Sunday, September 13, 2026

Born on this day – Mae Questel:


Mae Questel


Actress

Voice of Betty Boop

September 13, 1908 – January 4, 1998

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1962); A Balmy Swami (1949); A Bout with a Trout (1947); A Clean Shaven Man (1936); A Date to Skate (1938); A Dream Walking (1934); A Haul in One (1956); A Haunting We Will Go (1949); A Job for a Gob (1955); A Majority of One (1961); Admission Free (1932); Adventures of Popeye (1935); After the Thin Man (1936); All's Fair at the Fair (1947); Alpine for You (1951); Ancient Fistory (1953); And the Green Grass Grew All Around (1931); Assault and Flattery (1956); Audrey the Rainmaker (1951); Axe Me Another (1934); Baby Wants a Battle (1953); Baby Wants Spinach (1950); Bargain Counter Attack (1946); Barking Dogs Don't Fite (1949); Beach Peach (1950); Beaus Will Be Beaus (1955); Bells Are Ringing (1960); Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons (2025); Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936); Betty Boop for President (1932); Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American (1935); Betty Boop, M.D. (1932); Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle (1932); Betty Boop's Birthday Party (1933); Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933); Betty Boop's Little Pal (1934); Betty Boop's Museum (1932); Betty Boop's Penthouse (1933); Betty Boop's Prize Show (1934); Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934); Betty Boop's Trial (1934); Betty Boop's Ups and Downs (1932); Bicep Built for Two (1955); Big Bad Sindbad (1952); Bimbo's Express (1931); Boos and Arrows (1954); Boos and Saddles (1953); Bored of Education (1946); Bride and Gloom (1954); Bridge Ahoy! (1936); Bull Fright (1955); Bunny Mooning (1937); Butterscotch and Soda (1948); Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938); Campus Capers (1949); Can You Take It (1934); Car-azy Drivers (1955); Cartoon Classics - Vol. 3: 25 Favorite Cartoons - 3 Hours (2019); Casper Genie (1954); Casper the Friendly Ghost - Boo Hoo Baby (1951); Casper the Friendly Ghost - Boo Scout (1951); Casper the Friendly Ghost - Cage Fright (1952); Casper the Friendly Ghost - Ghost of the Town (1952); Casper the Friendly Ghost - Once Upon a Rhyme (1950); Casper the Friendly Ghost - Spunky Skunky (1952); Casper the Friendly Ghost - The Deep Boo Sea (1952); Casper the Friendly Ghost - To Boo or Not to Boo (1951); Casper's Spree Under the Sea (1950); Chess-Nuts (1932); Chicken a la King (1937); Child Sockology (1953); Choose Your 'Weppins' (1935); Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936); Cock-a-Doodle Dino (1957); Cookin' with Gags (1955); Cops Is Tops (1955); Crazy-Town (1932); Dancing on the Moon (1935); Dawg Gawn (1958); Dizzy Dishes (1955); Double-Cross-Country Race (1951); Dutch Treat (1956); Educated Fish (1937); Felineous Assault (1959); Firemen's Brawl (1953); Floor Flusher (1954); For Better or Nurse (1945); For Better or Worser (1935); Fowl Play (1937); Fright to the Finish (1954); Frightday the 13th (1953); Fun on Furlough (1959); Funny Girl (1968); Ghost of Honor (1957); Ghost Writers (1958); Gift of Gag (1955); Goofy Goofy Gander (1950); Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936); Greek Mirthology (1954); Ground Hog Play (1956); Gym Jam (1950); Ha! Ha! Ha! (1934); Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow (1954); Hansel and Gretel (1958); Happy You and Merry Me (1936); Heir Restorer (1958); Hide and Shriek (1955); Hill-billing and Cooing (1956); Hold It (1938); Hold the Lion Please (1951); Hold the Wire (1936); Honest Love and True (1938); Hooky Spooky (1957); Hospitaliky (1937); Hot Air Aces (1949); Hot Resort (1985); House Cleaning Blues (1937); House Tricks? (1946); I Don't Scare (1956); I Eats My Spinach (1933); I Heard (1933); I Never Changes My Altitude (1937); I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936); Ice Scream (1957); I'll Be Skiing Ya (1947); Is My Palm Read (1933); I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936); It's Only Money (1962); Jitterbug Jive (1950); Just a Gigolo (1932); Just One More Chance (1932); Keep in Style (1934); Keep Your Grin Up (1955); King of the Mardi Gras (1935); Kitty Cornered (1955); Kitty from Kansas City (1931); Klondike Casanova (1946); Land of Lost Watches (1951); Land of the Lost Jewels (1950); Law and Audrey (1952); Learn Polikeness (1938); Leprechauns Gold (1949); Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1932); Let's Celebrake (1938); Let's Get Movin' (1936); Let's Stalk Spinach (1951); Line of Screammage (1956); Little Audrey Riding Hood (1955); Little Boo-Peep (1953); Little Lamby (1937); Little Swee'pea (1936); Lost and Foundry (1937); Lumberjack and Jill (1949); Lunch with a Punch (1952); Making Friends (1936); Mask-A-Raid (1931); Matty's Funday Funnies (1959); Mess Production (1945); Minding the Baby (1931); Miners Forty-Niners (1951); Minnie the Moocher (1932); Mister and Mistletoe (1955); More Pep (1936); Morning, Noon and Night Club (1937); Mouse Trapeze (1955); Move (1970); Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941); Musical Justice (1931); Mutiny Ain't Nice (1938); My Artistical Temperature (1937); Naked City (1962); National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989); Nearlyweds (1957); New Shoes (1936); New York Stories (1989); News Hound (1955); No Place Like Rome (1953); No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935); Not Ghoulty (1959); Not Now (1936); Nurse to Meet Ya (1955); Of Mice and Menace (1954); Olive Oyl for President (1948); One Hour with You (1932); Organ Grinder's Swing (1937); Out to Punch (1956); Parlez Vous Woo (1956); Peek-a-Boo (1957); Peep in the Deep (1946); Peeping Penguins (1937); Penguin for Your Thoughts (1956); Penny Antics (1955); Pig-a-Boo (1952); Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo (1944); Pleased to Meet Cha! (1935); Poor Cinderella (1934); Popeye and the Pirates (1947); Popeye for President (1956); Popeye Makes a Movie (1950); Popeye Meets Hercules (1948); Popeye the Sailor (1933); Popeye the Sailor (1960–1962); Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937); Popeye's 20th Anniversary (1954); Popeye's Mirthday (1953); Popeye's Premiere (1949); Pre-Hysterical Man (1948); Private Eye Popeye (1954); Protek the Weakerist (1937); Pudgy the Watchman (1938); Puppet Love (1944); Puss 'n' Boos (1954); Quick on the Vigor (1950); Robin Hood-Winked (1948); Rocket to Mars (1946); Romantic Melodies (1932); Rudy Vallee Melodies (1932); Santa's Surprise (1947); Scrappily Married (1945); Service with a Guile (1946); Shape Ahoy (1945); having Muggs (1953); She-Sick Sailors (1944); Shoein' Hosses (1934); Silly Hillbilly (1949); Silly Scandals (1931); Snap Happy (1945); Snow Foolin' (1949); Snow Place Like Home (1948); Snow-White (1933); So Does an Automobile (1939); Sock-a-Bye, Baby (1934); Somewhere in Dreamland (1935); Song of the Birds (1949); Spinach Packin' Popeye (1944); Spinach vs Hamburgers (1948); Spook and Span (1958); Spook No Evil (1953); Spooking with a Brogue (1955); Spooky Swabs (1957); Stop That Noise (1935); Stopping the Show (1932); Strong to the Finich (1934); Surf Bored (1953); Swab the Duck (1956); Swat the Fly (1935); Swimmer Take All (1952); Symphony in Spinach (1948); Taking the Blame (1935); Tar with a Star (1949); Tarts and Flowers (1950); Taxi-Turvy (1954); The Anvil Chorus Girl (1944); The Baby Sitter (1947); The Betty Boop Limited (1932); The Cobweb Hotel (1936); The Crystal Brawl (1957); The Dance Contest (1934); The Emerald Isle (1949); The Farmer and the Belle (1950); The Fistic Mystic (1946); The Football Toucher Downer (1937); The Friendly Ghost (1945); The Fulla Bluff Man (1940); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The House Builder-Upper (1938); The 'Hyp-Nut-Tist' (1935); The Impractical Joker (1937); The Island Fling (1946); The Kids in the Shoe (1935); The Lost Chick (1935); The Lost Dream (1949); The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934); The Playful Polar Bears (1938); The Royal Four-Flusher (1947); The Seapreme Court (1954); The Song of the Birds (1935); The Spinach Overture (1935); The Spinach Roadster (1936); The Tears of an Onion (1938); The Twisker Pitcher (1937); The Two-Alarm Fire (1934); There's Something About a Soldier (1934); Thrill of Fair (1951); Time on My Hands (1932); Tops in the Big Top (1945); Toreadorable (1953); Toys Will Be Toys (1949); True Boo (1952); Vacation with Play (1951); Valentine's Day (1964); Wayward (1932); We Aim to Please (1934); We Did It (1936); When My Ship Comes In (1934); Which Is Witch? (1958); Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); Winky-Dink and You (1953); Wotta Knight (1947); You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935); You're Not Built That Way (1936); Zelig (1983).

Born on this day – Gladys George:


Gladys George


Actress

September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954

Credits:

A Child Is Born (1939); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Alias a Gentleman (1948); Below the Surface (1920); Bright Leaf (1950); Century of Cinema (1995); Chevron Theatre (1953); Chickens (1921); Christmas Holiday (1944); Compression (2023); Detective Story (1951); Film Önü / Arkasi (2019); Flamingo Road (1949); Footlights Theater (1952); He Ran All the Way (1951); Here I Am a Stranger (1939); Hit the Road (1941); Homespun Folks (1920); Hopalong Cassidy (1954); I'm from Missouri (1939); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Love Is a Headache (1938); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); Madame X (1937); Marie Antoinette (1938); Millie's Daughter (1947); Minstrel Man (1944); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); Nobody's Darling (1943); Red Hot Dollars (1919); Silver City (1951); Steppin' in Society (1945); Straight Is the Way (1934); Strange Stories (1956); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Crooked Way (1949); The Crystal Ball (1943); The Easy Road (1921); The Hard Way (1943); The House Across the Bay (1940); The House That Jazz Built (1921); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); The Lineup (1954); The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Way of All Flesh (1940); The Woman in the Suitcase (1920); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Undercover Girl (1950); Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).

Born on this day – Claudette Colbert:


Claudette Colbert


Actress

September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); Access Hollywood / Segment: In Memory (1996); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980 / 1982); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); America at the Movies (1976); American Horror Story (2012); Arise, My Love (1940); Azzedine Alaïa: Un couturier français (2022); Back to the Present (2015); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biography (2005); Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938); Boom Town (1940); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Bride for Sale (1949); Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Cinema 3 (1988); City Confidential (2007); Cleopatra (1934); Climax! (1955); Colgate Theatre (1958); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2016); Conquer by the Clock / The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (1943); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (2012); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (2013); Daughters of Destiny / Segment: Elisabeth (1954); Discovering Film (2015); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Extraordinary Women (2011); Family Honeymoon (1948); Film Time (1955); For the Love of Mike (1927); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Four Frightened People (1934); Frontier Justice (1959); Garabatos Claudette Colbert (1944); General Electric Theater (1958); General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957); Guest Wife (1945); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942); His Woman (1931); History Brought to Life (1950); Hitchcock (2012); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (1934); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Honor Among Lovers (1931); I Cover the Waterfront (1933); I Met Him in Paris (1937); I'll Tell the World (1939); Imitation of Life (1934); It Happened One Night (1934); It's a Wonderful World (1939); La grande mare (1930); Land of Liberty (1939); L'énigmatique Monsieur Parkes (1930); Let's Make It Legal (1951); Maid of Salem (1937); Make Me a Star (1932); Manslaughter (1930); Midnight (1939); Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita (2023); No Time for Love (1943); Outpost in Malaya (1952); Parrish (1961); Playhouse 90 (1957); Pontiac Star Parade (1959); Practically Yours (1944); Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon (2006); Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (2006); Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe (2005); Private Worlds (1935); Remember the Day (1941); Robert Montgomery Presents (1956); Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Secrets of a Secretary (1931); She Married Her Boss (1935); Since You Went Away (1944); Siskel & Ebert (1996); Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020); Skylark (1941); Sleep, My Love (1948); So Proudly We Hail! (1943); Stars of the Silver Screen (2015); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1984); Suspicion (1958); Telephone Time (1957); Texas Lady (1955); That's Entertainment! III (1994); The 13th Annual Tony Awards (1959); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Bells of St. Mary's (1959); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The Big Pond (1930); The Bride Comes Home (1935); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The Egg and I (1947); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Claudette Colbert (1984); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Gilded Lily (1935); The Hole in the Wall (1929); The Hollywood You Never See (1934); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Jack Benny Program (1951); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Lady Lies (1929); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Magic Makers (2023); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The Many Faces of Cleopatra (2009); The Misleading Lady (1932); The Moviemakers (1984); The Naked Archaeologist (2005–2006); The Palm Beach Story (1942); The Phantom President (1932); The Secret Fury (1950); The Secret Heart (1946); The Sign of the Cross (1932); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Smiling Lieutenant (1931); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956–1958); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987); The Wiser Sex (1932); Third Adam 2: The Great Seduction (2020); Three Came Home (1950); Three Cornered Moon (1933); Thunder on the Hill (1951); Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Tonight Is Ours (1933); Torch Singer (1933); Under Two Flags (1936); Welcome to the Basement (2015); What's My Line? (1956–1959); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Without Reservations (1946); Yesterday's Witness (1972); Young Man of Manhattan (1930); Zane Grey Theatre (1957–1960); Zaza (1938).

Born on this day – Kathryn Boyd:


Kathryn Boyd


Actress

September 13, 1897 – March 16, 1965

Credits:

A Flying Ace Mystery (2022); Black Gold (1928); The Flying Ace (1926); Deceit (1923).

Born on this day – J. B. Priestley:


J. B. Priestley


Writer

September 13, 1894 – August 14, 1984

Credits:

Books:

A Visit to New Zealand (1974); Adam in Moonshine (1927); An Inspector Calls (1948); Angel Pavement (1930); Benighted (1927); Beyond Time (2019); Black Water (1983); Black-Out in Gretley (1942); Bodley Head Leacock (1957); Bright Day (1946); Britain Under Fire (1942); Charles Dickens and His World (1961); Classics of the Supernatural (1998); Daylight On Saturday (1944); Delight (1949); Dragon's Mouth (1952); English Humour (1929); English Journey (1934); Essays of Today and Yesterday (1935); Faraway (1932); Farthing Hall (1929); Festival at Farbridge (1951); Figures in Modern Literature (1924); Found, Lost, Found (1976); George Meredith (1926); Ghosts for Christmas (1988); Hauntings (1968); I for One (1923); I Have Been Here Before (1938); I'll Tell You Everything (1932); Instead of the Trees (1977); It's An Old Country (1967); Jenny Villiers (1947); Johnson over Jordan (1939); Journey Down a Rainbow (1955); Let the People Sing (1939); Letter To A Returning Serviceman (1945); Literature and Western Man (1960); London End (1968); London Stories (2013); Lost Empires (1965); Low Notes on a High Level (1954); Man and Time (1964); Margin Released (1962); Medley Macabre (1966); Midnight On the Desert (1937); My Six Favorite Plays (1978); Open House (1927); Our Nation's Heritage (1939); Out of the People (1941); Out of Town (1968); Outcries and Asides (1974); Over The Long High Wall (1972); Papers from Lilliput (1922); Particular Pleasures (1975); Postscripts aka Britain Speaks (1940); Rain Upon Godshill (1938); Realms of Darkness (1985); Salt is Leaving (1966); Saturn Over the Water (1961); Self-Selected Essays (1937); Sir Michael and Sir George (1966); Snoggle (1971); Spirits of the Season (2018); Stories of the Occult (1978); Tales of the Dark 3 (1988); Talking (1926); The 31st of June (1961); The 6th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970); The Art of the Dramatist (1957); The Balconinny (1930); The Book of Bodley Head Verse (1926); The Carfitt Crisis (1975); The Doomsday Men (1938); The Edwardians (1970); The English (1971); The English Comic Characters (1925); The Good Companions (1929); The Great Book of Humour (1935); The Happy Dream (1976); The High Toby (1948); The Magicians (1954); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Masque of the Red Death (1964); The Other Place (1953); The Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume I (1949); The Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume II (1949); The Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume III (1950); The Prince of Pleasure (1969); The Second Omnibus Book (1930); The Shapes of Sleep (1962); The Silver Ship (1932); The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Three (2018); The Wonderful World of the Theatre (1959); Theatre Outlook (1947); They Walk in the City (1936); Thomas Love Peacock (1966); Thoughts in the Wilderness (1957); Three Men in New Suits (1945); Time and the Conways (1937); Time Travelers (1997); Trumpets Over the Sea (1968); Victoria's Heyday (1972); When We Were Married (1938); Wonder Hero (1933).

Movies and television:

1940: A Reminiscence by J.B. Priestley (1965); A Severed Head (1971); Actor's Studio (1950); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1957); Alta comedia (1971–1974); An Evening with J.B. Priestley (1973); An Inspector Calls (1948 / 1954 / 1982 / 2015 / 2018 / 2020); Angel Pavement (1957–1967); Anoihtoi logariasmoi (2000); Armchair Theatre (1957); Au théâtre ce soir (1971–1979); Battle for Music (1943); BBC Play of the Month (1974–1983); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959); BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); Beshenoe zoloto (1977); Bright Shadow (1950); Britain at Bay (1940); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Ci sono già stato (1954); Conflict (1967); Conversations for Tomorrow (1964); Cornelius (1938); Dangerous Corner (1934 / 1946 / 1949 / 1965); De roos en de kroon (1963); Det er fra politiet (1960); Die Conways und die Zeit (1958); Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds (1962); Die Zeit und die Conways (1960); Doctor Who: The Cravat Doctor Adventures (2018); Doomsday for Dyson (1958); Eden End (1977); El teatro (1974); El temps i els Conway (1993); En inspektør ringer på (1961); Enas epitheoritis erhetai (1999); Encounter (1954); Ergens ligt een stad... (1964); Essi arrivarono a una città (1961); Estudio 1 (1967–2000); Gefährliche Kurve (1957); Gendel i gangstery (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1963); Great British Railway Journeys (2023); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Het begon in het paradijs (1960); Hidden History: The Lost Portraits of Bradford (2019); How the BBC Began (2022); I Have Been Here Before (1949 / 1964); Il tempo e la famiglia Conway (1954); In Front of the Children (1982); Inspektor Gull (1979); Inspektor sa vracia (1972); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1963); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1958); Jamaica Inn (1939); Jenny Villiers (1948); Kraft Theatre (1947–1951); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Laburnum Grove (1936 / 1938 / 1947); Last Holiday (1950 / 2006); Let the People Sing (1942); Little Ships (2010); Look Up and Laugh (1935); Lost City (1958); Lost Empires (1986); Matinee Theatre (1958); Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (1955); Music at Night (1952); Omnibus (1968–1969); On the Road (1980); On Trial (1960); One Man's Week (1971); One Pair of Eyes (1973); Onkel Phils Nachlaß (1965); Out of the Unknown (1966); Paradies auf erden (1967); Performance (1994); Playdate (1964); Primera fila (1963–1965); Prizraki zelyonoy komnaty (1992); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Salute to America (1939); Sau Jhooth Ek Sach (2004); Seit Adam und Eva (1955 / 1962); Shadows (1975); Silberhochzeit!?! (2015); Sing As We Go! (1934); Skandalnoye proishestviye v Brikmille (1981); Snoggl (1993); Snuki (1978); Somewhere in France (1942); Studio One (1952–1958); Summer Day's Dream (1949); Suspeita (1958); Tarkastaja tulee (1964); Teatro estudio (1977); Television Theater (1997); Teper pust ukhodit (1963); Thana Theke Aschi (1965 / 2010); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Germans Are Coming (2005); The Good Companions (1933 / 1949 / 1957 / 1980 / 1981); The Linden Tree (1949); The Long Mirror (1948); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1961); The Old Dark House (1932 / 1963); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The Rose and Crown (1946 / 1956 / 1963); The Time and the Conways (1966); The Venetian Door (1966); The Wednesday Play (1968); The Winslow Boy / A Touch of Venus (1969); The World at War (1973–1974); They Came to a City (1944); Thursday Theatre (1964–1965); Time and the Conways (1985); Timeshift (2015); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); To theatro ton neon (1973); Today (1968); Treasure on Pelican (1951); TV de Vanguarda (1954–1957); Un inspecteur vous demande (1965); Und das am Montagmorgen (1957 / 1959); Virage dangereux (1956); Vorhang auf! (1954); Vremya i semya Konvey (1984); We Live in Two Worlds (1937); Wenn wir verheiratet sind (1982); What Did You Do in the War, Auntie? 1939-45 (1995); When We Are Married (1938 / 1943 / 1949 / 1951 / 1957 / 1987); Whitehall Wonders (1949); You Know What People Are (1955); Zur Rose und Krone (1964).

Born on this day – Lewis E. Lawes:


Lewis E. Lawes


Prison warden

Writer

September 13, 1883 – April 23, 1947


Give vocational training to the manually minded,
and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.
– Lewis E. Lawes.

Credits:

Books:

20,000 Years in Sing Sing; Cell 202, Sing Sing; Invisible Stripes; Life and Death in Sing Sing; Man's Judgment of Death: An Analysis of the Operation and Effect of Capital Punishment Based on Facts, Not on Sentiment; Meet the Murderer!; Sing Sing; Stone and Steel: The Way of...; Strange Stories from Sing Sing; Where Do I Go From Here? The Life Story of a Forger as told to Robert O. Ballou.

Movies and television:

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Invisible Stripes (1939); Kalimat Sharaf (1972); Over the Wall (1938); You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939).

Born on this day – Giovanni Pastrone:


Giovanni Pastrone


Director

Writer

September 13, 1883 – June 27, 1959

Credits:

Agnese Visconti (1910); Al cinematografo guardate... e non toccata (1912); An Enemy of the Dust (1910); Cabiria (1914); Foolshead's Last Roguery (1911); Giordono Bruno (1908); Hedda Gabler (1920); Henry the Third (1909); Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916); Julius Caesar (1909); La glu (1908); La guerra ed il sogno di Momi (1917); La luz, tríptico de la vida moderna (1917); La moglie di Claudio (1918); L'oeil, le pinceau et le cinématographe : naissance d'un art (2021); Maciste atleta (1918); Marvelous Maciste (1915); Outwitting the Hun (1918); Più forte che Sherlock Holmes (1913); Povere bimbe (1923); Primavera di lacrime (1911); Rigoletto (1909); The Fall of Troy (1911); The Palace of Flames (1912); The Warrior (1916); Tigre reale (1916).