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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Born on this day – Tony Mordente:


Tony Mordente


Director

Dancer

Choreographer

Actor

December 3, 1935 – June 11, 2024

Credits:

3 Girls 3 (1977); 7th Heaven (1997–2003); American Masters (2009); Angie (1979–1980); Baker's Dozen (1982); Benson (1979–1980); Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019); Brothers and Sisters (1979); Burke's Law (1995); Busting Loose (1977); Combat! (1962); Coming of Age (1988); Cousins (1976); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2009); Day by Day (1989); Doc (1975–1976); Don't Call Me Mama Anymore (1973); Easy Street (1986–1987); Family Ties (1982–1983); Flatbush (1979); Fleeting Moments (2018); Flo (1981); Good Time Harry (1980); Goodtime Girls (1980); Hardcastle and McCormick (1983–1986); Hunter (1985–1991); I'm a Big Girl Now (1981); Jake and the Fatman (1987); Just Tell Me You Love Me (1978); Keep on Truckin' (1975); Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998–1999); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Love, Sidney (1981–1982); M*A*S*H (1978–1979); Matlock (1987–1990); Maude (1973–1976); Nobody's Perfect (1980); Nurse (1982); Phyllis (1976); Private Benjamin (1982–1983); Quincy, M.E. (1979); Rhoda (1975–1978); Riptide (1984–1986); Romance Theatre (1982–1983); Safe Harbor (1999); Shadow Chasers (1986); Stars in the House (2020); That Second Thing on ABC (1978); That's Dancing! (1985); That's Life (1968); The 27th Annual Tony Awards (1973); The Associates (1979–1980); The A-Team (1984–1986); The Brady Brides (1981); The Daydreamer (1966); The Greatest American Hero (1986); The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine (1974); The Jim Nabors Hour (1969-1970); The Jimmy Dean Show (1965–1966); The Longest Day (1962); The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show (1972); The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004); The New Interns (1964); The New Lorenzo Music Show (1976); The Outer Limits (1964); The Practice (1976); The Rita Moreno Show (1978); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971–1972); The Tony Randall Show (1977–1978); True Blue (1990); Turnabout (1979); Valerie (1987); Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–1998); West Side Memories (2003); West Side Story (1961); We've Got Each Other (1977); Who's on Call? (1979); Young Hearts (1984).

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Born on this day – June Clyde:


June Clyde


Actress

Singer

Dancer

December 2, 1909 – October 1, 1987

Credits:

A Strange Adventure (1932); A Study in Scarlet (1933); Affair in Monte Carlo (1952); After the Ball (1957); Aren't Men Beasts (1937); Arizona (1931); Back Street (1932); Behind the Mask (1946); Branded Men (1931); Charing Cross Road (1936); Country Fair (1941); Dance Band (1935); File 113 (1932); Forbidden Music (1936); Forgotten (1933); Her Resale Value (1933); Highlight: The Singing Cinema (1964); His Lordship Goes to Press (1938); Hit the Deck (1929); Hi'Ya Chum (1943); Hold Me Tight (1933); Hollywood (1932); Hollywood and Vine (1945); Hollywood Mystery (1934); Hollywood Party (1934); Humanettes No. 1 (1930); Humanettes No. 3 (1930); I Hate Women (1934); Intimate Relations (1937); King of the Castle (1936); Let's Make a Night of It (1937); Make-Up (1937); Midnight Mystery (1930); Moonlight and Monkey Business (1930); Morals for Women (1931); Night Without Stars (1951); No Monkey Business (1935); Oh! My Operation (1932); Only Yesterday (1933); Racing Youth (1932); Radio Patrol (1932); Room Mates (1933); Sam Small Leaves Town (1937); School for Husbands (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 8 (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Sealed Lips (1942); Seven Doors to Death (1944); She Shall Have Music (1935); Side Street (1929); Starlight (1937); Steady Company (1932); Street Girl (1929); Tanned Legs (1929); Tess of the Storm Country (1932); The All-American (1932); The Broadway Minstrel (1929); The Cuckoos (1930); The Finishing Touch (1932); The Love Lottery (1954); The Mad Parade (1931); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1947); The Secret Witness (1931); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Vise (1957); Thrill of Youth (1932); Treasure Hunt (1952); Unfinished Business (1941); Weddings Are Wonderful (1938).

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Born on this day – Tina Turner:


Tina Turner


Singer

Actress

Dancer

Writer

November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023

Credits:

Albums:

Tina Turns the Country On! (1974); Acid Queen (1975); Rough (1978); Love Explosion (1979); Private Dancer (1984); Break Every Rule (1986); Foreign Affair (1989); What's Love Got to Do with It (1993); Wildest Dreams (1996); Twenty Four Seven (1999).

Movies, television and music videos:

Kygo & Tina Turner: What's Love Got to Do with It (2020); Tina Turner & Elisa: Teach Me Again (2006); Tina Turner: Whatever You Need (2000); Ally McBeal (2000); Tina Turner: When the Heartache is Over (1999); Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner: Cose della vita (Can't Stop Thinking of You) (1997); Tina Turner & Barry White: In Your Wildest Dreams (Animation Version) (1996); Tina Turner & Barry White: In Your Wildest Dreams (1996); Tina Turner: Something Beautiful Remains (1996); Tina Turner: Missing You (1996); Tina Turner: On Silent Wings (1996); Tina Turner: Whatever You Want (1996); Tina Turner: GoldenEye (1995); Tina Turner: Proud Mary (1993); Tina Turner: Disco Inferno (1993); Tina Turner: Why Must We Wait Until Tonight (1993); Last Action Hero (1993); Tina Turner: I Don't Wanna Fight - Studio Version (1993); Tina Turner: I Don't Wanna Fight (1993); Jimmy Barnes & Tina Turner: (Simply) The Best (1992); Tina Turner: I Want You Near Me (1992); Tina Turner: Love Thing (1992); Tina Turner: Simply the Best - The Video Collection (1991); Tina Turner: Way of the World (1991); Tina Turner: Way of the World - US Version (1991); Tina Turner: Nutbush City Limits (1991); Tina Turner: Foreign Affair (1990); Rod Stewart & Tina Turner: It Takes Two (1990); Tina Turner: Be Tender with Me Baby - Live (1990); Tina Turner: Look Me in the Heart (1990); Tina Turner: I Don't Wanna Lose You (1989); Tina Turner: Steamy Windows (1989); Tina Turner: The Best (1989); Tina Turner: A Change Is Gonna Come (1988); Tina Turner: We Don't Need Another Hero - Live Version (1988); Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Success (1988); Tina Turner & David Bowie: Tonight (1988); Tina Turner: Addicted to Love (1988); Tina Turner: Paradise is Here (1987); Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (1987); Tina Turner: What You Get Is What You See (1987); Tina Turner: Overnight Sensation (1986); Tina Turner in Tina Turner: Two People (1986); Tina Turner: Typical Male (1986); Bryan Adams & Tina Turner: It's Only Love (1985); Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in Tina Turner: We Don't Need Another Hero (1985); Tina Turner: One of the Living (1985); Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985); Tina Turner: Private Dancer Live from Private Dancer (1985); Tina Turner: Show Some Respect (1985); Tina Turner: I Can't Stand the Rain (1985); Tina Turner: What's Love Got to Do with It (1984); Tina Turner: Better Be Good to Me (1984); Tina Turner: Private Dancer (1984); Tina Turner: What's Love Got to Do with It (B&W Version) (1984); Tina Turner: Help! (1984); Tina Turner: Let's Stay Together (1983); B.E.F. Feat. Tina Turner: Ball of Confusion (1982); Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978); Tommy (1975).

Born on this day – Betta St. John:


Betta St. John


Actress

Singer

Dancer

November 26, 1929 – June 23, 2023

Credits:

The Third Man (1965); Rendezvous (1960); The City of the Dead (1960); Tarzan the Magnificent (1960); International Detective (1960); The Four Just Men (1960); Armchair Theatre (1959); The Invisible Man (1959); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1959); Corridors of Blood (1958); The Snorkel (1958); ITV Play of the Week (1958); High Tide at Noon (1957); Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956); Rheingold Theatre (1955–1956); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); Alias John Preston (1955); The Naked Dawn (1955); The Vise (1955); The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954); The Student Prince (1954); The Saracen Blade (1954); Dangerous Mission (1954); All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953); The Robe (1953); Dream Wife (1953); Jane Eyre (1943); Lydia (1941); Waldo's Last Stand (1940); Destry Rides Again (1939).

Friday, November 14, 2025

Born on this day – Louise Brooks:


Louise Brooks


Actress

Dancer

Writer

Painter

November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985

Credits:

A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Social Celebrity (1926); Beggars of Life (1928); Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); Empty Saddles (1936); Evening Clothes (1927); God's Gift to Women (1931); It Pays to Advertise (1931); It's the Old Army Game (1926); Just Another Blonde (1926); King of Gamblers (1937); Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); Now We're in the Air (1927); Overland Stage Raiders (1938); Pandora's Box (1929); Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (1930); Rolled Stockings (1927); The American Venus (1926); The Canary Murder Case (1929); The City Gone Wild (1927); The Show-Off (1926); The Street of Forgotten Men (1925); When You're in Love (1937); Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931).

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Monday, October 27, 2025

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Born on this day – Belita:


Belita


Actress

Figure skater

Dancer

October 25, 1923 – December 18, 2005

Credits:

A Good Idea: Son! (1953); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel (1949–1952); Face the Music (1953–1955); Ice-Capades (1941); Invitation to the Dance (1956); Lady, Let's Dance (1944); Never Let Me Go (1953); Screen Snapshots: Holiday in Las Vegas (1947); Silk Stockings (1957); Silver Skates (1943); Suspense (1946); The Ed Wynn Show (1949); The Gangster / aka Low Company (1947); The Hunted (1948); The Key (1958); The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949); What's My Line (1952); Where Are They Now? (1980).

Born on this day – Gloria Foy:


Gloria Foy


Actress

Dancer

Singer

Vaudevillian

October 25, 1901 –February 27, 1977

Movie credit:

Dancing Lady (1933).

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

Born on this day – Jane Winton:


Jane Winton


Actress

Dancer

Opera soprano

Writer

Painter

October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959

Credits:

Books:

Park Avenue Doctor; Passion Is the Gale.

Movies and television:

A Notorious Affair (1930); Across the Pacific (1926); Backstage (1937); Bare Knees (1928); Burning Daylight (1928); Captain Lash (1929); Don Juan (1926); Footloose Widows (1926); Hell's Angels (1930); Hired Wife (1934); His Supreme Moment (1925); Honeymoon Flats (1928); In the Next Room (1930); Lonesome Ladies (1927); Melody of Love (1928); Millionaires (1926); My Official Wife (1926); My Old Dutch (1926); Nothing to Wear (1928); Perch of the Devil (1927); Scandal (1929); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Sunrise (1927); The Beloved Rogue (1927); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929); The Crane Poison Case (1932); The Crystal Cup (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Furies (1930); The Gay Old Bird (1927); The Honeymoon Express (1926); The Light Fantastic (1935); The Love Toy (1926); The Monkey Talks (1927); The Passionate Quest (1926); The Patsy (1928); The Poor Nut (1927); The Week End Mystery (1931); Three Women (1924); Tomorrow's Love (1925); Upstream (1927); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Yellow Lily (1928).

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Born on this day – Glynis Johns:


Glynis Johns


Actress

Dancer

Musician

Singer

October 5, 1923 – January 4, 2024

Credits:

Superstar (1999); While You Were Sleeping (1995); ABC Weekend Specials (1994); The Ref (1994); Coming of Age (1988–1989); Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988); Zelly and Me (1988); Nukie (1987); The Cavanaughs (1987); Murder, She Wrote (1985); The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984); Spraggue (1984); The Love Boat (1984); Cheers (1983); Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982); Mrs. Amworth (1978); Three Dangerous Ladies (1977); The Happy Prince (1974); The Vault of Horror (1973); Under Milk Wood (1971); Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969); ITV Playhouse (1968); Don't Just Stand There (1968); Batman (1967); Dear Brigitte (1965); 12 O'Clock High (1964); Mary Poppins (1964); The Defenders (1964); Burke's Law (1964); Glynis (1963); Vacation Playhouse (1963); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1963); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); Saints and Sinners (1962); The Beachcomber (1962); The Chapman Report (1962); The Cabinet of Caligari (1962); Dr. Kildare (1962); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); Naked City (1961); General Electric Theater (1961); The Roaring 20's (1961); Adventures in Paradise (1961); The Sundowners (1960); The Spider's Web (1960); Shake Hands with the Devil (1959); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); Another Time, Another Place (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); All Mine to Give (1957); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Loser Takes All (1956); The Court Jester (1955); Josephine and Men (1955); Mad About Men (1954); The Beachcomber (1954); Land of Fury (1954); Young and Willing (1954); Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953); Personal Affair (1953); The Sword and the Rose (1953); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Studio One (1952); The Promoter (1952); Encore (1951); Island Rescue (1951); The Magic Box (1951); No Highway in the Sky (1951); Flesh and Blood (1951); The Great Manhunt (1950); Dear Mr. Prohack (1949); Helter Skelter (1949); Third Time Lucky (1949); Miranda (1948); An Ideal Husband (1947); Frieda (1947); This Man Is Mine (1946); Vacation from Marriage (1945); The Halfway House (1944); The Adventures of Tartu (1943); 49th Parallel (1941); The Prime Minister (1941); The Thief of Bagdad (1940); The Briggs Family (1940); Under Your Hat (1940); The Fugitive (1939); Prison Without Bars (1938); Murder in the Family (1938); South Riding (1938).

Monday, September 22, 2025

Born on this day – Robert Banas:


Robert Banas


Actor

Dancer

Producer

September 22, 1933 – July 29, 2024

Credits:

Always (1989); Annie Get Your Gun (1957); Barnaby Jones (1978); Billie (1965); Bud and Lou (1978); Bye Bye Birdie (1963); Cagney & Lacey (1982); Calypso Heat Wave (1957); Carousel (1956); Daddy-O (1958); Damn Yankees (1958); Dateline: Disneyland (1955); Don't Knock the Rock (1956); Don't Knock the Twist (1962); Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986); Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977); Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music Part II (1966); Get Smart (1966); Girl Happy (1965); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952); Heart Like a Wheel (1983); Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009); How the West Was Won (1962); Juke Box Rhythm (1959); Let's Make Love (1960); Li'l Abner (1959); Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me (1977); Made in Paris (1966); Malibu U. (1967); Mary Poppins (1964); Mork & Mindy (1981–1982); My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985); Odd Jobs (1986); Producers' Showcase (1955–1956); Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958); Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959); Rock Around the Clock (1956); Say One for Me (1959); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Shivaree (1965–1966); Skatetown U.S.A. (1979); Swingin' Country (1966); Teen Witch (1989); That's Dancing! (1985); The Bad News Bears (1979); The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956); The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995); The Danny Thomas Show (1960); The Day the Bubble Burst (1982); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1962); The Girl Most Likely (1957); The Jonathan Winters Show (1967–1968); The Judy Garland Show (1964); The King and I (1956); The Kraft Summer Music Hall (1966); The Nut House!! (1964); The Skydivers (1963); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964); The Virginian (1969); Toyland (1961); Tuff Turf (1985); Twist Around the Clock (1961); Under the Boardwalk (1988); Untamed Youth (1957); Webster (1983); West Side Memories (2003); West Side Story (1961).

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Born on this day – Mitzi Gaynor:


Mitzi Gaynor


Actress

Singer

Dancer

September 4, 1931 – October 17, 2024

Credits:

20 to 1 (2010); 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (2011); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); All About Alfred (1998); American Masters (2021); Anything Goes (1956); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Present High Hopes (1959); Biography (1999–2001); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion (2024); Ça c'est l'amour (2003); Call the Midwife (2013); Cavalcade of Champions (1973); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2019); Danny Thomas Special: My Home Town (1966); Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Ed Sullivan Presents: The Beatles (2003); Eye for an Eye (1996); For Love or Money (1963); Frank Sinatra: One More for the Road (2019); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Funny You Never Knew (2019); George Jessel Show (1959); Golden Girl (1951); Good Morning America (2006); Happy Anniversary (1959); Hello: A Portrait of Leslie Phillips (2013); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); It's Your Health (1949); Les Girls (1957); Lykke og krone (1962); Marilyn (1963); Mia, a Dancer's Journey (2014); Mission: Impossible (1989); Mitzi & 100 Guys (1975); Mitzi (1968); Mitzi Gaynor: Impressions of the Fox Years (2007); Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years (2008); Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife (1974); Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20's (1976); Mitzi... The First Time (1973); Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not (1978); Mitzi... Zings Into Spring (1977); Mitzi's 2nd Special (1969); Monty and the Movies (2024); My Blue Heaven (1950); My Music: A Classic Christmas (2019); Out of My Dreams: Oscar Hammerstein II (2012); Passion, Prejudice and South Pacific: Creating an American Masterpiece (2009); Perry Como's Winter Show (1971); Red Carpet Report (2013); Reflets de Cannes (1956–1958); Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021); Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1969); So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2010); South Pacific (1958); Springtime in Greenland (1981); Surprise Package (1960); Take Care of My Little Girl (1951); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 16th Annual Satellite Awards (2011); The 1974 Annual Las Vegas Entertainment Awards (1974); The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1972); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The Birds and the Bees (1956); The Bob Braun Show (1984); The Children of Lindos (1960); The Dick Clark Show (1960); The Donald O'Connor Show (1954–1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954–1964); The Fabulous Fox (2004); The Frank Sinatra Show (1959); The George Jessel Show (1953); The I Don't Care Girl (1953); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2012); The Jack Benny Hour (1959); The Joker Is Wild (1957); The Kraft Music Hall (1967); The Merv Griffin Show (1970); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967–1977); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Your Life (1960); Three Young Texans (1954); Vancouver: Focus on Expo 86 (1986); Welcome to Woop Woop (1997); We're Not Married! (1952); Women He's Undressed (2015).