Robert Ellis Miller
Director
July 18, 1927 – January 27, 2017
Friday, July 18, 2025
Born on this day – Margaret Laurence:
Margaret Laurence
Writer
July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987
A Bird in the House (1974);
A Jest of God (1966); A Tree for Poverty (1954); A Very Large Soul (1995); An
International Christmas: Seasonal Stories and Poems from Canada and Around the
World (2004); Christmas Birthday Story (1980); Dance on the Earth (1989); Embryo
Words (1997); Happy Families (1958); Heart of a Stranger (1976); Intimate
Strangers: The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy (2004); Jason's
Quest (1970); Long Drums and Cannons (1968); New Wind in a Dry Land (1963); Now
I Lay Me Down (1968); Recognition and Revelation (2020); Selected Letters of
Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman (1997); The Diviners (1974); The
Fire-Dwellers (1969); The Olden Days Coat (1979); The Prophet's Camel Bell (1963);
The Stone Angel (1964); The Tomorrow-Tamer (1963); This Side Jordan (1960); Winter's
Tales 15 (1969).
Movies and television:
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Bird in the House (1973); A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with
Margaret Laurence (1985); Canada Vignettes: The Novelist (1978); Margaret
Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka (1978); Mask of the Bear (1988); Our Kinda
Talk: An Introduction to Margaret Laurence (1978); Rachel, Rachel (1968); Speaking
Our Peace (1985); Stacey (1978); Telescope (1966); The Diviners (1993); The
Olden Days Coat (1981); The Stone Angel (2007); To See Ourselves (1972); To Set
Our House in Order (1985); View from the Typewriter (1993).
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 – Jane Frazee:
Jane Frazee
Actress
July 18, 1915 – September 6, 1985
Credits:
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Guy Could Change (1946); Adventures of Superman (1953); Almost Married (1942); Angels
with Broken Wings (1941); Arcade Varieties (1939); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Beulah
(1952); Buck Privates (1941); Calendar Girl (1947); Captain Blue Blood (1937); Cowboy
Canteen (1944); Death Valley Days (1953); Don't Get Personal (1942); George
White's Scandals (1945); Get Hep to Love (1942); Grand Canyon Trail (1948); Hellzapoppin'
(1941); Hi'Ya Chum (1943); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History -
The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Incident (1948); Kansas City
Kitty (1944); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Last of the Wild Horses (1948); Melody
and Moonlight (1940); Moonlight in Havana (1942); Moonlight in Hawaii (1941); Moonlight
Masquerade (1942); Music in the Morgan Manner (1941); On the Old Spanish Trail
(1947); Pharmacy Frolics (1939); Practically Yours (1944); Public Prosecutor
(1947); Racket Squad (1952); Rhythm Inn (1951); Rhythm of the Islands (1943); Rollin'
in Rhythm (1939); Rosie the Riveter (1944); San Antonio Rose (1941); She's a
Sweetheart (1944); Sing Another Chorus (1941); So You Don't Trust Your Wife
(1955); So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956); So You Want a Model Railroad
(1955); So You Want to Be a Gladiator (1955); So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
(1954); So You Want to Go to a Night Club (1954); So You Want to Know Your
Relatives (1954); So You're Taking in a Roomer (1954); Sound Defects (1937); Springtime
in the Sierras (1947); Stage 7 (1955); Study and Understudy (1936); Superman
and Scotland Yard (1954); Swing in the Saddle (1944); Swing Styles (1939); Swingin'
on a Rainbow (1945); Ten Cents a Dance (1945); The Abbott and Costello Show
(1953); The Big Bonanza (1944); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Gay
Ranchero (1948); The Gene Autry Show (1952); The Lineup (1955); The Lone Ranger
(1950); The Range Rider (1952); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); Under
Californian Stars (1948); Up in Lights (1938); What's Cookin' (1942); When
Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942).
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:
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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).
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