Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Born on this day – Margot Friedländer:


Margot Friedländer


Holocaust survivor

Advocate

Writer

November 5, 1921 – May 9, 2025

Credits:

Book:


Try to Make Your Life

A Jewish Girl Hiding in Nazi Berlin


By Margot Friedländer, with Ronald L. Kolb.

Published by BEA Press.
Published 2013,
First Edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1935034073
ISBN-13: 978-1935034070

Description:

On January 25, 1943, the day of a planned escape from Nazi Germany, 22-year-old Margot Bendheim learns that the Gestapo has just picked up her brother and mother. Her mother manages to leave her a message, "Try to make your life." This is Margot's spellbinding memoir.

Movies and television:

Anne Will (2023); Arte Journal (1998); Aspekte (2021); Die Wannseekonferenz - Die Dokumentation (2022); Eins zu eins (2010–2018); Goebbels and the Führer (2024); Günther Jauch (2015); Ich bin! Margot Friedländer (2023); Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World (2022); Judenhass: Unser Leben nach dem 7. Oktober (2024); Markus Lanz (2021); Morgenmagazin (2012); Tagesthemen (2024).

Born on this day – Madeleine Robinson:


Madeleine Robinson

Actress

November 5, 1917 – August 1, 2004

Born on this day – Guy Green:


Guy Green

Director

Producer

Writer

Cinematographer

November 5, 1913 – September 15, 2005

Born on this day – Vivien Leigh:


Vivien Leigh


Actress

November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20 to 1 (2010); 21 Days Together (1940); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); A Yank at Oxford (1938); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); Alexander Korda, Kt (1956); All-Time Movie Greats (1988); America at the Movies (1976); America in Color (2018); American Masters (2003); Anna Karenina (1948); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biography (1998–2001); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); Canaan Land (2020); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Century of Cinema (1995); Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019); Classified X (2007); Corazón de... (2005); Dark Journey (1937); Darlings of the Gods (1989); Der Klang Hollywoods - Max Steiner & seine Erben (2009); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Faye (2024); Fire Over England (1937); Gentleman's Agreement (1935); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace (2019); Gone with the Wind (1939); Great Performances (1983); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997); Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1979); Heinz Rühmann: Kleiner Mann ganz groß (1994); HI$TORY (2019); Hollywood Couples (2001); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Intimate Portrait (1996); ITV Play of the Week (1959); Korda Interviews (1956); Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer (2011); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Legends (2000); Legends of Entertainment Video (1995); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les couples mythiques du cinema (2015); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Living Famously (2003); Look Up and Laugh (1935); Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America (1993); Morgenmagazin (2024); MsMojo (2023); Murphy Brown (1989); My Week with Marilyn: The Untold Story of an American Icon (2011); News 44 (1994); Reader, I Married Him (2006); Round the Film Studios (1937); Sale el Sol (2022); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Ship of Fools (1965); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000); Small World (1958); Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006); Storm in a Teacup (1937); Suncoast Motion Picture Company - We Can Take You There Commercial (1986); Sunset Over Mulholland Drive (2019); Teresa the Thief (1973); That Hamilton Woman (1941); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 14th Annual Tony Awards (1960); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The British Academy Awards (1956); The Deep Blue Sea (1955); The Drunken Peasants (2016); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954 / 1963); The Extraordinary Seaman (1969); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Golden Gong (1985); The Golden Years of Alexander Korda (1968); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Prince, the Showgirl and Me (2004); The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961); The Screen Director (1951); The Sidewalks of London (1938); The Tales of Helpmann (1990); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Village Squire (1935); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); Things Are Looking Up (1935); To Oz! The Making of a Classic (2009); Today (1960); Today Australia (2017); Today Tonight (2007); Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020); Unsere Besten (2004); Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent (2021); Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990); Waterloo Bridge (1940).

Born on this day – Roy Rogers:


Roy Rogers

Singer

Actor

Television host

November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998

Born on this day – Joel McCrea:


Joel McCrea


Actor

November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990

Credits:

Mustang Country (1976); The Young Rounders (1971); Cry Blood, Apache (1970); Ride the High Country (1962); The Crowning Experience (1960); Wichita Town (1959–1960); The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959); Fort Massacre (1958); Cattle Empire (1958); The Tall Stranger (1957); Gunsight Ridge (1957); Trooper Hook (1957); The Oklahoman (1957); The First Texan (1956); Wichita (1955); Stranger on Horseback (1955); Black Horse Canyon (1954); Border River (1954); Shoot First (1953); The Lone Hand (1953); The San Francisco Story (1952); Cattle Drive (1951); Hollywood Story (1951); Frenchie (1950); Saddle Tramp (1950); Stars in My Crown (1950); The Outriders (1950); Colorado Territory (1949); South of St. Louis (1949); Four Faces West (1948); Ramrod (1947); The Virginian (1946); The Unseen (1945); The Great Moment (1944); Buffalo Bill (1944); The More the Merrier (1943); The Palm Beach Story (1942); Sullivan's Travels (1941); The Great Man's Lady (1941); Reaching for the Sun (1941); Foreign Correspondent (1940); Primrose Path (1940); He Married His Wife (1940); Espionage Agent (1939); They Shall Have Music (1939); Union Pacific (1939); Youth Takes a Fling (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Wells Fargo (1937); Dead End (1937); Woman Chases Man (1937); Internes Can't Take Money (1937); Banjo on My Knee (1936); Come and Get It (1936); Adventure in Manhattan (1936); Two in a Crowd (1936); These Three (1936); Splendor (1935); Barbary Coast (1935); Woman Wanted (1935); Our Little Girl (1935); Private Worlds (1935); The Richest Girl in the World (1934); Half a Sinner (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); Chance at Heaven (1933); One Man's Journey (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Scarlet River (1933); Rockabye (1932); The Sport Parade (1932); The Most Dangerous Game (1932); Bird of Paradise (1932); The Lost Squadron (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Girls About Town (1931); The Common Law (1931); Born to Love (1931); Kept Husbands (1931); Once a Sinner (1931); Lightnin' (1930); The Silver Horde (1930); Framed (1930); Dynamite (1929); So This Is College (1929); The Single Standard (1929); The Jazz Age (1929); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); The Divine Lady (1928); Freedom of the Press (1928); Dead Man's Curve (1928); The Enemy (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Torrent (1926); A Self-Made Failure (1924); Penrod and Sam (1923).

Born on this day – Etta Moten:


Etta Moten


Actress

Contralto vocalist

November 5, 1901 – January 2, 2004

Credits:

Stage:

Fast and Furious (1931); Lysistrata (1946); Porgy and Bess (1943); Zombie (1932).

Movies and television:

A Day at the Races (1937); Amanda (1949); Bombshell (1933); Born to Sing (1942); Flying Down to Rio (1933); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Ladies They Talk About (1933); Operator 13 (1934); Professional Sweetheart (1933); Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker (1989); The Green Pastures (1936).