Born on this day – Ann Dvorak:

Ann Dvorak

Actress

August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979

Born on this day – Truus van Aalten:

Truus van Aalten

Actress

August 2, 1910 – June 27, 1999

Born on this day – Myrna Loy:

Myrna Loy

Actress

August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927); ABC Late Night (1974); Across the Pacific (1926); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976); After the Thin Man (1936); Airport 1975 (1974); American Experience (1996); American Masters (2009); Another Romance of Celluloid (1938); Another Thin Man (1939); Ants! (1977); Arena (1991); Arrowsmith (1931); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Beware of Married Men (1927); Biography (1995–1998); Bitter Apples (1927); Body and Soul (1931); Bride of the Regiment (1930); Broadway Bill (1934); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); California's Golden Parks (2007); Cameo Kirby (1930); CBS Mornings (1988); Celebrity Talent Scouts (1960); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Columbo (1972); Complicated Women (2003); Consolation Marriage (1931); Day at Night (1973); Death Takes a Holiday (1971); Die Stimme Österreichs (1949); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Don Juan (1926); Double Wedding (1937); Emma (1932); Entertainment Tonight (1993); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Evidence (1929); Exquisite Sinner (1926); Family Affair (1967); Fancy Baggage (1929); Fashion News (1930); Finger Prints (1927); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); From the Terrace (1960); Gala Adlai on Broadway (1960); General Electric Theater (1955–1957); Great Performances (1987); Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927); Hardboiled Rose (1929); Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' (1981); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); Hush Money (1931); I Love You Again (1940); If I Were Single (1927); If This Be Sin (1949); Indict and Convict (1974); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Ironside (1973); Isle of Escape (1930); I've Got a Secret (1960); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); Kilo tissa wa tissaine (1955); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Libeled Lady (1936); Lonelyhearts (1958); Love Crazy (1941); Love Me Tonight (1932); Love, Sidney (1982); Lucky Night (1939); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Man-Proof (1938); Meet Me in St. Louis (1959); Men in White (1934); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Midnight Lace (1960); Moonlighting (1987); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Myrna Loy Remembered (1993); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); New Morals for Old (1932); Night Flight (1933); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Noah's Ark (1928); Northward, Ho! (1940); Omnibus (1969); Parnell (1937); Pay as You Enter (1928); Penthouse (1933); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957); Petticoat Fever (1936); Philbin's People (1970); Pretty Ladies (1925); Rebound (1931); Remember Me (1978); Renegades (1930); Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004); Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930); Scarlet River (1933); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Goddesses (2006); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Show of Shows (1929); Show-Business at War (1943); Simple Sis (1927); Skyline (1931); So Goes My Love (1946); So This Is Paris (1926); Some of the Greatest (1955); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Sporting Life (1925); Stamboul Quest (1934); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); State Street Sadie (1928); Test Pilot (1938); Thalath Nessa (1968); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 32nd Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1967); The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The Ambassador's Daughter (1956); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The April Fools (1969); The Arlene Francis Show (1957); The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947); The Bad Man (1930); The Barbarian (1933); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Black Watch (1929); The Bob Braun Show (1978); The Bushido Blade / Summer Solstice (1981); The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937); The Caveman (1926); The Climbers (1927); The Couple Takes a Wife (1972); The Crimson City (1928); The David Frost Show (1969); The Desert Song (1929); The Devil to Pay! (1930); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1980); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1970); The Elevator (1974); The End (1978); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The George Gobel Show (1959); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Great Divide (1929); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Jazz Cinderella (1930); The Jazz Singer (1927); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Last of the Duanes (1930); The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Love Toy (1926); The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1980); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Midnight Taxi (1928); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1980); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movie Game (1972); The Movies (2019); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Rains Came (1939); The Red Pony (1949); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Sam Levenson Show (1959); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986); The Squall (1929); The Thin Man (1934); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Third Degree (1926); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967); The Truth About Youth (1930); The Virginian (1967); The Voice of Hollywood No. 8 (1930); The Wanderer (1925); The Wet Parade (1932); The Woman in Room 13 (1932); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Third Finger, Left Hand (1940); Thirteen Women (1932); This Is Your Life (1956); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); To Mary - with Love (1936); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1980); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Topaze (1933); Transatlantic (1931); Trifles of Importance (1940); Turn Back the Hours (1928); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twenty Years After (1944); Under a Texas Moon (1930); Vanity Fair (1932); Verdensberømtheder i København (1939); What Price Beauty? (1925); What's My Line? (1960); When a Man Loves (1927); When Ladies Meet (1933); Whipsaw (1935); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005); Wings in the Dark (1935).

Born on this day – Ted D. McCord:

Ted D. McCord

Cinematographer

August 2, 1900 – January 19, 1976

Ted D. McCord (left) with Ida Lupino (center) and Dane Clark (right) on the set of Deep Valley (1947).

Credits:

A Fine Madness (1966); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Airborne Lifeboat (1945); Alice in Movieland (1940); At the Stroke of Twelve (1941); Battle Royal (1932); Between Fighting Men (1932); Beyond the Rockies (1932); Blazing Sixes (1937); Bombers B-52 (1957); Border Romance (1929); Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School (1942); Bullet Scars (1942); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); California Mail (1936); Calling All Husbands (1940); Carnival Boat (1932); Cattle Town (1952); Cheyenne (1956–1957); Code of the Secret Service (1939); Come on, Tarzan (1932); Conflict (1956–1957); Deep Valley (1947); Desert Vengeance (1931); Dynamite Ranch (1932); East of Eden (1955); Empty Holsters (1937); False Faces (1932); Fargo Express (1933); Father Is a Prince (1940); Feud of the West (1936); Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (1930); Flamingo Road (1949); Flirting with Love (1924); For Sale (1924); Force of Arms (1951); Freighters of Destiny (1931); Fugitive in the Sky (1936); Ghost Valley (1932); Giant (1956); Goodbye, My Fancy (1951); Gun Justice (1933); Guns of the Pecos (1936); Hell-Fire Austin (1932); Hero's Island (1962); High Hats and Low Brows (1932); Highway West (1941); Hong Kong (1960); Honor of the Range (1934); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); I Was Framed (1942); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); In Love at 40 (1935); International Squadron (1941); Irene (1926); Johnny Belinda (1948); June Bride (1948); King of the Arena (1933); Knockout (1941); Ladies Must Live (1940); Land Beyond the Law (1937); Letter from a Friend (1943); Lucky Larkin (1930); Men Without Law (1930); Mountain Justice (1930); Murder in the Air (1940); Murder in the Big House (1942); Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941); Odor in the Court (1934); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Operation Secret (1952); Parade of the West (1930); Poisoned Ivory (1934); Prairie Thunder (1937); Pride of the Blue Grass (1939); Private Detective (1939); Private Property (1960); Ride Him, Cowboy (1932); Rocky Mountain (1950); Rocky Rhodes (1934); Sacred and Profane Love (1921); Sally (1925); Secret Service of the Air (1939); Señor Americano (1929); Senor Jim (1936); Sergeant Murphy (1938); Shadow Ranch (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1940); Singapore Woman (1941); Six Hits and a Miss (1942); Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra (1941); Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948); Smog (1962); Smoking Guns (1934); So Big (1924); So You Want to Play the Horses (1946); So You're Going on a Vacation (1947); Somewhere in Sonora (1933); Song of the Caballero (1930); Sons of the Saddle (1930); South Sea Woman (1953); Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1947); Starlift (1951); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Stoney Burke (1962); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Strawberry Roan (1933); Sugarfoot (1957); Suicide Fleet (1931); Sundown Trail (1931); That Way with Women (1947); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); The All American Bands (1943); The Big Stampede (1932); The Breaking Point (1950); The Burning Hills (1956); The Canyon of Adventure (1928); The Case of the Black Parrot (1941); The Code of the Scarlet (1928); The Cowboy Quarterback (1939); The Crash (1928); The Damned Don't Cry (1950); The Daredevil Drivers (1938); The Dawn Trail (1930); The Desert Flower (1925); The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933); The Fighting Legion (1930); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); The Hanging Tree (1959); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949); The Lone Rider (1930); The Man from Monterey (1933); The Marriage Whirl (1925); The McConnell Story (1955); The Pace That Thrills (1925); The Phantom City (1928); The Proud Rebel (1958); The Rainmakers (1935); The Rear Gunner (1943); The Royal Rider (1929); The Saddle Buster (1932); The Sound of Music (1965); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); The Telegraph Trail (1933); The Trail Drive (1933); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The United States Army Air Force Band (1942); The United States Army Band (1943); The United States Marine Band (1942); The United States Navy Band (1943); The United States Service Bands (1943); The Upland Rider (1928); The Valley of the Giants (1927); The Wagon Master (1929); The Wide Open Spaces (1931); The Young in Heart (1938); This Woman Is Dangerous (1952); Three Lives (1953); Tombstone Canyon (1932); Trailin' West (1936); Two for the Seesaw (1962); War Hunt (1962); We Moderns (1925); Wheels of Destiny (1934); When a Man Sees Red (1934); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Young at Heart (1954); Young Man with a Horn (1950).

Born on this day – Cecil Cunningham:

Cecil Cunningham

Actress

Singer

Comedienne

August 2, 1888 – April 17, 1959

Credits:

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); Above Suspicion (1943); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Anybody's Woman (1930); Are Husbands Necessary? (1942); Artist and Models (1937); Back Street (1941); Blond Cheat (1938); Blonde Venus (1932); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Bottoms Up (1934); Cairo (1942); College Swing (1938); Come and Get It (1936); Complicated Women (2003); Cowboy Serenade (1942); Daughter of Shanghai (1937); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Four Star Playhouse (1952); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Girls' School (1938); Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941); I Married an Angel (1942); If I Had a Million (1932); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Is My Face Red? (1932); It's a Wonderful World (1939); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Joyful Hour (1960); Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); King of Gamblers (1937); Kitty Foyle (1940); Ladies They Talk About (1933); Lady of the Tropics (1939); Laugh It Off (1939); Lillian Russell (1940); Love Is a Racket (1932); Love Me Tonight (1932); Manhattan Love Song (1934); Marie Antoinette (1938); Mata Hari (1931); Monkey Business (1931); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); My Reputation (1946); Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932); New Moon (1940); Night Club Scandal (1937); Paramount on Parade (1930); People Will Talk (1935); Play Girl (1941); Playboy of Paris (1930); Repent at Leisure (1941); Return of the Terror (1934); Safe in Hell (1931); Scandal Street (1938); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); Swing High, Swing Low (1937); Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Age for Love (1931); The Awful Truth (1937); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Bride Goes Wild (1948); The Candid Camera (1932); The Captain Is a Lady (1940); The Druggist's Dilemma (1933); The Family Next Door (1939); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Hidden Hand (1942); The Impatient Maiden (1932); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Wet Parade (1932); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); Their Own Desire (1929); This Way Please (1937); Those We Love (1932); Trouble from Abroad (1931); Twin Beds (1942); We Live Again (1934); Winter Carnival (1939); Wives Under Suspicion (1938); Wonder Man (1945); You and Me (1938).

Recommended reading - The Black Angel, by Cornell Woolrich (1943):

The Black Angel

By Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as Black Angel (1946), directed by Roy William Neill.

Published by Pegasus Crime.

First published 1943.

ISBN-10: 1605983551

ISBN-13: 9781605983554

Description:

Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich, whose novels and short stories define the essence of noir nihilism. – Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review.

Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir. – Newsday.

Woolrich devised and used instruments of psychological torture―his stories. – Time.

Woolrich was a master of the form. – Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal.

You can palpably feel the agony in Woolrich and his work. – James Ellroy.

A classic is back in print! This hypnotic thriller, by one of the originators of the noir form, exposes its heroine to a waking nightmare.

In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife’s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes an avenging angel in her attempt to rescue her husband from execution.

James Thurber, on how to read:

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

- James Thurber.