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).

Born on this day – June Havoc:

June Havoc

Actress

Dancer

Director

Writer

November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010

Credits:

17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011); A Return to Salem's Lot (1987); About Faces (1960); American Masters (1997); Biography (2000); Brewster's Millions (1945); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Burke's Law (1964); Cameo Theatre (1951); Can't Stop the Music (1980); Casanova in Burlesque (1944); Cavalcade of Stars (1951); Celanese Theatre (1952); Celebrity Time (1949–1951); Chicago Deadline (1949); Dinah! (1979); Film Fanfare (1956); Fireside Theatre (1954); Follow the Sun (1951); Four Jacks and a Jill (1942); Four Star Revue (1952); General Electric Theater (1954); General Hospital (1990); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); George Jessel Show (1959); Good Morning Britain (1985); Great Performances (1999); Gypsy (1965–1967); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942); Hello Frisco, Hello (1943); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hey There (1918); Hi Diddle Diddle (1943); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); House Party (1964); Inglourious Basterds (2009); Intrigue (1947); I've Got a Secret (1953); King Kong (2005); Kraft Theatre (1957); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1951); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1959); Lady Possessed (1952); Life Is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri (2006); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Magic Night (1980); Matinee Theatre (1956); McMillan & Wife (1971); Medallion Theatre (1953); Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950); Mr. Broadway (1957); Murder, She Wrote (1987–1989); Muscular Dystrophy Telethon (1957); My Sister Eileen (1942); Nightside (1973); No Time for Love (1943); Omnibus (1953); On the Jump (1918); Once a Thief (1950); Panic! (1957); Password (1964); Person to Person (1957); Place the Face (1955); Powder Town (1942); Producers' Showcase (1957); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); Red, Hot and Blue (1949); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 30, No. 2: Fun at Shadow Mountain (1950); Search for Tomorrow (1986); Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1955); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Studio One (1957); TCM Remembers 2010 (2010); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The Arthur Murray Party (1957–1960); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The Betty White Show (1954); The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1953); The Dick Cavett Show (1980); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1957); The Fred Waring Show (1951); The Iron Curtain (1948); The Joan Rivers Show (1969); The John Davidson Show (1980); The Juke Box Jury (1956); The June Havoc Show (1964); The Magical World of Disney (1970); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Mike Douglas Show (1964); The Mike Wallace Interview (1959); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1950); The Name's the Same (1953); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The Outer Limits (1964); The Paper Chase (1979); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); The Red Skelton Hour (1953); The Story of Hollywood (1988); The Story of Molly X (1949); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1980); The Untouchables (1960); Theatre (1956); This Is Show Business (1950); This Is Your Life (1986); Three for Jamie Dawn (1956); Timber Queen (1944); Today (1959); What's My Line? (1953–1966); When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948); Whicker's World (1984); Who Said That? (1953); Willy (1954–1955); Wogan (1985).

Born on this day – Nanette Fabray:

Nanette Fabray

Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018

Credits:

A Child Is Born (1939); Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966); Aloha Paradise (1981); Amy (1981); Animal Catchers (1927); Baby Be Good (1925); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Burke's Law (1964); But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970); Coach (1990); Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966); Fat and the Canary (1927); Fowl Play (1928); George M! (1970); Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974); Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978); Heebee Jeebees (1927); Here to Stay (1986); Hotel (1983); Howdy (1970); Laramie (1959); Love, American Style (1970); Magic Carpet (1972); Maude (1977); Murder, She Wrote (1991); NBC Experiment in Television (1967); Omnibus (1953); One Day at a Time (1979); Personal Exemptions (1989); Playhouse 90 (1956); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968); Saturday Spectacular: High Button Shoes (1956); Startime (1960); Teresa's Tattoo (1994); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Band Wagon (1953); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970); The Couple Takes a Wife (1972); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Golden Palace (1993); The Happy Ending (1969); The Jerry Lewis Show (1967); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Love Boat (1978); The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972); The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952); The Monroe Doctrine (1939); The Munsters Today (1989); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Subterraneans (1960); Westinghouse Playhouse (1961).

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).

Born on this day – Carla Laemmle:

Carla Laemmle

Actress

Dancer

October 20, 1909 – June 12, 2014

Credits:

A Sad State of Affairs (2013); Bathing Beauty (1944); Dracula (1931); Fashions for Women (1927); Girl Rush (1944); His Last Fling (1935); King of Jazz (1930); Ladies of the Chorus (1948); Mansion of Blood (2015); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); On Your Toes (1939); Pooltime (2010); She's Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein (1999); Step Lively (1944); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); The Broadway Melody (1929); The Extra (2017); The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999); The Gate Crasher (1928); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The King Steps Out (1936); The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); The Vampire Hunters Club (2001); Topsy and Eva (1927); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927); Universal Horror (1998).

Born on this day – Anna Neagle:

Anna Neagle

Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 20, 1904 – June 3, 1986

Credits:

A Yank in London (1945); Backstage (1937); Bitter Sweet (1933); Dangerous Youth (1957); Derby Day (1952); Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948); Forever and a Day (1943); Girl in the Street (1937); Irene (1940); ITV Play of the Week (1962); Katy's Love Affair (1947); King's Rhapsody (1955); Let's Make Up (1954); Magic Night (1932); Maytime in Mayfair (1949); Nell Gwyn (1934); No Time for Tears (1957); No, No, Nanette (1940); Nurse Edith Cavell (1939); Odette (1950); Peg of Old Drury (1935); Queen of Destiny (1938); Runaway Queen (1934); School for Scandal (1930); Should a Doctor Tell? (1930); Spring in Park Lane (1948); Sunny (1941); Tales of the Unexpected (1983); Teenage Bad Girl (1956); The Chinese Bungalow (1930); The Flag Lieutenant (1932); The Glorious Days (1953); The Heart of a Man (1959); The Lady Is a Square (1959); The Lady with a Lamp (1951); The Little Damozel (1933); The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958); The Show Goes On (1936); Theatre Night (1960); They Met at Midnight (1946); Those Who Love (1929); Victoria the Great (1937); Wings and the Woman (1942); Wonderful Things (1958); Yellow Canary (1943).

Born on this day – Rita Hayworth:

Rita Hayworth

Actress

Dancer

Producer

October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987

Credits:

Affair in Trinidad (1952); Affectionately Yours (1941); Angels Over Broadway (1940); Blondie on a Budget (1940); Blood and Sand (1941); Caliente (1935); Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935); Circus World (1964); Convicted (1938); Cover Girl (1944); Criminals of the Air (1937); Cruz Diablo (1934); Dancing Pirate (1936); Dante's Inferno (1935); Down to Earth (1947); Fire Down Below (1957); Gilda (1946); Girls Can Play (1937); Hi, Gaucho! (1935); Hit the Saddle (1937); Homicide Bureau (1939); Human Cargo (1936); I bastardi (1968); Juvenile Court (1938); La Fiesta (1926); Life Begins with Love (1937); Meet Nero Wolfe (1936); Miss Sadie Thompson (1953); Music in My Heart (1940); My Gal Sal (1942); Old Louisiana (1937); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Paddy O'Day (1936); Paid to Dance (1937); Pal Joey (1957); Piernas de seda (1935); Professional Soldier (1935); Rebellion (1936); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); Salome (1953); Separate Tables (1958); Special Inspector (1938); Susan and God (1940); Tales of Manhattan (1942); The Game That Kills (1937); The Happy Thieves (1961); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); The Lady in Question (1940); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Loves of Carmen (1948); The Money Trap (1965); The Naked Zoo (1970); The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966); The Renegade Ranger (1938); The Road to Salina (1970); The Rover (1967); The Shadow (1937); The Story on Page One (1959); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); The Wrath of God (1972); There's Always a Woman (1938); They Came to Cordura (1959); Tonight and Every Night (1945); Trouble in Texas (1937); Under the Pampas Moon (1935); Who Killed Gail Preston? (1938); You Were Never Lovelier (1942); You'll Never Get Rich (1941).

Born on this day – Carmen Sevilla:

Carmen Sevilla

Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 16, 1930 – June 27, 2023

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).

Born on this day – June Allyson:

June Allyson

Actress

Dancer

Singer

October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006

Credits:

A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun (2000); A Stranger in My Arms (1959); Airwolf (1986); All Girl Revue (1940); Battle Circus (1953); Best Foot Forward (1943); Blackout (1978); Burke's Law (1995); Crazy Like a Fox (1986); Curse of the Black Widow (1977); Dates and Nuts (1937); Dime a Dance (1937); Executive Suite (1954); Girl Crazy (1943); Good News (1947); Hart to Hart (1984); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); High Barbaree (1947); House Calls (1980); Interlude (1957); Letters from Three Lovers (1973); Little Women (1949); Meet the People (1944); Misfits of Science (1985); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Music for Millions (1944); My Man Godfrey (1957); Pixilated (1937); Pros and Cons (1991); Remains to Be Seen (1953); Right Cross (1950); Rollin' in Rhythm (1939); See the Man Run (1971); Simon & Simon (1982); Sing for Sweetie (1938); Strategic Air Command (1955); Swing for Sale (1937); Switch (1977); The Bride Goes Wild (1948); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); The Girl in White (1952); The Glenn Miller Story (1954); The Incredible Hulk (1979); The Kid with the Broken Halo (1982); The Knight Is Young (1938); The Love Boat (1978–1983); The McConnell Story (1955); The Name of the Game (1968); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Prisoner of Swing (1938); The Reformer and the Redhead (1950); The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945); The Secret Heart (1946); The Shrike (1955); The Sixth Sense (1972); The Stratton Story (1949); The Three Musketeers (1948); These Old Broads (2001); They Only Kill Their Masters (1972); Thousands Cheer (1943); Three on a Date (1978); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); Tom, Dick and Harry (1948–1949); Too Young to Kiss (1951); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Two Sisters from Boston (1946); Ups and Downs (1937); Vega$ (1978); Wilfrid's Special Christmas (1989); Woman's World (1954); Words and Music (1948); You Can't Run Away from It (1956); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

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).

Born on this day – Sondra Lee:

Sondra Lee

Actress

Dancer

September 30, 1930 – February 24, 2026

Stage:

Hello Dolly (1964); High Button Shoes (1947); Hotel Paradiso (1957); Jerome Robbins' Ballet: U.S.A. (1958); Peter Pan (1954); Sunday in New York (1961); The Audiience (2005).

Movies and television:

A Dry White Season (1989); American Masters (2009); Backstage Babble (2020); Biography (2005); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Hansel and Gretel (1958); La Dolce Vita (1960); Lamp Unto My Feet (1962); Light of Day (1987); Lincoln Center / Stage 5 (1967); Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014); My Fair Mother: A Dancer Named Maxine Berke (2024); Nadie escuchaba (1987); New York Television Theatre (1969); Nobody's Fool (1994); Peter Pan (1955 / 1960); Pinocchio (1957); Places in the Heart (1984); Play of the Week (1960); Producers' Showcase (1955–1956); Tactic (1959); The Annual Anglo-American Cultural Gala Awards (2010); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958 / 1961); The Last of the Mohicans (1992); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); Theater Talk (2014); Vibes (1988); You Might Know Her From / Podcast Series (2020).

Born on this day – George Raft:

George Raft

Actor

Singer

Dancer

Producer

September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980

Credits:

A Bullet for Joey (1955); A Dangerous Profession (1949); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Air Force: The Radio Play (1943); All of Me (1934); All This and World War II (1976); American Justice: Target - Mafia (1993); American Masters (2020); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); Arena (2012); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Background to Danger (1943); Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (2003); Batman (1967); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970); Biography (2001); Black Widow (1954); Bogart (1967); Bolero (1934); Breakdowns of 1940 (1940); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); Broadway (1942); Brooklyn Bridge (1981); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets Over Hollywood (2005); Casino Royale (1967); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Celebrity Time (1952); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Compression (2015–2024); Curtains for Roy Earle: The Story of 'High Sierra' (2003); Dancers in the Dark (1932); Deadhead Miles (1972); Della (1969); Divided Highway: The Story of 'They Drive by Night' (2003); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Every Night at Eight (1935); Five Golden Dragons (1967); Follow the Boys (1944); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); George Jessel Show (1958); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Goldie (1931); Hammersmith Is Out (1972); Happy Days (1970); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hippodrome (1966); History's Greatest Mysteries (2023); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (1934); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Park (1946); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hush Money (1931); I Stole a Million (1939); If I Had a Million (1932); I'll Get You (1952); I'm the Law (1953); In This Corner... Boxing's Little Giants (1993); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Intrigue (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); It Had to Happen (1936); I've Got a Secret (1953); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); Johnny Allegro (1949); Johnny Angel (1945); Land of Liberty (1939); Limehouse Blues (1934); Loan Shark (1952); Love Is a Racket (1932); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Madame Racketeer (1932); Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994); Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012); Main Event (1961); Manpower (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Midnight Club (1933); Mobsters (2007); Momo: The Sam Giancana Story (2011); Mr. Ace (1946); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Night After Night (1932); Night World (1932); Nob Hill (1945); Nocturne (1946); Nous irons à Paris (1950); Ocean's Eleven (1960); Outpost in Morocco (1949); Palmy Days (1931); Pick-up (1933); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Queen of the Night Clubs (1929); Quick Millions (1931); Race Street (1948); Red Light (1949); Red Skelton Timex Special (1960); Red Skelton: A Career of Laughter (1992); Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook (1981); Rogue Cop (1954); Rogues Gallery (1997); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: 25th Anniversary Reunion (1993); Rumba (1935); Scarface (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 4 (1938); Screen Snapshots, Series 20, No. 7 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 28, No. 8: Vacation at Del Mar (1949); Sextette (1977); She Couldn't Take It (1935); Side Street (1929); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Skidoo (1968); Some Like It Hot (1959); Souls at Sea (1937); Spawn of the North (1938); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Stage Show (1955–1956); Stolen Harmony (1935); Taxi (1931); The Arthur Murray Party (1959); The Bowery (1933); The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1955); The David Frost Show (1969); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1964); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Generation Game (1974); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1957); The Glass Key (1935); The Great Sex War (1969); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955–1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Ladies Man (1961); The Lady's from Kentucky (1939); The Lee Phillip Show (1963); The Man from Cairo (1953); The Man with Bogart's Face (1980); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1980); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1954); The Movie Game (1970); The Name's the Same (1953–1955); The New London Palladium Show (1965); The Patsy (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1955–1960); The Return of Video Yesterbloop (1986); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1971); The Trumpet Blows (1934); The Upper Hand (1966); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); They Drive by Night (1940); Today (1966–1974); Tribute to Bogart (1972); Two Guys Abroad (1962); Under-Cover Man (1932); Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009); What's My Line? (1953); Whistle Stop (1946); With Orson Welles: Stories of A Life in Film (1990); You and Me (1938); Yours for the Asking (1936).

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).

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).

Born on this day – Yvonne De Carlo:

Yvonne De Carlo

Actress

Dancer

Singer

September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007

Born on this day – Peggy Ryan:

Peggy Ryan

Dancer

Actress

August 28, 1924 – October 30, 2004

Credits:

A Night at the Troc (1939); All Ashore (1953); All Star Revue (1951–1952); Babes on Swing Street (1944); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Bowery to Broadway (1944); Chip Off the Old Block (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Fun on the Run (1949); Get Hep to Love (1942); Girls' Town (1942); Give Out, Sisters (1942); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1976); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Here's Hollywood (1961); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1985); Just Off Broadway (1955); Men in Her Diary (1945); Miss Annie Rooney (1942); Mister Big (1943); On Stage Everybody (1945); Oysters and Muscles (1948); Patrick the Great (1944); Pleasure Palace (1980); Private Buckaroo (1942); Sailor's Lady (1940); Shamrock Hill (1949); She Married a Cop (1939); ShirleyMania (2002); Simon & Simon (1983); Songs for Sale (1952); Stage Show (1954); Star of the Family (1951); That's the Spirit (1945); The Betty White Show (1954); The Eyes Have It (1952); The Flying Irishman (1939); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Merry Monahans (1944); The Mickey Mouse Club (1956); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1952); The Saturday Night Revue (1954); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Spike Jones Show (1954); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Wedding of Jack and Jill (1930); The Women Men Marry (1937); There's a Girl in My Heart (1949); This Is Show Business (1956); This Is the Life (1944); Top Man (1943); Top of the Town (1937); Universal Musical Short 3655: Singin' and Swingin' (1950); Val Parnell's Startime (1956); Varsity Vanities (1940); What's Cookin' (1942); When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942).

Born on this day – Joyzelle Joyner:

Joyzelle Joyner

Actress

Dancer

August 27, 1905 – November 30, 1980

Credits:

A Festival of Bagdad (1929); Beneath the Law (1929); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Blondes by Proxy (1932); Close Harmony (1929); Dance Madness (1926); Dante's Inferno (1935); Girl Without a Room (1933); Glorious Vamps (1930); Go Into Your Dance (1935); I Believed in You (1934); Just Imagine (1930); Lotus Lady (1930); Moran of the Marines (1928); Old Loves and New (1926); One Hysterical Night (1929); Out of the Past (1927); Prince of Diamonds (1930); Resurrection (1927); Search for Beauty (1934); Shadows of the Night (1928); Sombras habaneras (1930); Song of the Caballero (1930); Souvenirs (1928); The Beloved Rogue (1927); The Black Watch (1929); The Devil Dancer (1927); The House of Mystery (1934); The Night Court (1927); The Sea Beast (1926); The Shady Lady (1928); The Sign of the Cross (1932); The Song of Spain (1929); The Sultan's Jester (1930); The Taxi Dancer (1927); The Vanishing Frontier (1932); Turn Back the Hours (1928); Whistlin' Dan (1932); Wild People (1933).

Born on this day – Ruby Keeler:

Ruby Keeler

Actress

Dancer

Singer

August 25, 1909 – February 28, 1993