George Gershwin
Composer
Pianist
September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Born on this day – Gladys Brockwell:
Gladys Brockwell
Actress
September 26, 1894 – July 2, 1929
Credits:
7th Heaven (1927); A Branded Soul (1917); A
Chase by Moonlight (1915); A Confidence Game (1915); A Crook's Sweetheart
(1914); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Man and His Mate (1915); A Political
Feud (1914); A Relic of Old Japan (1914); A Romance of the Sawdust Ring (1914);
A Sister to Salome (1920); Chasing Rainbows (1919); Chickie (1925); Conscience
(1917); Destiny's Night (1914); Divorce (1914); Double Stakes (1921); Double
Trouble (1915); Ethel's New Dress (1915); Fires of Conscience (1916); Flames of
the Flesh (1920); For Liberty (1917); From Headquarters (1929); Hardboiled Rose
(1929); Her One Mistake (1918); Her Sacrifice (1926); Her Temptation (1917);
His Blind Power (1913); His Guiding Angel (1915); His Last Race (1923);
Hollywood Bound (1928); Kultur (1918); Lights of New York (1928); Long Pants
(1927); Man, Woman and Sin (1927); My Home Town (1928); Oliver Twist (1922); On
the Night Stage (1915); One of the Discard (1914); One Touch of Sin (1917);
Paid Back (1922); Penrod and Sam (1923); Pitfalls of a Big City (1919);
Providence and the Twins (1915); Rose of Nome (1920); Settled at the Seaside
(1915); Shorty and the Aridville Terror (1914); Sins of Her Parent (1916); So
Big (1924); Spangles (1926); Stacked Cards (1914); Stella Maris (1925); The
Ambassador's Envoy (1914); The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Argyle Case (1929);
The Bird of Prey (1918); The Broken Commandments (1919); The Call of the Soul
(1919); The Carnival Girl (1926); The Counterfeiter's Fate (1913); The Country
Doctor (1927); The Crippled Hand (1916); The Darling of New York (1923); The
Devil's Riddle (1920); The Devil's Wheel (1918); The Divorce Trap (1919); The
Drake Case (1929); The Drug Traffic (1923); The Elegy (1927); The End of the
Galley (1914); The End of the Trail (1916); The Evil Eye (1913); The Evil One
(1913); The Foolish Virgin (1924); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Fortification
Plans (1915); The Geisha (1914); The Harmless One (1913); The Home Towners
(1928); The Honor System (1917); The Hottentot (1929); The Hunchback of Notre
Dame (1923); The Last Frontier (1926); The Last of the Line (1914); The Law and
the Man (1928); The Moral Law (1918); The Mother of His Children (1920); The
Narcotic Spectre (1914); The Necessary Evil (1925); The Old High Chair (1915);
The Play's the Thing (1914); The Price of Her Soul (1917); The Price of Power
(1916); The Purple Maze (1916); The Rattlesnake (1913); The Reckless Sex
(1925); The Sage Hen (1921); The Satin Woman (1927); The Scarlet Road (1918);
The She-Devil (1916); The Skyrocket (1926); The Sneak (1919); The Soul of Satan
(1917); The Splendid Road (1925); The Strange Woman (1918); The Typhoon (1914);
The Woman Disputed (1928); The Woman Who Followed Me (1916); The Worth of a
Life (1914); The Wrath of the Gods (1914); Thieves (1919); To Honor and Obey
(1917); Twinkletoes (1926); Unmarried Wives (1924); Up from the Depths (1915);
When Mountain and Valley Meet (1913); White Lies (1920).
Born on this day – T. S. Eliot:
T. S. Eliot
Writer
September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965
Credits:
Written
work:
Prufrock
and Other Observations (1917); Ara Vus Prec. (1919); The Waste Land (1922); Poems
1909-1925 (1925); Journey of the Magi (1927); A Song for Simeon (1928); Animula
(1929); Selected Poems (1930); Ash Wednesday (1930); Marina (1930); Triumphal
march (1931); Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939); East Coker (1941); The
Dry Salvages (1941); T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943); Burnt
Norton (1943); Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot: 1909-1935 (1945); The
Undergraduate Poems of T. S. Eliot (1948); The Complete Poems and Plays (1952);
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954); Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (1963); Poems
Written In Early Youth (1967); The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2018); Eeldrop and
Appleplex & Ezra Pound (1917); Sweeney Agonistes (1932); The Rock (1934); Murder
in the Cathedral (1935); The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1949); The
Confidential Clerk (1950); The Film of Murder in The Cathedral (1952); The
Elder Statesman (1959); Collected Plays (1962); The Complete Plays of T. S.
Eliot (2014); Ezra Pound (1918); The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays (1920);
Homage to John Dryden (1924); John Dryden (1924); Shakespeare and the Stoicism
of Seneca (1927); For Lancelot Andrewes (1928); Dante (1929); Thoughts after
Lambeth (1931); Charles Whibley: A Memoir (1931); Essays On Elizabethan Drama (1932);
After Strange Gods (1934); Essays Ancient and Modern (1936); Christianity and
Culture (1939); Idea of a Christian Society (1939); A Choice of Kipling's Verse
(1941); Introducing James Joyce (1942); Reunion By Destruction (1943); What is
a classic? (1945); Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (1948); Milton; Annual
Lecture on a Master Mind (1948); From Poe to Valery (1948); The Aims of Poetic
Drama (1949); Selected Essays (1950); Poetry and Drama (1951); An Address to
Members of the London Library (1952); The Value and Use of Cathedrals in
England To-Day (1952); American Literature and the American Language (1953); The
Three Voices of Poetry (1954); Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern (1954); The
Literature of Politics (1955); The Frontiers of Criticism (1956); On Poetry And
Poets (1957); Geoffrey Faber, 1889-1961 (1961); George Herbert (1962); The Use
of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1964); To Criticize the Critic and Other
Writings (1965); Elizabethan Essays (1969); The Classics And The Man Of Letters
(1974); Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley (1989); The
Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1 (1988); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2 (2009);
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3 (2012); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume
4 (2013); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 5 (2014); The Letters of T. S.
Eliot: Volume 6 (2016); Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7 (2017); Letters of T.
S. Eliot: Volume 8 (2019); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 (2021); Identity
And Self Respect (1952); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); The
Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry (1992); Watch for the
Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works
(2018).
Movies and
television:
A Lovesong
(2016); Aline (2020); American Playhouse (1983); America's Got Talent (2019); Animal
Practice (2012); Apocalypse Now (1979); Arena (2009); Ashes (1975); Assassinio
nella Cattedrale (1966); Assassinio nella cattedrale (2006 / 2012); Barbra
Streisand: Memory (1981); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1955); Birthday Girl
(2001); BoJack Horseman (2014); Broadway on Broadway (2000); BumtsiBum! (2021);
Cats (2019); Cocktailparty (1967); Coctail party (1960); Conflict (1967); Connie
and Carla (2004); Cover to Cover (1936); Der Familientag (1965); Der
Privatsekretär (1963 / 1977); Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2003); Diary of
a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011); Die Cocktailparty (1964); Diminishing
Returns (2019–2020); Diminishing Returns Diminisodes (2020); Diva (2006); Eufòria
(2023); Fame (1985); Four Quartets (2022); Funny People (2009); Glee (2014); Going
to Seed (2009); Great Performances (1998–2003); Great Poets: In Their Own Words
(2014); Hengaillaan (2023); Hollow Men (2012); Il canto d'amore di Prufrock (1967);
In Living Color (1991); Koktel (1967); Logan's Run (1976); Love Flesh (2011); Melvyn
Bragg on Class & Culture (2012); Mord im Dom (1962); Murder in the
Cathedral (1947 / 1951 / 1962); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2022); New in
November 2011 (2012); No me la puc treure del cap (2010); Omnibus (1971); Omnibus
/ Segment: The Confidential Clerk (1954); Post Grad (2009); Raphael: Mi gran
noche (2013); Rio 2 (2014); Saturday Night Live (1992); School of Rock (2003); Shining
Time Station (1989); Solo (1970); Sopro (2021); Stars and the Moon: Betty
Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Startime (1960); Teatro estudio (1978); Television
Theater (1997); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); Terra desolata (2008);
Thames Film (1987); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); The 39th Annual Tony
Awards (1985); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 43rd Annual Tony Awards
(1989); The 51st Annual Tony Awards (1997); The 52nd Annual Tony Awards (1998);
The Cocktail Party (1952 / 1957); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Family
Reunion (1959); The Hollow Men (1975 / 2015); The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock (2013); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The
Magic of David Copperfield V (1983); The Marvels (2023); The Masked Singer (2022);
The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf (2002); The Reader (2008); The Respectful
Prostitute (1964); The Rum Tum Tugger (1984); The Simpsons (2011); The Sunday
Programme (2004–2005); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2019); The
Twentieth Century (1960); The Waste Land (1981 / 1996 / 1999); The Wasteland
(2015); The White Chateau (1938); Theatre 625 (1966); Theatre Parade (1936); This
Is My Life (1992); Thursday Theatre (1964); Till Human Voices Wake Us (2015); Timeshift
(2005); Total Eclipse (1995); Triptych (2018); Tu cara me suena (2016); Wellow
(2021); What Happens to the Mountain (2017); Wurlitzer (1985); XI Premis Gaudí
de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català (2019); Yellowjackets (2021).
Born on this day – Max Ehrmann:
Max Ehrmann
Writer
Attorney
September 26, 1872 – September 9,
1945
Books:
A Farrago; A Fearsome
Riddle; A prayer, and other selections; Breaking Home Ties; Desiderata; Desiderata
for Cat Lovers: A Guide to Life & Happiness; Desiderata for Dog Lovers; Desiderata
for Horse Lovers; Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life; Desiderata: The Classic
Manifesto for Living a Happy Life, with Additional Poems; Desiderata: Words for
Life; Inspirational Desiderata Poem Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving
Patterns Surround Inspirational Quotes from the Classic Poem Desiderata by Max
Ehrmann; Jesus; Lifting the Veil: Beloved Dead, Biography & Other
Appreciations; Max Ehrmann's poems; Poems; The Desiderata of Faith: A
Collection of Religious Poems; The Desiderata of Happiness: A Collection of
Philosophical Poems; The desiderata of hope; The Desiderata of Love: A
Collection of Poems for the Beloved; The Journal of Max Ehrmann; The Mystery of
Madeline Le Blanc; The poems of Max Ehrmann; The Poems of Max Ehrmann -
Scholar's Choice Edition; The Wife of Marobious a Play; The Wife Of Marobius.
Movies and television:
Absolutely Fabulous (2003); Chevrolet Presents
the Golddiggers (1972); F Is for Family (2018); Love Serenade (1996); Mr
Inbetween (2019); Mudflats Living (1972); The David Frost Show (1970); The
Ernie Sigley Show (1974).
Born on this day – Johnny Appleseed:
Johnny Appleseed
Missionary
Gardener
September 26, 1774 –
March 18, 1845
Books:
Johnny Appleseed and the
American Orchard by William Kerrigan; Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh;
Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg; Johnny Appleseed: A Little Golden Book
Biography by Lori Haskins Houran; Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American
Story by Howard Means; Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead; Seed by Seed by
Esme Raji Codell; The Story of Johnny Appleseed by Aliki; Who Was Johnny
Appleseed? by Joan Holub.
Movies and television:
American Legends (2001); From Tall Tales &
Legends with Martin Short (1986); Johnny Appleseed (2017); Melody Time (1948).
Born on this day – Saint Francis of Assisi:
Saint Francis of Assisi
September 26, 1181 – October 3, 1226
Books:
Canticle of the Sun: A
Hymn of Saint Francis of Assisi (2006); Novenas, Hymns, and Litanies, in Honour
of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare (1863); Prayers (1912); The Way of the
Cross (2009); The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi (1906).
Movies and television:
Chiara e Francesco (2007); Francesco (1989);
Francis of Assisi (1961); In Search of Francis of Assisi (2018); Search of
Francis of Assisi (2018); The Flowers of St. Francis (1950); The Sultan and the
Saint (2016).
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