Friday, August 30, 2024

Born on this day – William Duell:


William Duell

Actor

Singer

August 30, 1923 – December 22, 2011

Born on this day – Julie Bishop:


Julie Bishop

Actress

August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001

Credits:

Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Any Old Port! (1932); Back in the Saddle (1941); Behind Prison Gates (1939); Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923); Busses Roar (1942); Captain Blood (1924); Challenge the Wilderness (1951); Children of Jazz (1923); Cinderella Jones (1946); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Clancy of the Mounted (1933); Classified (1925); Coronado (1935); Counsel for Crime (1937); Dateline: Disneyland (1955); Deputy Marshal (1949); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924); Escape from Crime (1942); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Fireside Theatre (1954); Flight Into Nowhere (1938); Flight to Fame (1938); Girl in 313 (1940); Girls Can Play (1937); Happy Landing (1934); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius / Universal Horror (1998); Headline Hunters (1955); Her First Romance (1940); Heroes of the West (1932); High Tide (1947); Highway Patrol (1938); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood on Parade No. B-13 (1934); I Was Framed (1942); Idea Girl (1946); In Walked Charley (1932); International Squadron (1941); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); Lady Gangster (1942); Last of the Redmen (1947); Lights Out (1932); Little Miss Roughneck (1938); Maytime (1923); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); My Hero (1952–1953); My Son Is a Criminal (1939); My Son Is Guilty (1939); Night Cargo (1936); None But the Brave (1928); Northern Pursuit (1943); Paid to Dance (1937); Princess O'Rourke (1943); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Sabre Jet (1953); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); Scareheads (1931); Secrets of Beauty (1951); She Married an Artist (1937); Skip the Maloo! (1931); Spring Madness (1938); Square Shooter (1935); Steel Against the Sky (1941); Strange Conquest (1946); Tarzan the Fearless (1933 / 1964); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Bar-C Mystery (1926); The Big Land (1957); The Black Cat (1934); The Bob Cummings Show (1956); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Family Upstairs (1926); The Frame-Up (1937); The Golden Bed (1925); The Good Bad Boy (1924); The Hard Way (1943); The Hidden Hand (1942); The High and the Mighty (1954); The Home Maker (1925); The Kansas Terrors (1939); The Knockout (1932); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Little Adventuress (1938); The Loudspeaker (1934); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Main Event (1938); The Nurse's Secret (1941); The Ranger and the Lady (1940); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Threat (1949); Tillie and Gus (1933); Torture Ship (1939); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); Westward the Women (1951); When G-Men Step In (1938); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); You Came Along (1945); Young Bill Hickok (1940); You're Telling Me (1932); Zwei Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel (1932).

Born on this day – Joan Blondell:


Joan Blondell

Actress

August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979

Credits:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); About Faces (1960); Ace of the Mounties (1966); Advance to the Rear (1964); Adventure (1945); Adventures in Paradise (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1975); All Star Revue (1951–1953); An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930); Anatomy of a Crime (1969); And Baby Makes Three (1966); And She Learned About Dames (1934); Angel Baby (1961); Back in Circulation (1937); Banyon (1972); Battered (1978); Big Breakdowns: Hollywood Bloopers of the 1930s (1991); Big Business Girl (1931); Big City Blues (1932); Big Daddy (1969); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blondie Johnson (1933); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bobby Parker and Company (1974); Bogart (1967); Bonanza (1964); Breakdowns of 1939 (1940); Broadway Bad (1933); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broadway's Like That (1930); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers (1969); Carroll O'Connor Special (1973); Central Park (1932); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Classic Movie Bloopers (1990); Colleen (1936); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Complicated Women (2003); Convention City (1933); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Dames (1934); Death at Love House (1976); Death Valley Days (1963); Desk Set (1957); Don Juan Quilligan (1945); Donahue (1972); Dr. Kildare (1964); East Side of Heaven (1939); Family Affair (1967); Fantasy Island (1979); Feud (2017); Fireside Theatre (1955); Footlight Parade (1933); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); For Heaven's Sake (1950); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); General Electric Theater (1955); God's Gift to Women (1931); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Goodbye Again (1933); Grease (1978); Havana Widows (1933); He Was Her Man (1934); Here Come the Brides (1968–1970); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Newsreel (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones, No. 2: 'Chip Shots' (1931); I Want a Divorce (1940); Illicit (1931); Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (1950); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got Your Number (1934); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Just Around the Corner (1933); Kansas City Princess (1934); Kona Coast (1968); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Ladies Before Gentlemen (1951); Lady for a Night (1942); Lawyer Man (1932); Lizzie (1957); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Swinging Surgeon / Love and the Lovesick Sailor (1971–1973); Lux Playhouse (1959); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Make Me a Star (1932); McCloud (1971); Medical Center (1973); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Millie (1931); Miss Pacific Fleet (1935); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Model Wife (1941); Movie Bloopers (1988); Mrs. Thursday (1967); My Past (1931); My Three Sons (1965); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Night Nurse (1931); Nightmare Alley (1947); Off the Record (1939); Opening Night (1977); Other Men's Women (1930); Penthouse Party (1950); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1950); Person to Person (1959); Petticoat Junction (1968); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Police Story (1975); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935); Shower of Stars (1955); Sinners' Holiday (1930); Slattery's People (1965); Smarty (1934); Sons o' Guns (1936); Stage Struck (1936); Stand-In (1937); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Stay Away, Joe (1968); Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989); Studio One (1958); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971); Suspense (1953); Sweepstakes (1979); Switch (1976); Talent Scout (1937); That Girl (1968); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Arthur Murray Party (1950); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Baron (1977); The Blue Veil (1951); The Champ (1979); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle (1965); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950 / 1954); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); The Crowd Roars (1932); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dead Don't Die (1975); The Devil's Parade (1930); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Glove (1979); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967); The Heart Breaker (1930); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kid from Kokomo (1939); The King and the Chorus Girl (1937); The Love Boat (1978); The Lucy Show (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1972); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1955); The Movie Crazy Years (1971); The Movies (2019); The Name of the Game (1970); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973); The Office Wife (1930); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Outsider (1968); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Phynx (1970); The Public Enemy (1931); The Real McCoys (1963); The Rebels (1979); The Reckless Hour (1931); The Rookies (1973); The Snoop Sisters (1974); The Spy in the Green Hat (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Untouchables (1961); The Virginian (1963); 20 Questions (1950); The Witness (1961); The Woman Inside (1981); There's Always a Woman (1938); Things You Never See on the Screen (1935); This Could Be the Night (1957); Three Girls About Town (1941); Three Men on a Horse (1936); Three on a Match (1932); Topper Returns (1941); Traveling Saleslady (1935); Tribute to Bogart (1972); TV Club (1951); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Union Depot (1932); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Wagon Train (1963); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); Waterhole #3 (1967); We're in the Money (1935); What's My Line? (1950); When the Talkies Were Young (1955); Who Said That? (1949); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Winchester '73 (1967); Winner Take All (1975); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976).

Born on this day – Edwin J. Burke:


Edwin J. Burke

Writer

Director

August 30, 1889 – September 26, 1944

Born on this day – Fritzi Scheff:


Fritzi Scheff

Actress

Singer

August 30, 1879 – April 8, 1954

Credits:

This Is Your Life (1954); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); Musical Comedy Time (1951); The Robert Q. Lewis Show (1950); We, the People (1949); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1953); Naughty Martine (1947); Follies Girl (1943); Pretty Mrs. Smith (1915); Animated Weekly, No. 112 (1914).

Born on this day – Mary Shelley:


Mary Shelley

Writer

August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851

Credits:

Frankenstein (1818); The Last Man (1826); The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830); Lodore (aka The Beautiful Widow) (1835); Falkner (1837); Proserpine and Midas (1922); Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot (1998); The Mortal Immortal (1831); The Mourner and Other Stories (1993); Transformation (1831); The Invisible Girl, and The Dream (1831); The Pilgrims (1837); The Heir of Mondolfo (1877).

Movies and television:

A Book and Its Cover (2020); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Adam (2023); Adam Heatherly's Frankenstein! (2022); Adam in aeternum (2021); Allen and Rossi Meet Dracula and Frankenstein (1974); Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999); Army of Frankensteins (2013); Bikini Frankenstein (2010); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); Bride of Re-Animator (1990); Canavar Gibi (2018); Carry on Christmas (1969); Cineficción Radio (2019–2021); Creature (2023); Deadly Tales (1998); Depraved (2019); Doctor Franken (1980); Doctor Stein (2019); Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972); Edison's Frankenstein (1990); English the Move: 4Ever After (2023); Erica (2019); Flesh for Frankenstein (1973); Flesh for Frankenstein (1988); Frank (2019); Frankensitter (2020); Frankenstein (1910 / 1931 / 1984 / 1986 / 1990 / 1992 / 1994 / 2004 / 2015 / 2023); Frankenstein / miniseries (2004); Frankenstein 1970 (1958); Frankenstein 90 (1984); Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974); Frankenstein by Moisés Neto - Silent Version (1989); Frankenstein from the Royal Ballet (2016); Frankenstein General Hospital (1988); Frankenstein in Love (2017); Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969); Frankenstein Punk (1986); Frankenstein Reborn (2005); Frankenstein Rising (2010); Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965); Frankenstein: A Love Story (1974); Frankenstein: A Modern Myth (2012); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (1995); Frankensteinin lapsi (2010); Frankenstein's Army (2013); Frankenstein's Aunt (1987); Frankenstein's Master (2013); Frankenstein's Monster (1983); Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999); Great British Theatre (2021); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); I riassuntini (2018); I, Frankenstein (2014); Lady Frankenstein (1971); Life Without Soul (1915); LSD Frankenstein (2002); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977); Mary Shelley's the Mortal Immortal (2021); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Matinee Theatre (1957); Monica and Friends (1997); Monster Mash: The Movie (1995); Monster of Frankenstein (1981); Monsterz (2015); Mystery and Imagination (1968); Naan Vanangum Daivam (1963); National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011); O Frankenstein! (2014); Potty Time (1973); Pretty Face (2021); Quaranstein (2020); Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein (1999); Siesta Z (2017); Son of Frankenstein (1939); Spark of Being (2010); Struck by Lightning (1979); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010); Terror of Frankenstein (1977); The Bride (1985); The Curse of Frankenstein (1957); The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1965); The Frankenstein Theory (2013); The Horror of Frankenstein (1970); The Interactive History of Frankenstein (1995); The Last Man (2008); The Monster of Frankenstein (1921); The Moon, The Bat, The Monster (2019); The Mortal Immortal (2024); The Prometheus Project (2010); The Real Frankenstein: An Untold Story (1995); The Reckoning of Darkness (2018); The Sick and Twisted Tale of Frankenstein (2015); The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray (1914); The Ultimate Lover (1986); The Ultimate Sacrifice (2021); The Weary Traveler (2016); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Victor Frankenstein (2015); Weird (2022); Wishbone (1995); Young Frankenstein (1974).

Don't forget to recharge your minds every night:


Read to recharge your mind.
Reading stimulates the imagination.