Claire Rommer
Actress
December 7, 1904 – August 19, 1996
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Born on this day – Fay Bainter:
Fay Bainter
Actress
December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968
Credits:
The Alfred Hitchcock
Hour (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Dr. Kildare (1963);
The Donna Reed Show (1962); The Children's Hour (1961); Thriller (1960);
Adventures in Paradise (1960); Studio One (1953–1957); Matinee Theatre (1956);
Kraft Theatre (1956); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Armstrong Circle Theatre
(1953–1955); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1955); Lux Video Theatre
(1950–1955); The Elgin Hour (1954); Goodyear Playhouse (1954); The Web (1954);
The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Story of Ruth (1954); The President's
Lady (1953); Eye Witness (1953); Suspense (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1953);
Close to My Heart (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Danger (1950); The
Ford Theatre Hour (1948–1949); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); June Bride
(1948); Give My Regards to Broadway (1948); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947); Deep Valley (1947); The Virginian (1946); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946);
State Fair (1945); Three Is a Family (1944); Dark Waters (1944); The Heavenly
Body (1944); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Salute to the Marines (1943); Presenting Lily
Mars (1943); The Human Comedy (1943); Journey for Margaret (1942); Mrs. Wiggs
of the Cabbage Patch (1942); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); Mister
Gardenia Jones (1942); Woman of the Year (1942); Babes on Broadway (1941); Maryland
(1940); A Bill of Divorcement (1940); Our Town (1940); Young Tom Edison (1940);
Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); The Lady and
the Mob (1939); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939); The Shining Hour (1938); The
Arkansas Traveler (1938); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Jezebel (1938); White
Banners (1938); Make Way for Tomorrow (1937); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); Quality
Street (1937); This Side of Heaven (1934).
Born on this day – Willa Cather:
Willa Cather
Writer
December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947
Credits:
Books:
40 Short Stories (2004);
A Lost Lady (1923); Alexander's Bridge (1912); American Fantastic Tales (2009);
April Twilights / poems (1903); Bodies of the Dead (1995); Child's Ploy (1984);
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927); Great American Ghost Stories (2008);
Great Short Stories of the World (1986); Life (2013); Love Duet (2013); Lucy
Gayheart (1935); Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992); Medusa's
Daughters (2020); My Antonia (1918); My Mortal Enemy (1926); Not Under Forty
(1936); O Pioneers! (1913); On Writing (1949); One of Ours (1922); Prose and
Poetry of the American West (1991); Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940); Shadows
on the Rock (1931); She Won the West (1985); The Autobiography of S.S. McClure
(1914); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best
American Short Stories of the Century (2008); The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
(2019); The Burglar's Christmas (1896); The Dover Anthology of Classic
Christmas Stories (2023); The Old Beauty and Others (1948); The Oxford Book of
American Short Stories (1992); The Professor's House (1925); The Screaming
Skull (1995); The Serpent's Tongue (1997); The Song of the Lark (1915); The
Troll Garden (1905); Uncle Valentine and Other Stories (1973); Willa Cather's
Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 (1970); Women and Fiction (1975); Women Who
Wrote (2020); Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920).
Movies and television:
A
Lost Lady (1924 / 1934); American Masters (2005); American Playhouse (1991);
Into the Morning: Willa Cather's America (1975); Jack-a-boy (1980); My Antonia
(1995); Nanette: An Aside (1977); O Pioneers! (1992); Paul's Case (1980);
Selected Shorts / Segment: The Burglar's Christmas (2024); Spring Awakening
(1994); The Song of the Lark (1997 / 2001); Willa Cather's the Bookkeeper
(2014).
Born on this day – Clementine Plessner:
Clementine Plessner
Actress
Singer
December 7, 1855 – February 27, 1943
Credits:
Bar
el Manach (1920); Bara en danserska (1926); Bigamie (1922); Das Geheimnis der
vier Tage (1921); Das Hexenlied (1919); Das Medaillon der Lady Sington (1920); Das
Recht zu leben (1927); Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1918); Das weisse
Paradies (1929); Der Bankkrach unter den Linden (1926); Der Fleck auf der Ehr' (1930);
Der Glücksschmid (1919); Der hauptmann von Köpenick (1926); Der krasse Fuchs (1926);
Der Monte Christo von Prag (1929); Der Schatten der Gaby Leed (1921); Der
Todesreigen (1922); Der verliebte Blasekopp (1932); Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis
führt, 1.Teil - Das Schicksal der Aenne Wolter (1918); Der Weg, der zur
Verdammnis führt, 2.Teil - Hyänen der Lust (1919); Der Wilddieb (1930); Die
Benefiz-Vorstellung der vier Teufel (1920); Die eiserne Braut (1925); Die
entfesselte Menschheit (1920); Die Frau mit den zehn Masken, 2. Begebenheit -
Der Schatten des Gehenkten (1922); Die graue Macht (1923); Die schwarze Paula (1922);
Die Stimme des Herzens (1924); Die Tragödie der Entehrten (1924); Die Tragödie
eines Großen (1920); Die verschwundene Frau (1929); Die weiße Sonate (1928); Die
Zirkusprinzessin (1925); Different from the Others (1919); Eine weisse unter
Kannibalen (1921); Eleven Who Were Loyal (1926); Fräulein Josette - Meine Frau
(1926); Giovannis Rache (1917); Gobseck (1924); Großstadtmädels, 2. Teil -
Erlebnisse aus Berlin (1921); Hallig Hooge (1923); Henriette Jacoby (1918); Hingabe
(1929); Im Zeichen der Schuld (1918); Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918); Journey
into the Night (1921); Kaiserjäger (1928); Kaliber fünf Komma zwei (1920); Klatsch
(1921); Kord Kamphues, der Richter von Coesfeld (1919); Lady Hamilton (1921); Lo,
die Kokette (1920); Lucrezia Borgia (1922); Mädchen, die man nicht heiratet (1923);
Manolescus Memoiren (1920); Nocturno der Liebe (1919); O alte
Burschenherrlichkeit (1925); Povara (1928); Ratten der Großstadt. 1. Die
geheimnisvolle Nacht (1921); Seelenverkäufer (1919); Sklaven der Liebe (1924); Spitzenhöschen
und Schusterpech (1928); Steuerlos (1924); Störtebeker (1919); Stürmisch die
Nacht (1931); Superfluous People (1926); Taras Bulba (1924); The Story of Dida
Ibsen (1918); Theodor Körner (1932); Vagabund (1930); Wie bleibe ich jung und
schön – Ehegeheimnisse (1926); Zwei Kinder (1924).
Elizabeth Hardwick, on reading:
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick.
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - December 7:
Pearl Harbor Remembrance
Day
December 7
Honoring
all who served and died for our freedom.
We will never forget.
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