Ann Patchett, on reading:

 

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
- Ann Patchett.

Born on this day – Dorothy Lovett:

Dorothy Lovett

Actress

February 16, 1915 – April 28, 1998

Credits:

A Patch of Blue (1965); Lassie (1965); The Donna Reed Show (1961–1963); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Why Must I Die? (1960); City Detective (1954); Chevron Theatre (1952); The Mantrap (1943); Powder Town (1942); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); Call Out the Marines (1942); Look Who's Laughing (1941); They Meet Again (1941); Lucky Devils (1941); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); Remedy for Riches (1940); Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940); The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940); That's Right - You're Wrong (1939); Meet Dr. Christian (1939); These Glamour Girls (1939); Fixer Dugan (1939); The Flying Irishman (1939); The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939); Twelve Crowded Hours (1939).

Born on this day – Joseph Langland:

 

Joseph Langland

Writer

February 16, 1917 – April 9, 2007

Credits:

A Dream of Love (1986); An Interview and Fourteen Poems (1973); Any Body’s Song (1980); Selected Poems (1992); The Green Town (1956); The Sacrifice Poems (1975); The Wheel of Summer (1963); Twelve Preludes and Postludes (1988).

Born on this day – Vera-Ellen:

Vera-Ellen

Actress

Dancer

February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981

Credits:

Let’s Be Happy (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1954); White Christmas (1954); Big Leaguer (1953); Call Me Madam (1953); The Belle of New York (1952); Happy Go Lovely (1951); Three Little Words (1950); On the Town (1949); Love Happy (1949); Words and Music (1948); Costa Rica (1947); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); Wonder Man (1945).

Born on this day – John Schlesinger:

John Schlesinger

Director

February 16, 1926 – July 25, 2003

Credits:

A Kind of Loving (1962); A Loan from Lorenzo (1953); A Woman of Property (1957); Aggie (1957); An Englishman Abroad (1983); Armchair Theatre (1957); As I Was Saying (1955); Assignment Foreign Legion (1957); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953); Big City (1956); Billy Liar (1963); Black Tide (1958); Brothers in Law (1957); Cold Comfort Farm (1995); Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956); Darling (1965); Der Rosenkavalier (1994); Eye for an Eye (1996); Far from the Madding Crowd (1967); Honky Tonk Freeway (1981); ITV Television Playhouse (1957); Ivanhoe (1958); Madame Sousatzka (1988); Madame Sousatzka (1988); Marathon Man (1976); Midnight Cowboy (1969); Monitor (1958–1961); Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955); Pacific Heights (1990); Paul McCartney: Little Willow (1997); Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956); Sailor of the King (1953); Screen One (1991); Screen Two (1985); Separate Tables (1983); Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971); Sunday in the Park (1956); Terminus (1961); The Adventures of Annabel (1955); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956–1957); The Beasts of Marseilles (1957); The Believers (1987); The Buccaneers (1956); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Divided Heart (1954); The Falcon and the Snowman (1985); The Grove Family (1956–1957); The Innocent (1993); The Last Man to Hang (1956); The Lost Language of Cranes (1991); The McCartney Years (2007); The Next Best Thing (2000); The Starfish (1952); The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1997); The Twilight of the Golds (1996); The Vise (1955); The Wednesday Play (1967); The Why Store: Father (1996); Un ballo in maschera (1990); Visions of Eight (1973); Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (1960); Yanks (1979).

Born on this day – Sol Negrin:

 

Sol Negrin

Cinematographer

Producer

Actor

February 16, 1929 – March 20, 2017

Credits:

...and Your Name Is Jonah (1979); A Call to Arms (2008); Across 110th Street (1972); Amazing Grace (1974); Baker's Dozen (1982); Blue Shirts (2000); Car 54, Where Are You? (1961–1963); Clean and Sober (1988); Coming to America (1988); Crazy Joe (1974); Dear John (1988); Dempsey (1983); East Side/West Side (1963–1964); Eischied (1979); Fame (1984); Great Performances (1971); Happy Hell Night (1991); I, the Jury (1982); Jamboree! (1957); Jaws 2 (1978); Johnny Garage (1983); Kay O'Brien (1986); Kojak (1974–1977); Light Fantastic (1964); Lime Street (1985); McCloud (1974); More Than Friends (1978); Naked City (1958–1959); Parades (1972); Pink (2010); Proof of the Man (1977); Redd Foxx: Video in a Plain Brown Wrapper (1983); RoboCop (1987); Sacred Eyes (2009); Salsa (1976); Some Trouble of a SeRRious Nature (2002); St. Elsewhere (1982–1983); Superman (1978); The Bedroom (2012); The Concert for Bangladesh (1972); The Deer (2009); The Defenders (1961–1962); The Edge of Town (2012); The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure (1986); The Last Tenant (1978); The Line (1980); The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985); The Nothing Man (2010); The Patty Duke Show (1963–1964); The Rack (2002); The Scourge of the Vagabond Spectre (2009); The Story Lady (1991); The White Shadow (1980); Voodoo Blood Death (1965); Where's Poppa? (1970); Women at West Point (1979).

Born on this day – Olga James:

 

Olga James

Actress

Singer

February 16, 1929 – January 25, 2025

Credits:

Music:

Cannonball Adderley Presents the Nat Adderley Sextet Plus Rick Holmes / Soul of the Bible (1972); Carmen Jones / Original Movie Soundtrack (1954); David Axelrod / Heavy Axe (1974); Sammy Davis Jr. / 1956 Broadway Cast / Mr. Wonderful (1956); The Cannonball Adderley Quintet / The Happy People (1972).

Movies and television:

Carmen Jones (1954); Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003); Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009); Omnibus (1978); Sealab 2020 (1972); The Bill Cosby Show (1969–1971); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1957).