Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Born on this day – Jeff Donnell:

 

Actress

July 10, 1921 – April 11, 1988




Born on this day – Joan Marsh:

 

Actress

July 10, 1914 – August 10, 2000

Credits:

A Little Princess (1917); A Tailor Made Man (1931); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); Anna Karenina (1935); Are You Listening? (1932); Bachelor's Affairs (1932); Blame It on Love (1940); Brilliant Marriage (1936); Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919); Champagne for Breakfast (1935); Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937); Daddy-Long-Legs (1919); Dance, Fools, Dance (1931); Dancing Feet (1936); Daring Daughters (1933); Fast and Loose (1939); Follow the Leader (1944); Framed! (1931); Hammer and Tongs (1930); Hearts Aflame (1915); High Gear (1933); Hot Water (1937); How Could You, Jean? (1918); I Used to Be in Pictures (2000); Idiot's Delight (1939); Inspiration (1931); It's Great to Be Alive (1933); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Kid Roberts (1930); King of Jazz (1930); Life Begins in College (1937); Little Accident (1930); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Maker of Men (1931); Many Happy Returns (1934); Meet the Wife (1931); Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943); One Hundred Percent American (1918); Police Bullets (1942); Politics (1931); Pollyanna (1920); Rainbow Over Broadway (1933); Road to Zanzibar (1941); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934); Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943); Shipmates (1931); Speed Demon (1932); Suds (1920); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's My Boy (1932); The Baron's African War (1966); The Bond (1918); The Knockout (1930); The Lady Killer (1931); The Lady Objects (1938); The Mad Maid of the Forest (1915); The Man in the Trunk (1942); The Man Who Dared (1933); The Mardi Gras (1930); The Wet Parade (1932); Thou Art the Man (1920); Three Cornered Moon (1933); Three Girls Lost (1931); Uncle Jake (1933); We're Rich Again (1934); What Becomes of the Children? (1936); Women's Weapons (1918); Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920); You're Telling Me! (1934).


Born on this day – Lili Damita:


Actress

Singer

July 10, 1904 – March 21, 1994


Credits:
A Dream Comes True (1935); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); Brewster's Millions (1935); Cab No. 13 (1926); Corsica (1923); Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925); Die berühmte Frau (1927); Die große Abenteuerin (1928); Fighting Caravans (1931); For Auld Lang Syne (1938); Forbidden Love (1927); Friends and Lovers (1931); Frisco Kid (1935); Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000); Goldie Gets Along (1933); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Guests at San Simeon (Hearst Castle) (1931); I 10 del Texas (1961); Jungle Drums (1929); La belle au bois dormant (1922); La Fille sauvage (1922); La voyante (1924); Le père célibataire (1931); Le prince charmant (1925); L'empereur des pauvres (1922); L'escadrille de la chance (1938); Maman Pierre (1922); Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1926); On a volé un homme (1934); One Hour with You (1932); Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935); Quand on est belle (1932); Scandal in Paris (1928); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (1936); Secrets of a Soul (1926); Soyons gais (1930); Starlit Days at the Lido (1935); Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn (2007); That's Entertainment! (1974); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929); The Cock-Eyed World (1929); The Devil on Horseback (1936); The Golden Butterfly (1926); The Match King (1932); The Rescue (1929); The Woman Between (1931); This Is the Night (1932); Une femme dans la nuit (1924).


Born on this day – John Wyndham:



Writer

July 10, 1903 – March 11, 1969

Credits:

Books:

13 Great Stories of Science Fiction (1960); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Chamber of Horrors (1965); A Sense of Wonder (1969); A Treasury of Great Science Fiction (2020); Alien Worlds (1964); An ABC of Science Fiction (1971); Chocky (1968); Consider Her Ways (1961); Dragons (1997); Exiles on Asperus (1979); Foul Play Suspected (1935); From Other Worlds (1964); Jizzle (1954); Meteor (1991); No Place Like Earth - a Science Fiction Anthology (2020); No Place Like Earth (2003); Out of This World (1973); Plan for Chaos (2009); Sleepers Of Mars (1973); Spectrum IV (1965); Stowaway To Mars / Planet Plane (1935); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter (1956); The Best of British SF 1 (1977); The Best of British SF 2 (1977); The Best of John Wyndham 1932-1949 (1973); The Best of John Wyndham 1951-1960 (1973); The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977); The Chrysalids /Re-Birth (1955); The Curse of the Burdens (2022); The Day of the Triffids / Revolt of the Triffids (1951); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); The Infinite Moment (1961); The Kraken Wakes / Out of the Deeps (1953); The Man From Beyond, And Other Stories (1975); The Microcosmic God (1965); The Midwich Cuckoos (1957); The Moon Era (1967); The Night of the Triffids (2001); The Outward Urge (1961); The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998); The Science Fiction Century, Volume 1 (1997); The Secret People (1935); The Seeds of Time (1956); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); Time Untamed (1967); Trouble with Lichen (1960); Vintage Science Fiction (1999); Wanderers of Time (1973); Web (1979).

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Armchair Theatre (1962); Children of the Damned (1964); Chocky (1984); Chocky's Challenge (1986); Chocky's Children (1985); Cineficción Radio (2021); John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction (2005); Ördögi szerencse (1978); Out of the Unknown (1965–1969); Out of This World (1962); Quest for Love (1971); Random Quest (2006); Spine Chillers (1980); Storyboard (1961); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Day of the Triffids (1963 / 1981 / 2009); The Midwich Cuckoos (2021 / 2022); Time Stops Today (2013); Tonight (1960); Village of the Damned (1960 / 1995); Ways with Words (1965).



Born on this day – John Gilbert:

 

Actor

Writer

Director

July 10, 1897 – January 9, 1936




Born on this day – Slim Summerville:

 

Actor

Director

July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946


Born on this day – Marcel Proust:


Writer

July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922

Credits:

Books: 

Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays (1994); Correspondance, 1914-1922 (1976); In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower / aka Within a Budding Grove (1919); Jean Santeuil (1954); Letters (1948); Letters to a friend (1949); Letters to His Mother (1973); Letters to the Lady Upstairs / aka Letters to His Neighbor (2017); Love Duet And Other Curious Stories About Music (2013); On Art and Literature: 1896-1919 (1996); On Life, Love and Letters (1989); On Reading (1971); On Reading Ruskin (1987); Pleasures and Days / aka Pleasures and Regrets (1896); Selected Letters: 1880-1903 (1983); Selected Letters: 1918-1921 (2000); Sodom and Gomorrah / aka Cities of the Plain (1921); Swann in Love (1913); Swann's Way / aka The Way by Swann's (1913); The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust (2001); The Fugitive / aka Albertine Gone / The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925); The Guermantes Way (1920); The Mysterious Correspondent (2021); The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 (2022); The Prisoner / aka The Captive (1923); Time Regained / aka The Past Recaptured / Finding Time Again (1927).

Movies and television:

À la recherche du temps perdu (2011); Choses vues (1971); Chroniques de France (1969–1972); Correspondances (1953); Dans le temps (2016); Du côté de chez Proust (2010); Guermantes (2021); Ici et là (2005); Le monde de Marcel Proust (2021); Le temps de l'amour (2009); Les cent livres des hommes (1971); Les intermittences du Coeur (1981); Les Nuits de France Culture (2020); Madame Aurélie (1955); Marcel Proust at Elaine Greffulhe's Wedding (1904); Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life (1993); Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999); Omnibus (1971); Preámbulo a un silencio (1986); Swann in Love (1984); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Captive (2000 / 2014); The Five Senses (1999); U cioci Leonii (2018); W strone (2014); Without Walls (1995).