Born on this day – Edna Ferber:

Edna Ferber

Writer

August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968

Credits:

Books:

$1,200 A Year: A Comedy In Three Acts (1920); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); A Kind of Magic (2013); A Peculiar Treasure: Autobiography (1939); American Beauty (1931); Buttered Side Down: Short Stories (1912); Cheerful, by Request (1913); Cimarron (1929); Come and Get It (1934); Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911); Emma McChesney and Co. (1915); Fanny Herself (1917); Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle (1978); Giant (1952); Gigolo (1922); Great Son (1944); Half Portions (2010); Ice Palace (1958); Mother Knows Best (1927); One Basket (1947); Personality Plus (1914); Roast Beef Medium (1911); Saratoga Trunk (1941); Show Boat (1926); So Big (1924); Stage Door (1926); The Dancing Girls (2021); The Girls (1921); The Homely Heroine (2017); The Land Is Bright: A Play (2019); The Woman Who Tried to Be Good and Other Stories (1913); They Brought Their Women: A Book Of Short Stories (1933).

Movies, radio and television:

American Masters (1987); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951–1958); Cimarron (1931); Cimarron (1960); Classified (1925); Come and Get It (1936); Dinner at Eight (1933); Dinner at Eight (1989); Front Row Center (1955); A Gay Old Dog (1919); Giant (1956); Gigolo (1926); Glamour (1934); Great Performances (1989); Hard to Get (1929); Ice Palace (1960); Kern: Show Boat (2015); Kraft Theatre (1948); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); Mother Knows Best (1928); No Place to Go (1939); No Woman Knows (1921); Our Mrs. McChesney (1918); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Radio Play Revival (2024); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Show Boat (1929); Show Boat (1936); Show Boat (1951); So Big (1924); So Big (1953); So Big! (1932); Stage Door (1937); Stage Door (1939); Stage Door (1948); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The Expert (1932); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Home Girl (1928); The Royal Family (1977); The Royal Family of Broadway (1930); The Royal Family of Broadway (1939); The Stage Door (1950); Theatre Royal / The Royal Family (1952); Welcome Home (1925).

Born on this day – Katharine Brush:

 

Katharine Brush

Writer

August 15, 1902 – June 10, 1952

Credits:

Written work:

Don't Ever Leave Me (1935); Free Woman (1936); Glitter (1926); Little Sins (1927); Mannequin / aka Marry For Money (1937); Night Club (1929); Other Women (1933); Out of My Mind (1943); Red-Headed Woman (1931); The Boy from Maine (1942); This Is on Me (1940); This Man and This Woman (1944); When She Was Bad (1948); You Go Your Way (1941); Young Man of Manhattan (1930).

Movies and television:

Actor's Studio (1948); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); General Electric Theater (1959); Honeymoon in Bali (1939); Lady of Secrets (1936); Listen, Darling (1938); Mannequin (1937); Red-Headed Woman (1932); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Drop Kick (1927); Young Man of Manhattan (1930).

Born on this day – Wendy Hiller:

Wendy Hiller

Actress

August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003

Credits:

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); A Discussion of the Growing Summer (1968); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A New Window Pane (1997); A Taste for Death (1988); Agatha Christie: A Woman of Mystery (2007); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); All Passion Spent (1986); All the World’s a Stage (1984); Anne of Avonlea (1987); Armchair Theatre (1958); Attracta (1983); Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre (1991); BBC Play of the Month (1966–1968); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Clochemerle (1972); David Copperfield (1970); Ending Up (1989); Great Performances (1985); Hindle Wakes (1947); How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957); I Know Where I’m Going! (1945); I Know Where I’m Going! Revisited (1994); ITV Playhouse (1978); Jackanory (1965); Knock on Any Door (1966); Lancashire Luck (1937); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955–1956); Love Story (1972); Major Barbara (1941); Making Love (1982); Masterpiece Theatre: Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (1986); Matinee Theatre (1957–1958); Miss Morison’s Ghosts (1981); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); Night of 100 Stars (1977); Omnibus (1988); Omnibus (2001); Only Yesterday (1986); Outcast of the Islands (1951); Play for Today (1981); Plays of Today (1969); Profiles in Courage (1965); Pygmalion (1938); Sailor of the King (1953); Screenplay (1992); Separate Tables (1958); She Stoops to Conquer (1972); Something of Value (1957); Sons and Lovers (1960); Tales of the Unexpected (1979); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978); The Best of Friends (1991); The Brains Trust (1955); The British Greats (1980); The Cat and the Canary (1978); The Comedy of Errors (1983); The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (1980); The Death of the Heart (1987); The Elephant Man (1980); The Fame of Grace Darling (1939); The Growing Summer (1968); The Growing Summer (1969); The Kingfisher (1982); The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987); The Method - An ITV Special Investigation (1958); The Twelve Pound Look (1957); This Is Your Life (1978–1995); To Be a Woman (1951); Tonight on Broadway (1948); Toys in the Attic (1963); Voyage of the Damned (1976); When We Dead Awaken (1970); Witness for the Prosecution (1982); Z Cars (1964).

Born on this day – Signe Hasso:

Signe Hasso

Actress

Writer

Composer

August 15, 1915 – June 7, 2002

Born on this day – Philip Perlman:

Philip Perlman

Actor

August 15, 1919 – April 29, 2015

Credits:

Cheers (1986–1993); Class Act (1992); Deadly Hero (1975); Drowning Mona (2000); Duplex (2003); Even Money (2006); Frasier (2002); Hill Street Blues (1982); Hoffa (1992); It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2006); Man on the Moon (1999); Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005); Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (1990); Other People's Money (1991); Out of Sight (1998); Roc (1991–1992); Sibs (1992); The Ratings Game (1984); The Tracey Ullman Show (1990); The War of the Roses (1989); Throw Momma from the Train (1987).

 

Born on this day – Rose Marie:

 

Rose Marie

Actress

Singer

Comedian

August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017

Born on this day – Georgann Johnson:

 

Georgann Johnson

Actress

August 15, 1926 – June 4, 2018