Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Born on this day – Lewis Gilbert:


Lewis Gilbert

Director

Producer

Writer

March 6, 1920 – February 23, 2018

Born on this day – Rochelle Hudson:


Rochelle Hudson

Actress

March 6, 1916 – January 17, 1972

Credits:

Gallery of Horror (1967); Branded (1965); The Night Walker (1964); Strait-Jacket (1964); 77 Sunset Strip (1961); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Shower of Stars (1954); That's My Boy (1954); I'm the Law (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); The Unexpected (1952); Racket Squad (1951); Roots in the Soil (1949); Sky Liner (1949); Devil's Cargo (1948); Bush Pilot (1947); Queen of Broadway (1942); Rubber Racketeers (1942); The Officer and the Lady (1941); The Stork Pays Off (1941); Meet Boston Blackie (1941); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Girls Under 21 (1940); Babies for Sale (1940); Men Without Souls (1940); Island of Doomed Men (1940); Convicted Woman (1940); A Woman Is the Judge (1939); Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939); Smuggled Cargo (1939); Missing Daughters (1939); Pirates of the Skies (1939); Pride of the Navy (1939); Storm Over Bengal (1938); Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938); Rascals (1938); She Had to Eat (1937); Born Reckless (1937); That I May Live (1937); Woman-Wise (1937); Circus Daze (1937); Reunion (1936); Poppy (1936); The Country Beyond (1936); Everybody's Old Man (1936); The Music Goes 'Round (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); Show Them No Mercy! (1935); Way Down East (1935); Curly Top (1935); Les Misérables (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); I've Been Around (1935); The Mighty Barnum (1934); Bosko's Parlor Pranks (1934); Imitation of Life (1934); Judge Priest (1934); Bachelor Bait (1934); Such Women Are Dangerous (1934); Harold Teen (1934); Mr. Skitch (1933); Walls of Gold (1933); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Doctor Bull (1933); Bosko's Picture Show (1933); Bosko the Musketeer (1933); Notorious But Nice (1933); Beau Bosko (1933); Bosko the Sheep-Herder (1933); Bosko's Knight-Mare (1933); Bosko the Speed King (1933); Love Is Dangerous (1933); Scarlet River (1933); Bosko in Person (1933); Lucky Devils (1933); She Done Him Wrong (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Bosko in Dutch (1933); Screen Snapshots (1932); Penguin Pool Murder (1932); The Savage Girl (1932); Secrets of the French Police (1932); Bosko the Drawback (1932); Hell's Highway (1932); Ride Him, Bosko! (1932); Bosko the Lumberjack (1932); Bosko's Store (1932); Bosko at the Beach (1932); Beyond the Rockies (1932); Bosko's Dog Race (1932); Is My Face Red? (1932); Bosko's Party (1932); Girl Crazy (1932); Battling Bosko (1932); Bosko at the Zoo (1932); Bosko's Soda Fountain (1931); Are These Our Children (1931); Fanny Foley Herself (1931); Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! (1931); Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (1931); The Public Defender (1931); Everything's Rosie (1931); Yodeling Yokels (1931); Laugh and Get Rich (1931); Hold Anything (1930); Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930).

Born on this day – Lou Costello:


Lou Costello

Actor

Comedian

Producer

March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959

Credits:

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959); Wagon Train (1958); General Electric Theater (1958); Dance with Me, Henry (1956); Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955); Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955); Fireman Save My Child (1954); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1954); Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); I'm the Law (1953); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Lost in Alaska (1952); Jack and the Beanstalk (1952); Comin' Round the Mountain (1951); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950); Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Africa Screams (1949); Mexican Hayride (1948); 10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); The Noose Hangs High (1948); The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); The Time of Their Lives (1946); Little Giant (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); The Naughty Nineties (1945); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); Lost in a Harem (1944); In Society (1944); Hit the Ice (1943); It Ain't Hay (1943); Who Done It? (1942); Pardon My Sarong (1942); Rio Rita (1942); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Keep 'Em Flying (1941); Hold That Ghost (1941); In the Navy (1941); Buck Privates (1941); One Night in the Tropics (1940); The Cossacks (1928); Circus Rookies (1928); Rose-Marie (1928); The Battle of the Century (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Taxi Dancer (1927); Monte Cristo (1922).

Born on this day – Furry Lewis:


Furry Lewis

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

March 6, 1895 – September 14, 1981

Born on this day – Lidia Quaranta:


Lidia Quaranta

Actress

March 6, 1891 – March 5, 1928

Credits:

A drama among the beasts (1915); A Living Tomb (1912); A woman passed by (1922); Among roars of beasts (1913); An athlete's novel (1915); Auspicious Venus (1919); Baron Lagarde (1910); Buridano's donkey (1917); Cabiria (1914); Cheerful husbands (1914); Clio and Phyletes (1911); Diamonds and documents (1915); Fatal resemblance (1916); Flame in the flames (1917); Flame! (1920); Goodbye youth! (1913); I segreti dell'anima (1912); I want to cheat on my husband (1925); In the hands of destiny (1916); In the vortex of sin (1916); Iwna, the pearl of the Ganges (1914); Like a sister (1912); Margot (1914); Maria Bricca (1910); Mockery of Satan (1915); Mother's pity (1911); On the field of honor (1915); Pauline (1915); Pleasure train (1924); Severed from the World (1911); The avenging tiger (1918); The best revenge (1912); The Dagger Dance (1919); The dance of the veil (1918); The dangers of disguises (1914); The Dread of Doom (1913); The factory of the unexpected (1920); The Knights of Death (1910); The left jewel (1917); The Lost Daughter (1912); The Mad Mask (1915); The Man-Parrot (1917); The memories of the devil (1915); The Mysteries of Souls (1912); The Palace of Flames (1912); The Prince Adventurer (1916); The Race to Death (1917); The Romance of Death (1916); The smiles of a sunset (1913); The Solemn Hour (1912); The sweetest crown (1917); The Three Sentimentals (1921); The torn veil (1917); The treasure chest of millions (1914); The two orphans of Turin (1917); The unknown (1910); The Vampire (1914); The Vortex of Fate (1913); Tigris (1913); To like you more (1923); Treasure of the Louzate (1914); Unmasked (1913); When the hero returned (1918).

Marianne Wiggins, on writing:


Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence.
I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

- Marianne Wiggins.