Born on this day – Mary Stuart:

Mary Stuart

Actress

Guitarist

Singer

Songwriter

July 4, 1926 – February 28, 2002

Credits:

Album:

Joanne Sings (1956), with Stuart and Percy Faith, music inspired by the TV show Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986).

Movies and television:

50 Years of Soaps: An All-Star Celebration (1994); 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); After Hours: From Janice, John, Mary and Michael, with Love (1976); April Showers (1948); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); California Casanova (1991); Colt .45 (1950); Dark Delusion (1947); Dinah! (1975); Donahue (1985); Embraceable You (1948); Face of a Stranger (1991); Father Makes Good (1950); Good News (1947); Guiding Light (1996–2002); Help Wanted (1983); Henry, the Rainmaker (1949); Here We Go Again (1942); Highways by Night (1942); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Hour Magazine (1981–1987); June Bride (1948); Ladies' Day (1943); Leave It to Henry (1949); Lights Out (1950); Living in a Big Way (1947); Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942); Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942); Mr. Lucky (1943); Musical Chairs (1975); NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus / Segment: The Bad Men (1952); One Life to Live (1968–2013); Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986); Seven Days' Leave (1942); Song of the Islands (1942); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Stars Over Hollywood (1950); The 12th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1985); The 1st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1974); The 28th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2001); The 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2003); The Big Punch (1948); The Big Street (1942); The Bob Braun Show (1976–1982); The Canterbury Tales (1972); The Cariboo Trail (1950); The David Frost Show (1972); The David Letterman Show (1980); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Falcon Strikes Back (1943); The Girl from Jones Beach (1949); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime);  (1978); The Hucksters (1947); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1979); The Regis Philbin Show (1982); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The Web (1950); This Land Is Mine (1943); This Time for Keeps (1947); Thunderhoof (1948); Today (1980); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1976); Triple Threat (1948); Week-End in Havana (1941); When Angels Fly (1983).

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 – Viviane Romance:

Viviane Romance

Actress

July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991

Born on this day – Gloria Stuart:

Gloria Stuart

Actress

Artist

July 4, 1910 – September 26, 2010

Born on this day – Gertrude Lawrence:

Gertrude Lawrence

Actress

Singer

Dancer

July 4, 1898 – September 6, 1952

Born on this day – Nathaniel Hawthorne:

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writer

July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864

Credits:

Books, short stories and anthologies:

100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851); Alaska Stories (1995); American Midnight (2019); Biographical Stories (1842); Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad (2008); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Chiefly About War Matters (2019); Circe's Palace (2018); Damned Yankees (2017); David Swan (2014); Doctor Grimshawe's Secret; A Romance (1882); Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (1837); Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories (1837); Earth's Holocaust (1844); Endicott and the Red Cross (1837); Fanshawe (1828); Florida Stories (1993); From the Snow Image (1864); Grandfather's Chair (2016); Great Stone Face (1970); Greek Myths (1851); Haunting Tales (1980); Hawthorne's American Travel Sketches (1990); Hawthorne's First Diary (2018); Hawthorne's Lost Notebook (1978); Hawthorne's Short Stories (1955); In Colonial Days (2010); Legends of the Province House (2017); Legends of the Province House and Other Twice-Told Tales (2009); Letters of Hawthorne to William D. Ticknor, 1851-1864 (1972); Life of Franklin Pierce (1852); Little Daffydowndilly and Other Stories (2018); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Love Letters Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839 1863 (1972); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Main-Street (2005); Mosses from an Old Manse (1846); My Kinsman Major Molineux (1831); Myths That Every Child Should Know (2011); New Orleans Stories (1992); On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question (1992); Our Old Home (1863); Passages from the English notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873); Puritan Passions (2011); Rappaccini's Daughter (1844); Rappaccini's Daughter, And Other Tales (1991); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1966); Selected Stories (1982); Selected Tales and Sketches (1959); Selected Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (2002); Septimius Felton (1978); Septimius Felton, or, The Elixir of Life (2019); Sights from a Steeple (2005); Simply Witchcraft's Best Short Stories Volume I (2013); Snowflakes (2005); Southwest Stories (1993); Sunday at Home (2009); Tales of the Occult (1989); Tales of the White Mountains (1846); Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers (2018); Tanglewood Tales (1851); Texas Stories (1995); The Ambitious Guest and Lady Eleanore's Mantle (1980); The American Notebooks (1932); The Ancestral Footstep (1882); The Antique Ring (2015); The Birthmark & Five Other Tales (2013); The Birthmark (1843); The Blithedale Romance (1851); The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (1864); The Christmas Banquet (2005); The Complete Greek Stories (1963); The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1937); The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1959); The Devil in Manuscript (1835); The Dolliver Romance (1883); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The French and Italian Note-Books (2013); The Gentle Boy (2018); The Golden Touch (1851); The Gray Champion (2014); The Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1977); The House of the Seven Gables (1851); The House of the Seven Gables and Other Tales (2009); The Light and the Lure (2016); The Magic Pitcher (2005); The Marble Faun (1860); The Minister's Black Veil (1836); The New Adam and Eve (1846); The Old Apple-Dealer (2005); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Paradise of Children (1967); The Pomegranate Seeds (2015); The Scarlet Letter (1850); The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (1978); The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales (1970); The Shaker Bridal (2014); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Snow Image: and Other Twice-Told Tales (2019); The Three Golden Apples (1993); The Wayside (2014); The Wedding-Knell (2013); The Weird Fiction Collection #1 (2018); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Thrillers (1994); True Stories from History and Biography (2019); True Stories from New England History, 1620-1803 (2016); Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa (1851); Twice-Told Tales (1837); Twice-Told Tales and Other Short Stories (1964); Witchcraft Classics (2023); Young Goodman Brown (1835).

Movies and television:

Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1996); Amonina pomsta (1991); Brandon Flowers: Can't Deny My Love (2015); Camera Three (1961); Die Verwandlung (1920); Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (1969); El viaje a Mannheim (1976); Feathertop (1912 / 1916 / 1961); Ficciones (1972–1973); Footlights Theater (1953); General Electric Theater (1955); Goodman (2017); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Hora once (1970); House of the Seven Gables (2022); Il Fauno di marmo (1920 / 1977); Intolerance, or Best Places in the World Are Places Where Human Left No Traces (2014); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); La lettre écarlate (1977); La nuit de Tom Brown (1959); Las grandes novellas (1972); Lettre à Carla (1967); Lights Out (1950–1951); Loons (1991); Matinee Theatre (1956); athaniel Hawthorne's Catastrophe (2014); Novela (1972–1978); O epistimonas (1992); Party (1994); Puritan Passions (1923); Rappaccini (1966); Rappaccini's Daughter (1980 / 2013); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2022); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960); Studio One (1950); Swain (1950); Television Theater (1997–1998); Tense Moments from Great Plays (1922); The Birthmark (1987); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2022); The House of the Seven Gables (1910 / 1940 / 1967 / 2018); The New Adam and Eve (1915); The Scarecrow (1972 / 2000); The Scarlet Letter (1908 / 1910 / 1911 / 1913 / 1917 / 1922 / 1926 / 1934 / 1973 / 1979 / 1995); The Transgressor (1913); Twice-Told Tales (1963); Wakefield (2016); Young Goodman Brown (1972 / 1993); Your Favorite Story (1953–1954).

Julia Alvarez, on writing and reading:

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

– Julia Alvarez.