Sunday, June 29, 2025

Born on this day – Joan Davis:


Joan Davis


Actress

June 29, 1907 – May 23, 1961

Credits:
Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Angel's Holiday (1937); Around the World (1943); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Biography (1996); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bunker Bean (1936); Day-Time Wife (1939); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Free, Blonde and 21 (1940); George White's Scandals (1945); Harem Girl (1952); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942); He's My Guy (1943); Hold That Co-ed (1938); Hold That Ghost (1941); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); I Married Joan (1952–1955); If You Knew Susie (1948); Joan of Arkansas (1958); Josette (1938); Just Around the Corner (1938); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Keep Smiling (1938); Let's Join Joanie (1950); Life Begins in College (1937); Love and Hisses (1937); Love That Brute (1950); Make Mine Laughs (1949); Manhattan Heartbeat (1940); Millions in the Air (1935); My Lucky Star (1938); On the Avenue (1937); Sailor's Lady (1940); Sally, Irene and Mary (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1949); Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 1 (1941); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); She Gets Her Man (1945); She Wrote the Book (1946); Show Business (1944); Sing and Be Happy (1937); Sun Valley Serenade (1941); Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942); Tail Spin (1939); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1958); The Garry Moore Show (1959); The George Gobel Show (1958); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); The Groom Wore Spurs (1951); The Holy Terror (1937); The Milton Berle Show (1959); The Sound of Laughter (1963); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958); The Traveling Saleswoman (1950); Thin Ice (1937); Time Out for Romance (1937); Too Busy to Work (1939); Two Latins from Manhattan (1941); Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943); Wake Up and Live (1937); Way Up Thar (1935); Yokel Boy (1942).

Born on this day – Bernard Herrmann:


Bernard Herrmann


Composer

June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975

Born on this day – Ruth Warrick:


Ruth Warrick


Actress

Singer

June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005


Born on this day – Slim Pickens:

 

Slim Pickens


Actor

Rodeo performer

June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983


Born on this day – Ray Harryhausen:


Ray Harryhausen


Animator

Special effects creator

June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013 


Born on this day – Cara Williams:


Cara Williams


Actress

June 29, 1925 – December 9, 2021

Credits:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1960); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1951); Boomerang! (1947); Broadway Television Theatre (1952); Date with the Angels (1957); Doctors' Wives (1971); Don Juan Quilligan (1945); Girls' Town (1942); Happy Land (1943); Henry Fonda and the Family (1962); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); In Security (1982); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1962); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Keep Talking (1959); Knock on Any Door (1949); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Laura (1944); Lux Video Theatre (1956); March of Dimes Presents: Once Upon a Dime (1963); Matinee Theatre (1955); Medical Center (1976); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); Naked City (1959); Never Steal Anything Small (1959); Password (1962); Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Rhoda (1974); Rhyme and Reason (1975); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Sitting Pretty (1948); Something for the Boys (1944); Starlight Theatre (1950); Steve Randall (1952); Stu's Show (2016); Suspense (1950); Sweet and Low-Down (1944); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); The 19th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1962); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The Ashes of Mrs. Reasoner (1976); The Billy Rose Show (1950); The Cara Williams Show (1964–1965); The Cassini Show (1954); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Clock (1950); The Defiant Ones (1958); The Game Game (1970); The Girl Next Door (1953); The Great Diamond Robbery (1954); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1956); The Linkletter Show (1963); The Man from the Diners' Club (1963); The One Man Jury (1978); The Red Skelton Hour (1961–1962); The Saxon Charm (1948); The Spider (1945); The Web (1950); The White Buffalo (1977); Theatre of Romance (1949); Valentine's Day (1964); Visions (1977); We Go to Monte Carlo (1953); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960); Wide Open Town (1941); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Ian Bannen:

 

Ian Bannen


Actor

June 29, 1928 – November 3, 1999