Born on this day – Jocelyn Brando:

Actress

Writer

November 18, 1919 – November 27, 2005

Born this day – Georgia Carroll:

Singer

Model

Actress

November 18, 1919 – January 14, 2011

Born on this day – H. Bruce Humberstone:

Director

November 18, 1901 – October 11, 1984

Born on this day – Irvin Willat:

Director

November 18, 1890 – April 17, 1976

Born on this day – Frances Marion:

Writer

Director

November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973

Credits:

Dinner at Eight (1989); The Champ (1979); The Clown (1953); The Pirate (1948); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); Miss Susie Slagle's (1946); Molly and Me (1945); Without Love (1945); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Tish (1942); Northwest Passage (1940); Green Hell (1940); Rosalie (1937); Knight Without Armor (1937); Maytime (1937); A Night of Terror (1937); The Good Earth (1937); Camille (1936); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Riffraff (1935); Going Hollywood (1933); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); Dinner at Eight (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); Peg o' My Heart (1933); The White Sister (1933); Secrets (1933); Cynara (1932); Smilin' Through (1932); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Emma (1932); Menschen hinter Gittern (1931); Big House (1931); Daybreak (1931); The Secret 6 (1931); The Bachelor Father (1931); Forever Yours (1930); Anna Christie (1930); Min and Bill (1930); El presidio (1930); Wu Li Chang (1930); Good News (1930); Let Us Be Gay (1930); The Big House (1930); In Gay Madrid (1930); Anna Christie (1930); The Rogue Song (1930); Their Own Desire (1929); The Pagan (1929); The Bellamy Trial (1929); The Masks of the Devil (1928); The Awakening (1928); The Wind (1928); Excess Baggage (1928); The Mysterious Lady (1928); Kit Carson (1928); The Cossacks (1928); The Sunset Legion (1928); Bringing Up Father (1928); Pioneer Scout (1928); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Jesse James (1927); Madame Pompadour (1927); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); Silver Comes Through (1927); Mr. Wu (1927); The Red Mill (1927); Don Mike (1927); The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926); Lone Hand Saunders (1926); The Scarlet Letter (1926); The Son of the Sheik (1926); The Two-Gun Man (1926); Hands Across the Border (1926); Paris at Midnight (1926); Partners Again (1926); The Tough Guy (1926); The First Year (1926); Stella Dallas (1925); Simon the Jester (1925); Lazybones (1925); Thank You (1925); Ridin' the Wind (1925); The Dark Angel (1925); Graustark (1925); Lightnin' (1925); Zander the Great (1925); His Supreme Moment (1925); The Lady (1925); A Thief in Paradise (1925); Sundown (1924); Thundering Hoofs (1924); In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924); Tarnish (1924); Cytherea (1924); Secrets (1924); Galloping Gallagher (1924); The Mask of Lopez (1924); The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924); Through the Dark (1924); The Song of Love (1923); Potash and Perlmutter (1923); The French Doll (1923); Dulcy (1923); The Love Piker (1923); The Eagle's Talons (1923); Within the Law (1923); The Nth Commandment (1923); The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923); The Voice from the Minaret (1923); Minnie (1922); The Toll of the Sea (1922); East Is West (1922); The Eternal Flame (1922); Sonny (1922); The Primitive Lover (1922); Back Pay (1922); Just Around the Corner (1921); Straight Is the Way (1921); The Love Light (1921); The Restless Sex (1920); The World and His Wife (1920); Go and Get It (1920); Humoresque (1920); The Flapper (1920); Pollyanna (1920); The Cinema Murder (1919); Anne of Green Gables (1919); A Regular Girl (1919); The Dark Star (1919); The Misleading Widow (1919); Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919); The Temple of Dusk (1918); Johanna Enlists (1918); The Goat (1918); He Comes Up Smiling (1918); The City of Dim Faces (1918); How Could You, Jean? (1918); M'Liss (1918); Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918); Stella Maris (1918); A Little Princess (1917); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917); The Amazons (1917); Beloved Adventuress (1917); The Divorce Game (1917); The Stolen Paradise (1917); The Crimson Dove (1917); Forget-Me-Not (1917); As Man Made Her (1917); The Social Leper (1917); The Web of Desire (1917); The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917); A Girl's Folly (1917); A Square Deal (1917); A Hungry Heart (1917); Tillie Wakes Up (1917); On Dangerous Ground (1917); A Woman Alone (1917); The Rise of Susan (1916); All Man (1916); Bought and Paid For (1916); The Heart of a Hero (1916); The Hidden Scar (1916); The Gilded Cage (1916); The Revolt (1916); Friday the 13th (1916); The Summer Girl (1916); A Woman's Way (1916); The Crucial Test (1916); La vie de Bohème (1916); Tangled Fates (1916); The Battle of Hearts (story: Woman Against the Sea (1916); The Feast of Life (1916); The Social Highwayman (1916); Then I'll Come Back to You (1916); The Yellow Passport (1916); A Circus Romance (1916); The Foundling (1916); Camille (1915); A Daughter of the Sea (1915); Esmeralda (1915); The Foundling (1915); Rags (1915); A Sister's Burden (1915); Fanchon, the Cricket (1915); The Wild Girl from the Hills (1915); The Jest of Jealousy (1915); A Girl of Yesterday (1915); The New York Hat (1912).

Lloyd Alexander, on reading:

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

- Lloyd Alexander.

Sylvia Plath, on being a writer and an introvert:

 

We stayed at home to write,

to consolidate our outstretched selves.
 
- Sylvia Plath.