Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Born on this day – Carla Laemmle:


Carla Laemmle


Actress

Dancer

October 20, 1909 – June 12, 2014

Credits:

A Sad State of Affairs (2013); Bathing Beauty (1944); Dracula (1931); Fashions for Women (1927); Girl Rush (1944); His Last Fling (1935); King of Jazz (1930); Ladies of the Chorus (1948); Mansion of Blood (2015); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); On Your Toes (1939); Pooltime (2010); She's Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein (1999); Step Lively (1944); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); The Broadway Melody (1929); The Extra (2017); The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999); The Gate Crasher (1928); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The King Steps Out (1936); The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); The Vampire Hunters Club (2001); Topsy and Eva (1927); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927); Universal Horror (1998).

Born on this day – Anna Neagle:


Anna Neagle


Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 20, 1904 – June 3, 1986

Credits:

A Yank in London (1945); Backstage (1937); Bitter Sweet (1933); Dangerous Youth (1957); Derby Day (1952); Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948); Forever and a Day (1943); Girl in the Street (1937); Irene (1940); ITV Play of the Week (1962); Katy's Love Affair (1947); King's Rhapsody (1955); Let's Make Up (1954); Magic Night (1932); Maytime in Mayfair (1949); Nell Gwyn (1934); No Time for Tears (1957); No, No, Nanette (1940); Nurse Edith Cavell (1939); Odette (1950); Peg of Old Drury (1935); Queen of Destiny (1938); Runaway Queen (1934); School for Scandal (1930); Should a Doctor Tell? (1930); Spring in Park Lane (1948); Sunny (1941); Tales of the Unexpected (1983); Teenage Bad Girl (1956); The Chinese Bungalow (1930); The Flag Lieutenant (1932); The Glorious Days (1953); The Heart of a Man (1959); The Lady Is a Square (1959); The Lady with a Lamp (1951); The Little Damozel (1933); The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958); The Show Goes On (1936); Theatre Night (1960); They Met at Midnight (1946); Those Who Love (1929); Victoria the Great (1937); Wings and the Woman (1942); Wonderful Things (1958); Yellow Canary (1943).

Born on this day – Adolph Deutsch:


Adolph Deutsch

Composer

Conductor

Actor

October 20, 1897 – January 1, 1980

Born on this day – Evelyn Brent:


Evelyn Brent


Actress

October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975

Credits:

A Gentleman from Mississippi (1914); A Night of Mystery (1928); Again... Pioneers (1950); Alias Mary Flynn (1925); Attorney for the Defense (1932); Beau Sabreur (1928); Blind Alleys (1927); Border River (1919); Bowery Champs (1944); Broadway (1929); Broadway Lady (1925); Circus Jim (1921); Dangerous Lady (1941); Darkened Rooms (1929); Daughter of Shanghai (1937); Daughter of the Tong (1939); Daybreak (1918); Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941); Emergency Landing (1941); Fast Company (1929); Flame of the Argentine (1926); Fool's Gold (1919); Forbidden Cargo (1925); Forced Landing (1941); Framed (1930); Held to Answer (1923); Help! Help! Police! (1919); High Pressure (1932); His Tiger Wife (1928); Holt of the Secret Service (1941); Home on the Range (1935); Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936); In the River (1920); Interference (1928); It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) (1936); Jungle Jim (1937); King of Gamblers (1937); Lady Robinhood (1925); Laughter and Tears (1921); Life of St. Paul Series (1949); Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); Love's Greatest Mistake (1927); Loving Lies (1924); Madonna of the Streets (1930); Married to a Mormon (1922); Midnight Molly (1925); Mr. Wong, Detective (1938); My Husband's Wives (1924); Night Club Scandal (1937); Pagan Lady (1931); Pages of Life (1922); Panama Lady (1939); Paramount on Parade (1930); Playing with Fire (1916); Queen o' Diamonds (1926); Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917); Raiders of the South (1947); Robin Hood of Monterey (1947); Secret Orders (1926); Silent Witness (1943); Silk Stocking Sal (1924); Slightly Scarlet (1930); Smooth as Satin (1925); Song of the Trail (1936); Sonia (1921); Speed Limited (1935); Spy Train (1943); Stage Struck (1948); Sudden Bill Dorn (1937); Sybil (1921); Symphony of Living (1935); The Arizona Express (1924); The Crusader (1932); The Cyclone Rider (1924); The Dangerous Flirt (1924); The Desert Outlaw (1924); The Door That Has No Key (1921); The Dragnet (1928); The Experiment (1922); The Glorious Lady (1919); The Golden Eye (1948); The Heart of a Painted Woman (1915); The Impostor (1926); The Iron Will (1916); The Iron Woman (1916); The Jade Cup (1926); The Last Command (1928); The Last Train from Madrid (1937); The Law Divine (1920); The Law West of Tombstone (1938); The Lone Chance (1924); The Lure of Heart's Desire (1916); The Mad Empress (1939); The Mad Parade (1931); The Mating Call (1928); The Millionaire's Double (1917); The Nitwits (1935); The Other Man's Wife (1919); The Pay Off (1942); The Plunderer (1924); The President's Mystery (1936); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Shadow of the East (1924); The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915); The Showdown (1928); The Shuttle of Life (1920); The Silver Horde (1930); The Soul Market (1916); The Spanish Jade (1922); The Spell of the Yukon (1916); The Weakness of Strength (1916); The World Gone Mad (1933); Three Wise Crooks (1925); Tip-Off Girls (1938); To the Death (1917); Trapped by the Mormons (1922); Traveling Husbands (1931); Underworld (1927); Wagon Train (1960); Westward Ho! (1942); When Love Laughs (1915); Who's Your Neighbor? (1917); Why Bring That Up? (1929); Why Men Forget (1921); Wide Open Town (1941); Without Children (1935); Woman Trap (1929); Women's Wares (1927); Wrecking Crew (1942).

Born on this day – Olive Thomas:


Olive Thomas


Actress

Model

October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920

Credits:

A Girl Like That (1917); An Even Break (1917); Beatrice Fairfax (1916); Beatrice Fairfax Episode 10: Play Ball! (1916); Betty Takes a Hand (1918); Boneless Archéologie (2019); Broadway Arizona (1917); City Confidential (2007); Darling Mine (1920); Everybody's Sweetheart (1920); Footlights and Shadows (1920); Hearst-International News Pictorial, No. 64 (1916); Heiress for a Day (1918); Indiscreet Corinne (1917); Limousine Life (1918); Love's Prisoner (1919); Madcap Madge (1917); Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2003); Out Yonder (1919); Prudence on Broadway (1919); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 8 (1920); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); The Flapper (1920); The Follies Girl (1919); The Glorious Lady (1919); The Spite Bride (1919); Tom Sawyer (1917); Toton (1919); Upstairs and Down (1919); Youthful Folly (1920).

Born on this day – Bela Lugosi:


Bela Lugosi


Actor

October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956

Credits:

50 Million Frenchmen (1931); 99 (1918); A Régiséggyüjtö (1918); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Apachenrache, 3. Teil - Die verschwundene Million (1921); Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920); Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952); Black Dragons (1942); Black Friday (1940); Bowery at Midnight (1942); Bride of the Monster (1955); Broadminded (1931); Caravan of Death (1920); Casanova (1919); Chandu the Magician (1932); Das ganze Sein ist flammend Leid (1920); Daughter of the Night (1920); Daughters Who Pay (1925); Der Fluch der Menschheit - 1. Die Tochter der Arbeit (1920); Der Fluch der Menschheit - 2. Im Rausche der Milliarden (1920); Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan - 2. Der Tod des Grossfürsten (1920); Die Frau im Delphin, oder 30 Tage auf dem Meeresgrund (1920); Die Sklavenhalter von Kansas-City (1920); Die Teufelsanbeter (1921); Dracula (1931); El Misterioso Mr. Wong (1934); Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943); Genius at Work (1946); Ghosts on the Loose (1943); Gift of Gab (1934); Glen or Glenda (1953); Hollywood on Parade No. A-8 (1933); How to Handle Women (1928); Hypnose (1920); Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin (1923); International House (1933); Invisible Ghost (1941); Island of Lost Souls (1932); King of Jazz (1930); Küzdelem a Létért (1918); Leather Stocking: The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920); Leather Stocking: The Last of the Mohicans (1920); Leoni Leo (1917); Lili (1918); Lulu (1918); Mark of the Vampire (1935); Masked Ball (1917); Murder by Television (1935); Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932); Nászdal (1918); Nat Pinkerton im Kampf, 1. Teil - Das Ende des Artisten Bartolini (1920); Night Monster (1942); Night of Terror (1933); Ninotchka (1939); Oh, for a Man! (1930); One Body Too Many (1944); Phantom Ship (1935); Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958); Postal Inspector (1936); Prisoners (1929); Punchinello (1926); Renegades (1930); Return of the Ape Man (1944); Scared to Death (1946); Shadow of Chinatown (1936); Son of Frankenstein (1939); SOS Coast Guard (1937); Spooks Run Wild (1941); Such Men Are Dangerous (1930); Suspense (1949); Tavaszi vihar (1918); The Ape Man (1943); The Best Man Wins (1935); The Black Camel (1931); The Black Cat (1934); The Black Cat (1941); The Black Sleep (1956); The Body Snatcher (1945); The Colonel (1918); The Corpse Vanishes (1942); The Death Kiss (1932); The Devil Bat (1940); The Devil's in Love (1933); The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942); The Gorilla (1939); The Head of Janus (1920); The Human Monster (1939); The Invisible Ray (1936); The Last Performance (1929); The Midnight Girl (1925); The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934); The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show (1950); The Phantom Creeps (1939); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1918); The Raven (1935); The Red Skelton Hour (1954); The Rejected Woman (1924); The Return of Chandu (1934); The Return of the Vampire (1943); The Saint's Double Trouble (1940); The Silent Command (1923); The Thirteenth Chair (1929); The Veiled Woman (1929); The Whispering Shadow (1933); The Wolf Man (1941); Vampire Over London (1952); Viennese Nights (1930); Voodoo Man (1944); White Zombie (1932); Wild Company (1930); Women of All Nations (1931); You'll Find Out (1940); Zombies on Broadway (1945).

Born on this day – Margaret Dumont:


Margaret Dumont


Actress

October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); A Day at the Races (1937); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); About Face (1942); After Office Hours (1935); Animal Crackers (1930); Anything Goes (1936); Arbor Day (1936); At the Circus (1939); Auntie Mame (1958); Bathing Beauty (1944); Biography (1993); Born to Sing (1942); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Buster Keaton in Wildwest (1962); Chevron Theatre (1952); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); De qué te ríes (2006); Diamond Horseshoe (1945); Dramatic School (1938); Duck Soup (1933); Enemies of Women (1923); Fifteen Wives (1934); For Beauty's Sake (1940); Funny Business (1992); Gridiron Flash (1934); Gypsy Sweetheart (1935); Here, Prince (1932); Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999); High Flyers (1937); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); Kentucky Kernels (1934); Little Giant (1946); Morir de humor (2008); My Friend Irma (1953); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! (2004); Orchids to You (1935); Racket Squad (1951); Reckless (1935); Remarks on Marx (2004); Rendezvous (1935); Rhythm Parade (1942); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Seven Days Ashore (1944); Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); Song and Dance Man (1936); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Storm at Daybreak (1933); Studio 57 (1956); Sunset in El Dorado (1945); Susie Steps Out (1946); Tales of Manhattan (1942); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Big Store (1941); The Bob Hope Show (1954 / 1956); The Buster Keaton Show (1951); The Cocoanuts (1929); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Dancing Masters (1943); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1960); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The Girl Habit (1931); The Hollywood Clowns (1979); The Hollywood Palace (1965); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); The Life of the Party (1937); The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982); The Stu Erwin Show (1951–1952); The Unknown Marx Brothers (1993); The Women (1939); Three for Bedroom C (1952); Up in Arms (1944); We're Rich Again (1934); What a Way to Go! (1964); Wise Girl (1937); Wonderland of California (1933); Youth on Parole (1937); Zotz! (1962).