Born on this day – Arthur Ripley:

Arthur Ripley

Writer

Editor

Producer

Director

Cinematographer

January 12, 1897 – February 13, 1961

Credits:

A Celebrated Case (1914); A Hollywood Theme Song (1930); A Lady of Quality (1924); A Price for Folly (1915); A Wrestler's Bride (1933); A Yankee Doodle Duke (1926); All Night Long (1924); Am I Having Fun! (1936); Barnum Was Right (1929); Behind Prison Walls (1943); Blindness of Devotion (1915); Boobs in the Wood (1925); Captain of the Guard (1930); Caravan (1934); Cavalcade of America (1952–1954); Colt .45 (1959); Counsel on De Fence (1934); Courting Trouble (1932); Dance Hall Marge (1931); Dr. Rameau (1915); Edgar Hamlet (1935); Elmer Steps Out (1934); Fiddlesticks (1927); Gasoloons (1936); General Electric Theater (1953); Happy Tho' Married (1935); Heart Trouble (1928); Heart Trouble (1928); Hide-Out (1930); His Busted Trust (1916); His First Flame (1927); His Marriage Wow (1925); Hold 'er Sheriff (1931); Hold Your Temper (1943); Hooked at the Altar (1926); How to Behave (1936); How to Train a Dog (1936); Hypnotized (1932); I Met My Love Again (1938); In Conference (1931); In Love at 40 (1935); In the Dog House (1934); In-Laws Are Out (1934); Just a Bear (1931); Life's Darn Funny (1921); Long Pants (1927); Love on a Ladder (1934); Lucky Stars (1925); Monkey Business in Africa (1931); Plain Clothes (1925); Prisoner of Japan (1942); Remember When? (1925); Saturday Afternoon (1926); Scrappily Married (1940); Shannon of the Sixth (1914); Shivers (1934); Should a Mother Tell (1915); Siren of Atlantis (1949); Smith's Surprise (1927); Smith's Uncle (1926); Soldier Man (1926); South Seasickness (1935); Speed (1931); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1958); The Bluffer (1930); The Bride's Mistake (1931); The Chase (1946); The Chaser (1928); The Christophers (1957); The College Vamp (1931); The Dog Doctor (1931); The Golf Specialist (1933); The Green-Eyed Monster (1916); The Jolly Jilter (1927); The Leather Necker (1935); The Pharmacist (1933); The Reel Virginian (1924); The Star and the Story (1955); The Strong Man (1926); The Third Generation (1920); The Wonderful Adventure (1915); Three Blonde Mice (1942); Three's a Crowd (1927); Thunder Road (1958); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926); Twincuplets (1940); Voice in the Wind (1944); Wandering Waistlines (1924); Waterfront (1939); Wedded Blitz (1942); Will Power (1936); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).

Born on this day – Mississippi Fred McDowell:

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

61 Highway Blues (2011); A Dose Of Double Dynamite (2006); ABC Of The Blues Vol 33 (2010); Amazing Grace & My Home Is in the Delta (2013); Amazing Grace (1966); Ann Arbor, 1971 (Live) (2021); Best Live Country Blues (2022); Blues Masters: Mississippi Fred McDowell (1969); Come and Found You Gone: The Bill Ferris Recordings (2010); Downhome Blues, Vol. 1 (2009); Eight Years Ramblin' (1972); Fred Mcdowell (2014); Fred McDowell, Vol. 2 (1966); Going Down to the River - Mississippi Fred McDowell 1959 (2020); Heritage Of The Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2003); I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll (1969); Jesus On The Mainline (2023); Les pionniers du Blues, Vol. 15 : Mississippi Fred McDowell (2019); Levee Camp Blues (1980); Live at the Gaslight: Set One (2000); Live at the Gaslight: Set Two (2000); Live in New York (1972); Long Way From Home (1966); Long Way From Home: The Blues of Fred McDowell (1990); Mama Says I'm Crazy (2002); Mighty Mississippi (Rerecorded) (2009); Mississippi Delta Blues (1964); Mississippi Fred McDowell (1995); Mississippi Fred McDowell in London (Volume Two) (1970); Mojo Hand: Previously Unreleased (2022); Ole Miss Blues (2022);Portraits: The First Recordings (1997); Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On (2012); Shake 'Em on Down (2015); Shake 'Em On Down: Live In NYC (2016); Standing At The Burying Ground (1996); The Alan Lomax Recordings (2011); The Best of Mississippi Fred Mcdowell (2001); The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Live) (2024); The Essential Fred McDowell (Live) (2022); The First Recordings (1997); The Man from Como, Miss (2020); The Train I Ride (1993); This Ain't No Rock n' Roll (1995); Timeless Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2011); You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore (2010); You Gotta Move (1989).

Songs:

61 Highway; Baby Please Don't Go; Como; Do My Baby Ever Think of Me; Everybody's Down on Me; Fred's Rambling Blues; Frisco Line; Get Right Church; Goin’ Down to the River; Going Away - Won't Be Gone Long; Going Down the River; Gravel Road Blues; Highway 61; I Heard Somebody Call; I Looked at the Sun; Jesus Is On The Main Line; John Henry; Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning; Levee Camp Blues; Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom; My Baby; My Bottleneck; Red Cross Store Blues; Shake 'em on Down; That's Alright; What's the Matter Now?; When I Lay My Burden Down; When the Saints Go Marching In; Write Me a Few Lines; Write Me a Few of Your Lines; You Got to Move.

Born on this day – Patsy Kelly:

Patsy Kelly

Actress

January 12, 1910 – September 24, 1981

Credits:

20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 26 Men (1959); A Single Man (1929); Air Fright (1933); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); All Star Revue (1952–1953); An All American Toothache (1936); Arrest and Trial (1963); At Sea Ashore (1936); Babes in the Goods (1934); Babies, They're Wonderful (1947); Backs to Nature (1933); Barefoot in the Park (1970); Beauty and the Bus (1933); Big Breakdowns: Hollywood Bloopers of the 1930s (1991); Bloopermania (1987); Bonanza (1968); Breakdowns of 1937 (1937); Broadway Limited (1941); Bum Voyage (1934); Burke's Law (1964); Busby Berkeley (1974); Classic Comedy Teams / Segment: The Ritz Brothers (1986); C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967); Compression (2024); Danger! Women at Work (1943); Done in Oil (1934); Ever Since Eve (1937); Every Night at Eight (1935); Expensive Kisses (1930); Freaky Friday (1976); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Go Into Your Dance (1935); Going Hollywood (1933); Gypsy (1966–1967); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); Hill-Tillies (1936); Hit Parade of 1941 (1940); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014); Hot Money (1935); I'll Be Suing You (1934); In Old California (1942); Kelly Finds a Fighter (1953); Kelly the Second (1936); Kraft Theatre (1957); Ladies' Day (1943); Laramie (1960); Laredo (1967); Living Famously (2003); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Watchdog (1969); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Maid in Hollywood (1934); Merrily We Live (1938); Mia and Roman (1968); My Son, the Hero (1943); Nobody's Baby (1937); One-Horse Farmers (1934); Opened by Mistake (1934); Page Miss Glory (1935); Pan Handlers (1936); Pete and Gladys (1962); Pick a Star (1937); Pigskin Parade (1936); Playmates (1941); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960); Private Number (1936); Road Show (1941); Roamin' Vandals (1934); Rosemary's Baby (1968); Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective (2000); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 3 (1935); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 9 - A Day at the Races (1936); Sing Sister Sing (1935); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); Sing, Baby, Sing (1936); Slightly Static (1935); Soup and Fish (1934); Stan Laurel Funeral (1965); Thanks a Million (1935); The 27th Annual Tony Awards (1973); The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid);  of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937); The Cop and the Kid (1975–1976); The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Crowded Sky (1960); The Dave Garroway Show (1953); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1962); The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966); The Girl from Missouri (1934); The Gorilla (1939); The Grand Dame (1931); The Love Boat (1979); The Magical World of Disney (1982); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Misses Stooge (1935); The Naked Kiss (1964); The North Avenue Irregulars (1979); The Party's Over (1934); The Phynx (1970); The Pigeon (1969); The Tin Man (1935); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1972); The Untouchables (1960); The Wild Wild West (1966–1967); Their Night Out - Screen Test (1935); There Goes My Heart (1938); This Is... Patsy Kelly (2019); Three Chumps Ahead (1934); Top Flat (1935); Topper Returns (1941); Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934); Treasure Blues (1935); Twin Triplets (1935); Vacation Playhouse (1966); Wake Up and Live (1937); What's My Line? (1972).

Born on this day – Luise Rainer:

Luise Rainer

Actress

January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014

Credits:

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003); The Gambler (1997); A Dancer (1991); The Love Boat (1984); Combat! (1965); Die kleinen Füchse (1963); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1957); Der erste Kuß (1954); Suspense (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); By Candlelight (1949); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); Hostages (1943); Dramatic School (1938); The Great Waltz (1938); The Toy Wife (1938); Big City (1937); The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937); The Good Earth (1937); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); Escapade (1935); Heut' kommt's drauf an (1933); Madame hat Besuch (1932); Sehnsucht 202 (1932).

Born on this day – Jay McShann:

Jay McShann

Blues singer

Pianist

Composer

Bandleader

January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

A Tribute to Fats Waller (1978); After Hours (1982); Airmail Special (1994); Al Casey, Jumpin' with Al (1974); Axel Zwingenberger, Swing the Boogie! (1996); Best of Friends with Al Casey (1982); Blowin' in from K.C. with Joe Thomas (1983); Blue Pianos with Axel Zwingenberger (1991); Claude Williams, Fiddler's Dream (1977); Cold Strange (1977); Confessin' the Blues (1970); Crazy Legs & Friday Strut with Buddy Tate (1977); Duke Robillard, The Acoustic Blues & Roots of (2015); Early Bird with Charlie Parker (1973); Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Kidney Stew is Fine (1969); Goin' to Kansas City Blues (1957); Goin' to Kansas City with Duke Robillard (2003); Going to Kansas City (1972); Helen Humes, Helen Comes Back (1973); Helen Humes, On the Sunny Side of the Street (1975); Hootie Blues (2006); Hootie! (2000); Hootie's Jumpin' Blues with Duke Robillard (1997); Jackie Washington, Keeping Out of Mischief (1995); Jim Galloway, Kansas City Nights (1993); Jim Galloway, Thou Swell (1981); Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShann (1992); Julia Lee, Tonight's the Night (1982); Jumpin' the Blues with Milt Buckner (1972); Just a Lucky So and So (1984); Just Got Lucky (1993); Kansas City Hustle (1978); Kansas City Joys with Buddy Tate, Paul Quinichette (1976); Kansas City Memories (1955); Kansas City Memories (1973); Kansas City On My Mind (1977); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1980); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1989); Live in France Vol. 2 with Eddie Cleanhead Vinson (1984); McShann's Piano (1967); More Stuff (1985); My Baby with the Black Dress On (1998); Paris All-Star Blues: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (1991); Piano Playhouse (1996); Pressure Cooker (1985); Roll 'em (1987); Saturday Night Function with the Sackville All-Stars (1981); Slim Gaillard, Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere! (1983); Some Blues (1993); Still Jumpin' the Blues with Duke Robillard, Maria Muldaur (1999); Stride Piano Summit with Dick Hyman, Ralph Sutton (1991); Swingmatism with Don Thompson, Archie Alleyne (1994); T-Bone Walker, Feelin' the Blues (1999); The Band That Jumps the Blues! (1973); The Big Apple Bash (1979); The Early Bird Charlie Parker (1941–1943) (1982); The Last of the Blue Devils (1978); The Man from Muskogee with Claude Williams (1980); The Missouri Connection with John Hicks (1993); Tiny Grimes, Some Groovy Fours (1996); Tiny Grimes, Tiny Grimes (1970); Tuxedo Junction with Don Thompson (1980); Vine Street Boogie (1974); Walter Brown, Confessin' the Blues (1981); What a Wonderful World (1999).

Songs:

After Hours; Ain't Nobody's Business; Blue Devil Jump; Cherokee; Come on Over to My House; Confessin' the Blues; Confessin’ the Blues; Dexter Blues; 'Fore Day Rider; Georgia on My Mind; Get Me on Your Mind; Going To Kansas City; Hands Off; Hold'em Hootie; Hootie Blues; Hot Biscuits; Jumpin' at the Woodside; Just for You; Let It Be Me; McShann's Boogie-Blues; Moten Swing; Mr. Cleanhead Blues; My Chile; Red River Blues; Roll'em; Sepian Bounce; Swingmatism; T'Aint Nobody's Bizness; The Duke and the Brute; Vine Street Boogie; What a Wonderful World; When I Grow Too Old to Dream.

Movies and television:

American Horror Story (2014); American Masters (1989); American Splendor (2003); Better Call Saul (2020); Charlie Parker, Bird Songs (2022); Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way (2010); Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (1997); Hanging Up (2000); Independent Lens (2005); Jazz (2001); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969–1970); Lovecraft Country (2020); Married Life (2007); Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian (1992); The Blues (2003); The Last of the Blue Devils (1979); Vine Street Blues (1943).

Born on this day – Irene Kane:

Irene Kane

Actress

Writer

January 12, 1924 – October 31, 2013

Credits:

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); All That Jazz (1979); Gypsy (1966); The Doctors (1964); Naked City (1958–1963); True Story (1958); Studio One (1957); Killer's Kiss (1955); Love of Life (1962-1965); Look Up and Live (1962).

Born on this day – Jennifer Johnston:

Jennifer Johnston

Writer

January 12, 1930 – February 25, 2025

Credits:
 
Books:
 

A Sixpenny Song (2013); Captains and the Kings (1972); Captains and the Kings / Railway Station Man / Fool's Sanctuary (1999); Finbar's Hotel (1997); Foolish Mortals (2007); Fool's Sanctuary (1987); From the Republic of Conscience (2009); Grace and Truth (2005); How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974); Irish Ghost Stories (1979); Naming the Stars (2015); Naming the Stars / Two Moons (2016); Selected Plays (2003); Shadows on our Skin (1977); Shadowstory (2011); The Christmas Tree (1981); The Desert Lullaby (1996); The Gates (1973); The Gingerbread Woman (2000); The Great Shark Escape (2001); The Illusionist (1995); The Invisible Worm (1991); The Nightingale and Not the Lark (1980); The Old Jest (1979); The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); The Railway Station Man (1984); This Is Not a Novel (2002); Truth or Fiction (2009); Two Moons (1998).

Movies and television:

BBC2 Playhouse (1982); Bookmark (1987); Did You See..? (1983); Frank Delaney (1984); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2014); Play for Today (1980); The Christmas Tree (1986); The Dawning (1988); The Gates (1970); The Railway Station Man (1992).