Born on this day – Dian Fossey:

Dian Fossey

Primatologist

Conservationist

Writer

Director

January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985

Credits:

Written work:

A Forest in the Clouds: My Year Among the Mountain Gorillas in the Remote Enclave of Dian Fossey (2018); An amiable giant: Fuertes's gorilla (1982); Gorillas in the Mist (1983); Living with Mountain Gorillas (1972); Mountain gorilla research, 1969–1970 (1978); Mountain gorilla research, 1971–1972 (1980); Mountain gorilla research, 1974 (1982); Observations on the home range of one group of mountain gorillas (1974); The Behaviour of the Mountain Gorilla (1976); Vocalizations of the mountain Gorilla (1972).

Movies and television:

30 Years of National Geographic Specials (1995); A Mother's Love: Rosamond Carr and a Lifetime in Rwanda (2010); All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011); Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist (2017); Einstein (2020); Final Days of an Icon (2006); Fouloscopie (2019); Gorillas in the Mist (1988); Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1978–2007); National Geographic Specials (1971–2003); Nature (1986); Quest's World of Wonder (2021); Six femmes sur la planète des grands singes (2020); The American Sportsman (1980); The Emotional World of Farm Animals (2004); The Nature of Things (2019); The Real... (1998); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1985); The World About Us (1976 / 1981); Universum (2004).

Born on this day – Micheline Luccioni:

Micheline Luccioni

Actress

January 16, 1930 – December 24, 1992

Credits:

À corps perdu (1970); Allô police (1967); Hello! Juliette (1972); An Idiot in Paris (1967); Au théâtre ce soir (1969–1981); Back to the Wall (1958); Baratin (1956); Belphegor or the Phantom of the Louvre (1965); Cadet Rousselle (1973); Look for the Mistake (1980); Children of Mata Hari (1970); Clarisse Fenigan (1959); Croquemitoufle (1959); Say hello to the lady.. (1977); Distracted (1970); Don Juan Returns from War (1968); Eglantine (1972); She doesn't drink, she doesn't smoke, she doesn't flirt, but... she talks! (1970); Sorrel flower (1967); Gervaise (1956); Guinguette (1959); Hello Beatrice (1984); Hotel des Snows (1958); How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning / Segment: La Fermeture (1965); It Happened All Night (1960); I Will Make You Love Life (1979); Jo (1971); The Brune que voilà (1960); La derelitta / Cinema 16 (1987); The Last Night (1981); Twelfth Night (1957); La petite vertu (1968); The Sleeping Sentinel (1966); The Academy of 9 (1982–1983); The Schoolchildren's Path (1959); The Couch (1982); The Black Flag Flies on the Pot (1971); The Butler (1965); The small Théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1981); The Happiest of the Three (1957); The Well of the Three Vérités (1961); Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville (1961); The Voyage of Monsieur Perrichon (1974); The School for Women (1973); The loves of the years folles (1981); Agatha's Beautiful Eyes (1964); The Last Five Minutes (1959–1978); The Investigations of Inspector Maigret (1973); Great feelings make good gueuletons (1973); The Delivery Men (1961); Les pieds nickelés (1960); The Etiquette (1986); Inspector Leclerc investigates (1962–1963); Lovers of Paris (1957); Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959); Max the Debonair (1967); Maxime (1958); Plural of Monsieur The Jurors (1977); Midi Trente (1973–1974); Number One (1975); We are not Serious When You're 17 (1974); Pachomius... toujours (1971); Poor Eros (1983); Take your rolls and go pointer (1981); Rêves d'amour (1962); Samantha (1981); Evening Courteline / Segment: Gros chagrins (1974); Tête folle (1960); The One Man Band (1970); The Tattoo (1968); A Marriage under Louis XV (1961); A century writers (1999); Long live the social sector! (1983); Vogue la galère (1973); You won't win Not in Paradise (1975); Witness in the City (1959).

Born on this day – Lina Romay:

Lina Romay

Actress

January 16, 1919 – December 17, 2010

Credits:

Adventure (1945); Babes Behind Bars (2013); Bathing Beauty (1944); Cavalcade of Stars (1949–1951); Chesterfield Sound Off Time (1951); Cheyenne Cowboy (1949); Don't Get Around Much Anymore (1943); Embraceable You (1948); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Faces (2019); Flamingo Road (1949); Honeymoon (1947); Joe Palooka in the Big Fight (1949); Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946); Passport to Danger (1956); Public Prosecutor (1948); Señor Droopy (1949); Six-Gun Music (1949); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Star of the Family (1951); Summertime Revue (1951); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1957); The Alan Young Show (1950–1951); The Big Wheel (1949); The Heat's On (1943); The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949); The Laraine Day Show (1951); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1949–1952); The Red Skelton Hour (1957); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Steve Allen Show (1951); This Time for Keeps (1947); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); We, the People (1949); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); You Were Never Lovelier (1942).

Born on this day – Ethel Merman:

Ethel Merman

Actress

Singer

January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984

Credits:

Books:

Merman (1978); Who Could Ask for Anything More? (1955).

Albums:

An Earful of Music (1934); Dearie (1950); Eadie Was a Lady (1933); How Deep Is the Ocean? (1932); I Get a Kick Out of You (1935); I Said My Pajamas (And Put On My Prayers) (1950); If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake (1950); Move It Over (1943); Once Upon a Nickel (1951); They Say It's Wonderful (1946); You're Just in Love (1951); You're the Top (1934).

Movies and television:

A Salute to American Imagination (1978); A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); Airplane! (1980); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); All That Jazz (1979); All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); All-Star Inaugural Gala (1981); American Experience (2006–2023); American Masters (1990–2017); AMV Hell (2004); An Evening with Ethel Merman (1965); Annie Get Your Gun (1967); Answer the Call (1953); Anything Goes (1936); Around the World of Mike Todd (1967); Arrested Development (2005); At Long Last Cole (1975); Batman (1967); Batmania from Comics to Screen (1989); Be Like Me (1931); Behind the Music (1998); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Biography (1987–2001); Bones (2006); Broadway (1973); Broadway! A Special Salute (1982); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Call Me Madam (1953); Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); Cilla (1973); Cinerama Adventure (2002); Designing Women (1991); Dinah! (1975–1976); Dinner with the President (1953); Discovery (1995); Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000); Evening at Pops (1976); Follow the Leader (1930); Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (1990); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); General Electric Theater (1956); Good Morning America (1979); Good Morning Britain (2019); Great Broadway Musical Moments from the Ed Sullivan Show (2015); Great Performances (1981–2005); Gypsy (1967); Happy Landing (1938); Hee Haw (1980); Her Future (1930); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood (2020); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood at War: A Compilation of War Time Shorts (1980); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); I'm Dying Up Here (2017); In & Out (1997); Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (1949); Ireno (1932); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023); I've Got a Secret (1965); Joey (2004); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Journey Back to Oz (1972); Kid Millions (1934); Kitty from Kansas City (1932); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956); Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1932); Little Voice (1998); Maggie Brown (1963); Marilyn (1963); Masquerade Party (1956); Match Game (1975–1978); Match Game PM (1976–1978); Max Liebman Spectaculars (1956); Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (2010); Michael Grade's Stars of the Musical Theatre (2014); Muppet Video: Muppet Treasures (1985); Musical Comedy Tonight (1979); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Of Muppets and Men: The Making of 'The Muppet Show' (1981); Old Man Blues (1931); On Broadway Tonight (1965); Our World (1987); Panama Hattie (1954); Parkinson (1974); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Paul Anka ... Music My Way (1977); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957–1963); Person to Person (1955); Personality (1967–1968); Reboot (2022); Roaming (1931); Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979); RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (2012); 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin (1972); Saturday Night Live (1987); Screen Goddesses (2005); Sha Na Na (1977); Shower of Stars (1955); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sinatra: The Classic Duets (2002); Six by Sondheim (2013); Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1991); Song Shopping (1933); Special Collector's Edition (2010); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Startime (1959–1960); Steve & Eydie: From This Moment On... Cole Porter (1977); Straight Place and Show (1938); Strike Me Pink (1936); Stuart Saves His Family (1995); Super Night at Forest Hills (1977); Tarzan (1967); Telescope (1963); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); Terms of Endearment (1983); Texaco Star Theater: Opening Night (1982); That Girl (1967–1968); That's Life (1968); The 1976 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1976); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame (1984); The 23rd Annual Tony Awards (1969); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The Art of Love (1965); The Arthur Murray Party (1956–1960); The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope (1960); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960–1964); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Best of the Royal Variety (2006); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Bob Hope Show (1962); The Bobby Vinton Show (1976); The Carol Burnett Show (1969); The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion (1993); The Cave Club (1930); The Chevy Show (1955); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1953–1954); The David Steinberg Show (1977); The Dean Martin Show (1965–1968); The Delegate (2006); The Devil Sea (1931); The Dick Cavett Show (1973); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1958); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1971); The Eddie Fisher Show (1958); The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017); The Factor (2008–2014); The First 100 Years of Recorded Music (1981); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame (1993); The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The Hollywood Palace (1966–1982); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1975–1976); The Jerry Lewis Show (1963); The Jerry Lewis Show: From This Moment On (1962); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1969); The Joy of Disco (2012); The Judy Garland Show (1963–1964); The Late Shift (1995); The Les Crane Show (1964); The Love Boat (1979–1982); The Lucy Show (1964); The Match Game (1965–1969); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1978); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Monte Carlo Show (1981); The Muppet Show (1977); The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979); The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986); The Next Best Thing (2000); The People's Command Performance (1978); The Red Skelton Hour (1963); The Royal Variety Performance 1982 (1982); The Secret Disco Revolution (2012); The Sugarcube Critic (2014); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965–1992); The Wonder Years (1989); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Show Business (1950); This Is Your Life (1971); Time on My Hands (1932); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (1984); Vacation Playhouse (1963); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1964); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); Welcome to the Basement (2015); We're Not Dressing (1934); What's My Line? (1963–1972); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (2008); You Try Somebody Else (1932); You're Gonna Love It Here (1977); Zeit.geschichte (2018).

Rainer Maria Rilke, on writing:

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing ... then you are a writer.

- Rainer Maria Rilke.

On this day in movie history - Carl Laemmle (2019):

Carl Laemmle

documentary directed and written by James L. Freedman,

was released at the Miami Jewish Film Festival in the United States on January 15, 2019.
Narrated by James L. Freedman.
Music by David Carbonara.

Cast:

Antonia Carlotta, Ahilan Arulanantham, Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Colin Clive, Buffalo Bill Cody, Melvyn Douglas, George Eastman, Thomas A. Edison, Bramwell Fletcher, John Ford, James L. Freedman, Willie Garson, Will H. Hays, Marvin Hier, Cordell Hull, Boris Karloff, Paul Kohner, Richard Koszarski, Rosemary Laemmle Hilb, Carla Laemmle, Florence Lawrence, Breckenridge Long, Bela Lugosi, Werner Maas, Leonard Maltin, Ron Meyer, Ludwig Muhlfelder, Max Obernauer, Jeff Pirtle, Joseph Roos, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anthony Slide, Irving Thalberg, Ernest Thesiger, Lupita Tovar Kohner, Woodrow Wilson, William Wyler, Carl Laemmle Jr., Carl Laemmle.

On this day in television history - Justified (2013):

Justified

Season 4. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Where’s Waldo?

Released January 15, 2013.

Directed by Bill Johnson.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Jere Burns, Ron Eldard, Joseph Mazzello, Robert Baker, Jim Beaver, Joshua Close, Dave Florek, Beth Grant, Jenn Lyon, David Meunier, Abby Miller, Lindsay Pulsipher, Don Harvey, Ethan Jamieson, Ted Welch, Cody Bassett, Jonathan Camp, Daryl Crittenden, Jessa French, George Jonson, Jonathan Kowalsky, Jesse Luken, JT Alexander, Chris Castle, Donald Cerrone, Eric Corbin, Trevor Hammonds.