Monday, July 14, 2025

Born on this day – Polly Bergen:


Polly Bergen


Actress

Singer

Television host

Writer

Entrepreneur

July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014

Credits:

5th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1955); A Conversation with Polly Bergen (2007); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); A Touch of Class (1973); A Very Serious Person (2006); Across the Rio Grande (1949); Addicted to His Love (1988); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); American Bandstand (1958); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Arena (1953); Arly Hanks (1994); Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party (1957); Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (1956); At War with the Army (1950); Atlantic City Holiday (1956); Baby Talk (1991–1992); Belle Sommers (1962); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Biography (1998 / 2002); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Born Beautiful (1982); Burke's Law (1994); Candles on Bay Street (2006); Cape Fear (1962); Cavalcade of Stars (1952); Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1953); Celebrity Sweepstakes (1974–1976); Champion (1949); Coke Time (1954); Commander in Chief (2005–2006); Cry for Me Billy (1972); Cry of the Hunted (1953); Cry-Baby (1990); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Death Cruise (1974); Desperate Housewives (2007–2011); Desperate Housewives Special: Secrets and Lies (2007); Dinah's Place (1971); Doris & Marty (2007); Doris Day's Best Friends (2007); Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995); Dr. Kildare (1963); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); Early Bird (2005); Ellery Queen (1976); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Fantasy Island (1984); Fast Company (1953); For Hope (1996); Frankie Laine Time (1955); General Electric Theater (1956); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Half a Hero (1953); Hangup (1974); Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Hollywood Greats (1999); Hotel (1985); Hour Magazine (1983); How to Pick Up Girls! (1978); In the Blink of an Eye (1996); I've Got a Secret (1954–1960); Jake and the Fatman (1990); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Just Polly and Me (1960); Kisses for My President (1964); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960); Lady Against the Odds (1992); Leave of Absence (1994); Lightning Field (1991); Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today (1978); Live with Kelly and Mark (1990); Lux Playhouse (1958); Making Mr. Right (1987); Max Liebman Presents: The Maurice Chevalier Show (1956); Mother, Mother (1989); Move Over, Darling (1963); Murder on Flight 502 (1975); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Muscular Dystrophy Telethon (1957); My Brother's Wife (1989); My Two Dads (1988); Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2018); Night Watch (1973); Not for Women Only (1968–1979); Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Paradise, Texas (2006); Password (1962–1972); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1955–1962); Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993); Person to Person (1960); Personality (1967); Philbin's People (1969); Playhouse 90 (1957); Polly Bergen Musical Special (1971); Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood (2018); Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Selena (1964); She Was Marked for Murder (1988); Songs for Sale (1951–1952); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Star of the Family (1951); Star Stage (1956); Startime (1959–1960); Steel Magnolias (1990); Struck by Lightning (2012); Studio One (1954); Telethon (1977); That's My Boy (1951); The 13th Annual Tony Awards (1959); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 19th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1962); The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1989); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The Alan Young Show (1950–1951); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Andy Williams Show (1965–1966); The Bell Telephone Hour (1959–1966); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Big Record (1957); The Blue Angel (1954); The Bob Braun Show (1967–1977); The Bob Hope Show (1960); The Caretakers (1963); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Danny Thomas Hour (1968); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Double (1982); The Dean Martin Show (1966–1967); The Dick Clark Show (1958); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1958–1961); The Ed Nelson Show (1969); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1967); The Elgin Hour (1954–1955); The Game Game (1969–1970); The Garry Moore Show (1960); The George Burns Show (1960); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Haunting of Sarah Hardy (1989); The Hollywood Palace (1966–1968); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967–1971); The Hollywood Squares (Primetime/Nighttime) (1968); The Jack Benny Program (1960); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957); The Jackie Rae Show (1955); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Jonathan Winters Show (1956); The Kraft Music Hall (1969); The Larry Solway Show (1976); The Lee Phillip Show (1971); The Linkletter Show (1955); The Love Boat (1977–1982); The Making of 'War & Remembrance' (2004); The Men (1950); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1980); The Million Dollar Face (1981); The Milton Berle Show (1958–1959); The New Revue (1954); The Packard Program (1954); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1959); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954–1955); The Polly Bergen Show (1957–1958); The Princess Grace Foundation Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant (1988); The Purex Dinah Shore Special (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1966–1968); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1971); The Skitch Henderson Show (1968); The Sopranos (2004); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Steve Allen Show (1968); The Stooge (1951); The Stork Club (1953–1955); The Surrogate (1995); The Swift Show Wagon with Horace Heidt and the American Way (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1971); The Walter Winchell Show (1960); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The Winds of War (1983); The Winds of War: Making 'The Winds of War' (2004); Thriller (1973); To Tell the Truth (1956–1991); Touched by an Angel (1998); Turner Classic Movies Remembers 2014 (2014); Twice in a Lifetime (1999); Valentine's Day (1964); Velvet (1984); Wagon Train (1961); War & Remembrance: Behind the Scenes (2004); War and Remembrance (1988–1989); Warpath (1951); Washington Square (1957); What's My Line? (1958–1966); You Don't Say (1967–1968); Your Chevrolet Showroom (1953); Your Hit Parade (1954); Your Show (1954); Yves Montand on Broadway (1961).

Born on this day – Harry Dean Stanton:


Harry Dean Stanton

Actor

Musician

Singer

July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017

Born on this day – John Paxton:


John Paxton


Actor

Producer

July 14, 1920 – November 17, 2011

Credits:

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013); Drag Me to Hell (2009); Spider-Man 3 (2007); Medium (2005); Spider-Man 2 (2004); Boomtown (2003); Spider-Man (2002); Frailty (2001); A Simple Plan (1998); Denial (1998); Traveller (1997); Last Man Standing (1996); Barb Wire (1996); Frank & Jesse (1994); Psycho Cop Returns (1993); Brain Dead (1990); Taking Tiger Mountain (1983).

Born on this day – Ingmar Bergman:


Ingmar Bergman

Director

Producer

Writer

July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007

Born on this day – Doris Nolan:


Doris Nolan


Actress

July 14, 1916 – July 29, 1998

Credits:

Aggie (1956); Armchair Theatre (1959); As Good as Married (1937); BBC Play of the Month (1966); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Bindle (One of Them Days) (1966); Boy Meets Girl (1968); Brideshead Revisited (1981); Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955); Emergency-Ward 10 (1964); Follies Girl (1943); Holiday (1938); Irene (1940); ITV Play of the Week (1958–1959); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Juggernaut (1974); Moon Over Burma (1940); One Hour to Live (1939); Our Little Girl (1935); Robin Hood: Quest for the Crown (1995); Saint (1962); Strange Report (1969); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962); The Man I Marry (1936); The Romantic Englishwoman (1975); The Servant (1963); The Third Man (1959); Top of the Town (1937).

Born on this day – William Hanna:


William Hanna

Animator

Cartoonist

Voice actor

Musician

July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001

Born on this day – Irving Stone:


Irving Stone


Writer

July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989

Credits:

Books:

Adversary in the House (1947); Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949); Dear Theo (1958); Depths of Glory (1985); Drawings of Michaelangelo (1960); Earl Warren (1948); From Mud-Flat Cove to Gold to Statehood: California, 1840-1850 (1999); Immortal Wife (1950); Love Is Eternal (1955); Lust for Life (1934); Mary Todd Lincoln, A Final Judgement? (1973); Men to Match My Mountains (1956); Sailor on Horseback (1938); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961); The Greek Treasure (1975); The Irving Stone Reader (1971); The Origin (1980); The Passionate Journey (1950); The Passions of the Mind (1971); The President's Lady (1952); There Was Light (1970); They Also Ran (1966); Those Who Love (1966).

Movies and television:

Arkansas Judge (1941); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Clarence Darrow (1974); Climax! (1955); Day at Night (1974); General Electric Theater (1955); Gypsy (1966); Im Zweifel fĂ¼r den Angeklagten (1978); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lust for Life (1956); Magnificent Doll (1946); Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965); The David Frost Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The President's Lady (1953); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971).