Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Born on this day – Olympe Bradna:


Olympe Bradna


Actress

Dancer

August 12, 1920 – November 5, 2012

Credits:

Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); International Squadron (1941); Highway West (1941); Knockout (1941); South of Pago Pago (1940); The Night of Nights (1939); Say It in French (1938); Stolen Heaven (1938); Souls at Sea (1937); The Last Train from Madrid (1937); College Holiday (1936); Three Cheers for Love (1936); Flofloche (1934); Roger la Honte (1933).

Born on this day – Marjorie Reynolds:


Marjorie Reynolds

Actress

August 12, 1917 – February 1, 1997

Born on this day – Ralph Nelson:


Ralph Nelson

Director

Producer

Writer

Actor

August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987

Born on this day – Samuel Fuller:


Samuel Fuller

Director

Writer

Actor

World War II veteran

August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997

Born on this day – Jane Wyatt:


Jane Wyatt

Actress

August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006

Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:


Gladys Bentley

Blues singer

Pianist

August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960

Born on this day – George Bellows:


George Bellows


Artist

August 12, 1882 – January 8, 1925

Credits:

Books:

An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters; Bellows, the Boxing Pictures; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Oil Paintings by George Bellows, N.A. and Mural Paintings and Drawings by Violet Oakley: The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, December, Nineteen Hundred Nineteen 1919; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, N.A., Albright Art Gallery, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, September 11th-October 5th, 1919; George Bellows; George Bellows, Works from the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, August 7-September 7, 1981; George Bellows: Painter with a Punch!; George W. Bellows: His Lithographs; Leaving for the country; The Drawings of George Bellows; The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné; The Paintings of George Bellows; The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library; The Vibrant Metropolis: 88 Lithographs.

Television:

George Bellows / documentary (2012).