Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Born on this day – Jean Rogers:


Jean Rogers


Actress

March 25, 1916 – February 24, 1991

Credits:

8 Girls in a Boat (1934); A Stranger in Town (1943); Ace Drummond (1936); Always in Trouble (1938); American Experience (2013); Backlash (1947); Brigham Young (1940); Charlie Chan in Panama (1940); Cineficción Radio (2020); Conflict (1936); Crash Donovan (1936); Dames (1934); Deadly Ray from Mars (1966); Design for Scandal (1941); Don't Get Personal (1936); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Fighting Back (1948); Fighting Youth (1935); Flash Gordon (1936); Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938); Footlight Parade (1933); Gay Blades (1946); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); His Night Out (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hot Cargo (1946); Hotel for Women (1939); Inside Story (1939); Lady Tubbs (1935); Let's Make Music (1940); Manhattan Moon (1935); Mars Attacks the World (1938); My Man Godfrey (1936); Mysterious Crossing (1936); Night Key (1937); Pacific Rendezvous (1942); Personalities (1942); Reported Missing! (1937); Rocket Ship (1938); Rough, Tough and Ready (1945); Secret Agent X-9 (1937); Spaceship to the Unknown (1966); Speed to Spare (1948); Squadron of Doom (1949); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Stop, Look and Love (1939); Stormy (1935); Sunday Punch (1942); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940); The Second Woman (1950); The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); The Wildcatter (1937); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Time Out for Murder (1938); Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934); Viva Cisco Kid (1940); When Love Is Young (1937); While New York Sleeps (1938); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Yesterday's Heroes (1940).

Born on this day – Curley Weaver:


Curley Weaver


Blues singer

Guitarist

March 25, 1906 – September 20, 1962

Track listings on pictured CD: Curly Weaver The Complete Recorded Works 1933–1935 in Chronological Order, including music with The Georgia Browns:

No No Blues; Leg Iron Blues; Some Cold Rainy Day; Tippin’ Tom; Birmingham Gambler; Tampa Street; Decatur Street 81; Next Door Man (Take 1); Next Door Man (Take 2); It Must Have Been Her; Who Stole de Lock?; Joker Man; You Was Born to Die; Dirty Mistreater; Black Woman; City Cell Blues; Empty Room Blues; Tricks Ain’t Walking No More; Sometime Mama; Oh Lawdy Mama; Two Faced Woman; Early Morning Blues; Fried Pie Blues.

Born on this day – Mabel Seeley:


Mabel Seeley


Writer

March 25, 1903 – June 9, 1991

Credits:

Eleven Came Back (1943); The Beckoning Door (1950); The Chuckling Fingers (1941); The Crying Sisters (1939); The Listening House (1938); The Stranger Beside Me (1951); The Whispering Cup (1940); The Whistling Shadow (aka The Blonde with the Deadly Past) (1954); Women of Property (1947).

Born on this day – Ed Begley:


Ed Begley

Actor

March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970

Born on this day – Ray Enright:


Ray Enright


Director

March 25, 1896 – April 3, 1965

Credits:

Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); The Man from Cairo (1953); Flaming Feather (1952); Kansas Raiders (1950); Montana (1950); South of St. Louis (1949); Return of the Bad Men (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Albuquerque (1948); Trail Street (1947); One Way to Love (1946); Man Alive (1945); China Sky (1945); 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943); The Iron Major (1943); Destroyer (1943); Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943); The Rear Gunner (1943); Sin Town (1942); Men of Texas (1942); The Spoilers (1942); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Law of the Tropics (1941); Bad Men of Missouri (1941); Throwing a Party (1941); Thieves Fall Out (1941); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); River's End (1940); An Angel from Texas (1940); Teddy the Rough Rider (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); On Your Toes (1939); Angels Wash Their Faces (1939); Naughty But Nice (1939); Going Places (1938); Hard to Get (1938); Gold Diggers in Paris (1938); Swing Your Lady (1938); Back in Circulation (1937); The Singing Marine (1937); Slim (1937); Ready, Willing and Able (1937); Sing Me a Love Song (1936); China Clipper (1936); Earthworm Tractors (1936); Snowed Under (1936); Miss Pacific Fleet (1935); We're in the Money (1935); Alibi Ike (1935); Traveling Saleslady (1935); While the Patient Slept (1935); The St. Louis Kid (1934); Dames (1934); The Circus Clown (1934); Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934); I've Got Your Number (1934); Havana Widows (1933); The Silk Express (1933); Tomorrow at Seven (1933); Blondie Johnson (1933); The Tenderfoot (1932); Play Girl (1932); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Local Boy Makes Good (1931); Side Show (1931); Gold Dust Gertie (1931); Scarlet Pages (1930); Outward Bound (1930); Dancing Sweeties (1930); Golden Dawn (1930); Song of the West (1930); Skin Deep (1929); Kid Gloves (1929); Stolen Kisses (1929); The Little Wildcat (1928); Land of the Silver Fox (1928); Domestic Troubles (1928); The Girl from Chicago (1927); Jaws of Steel (1927); Tracked by the Police (1927); The Better 'Ole (1926); The Man on the Box (1925); Verse and Worse (1921).

Born on this day – Violet Horner:


Violet Horner


Actress

March 25, 1892 – July 6, 1970

Credits:

A Bad Tangle (1912); A Cave Man Wooing (1912); A Daughter of the Gods (1916); A Happy Family (1912); A Modern Romance (1913); A Strange Case (1912); A Woman Loved (1913); An Eventful Bargain Day (1912); An Imp Romance (1913); Animated Weekly, No. 62 (1913); Aunt Dinah's Plot (1912); Billy in Armor (1913); Billy Plays Poker (1913); Billy Wins (1913); Billy, the Wise Guy (1913); Billy's Adventure (1913); Billy's Board Bill (1913); Billy's Double (1913); Billy's First Quarrel (1913); Billy's Honeymoon (1913); Billy's Troubles (1913); Blood Is Thicker Than Water (1912); Bob's Baby (1913); Caught in a Flash (1912); Chappie the Chaperone (1912); Damages in Full (1913); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913); Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917); Ferdie, Be Brave (1912); Fresh Air Filkins (1913); Garden of Lies (1915); Getting Mary Married (1912); Gratitude (1913); He Had But Fifty Cents (1912); Hearts of Oak (1914); Her Nerve (1913); His Other Self (1912); How Ned Got the Raise (1912); In Old Tennessee (1912); Lady Audley's Secret (1912); Lena Rivers (1914); Let No Man Put Asunder (1912); Mr. Smith, Barber (1912); Retribution (1913); She Slept Through It All (1913); Shore Acres (1914); Sisters (1913); Ten Nights in a Barroom (1913); The Baldheaded Club (1913); The Breakdown (1912); The Bridal Room (1912); The Castaway (1912); The Fighting Chance (1916); The Fringe of Sin (1913); The Girl from Alaska (1915); The Higher Law (1913); The Man from the West (1912); The Marble Heart (1916); The Millionaire Cop (1912); The Peril (1912); The Right Clue (1912); The Ring and the Man (1914); The Schemers (1912); The Soul of Man (1913); The Stolen Voice (1915); The Wages of Sin (1913); The Wages of Sin (1914); Tillie, the Terrible Typist (1915); Winning the Latonia Derby (1912); Yvonne, the Foreign Spy (1912).

Born on this day – Béla Bartók:


Béla Bartók


Composer

Pianist

Ethnomusicologist

March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945

Credits:

Music compositions:

14 Trifles; 44 Duos for Two Violins; Allegro barbaro; An Evening at the Village; BB 34, Sz. 30; Bluebeard's Castle; Buciumeana; Cantata Profana; Concerto for Orchestra; Contrasts; Dance Suite; Divertimento for String Orchestra; Bartók's Studies; Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs; Hungarian Folk Tunes: III; Hungarian Pictures; Kossuth; Maruntel; Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107, BB 105: Volume VI: 148-153: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm; Mikrokosmos; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Out of Doors; Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Piano Method (Zongoraiskola), BB 66, Sz. 52: 116. Moderato; Piano Sonata; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, BB 36b (op. 1): I. Adagio molto; Rhapsody No. 1; Rhapsody No. 2; Romanian Christmas Carols; Romanian Folk Dances; Slovakian Dance; Sonata for Solo Violin; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Sonatina; Sonatina, BB 102a: III. Final. Allegro vivace; String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; Thong Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 6; Suite, Op. 14; The Barbarian; The Miraculous Mandarin; The Wooden Prince; Two Pictures: I. In voller Blüte; Viola Concerto; Violin Concerto No. 1; Violin Concerto No. 2.

Movies and television:

40 éves in Cantemus (2015); A Bibo Reader (2002); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1970); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1981); A kékszakállú herceg vára (2005); Discovering the French (1957); A la memoria del autor (1966); A Nyolcak nyomában (2011); A varázsló álma (1987); A zene határtalanul (2016); Aleph, lectures contades (2000); Anthropoid (2016); Artemis: The Neverending Quartet (2020); Back on Stage (2020); Masked Ball (1981); Bartok (2017); Bartók Béla: Az éjszaka zenéje (1970); Bartók Béla: Kontrasztok (1981); Bartóks Requiem (2008); Behind Closed Doors (1988); Being John Malkovich (1999); Bluebeard's Castle (1963); Bluebeard's Castle (2022); Budapeströl jut eszembe (2001); Poodle (1979); Catatonic (2009); Celibidache (1992); China Lake (1983); Chuzhaya Belaya i Ryaboy (1986); Cinderella (2021); Concerto for Orchestra (1965); Contrasts (1968); Control Room (2004); Correspondence (1953); Cosmos (1980); Csodálatos Mandarin (2001); Das muss man erst mal aussprechen können (2021); Das Versprechen (2023); Men Who Lost Roots (1956); Diamantino (2018); Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music (2007); Doctor Who (1967–1968) Doomwatch (1972); Drakengard (2003); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1988); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (2020); Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990); Égetö Eszter (1989); El grosso concerto (2001); Életbevágó (2000); El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963); Este a Székelyeknél (1998); Flaming Creatures (1963); Fuchsmühl (1974); Full House (1972); Through Music (1981); The Rise and Fall of a Small Business of cinema (1986); Hamsun (1996); Het slot van hertog Blauwbaard (1965) Hope@Home (2020); Impressions of New York (1956); Imre Eck and Maria Bretus in Csodálatos Mandarin (1970); (In Here) I Am God (2018); Ocio (2022); In memoriam Gyarmathy Tihamér (2016); In Search of Dracula (1974); Katzenspiel (1972); Kékszakállú (2016); Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel, Debussy and Bartók (2023); Kristallnacht (2022); The Prints and Drawings Department (1954); Bluebeard's Castle / The Voice human (2015); The Marvellous Mandarin (1964); The Novel (1991); Legion (2017); The Great Performers (1967); Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997); Long Time No See (2019); Magritte (1978); Medvetánc (1972); Melinda and Melinda (2004); Mindennap (1980); Mirrors (2016); My Homeland (1976); NET Festival (1968); New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1959–1963); Not Reconciled (1965); Obiettivo Sul Territorio (2009); Oldás és kötés (1963) Orchestre National de France (1964); Playing Mona Lisa (2000); Polyformia (2008); Public Eye (1971); Pursuit (1997); Ready Player One (2018); Algerian refugees (1958); Rosa (1992); Senseless (1962); Simon Says (2015); Singing the Blues in Red (1986); STAR WARS EP 5: Attack of the Phantom Past (2016); Star Wars Ep 6: The Last Laser Master (2018); Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981) Stick and Bone (1968); Studio One (1953); Szörnyeteg (1975); Tatort (2017); The Boris Giltburg Five Minute Library (2017); The Catch (1946); The Good Mother (1988); The Illiac Passion (1967); The Legacy (2009); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2015); The Prediction (1991); The Shepherds of Cat Island (2020); The Shining (1980); The Silent Revolution (2018); The Souvenir (2019); The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2010); The Young Pope (2016); Trainwreck (2001); Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2006); Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1995); Un paso al frente (1966); A Little Prince (1984); Visions (1977); Zongora A Levegöben (1976).