Sunday, February 8, 2026

Born on this day – Betty Field:


Betty Field


Actress

February 8, 1916 – September 13, 1973

Credits:

7 Women (1965); Actors and Sin (1952); Ah, Wilderness! (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); Are Husbands Necessary? (1942); Ben Casey (1962); Betty Crocker Star Matinee (1952); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); Blues in the Night (1941); Bus Stop (1956); BUtterfield 8 (1960); Calendar (1963); Celanese Theatre (1952); Climax! (1958); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951); Dr. Kildare (1962); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); General Electric Theater (1956); Going My Way (1963); Goodyear Playhouse (1953–1954); Hound-Dog Man (1959); How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968); Judd for the Defense (1968); Justice (1954); Kings Row (1942); Kraft Theatre (1957); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1954); Love Story (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1951–1955); Marilyn (1963); Masterpiece Playhouse (1950); Naked City (1961); Of Mice and Men (1939); Peyton Place (1957); Picnic (1955); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Producers' Showcase (1956); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1951); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Route 66 (1960–1962); Sam Benedict (1963); Seventeen (1940); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); The Elgin Hour (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Great Gatsby (1949); The Great Moment (1944); The Loretta Young Show (1956); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); The Outsider (1968); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1954); The Shepherd of the Hills (1941); The Southerner (1945); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); The Untouchables (1960); The Web (1952); Tomorrow, the World! (1944); Victory (1940); What a Life (1939).

Born on this day – Lyle Talbot:


Lyle Talbot

Actor

February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996

Born on this day – Floyd Dixon:


Floyd Dixon


Blues singer

Pianist

February 8, 1929 – July 26, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 9 (2010); After Blues (1985); Dark City Blues, Vol. 4 - Urban Grooves & Midnight Moods (2025); Doin' The Town (2008); Fine! Fine! Thing! (2005); Gloomy Baby (2008); Hey! Bartender - His Very Best, 1949-1959 (2016); High Notes of the Fifties (2020); His Complete Aladdin Recordings (1996); Marshall Texas Is My Home (1991); Mr. Magnificent (2024); Mr. Magnificent Hits again (1992); Piano Man Blues (2022); The Floyd Dixon Collection 1949-62 (2018); Time Brings About a Change... a Floyd Dixon Celebration (Live) (2006); Wake Up and Live! (1996).

Movies and television:

Animal House of Blues: 33.3 Special Edition (2018); Boundaries (2018); Mafia II (2010); Set It Off (1996); Stockholm Jazz & Blues Festival (1981); The Best of the Blues Brothers (1993); The Blues (2003); Things We Did Last Summer (1978); Time Brings About a Change... A Floyd Dixon Celebration (2013).

Born on this day – Ralph Steiner:


Ralph Steiner


Photographer

Filmmaker

February 8, 1899 – July 13, 1986

Credits:

Look Park (1974); This Is Tomorrow (1943); The City (1939); People of the Cumberland (1937); The River (1938); Pie in the Sky (1935); Cafe Universal (1934); Hands (1934); Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or the Lovely Life of Little Lisa (1931); Surf and Seaweed (1931); Mechanical Principles (1931); H2O (1929).

Born on this day – Lonnie Johnson:


Lonnie Johnson

Blues singer

Guitarist

Violinist

Songwriter

February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970

Born on this day – Kate Chopin:


Kate Chopin


Writer

February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories (2004); A Night in Acadie (1897); A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986); A Vocation and a Voice (1991); A World of Fiction (2005); American Fantastic Tales (2009); At Fault (1890); Bayou Folk (1894); For Want of a Horse (2015); In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe (2015); Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015); Louisiana Stories (1990); Medusa's Daughters (2020); New Orleans Noir 2 (2016); Nine Stories (2022); Stories to Get You Through the Night (2010); The American Fantasy Tradition (2002); The Awakening & Other Stories (2018); The Awakening (1899); The Awakening and Selected Stories (1892); The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983); The Open Door (1990); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories By Women (2012); The Short Story (1992); Wife or Spinster (1991); Women and Fiction (1975).

Movies and television:

52 (2013); A Matter of Prejudice (2017); A Reflection by Kate Chopin / Podcast Series (2022); American Playhouse (1985); Dr. Chevalier's Lie (2018); Five Stories of an Hour (1988); Grand Isle (1991); Historia de una hora (2009); Kate Chopin's a Pair of Silk Stockings (2014); Kate Chopin's a Respectable Woman (2014); Kate Chopin's the Locket (2014); Ripe Figs (2017); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956); The End of August (1981); The English Programme (1988); The Joy That Kills (2016); The Storm (2009).

Born on this day – Jules Verne:


Jules Verne


Writer

February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905

Credits:

Books:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869); A Fantasy of Dr. Ox (1872); A Floating City (1871); Adrift in the Pacific (1888); Among the Cannibals (1867); Around the World in Eighty Days (1873); Beach Books Anthology (2023); Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep (2018); Caesar Cascabel (1890); Captain Antifer (1894); Captain Grant's Children (1867); Carpathian Castle (2018); Child of the Cavern (1877); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Claudius Bombarnac (1892) Clovis Dardentor (1896); Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen (1878); Doctor Ox and Other Stories (1874); Drama In Livonia (1904); Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon (1881); Facing The Flag (1896); Family Without A Name (1889); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) Foundling Mick (1893); From the Earth to the Moon (1865); Godfrey Morgan (1882); In Search Of The Castaways (1867); In the Year 2889 (1889); Invasion of the Sea (1905); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864); Jules Verne Collection, 33 Works (2004); Keraban the Inflexible (1883) Master of the World (1904); Mathias Sandorf (1885); Mrs. Branican (1891); Mysterious Document (1867); North Against South (1887); Off On A Comet (1877); On the Track (1867); Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863); Propeller Island (1895); Robur the Conqueror (1886); Round The Moon (1869) Science Fiction Stories (1988); Sea Serpent (1901); Second Year Ashore (1940); Tales of the Restless Sea - Adventure Anthology (2023); The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864); The Archipelago On Fire (1884); The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007); The Begum's Fortune (1879) The Castaways of the Flag (1900); The Castaways of the Flag (1900); The Castle of the Carpathians (1892); The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908); The City in the Sahara (1905); The Demon of Cawnpore (2008); The Desert of Ice (1866); The English at the North Pole (1866); The Exploration of the World (1879); The Flight To France (1887); The Fur Country (1873); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Green Ray (1882) The Kip Brothers (1902); The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905); The Lottery Ticket (1885); The Mighty Orinoco (1898) The Mysterious Island (1874) The Mysterious Island (1874); The Purchase of the North Pole: Topsy-Turvy (1889); The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1910) The Sphinx of the Ice / An Antarctic Mystery (1897); The Steam House (1880); The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875); The Survivors of the Jonathan (1897); The Tribulations of a Chinaman (1879); The Vanished Diamond: The Star of the South (1884); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Their Island Home (1924); Tigers and Traitors (1976); Travel Scholarships (1903); Two Years' Vacation (1888); Underground City (1877); Village in the Treetops (1901); Will Of An Eccentric (1899); Yesterday And Tomorrow (1910).

Movies and television:

1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel (2005); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1905 / 1907 / 1916 / 1954 / 1972 / 1985 / 1991 / 1997 / 2004); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Video Game (1995); 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007); 5 Weeks in a Balloon (1977); 80 Days (2005 / 2014); 800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1959); A dunai hajós (1974); A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1977); To the conquest of the Pole (1912); A Sequence from Round the World in 80 Days (1955); Has Trip to the Moon (1902); Adventure at the Center of the Earth (2008); Year Impossible Voyage (1904); Ancient Aliens (2010); Around the World in 80 Days (1919 / 1956 / 1988 / 1989 / 1990 / 1999 / 2004 / 2021); Around the World in Eighty Days (1972–1973); Around the World with Bolek and Lolek (1977); Around the World with Willy Fog (1983); Capt. Grant's Family (1936); Captain Nemo (1975 / 1976); Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969); Cesta kolem sveta za 80 dní (1964); Chroniques de France (1967); Cinci saptamîni în balon (1966); Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997); Dante's Inferno (2025); Das U-Boat (2021); De la tierra a la luna (1969); De reis om de wereld in 80 Dagen (1957); Der Meister der Welt (1927); Die Reise um die Erde (1964) Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen (1963); Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper (1995) Donauschiffer (1940); Dos años de vacaciones (1962) Drama in the Air (1904) Dvacet tisic mil pod morem / TV Movie (1980); Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993); El Faro del Fin del Mundo (2025); Festival of Family Classics (1972); Fifteen Boys Adrift (1982); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) From the Earth to the Moon (1958 / 1979 / 2013); Ginga hyôryû Vifam: Kieta 12-nin (1985); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960); History's Mysteries (1999); I riassuntini (2018); Iki sene mektep Tatili (1964); In Search of the Castaways (1914 / 1962); Inside the Earth (1910); Insula comorilor (1975) Invention for Destruction (1958); Invitation to travel (2021–2022); Jam (2009); Jorden runt pÃ¥ 80 dagar (1975) Josie and the Pussycats (1970); Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 / 1967–1969 / 1993 / 1996 / 1997 / 1999 / 2003 / 2008 / 2004 / 2017); Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (2010); The hunt for the meteor (1966); The Destiny of Jean Morénas (1916); The Carpathian Castle (1976); The Dr. Ox (2004); The Fabulous Voyage of Uncle Ernest (1999); The theatre of youth (1963); Youth Theatre: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1967); Around the World in 80 Days (1955 / 1979 / 1980); Around the world in 80 Days (1975); The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961); The Journey to the Moon (1986); The Extraordinary Adventures of Michael Strogoff (2004); The Indies black (1917); The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (2014); Extraordinary Journeys Jules Verne (2000–2001); The Mysterious Island (1973); The Mysterious Island of Uncle Ernest (2000); Lolita from Interstellar Space (2014); The organ fantasy (1968); Los diablos del mar (1982) Los sobrinos del Capitán Grant (2012); Master Zaccharius (1973); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1978); Master of the World (1961 / 1976); Mathias Sandorf (1921 / 1955 / 1963 / 1979–1980); Michael Strogoff (1908 / 1910 / 1914 / 1956 / 1926 / 1936 / 1944 / 1975–1977 / 1997); Michele Strogoff - Il corriere dello zar (1999) Morfi, todos a la mesa (2017); Mysterious Island (1951 / 1961 / 1995 / 1996 / 2005); Mysterious Planet (1982); Mystery on Monster Island (1981); Nadia as Tea Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II (1991) Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - The Motion Picture (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990–1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water Specials (1991); Nautilus (2024); Nemo (1970); Novela (1966–1974); Off on a Comet (date?); On the Comet (1970); Pilgrim's Captain (1987); Piratii din Pacific (1975) Pyatnadtsatiletniy kapitan (1946) Robur Luftens Erobrer (1967); 'Round the World in 80 Days (1914); Round Vernian Vifam (1983–1984); Round Vernian Vifam 13 (1998); Round Vernian Vifam: 13 Meet Again (1984) Round Vernian Vifam: A Letter from Katue (1984); Round Vernian Vifam: Memory of Ms. Kate (1985); Shao ye de mo nan (1987); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961) Siesta Z (2017); Slomannaya podkova (1973) Strange Holiday (1970); Strogoff (1970); Tainstvennyy Ostrov (1941); Tajomstvo alchymistu Storitza (1991) Tales of Adventure (1952) The Black Indies (1964) The Carpathian Castle (1981) The Children of Captain Grant (1997); The Czar's Courier (1936) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Light at the Edge of the World (1971); The Lost 15 Boys: The Big Adventure on Pirates' Island (2013); The Magical World of Disney (1976–1978); The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931); The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981); The Mysterious Island (1929 / 1975); The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo (1973); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968) The Return of Captain Nemo (1978); The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000); The Secret of Steel City (1979); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Southern Star (1969) The Story of Fifteen Boys (1987); The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963); The UnXplained (2020); Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1973); Two Years' Vacation (1974); Ukradená Vzducholod (1967); Un capitán de quince años (1973) One, back, very... responda Otra Vez (2004); Up to His Ears (1965); Utazás a Holdba (1974) V poiskakh kapitana Granta (1986); Valley of the Dragons (1961); Verne World / Video Game (1995); Viaje fantástico en globo (1975) Where Time Began (1977); Willy Fog 2 (1993–1994); Willy Fog in 20,000 leguas de viaje submarino (1995); Willy Fog as viaje al centro de la Tierra (1995); Wishbone (1995); Zacharius (1984).