Friday, October 10, 2025

Born on this day – Dana Elcar:


Dana Elcar

Actor

October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005

Born on this day – Richard Jaeckel:


Richard Jaeckel

Actor

October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997

Born on this day – Ed Wood:


Ed Wood

Director

Actor

Writer

October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978

Born on this day – Janis Carter:


Janis Carter


Actress

October 10, 1913 – July 30, 1994

Credits:

A Thousand and One Nights (1945); A Woman of Distinction (1950); Addio Mimí! (1949); And Baby Makes Three (1949); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Cadet Girl (1941); Center Stage (1954); Double Profile (1954); Feather Your Nest (1954); Flying Leathernecks (1951); Framed (1947); Girl in the Case (1944); Girl Trouble (1942); I Love Trouble (1948); I Married an Angel (1942); Just Off Broadway (1942); Lady of Burlesque (1943); Lights Out (1950); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); My Forbidden Past (1951); Night Editor (1946); One Mysterious Night (1944); One Way to Love (1946); Panama Hattie (1954); Santa Fe (1951); Secret Agent of Japan (1942); Slightly French (1949); Star of the Family (1950); Starlight Theatre (1950); Suspense (1953); Swing Out the Blues (1943); That Other Woman (1942); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fighting Guardsman (1945); The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944); The Half-Breed (1952); The Mark of the Whistler (1944); The Missing Juror (1944); The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946); The Power of the Whistler (1945); The Sergeant and the Spy (1954); The Woman on Pier 13 (1949); Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942); Together Again (1944); Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953).

Born on this day – Johnny Green:


Johnny Green

Composer

Songwriter

Musical arranger

Conductor

Pianist

October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989

Born on this day – Jane Winton:


Jane Winton


Actress

Dancer

Opera soprano

Writer

Painter

October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959

Credits:

Books:

Park Avenue Doctor; Passion Is the Gale.

Movies and television:

A Notorious Affair (1930); Across the Pacific (1926); Backstage (1937); Bare Knees (1928); Burning Daylight (1928); Captain Lash (1929); Don Juan (1926); Footloose Widows (1926); Hell's Angels (1930); Hired Wife (1934); His Supreme Moment (1925); Honeymoon Flats (1928); In the Next Room (1930); Lonesome Ladies (1927); Melody of Love (1928); Millionaires (1926); My Official Wife (1926); My Old Dutch (1926); Nothing to Wear (1928); Perch of the Devil (1927); Scandal (1929); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Sunrise (1927); The Beloved Rogue (1927); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929); The Crane Poison Case (1932); The Crystal Cup (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Furies (1930); The Gay Old Bird (1927); The Honeymoon Express (1926); The Light Fantastic (1935); The Love Toy (1926); The Monkey Talks (1927); The Passionate Quest (1926); The Patsy (1928); The Poor Nut (1927); The Week End Mystery (1931); Three Women (1924); Tomorrow's Love (1925); Upstream (1927); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Yellow Lily (1928).

Born on this day – Helen Hayes:


Helen Hayes


Actress

October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993

Credits:

Glitter (1985); Murder with Mirrors (1985); Highway to Heaven (1984); A Caribbean Mystery (1983); Love, Sidney (1982); Murder Is Easy (1982); The Love Boat (1980); A Family Upside Down (1978); Candleshoe (1977); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Victory at Entebbe (1976); Hawaii Five-O (1975); One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975); The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Circle of Fear (1972); Harvey (1972); Here's Lucy (1972); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); NET Playhouse (1964); Airport (1970); The Front Page (1970); Arsenic and Old Lace (1969); Tarzan (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Christophers (1963); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); Play of the Week (1959–1960); Cradle Song (1960); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Kraft Theatre (1954–1959); Third Man on the Mountain (1959); Ah, Wilderness! (1959); Omnibus (1952–1958); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Eighty Yard Run (1957); Anastasia (1956); Producers' Showcase (1955); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); Medallion Theatre (1953); Main Street to Broadway (1953); My Son John (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1951); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); Night Flight (1933); Another Language (1933); The White Sister (1933); The Son-Daughter (1932); A Farewell to Arms (1932); Arrowsmith (1931); The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931); The Dancing Town (1928); The Weavers of Life (1917); Jean and the Calico Doll (1910).