Born on this day – E. G. Marshall:

E. G. Marshall

Actor

June 18, 1914 – August 24, 1998

Born on this day – Louis Alter:

Louis Alter

Composer

Pianist

Songwriter

June 18, 1902 – November 5, 1980

Born on this day – Jeanette MacDonald:

Jeanette MacDonald

Actress

Singer

June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965

Born on this day – Blanche Sweet:

Blanche Sweet

Actress

Producer

June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986

Credits:

A Chance Deception (1913); A Change of Spirit (1912); A Corner in Wheat (1909); A Country Cupid (1911); A Cure for Suffragettes (1913); A Decree of Destiny (1911); A Flash of Light (1910); A Man with Three Wives (1909); A Pueblo Romance (1912); A Romance of the Western Hills (1910); A Sailor's Heart (1912); A Sister's Love (1912); A String of Pearls (1912); A Temporary Truce (1912); A Woman of Pleasure (1919); A Woman Scorned (1911); All on Account of the Milk (1910); Always Faithful (1929); American Masters (1993); An Outcast Among Outcasts (1912); Anna Christie (1923); Ashes of the Past (1914); Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982); Beyond All Law (1913); Blind Love (1912); Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925); Brave New Cowboy (1979); Broken Ways (1913); Camera Three (1975); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Choosing a Husband (1909); Classmates (1914); D.W. Griffith (1975); Death's Marathon (1913); Diplomacy (1926); Disclosure (2020); Enoch Arden: Part I (1911); Fashion News (1930); Fighting Blood (1911); Fighting Cressy (1919); Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 (1947); Flicker Flashbacks No. 3, Series 2 (1945); For Her Father's Sins (1914); For His Son (1912); For Those Unborn (1914); Girl Talk (1966); Heart Beats of Long Ago (1911); Help Wanted - Male (1920); Her Awakening (1914); Her Unwilling Husband (1920); Her Wedding Bell (1913); His Daughter (1911); His Supreme Moment (1925); Hollywood (1980); Home, Sweet Home (1914); How She Triumphed (1911); If We Only Knew (1913); In Little Italy (1909); In the Palace of the King (1923); Judith of Bethulia (1914); Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913); Love in Quarantine (1910); Love in the Hills (1911); Man's Lust for Gold (1912); March of the Movies (1933); Men and Women (1914); Oil and Water (1913); One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912); Out from the Shadow (1911); Pirate Gold (1913); Priscilla and the Umbrella (1911); Priscilla's April Fool Joke (1911); Proposta in quattro parti (1985); Public Opinion (1916); Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922); Screen Snapshots No. 2 (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 6 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 6 (1922); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Simple Souls (1920); Singed (1927); Souls for Sale (1923); Stolen Goods (1915); Strongheart (1914); Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924); That Girl Montana (1921); The Amazing Years of Cinema (1976); The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914); The Battle (1911); The Blacklist (1916); The Blind Princess and the Poet (1911); The Broken Cross (1911); The Captive (1915); The Case of Becky (1915); The Chief's Blanket (1912); The Clue (1915); The Coming of Angelo (1913); The Country Lovers (1911); The Day After (1909); The Deadlier Sex (1920); The Dupe (1916); The Escape (1914); The Eternal Mother (1912); The Evil Eye (1917); The Far Cry (1926); The Five Pennies (1959); The Girl in the Web (1920); The God Within (1912); The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912); The Hero of Little Italy (1913); The House of Discord (1913); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Human Mill (1923); The Hushed Hour (1919); The Indian Brothers (1911); The Kid (1910); The Lady from Hell (1926); The Last Drop of Water (1911); The Lesser Evil (1912); The Lily of the Tenements (1911); The Little Country Mouse (1914); The Lonedale Operator (1911); The Long Road (1911); The Making of a Man (1911); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1960); The Massacre (1912); The Meanest Man in the World (1923); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Miser's Heart (1911); The Mistake (1913); The Movie Album #2 (1932); The New Commandment (1925); The New Dress (1911); The Odalisque (1914); The Old Bookkeeper (1912); The Old Maid (1914); The Painted Lady (1912); The Painted Lady (1914); The Primal Call (1911); The Punishment (1912); The Ragamuffin (1916); The Rocky Road (1910); The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914); The Secret Orchard (1915); The Secret Sin (1915); The Sentimental Sister (1914); The Silent Partner (1917); The Silver Horde (1930); The Smile of a Child (1911); The Soul of Honor (1914); The Sowers (1916); The Spanish Gypsy (1911); The Spirit Awakened (1912); The Sporting Venus (1925); The Stolen Bride (1913); The Storm (1916); The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of (1911); The Tear That Burned (1914); The Thin Man (1958); The Thousand-Dollar Husband (1916); The Tides of Barnegat (1917); The Transformation of Mike (1912); The Twentieth Century (1959); The Two Paths (1911); The Unpardonable Sin (1919); The Vengeance of Galora (1913); The Villain Foiled (1911); The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (1930); The Voice of the Child (1911); The Warrens of Virginia (1915); The Wedding Gown (1913); The White Rose of the Wilds (1911); The Woman in White (1929); The Woman Racket (1930); This Is Your Life (1963); Those Who Dance (1924); Those Without Sin (1917); Three Friends (1913); Through Darkened Vales (1911); To Save Her Soul (1909); Twenty Years After (1944); Two Men of the Desert (1913); Under Burning Skies (1912); Unprotected (1916); Was He a Coward? (1911); Why Women Love (1925); With the Enemy's Help (1912).

Born on this day – Mae Busch:

Mae Busch

Actress

June 18, 1891 – April 20, 1946

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); A Bath House Blunder (1916); A Divorce Courtship (1933); A Favorite Fool (1915); A Human Hound's Triumph (1915); A Man's Man (1929); A Parisian Scandal (1921); A Rascal's Wolfish Ways (1915); A Woman Who Sinned (1924); Alibi (1929); Ambrose's Sour Grapes (1915); Because He Loved Her (1916); Beloved (1934); Better Late Than Never (1916); Bing Bang (1917); Black Butterflies (1928); Blondie Johnson (1933); Bread (1924); Broken Barriers (1924); Brothers Under the Skin (1922); Camille of the Barbary Coast (1925); Cheating Blondes (1933); Chickens Come Home (1931); Come Clean (1931); Compression (2020); Cross My Heart (1946); Dance of the Cookoos (1982); Dance, Girl, Dance (1933); Daughter of Shanghai (1937); Defenders of the Law (1931); Dick und Doof in 1000 Nöten (1958); Doctor X (1932); Ducky Dear (1933); Easy to Take (1936); Extra! Extra! (1932); Fangs of the Wild (1939); Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915); Fazil (1928); Flaming Love (1925); Fly My Kite (1931); Foolish Wives (1922); Fools of Fashion (1926); For Better - But Worse (1915); French Fried Patootie (1941); Going Bye-Bye! (1934); Hello, Annapolis (1942); Her Husband's Friend (1920); Her Own Money (1922); High Hats and Low Brows (1932); Hogan, the Porter (1915); Husband Hunters (1927); I Like It That Way (1934); Ladies' Man (1947); Lilly Turner (1933); Love 'Em and Weep (1927); Love in Armor (1915); Marie Antoinette (1938); Married Flirts (1924); Masquerade in Mexico (1945); Merely a Married Man (1915); Name the Man! (1924); Nancy Drew: Detective (1938); Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model (1924); Oliver the Eighth (1934); Only a Shop Girl (1922); Out All Night (1933); Pardon My Nerve! (1922); Perch of the Devil (1927); Picture Brides (1934); Prison Farm (1938); San Francisco Nights (1928); Scandal Street (1938); Scarlet Dawn (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 15 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 7 (1923); Secrets of Hollywood (1933); Settled at the Seaside (1915); Slow Poison (1931); Something to Shout About (1943); Sons of the Desert (1933); Souls for Sale (1923); Sucker Money (1933); That's That! (1938); The Accusing Finger (1936); The Affair of Susan (1935); The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936); The Beauty Shoppers (1927); The Best of Enemies (1915); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Blue Dahlia (1946); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Bride of the Colorado (1928); The Bride Wore Boots (1946); The Buccaneer (1938); The Christian (1923); The Devil's Passkey (1920); The Egyptian Mummy (1916); The Fair Barbarian (1917); The Fixer Uppers (1935); The Folly of Fanchette (1917); The Grim Game (1919); The Heart Punch (1932); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Live Ghost (1934); The Lone Ranger (1920); The Love Charm (1921); The Mad Monster (1942); The Man Called Back (1932); The Miracle of Life (1926); The Nutcracker (1926); The Purchase Price (1932); The Racing Strain (1932); The Rent Jumpers (1915); The Rider of Death Valley (1932); The Road to Ruin (1934); The Rounders / Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (1915); The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924); The Stork Club (1945); The Triflers (1924); The Truthful Sex (1926); The Unholy Three (1925); The Worst of Friends (1916); Their First Mistake (1932); Them Thar Hills (1934); Those Bitter Sweets (1915); Time, the Comedian (1925); Tit for Tat (1935); Tongues of Scandal (1927); Toplitsky and Company / A One Night Stand (1915); Unaccustomed As We Are (1929); While the City Sleeps (1928); Wicked (1931); Without Honor (1932); Women Without Names (1940); Women Won't Tell (1932); Ye Olden Grafter (1915); Young Desire (1930); Ziegfeld Girl (1941); Zwei Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel (1932).

Born on this day – Elisabeth Sanxay Holding:

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Writer

June 18, 1889 – February 7, 1955

Credits:

Books:

A Dinner Date (1929); A Hesitating Cinderella (1923); A Man Can Take It (1934); All She Could Get (1934); Angelica (1921); Angelica (1921); Another Baby (1941); As Is (1925); As Patrick Henry Said (1925); Bait for a Killer / aka The Blue Envelope (1944 / 1959 / 1960); Be Careful, Mrs. Williams (1947); Benedicta (1923); Blonde on a Boat (1939); Blotted Out (1926); Bonnie Wee Thing (1926); Brides of Crime (1931); Broken Faith (1929 / 1930); By the Light of Day (1927); Can Do! (1936); Carline (1929); Cross Purposes (1936); Dare-Devil (1929); Dark Power (1930); Derelict (1928); Dogs Always Know (1926); Drifting (1937); Echo of a Careless Voice (1938); Farewell to a Corpse (1946); Flow and Ebb (1929); Flowers for Miss Riordan (1925); For Granted (1927); Friday, the Nineteenth (1950); Funny Kind of Love (1945); Game for Four Players (1958); Glitter of Diamonds (1955); Half an Hour Late (1928); Hanging’s Too Good for Him (1922); Hard as Nails (1928); Highfalutin’ (1926); His Own People (1924); His Remarkable Future (1924); Home Fires (1926); Hound’s Bay (1932); Human Nature Unmasked (1926); I Could Brighten Your Life! (1935); If It Hadn’t Been for Laurel (1933); Illusion (1938); Important Things (1928); Inches and Ells (1928); Incompatibility (1927); Invincible Minnie (1920); It Is a Two-Edged Sword (1928); It Seemed Reasonable (1923); It’s All Right for Men (1931); Kill Joy / Murder is a Kill-Joy (1942); Lady Killer (1942); Late Date (1940); Like a Leopard (1922); Little Deeds of Kindness (1929); Lost (1936); Lost Luck (1922); Loved I Not Honor More (1941); Marie’s View of It (1920); Miasma (1929); Miss Cigale (1926); Miss Kelly (1947); Miss What’s-Her-Name (1925); Mollie: The Ideal Nurse (1921); Money Can’t Buy It (1939); Most Audacious Crime (1954); Mr. Martin Swallows the Anchor (1924); Net of Cobwebs (1945); Nickie and Pem (1924); Night Life (1936); Nobody Would Listen (1935); Not Goodbye But Au Revoir (1942); Old Dog Tray (1923); On Yonder Lea (1940); One Misty Night (1928); Open That Door (1939); Out of the Woods (1923); Outside the Door (1928); Patrick on the Mountain (1920); People Do Fall Downstairs (1947 / 1949); Proposal (1940); Rosaleen Among the Artists (1921); Rosalie Gets Out of the Cage (1926); Rose-Leaves (1930); Saving Up (1929); Scandal (1936); Shadow of Wings (1954); So Sort of Proud (1939); Somebody’s Cynthia (1935); Sometimes Things Do Happen (1925); Speak of the Devil (1941); That’s Not Love (1926); The Aforementioned Infant (1923); The Blank Wall (1947); The Blank Wall (1959); The Bride Comes Home (1935); The Chain of Death (1930); The Compromising Letter (1926); The Darling Doctor (1957); The Death Wish (1934 / 1953); The Fearful Night / aka The Obstinate Murderer (1941); The Foreign Woman (1922); The Girl He Picked Up at Coney (1923); The Girl in Armor (1931); The Girl Who Had To Die (1940); The Good Little Pal (1925); The Grateful Lunella (1927); The Green Bathtub (1934); The Innocent Mrs. Duff (1946); The Kiskadee Bird (1944); The Last Night (1934); The Long Night (1925); The Marquis of Carabas (1923); The Married Man (1921); The Matador (1923); The Net of Cobwebs (1945); The Nicest Little Lunch (1937); The Obstinate Murderer / aka No Harm Intended (1938); The Old Battle Ax (1943); The Old Battle-Ax (1943 / 1944); The Old Ways (1927); The Postponed Wedding (1923); The Preposterous Mrs. Manders (1932); The Problem that Perplexed Nicholson (1920); The Root of Evil (1935); The Sin of Angels (1929); The Strange Children (1955); The Strange Crime in Bermuda (1937); The Stranger in the Car (1949); The Thing Beyond Reason (1926); The Unbelievable Baroness (1945); The Unfinished Crime (1935); The Unlit Lamp (1922); The Virgin Huntress (1951); The Wonderful Little Woman (1925); The Worst Joke in the World (1925); They Take It So Lightly! (1938); Third Act (1937); This is Life (1923); This Road Is Closed (1928); Tomorrow’s Not Soon Enough (1941); Too French (1925); Too Late (1928); Too Many Bottles (1951); Tropical Secretary (1941); Two Passes for the Show (1938); Unscathed (1936); Vanity (1926); Vera’s Superior Smile (1929); Very, Very Dark Mink (1956 / 1957); Wedding Day (1937); What It Takes (1941); Who Is This Impossible Person? (1924); Who's Afraid? / Trial By Murder (1940); Widow's Mite (1953); With Unbowed Head (1923); Without Benefit of Police (1929); Ye Gods and Little Fishes (1924); You Never Can Tell (1935 / 1936).

Movies and television:

La candide madame Duff (2000); Lights Out (1951); Seeing Nellie Home (1943); The Bride Comes Home (1935); The Deep End (2001); The Price of Pleasure (1925); The Reckless Moment (1949); Vocalizing (1936).

Recommended reading - The Black Door, by Collin Wilcox (1967):

The Black Door

By Collin Wilcox.

ASIN: B0006BQEGW

Published by Dodd, Mead.

First published 1967.

ASIN: B0006BQEGW

Description:

A crime reporter with ESP tackles a double homicide. In a San Francisco apartment building, a young woman is found strangled beside a piano player with a broken neck. He's a nobody – a dreamer with little talent and no future – but she is Roberta Grinnel, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the Bay Area. Stephen Drake, crime reporter for the "Sentinel," feels nothing when he looks at their corpses, and this is a troubling fact. For Drake is a psychic, and when his sixth sense fails him, that means more trouble ahead. As Drake tries to come to grips with his cosmic gift, the mystery of the heiress and the piano player becomes the hottest story in town. To keep his gig at the paper, Drake will call on every source he has – on this plane and the astral one – but knowing danger's lurking doesn't guarantee he can stay out of its way.