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

Jane Wyatt in Star Trek.

Credits:

13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 20 Questions (1951); 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (1990); A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1977); A Most Unusual Man (1993); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1982); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Amelia Earhart (1976); Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989); Army Surgeon (1942); Baby Boom (1988); Bad Boy (1949); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Boomerang! (1947); Buckskin Frontier (1943); Canadian Pacific (1949); CBS Playhouse (1968); Chesterfield Presents (1952); Compression (2025); Confidential for Women (1966); Criminal Lawyer (1951); Family Theatre (1953); Fantasy Island (1978–1983); Father Knows Best (1954–1960); Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas (1977); Finding Shangri-La (2007); Fireside Theatre (1952); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); Frank Capra's American Dream (1997); Funny Women of Television (1991); Gemini Man (1976); General Electric Theater (1961); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); Gibbsville (1976); Girl from God's Country (1940); Girl Talk (1966); Going My Way (1963); Great Expectations (1934); Gypsy (1966); Happy Days (1982); Here Come the Brides (1970); Here's Hollywood (1961); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Home (1956); Hotel (1983–1987); Hour Magazine (1982); House by the River (1950); Hurricane Smith (1941); Insight (1966–1970); Interlude (1957); Katherine (1975); Kisses for Breakfast (1941); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Leave It to the Girls (1953); Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987); Lights Out (1952); Live with Kelly and Mark (1990); Lost Horizon (1937); Lost Horizon: Before and After Comparison (1999); Love, American Style (1969); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); March of Dimes Presents: Once Upon a Dime (1963); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1974); Medical Center (1975); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); My Blue Heaven (1950); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986); Neighbors (1971); Never Too Late (1965); No Minor Vices (1948); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Oh My Word (1966); On Your Way (1953); One More River (1934); Our Very Own (1950); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1974); Password (1962–1966); Philbin's People (1970); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942); Pioneers of Television (2014); Pitfall (1948); Play of the Week (1961); Playwrights '56 (1955); Prime Times (1983); Quincy, M.E. (1980); Reagan (2011); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 3 (1936); See How They Run (1964); St. Elsewhere (1983–1988); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986); Starman (1986); Story of a Family (1960); Strange Conquest (1946); Studio One (1952–1958); Super Password (1987); Superdome (1978); Task Force (1949); TCM Remembers 2006 (2006); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The 10th Annual American Cinema Awards (1994); The 10th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1958); The 12th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1960); The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 6th Annual American Cinema Awards (1989); The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards (1991); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Bachelor's Daughters (1946); The Bell Telephone Hour (1961–1963); The Chevy Show (1961); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Father Knows Best Reunion (1977); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1970); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1999); The Kansan (1943); The Kraft Music Hall (1970); The Love Boat (1979–1987); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Magical World of Disney (1977); The Making of 'Lost Horizon' (1999); The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950); The Match Game (1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1972–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1964); The Millionaire (1978); The Motorola Television Hour (1953–1954); The Nativity (1978); The Navy Comes Through (1942); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Special 84th Birthday Celebration for Buddy Ebsen (1992); The Steve Allen Show (1959); The Two Little Bears (1961); The Virginian (1964–1970); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992); This Is Show Business (1950); This Is Your Life (1973); Through Wendy's Window (1950); Today (1956); Tom Sawyer (1973); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); TV We Love (2025); Wagon Train (1962); Weekend for Three (1941); Weekend of Terror (1970); We're Only Human (1935); What's My Line? (1958); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Where Was I? (1952); You Don't Say (1967); You'll Never See Me Again (1973).Your First Impression (1963); Your Show of Shows (1952).

Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:

Gladys Bentley

Blues singer

Pianist

August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960

Credits:

Songs:

Before Midnight; Big Gorilla Man; Boogie Woogie Cue; Boogie'n My Woogie; Find out What He Likes; Fourth of July Boogie; Give It Up; Ground Hog Blues; How Long, How Long Blues; How Much Can I Stand; It Went to the Girl Next Door; Jingle Jangle Jump; June-Teeth Jamboree; Lay it on the Line; Lay It on the Line for Father; Moanful Wailin' Blues; Moanful Walkin' Blues; Red Beans And Rice; Red Beans and Rice Blues; Wild Geese Blues; Worried Blues.

Movies and television:

Before Stonewall (1984); Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024); Shirley (2020); You Bet Your Life (1958).

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).