Thursday, July 3, 2025

Born on this day – Rae Allen:


Rae Allen

Actress

July 3, 1926 – April 6, 2022

Born on this day – Margarita Alexandre:


Margarita Alexandre

Actress

Director

Producer

July 3, 1923 – December 23, 2015

Born on this day – Susan Peters:


Susan Peters

Actress

July 3, 1921 – October 23, 1952

Born on this day – Louise Allbritton:


Louise Allbritton


Actress

July 3, 1920 – February 16, 1979

Credits:

Radio:

Men in White (1943); Phantom Lady (1944).

Movies and television:

100 Years of Horror (1996); Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); An Innocent Affair (1948); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Armchair Theatre (1959); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1952); Bowery to Broadway (1944); Coming Soon (1982); Concerning Miss Marlowe (1954–1955); Crazy House (1943); Danger in the Pacific (1942); Dracula in the Movies (1992); Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991); Felicia (1964); Fired Wife (1943); Follow the Boys (1944); Good Morning, Judge (1943); Her Primitive Man (1944); It Comes Up Love (1943); ITV Play of the Week (1958); I've Got a Secret (1952); Keeping Fit (1942); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Men in Her Diary (1945); Monsters & Maniacs (1988); Naked City (1961); NBC Presents (1949); Not a Ladies' Man (1942); Parachute Nurse (1942); Person to Person (1955); Pittsburgh (1942); Reginald LeBorg - Man nannte mich den Alleskönner (1987); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); San Diego I Love You (1944); Sitting Pretty (1948); Son of Dracula (1943); Studio One (1950–1952); Tangier (1946); That Night with You (1945); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949); The Egg and I (1947); The Invisible Man (1959); The Many Faces of Dracula (2000); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); The Silver Theatre (1949); The Stage Door (1950); The Way of the World (1955); The Web (1954); Theatre Night (1958); This Is the Life (1944); Walk a Crooked Mile (1948); Who Done It? (1942).

Born on this day – Doris Lloyd:


Doris Lloyd


Actress

July 3, 1891 – May 21, 1968

Credits:

A Farewell to Arms (1932); A Feather in Her Hat (1935); A Man Called Peter (1955); A Princess of Destiny (1929); A Shot in the Dark (1935); A Study in Scarlet (1933); A Woman Rebels (1936); Adam’s Rib (1949); Alcatraz Island (1937); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1962); Alice in Wonderland (1951); Alice in Wonderland: A Lesson in Appreciating Differences (1978); Allotment Wives (1945); Appointment for Love (1941); Arrest and Trial (1963); Back Street (1932); Barricade (1939); Becky Sharp (1935); Black Paradise (1926); Bought! (1931); Brilliant Marriage (1936); British Agent (1934); Brown of Harvard (1926); Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937); Cavalcade of America (1953); Challenge to Lassie (1949); Charley’s Aunt (1930); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Clive of India (1935); Come to My House (1927); Coronado 9 (1960); Dangerous Corner (1934); Devotion (1931 / 1946); Disney Sing-Along Songs: Collection of All-Time Favorites - The Magic Years (1997); Disraeli (1929); Don’t Get Personal (1936); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Dynamite, the Story of Alfred Nobel (1954); Escape Me Never (1947); Exit Smiling (1926); First Love (1939); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); Follow the Boys (1944); Follow the Fleet (1936); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Forever and a Day (1943); Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943); Frenchman’s Creek (1944); G.I. War Brides (1946); Glamour (1934); Holiday in Mexico (1946); I’m from Missouri (1939); In Search of... (1978); Intermezzo (1939); International Squadron (1941); Interrupted Melody (1955); Is Zat So? (1927); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Journey for Margaret (1942); Keep ‘Em Flying (1941); Kind Lady (1935); Kind Lady (1951); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); Kitty (1945); Lady with Red Hair (1940); Letter of Introduction (1938); Life with Henry (1940); Lonesome Ladies (1927); Long Lost Father (1934); Looking Forward (1933); Lord Jeff (1938); Love’s Influence (1922); Lux Video Theatre (1955–1956); Madame Du Barry (1934); Mary of Scotland (1936); Mary Poppins (1964); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Maverick (1962); MGM Parade (1956); Midnight Lace (1960); Molly and Me (1945); Motive for Revenge (1935); Murder Is News (1937); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); My Name Is Julia Ross (1945); Night Monster (1942); No Place for a Lady (1943); Of Human Bondage (1946); Old English (1930); Oliver Twist (1933); On the Sunny Side (1942); Once a Lady (1931); One Exciting Adventure (1934); One Step Beyond (1960); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Payment Deferred (1932); Peg o’ My Heart (1933); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Phantom Lady (1944); Playhouse 90 (1958); Port of Seven Seas (1938); Portrait by Whistler (1954); Reno (1930); Rich But Honest (1927); Robbers’ Roost (1932); Rosie! (1967); Sarah and Son (1930); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Scotland Yard (1941); Scotland Yard Investigator (1945); Secrets (1933); She Was a Lady (1934); Shining Victory (1941); Sister Kenny (1946); Sisters Under the Skin (1934); Straight from the Heart (1935); Strange Wives (1934); Studio 57 (1957); Suspicion (1958); Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946); Tarzan the Ape Man (1932); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Auctioneer (1927); The Bachelor Father (1931); The Baroness and the Butler (1938); The Best of the Post (1961); The Betty Hutton Show (1959); The Bigelow Theatre (1950); The Black Doll (1938); The Black Shield of Falworth (1954); The Blackbird (1926); The Boys from Syracuse (1940); The Broncho Twister (1927); The Careless Age (1929); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Conspirators (1944); The Constant Nymph (1943); The Drake Case (1929); The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942); The Great Lie (1941); The Great Plane Robbery (1940); The House of Fear (1945); The Imperfect Lady (1946); The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944); The King Without a Crown (1937); The Lady (1925); The Letter (1940); The Lodger (1944); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Man from Red Gulch (1925); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Midnight Kiss (1926); The Notorious Landlady (1962); The Old Maid (1939); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Perfect Gentleman (1935); The Plough and the Stars (1936); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Red Danube (1949); The Rogues (1965); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Shadow Between (1920); The Sign of the Ram (1948); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951); The Sound of Music (1965); The Spellbinder (1939); The Swan (1956); The Time Machine (1960); The Trail of ‘98 (1928); The Under-Pup (1939); The Washington Masquerade (1932); The White Cliffs of Dover (1944); The Wolf Man (1941); The Woman in Red (1935); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); This Above All (1942); Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939); Three Strangers (1946); Thriller (1961–1962); ‘Til We Meet Again (1940); To Each His Own (1946); Too Many Parents (1936); Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938); Transgression (1931); TV Reader’s Digest (1955); Two for Tonight (1935); Two Girls Wanted (1927); Two Tickets to London (1943); Tyrant of the Sea (1950); Vigil in the Night (1940); Voltaire (1933); Waterfront (1955); Waterloo Bridge (1931); Way for a Sailor (1930); We Are Not Alone (1939); What a Woman! (1943); Wide Country (1963); Young Bess (1953).

Born on this day – Charlotte Perkins Gilman:


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Writer

July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories (2004); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Chamber of Horrors (1965); A Journey from Within (1995); American Christmas Stories (2021); American Fantastic Tales (2009); American Gothic Tales (1996); American Midnight (2019); Benigna Machiavelli (1914); Best Horror Short Stories 1850-1899 (2016); Black Water 2 (1990); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Concerning Children (1900); Dark (2000); Deadlier (2017); Evil Roots (2019); Growth and Combat (1916); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2010); Haunted Houses (1983); Haunting Women (1988); Herland (1915); Herland and Selected Stories (1992); His Religion and Hers (1923); Human Work (1904); Humanness (1913); If I Were a Man (1914); In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe (2015); In This Our World (1893); Man-made World (1911); Medusa's Daughters (2020); Moon Stricken (2017); Moving the Mountain (1911); Novels, Stories & Poems (2022); Open at Your Own Risk (1975); Our Brains and What Ails Them (1912); Selected Short Stories from the 19th Century (2000); Social Ethics (1914); Spores of Doom (2025); Suffrage Songs and Verses (1911); Tales from Beyond the Stars (2024); Tales of the Dark (1987); The 9th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1975); The American Fantasy Tradition (2002); The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader (1980); The Crux (1910); The Dark Descent (1997); The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1994); The Dress of Women (1915); The Home, Its Work and Influence (1903); The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935); The Medusa in the Shield (1990); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women (1977); The Treasury of the Fantastic (2000); The Yellow Wallpaper (1892); The Yellow Wallpaper / Herland (2021); The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings (2020); The Yellow Wall-paper, Herland, and Selected Writings (2009); The Yellow Wallpaper: and Other Writings (1980); The Yellow Wallpaper: And Selected Stories (2024); Unpunished (1997); Weird Women (2020); What Diantha Did (1910); When I Was a Witch & Other Stories (2023); White Fire (1991); Witches' Brew (1984); With Her in Ourland (1916); Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1979); Women and Economics (1898).

Movies and television:

Confinement (2009); Dead Meat Podcast (2023); HERESY! (2021); Mad/woman (2022); New Chilling Tales: The Anthology (2019); Paper Walls (1992); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2023); The Haunted Woman (2019); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast the Yellow Wallpaper (2023); The Paper Wall (2023); The Yellow Wallpaper (1977 / 1989 / 2012 / 2013 / 2015 / 2017 / 2021); There Might Be Cupcakes (2017); Transfer (2018); Try Not to Die (2025); Where the Girls Are? (2002); Yellow Wallpaper (2020 / 2022).

Shannon Hale, on words:


Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze.
Words can sing.

- Shannon Hale.