Born on this day – Irene Winston:

Irene Winston

Actress

July 18, 1916 – September 1, 1964

Credits:

Bury Me Dead (1947); Carrie (1952); Chevron Theatre (1952); Cheyenne (1961); Dear Brat (1951); Dr. Kildare (1963–1964); Gang Busters (1952); Gone to Earth (1950); Maverick (1961–1962); My Son John (1952); Passport to Danger (1956); Rear Window (1954); Rheingold Theatre (1956); The Bigelow Theatre (1950); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Silver Theatre (1950); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Valentine's Day (1964).

Born on this day – Phyllis Brooks:

Phyllis Brooks

Actress

July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995

Credits:

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Another Face (1935); Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); City Girl (1938); Dangerous Passage (1944); Dangerously Yours (1937); Follow the Fleet (1936); Foolish Hearts (1935); Hi Ya, Sailor (1943); High Powered (1945); In Old Chicago (1938); I've Been Around (1935); Lady in the Dark (1944); Lady Tubbs (1935); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Lucky to Me (1939); McFadden's Flats (1935); No Place for a Lady (1943); One Exciting Adventure (1934); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4 (1938); Silver Spurs (1943); Slightly Honorable (1939); Straight Place and Show (1938); Strange Wives (1934); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); Suspense (1952); The Flying Squad (1940); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); The Unseen (1945); To Beat the Band (1935); Up the River (1938); Walking Down Broadway (1938); Wilson (1944); You Can't Have Everything (1937).

Born on this day – Harriet Nelson:

Harriet Nelson

Actress

July 18, 1909 – October 2, 1994

Credits:

A Christmas for Boomer (1979); ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978); Aloha Paradise (1981); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Biography (1998); Bridget Loves Bernie (1973); Canal Zone (1942); Cocoanut Grove (1938); Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941); Death Car on the Freeway (1979); Dinah! (1976–1977); Disneyland '59 (1959); Fantasy Island (1978); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987); Follow the Fleet (1936); Follow the Fleet: The Origins of Those Dancing Feet (2005); Gals, Incorporated (1943); Glitter (1985); Happy Days (1982); Harem Scarem (1932); Here Come the Nelsons (1952); Hi, Buddy (1943); Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944); High School U.S.A. (1984); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Honeymoon Lodge (1943); It's Your Bet (1970); Juke Box Jenny (1942); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Unmarriage; Love and the Only Child; Love and Take Me Along (1969–1973); Musical Justice (1931); My Music: Starlight Ballroom (2015); NBC Special Treat (1977); New Faces of 1937 (1937); Night Gallery / Segment: You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan (1972); Once an Eagle (1976); Our World (1987); Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (1943); Ozzie's Girls (1973); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Pioneers of Television (2014); Rick Nelson: A Brother Remembers (1987); Ricky Nelson & Fats Domino: Live at the Universal Amphitheatre (1985); Ricky Nelson Sings (2005); Rockin' Ricky (2023); Screen Snapshots Series 34, No. 6: Hollywood Shower of Stars (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood on a Sunday Afternoon (1952); Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976); Stu's Show (2021); Super Duper Bloopers and Silly Shorts (1986); Sweetheart of the Campus (1941); Swingtime Johnny (1943); Take It Big (1944); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1953–1962); The Andy Williams Show (1971); The Barbara McNair Show (1969); The Campus Mystery (1932); The David Frost Show (1969); The Falcon Strikes Back (1943); The First Time (1982); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1973); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kid with the 200 I.Q. (1983); The Life of the Party (1937); The Love Boat (1977); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1973); The Red Skelton Hour (1967 / 1968); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1973); This Is Your Life (1953); Time Out for Dad (1987); Uncle Tom (2020); What's My Line? (1956 / 1973).

Born on this day – Lupe Vélez:

Lupe Vélez

Actress

Singer

Dancer

July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944

Credits:

Arena (1991); Death Scenes (1989); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); East Is West (1930); Ernesto Alonso: Estrella de estrellas (2007); Fashion News (1930); Gypsy Melody (1936); He Loved an Actress (1938); Hell Harbor (1930); High Flyers (1937); Hollywood on Parade (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933); Hollywood Party (1934); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Snapshots #11 (1929); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hombres de mi vida (1932); Honolulu Lu (1941); Hot Pepper (1933); Kongo (1932); La zandunga (1938); Ladies' Day (1943); Lady of the Pavements (1929); Laughing Boy (1934); Los que hicieron nuestro cine (1983–1985); Mexican Spitfire (1939); Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942); Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940); Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942); Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943); Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942); Mr. Broadway (1933); Naná (1944); Oriente es Occidente (1930); Palooka (1934); Perdida (2009); Playmates (1941); Recordar es vivir (1941); Redhead from Manhattan (1943); Resurrección / Resurrection (1931); Sailors, Beware! (1927); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934); Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (1941); Stand and Deliver (1928); Strictly Dynamite (1934); That's Entertainment! III (1994); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Broken Wing (1932); The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2001); The Casting Couch (1995); The Cuban Love Song (1931); The Gaucho (1927); The Girl from Mexico (1939); The Half-Naked Truth (1932); The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941); The Morals of Marcus (1935); The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan (2004); The Squaw Man (1931); The Storm (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 / Second Series (1932); The Voice of Hollywood, Series 1, No. 2 (1930); Tiger Rose (1929); What Women Did for Me (1927); When the Applause Died / Death in Hollywood (1990); Where East Is East (1929); Wolf Song (1929).

Born on this day – William Makepeace Thackeray:

William Makepeace Thackeray

Writer

Illustrator

July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863

Credits:

Books:

A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing (2013); A Little Dinner at Timmin's (2001); A Shabby Genteel Story (1985); Ballads (1855); Burlesques (1856); Catherine (1840); Christmas Books (1868); Contributions to the Morning Chronicle (1955); Cox's Diary (2004); Denis Duval (1864); Doctor Birch and His Young Friends (2004); Early and Late Papers (2019); Eastern Sketches (1846); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Essays on Goldsmith by Scott, Macaulay, and Thackeray, and Selections From his Writings (2016); George Cruikshank (1840); Jeames's Diary (2016); Legend of the Rhine (1845); Letters to an American Family (2003); Little Travels and Roadside Sketches (1879); London Stories (2013); Loose Sketches (2007); Lovel the Widower (2018); Men's Wives (1852); Miscellanies (2015); Mr. Brown's Letters to a Young Man about Town (2002); Mrs. Perkins's Ball (2004); Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846); Novels By Eminent Hands (2004); Our Street (1848); Reading a Poem (2015); Rebecca and Rowena (1850); Roundabout Papers (1863); Selected Letters Of William Makepeace Thackeray (1996); Sketches and Travels in London (2018); Some Roundabout Papers (1863); Stories of Comedy (2017); Sulton Stork (1887); Thackerayana (1970); The Adventures of Philip (1862); The Awful History of Bluebeard (2019); The Bedford-Row Conspiracy (1856); The Book of Snobs (1848); The Bridgerthonian Novels (2022); The English Humorists Of The Eighteenth Century (2019); The English Humourists (1861); The Fatal Boots (2001); The Fitz-Boodle Papers (1842); The Four Georges (2019); The Great Hoggarty Diamond (1848); The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance (2023); The Heroic Adventures of M. Boudin (1984); The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (1852); The History of Pendennis (1848); The History of Samuel Titmarsh (2017); The Hitherto Unpublished Contributions of W.M. Thackeray to Punch (1971); The Irish Sketch-Book (1843); The Letters And Private Papers Of William Makepeace Thackeray (1980); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844); The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush (1837); The Newcomes (1855); The Notch On The Ax (2004); The Paris Sketch Book (1840); The Rose and the Ring (1855); The Second Funeral of Napoleon (1841); The Story of Mary Ancel (1840); The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan (1855); The Virginians (1859); Vanity Fair (1847).

Movies and television:

Aus dem Bücherschrank geholt (1962); Barry Lyndon (1975); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950); Becky Sharp (1935); CBS Television Workshop (1952); De broodwinning van Frederic Altamont (1962); George Warrington's Escape (1911); Hora once (1971); Jackanory (1975); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); La feria de las vanidades (1975); La fiera della vanità (1967); Novela (1963); One Woman's Story (1953); Pendennis (1916); Pierscien i róza (1987); Poetry fugacious (2019); Ruze a prsten (1971); Secrets from the Asylum (2014); Television Theater (1956); Tense Moments with Great Authors / Segment: Vanity Fair (1922); The Rose and the Ring (1953 / 1979); Vanity Fair (1911 / 1915 / 1922 / 1923 / 1932 / 1961 / 1967 / 1976 / 1987 / 1998 / 2004 / 2018); Vanity Fair / TV Series (1956–1957); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Lucy Maud Montgomery, on writing:

You have the itch for writing born in you.

It's quite incurable.

What are you going to do with it?

- Lucy Maud Montgomery.

On this day in movie history - The Age of Stupid (2009):

The Age of Stupid,

a drama / documentary directed and written by Franny Armstrong,

was released in the United States on July 17, 2009.

Narrated by Pete Postlethwaite.

Music by Chris Brierley.

Cast:
Pete Postlethwaite, Jehangir Wadia, Layefa Malin, Al Duvernay, Fernand Pareau, Jamila Bayyoud, Adnan Bayyoud, Piers Guy, Mark Lynas, Mohamed Nasheed, David King, George Monbiot, Richard Heinberg, Ed Miliband, Lisa Guy, Babou Ceesay, Toyah Frantzen.