Saturday, February 21, 2026

Born on this day – Léo Delibes:

 

Léo Delibes


Composer

February 21, 1836 – January 16, 1891

Credits:

Compositions:

Bell Song; Coppélia; Deux sous de charbon ou Le suicide de Bigorneau; Deux vieilles gardes; Dôme épais le jasmin; Grande nouvelle!; Jean de Nivelle; Kassya; La cour du roi Pétaud; La fille du golfe; Lakmé; Le Bœuf Apis; Le Corsaire; Le jardinier et son seigneur; Le roi l'a dit; Le Rossignol; Le serpent à plumes; L'écossais de Chatou; Les Aventures de Pélée; L'homme entre deux âges; L'Omelette à la Follembuche; Maître Griffard; Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre; Mon ami Pierrot; Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile; Six demoiselles à marier; Sylvia.

Ballets:

Coppélia; Le Corsaire; Sylvia.

Movies and television:

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011); Alice's Adventures (1985); Altitude (2017); American Horror Story (2015); America's Funniest Home Videos (2005); An Evening with Marie Osmond (2021); An Unusual Concert (1972); Angry Bob Meets the Gates (2005); Animals. (2016); Animaniacs (1993); Anomalisa (2015); Antiques Road Trip (2020); Archenemy (2020); Archipel des amours (1983); Around the World in 80 Gardens (2008); Babe (1995); Bad Santa 2 (2016); Balestra (2024); Balettprimadonnan (1916); Banda sonora (2008); Barbie in the Pink Shoes (2013); Before I Disappear (2014); Before the Storm (2000); Between the World and Us (2022); Black Warrant (2022); Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) (2022); Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (2016); Bonne nuit les petits (1963); Boom Boom Rocket (2007); Branded (2012); Broadway Serenade (1939); Bronson (2008); Cairo (1942); Carlito's Way (1993); Carnegie Hall (1947); Cats Don't Dance (1997); Center Stage (2000); Chatroom (2010); Chet and Elzie Go Cartooning (2015); Chez Maupassant (2007); Chicken Little (2005); Chorus and Principals on Stage Please: The Making of Lakme (1976); Chuck (2007); Circus of Horrors (1960); Cities That Sing: Paris (2022); Clatterford (2008); Close Enough (2021); Colette (2018); Coppélia (1957 / 1968 / 1990 / 2014 / 2021); Coppélia, A ballet in three acts (2000); Curfew (2012); Dancing on Ice (2014); Dead Heat (2002); Deadly High Heels (2009); Decoys (2004); Delibes Lakme (2004); Delibes: Coppelia (2014); Die Hart 2: Die Harter (2024); Die Operngala der Stars (2007); Die schöne Lurette (1960); Dinner and Driving (1997); Distractions (2015); Doctors (2015); Don Peyote (2014); El destello de la luna (2016); End of the Spear (2005); Endeavour (2013); F Is for Family (2018); Fallout: New Vegas (2010); Final Score (2018); First Man (2018); Five Bedrooms (2019); Five Corners (1987); Flash Gordon: A Modern Space Opera (2007); Florence Foster Jenkins (2016); Florian (1940); For the Children (1950); Ford Star Jubilee (1955); Four Kinds of Love (2014); Friends (1998); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006); Gemini (2022); Gentille (2005); Glee (2012); Good Boys (2019); Gossip Girl (2010); Grands pas classiques (1978–1980); Great Performances: Dance in America (1986); Griff the Invisible (2010); Happy Death Day 2U (2019); Happy! (2019); Harlem Aria (1999); Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024); Helix (2015); Hercules (1997); He's All That (2021); His Fatal Fixation (2020); Historias de 'Con la muerte en los tacones': Asesina como puedas 2 (2014); Holiday in Mexico (1946); House of Boys (2009); I Dream Too Much (1935); I Got Life! (2017); I Love My Dad (2022); I Served the King of England (2006); Im Weissen Rössl (1952); In Her Shoes (2005); Independent Lens (2016); Inside the Mind of a Dog (2024); Isa's stepz (2009); It Happened in Brooklyn (1947); It's All About Love (2003); It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2006–2016); It's in the Blood (2012); It's What's Inside (2024); I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987); Jackass 4.5 (2022); Jive Junction (1943); Journey of an Angel (2025); Katastrofin aineksia (2008); Keys to the Heart (2023); Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017); La toile inconnue (2016); Lakmé (1976 / 2011); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003); Le lion (2020); Le miroir à trois faces: Rigoletto (1966); Little America (2020); Liv and Maddie (2013); Live from Lincoln Center (1978); Love and Hisses (1937); Magnum P.I. (2020); Man of Evil (1944); Mar i cel 1.111. La festa (2015); Marguerite (2015); Masquerade in Vienna (1934); Maytime (1937); Meet the Parents (2000); Mildred Pierce (2011); Milo Murphy's Law (2017); Misfits (2010); Modern Problems (1981); Monkey Business (1931); Monsieur Ibrahim (2003); Mozart in the Jungle (2016); Mrs Lowry & Son (2019); Mudlove (2019); Murder Mystery 2 (2023); Music on 2 (1970); Music Will Tell (1938); Musical Tales (1988); Musical TV Theater (1976); My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002); Nice Girls (2024); Night of the Living Heads (2010); Night People (2015); Nip/Tuck (2004); Ojciec Mateusz (2010); Old Mother Riley, Headmistress (1950); Olga Peretyatko (2019); Only Murders in the Building (2025); Opéra imaginaire (1993); Orange Juice in Bishop's Garden (2011); Pandemonium (1987); Parks and Recreation (2013); Pecado (2021); Penny Dreadful (2014); Pig (2021); Pik Pik Pik (2014); Piranha 3D (2010); Playdate (2025); Poolman (2023); Poste Italiane: Touch (2015); Private Parts (1997); Queen of the South (2021); R.M.N. (2022); Red Dead Redemption II (2018); Regular Show (2012–2014); Ren & Stimpy: Stimpy's Invention (1993); Ridere: Una personale visione cinematografica (2018); Romancing the Wind (2005); Salute Your Shorts (1991); Sarah Brightman in Concert (1998); Scary Movie 5 (2013); Serge Peretti, le dernier Italien (1997); Sesame Street: Zoe's Dance Moves (2003); Set Me Free: Vol. I (2016); Sex and the City (2008); Sex, kofe, sigarety (2014); Shame (2020); Shining Moon Director's Cut (2020); Showboy (2002); Sixpack Annie (1975); Smallville (2004); Someone to Watch Over Me (1987); Spree (2020); Sra Mosquiz (2019); Strange Invaders (2001); Succession (2018); Summer Lover (2008); Superman Returns (2006); Sylvia (1963 / 2007); Syncopation (1929); Taz-Mania (1993); Television Theater (2011); That Certain Age (1938); The 128th Rat (2013); The American (2023); The American President (1995); The Answer Man (2009); The Art of Love (2011); The Bad Education Movie (2015); The Benny Hill Show (1971); The Blackout (2013); The Bricklayer (2023); The Celluloid Closet (1995); The Dressmaker (2015); The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe (1992); The Good Kisser of Manila (1993); The Hunger (1983); The Hunting Party (2025); The Independent (2022); The IT Crowd (2008); The Kids in the Hall (1993); The Last Days of Pompeii (1913); The Last Man on Earth (2017); The Little Mermaid (2021); The Lively Arts (1976); The Masked Singer Australia (2020–2021); The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008); The Nature of Things (2019); The Oh in Ohio (2006); The Phantom of the Opera (1998); The Red Shoes (1948); The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991–1995); The Simpsons (1996–2017); The Slammin' Salmon (2009); The Vampire Lovers (1970); The Women Around Larsson (1934); The Wonder Years (1992); The World According to Jeff Goldblum (2020); Three Daring Daughters (1948); Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1991); Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992); Tipical Spanish: Españolada a la plancha (2009); Toopy and Binoo: The Movie (2023); Top Gear Australia (2010); Tora-san's Song of Love (1983); Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Birth of Rock Theater (2011); True Romance (1993); Tutti Frutti (1987); Twisted Fiction (2023); Two Sisters from Boston (1946); Van Gogh (1991); Verdens verste publikum (2026); Victor Frankenstein (2015); Violet & Daisy (2011); Vive la France (2013); Wait for Your Laugh (2017); Walking with the Enemy (2013); Warner Classics (2017); Wedding Peach (1995); We're Not Married! (1952); What a Cartoon! (1997); What If? (2016); What Just Happened (2008); When We Go to War (2015); White Collar (2009); World's Greatest Hotels (2021); Worth (2020); Young Man's Fancy (1939).

Born on this day – Celia Lovsky:

 

Celia Lovsky


Actress

February 21, 1897 – October 12, 1979

In Star Trek (1967).

Credits:
36 Hours (1964); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Aimee De Rivery (1955); Airport (1970); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Arrest and Trial (1964); Because You're Mine (1952); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965–1966); Bonanza (1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bright Leaf (1950); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Champ for a Day (1953); Channing (1963); Checkmate (1961); Chicago Deadline (1949); Crash Landing (1958); Crusader (1955); Death of a Scoundrel (1956); Dragnet (1953–1959); Dragnet 1967 (1968); Duel on the Mississippi (1955); Emergency! (1974); Fireside Theatre (1952); Flaming Fury (1949); For the Love of Spock (2016); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Foxfire (1955); Front Row Center (1956); G.E. True (1963); Garrison's Gorillas (1967); General Electric Theater (1957–1960); Going My Way (1962); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Gunslinger (1961); Hank (1965); Harlow (1965); Harrigan and Son (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hitler (1962); Hong Kong (1960); I Mobster (1959); Insight (1965); It Takes a Thief (1970); Johnny Staccato (1960); Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Magnificent Obsession (1954); Make Haste to Live (1954); Man of a Thousand Faces (1957); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970–1974); Me and the Colonel (1958); Michael Shayne (1961); Mr. Lucky (1960); Mystery Is My Business (1954); New York Confidential (1955); Night Into Morning (1951); One Step Beyond (1959); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Passport to Danger (1954); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Producers' Showcase (1956); Public Defender (1955); Rhapsody (1954); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); Riverboat (1960); Rumble on the Docks (1956); Run for Your Life (1967); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sealed Verdict (1948); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Soylent Green (1973); Star Trek (1967); Steve Canyon (1958–1959); Studio 57 (1955); Studio One (1948); Target: The Corruptors (1962); Telephone Time (1956–1957); Texas Lady (1955); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1963); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Big Heat (1953); The Big Valley (1966); The Blue Gardenia (1953); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); The Californians (1958); The Court of Last Resort (1957); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Doomsday Flight (1966); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959–1960); The F.B.I. (1966–1968); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The Flying Nun (1967); The Foxes of Harrow (1947); The Frank Sinatra Show (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Gene Krupa Story (1959); The Great Adventure (1963); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Jumping Jack (1930); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954); The Lineup (1957); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Millionaire (1957–1959); The New Phil Silvers Show (1963); The Opposite Sex (1956); The People Against O'Hara (1951); The Power (1968); The Scarf (1951); The Snake Pit (1948); The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967); The Star and the Story (1955); The Story of Three Loves / Segments: The Jealous Lover / Mademoiselle (1953); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Texan (1960); The Third Man (1959); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Untouchables (1960); The Waltons (1973); This Is the Life (1955); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Tightrope (1960); Trooper Hook (1957); Twilight for the Gods (1958); Wagon Train (1958); While the City Sleeps (1956); Whirlybirds (1958); Zweimal Hochzeit (1930).

Born on this day – Scrapper Blackwell:

 

Scrapper Blackwell


Blues singer

Guitarist

February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962

Credits:

Albums:

A Blues (2018); ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 (2010); Blue Night Blues (2000); Blues Before Sunrise + Mr. Scrapper's Blues (2014); Blues Night Blue (2019); Kokomo (2021); Penal Farm Blues (2021); Presenting Scrapper Blackwell (1929); Rocks In My Bed (2016); Scrapper Blackwell - Music History (2021); Scrapper Blackwell 1959-1960 (2005); Scrapper Blackwell Vol. 1 (1928-1932) (2005); The Blues Collective -Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell (2023); The Very Best Of (2009); The Virtuoso Guitar Of Scrapper Blackwell (2006); Trouble Blues (2019); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD A (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD B (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD C (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD D (2008).

Songs:

Alabama Women Blues; Back Door Blues; Be-Da-Da-Bum; Blue Day Blues; Blue Night Blues; Blues Before Sunrise; Cold Blooded Murder; D Blues; Down and Out Blues; Down South Blues; Four Day Rider; Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog; Hard Time Blues; How About Me; How Long Blues No. 1; I Believe I'll Make a Change; I Won't Miss You When You're Gone; Lifeboat Blues; Low Down Dog Blues; Mean Mistreater Mama; My Dream Blues; My Heart Struck Sorrow; My Old Pal; My Old Pal Blues; Naptown Blues; Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; Pack Up Her Trunk Blues; Papa's on the House Top; Scrapper Blackwell; Shady Lane; When the Sun Goes Down; Whiskey Man Blues.

Born on this day – Ann Sheridan:



Ann Sheridan


Actress

Singer

February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967

Credits:
Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966–1967); Another World (1965–1966); Wagon Train (1962); Kraft Theatre (1956–1960); Pursuit (1958); Armchair Theatre (1958); Woman and the Hunter (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1957); Playhouse 90 (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); The Opposite Sex (1956); Calling Terry Conway (1956); Sneak Preview (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Come Next Spring (1956); Appointment in Honduras (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Take Me to Town (1953); Just Across the Street (1952); Steel Town (1952); Woman on the Run (1950); Stella (1950); I Was a Male War Bride (1949); Good Sam (1948); Silver River (1948); Nora Prentiss (1947); The Unfaithful (1947); One More Tomorrow (1946); Cinderella Jones (1946); The Doughgirls (1944); Shine on Harvest Moon (1944); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); Edge of Darkness (1943); George Washington Slept Here (1942); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Juke Girl (1942); Kings Row (1942); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941); Navy Blues (1941); Honeymoon for Three (1941); City for Conquest (1940); They Drive by Night (1940); Torrid Zone (1940); It All Came True (1940); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Angels Wash Their Faces (1939); Winter Carnival (1939); Indianapolis Speedway (1939); Naughty But Nice (1939); Dodge City (1939); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); Broadway Musketeers (1938); Letter of Introduction (1938); Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938); Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938); Mystery House (1938); Out Where the Stars Begin (1938); The Patient in Room 18 (1938); She Loved a Fireman (1937); Alcatraz Island (1937); Wine, Women and Horses (1937); The Footloose Heiress (1937); San Quentin (1937); The Great O'Malley (1937); Black Legion (1937); Sing Me a Love Song (1936); Fighting Youth (1935); Hollywood Extra Girl (1935); The Crusades (1935); The Glass Key (1935); The Red Blood of Courage (1935); Mississippi (1935); Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935); Car 99 (1935); Rumba (1935); Home on the Range (1935); Enter Madame! (1934); One Hour Late (1934); Limehouse Blues (1934); Behold My Wife! (1934); Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934); College Rhythm (1934); Ready for Love (1934); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934); The Lemon Drop Kid (1934); Wagon Wheels (1934); You Belong to Me (1934); Ladies Should Listen (1934); The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934); Kiss and Make-Up (1934); Shoot the Works (1934); Many Happy Returns (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Come On, Marines! (1934); Bolero (1934); Search for Beauty (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933).

Born on this day – Jean Heather:


Jean Heather


Actress

February 21, 1921 – October 29, 1995

Credits:
Double Indemnity (1944); Duffy's Tavern (1945); Going My Way (1944); Holiday Inn (1942); Knots Landing (1989); Murder, He Says (1945); National Barn Dance (1944); Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944); Red Stallion in the Rockies (1949); The Last Round-up (1947); The Well Groomed Bride (1946).

Born on this day – Sam Peckinpah:


Sam Peckinpah


Director

Writer

February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984

Credits:
Essential Music Videos: Classic '80s / Too Late for Goodbyes (2004); Julian Lennon: Valotte (1984); Julian Lennon: Too Late for Goodbyes (1984); The Osterman Weekend (1983); Sparks: Funny Face (1981); Convoy (1978); Cross of Iron (1977); The Killer Elite (1975); Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974); Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973); The Getaway (1972); Junior Bonner (1972); Straw Dogs (1971); The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970); The Wild Bunch (1969); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); ABC Stage 67 (1966); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); Major Dundee (1965); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); Ride the High Country (1962); Route 66 (1960); The Deadly Companions (1961); The Westerner (1960); Klondike (1960); Zane Grey Theatre (1956); The Rifleman (1958–1959), Broken Arrow (1958).

Born on this day – Bob Rafelson:

Bob Rafelson


Director

Writer

Producer

February 21, 1933 – July 23, 2022