Toni Morrison, on life & art:

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
- Toni Morrison.

Rebecca Stead, on pajamas:

 

Pajamas are good for the soul.

- Rebecca Stead.

I can't imagine a world without art:

Earth without art is just "eh".

- Author unknown.

Recommended reading – Nightwebs

Nightwebs

by Cornell Woolrich.

Short story anthology.

Includes the short story The Corpse Next Door, filmed as Union City (1980), directed by Mark Reichert.

Paperback.
Published Orion Books.
First published 1971.

ISBN 13: 9780752851709
ISBN 10: 0752851705
ASIN: 0752851705

Description:
“Possibly the finest mystery writer of the twentieth century.” – The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection.

Cornell Woolrich was a haunted man who lived a life of reclusive misery, but he was also a uniquely gifted writer who explored the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair and futility. His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales.

Contents: Graves for the Living; The Red Tide; The Corpse Next Door; You'll Never See Me Again; Dusk to Dawn; Murder at the Automat; Death in the Air; Mamie 'n' Me; The Screaming Laugh; One and a Half Murders; Dead on Her Feet; One Night in Barcelona; The Penny-a-Worder; The Number's Up; Too Nice a Day to Die; Life is Weird Sometimes.

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).

Born on this day – John Chapman, a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed:

John Chapman
a.k.a. 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – George Gershwin:

George Gershwin

Composer

Pianist

September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937

Born on this day – George Raft:

George Raft

Actor

Singer

Dancer

Producer

September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980

Credits:

A Bullet for Joey (1955); A Dangerous Profession (1949); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Air Force: The Radio Play (1943); All of Me (1934); All This and World War II (1976); American Justice: Target - Mafia (1993); American Masters (2020); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); Arena (2012); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Background to Danger (1943); Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (2003); Batman (1967); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970); Biography (2001); Black Widow (1954); Bogart (1967); Bolero (1934); Breakdowns of 1940 (1940); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); Broadway (1942); Brooklyn Bridge (1981); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets Over Hollywood (2005); Casino Royale (1967); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Celebrity Time (1952); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Compression (2015–2024); Curtains for Roy Earle: The Story of 'High Sierra' (2003); Dancers in the Dark (1932); Deadhead Miles (1972); Della (1969); Divided Highway: The Story of 'They Drive by Night' (2003); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Every Night at Eight (1935); Five Golden Dragons (1967); Follow the Boys (1944); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); George Jessel Show (1958); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Goldie (1931); Hammersmith Is Out (1972); Happy Days (1970); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hippodrome (1966); History's Greatest Mysteries (2023); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (1934); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Park (1946); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hush Money (1931); I Stole a Million (1939); If I Had a Million (1932); I'll Get You (1952); I'm the Law (1953); In This Corner... Boxing's Little Giants (1993); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Intrigue (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); It Had to Happen (1936); I've Got a Secret (1953); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); Johnny Allegro (1949); Johnny Angel (1945); Land of Liberty (1939); Limehouse Blues (1934); Loan Shark (1952); Love Is a Racket (1932); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Madame Racketeer (1932); Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994); Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012); Main Event (1961); Manpower (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Midnight Club (1933); Mobsters (2007); Momo: The Sam Giancana Story (2011); Mr. Ace (1946); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Night After Night (1932); Night World (1932); Nob Hill (1945); Nocturne (1946); Nous irons à Paris (1950); Ocean's Eleven (1960); Outpost in Morocco (1949); Palmy Days (1931); Pick-up (1933); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Queen of the Night Clubs (1929); Quick Millions (1931); Race Street (1948); Red Light (1949); Red Skelton Timex Special (1960); Red Skelton: A Career of Laughter (1992); Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook (1981); Rogue Cop (1954); Rogues Gallery (1997); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: 25th Anniversary Reunion (1993); Rumba (1935); Scarface (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 4 (1938); Screen Snapshots, Series 20, No. 7 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 28, No. 8: Vacation at Del Mar (1949); Sextette (1977); She Couldn't Take It (1935); Side Street (1929); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Skidoo (1968); Some Like It Hot (1959); Souls at Sea (1937); Spawn of the North (1938); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Stage Show (1955–1956); Stolen Harmony (1935); Taxi (1931); The Arthur Murray Party (1959); The Bowery (1933); The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1955); The David Frost Show (1969); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1964); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Generation Game (1974); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1957); The Glass Key (1935); The Great Sex War (1969); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955–1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Ladies Man (1961); The Lady's from Kentucky (1939); The Lee Phillip Show (1963); The Man from Cairo (1953); The Man with Bogart's Face (1980); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1980); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1954); The Movie Game (1970); The Name's the Same (1953–1955); The New London Palladium Show (1965); The Patsy (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1955–1960); The Return of Video Yesterbloop (1986); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1971); The Trumpet Blows (1934); The Upper Hand (1966); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); They Drive by Night (1940); Today (1966–1974); Tribute to Bogart (1972); Two Guys Abroad (1962); Under-Cover Man (1932); Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009); What's My Line? (1953); Whistle Stop (1946); With Orson Welles: Stories of A Life in Film (1990); You and Me (1938); Yours for the Asking (1936).

Born on this day - Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne:

Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne

"Godfather of Fitness"

Fitness and nutrition guru

Motivational speaker

Writer

Actor

September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011

Credits:

Books:

Abundant Health and Vitality After 40; Abundant Health and Vitality After Forty; Celebrating 90 Plus Years Of Healthy Living; Cooking With Jack; Fiscal Fitness; Foods For Glamour; Jack La Lanne's Power Juicer Fresh Recipe Collection; Jack La Lanne's Slim and Trim Diet and Exercise Guide; Jack Lalanne Way To Vibrant Good Health; Jack Lalanne's Fresh Recipe Collection; Live Young Forever; Revitalize Your Life; Revitalize Your Life After 50; Slim & Trim Diet & Exercise Guide.

Movies and television:

Arli$$ (2002); As Seen on TV: Fifty Years of Fitness (2005); Batman: The Movie (1966); Beefcake (1998); Bridget Loves Bernie (1973); California's Gold (1999); CBS Mornings (2009); Crook & Chase (1996); Diet America Challenge (1989); Fame, Fortune and Romance (1986); Here's Hollywood (1961); Here's Lucy (1969); History 101 (2022); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (2003); Hour Magazine (1985); How to Live Forever (2009); Howard Stern (1995–2004); Jack LaLanne's Juiceman Blender (2005); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2007); KTLA at 40: A Celebration of Los Angeles Television (1987); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Life with Bonnie (2003); McEnroe (2004); Mister Ed (1961–1963); More Wild Wild West (1980); Muscle Beach Then and Now (2011); Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2004); Peter Gunn (1960); Philbin's People (1969); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (2011); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel / Segment: Still Jumping (2006); Relatively Speaking (1988); Repossessed (1990); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); That Little Monster (1994); The 35th Annual Thalians Gala (1990); The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011); The Addams Family (1966); The Alan Thicke Show (1980–1981); The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008); The Chevy Chase Show (1977); The David Frost Show (1970); The David Letterman Show (1980); The Fountain of Groovy (1970); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1989); The Happy Ending (1969); The Infinite Power Workout (1997); The Jack LaLanne Show (1951–1975); The Jay Leno Show (2009); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Joy of Health & Fitness with Elaine LaLanne (2021); The Ladies Man (1961); The Man Show (2003); The Mike Douglas Show (1979); The Simpsons (1999); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1970); The Tony Danza Show (2004–2005); The Wayne Brady Show (2004); The Wilton North Report (1987–1988); The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006); Today (2008); TV Nation (1994); When the World Breaks (2010); Where Muscles Were Born (2009); You Bet Your Life (1959).

Born on this day – Barbara Britton:

Barbara Britton

Actress

September 26, 1920 – January 17, 1980

Born on this day – Marty Robbins:

Marty Robbins

Singer,

Songwriter,

Actor,

Instrumentalist,

NASCAR racing driver,

September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982

Born on this day – Julie London:

Julie London

Actress

Singer

September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000

Credits:

A Question of Infidelity (1958); Adam-12 (1972); Adventures in Paradise (1959); An Evening with... (1965); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Blood Orange (2016); Blue Moon (2002); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957); Boy on a Dolphin (1957); Bridget Jones's Diary (2001); Broken Noses (1987); Celebrity Bowling (1975); Celebrity Sweepstakes (1976); Checkmate (1961); Cinema Verite (2011); Compression (2024); Crazy Love (2007); Crime Against Joe (1956); Crimes of the Heart (2003); Dan Raven (1960); Dancing with the Stars (2006); Dark Harbor (1998); Der Duft von Las Vegas (1965); Diamond Horseshoe (1945); Dinah! (1975); Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999); Drango (1957); Emergency! (1972–1978); Emergency! 50! The Show That Saved Your Life (2022); Endeavour (2016); Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Follow the Sun (1961); Frances Langford Presents (1959); Frontier Justice (1959); Funny You Should Ask (1969); Game Show Moments Gone Bananas (2005); Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World (2011); Girl Picture (2022); Greta (2018); Gypsy (1966–1968); He Said, She Said (1970); Here's Hollywood (1960); Hollywood Preview (1956); Hong Kong (1961); I Spy (1965); I'll Bet (1965); Imaginary Crimes (1994); Immortal (2004); Independent Lens (2005); It's Your Bet (1970–1971); Janie (1944); Laramie (1960); Legends (2009); Love Letters in the Sands of Time (2010); Mad Men (2007); Magic City (2013); Man of the West (1958); Masquerade Party (1974); Match Game (1975); Match Game PM (1976); Michael Shayne (1960); Moka (2016); Mulatschag (2012); My Dinner with Hervé (2018); My Music: Songbook Standards - As Time Goes By (2015); My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (2022); Nabonga (1944); Night in Paradise (1946); Night of the Quarter Moon (1959); On Stage Everybody (1945); Operation: Entertainment (1968); P2 (2007); Palm Royale (2024); Pan Am (2011); Panic (2000); Paris Follies (2014); Passion of Mind (2000); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1955–1959); Person to Person (1957); Playhouse 90 (1957); Poms (2019); Proven Innocent (2019); Rawhide (1960); Return of the Frontiersman (1950); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); Saddle the Wind (1958); Sanctuary (1961); Sharky's Machine (1981); Shower of Stars (1957); Showtime (1968); Sibyl (2019); Singapore Sling (1990); Six Feet Under (2001); So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2008); Something from Tiffany's (2022); Something Special (1967); Stars of Jazz (1956); Stump the Stars (1963); Tales of the City (1993); Tap Roots (1948); Task Force (1949); Tattletales (1974–1975); Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999); The 3rd Voice (1960); The Alan Hamel Show (1977); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Annual National Sports Awards (1961); The Bad Guys (2022); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Big Record (1957); The Big Tease (1999); The Big Valley (1968); The Bob Crosby Show (1958); The Bob Hope Show (1956–1964); The Chevy Showroom Starring Andy Williams (1959); The David Frost Show (1969); The David Niven Show (1959); The Dean Martin Show (1966); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959–1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019); The Fat Man (1951); The Fighting Chance (1955); The Garry Moore Show (1959–1961); The George Raft Story (1961); The Girl Can't Help It (1956); The Great Man (1956); The Helicopter Spies (1968); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1968–1972); The Jack Benny Program (1962); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Juke Box Jury (1956–1959); The Julie London Special (1968); The Lively Ones (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2019); The Merv Griffin Show (1969); The National Sports Awards (1961); The Notorious Bettie Page (2005); The Red House (1947); The Red Skelton Hour (1960); The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956); The Sopranos (2006); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957–1960); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964–1972); The Wonderful Country (1959); Under the Mistletoe (2012); V for Vendetta (2005); Voice in the Mirror (1958); Wedding Day Winners (2018); Welcome to Marwen (2018); What's My Line? (1957–1961); Your First Impression (1962); Zane Grey Theatre (1957).

Born on this day – Philip Bosco:

Philip Bosco

Actor

September 26, 1930 – December 3, 2018

Born on this day – Joyce Jameson:

Joyce Jameson

Actress

September 26, 1932 – January 16, 1987

Credits:

Lovelines (1984); Hardbodies (1984); The Man Who Loved Women (1983); The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983); Ladies Night (1983); Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1982); Jokebook (1982); The Fall Guy (1982); The Love Boat (1982); The Ri¢hie Ri¢h/Scooby-Doo Show (1980–1981); Pray TV (1980); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979); Project U.F.O. (1979); This Is the Life (1978); Charlie's Angels (1978); Every Which Way But Loose (1978); Crash (1978); Barney Miller (1978); CPO Sharkey (1977); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); Rhoda (1976); Baretta (1976); Scorchy (1976); The Love Boat (1976); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); Police Woman (1975); Barbary Coast (1975); Promise Him Anything (1975); The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant (1975); Death Race 2000 (1975); Emergency! (1973–1975); Movin' On (1974); The Rockford Files (1974); The Waltons (1974); Sons and Daughters (1974); McMillan & Wife (1972–1974); Thicker Than Water (1973); Of Men and Women (1973); Here's Lucy (1973); Women in Chains (1972); Arnie (1972); Crosscurrent (1971); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Ironside (1971); Mod Squad (1971); Run, Simon, Run (1970); Company of Killers (1970); Insight (1970); The Virginian (1969); The Split (1968); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1966–1968); Hogan's Heroes (1967); F Troop (1967); Mr. Terrific (1967); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Big Valley (1967); The Mouse That Roared (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1966); The Red Skelton Hour (1964–1966); Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966); Frankie and Johnny (1966); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Munsters (1965–1966); The Andy Griffith Show (1962–1965); Perry Mason (1963–1965); The Baileys of Balboa (1965); My Favorite Martian (1964); Harris Against the World (1964); Good Neighbor Sam (1964); Vacation Playhouse (1964); The New Phil Silvers Show (1964); Grindl (1964); Burke's Law (1964); The Comedy of Terrors (1963); McHale's Navy (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Jack Benny Program (1963); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1961–1963); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); General Hospital (1963); The Danny Thomas Show (1958–1963); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Balcony (1963); Tales of Terror (1962); Outlaws (1962); Lock Up (1961); Stagecoach West (1961); Checkmate (1960); Dante (1960); Swinging Spiketaculars (1960); The Spike Jones Show (1960); The Apartment (1960); General Electric Theater (1957–1960); The Betty Hutton Show (1960); Yancy Derringer (1959); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1958–1959); The Bob Cummings Show (1959); Club Oasis (1958); Dragnet (1957); The Court of Last Resort (1957); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); Science Fiction Theatre (1956); Crusader (1956); Tension at Table Rock (1956); Star Stage (1956); Crime Against Joe (1956); The Cisco Kid (1956); Crossroads (1955); The Ray Milland Show (1955); Phffft (1954); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); Problem Girls (1953); Death Valley Days (1953); The Abbott and Costello Show (1953); Gang Busters (1952); The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951); The Strip (1951); Show Boat (1951).

Born on this day – Donna Douglas:

Donna Douglas

Actress

Singer

September 26, 1932 – January 1, 2015

Credits:

21 Beacon Street (1959); 77 Sunset Strip (1961); Adam-12 (1973); Bachelor Father (1959); Bells Are Ringing (1960); Cain's Hundred (1961); Career (1959); Checkmate (1961); Chronicles of Life Starfish (2008); Chronicles of Life Trials (2013); Dr. Kildare (1961); Frankie and Johnny (1966); Hennesey (1961); Li'l Abner (1959); Lock Up (1960); Love, American Style (1970–1973); Lover Come Back (1961); Man in the Middle (1961); Marineland Carnival (1966); McMillan & Wife (1974); Michael Shayne (1961); Mister Ed (1961–1962); Night Gallery (1972); North by Northwest (1959); Pete and Gladys (1961); Project U.F.O. (1978–1979); Route 66 (1960); Sam Benedict (1962); Strangers When We Meet (1960); Surfside 6 (1961); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1960); The Aquanauts (1960–1961); The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971); The Defenders (1964); The Detectives (1960); The Jack Benny Program (1962); The Joey Bishop Show (1962); The Nanny (1999); The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981); The Steve Allen Show (1959-1960); The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989); The Twilight Zone (1960–1962); Thriller (1961); Tightrope (1959); U.S. Marshal (1959); Whirlybirds (1960).

Born on this day – Jerry Weintraub:

Jerry Weintraub

Producer

Actor

September 26, 1937 – July 6, 2015

Credits:

2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (2013); 41 (2012); 50 Things to Do Before I Die (2006); 71st Golden Globe Awards (2014); A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas (2010); All Night Long (1981); An Evening with John Denver (1975); Are You in or Out?: The Making of 'Ocean's Eleven' (2014); Bank on us 2 (2020); Behind the Candelabra (2013); Behind the Music (1998); Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (2009); Biography (1998); Blue Jeans (1980); Carpenters Very First Television Special (1976); Chabad Telethon (2014); Chabad 'to Life' Telethon (2010); Chabad: To Life Telethon (2008); Charlie Rose (2004); Chelsea Lately (2010–2011); Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002); Cruising (1980); Diner (1982 / 1983); Dorothy Hamill Presents Winners (1978); Dream Job (2012); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Entertainment Tonight (2007–2015); Exorcising Cruising (2007); Extra (2015–2016); Father O Father (1976); Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (1974); Full Frontal (2002); Geraldo Rivera Reports (2012–2014); Good Morning America (2013); Happy New Year (1987); HBO First Look (2001–2007); His Way (2011); Jerry Weintraub: Walk and Talk (2007); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2007–2011); John Denver - Thank God I'm a Country Boy (1977); John Denver and Friend (1976); John Denver and the Ladies (1979); John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979); John Denver at Wembley Arena (1979); John Denver in Australia (1978); John Denver with His Special Guest George Burns: Two of a Kind (1981); John Denver: Country Boy (2013); John Denver: Music and the Mountains (1981); John Denver: The Higher We Fly (1980); John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs (2017); King of the Road (1978); Larry King Live (2010); Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2011); L'Chaim: To Life Telethon (2005); Lopez Tonight (2010); Making Behind the Candelabra Show (2013); My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988); Nancy Drew (2007); Nashville (1975); Neil Diamond: I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight (1977); Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek (1977); Ocean's Eight (2018); Ocean's Eleven (2001); 'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con (2002); Ocean's Thirteen (2007); Ocean's Twelve (2004); Oh, God! (1977); Pat Boone and Family (1978); Pat Boone and Family Easter Special (1979); Piers Morgan Live (2012); Poor Richard (1984); Pure Country (1992); Ready, Jet Set, Go: The Making of 'Ocean's Twelve' (2014); Red Army (2014); Rocky Mountain Christmas (1975); Rocky Mountain Holiday with John Denver and the Muppets (1983); Rocky Mountain Reunion (1979); September 30, 1955 (1977); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Soldier (1998); Szysznyk (1977); Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot (2013); Tavis Smiley (2010); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The 58th Annual Grammy Awards (2016); The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards (2013); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The Avengers (1998); The Brink (2015); The Carpenters at Christmas (1977); The Carpenters... Space Encounters (1978); The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait (1978); The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music (1980); The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984); The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel (2002); The Directors (2000); The Dorothy Hamill Special (1976); The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2010–2011); The Firm (1993); The Haunting of Pearson Place (2015); The History of Cruising (2007); The Independent (2000); The Jimmy McNichol Special (1980); The John Davidson Christmas Show (1977 / 1978); The John Denver Show (1974); The John Denver Special (1976); The Karate Kid (1984 / 1989 / 2010); The Karate Kid Part II (1986); The Karate Kid Part III (1989); The Legend of Tarzan (2016); The Legend of Tarzan: Tarzan Reborn (2016); The Media Show (1987); The Men Who Built America (2012); The Next Karate Kid (1994); The Oscars (2016); The Sherry Wolf Show (2016); The Specialist (1994); The Starland Vocal Band Show (1977); The Talk (2013); Three Dog Night: Shot in the Dark (1983); Tout le monde en parle (2004); Vegas Vacation (1997); Westworld (2016–2018); When the Whistle Blows (1980); Years of Living Dangerously (2014–2016).

Born on this day – Mary Beth Hurt:

Mary Beth Hurt

Actress

September 26, 1946 – March 28, 2026

Credits:

3 by Cheever (1979); A Change of Seasons (1980); A Weekend with Wendell (1998); Adam Resurrected (2008); Affliction (1997); After Amy (2001); Alkali, Iowa (1995); Ann in Blue (1974); Autumn in New York (2000); Baby Girl Scott (1987); Boys Life 2 (1997); Bringing Out the Dead (1999); CBS Mornings (1987); Change in the Air (2018); Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979); Compromising Positions (1985); D.A.R.Y.L. (1985); Defenseless (1991); Film Independent's 2007 Spirit Awards (2007); From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995); Great Performances (1977); Interiors (1978); Kojak (1976); Lady in the Water (2006); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1983); Law & Order (1996–2009); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002); Lebanon, Pa. (2010); Leo the Late Bloomer (1999); Light Sleeper (1992); Monty (1994); Mother's Day with Actress Mary Beth Hurt (2017); Musical Max (1993); My Boyfriend's Back (1993); Nick & Hillary (1988–1989); Nightlife (1987); Noisy Nora (1994); Parents (1989); Perception (2005); Red Dragon (2002); Reflections of Lady in the Water (2006); Royce (1976); Saturday Night Live (1992); Shimmer (1993); Six Degrees of Separation (1993); Slaves of New York (1989); Steven Spielberg: An American Cinematheque Tribute (1989); The 30th Annual Tony Awards (1976); The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The Age of Innocence (1993); The Beat (2000); The Dead Girl (2006); The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005); The Family Man (2000); The Island of the Skog (2000); The Making of 'The Walker' (2008); The Volunteer (2013); The Walker (2007); The Wild West (1993); The World According to Garp (1982); Thirtysomething (1990); Untraceable (2008); Visions (1980); Working in the Theatre (1982); Working It Out (1990); Young Adult (2011).