); 2019: A Year in the Life of a Year (2020); 21 Jump Street (1990); 29th NAACP Image Awards (1998); 413 Hope St. (1997–1998); A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021); A Complicated Man: The 'Shaft' Legacy (2019); A Different World (1989); A Family Reunion Christmas (2019); A Time to Die (1991); A.D. (1985); ABC Afterschool Specials (1988); ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (2023); AFI Movie Club (2020); Akuji the Heartless (1998); Alias (2003–2004); All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007); Amen (1989); America's Top Sleuths (2006); Amityville: A New Generation (1993); An Eye for an Eye (1981); Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988); Antitrust (2001); Any Place But Home (1997); Ari Global show (2022); As the World Turns (1956–2010); Baadasssss Cinema (2002); Bad Jim (1990); Ballistic (1995); Beauty and the Beast (1989); Being Mary Jane (2013–2019); BET Awards 2013 (2013); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1991); Black Hollywood (1984); Black Pop: Celebrating the Power of Black Culture (2023); Blade: The Series (2006); Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1991); Boat Trip (2002); Body of Influence (1993); Bonanza: The Return (1993); Bonanza: Under Attack (1995); Breast Cancer: An African American Perspective (2009); Brick (2005); Buddies (1996); Cadets (1988); Capone's Boys (2002); CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (2023); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); Celebrity Bowling (1976); Celebrity Page (2019); Celebrity Tennis (1975); Charley-One-Eye (1973); Cherish the Day (2022); Chicago Fire (2015); CHiPs (1981); Christmas in Connecticut (1992); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2012); Circus of the Stars #2 (1977); City Heat (1984); Classified X (2007); Close to Home (2006); COC Elite (2009); Collar - Directors Cut (2023); Collar (2015); Cop Files (1995); Corky Romano (2001); Crack House (1989); Day of the Assassin (1979); Deadly Rivals (1993); Desperate Housewives (2004–2005); Diamonds (1975); Diary of a Single Mom (2009–2011); Dinah! (1974–1976); Donahue (1972); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1998); Dream On (1995); Duke (2019); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Earthquake (1974); Ebony Fashion Fair: 50 Years of Style (2008); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1986); Embassy (1972); Entertainment Tonight (2019–2024); Escape to Athena (1979); Family Reunion (2019–2022); Final Approach (2007); Firehouse (1973); Freedom Is (1976); Game for Vultures (1979); Game On! A Comedy Crossover Event (2020); Generations (1990); George of the Jungle (1997); Getting Even (1989); Go Beyond the Lens (2011); Good Morning America (2023); Grey's Anatomy (2006); Gypsy Angels (1990); Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992–1994); Harlem to Hollywood (2018); Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020); Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999); Hawaiian Gardens (2001); Hearts Are Wild (1992); Hell Up in Hollywood: Soul Cinema and the 1970s (2003); Heroes (2006–2007); Hollywood Beat (1985); I Love 1970's (2000); Inchon (1981); Intimate Portrait (1999); It's a Knockout (1988); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1973); Jocks (1986); Joe and Max (2002); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994–1995); Just an Overnight Guest (1983); Killpoint (1984); Knight Rider (2009); L.A. Law (1992); Ladies of the House (2008); Lethal Weapon (2018); Lincoln Heights (2007–2009); Linc's (1999); MacGyver (1990); Made in Hollywood (2019); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Man Friday (1975); Maniac Cop (1988); Masquerade (1983); Maury (1992); Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004); Meet the Browns (2010); Men Cry in the Dark (2003); Miami Cops (1989); Mind Twister (1993); Miss Universe Pageant (1980); Missing Reel (2014); Moscacieca (1993); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving On (2022); Murder, She Wrote (1988); Nationtime (1972); NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (2023); Negermagasinet (2005); Nero come il cuore (1994); New York, New York (1972); Night Visitor (1989); Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995); One Down, Two to go (1982); Opposing Force (1986); Original Gangstas (1996); Outlaws (1986–1987); Painkiller Jane (2005); Parachute to Paradise (1972); Party Line (1988); Point of Entry (2007); Portrait of a Hitman (1979); Private Practice (2012); Profiler (1997); Q: The Winged Serpent (1982); Renegade (1994); Rescue 77 (1999); Resurrection Blvd. (2001); Retreat! (2016); Rhythm and Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular (2002); Roc (1991–1994); Roots (1977); Roots: Celebrating 25 Years (2002); Sacrifice (2021); Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006); Se7en (1995); Set Apart (2009); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Shadows of Desire (1994); Shaft (1973–1974); Shaft (1971 / 2019 / 2000); Shaft in Africa (1973); Shaft's Big Score! (1972); Shoot! (2001); Short Fuse: A Collection of Explosive Shorts (2004); Sins of the Night (1993); Soul Brothers (2013); Soul Brothers 2 (2013); Soul Comes Home (2003); Soul Food (2000–2001); Soul in Cinema: Filming Shaft on Location (1971); Speed Racer (2008); Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family (2008); Star (2017–2018); Steel (1997); Tavis Smiley (2008); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The 12nd Annual Black Achievement Awards (1991); The 18th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards Preshow (2003); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 47th NAACP Image Awards (2016); The Arsenio Hall Show (2014); The Banker (1989); The Baron and the Kid (1984); The Big Score (1983); The Closer (2005); The Confidant (2010); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Telly Savalas (1974); The Dean Martin Show (1973); The Fifth Missile (1986); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996); The Green Fog (2017); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1972–1976); The John H. Johnson Story (2005); The Love Boat (1980); The Marsha Warfield Show (1990); The Mentalist (2011); The Merv Griffin Show (1972–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1977); The Ms. Moviefone Show (2019); The New Hollywood Squares (1987); The Player (2015); The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002); The Sin Choice (2020); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2002); The Trial of Ben Barry (2012); The Turn On (2007); The Wayans Bros. (1995); The Young Riders (1991); Thelma (2024); Theodore Rex (1995); This Bitter Earth (2012); Tilmon Tempo (1972–1976); Today (2019); Touched by an Angel (1996); Ultimate Film Fanatic (2004–2005); Undercover Brother (2002); Unsung Hollywood (2015–2016); Unsung Presents: Best in Black (2023); Vegas Vampires (2007); Veil (2010); Vicki! (1992–1993); Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (2010); WGN Morning News (2019); What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970); What Men Want (2019); Whatever She Wants (2014); Wild On... (1997–2009); Wild Seven (2006); Without Walls (1994); Young Warriors (1983).

Born on this day – Roger Ebert:

Roger Ebert

Film historian

Writer

June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013

On this day in movie history - The Big Shot (1942):

The Big Shot

directed by Lewis Seiler,

written by Bertram Millhauser, Abem Finkel and Daniel Fuchs,

was released in the United States on June 13, 1942.
Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Chick Chandler, Joe Downing, Howard Da Silva, Murray Alper, Roland Drew, John Ridgely, Joe King, John Hamilton, Virginia Brissac, William Edmunds, Virginia Sale, Ken Christy, Wallace Scott, Leah Baird, Morgan Brown, Eddy Chandler, Cliff Clark, Clancy Cooper, Ralph Dunn, Thornton Edwards, Carl Faulkner, James Flavin, Gus Glassmire, Sol Gorss, William Gould, Creighton Hale, Henry Hall, Herbert Heywood, Dorothy Kelly, Donald Kerr, Wilbur Mack, Frank Mayo, Jack Mower, Wendell Niles, Frank O’Connor, Eleanor Parker, Don Phillips, Lee Prather, Jeffrey Sayre, Charles Sherlock, Walter Soderling, Harry Strang, Brick Sullivan, Ray Teal, Don Turner, Dale Van Sickel, Tom Wilson, Joan Winfield, Bill Wolfe, Victor Zimmerman.

Born on this day – Tom Mankiewicz:

Tom Mankiewicz

Writer

Director

Producer

June 1, 1942 – July 31, 2010

Born on this day – Kevin Conway:

Kevin Conway

Actor

Director

May 29, 1942 – February 5, 2020

Born on this day – Leighton Gage:

Leighton Gage

Writer

May 13, 1942 – July 26, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Vine in the Blood (2011); Blood of the Wicked (2007); Buried Strangers (2009); Dying Gasp (2010); Every Bitter Thing (2010); Perfect Hatred (2013); The Ways of Evil Men (2014).

Recommended reading - Deadlier Than the Male, by James Gunn (1942)

Deadlier Than the Male

By James Gunn.

Introduced by Curtis Evans.

Filmed as Born to Kill, aka Lady of Deceit and Deadlier Than the Male (1947), directed by Robert Wise.

Published by Stark House Press.

Film Noir Classics, 7.

First published 1942.

Paperback.

ISBN-13: 979-8886010824

ASIN: B0CW22PDN7

Description:

“Deadlier Than the Male is truly one of the strangest of all American crime novels. In fact it’s one of the strangest of all American novels… It is in no way a pleasant read but it is fascinating in a bizarre, morbid and very unsettling way. Gunn’s style is as extreme and as offbeat as his plotting. This is psychological noir at its darkest.” – Vintage Pop Fictions.

DEADLIER THAN THE MALE.

Helen is in Reno for her second divorce and staying with Mrs. Krantz and her daughter Rachel at their boarding house. Mrs. Krantz’s drinking companion, Laura Pollicker, lives next door. That night she is murdered, and Helen discovers the body—and wastes no time in returning to the San Francisco house she shares with his sister Georgia. How could she know that the very man who meets and marries her sister only days later is the same man who had slit Mrs. Pollicker’s throat.

Sam Wild is a powerful man, tall, muscular, with very little control over his emotions. His friend Mart watches out for him, but Sam sometimes just can’t help himself—he has to kill. Now he’s got a rich wife with an attractive sister, and he’s just biding his time until he can take over Georgia’s money and get rid of her, too. But that’s when Helen steps in with some plans of her own.

On this day in movie history - This Gun for Hire (1942):

This Gun for Hire

directed by Frank Tuttle,

written by Albert Maltz and W.R. Burnett,

based on the novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene,

was released in the United States on April 24, 1942.
Music by David Buttolph.

Cast:

Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Olin Howland, Roger Imhof, Pamela Blake, Frank Ferguson, Victor Kilian, Patricia Farr, Harry Shannon, Charles C. Wilson, Mikhail Rasumny, Bernadene Hayes, Mary Davenport, Chester Clute, Charles Arnt, Earle S. Dewey, Clem Bevans, Lynda Grey, Virita Campbell.

Born on this day – Sandra Dee:

Sandra Dee

Actress

April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005