Monday, November 9, 2026

Born on this day – Gianni Puccini:


Gianni Puccini


Writer

Director

November 9, 1914 – December 3, 1968

Credits:

A Husband for Anna (1953); Amore facile (1964); Angels of Darkness (1954); Ballata da un miliardo (1967); Behind Closed Shutters (1951); Bitter Rice (1949); Carmela è una bambola (1958); Carovana di canzoni (1955); Don Pasquale (1940); Giorni d'amore (1954); I cuori infranti (1963); Il capitano di Venezia (1952); Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960); Il nemico di mia moglie (1959); Io uccido, tu uccidi (1965); Lacrime di sposa (1955); L'attico (1963); Le cameriere (1959); L'impiegato (1960); Love and Marriage (1964); Love in Four Dimensions (1964); Lui, lei e il nonno (1959); Men and Wolves (1957); Napoli terra d'amore (1954); Obsession (1943); Parola di ladro (1957); Quando tramonta il sole (1956); Quarta pagina (1942); Rome 11:00 (1952); Soltanto un bacio (1942); Suprema confessione (1956); The Double Bed (1965); The Husband (1958); The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968); The Year Long Road (1958); Tragic Hunt (1947); Under the Olive Tree (1950).

Born on this day – Hedy Lamarr:


Hedy Lamarr


Actress

Inventor

November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000

Credits:

A Lady Without Passport (1950); Algiers (1938); Boom Town (1940); Come Live with Me (1941); Comrade X (1940); Copper Canyon (1950); Crossroads (1942); Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931); Dishonored Lady (1947); Ecstasy (1933); Experiment Perilous (1944); Geld auf der Straße (1930); H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); I cavalieri dell'illusione (1954); I Take This Woman (1940); Lady of the Tropics (1939); L'eterna femmina (1954); Let's Live a Little (1948); Loves of Three Queens (1954); Man braucht kein Geld (1931); My Favorite Spy (1951); Samson and Delilah (1949); Shower of Stars (1957); Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957); Storm in a Water Glass (1931); The Conspirators (1944); The Female Animal (1957); The Heavenly Body (1944); The Story of Mankind (1957); The Strange Woman (1946); Tortilla Flat (1942); White Cargo (1942); Zane Grey Theatre (1957); Ziegfeld Girl (1941).

Born on this day – Frank McDonald:


Frank McDonald


Director

Actor

November 9, 1899 – March 8, 1980

Credits:

Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951); Alaska Highway (1943); Along the Navajo Trail (1945); Annie Oakley (1954); Arkansas Judge (1941); Bells of Rosarita (1945); Blondes at Work (1938); Border City Rustlers (1953); Boulder Dam (1936); Broadside (1964); Broadway Hostess (1935); Broken Arrow (1957); Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955); Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947); Call of the Klondike (1950); Carolina Moon (1940); Dance Charlie Dance (1937); Death Valley Days (1962); First Offenders (1939); Flipper (1964); Four Star Playhouse (1954); French Leave (1948); Gaucho Serenade (1940); Get Smart (1965); Gun Smugglers (1948); Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963); Her Husband's Secretary (1937); High Explosive (1943); Hit Parade of 1947 (1947); Isle of Fury (1936); Jeepers Creepers (1939); Le imprese di una spada leggendaria (1958); Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944); Man Against Crime (1953); Man from Oklahoma (1945); Mantelli e spade insanguinate (1959); Mara of the Wilderness (1965); Marshals in Disguise (1954); McHale's Navy (1964); Midnight Court (1937); Mountain Rhythm (1943); Murder by an Aristocrat (1936); National Velvet (1961); No Hands on the Clock (1941); Northwest Territory (1951); O, My Darling Clementine (1943); One Body Too Many (1944); Outlaw's Son (1954); Over the Wall (1938); Passport to Danger (1956); Phantom Trails (1955); Pony Express (1959); Racket Squad (1953); Rainbow Over Texas (1946); Rancho Grande (1940); Raymie (1960); Ringside (1949); Scared Stiff (1945); Sea Tiger (1952); Secret of Outlaw Flats (1953); Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955); Six Gun Decision (1953); Snow Dog (1950); Son of Belle Starr (1953); Submarine Alert (1943); Take It Big (1944); Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1957); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960); Texans Never Cry (1951); The Adventures of McGraw (1958); The Big Noise (1936); The Big Tip Off (1955); The Chicago Kid (1945); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Gene Autry Show (1950); The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon (1952); The Gray Ghost (1957); The Hunter (1954); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955); The Matchmaking Marshal (1955); The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936); The Old Homestead (1942); The Purple Gang (1959); The Range Rider (1951); The Song of a Nation (1936); The Survivors (1969); The Tall Man (1962); The Three Musketeers (1956); The Titled Tenderfoot (1955); The Underwater City (1962); The Whistler (1954); Thunder Pass (1954); Timber Country Trouble (1955); Timber Queen (1944); Treachery Rides the Range (1936); Treasure of Ruby Hills (1955); Trouble on the Trail (1954); Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947); Two Gun Marshal (1953); Under Fiesta Stars (1941); Under Nevada Skies (1946); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); When a Girl's Beautiful (1947); Wrecking Crew (1942); Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994); Yukon Gold (1952); Yukon Manhunt (1951).

Born on this day – Mae Marsh:


Mae Marsh


Actress

November 9, 1894 – February 13, 1968

Credits:

3 Godfathers (1948); A Beast at Bay (1912); A Child of the Paris Streets (1916); A Letter to Three Wives (1949); A Lodging for the Night (1912); A Siren of Impulse (1912); A Star Is Born (1954); A Timely Interception (1913); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); A Wild Girl of the Sierras (1916); Alice in Wonderland (1933); All Woman (1918); An Indian Summer (1912); Arabella (1924); Bachelor of Arts (1934); Belle Starr (1941); Black Fury (1935); Blue, White and Perfect (1942); Bonanza (1959); Broken Ways (1913); Brutality (1912); Buffalo Bill (1944); Cheyenne Autumn (1964); Cry Terror! (1958); Deep Waters (1948); Donovan's Reef (1963); Everybody Does It (1949); Fate (1913); Fields of Honor (1918); Fighting Blood (1911); Flames of Passion (1922); Flicker Flashbacks No. 1, Series 4 (1946); For Beauty's Sake (1940); For the Honor of the Seventh (1912); Fort Apache (1948); From the Terrace (1960); Girls in Prison (1956); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Great Guns (1941); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); Hell on Frisco Bay (1955); Her Mother's Oath (1913); Her Shattered Idol (1915); Hidden Fires (1918); His Lesson (1915); His Mother's Son (1913); Hollywood Boulevard (1936); Home Folks (1912); Home, Sweet Home (1914); Hoodoo Ann (1916); How Green Was My Valley (1941); Impact (1949); Intolerance (1916); It Happened in Flatbush (1942); It Happens Every Spring (1949); It's Everybody's War (1942); Jane Eyre (1943); Jitterbugs (1943); Judith of Bethulia (1914); Julie (1956); Just Off Broadway (1942); Kentucky Girl (1912); Leave Her to Heaven (1945); Lena and the Geese (1912); Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913); Man's Genesis (1912); Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Money Mad (1918); Moonshine Molly (1914); Mother Wore Tights (1947); My Darling Clementine (1946); Near to Earth (1913); Night Without Sleep (1952); Nobody's Kid (1921); Over the Hill (1931); Paris After Dark (1943); Polly of the Circus (1917); Prince of Players (1955); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Racing Through (1928); Ramona (1910); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932); Remember the Day (1941); Right to the Heart (1942); Sergeant Rutledge (1960); Smoky (1946); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942); Spotlight Sadie (1919); State Fair (1945); Sunshine Alley (1917); Swamp Water (1941); Swanee River (1939); Sweet and Low-Down (1944); Tales of Manhattan (1942); That's My Boy (1932); The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914); The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913); The Beloved Traitor (1918); The Bondage of Barbara (1919); The Cinderella Man (1917); The Civilian (1912); The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941); The Escape (1914); The Face in the Dark (1918); The Fighting Kentuckian (1949); The Fighting Sullivans (1944); The Girl Rush (1955); The Glorious Adventure (1918); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Great Leap: Until Death Do Us Part (1914); The Gunfighter (1950); The Indian Uprising at Santa Fe (1912); The Jackpot (1950); The Last Hurrah (1958); The Lesser Evil (1912); The Life of General Villa (1914); The Little 'Fraid Lady (1920); The Little Liar (1916); The Little Tease (1913); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940); The Marriage of Molly-O (1916); The Meanest Man in the World (1943); The Moon Is Down (1943); The New York Hat (1912); The Outcast (1915); The Outlaw's Revenge (1915); The Parasite (1912); The Primitive Man (1914); The Quiet Man (1952); The Racing Strain (1918); The Rat (1925); The Reformers; or, the Lost Art of Minding One's Business (1913); The Robe (1953); The Sands of Dee (1912); The Searchers (1956); The Snake Pit (1948); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Tall Men (1955); The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913); The Tender Hearted Boy (1913); The Victim (1915); The Walls of Jericho (1948); The Wanderer (1913); The Wharf Rat (1916); The White Rose (1923); The Wings of Eagles (1957); Three Friends (1913); Tides of Passion (1925); Till We Meet Again (1922); Titanic (1953); Tobacco Road (1941); Two Daughters of Eve (1912); Two Rode Together (1961); Wagon Train (1960); When Kings Were the Law (1912); While the City Sleeps (1956).

Born on this day – Mabel Normand:


Mabel Normand


Actress

Writer

Director

Producer

Comedian

November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930


Credits:

A Dash Through the Clouds (1912); A Dead Man's Honor (1911); A Double Wedding (1913); A Fair Exchange (1914); A Family Mixup (1912); A Film Johnnie (1914); A Little Hero (1913); A Noise from the Deep (1913); A Perfect 36 (1918); A Tale of Two Cities (1911); A Tangled Affair (1913); A Temperamental Husband (1912); A Victim of Circumstances (1911); A Widow Visits Springtown (1911); An Interrupted Elopement (1912); Anything Once! (1927); At Coney Island (1912); At It Again (1912); At Twelve O'Clock (1913); Back to the Woods (1918); Bangville Police (1913); Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913); Betty Becomes a Maid (1911); Bright Lights (1916); Brown's Seance (1912); Caught in a Cabaret (1914); Fate's Turning (1911); Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916); Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915); Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life (1915); Fatty's Wine Party (1914); For the Love of Mabel (1913); Gentlemen of Nerve (1914); He Did and He Didn't (1916); Head Over Heels (1922); Her Awakening (1911); Her Friend the Bandit (1914); His Mother (1911); His Trysting Place (1914); How Betty Won the School (1911); Hubby's Job (1913); Indiscretions of Betty (1910); Jinx (1919); Just Brown's Luck (1913); Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915); Mabel at the Wheel (1914); Mabel Lost and Won (1915); Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915); Mabel's Adventures (1912); Mabel's Awful Mistake (1913); Mabel's Busy Day (1914); Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913); Mabel's Heroes (1913); Mabel's Lovers (1912); Mabel's Married Life (1914); Mabel's Stormy Love Affair (1914); Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914); Mabel's Stratagem (1912); Mabel's Wilful Way (1915); Mickey (1918); Molly O' (1921); Mr. Grouch at the Seashore (1912); Neighbors (1912); Oh, Those Eyes (1912); On His Wedding Day (1913); One Hour Married (1927); Over the Garden Wall (1910); Pat's Day Off (1912); Peck's Bad Girl (1918); Pedro's Dilemma (1912); Picciola; or, the Prison Flower (1911); Professor Bean's Removal (1913); Saved from Himself (1911); Stolen Magic (1915); That Little Band of Gold (1915); The Baron (1911); The Battle of Who Run (1913); The Beating He Needed (1912); The Changing of Silas Warner (1911); The Deacon's Troubles (1912); The Diamond Star (1911); The Diving Girl (1911); The Drummer's Vacation (1912); The Eternal Mother (1912); The Extra Girl (1923); The Fatal Mallet (1914); The Fatal Taxicab (1913); The Floor Below (1918); The Foreman of the Jury (1913); The Gusher (1913); The Gypsy Queen (1913); The Hansom Driver (1913); The Little Teacher (1915); The Making of a Man (1911); The Masquerader (1914); The Mender of Nets (1912); The Mistaken MasherThe Mistaken Masher (1913); The Nickel-Hopper (1926); The Pest (1919); The Revenue Man and the Girl (1911); The Riot (1913); The Sea Nymphs (1914); The Sleuths at the Floral Parade (1913); The Slim Princess (1920); The Squaw's Love (1911); The Unveiling (1911); The Venus Model (1918); The Waiters' Picnic (1913); The Water Nymph (1912); Their Social Splash (1915); Those Country Kids (1914); Those Good Old Days (1913); Through His Wife's Picture (1911); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); Troublesome Secretaries (1911); Two Overcoats (1911); When a Man's Married His Trouble Begins (1911); When Kings Were the Law (1912); Wished on Mabel (1915); Zuzu, the Band Leader (1913).

Born on this day – Edna May Oliver:


Edna May Oliver


Actress

November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942

Credits:

A Tale of Two Cities (1935); Alice in Wonderland (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); Caught Plastered (1931); Cimarron (1931); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Cracked Nuts (1931); David Copperfield (1935); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Fanny Foley Herself (1931); Half Shot at Sunrise (1930); Hold ‘Em Jail (1932); Icebound (1924); It’s Great to Be Alive (1933); Ladies of the Jury (1932); Laugh and Get Rich (1931); Let’s Get Married (1926); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Little Women (1933); Lovers in Quarantine (1925); Lydia (1941); Manhattan (1924); Meet the Baron (1933); Murder on a Honeymoon (1935); Murder on the Blackboard (1934); My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937); Newly Rich (1931); No More Ladies (1935); Nurse Edith Cavell (1939); Only Yesterday (1933); Paradise for Three (1938); Parnell (1937); Penguin Pool Murder (1932); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Restless Wives (1924); Romeo and Juliet (1936); Rosalie (1937); Second Fiddle (1939); The American Venus (1926); The Conquerors (1932); The Great Jasper (1933); The Lady Who Lied (1925); The Last Gentleman (1934); The Lucky Devil (1925); The Poor Rich (1934); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939); Three O’Clock in the Morning (1923); We’re Rich Again (1934).

Born on this day – Marfa d'Hervilly:


Marfa d’Hervilly


Actress

November 9, 1876 – November 18, 1963

Credits:

Après Mein Kampf mes crimes (1940); Aux yeux du souvenir (1948); Bric à Brac et compagnie (1932); Café de Paris (1938); Colette et son mari (1932); Donogoo (1936); Échec au roy (1945); Espoirs... (1941); Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949); Farewell Mister Grock (1950); Firmin, le muet de Saint-Pataclet (1938); Fort Dolorès (1939); Grains de beauté (1932); Il faut rester garçon (1932); J'aime toutes les femmes (1935); Je te confie ma femme (1933); La danseuse rouge (1937); La femme perdue (1942); La fille du régiment (1933); La fleur d'oranger (1932); La marche nuptiale (1935); La passagère (1949); Last Chance Castle (1947); L'avion de minuit (1938); Le duel (1941); Le soir des rois (1933); Léonie est en avance (1935); Les deux favoris (1936); Les jeux sont faits (1932); Les jeux sont faits (1947); Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938); L'héritier des Mondésir (1940); L'honorable Catherine (1943); Meute et kangourous... (1935); Mon Paris (1928); Monsieur Chasse (1947); Monsieur Hector (1940); Mots croisés (1926); Moune et son notaire (1932); Neuf de trèfle (1938); Olive se marie (1931); Paris (1937); Pluie d'or (1936); Princesse Czardas (1934); Prix de beauté (1922); Rien que la vérité (1931); Romance à l'inconnue (1931); Sapho (1934); Silence (1931); The Case of Poisons (1955); The Moment of Truth (1952); The Pearls of the Crown (1937); Trois de St Cyr (1939); Turandot, princesse de Chine (1935); Un jour viendra (1934); Une jeune fille et un million (1932); Une petite femme en or (1933); Vie privée (1942); With Assurance (1932); Y'a erreur (1933).