Born on this day – Coleen Gray:

Coleen Gray

Actress

October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1961); Adam-12 (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962); Apache Drums (1951); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951); Arrow in the Dust (1954); Bonanza (1968); Branded (1965); Bright Promise (1969); Bus Stop (1961); Captain David Grief (1959); Celanese Theatre (1952); Climax! (1956); Copper Sky (1957); Coronado 9 (1961); Crossroads (1956); Crusader (1956); Cry from the Mountain (1985); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Danger (1951); Days of Our Lives (1966); Dear Phoebe (1955); Death of a Scoundrel (1956); Destination 60, 000 (1957); Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You (1971); Emergency! (1972); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); Family Affair (1968); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Frontier (1956); Frontier Gambler (1956); Fury at Furnace Creek (1948); General Electric Theater (1960); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961); Hell's Five Hours (1958); Hong Kong (1961); Insight (1960); Ironside (1968); Johnny Rocco (1958); Judd for the Defense (1968); Kansas City Confidential (1952); Kiss of Death (1947); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Lawman (1961); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Mannix (1971); Markham (1959); Matinee Theatre (1957); Maverick (1961); McCloud (1974); Mike Hammer (1959); Mister Ed (1961); Models Inc. (1952); Mother (1978); My Three Sons (1965); Nightmare Alley (1947); P.J. (1967); Perry Mason (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rawhide (1962); Red River (1948); Riding High (1950); Run for Your Life (1967); Sabre Jet (1953); Saints and Sinners (1962); Sand (1949); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Shotgun Slade (1960); Star in the Dust (1956); Starlight Theatre (1951); State Fair (1945); Tales from the Darkside (1986); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960); Tennessee's Partner (1955); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1963); The Best Place to Be (1979); The Black Whip (1956); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Dakotas (1963); The Deputy (1960); The F.B.I. (1971); The Faith of Our Children (1957); The Fake (1953); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Killing (1956); The Late Liz (1971); The Leech Woman (1960); The Magical World of Disney (1960); The Millionaire (1955); The Name of the Game (1969); The Phantom Planet (1961); The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947); The Sixth Sense (1972); The Sleeping City (1950); The Tall Man (1961); The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955); The Unexpected (1952); The Vampire (1957); The Vanquished (1953); The Virginian (1966); The Wild Dakotas (1956); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); Town Tamer (1965); Whiz Kids (1984); Wide Country (1962); Window on Main Street (1962).

Born on this day – Helen Nielsen:

Helen Nielsen

Writer

October 23, 1918 – June 22, 2002

Credits:

Books:

101 Mystery Stories (1986); A Killer in the Street (1967); After Midnight (1966); Anti-Social Register (1965); Borrow the Night / aka Seven Days Before Dying (1956); Coffin Break (1974); Dead on the Level (2012); Deadly Arts (1985); Detour / aka Detour to Death (1953); False Witness (1959); Fifty Best Mysteries (2004); Gold Coast Nocturne / aka Dead On The Level / Murder By Proxy (1951); Hard-boiled (1995); Murder on Trial (1994); Obit Delayed (1952); Shot On Location (1971); Sing Me a Murder (1960); Sing Me a Murder / Woman Missing (1961); Speaking of Greed (2001); Stranger In The Dark (1955); Tales of Terror (1980); The Brink of Murder (1976); The Case of the Gilded Lily / The Crime Is Murder / Riddle of a Lady (1956); The Crime Is Murder (1956); The Darkest Hour (1969); The Fifth Caller (1959); The Kind Man (1951); The Man in My Grave / Burden of Proof / Borrow the Night (1956); The Severed Key (1973); The Woman On the Roof (1954); To Hide a Rogue / Policeman's Dread / Verdict Suspended (1964); Uncollected Crimes (1987); Verdict Suspended (1964); Woman Missing (1961).

Movies and television:

87th Precinct (1961); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959–1961); Blackout (1954); Checkmate (1961); Der Unfallzeuge (1971); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Lux Playhouse (1959); Markham (1960); Perry Mason (1961–1962); Tales of the Unexpected (1982); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961).

Born on this day – Sally O'Neil:

Sally O'Neil

Actress

October 23, 1908 – June 18, 1968

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); Bachelor's Paradise (1928); Battling Butler (1926); Beauty on Broadway (1933); Becky (1927); Beggar's Holiday (1934); Broadway Fever (1929); Broadway Scandals (1929); By Appointment Only (1933); Compression (2017); Convention Girl (1935); Don't (1925); Frisco Sally Levy (1927); Girl of the Port (1930); Hardboiled (1929); Hold Everything (1930); Jazz Heaven (1929); Kathleen (1937); Kathleen Mavourneen (1930); Ladies Must Love (1933); Mad Hour (1928); Mike (1926); Murder by the Clock (1931); On with the Show! (1929); Round About Hollywood (1931); Sally, Irene and Mary (1925); Salvation Nell (1931); Show of Shows (1929); Sisters (1930); Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934); Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927); The Auction Block (1926); The Battle of the Sexes (1928); The Brat (1931); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Floating College (1928); The Girl on the Barge (1929); The Lovelorn (1927); The Moth (1934); The Sophomore (1929); Too Tough to Kill (1935); WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926).

Born on this day – Lilyan Tashman:

Lilyan Tashman

Actress

October 23, 1896 – March 21, 1934

Credits:

A Broadway Butterfly (1925); A Texas Steer (1927); Bright Lights (1925); Bulldog Drummond (1929); Camille (1926); Craig’s Wife (1928); Déclassé (1925); Don’t Tell the Wife (1927); Evening Clothes (1927); Experience (1921); Finn and Hattie (1931); For Alimony Only (1926); Frankie and Johnnie (1936); French Dressing (1927); Girls About Town (1931); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Happiness Ahead (1928); Hardboiled (1929); Head Over Heels (1922); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); I’ll Show You the Town (1925); Is Love Everything? (1924); Lady Raffles (1928); Leathernecking (1930); Love’s Blindness (1926); Mama Loves Papa (1933); Manhandled (1924); Manhattan Cocktail (1928); Millie (1931); Movie Memories #2 (1934); Murder by the Clock (1931); Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model (1924); New York Nights (1929); No, No, Nanette (1930); On the Level (1930); One Heavenly Night (1930); Personality Parade (1938); Phyllis of the Follies (1928); Ports of Call (1925); Pretty Ladies (1925); Puttin’ on the Ritz (1930); Riptide (1934); Rocking Moon (1926); Scarlet Dawn (1932); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 4 (1935); Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 20 (1930); Seven Days (1925); Siberia (1926); So This Is Paris (1926); Take Me Home (1928); That’s Dancing! (1985); The Cat Creeps (1930); The Dark Swan (1924); The Garden of Weeds (1924); The Girl Who Wouldn’t Work (1925); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Lone Wolf’s Daughter (1929); The Mad Parade (1931); The Marriage Playground (1929); The Matrimonial Bed (1930); The Notorious Lady (1927); The Parasite (1925); The Prince of Headwaiters (1927); The Road to Reno (1931); The Skyrocket (1926); The Stolen Bride (1927); The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929); The Wiser Sex (1932); The Woman Who Did Not Care (1927); Those We Love (1932); Too Much Harmony (1933); Universal Screen Magazine, No. 21 (1917); Up Pops the Devil (1931); Whispering Smith (1926); Wine, Women and Song (1933); Winner Take All (1924).

Born on this day – Sarah Bernhardt:

Sarah Bernhardt

Actress

October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923

Credits:

The Seer (1924); It Happened in Paris (1919); Mothers of France (1917) Die Tänzerin (1915) Jeanne Doré (1915); Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913); The loves of Queen Elizabeth (1912); The Lady of the Camellias (1912); Tosca (1908); Hamlet's Duel (1900).

Born on this day – F. Hopkinson Smith:

F. Hopkinson Smith

Writer

Artist

Engineer

October 23, 1838 – April 7, 1915

Credits:

Written work:

A Day at La Guerre's and other Days (1892); A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others (1895); A White Umbrella in Mexico (1889); At Close Range (1905); Caleb West (1898); Col. Carter of Cartersville (1891); Col. Carter's Christmas (1904); Enoch Crane (1916); Felix O'Day (1915); Forty Minutes Late and Other Stories (1909); Gondola Days (1897); In Dickens' London (1914); In Thackeray's London: Pictures and Text (1913); Kennedy Square (1911); Old Lines in New Black and White (1885); Peter (1908); The Arm-chair at The Inn (1912); The Fortunes of Oliver Horn (1902); The Other Fellow (1899); The Romance of an Old Fashioned Gentleman (1907); The Tides of Barnegat (1906); The Under Dog (1903); The Veiled Lady (1907); The Venice of To-Day (1897); Tom Grogan (1896); Well-Worn Roads (1886).

Movies and television:

A Kentucky Cinderella (1917); Art and Honor (1913); Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1915); Deep Waters (1920); Desperate Youth (1921); Felix O'Day (1920); Kennedy Square (1916); Memories of His Youth (1913); The Tides of Barnegat (1917).

Colin Firth, on reading:

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time — not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read.

I'm actually walking around in a bit of a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

- Colin Firth.