Thursday, February 29, 2024

Born on this day – William A. Wellman:


William A. Wellman


Director

Producer

Writer

Actor

Military pilot

February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975


Credits:
A Star Is Born (1937); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born (1976); A Star Is Born (2018); Across the Wide Missouri (1951); Battleground (1949); Beau Geste (1939); Beggars of Life (1928); Big Dan (1923); Blood Alley (1955); Buffalo Bill (1944); Call of the Wild (1935); Central Airport (1933); Chinatown Nights (1929); College Coach (1933); Cupid's Fireman (1923); Dangerous Paradise (1930); Darby's Rangers (1958); Evangeline (1919); Female (1933); Frisco Jenny (1932); Gallant Journey (1946); Good-bye, My Lady (1956); Heroes for Sale (1933); Island in the Sky (1953); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Ladies of the Mob (1928); Lady of Burlesque (1943); Lafayette Escadrille (1958); Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954); Lilly Turner (1933); Looking for Trouble (1934); Love Is a Racket (1932); Magic Town (1947); Maybe It's Love (1930); Men with Wings (1938); Midnight Mary (1933); My Man and I (1952); Night Nurse (1931); Not a Drum Was Heard (1924); Nothing Sacred (1937); Other Men's Women (1931); Reaching for the Sun (1941); Ring of Fear (1954); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936); Roxie Hart (1942); Safe in Hell (1931); Second Hand Love (1923); Small Town Girl (1936); So Big! (1932); Stingaree (1934); Story of G.I. Joe (1945); Tarzan Escapes (1936); The Boob (1926); The Cat's Pajamas (1926); The Circus Cowboy (1924); The Conquerors (1932); The Great Man's Lady (1941); The Happy Years (1950); The Hatchet Man (1932); The High and the Mighty (1954); The Iron Curtain (1948); The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919); The Last Gangster (1937); The Legion of the Condemned (1928); The Light That Failed (1939); The Man I Love (1929); The Man Who Won (1923); The Next Voice You Hear... (1950); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942); The President Vanishes (1934); The Public Enemy (1931); The Purchase Price (1932); The Star Witness (1931); The Vagabond Trail (1924); This Man's Navy (1945); Three Guys Named Mike (1951); Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942); Track of the Cat (1954); Viva Villa! (1934); Westward the Women (1951); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wings (1927); Woman Trap (1929); Yellow Sky (1948); You Never Know Women (1926); Young Eagles (1930).


Born on this day – Dinah Shore:


Dinah Shore


Actress

Singer

February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994

Credits:
Murder, She Wrote (1989); Hotel (1987); HealtH (1980); 240-Robert (1979); Alice (1979); Death Car on the Freeway (1979); Oh, God! (1977); The Carol Burnett Show (1976); Dinah and Her New Best Friends (1976); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976); Here's Lucy (1971); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1970–1971); The Little Engine That Could (1963); Cimarron City (1958); The Danny Thomas Show (1957–1958); Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952); Fun and Fancy Free (1947); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); Two Silhouettes (1946); Make Mine Music (1946); Belle of the Yukon (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Up in Arms (1944); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).


Born on this day – Alice Davenport:

 

Alice Davenport


Actress

February 29, 1864 – June 24, 1936

Credits:
The Dude Wrangler (1930); Legend of Hollywood (1924); Unmarried Wives (1924); Monkeying Around (1923); The Show (1922); Oh, Mabel Behave (1922); Fool Days (1921); The Hayseed (1921); Skirts (1921); The Sleep of Cyma Roget (1920); His Private Wife (1920); Her Private Husband (1920); How Dry I Am (1919); Her First Kiss (1919); Spotlight Sadie (1919); Rip & Stitch: Tailors (1919); Tony America (1918); Her Blighted Love (1918); His Nimble Twist (1918); A Coward's Courage (1918); Little Red Decides (1918); His Double Life (1918); His Hidden Shame (1918); An Ice Man's Bride (1917); His Social Rise (1917); A Maiden's Trust (1917); Secrets of a Beauty Parlor (1917); Pinched in the Finish (1917); Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917); His Last Scent (1916); Pills of Peril (1916); Counting Out the Count (1916); The Snow Cure (1916); Ramona (1916); A Love Riot (1916); The Egyptian Mummy (1916); Fido's Fate (1916); Perils of the Park (1916); Because He Loved Her (1916); The Worst of Friends (1916); Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915); Stolen Magic (1915); His Father's Footsteps (1915); My Valet (1915); Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915); Mabel Lost and Won (1915); Mabel's Wilful Way (1915); Wished on Mabel (1915); Ambrose's Fury (1915); That Little Band of Gold (1915); From Patches to Plenty (1915); Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (1915); A Bird's a Bird (1915); The Home Breakers (1915); Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915); Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915); Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915); Rum and Wall Paper (1915); Hushing the Scandal (1915); His Second Childhood (1914); Wild West Love (1914); Fatty's Magic Pants (1914); The Plumber (1914); Among the Mourners (1914); The Sea Nymphs (1914); Fatty's Wine Party (1914); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); His Talented Wife (1914); Cursed by His Beauty (1914); Gentlemen of Nerve (1914); The Love Thief (1914); Hello, Mabel (1914); He Loved the Ladies (1914); Those Country Kids (1914); The Property Man (1914); Mabel's New Job (1914); Love and Bullets (1914); Mabel's Married Life (1914); The Water Dog (1914); Caught in the Rain (1914); Caught in a Cabaret (1914); Mabel at the Wheel (1914); The Passing of Izzy (1914); Fatal High C (1914); The Star Boarder (1914); Against Heavy Odds (1914); Tango Tangle (1914); A False Beauty (1914); Love and Gasoline (1914); Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914); Making a Living (1914); Won in a Closet (1914); The Under-Sheriff (1914); A Hornet's Nest (1913); Schnitz the Tailor (1913); Mother's Boy (1913); When Dreams Come True (1913); Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913); The Firebugs (1913); The Riot (1913); Cohen's Outing (1913); Just Kids (1913); A Noise from the Deep (1913); Love and Rubbish (1913); The Telltale Light (1913); The Tale of a Black Eye (1913); The Hansom Driver (1913); Passions, He Had Three (1913); Toplitsky and Company (1913); The Water Nymph (1912); Just Brown's Luck (1913); The Mistaken Masher (1913); For Lizzie's Sake (1913); A Double Wedding (1913); Mabel's Stratagem (1912); Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912); The Drummer's Vacation (1912); Pat's Day Off (1912); Brown's Seance (1912); Mabel's Lovers (1912); At It Again (1912); Ambitious Butler (1912); Stolen Glory (1912); The Leading Man (1912); The Love Trail (1912); The Baron (1911); Got a Match? (1912); A Near-Tragedy (1912); Lily's Lovers (1912); Pants and Pansies (1912); The Engagement Ring (1912); The Best Man Wins (1911).

Born on this day – Victor Rietti:


Victor Rietti


Director

Writer

Actor

February 29, 1888 – December 3, 1963

Credits:
Shipmates o' Mine (2022); Harry's Girls (1963); Come Fly with Me (1963); The Saint (1962); Village of Daughters (1962); Joseph and His Brethren (1961); Danger Man (1961); Uncle Martino (1960); Man from Interpol (1960); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1959); Armchair Theatre (1958); Dick and the Duchess (1958); Your Past Is Showing (1957); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1957); Encounter (1957); As I Was Saying (1955); The Bob Hope Show (1954); Kraft Theatre (1953); The Prodigal Son (1953); The Plate on the Wall (1952); The Little World of Don Camillo (1952); To Live in Peace (1951); Mr. H.C. Andersen (1950); The Glass Mountain (1949); A Man About the House (1947); Sinfonia fatale (1947); Give Us the Moon (1944); Hotel Reserve (1944); Yellow Canary (1943); The Peterville Diamond (1943); Thunder Rock (1942); Room for Two (1940); 21 Days Together (1940); The Viper (1938); The Divorce of Lady X (1938); Take It from Me (1937); Who's Your Lady Friend? (1937); Girl in the Street (1937); Show Flat (1936); Hideout in the Alps (1936); Juggernaut (1936); Where There's a Will (1936); Jack of All Trades (1936); Two Hearts in Harmony (1935); The Ghost Goes West (1935); Man of the Moment (1935); Jimmy Boy (1935); Escape Me Never (1935); Oh, Daddy! (1935); Power (1934); The Song You Gave Me (1934); The Charming Deceiver (1933); Bitter Sweet (1933).


Born on this day – Gioachino Rossini:

 

Gioachino Rossini


Composer

February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868


J. K. Rowling, on writing:

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
- J. K. Rowling.