Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Born on this day – Cecil Cunningham:

Cecil Cunningham

Actress

Singer

Comedienne

August 2, 1888 – April 17, 1959

Credits:

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); Above Suspicion (1943); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Anybody's Woman (1930); Are Husbands Necessary? (1942); Artist and Models (1937); Back Street (1941); Blond Cheat (1938); Blonde Venus (1932); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Bottoms Up (1934); Cairo (1942); College Swing (1938); Come and Get It (1936); Complicated Women (2003); Cowboy Serenade (1942); Daughter of Shanghai (1937); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Four Star Playhouse (1952); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Girls' School (1938); Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941); I Married an Angel (1942); If I Had a Million (1932); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Is My Face Red? (1932); It's a Wonderful World (1939); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Joyful Hour (1960); Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); King of Gamblers (1937); Kitty Foyle (1940); Ladies They Talk About (1933); Lady of the Tropics (1939); Laugh It Off (1939); Lillian Russell (1940); Love Is a Racket (1932); Love Me Tonight (1932); Manhattan Love Song (1934); Marie Antoinette (1938); Mata Hari (1931); Monkey Business (1931); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); My Reputation (1946); Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932); New Moon (1940); Night Club Scandal (1937); Paramount on Parade (1930); People Will Talk (1935); Play Girl (1941); Playboy of Paris (1930); Repent at Leisure (1941); Return of the Terror (1934); Safe in Hell (1931); Scandal Street (1938); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); Swing High, Swing Low (1937); Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Age for Love (1931); The Awful Truth (1937); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Bride Goes Wild (1948); The Candid Camera (1932); The Captain Is a Lady (1940); The Druggist's Dilemma (1933); The Family Next Door (1939); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Hidden Hand (1942); The Impatient Maiden (1932); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Wet Parade (1932); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); Their Own Desire (1929); This Way Please (1937); Those We Love (1932); Trouble from Abroad (1931); Twin Beds (1942); We Live Again (1934); Winter Carnival (1939); Wives Under Suspicion (1938); Wonder Man (1945); You and Me (1938).

Born on this day – Ted D. McCord:

Ted D. McCord (left) with Ida Lupino (center) and Dane Clark (right) on the set of Deep Valley (1947).

Ted D. McCord

Cinematographer

August 2, 1900 – January 19, 1976

Credits:

A Fine Madness (1966); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Airborne Lifeboat (1945); Alice in Movieland (1940); At the Stroke of Twelve (1941); Battle Royal (1932); Between Fighting Men (1932); Beyond the Rockies (1932); Blazing Sixes (1937); Bombers B-52 (1957); Border Romance (1929); Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School (1942); Bullet Scars (1942); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); California Mail (1936); Calling All Husbands (1940); Carnival Boat (1932); Cattle Town (1952); Cheyenne (1956–1957); Code of the Secret Service (1939); Come on, Tarzan (1932); Conflict (1956–1957); Deep Valley (1947); Desert Vengeance (1931); Dynamite Ranch (1932); East of Eden (1955); Empty Holsters (1937); False Faces (1932); Fargo Express (1933); Father Is a Prince (1940); Feud of the West (1936); Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (1930); Flamingo Road (1949); Flirting with Love (1924); For Sale (1924); Force of Arms (1951); Freighters of Destiny (1931); Fugitive in the Sky (1936); Ghost Valley (1932); Giant (1956); Goodbye, My Fancy (1951); Gun Justice (1933); Guns of the Pecos (1936); Hell-Fire Austin (1932); Hero's Island (1962); High Hats and Low Brows (1932); Highway West (1941); Hong Kong (1960); Honor of the Range (1934); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); I Was Framed (1942); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); In Love at 40 (1935); International Squadron (1941); Irene (1926); Johnny Belinda (1948); June Bride (1948); King of the Arena (1933); Knockout (1941); Ladies Must Live (1940); Land Beyond the Law (1937); Letter from a Friend (1943); Lucky Larkin (1930); Men Without Law (1930); Mountain Justice (1930); Murder in the Air (1940); Murder in the Big House (1942); Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941); Odor in the Court (1934); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Operation Secret (1952); Parade of the West (1930); Poisoned Ivory (1934); Prairie Thunder (1937); Pride of the Blue Grass (1939); Private Detective (1939); Private Property (1960); Ride Him, Cowboy (1932); Rocky Mountain (1950); Rocky Rhodes (1934); Sacred and Profane Love (1921); Sally (1925); Secret Service of the Air (1939); Señor Americano (1929); Senor Jim (1936); Sergeant Murphy (1938); Shadow Ranch (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1940); Singapore Woman (1941); Six Hits and a Miss (1942); Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra (1941); Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948); Smog (1962); Smoking Guns (1934); So Big (1924); So You Want to Play the Horses (1946); So You're Going on a Vacation (1947); Somewhere in Sonora (1933); Song of the Caballero (1930); Sons of the Saddle (1930); South Sea Woman (1953); Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1947); Starlift (1951); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Stoney Burke (1962); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Strawberry Roan (1933); Sugarfoot (1957); Suicide Fleet (1931); Sundown Trail (1931); That Way with Women (1947); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); The All American Bands (1943); The Big Stampede (1932); The Breaking Point (1950); The Burning Hills (1956); The Canyon of Adventure (1928); The Case of the Black Parrot (1941); The Code of the Scarlet (1928); The Cowboy Quarterback (1939); The Crash (1928); The Damned Don't Cry (1950); The Daredevil Drivers (1938); The Dawn Trail (1930); The Desert Flower (1925); The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933); The Fighting Legion (1930); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); The Hanging Tree (1959); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949); The Lone Rider (1930); The Man from Monterey (1933); The Marriage Whirl (1925); The McConnell Story (1955); The Pace That Thrills (1925); The Phantom City (1928); The Proud Rebel (1958); The Rainmakers (1935); The Rear Gunner (1943); The Royal Rider (1929); The Saddle Buster (1932); The Sound of Music (1965); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); The Telegraph Trail (1933); The Trail Drive (1933); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The United States Army Air Force Band (1942); The United States Army Band (1943); The United States Marine Band (1942); The United States Navy Band (1943); The United States Service Bands (1943); The Upland Rider (1928); The Valley of the Giants (1927); The Wagon Master (1929); The Wide Open Spaces (1931); The Young in Heart (1938); This Woman Is Dangerous (1952); Three Lives (1953); Tombstone Canyon (1932); Trailin' West (1936); Two for the Seesaw (1962); War Hunt (1962); We Moderns (1925); Wheels of Destiny (1934); When a Man Sees Red (1934); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Young at Heart (1954); Young Man with a Horn (1950).

Born on this day – Myrna Loy:

Myrna Loy

Actress

August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927); ABC Late Night (1974); Across the Pacific (1926); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976); After the Thin Man (1936); Airport 1975 (1974); American Experience (1996); American Masters (2009); Another Romance of Celluloid (1938); Another Thin Man (1939); Ants! (1977); Arena (1991); Arrowsmith (1931); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Beware of Married Men (1927); Biography (1995–1998); Bitter Apples (1927); Body and Soul (1931); Bride of the Regiment (1930); Broadway Bill (1934); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); California's Golden Parks (2007); Cameo Kirby (1930); CBS Mornings (1988); Celebrity Talent Scouts (1960); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Columbo (1972); Complicated Women (2003); Consolation Marriage (1931); Day at Night (1973); Death Takes a Holiday (1971); Die Stimme Österreichs (1949); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Don Juan (1926); Double Wedding (1937); Emma (1932); Entertainment Tonight (1993); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Evidence (1929); Exquisite Sinner (1926); Family Affair (1967); Fancy Baggage (1929); Fashion News (1930); Finger Prints (1927); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); From the Terrace (1960); Gala Adlai on Broadway (1960); General Electric Theater (1955–1957); Great Performances (1987); Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927); Hardboiled Rose (1929); Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' (1981); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); Hush Money (1931); I Love You Again (1940); If I Were Single (1927); If This Be Sin (1949); Indict and Convict (1974); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Ironside (1973); Isle of Escape (1930); I've Got a Secret (1960); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); Kilo tissa wa tissaine (1955); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Libeled Lady (1936); Lonelyhearts (1958); Love Crazy (1941); Love Me Tonight (1932); Love, Sidney (1982); Lucky Night (1939); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Man-Proof (1938); Meet Me in St. Louis (1959); Men in White (1934); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Midnight Lace (1960); Moonlighting (1987); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Myrna Loy Remembered (1993); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); New Morals for Old (1932); Night Flight (1933); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Noah's Ark (1928); Northward, Ho! (1940); Omnibus (1969); Parnell (1937); Pay as You Enter (1928); Penthouse (1933); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957); Petticoat Fever (1936); Philbin's People (1970); Pretty Ladies (1925); Rebound (1931); Remember Me (1978); Renegades (1930); Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004); Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930); Scarlet River (1933); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Goddesses (2006); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Show of Shows (1929); Show-Business at War (1943); Simple Sis (1927); Skyline (1931); So Goes My Love (1946); So This Is Paris (1926); Some of the Greatest (1955); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Sporting Life (1925); Stamboul Quest (1934); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); State Street Sadie (1928); Test Pilot (1938); Thalath Nessa (1968); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 32nd Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1967); The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The Ambassador's Daughter (1956); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The April Fools (1969); The Arlene Francis Show (1957); The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947); The Bad Man (1930); The Barbarian (1933); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Black Watch (1929); The Bob Braun Show (1978); The Bushido Blade / Summer Solstice (1981); The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937); The Caveman (1926); The Climbers (1927); The Couple Takes a Wife (1972); The Crimson City (1928); The David Frost Show (1969); The Desert Song (1929); The Devil to Pay! (1930); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1980); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1970); The Elevator (1974); The End (1978); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The George Gobel Show (1959); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Great Divide (1929); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Jazz Cinderella (1930); The Jazz Singer (1927); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Last of the Duanes (1930); The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Love Toy (1926); The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1980); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Midnight Taxi (1928); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1980); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movie Game (1972); The Movies (2019); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Rains Came (1939); The Red Pony (1949); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Sam Levenson Show (1959); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986); The Squall (1929); The Thin Man (1934); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Third Degree (1926); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967); The Truth About Youth (1930); The Virginian (1967); The Voice of Hollywood No. 8 (1930); The Wanderer (1925); The Wet Parade (1932); The Woman in Room 13 (1932); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Third Finger, Left Hand (1940); Thirteen Women (1932); This Is Your Life (1956); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); To Mary - with Love (1936); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1980); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Topaze (1933); Transatlantic (1931); Trifles of Importance (1940); Turn Back the Hours (1928); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twenty Years After (1944); Under a Texas Moon (1930); Vanity Fair (1932); Verdensberømtheder i København (1939); What Price Beauty? (1925); What's My Line? (1960); When a Man Loves (1927); When Ladies Meet (1933); Whipsaw (1935); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005); Wings in the Dark (1935).