Monday, April 27, 2026

Born on this day – Mary Wollstonecraft:


Mary Wollstonecraft


Writer

Philosopher

April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797
Credits:

Books and articles:

A Different Face: the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A most extraordinary pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft; Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology; Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Impeccable Governess, Rational Dames, and Moral Mothers: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Female Tradition in Georgian Children's Books; Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul; Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility; Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction; Mary Wollstonecraft on education; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Women Writers of Her Day; Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies; Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft; Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman; On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus; On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Romantic Correspondence: Women, politics and the fiction of letters; Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism; Sensibility and the 'Walk of Reason': Mary Wollstonecraft's Literary Reviews as Cultural Critique; The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft; The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Godwins and the Shelleys: The biography of a family; The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft's daughters: womanhood in England and France, 1780–1920; Wollstonecraft's Letters Written ... in Sweden: Towards Romantic Autobiography; Women's Friendship in Literature.

Movies and television:

If Love Should Die (date?); Mary Wollstonecraft of Sector Seventeen (2008).

Born on this day – Jessie Redmon Fauset:


Jessie Redmon Fauset


Writer

Teacher

April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961
Credits:

Books:

Comedy, American Style (1933); Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1928); The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931); There Is Confusion (1924).

Poems:

'Courage!' He Said (1929); Dead Fires (date?); La Vie C'est La Vie (1922); Rondeau (1912).

Short stories:

Double Trouble (1923); Emmy (1912 / 1913); My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein (1914).

Essays:

Dark Algiers the White (1925–26); Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress (1921); The Gift of Laughter (1925); What Europe Thought of the Pan-African Congress (1921).
 

Born on this day – Arthur Somers Roche:

 


Arthur Somers Roche


Writer

April 27, 1883 – February 17, 1935

Credits:

Books:

A Lady of Resource (1938); Among Those Present (1930); Callingham's Girl (1937); Come to My House (1927); Conspiracy (1934); Death Was a Wedding Guest (1942); Devil-may-care (1926); Find the Woman (1921); Hard to Get (1937); Honest Crook (1941); In The Money (1936); Loot (1916); Marriage For Two (1929); No Stockings (1928); Penthouse (1935); Plunder (1917); Ransom! (1918); Shadow Of Doubt (1935); Slander (1933); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1934); The Eyes of the Blind (1919); The Great Abduction (1933); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Sport Of Kings (1917); The Star of Midnight (1940); The Woman Hunters (1929); The Wrong Wife (1932); Uneasy Street (1920).

Movies and television:

Any Woman (1925); Come to My House (1927); Find the Woman (1922); Finger Prints (1927); Kissed (1922); Living Lies (1922); Loot (1919); Man, Woman and Wife (1929); Over the Wire (1921); Penthouse (1933); Shadow of Doubt (1935); Society Lawyer (1939); Star of Midnight (1935); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936); The Day of Faith (1923); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Mystery Club (1926); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Simp (1920); The Sport of Kings (1920); The Wise Wife (1927); Trail's End (1922); Wolf's Clothing (1927).

Born on this day – Florence La Badie:


Florence La Badie


Actress

April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917

Credits:
A Beauty Parlor Graduate (1913); A Debut in the Secret Service (1914); A Deep Sea Liar (1913); A Disciple of Nietzsche (1915); A Freight Car Honeymoon (1915); A Gold Necklace (1910); A Knight of the Road (1911); A Leak in the Foreign Office (1914); A Love of Long Ago (1912); A Master of Millions (1911); A Mother's Faith (1911); A Noise Like a Fortune (1912); A Peaceful Victory (1913); A Poor Relation (1913); A Star Reborn (1912); A Strange Meeting (1909); A Twentieth Century Farmer (1913); Adrift in a Great City (1914); After the Ball (1910); All Aboard (1915); An Honest Young Man (1913); An Unromantic Maiden (1913); As It Was in the Beginning (1912); At the Crossroads of Life (1908); Aurora Floyd (1912); Beauty in the Seashell (1913); Beneath the Veil (1911); Bianca Forgets (1915); Big Sister (1912); Bobby, the Coward (1911); Called Back (1912); Cardinal Richelieu's Ward (1914); Cinderella (1911); Crossed Wires (1915); Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1913); Cymbeline (1913); Dave's Love Affair (1911); David Copperfield (1911); Divorce and the Daughter (1916); Dottie's New Doll (1912); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912); East Lynne (1912); Enoch Arden: Part II (1911); Extravagance (1912); Fighting Blood (1911); Flying to Fortune (1912); For the Man She Loved (1913); From the Shadows (1914); Getting Even (1909); God's Witness (1915); Graft vs. Love (1915); Her Confession (1915); Her Gallant Knights (1913); Her Ladyship's Page (1912); Her Life and His (1917); Her Sacrifice (1911); Her Sister's Secret (1913); How She Triumphed (1911); In Blossom Time (1912); In the Chorus (1911); In the Nick of Time (1913); In the Window Recess (1909); In Their Hour of Need (1913); Jess (1912); Jilted (1912); Life's Pathway (1913); Little Brother (1913); Louie, the Life Saver (1913); Lucile (1912); Ma and Dad (1912); Madame Rex (1911); Mary's Goat (1912); Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player (1916); Miss Robinson Crusoe (1912); Monsieur Lecoq (1915); Monsieur Nikola Dupree (1915); Mr. Meeson's Will (1915); Mutual Weekly, No. 78 (1916); My Baby's Voice (1912); Oh! Such a Beautiful Ocean (1913); Paradise Lost (1911); Petticoat Camp (1912); Redemption (1913); Reincarnation (1915); Rejuvenation (1912); Retribution (1913); Rosie's Revenge (1913); Saint, Devil and Woman (1916); Serious Sixteen (1910); Some Fools There Were (1913); Swords and Hearts (1911); Taming a Husband (1910); Tannhäuser (1913); The Adventure of Florence (1915); The Adventures of a Diplomatic Freelance (1914); The Arab's Bride (1912); The Baseball Bug (1911); The Blight of Wealth (1913); The Blind Princess and the Poet (1911); The Broken Cross (1911); The Buddhist Priestess (1911); The Cat's Paw (1914); The Country Girl (1915); The County's Prize Baby (1912); The Cycle of Hatred (1915); The Diamond Star (1911); The Duel in the Dark (1915); The Elevator Man (1914); The Evidence of the Film (1913); The Fear of Poverty (1916); The Final Reckoning (1915); The Finger Prints of Fate (1915); The Five Faults of Flo (1916); The Fugitive (1916); The Girl of the Grove (1912); The Guilty Baby (1912); The Head Waiter (1913); The Indian Brothers (1911); The Junior Partner (1913); The Last of the Mohicans (1911); The Lie That Failed (1913); The Man Without a Country (1917); The Manicure Lady (1911); The Marble Heart (1913); The Merchant of Venice (1912); The Message to Headquarters (1913); The Million Dollar Mystery (1914); The Mohammedan's Conspiracy (1914); The Mystery of the Haunted Hotel (1913); The New Dress (1911); The Other Girl (1913); The Pillory (1916); The Politician's Love Story (1909); The Portrait of the Lady Anne (1912); The Pretty Girl in Lower Five (1913); The Price of Her Silence (1915); The Primal Call (1911); The Race (1912); The Return of Draw Egan (1916); The Ring of a Spanish Grandee (1912); The Rose of Kentucky (1911); The Saleslady (1912); The Salvation Army Lass (1909); The Satyr and the Lady (1911); The Seventh Day (1909); The Silent Witness (1912); The Six-Cent Loaf (1915); The Smuggled Diamond (1915); The Smuggler (1911); The Snare of Fate (1913); The Somnambulist (1914); The Sorrowful Example (1911); The Spanish Gypsy (1911); The Star of Bethlehem (1912); The Success of Selfishness (1914); The Tempest (1911); The Thief and the Girl (1911); The Trail of Books (1911); The Trouble Maker (1912); The Troublesome Baby (1910); The Two Paths (1911); The Two Sisters (1913); The Unfortunate Marriage (1917); The Voice of Conscience (1912); The Ward of the King (1913); The Water Cure (1913); The Way to a Man's Heart (1913); The Wrecked Taxi (1912); Their Golden Wedding (1914); Through the Breakers (1909); Through the Flames (1912); Turkey Trot Town (1914); Twins and a Stepmother (1914); Under False Colors (1914); Under Two Flags (1912); Undine (1912); Variety Time (1948); War and the Woman (1917); What Doris Did (1916); When a Count Counted (1912); When Love Was Blind (1917); When Mercy Tempers Justice (1912); When the Fleet Sailed (1915); When the Worm Turned (1913); Whom God Hath Joined (1912); Won at the Rodeo (1913).

Born on this day – Thomas H. Johnson:

 

Thomas H. Johnson


Writer

Teacher

Editor

April 27, 1902 – January 3, 1985

Credits:
Emily Dickinson: An Interpretative Biography (1955); Literary History of the United States (1948); The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960); The Oxford Companion to American History (1966).

Born on this day – Loretta Andrews:


Loretta Andrews


Actress

April 27, 1911 – July 23, 2004

Credits:
42nd Street (1933); A Pain in the Pullman (1936); Dames (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); Flying High (1931); Fog Over Frisco (1934); Footlight Parade (1933); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Good Morning, Eve! (1934); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Palmy Days (1931); Plane Nuts (1933); Redheads on Parade (1935); She Had to Say Yes (1933); Sis Hopkins (1941); Slippery Silks (1936); Speak Easily (1932); The Cheat (1931); The Kid from Spain (1932); The Little Giant (1933); The Mind Reader (1933); Wonder Bar (1934).

Born on this day – Jack Klugman:



Jack Klugman


Actor

April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012

Credits:
12 Angry Men (1957); 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2013); 3rd Annual TV Guide Awards (2001); 65th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1996); 70th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2001); A Couple of Dons (1973); Act One (1963); Actor's Studio (1950); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–1988); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); American Masters (1995); America's Top Sleuths (2006); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1955–1956); Around the World in 80 Days (1989); Arrest and Trial (1963); Banyon (1972); Ben Casey (1962–1965); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' (2008); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Big Town (1955); Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (2006); Biography (1997–2004); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1966); Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (1993); Brother's Keeper (1999); Cain's Hundred (1962); Camera Obscura (2010); Camera Three (1966); Cathode Fuck (1986); Celanese Theatre (1952); Celebrity Bowling (1974); Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes (1977); Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes 2 (1977); Challenge of the Tiger (1980); Circus of the Stars #2 (1977); Climax! (1955); Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953); Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President (1981); Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951); Crime Syndicate (1951); Crossing Jordan (2002); Cry Terror! (1958); Days of Wine and Roses (1962); Dear God (1996); Diagnosis Murder (1997–1999); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1996); Dinah! (1975–1978); Dinah's Place (1973); Dominic's Dream (1974); Don Rickles: Buy This Tape You Hockey Puck (1975); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Energy Crisis (1974); Entertainment Tonight (2010 / 2016); Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966); Famous Lives (1983); Flip (1973); Folio (1959); Follow the Sun (1961); Garrison's Gorillas (1967); General Electric Theater (1958); Goodbye, Columbus (1969); Goodyear Playhouse (1955–1956); Great Circus Spectaculars: Circus of the Lions (1976); Great Performances (1987); Great Performances / Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Grubstake (1952); Gunsmoke (1958); Hail, Mafia (1965); Harris Against the World (1964–1965); He Said, She Said (1970); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood Squares (2001–2003); I Could Go on Singing (1963); In the Cutz (2006); Inner Sanctum (1954); Insight (1964–1979); Intimate Portrait (2003); It's Your Bet (1970–1973); Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1963); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1973–1985); Joe Louis: For All Time (1984); Justice (1954–1956); Kiss Me, Kate (1958); Kraft Mystery Theater (1961–1963); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964–1965); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1953–1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1956); Larry King in Larry King Live (2001–2005); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2005); Living in TV Land (2004); Look Up and Live (1963); Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003); Love, American Style / Love and the Cheaters / Love and the Big Game (1971–1972); Lucy Moves to NBC (1980); Lucy Moves to NBC: A Remembrance (2012); Magic with the Stars (1982); Mama Mae: The Life and Music of Mae Boren Axton (2015); Man of the Century (1999); Marty (1955); Match Game (1973–1978); Match Game PM (1978–1981); More TV's Censored Bloopers (1981); Naked City (1959–1963); NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986); NBC Family Christmas (1981); NFL Players Association Awards Dinner (1973); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Not for Publication (1952); One of My Wives Is Missing (1976); Parade of Stars (1983); Parallel Lives (1994); Password (1971–1975); Password Plus (1979); Paul Williams: Still Alive (2011); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Poor Devil (1973); Presidio Med (2002–2003); Producers' Showcase (1955); Quest (1962–1963); Quincy M.E. (1976–1983); Rocky King, Detective (1952–1954); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); Salute! (1983); Sammy and Company (1975); Scene Smoking: Cigarettes, Cinema & the Myth of Cool (2001); Shining Time Station: Second Chances (1995); Short Short Dramas (1953); Special for Women: The Cold Woman (1960); Starlight Theatre (1950); Straightaway (1961); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Studio One (1955–1958); Studio One Documentary (2002); Sunday Showcase (1960); Suspense (1950); Suspicion (1957–1958); Target: The Corruptors (1961–1962); TCM Guest Programmer (2007); Telethon (1985); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The $10,000 Pyramid (1973–1977); The $25,000 Pyramid (1976–1977); The 100 Greatest TV Quotes & Catchphrases (2006); The 11th Annual American Comedy Awards (1997); The 13th Annual People's Choice Awards (1987); The 23rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1971); The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977); The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978); The 31st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1974); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994); The 5th Annual National WAIF Humanitarian Awards (1989); The 62nd Annual Tony Awards (2008); The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards (2013); The 67th Annual Tony Awards (2013); The 6th Annual TV Land Awards (2008); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The All Star Spangled Mission (1973); The Annual Friars Club Tribute Present a Salute to Liza Minnelli (1987); The Big Story (1953); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1970); The Carol Burnett Show (1972–1976); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra (1978); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jack Klugman (1978); The Dean Martin Show (1973–1974); The Defenders (1961–1964); The Detective (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Don Rickles Show - Mr. Warmth (1975); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The F.B.I. (1965–1970); The Florence Henderson Show (2008–2009); The Fugitive (1963–1965); The Great Adventure (1964); The Greatest Gift (1954–1955); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1971–1977); The Hollywood Squares (Syndication) (1976); The Insider (2009); The Investigator (1958); The Jon Stewart Show (1994); The Love Boat (1985); The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (1980); The Man Behind the Badge (1953); The Merv Griffin Show (1971–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1970–1980); The Million Dollar Incident (1961); The Name of the Game (1969–1970); The New Breed (1962); The Odd Couple (1970–1975); The Odd Couple Out-Takes (2005); The Odd Couple: Together Again (1993); The Oscars (2013); The Outer Limits (2000); The Red Skelton Hour (1955); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1997); The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Beverly Hills (1989); The Shape of Things (1973); The Split (1968); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964–1986); The Tony Danza Show (2005); The Twilight of the Golds (1996); The Twilight Zone (1960–1963); The Underground Man (1974); The Untouchables (1961–1963); The Very Very Best of the 70s (2019); The Vin Scully Show (1973); The Virginian (1964); The Walter Winchell File (1959); The Web (1953); The Wonderful World of Aggravation (1972); The Yellow Canary (1963); The Young Turks (2005); Then Came Bronson (1969); Third Watch (2000); This Is Your Life (1957 / 1984); Time Table (1956); Too Much TV (2016); Treasury Men in Action (1955); Two-Minute Warning (1976); US Against the World (1977); Watching the Dead (2009); Weekend Express (2022); When Do We Eat? (2005); Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (1971); Whodunnit? (1979); You Again? (1986–1987); Your New Day (1980); Your Total Health (2005).