Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Born on this day – Chris Marker:


Chris Marker

Director

Writer

Photographer

July 29, 1921 – July 29, 2012

Born on this day – Budd Boetticher:


Budd Boetticher

Director

July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001

Born on this day – Chester Himes:


Chester Himes

Writer

July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984

Born on this day – Thelma Todd:


Thelma Todd


Actress

July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935

Credits:

A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); Abie's Irish Rose (1928); After the Dance (1935); Air Fright (1933); Air Hostess (1933); All Teed Up (1930); Aloha (1931); Alum and Eve (1932); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); An All American Toothache (1936); Another Fine Mess (1930); Asleep in the Feet (1933); Babes in the Goods (1934); Backs to Nature (1933); Beauty and the Bus (1933); Bottoms Up (1934); Broadminded (1931); Bum Voyage (1934); Call Her Savage (1932); Careers (1929); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931); Cheating Blondes (1933); Chickens Come Home (1931); Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934); Command Performance (1931); Corsair (1931); Counsellor at Law (1933); Crazy Feet (1929); Death Scenes (1989); Deception (1932); Dollar Dizzy (1930); Done in Oil (1934); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Fascinating Youth (1926); Fashion News (1930); Fireman, Save My Child (1927); Follow Thru (1930); God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); Heart to Heart (1928); Her Man (1930); Her Private Life (1929); High C's (1930); Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934); History's Mysteries: Infamous Murders (2001–2004); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014); Horse Feathers (1932); Hot Money (1935); Hotter Than Hot (1929); House of Horror (1929); Hurdy Gurdy (1929); I'll Be Suing You (1934); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Klondike (1932); Let's Do Things (1931); Lightning Strikes Twice (1934); Look Out Below (1929); Looser Than Loose (1930); Love Fever (1931); Maid in Hollywood (1934); Maids a la Mode (1933); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Monkey Business (1931); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Naughty Baby (1928); Nevada (1927); No Limit (1931); On the Loose (1931); One Track Minds (1933); One-Horse Farmers (1934); Opened by Mistake (1934); Palooka (1934); Personality Parade (1938); Players at Play (1929); Pobre infeliz (1930); Red Noses (1932); Rough Seas (1931); Rubber Heels (1927); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 3 (1935); Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (1942); Sealskins (1932); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Show Business (1932); Shy Boy (1929); Sing Sister Sing (1935); Sitting Pretty (1933); Slightly Static (1935); Snappy Sneezer (1929); Sneak Easily (1932); Son of a Sailor (1933); Soup and Fish (1934); Speak Easily (1932); Stepping Out (1929); Strictly Unreliable (1932); Swanee River (1931); Take the Stand (1934); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Bachelor Girl (1929); The Bargain of the Century (1933); The Big Timer (1932); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Crash (1928); The Devil's Brother (1933); The Fighting Parson (1930); The Gay Defender (1927); The Haunted House (1928); The Head Guy (1930); The Hot Heiress (1931); The King (1930); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Maltese Falcon (1931); The Misses Stooge (1935); The Nickel Nurser (1932); The Noose (1928); The Old Bull (1932); The Pajama Party (1931); The Pip from Pittsburg (1931); The Poor Rich (1934); The Real McCoy (1930); The Shield of Honor (1927); The Shrimp (1930); The Soilers (1932); The Tin Man (1935); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 (Second Series) (1932); This Is the Night (1932); Three Chumps Ahead (1934); Top Flat (1935); Treasure Blues (1935); Trial Marriage (1929); Twin Triplets (1935); Two for Tonight (1935); Unaccustomed As We Are (1929); Vamping Venus (1928); War Mamas (1931); When the Applause Died / Death in Hollywood (1990); Whispering Whoopee (1930); Yesterday and Today (1953); You Made Me Love You (1933).

Born on this day – Clara Bow:


Clara Bow


Actress

July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); All You Need Is Love (1977); Arena (2012); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Beyond the Rainbow (1922); Biography (2002); Black Lightning (1924); Black Oxen (1923); Call Her Savage (1932); Capital Punishment (1925); Children of Divorce (1927); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012); Dancing Mothers (1926); Dangerous Curves (1929); Daughters of Pleasure (1924); Down to the Sea in Ships (1922); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002); Empty Hearts (1924); Enemies of Women (1923); Eve's Lover (1925); Fascinating Youth (1926); Fashions in Love (1936); Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture (2010); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Free to Love (1925); Get Your Man (1927); Grit (1924); Helen's Babies (1924); Her Wedding Night (1930); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Babylon (1971); Hollywood on Parade (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934); Hollywood Rebellen (2013); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Snapshots #11 (1929); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hoopla (1933); Hula (1927); It (1927); Kick In (1931); Kid Boots (1926); Kiss Me Again (1925); Ladies of the Mob (1928); Love Among the Millionaires (1930); Love Lust (2011); Mantrap (1926); March of the Movies (1933); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Maytime (1923); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Monty and the Movies (2024); Movies Golden Age (1961); MsMojo (2023); My Lady of Whims (1925); My Lady's Lips (1925); No Limit (1931); Paramount on Parade (1930); Parisian Love (1925); Poisoned Paradise (1924); Red Hair (1928); Rough House Rosie (1927); Screen Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949); Screen Snapshots Series 12, No. 12 (1932); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 9 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 20, No. 1 (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 28, No. 6 (1948); Screen Snapshots Series 5, No. 4 (1924); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 15 (1924); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Sex in the 20th Century (2001); Shadow of the Law (1926); Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (1998); Shooting the Hollywood Stars (2011); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The Adventurous Sex (1925); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Best Bad Man (1925); The Casting Couch (1995); The Daring Years (1923); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Flapper Story (1985); The Fleet's In (1928); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Keeper of the Bees (1925); The Lawful Cheater (1925); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Pill Pounder (1923); The Plastic Age (1925); The Primrose Path (1925); The Runaway (1926); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); The Scarlet West (1925); The Wild Party (1929); This Woman (1924); Three Week Ends (1928); True to the Navy (1930); Two Can Play (1926); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wine (1924); Wings (1927); Yesterday and Today (1953).

Born on this day – William Cameron Menzies:


William Cameron Menzies

Production designer

Director

Producer

July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957

Born on this day – Theda Bara:


Theda Bara


Actress

July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955

Credits:

Madame Mystery (1926); The Unchastened Woman (1925); The Prince of Silence (1921); Lure of Ambition (1919); La belle Russe (1919); Kathleen Mavourneen (1919); A Woman There Was (1919); The Siren's Song (1919); When Men Desire (1919); The Light (1919); The She Devil (1918); When a Woman Sins (1918); Salome (1918); Under the Yoke (1918); The Soul of Buddha (1918); The Forbidden Path (1918); Madame Du Barry (1917); The Rose of Blood (1917); Cleopatra (1917); Camille (1917); Heart and Soul (1917); Her Greatest Love (1917); The Tiger Woman (1917); The Darling of Paris (1917); The Vixen (1916); Romeo and Juliet (1916); Her Double Life (1916); Under Two Flags (1916); East Lynne (1916); The Eternal Sappho (1916); Gold and the Woman (1916); The Serpent (1916); Siren of Hell (1915); Destruction (1915); The Galley Slave (1915); Carmen (1915); Sin (1915); The Two Orphans (1915); Lady Audley's Secret (1915); The Devil's Daughter (1915); The Clemenceau Case (1915); Kreutzer Sonata (1915); A Fool There Was (1915); The Stain (1914).