Jason
Robards
Actor
July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000
Friday, July 26, 2024
Born on this day – Jean Shepherd:
Jean
Shepherd
Writer
Actor
Humorist
Radio and TV personality
July 26, 1921 –
October 16, 1999
Credits:
Books:
A Christmas Story (2003);
A Fistful of Fig Newtons (1981); In God We Trust / aka In God We Trust, All
Others Pay Cash (1966); The America of George Ade (1960); The Ferrari in the
Bedroom (1972); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1978); Wanda Hickey's Night of
Golden Memories (1970).
Albums:
Jean Shepherd – Into the
Unknown With Jazz Music (1955); Jean Shepherd and Other Foibles (1959); Jean
Shepherd Reads Poems of Robert Service (1975); “Live” At The Limelight (1965);
The Declassified Jean Shepherd (1971); Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? (1960).
Movies and television:
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Christmas Story / Voice-over narration (1983); A Christmas Story 2 (2012); A
Christmas Story Christmas (2022); A Christmas Story Live! (2017); A Fine
Madness (1966); A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); America (1971);
American Playhouse (1982–1985); Babe Ruth (1998); Chicago White Sox a Visual
History (1987); Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (1997); Ernie
Kovacs: Television's Original Genius (1982); Flickers (1980); Jean Shepherd on
Route 1... and Other Major Thoroughfares (1984); Late Night with David
Letterman (1982); Lenny Bruce: Without Tears (1972); Light Fantastic (1964); My
Summer Story (1994); NET Playhouse (1970); New Faces (1954); No Whistles,
Bells, or Bedlam (1973); Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (1987); Ollie
Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988); Sesame Street (1976–2000); Shadows (1958); Shepherd's
Pie (1978); Summer Incident (1960); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dennis
Wholey Show (1969); The Driving Scene (1969); The Great American Road Racing
Festival (1985); The Joe Franklin Show (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1969);
The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976 / 1978); The Radio Broadcast Vault (2019);
The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961–1962); Tiki
Tiki (1971); Village Sunday (1960); Visions (1976).
Born on this day – Lorna Gray:
Lorna Gray
Actress
July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017
Credits:
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Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002); Adventure in Sahara (1938); Adventures
of Kitty O'Day (1945); Along the Oregon Trail (1947); Andy Clyde Gets Spring
Chicken (1939); Back to the Woods / Three Sappy People (1939); Beware Spooks!
(1939); Biography (1997); Brimstone (1949); Bullets for Rustlers (1940); Cafe
Hostess (1940); California Firebrand (1948); Captain America (1944); Cinemassacre's
Monster Madness (2009); Coast Guard (1939); Convicted Woman (1940); Dakota
(1945); Daughter of Don Q (1946); Deadwood Dick (1940); Drums of the Desert
(1940); Exposed (1947); F.B.I. 99 (1966); Fashion Model (1945); Father Steps
Out (1941); Federal Operator 99 (1945); Flying G-Men (1939); Good Girls Go to
Paris (1939); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Hideout (1949); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); Home
on the Range (1946); Last Frontier Uprising (1947); Lightnin' in the Forest
(1948); Love's A-Poppin' (1953); Man from Rainbow Valley (1946); Meanwhile,
Back at the Ranch (1976); Missing Daughters (1939); Mooching Through Georgia / Pest
from the West (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Nyoka and the Lost
Secrets of Hippocrates (1966); O, My Darling Clementine (1943); Oh! Susanna
(1951); Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939); Out California Way (1946); Outside
These Walls (1939); Perils of Nyoka (1942); Red River Range (1938); Ridin' Down
the Canyon (1942); Rock Island Trail (1950); Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940); Scandal
Street (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Skinny the
Moocher (1939); Smashing the Spy Ring (1938); So Proudly We Hail! (1943); Spoilers
of the North (1947); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Tell It to a Star (1945); The
Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Awful Goof (1939); The Big Broadcast of 1938
(1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Gallant Legion (1948); The Girl Who Dared
(1944); The Last Bandit (1949); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Man They
Could Not Hang (1939); The Plunderers (1948); The Republic Pictures Story (1991);
The Savage Horde (1950); The Sea Hornet (1951); The Stranger from Texas (1939);
The 3 Stooges / Episode: You Nazty Spy! (1940); Those High Grey Walls (1939); Thrill of
a Lifetime (1937); Tuxedo Junction (1941); Under Colorado Skies (1947); Up in
the Air (1940); Valley of the Zombies (1946); Yellow Fin (1951).
Born on this day – Evelyn Preer:
Evelyn Preer
Actress
Singer
July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932
Credits:
Birthright
(1924); Blonde Venus (1932); Brown Gravy (1929); Deceit (1923); Georgia Rose (1930);
Good Sport (1931); Husband's Holiday (1931); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Oft
in the Silly Night (1929); The Brute (1920); The Conjure Woman (1926); The Devil's
Disciple (1926); The Framing of the Shrew (1929); The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921);
The Homesteader (1919); The Lady Fare (1929); The Melancholy Dame (1929); The
Spider's Web (1927); The Widow's Bite (1929); Within Our Gates (1920).
Born on this day – Gracie Allen:
Gracie Allen
Vaudevillian
Singer
Actress
Comedian
July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964
Credits:
100%
Service (1931); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); 5th Annual TV Academy Hall of
Fame (1989); A Damsel in Distress (1937); American Masters (1997–2017); America's
Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Biography (2002); Bob
Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); Classic Stand-Up
Comedy of Television (1996); Climax! (1956); College Holiday (1936); College
Humor (1933); College Swing (1938); Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest (1995); Fit to
Be Tied (1930); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Here Comes Cookie (1935); Hit
Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood
Couples (2000); Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 (1932); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9
(1933); Honolulu (1939); International House (1933); Jack Benny's 20th
Anniversary TV Special (1970); Lambchops (1929); Larry King Live (2003); Legends
of Comedy (1992); Let's Dance (1933); Love in Bloom (1935); Many Happy Returns
(1934); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mel Blanc: The Man of a
Thousand Voices (2008); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); Murphy Brown (1989); Oh, My
Operation (1931); Olympic Fund Telethon (1952); Once Over, Light (1931); Our
World (1987); Patents Pending (1932); Paul Henning & The Hillbillies (2005);
Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Pioneers of Primetime (1995); Pioneers of
Television (2014); Pulling a Bone (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 33, No. 10:
Hollywood Grows Up (1954); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood
Comedians (1952); Shower of Stars (1955); Six of a Kind (1934); Stars in the
Eye (1952); Startime (1959); Stu's Show (2023); Television (1988); Television:
The First Fifty Years (1999); The 8th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1956); The
Actor's Society Benefit Gala (1949); The Antique Shop (1931); The Babbling Book
(1932); The Big Broadcast (1932); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Big
Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Bob Cummings Show (1957); The Dawn of Sound: How
Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed
Sullivan Show (1957); The Factor (2008); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame
(1993); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958); The Gracie Allen
Murder Case (1939); The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005); The Great Radio
Comedians (1972); The Great Standups (1984); The History of Comedy (2017); The
Hollywood Palace (1982); The Jack Benny Program (1952–1964); The Jackie Gleason
Show (1957); The World Our Stage (1957); This Is Your Life (1955); Two Girls
and a Sailor (1944); Walking the Baby (1933); We're Not Dressing (1934); What's
My Line? (1954); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Your Hat (1932).
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