Jean Stafford
Writer
July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Born on this day – Madge Evans:
Madge Evans
Actress
July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981
Credits:
Adventures
of Carol (1917); Age of Indiscretion (1935); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915); Are
You Listening? (1932); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953); Army Girl (1938); Beauty
for Sale (1933); Beloved Adventuress (1917); Broadway to Hollywood (1933); Brother
Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Calm Yourself (1935); Cameo Theatre (1951); Classmates
(1924); David Copperfield (1935); Day of Reckoning (1933); Death on the Diamond
(1934); Dinner at Eight (1933); Envy (1930); Espionage (1937); Exclusive Story
(1936); Fast Life (1932); From the Valley of the Missing (1915); Fugitive
Lovers (1934); Good Times (1931); Grand Canary (1934); Guilty Hands (1931); Hallelujah
I'm a Bum (1933); Heartbreak (1931); Heidi (1920); Hell Below (1933); Helldorado
(1934); Heredity (1918); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Hollywood: The Selznick
Years (1969); Home Wanted (1919); Huddle (1932); Husband and Wife (1916); Justice
(1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1950); Lovers
Courageous (1932); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Made on Broadway (1933); Many
Happy Returns (1930); Masquerade Party (1952); Maternity (1917); Matinee
Theatre (1955); Medallion Theatre (1953); Men Without Names (1935); Moonlight
Murder (1936); Mrs. Thanksgiving (1952); Neighbor Nelly (1921); Neighbors (1918);
On the Banks of the Wabash (1923); Paris Interlude (1934); Pennies from Heaven
(1936); Piccadilly Jim (1936); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Screen
Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 (1936); Seventeen (1916); Shore Acres (1914); Sinners
in Paradise (1938); Son of India (1931); Sporting Blood (1931); Stand Up and
Cheer! (1934); Stolen Orders (1918); Studio One (1954); Sudden Riches (1916); The
Alcoa Hour (1956); The Bard of Broadway (1930); The Burglar (1917); The Corner
Grocer (1917); The Devil's Toy (1916); The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The Gates of Gladness (1918); The Gob (1930); The
Golden Wall (1918); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Hidden Scar
(1916); The Investigator (1958); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1951); The Little
Church Around the Corner (1915); The Little Duchess (1917); The Little Match
Girl (1921); The Little Patriot (1917); The Love Defender (1919); The Love Net
(1918); The Man Who Found Himself (1915); The Master Hand (1915); The Mayor of
Hell (1933); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); The New South (1916); The
Nuisance (1933); The Power and the Glory (1918); The Revolt (1916); The Seven
Sisters (1915); The Show-Off (1934); The Sign of the Cross (1914); The
Thirteenth Chair (1937); The Volunteer (1917); The Web of Desire (1917); Three
Green Eyes (1919); Transatlantic Tunnel (1935); True Blue (1918); Vengeance
(1918); Wanted: A Mother (1918); We, the People (1949); West of Broadway (1931);
What Every Woman Knows (1934); Woman and Wife (1918); Your Show of Shows (1951);
Zaza (1915).
Born on this day – James M. Cain:
James M. Cain
Writer
July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977
Credits:
The Postman Always Rings
Twice (1934); Double Indemnity (1936); Serenade (1937); The Embezzler (1940); Mildred
Pierce (1941); Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942); Career in C Major: And Other
Fiction (1943); Past All Dishonor (1946); The Butterfly (1947); Sinful Woman (1947);
The Moth (1948); Everybody Does It (1949); Jealous Woman (1950); The Root of
His Evil (1951); Galatea (1953); Mignon (1962); The Magician's Wife (1965); Rainbow's
End (1975); The Institute (1976); Cloud Nine (1984); The Enchanted Isle (1985);
Sixty Years of Journalism (1985); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The
Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002);
Murder On The Railways (2003); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); The Cocktail Waitress
(2012); Books to Die For (2012); A Bad Woman (2015); The Movie Book (2016).
Movies and television:
Algiers
(1938); Blockade (1938); Buai laju-laju (2004); Butterfly (1981); Cineficción
Radio (2021); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Everybody Does It (1949); Girl in
the Cadillac (1995); Gypsy Wildcat (1944); Interlude (1957 / 1968); ITV Play of
the Week (1960); Konto ausgeglichen (1959); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Lux
Video Theatre (1954–1956); Mildred Pierce (1945 / 2011); Money and the Woman
(1940); Obsession (1943); Out of the Past (1947); Passion (1998); Puissance de
la parole (1988); Serenade (1956); She Made Her Bed (1934); Slightly Scarlet
(1956); Stand Up and Fight (1939); Teledrama (1957); The Last Turning (1939); The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 / 1981); The Postman Always Rings Twice: The
Radio Play (1947); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Today
(1969); When Tomorrow Comes (1939); Wife, Husband and Friend (1939); Yu hai
qing mo (1967).
Born on this day – Susan Glaspell:
Susan Glaspell
Writer
Actress
July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948
Credits:
Books:
A Jury of Her Peers /
short story (1917); Ambrose Holt and Family (1931); Brook Evans (1928); Fidelity
(1915); Fugitive's Return (1929); Her America: A Jury of Her Peers and Other
Stories (2010); Judd Rankin's Daughter (1945); Lifted Masks / short story (1912);
Norma Ashe (1942); The Glory of the Conquered (1909); The Morning Is Near Us
(1939); The Rules of the Institution and Other Stories (2018); The Visioning
(1911).
Plays:
Alison's House (1930); Bernice
(1919); Chains of Dew (1922); Close the Book (1917); Free Laughter (1919); Inheritors
(1921); Springs Eternal (1943); Suppressed Desires (1914); The Comic Artist
(1927); The Outside (1917); The People (1917); The Verge (1921); Tickless Time
(1918); Trifles (1916); Woman's Honor (1918).
Movies and television:
A
Jury of Her Peers (1980); Actor's Studio (1950); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961);
Fireside Theatre (1951); Jury of Her Peers (2025); Kraft Theatre (1948); Matinee
Theatre (1956); Motivet (1955); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Omnibus / Segment:
A Jury of Her Peers (1953); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951–1952); Star Tonight
(1955); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); The Right to Love (1930); Three
Dramas (2020); Trifles (1930 / 2009).
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