Monday, March 9, 2026

Stan Lee, on writing:

 

To me, writing is fun.
It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.
 
- Stan Lee.


Born on this day – Lilian Braithwaite:


Lilian Braithwaite


Actress

March 9, 1873 – September 17, 1948

Credits:
A Man About the House (1947); A Man of Mayfair (1931); Because (1918); Castles in Spain (1920); Dombey and Son (1917); Downhill (1927); Garryowen (1920); General Post (1920); I Stand Condemned (1934); Justice (1917); Mary-Find-the-Gold (1921); Masks and Faces (1917); Motherhood (1915); The Chinese Puzzle (1919 / 1932); The Gay Lord Quex (1917); The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917); The World's Desire (1915); Venetian Nights (1931).

Born on this day – Béatrix Dussane:


Béatrix Dussane


Actress

Producer

Writer

Teacher

March 9, 1888 – September 17, 1948


Credits:

Awards:

Admission at the Comédie-Française (1903).
 
Books:
 
Au jour et aux lumières. 1 - Premiers pas dans le temple (1955); Au jour et aux lumières. 2 - Par les fenêtres (1958); Cas de conscience du comédien (1960); Dieux des planches (1964); Du nouveau sur Racine (1941); J'étais dans la salle, Paris (1963); La Comédie-Française (1960); Le Comédien sans paradoxe (1933); Le Théâtre (1958); Les Vers que je dis, pourquoi ne les diriez-vous pas (1943); Maria Casarès (1953); Mes quatre Comédies-Françaises, de Claretie à Bourdet (1939); Notes de théâtre (1940-1950) (1951); Reines de théâtre (1633-1941) (1944); Sophie Arnould, la plus spirituelle des bacchantes (1938); Un comédien nommé Molière (1956).
 
Stage (1903–1937):

Business is business; Don Quixote; Je suis trop grand pour moi; Jean de La Fontaine ou Le Distrait volontaire; La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas; La Coupe enchantée; La Courtisane; La Robe rouge; L'amour veille; Le Bon Roi Dagobert; Le Prince charmant; Le Quatrième; Le Voyage à Biarritz; Les Mouettes; Les Précieuses ridicules; L'Étincelle; Madame Quinze; Monsieur de Pourceaugnac; Monsieur Vernet; Poil; Romeo and Juliet; Sapho; The School for Husbands; Vautrin.

Movies and television:

École des vedettes (1958); En direct de... (1957); La galerie France 5 (2017); Le franciscain de Bourges (1968); Permission de minuit (1987); Portrait souvenir (1963); Trente-Six Chandelles (1956–1958); Tréteaux, racontez-nous / Narrator (1960).

Born on this day – Vita Sackville-West:


Vita Sackville-West


Writer

Garden designer

March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962

Credits:
All Passion Spent (1931); All Passion Spent / Return of the Soldier / Two Days in Aragon (1987); Andrew Marvell (1933); Aphra Behn (1927); Berkeley Castle (1989); Challenge (1923); Country Notes (1940); Devil at Westease (1947); English Country Houses (1996); Even More for Your Garden (1958); Faces: Profiles of Dogs (1961); Family History (1932); Grand Canyon (1942); Grey Wethers (1923); Heir (1922); Heritage (1918); In Your Garden (1951); In Your Garden Again (1953); Joy of Gardening (1960); King's Daughter (1929); Knole and the Sackvilles (1922); Love Letters (2021); More for Your Garden (1955); No Signposts in the Sea (1960); Orchard and Vineyard (1921); Passenger to Teheran (1926); Pepita (1937); Poems of West and East (1917); Saint Joan of Arc (1936); Seducers in Ecuador (1924); Selected Poems (1941); Selected Writings (2002); Some Flowers (1937); The Dark Island (1934); The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Kuenstler (1932); The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921); The Eagle and the Dove (1943); The Easter Party (1953); The Edwardians (1930); The Garden (1946); The Illustrated Garden Book (1986); The Land (1926); The Land and The Garden (1989); The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1984); The Women's Land Army (1993); Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour (1932); Twelve Days (1987); Vita and Harold (1992); Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst (2014); Weather in the Streets / All Passion Spent / Frost in May (1994).

Born on this day – Wallace Fox:

 

Wallace Fox


Director

March 9, 1895 – June 30, 1958

Credits:
A Dream Came True (1945); A Son of the Sahara (1924); American Portrait (1940); Annie Oakley (1954); Arizona Territory (1950); Bad Men of the Border (1945); Blame It on Love (1940); Blazing Bullets (1951); Blazing Guns (1949); Block Busters (1944); Bowery at Midnight (1942); Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941); Bred in Old Kentucky (1926); Breed of the Sea (1926); Breed of the Sunsets (1928); Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945); Bullets for Bandits (1942); Call It Free (1955); Cannonball Express (1932); Career Girl (1944); Carnival Revue (1930); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Code of the Lawless (1945); Come and Get It! (1929); Devil on Deck (1932); Disappearing Enemies (1931); Docks of New York (1945); Driftin' Sands (1928); Evangeline (1929); Fence Riders (1950); Flying Devils (1933); Gun Packer (1938); Gun Town (1946); Gunman's Code (1946); Gunslingers (1950); Hearts and Hoofs (1930); Her Mad Bargain (1921); Jack Armstrong (1947); Joanna (1925); Kid Dynamite (1943); Laughing at Death (1929); Let's Get Tough! (1942); Little Women (1933); Madonna of the Streets (1924); Man in the Rough (1928); Men on Her Mind (1944); Million Dollar Kid (1944); Montana Desperado (1951); Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945); Mr. Sheldon Goes to Town (1939); My Son (1925); Near the Trail's End (1931); 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942); One Nutty Night (1930); Outlaw Gold (1950); Outlaws of Stampede Pass (1943); Over the Border (1950); Parading Pajamas (1931); Partners of the Trail (1931); Pillow of Death (1945); Playthings of Destiny (1921); Powdersmoke Range (1935); Pride of the Plains (1944); Racing Lady (1937); Ramar of the Jungle (1953–1954); Red Morning (1934); Riders of the Santa Fe (1944); Roots in the Soil (1949); Rustler's Round-Up (1946); Sea Goin' Sheiks (1931); Shanghaied (1927); Silver Raiders (1950); Six Gun Mesa (1950); Smart Alecks (1942); Some Babies (1930); Some Day When the Clouds Roll by (1945); Song of the Range (1944); Swell People (1930); The Amazing Vagabond (1929); The Avenging Rider (1928); The Bad Man (1923); The Bandit's Son (1927); The Bishop of the Ozarks (1923); The Corpse Vanishes (1942); The Daring Caballero (1949); The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936); The Gay Amigo (1949); The Gene Autry Show (1951–1953); The Ghost Rider (1943); The Girl from Monterrey (1943); The Girl of the Golden West (1923); The Great Mike (1944); The Invisible Fear (1921); The Lady Who Lied (1925); The Last of the Mohicans (1936); The Lawless Clan (1946); The Lone Star Vigilantes (1942); The Mexicali Kid (1938); The Mojave Kid (1927); The Range Rider (1951–1952); The Riding Renegade (1928); The Vagabond Lover (1929); The Valiant Hombre (1948); The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West (1947); Three Wise Clucks (1931); Trail of Courage (1928); Trail to Vengeance (1945); Trapped in Tia Juana (1932); Tropical Moon (1945); Twisted Tales (1931); Under the Cock-Eyed Moon (1930); West of Wyoming (1950); Western Renegades (1949); White Goddess (1953); Why Women Love (1925); Wild Beauty (1946); Yellow Dust (1936).

Born on this day – Félix Labisse:


Félix Labisse


Painter

Writer

Actor

March 9, 1905 – January 27, 1982
Credits:

Movies and television:

For Your Beautiful Eyes (1929); La belle saison est proche (1959); La mort de Vénus (1930); Le bonheur d'être aimé (1962); Vacances (1931); Visite à Félix Labisse (1947); Zero for Conduct (1933).

Born on this day – Sidney Meyers:


Sidney Meyers


Writer

Director

March 9, 1906 – December 4, 1969

Credits:
East Side/West Side (1963); Edge of Fury (1958); Edge of the City (1957); F.D.R. (1965); Film (1965); Music of Williamsburg (1960); People of the Cumberland (1937); Slaves (1969); Steps of Age (1950); The Cummington Story (1945); The Lonely Night (1954); The Power and the Glory (1961); The Quiet One (1948); The Savage Eye (1959); The World of Abbott and Costello (1965); Tropic of Cancer (1970); Ulysses (1967); Wisdom (1957).