Born on this day – Hedwiga Reicher:

 

Hedwiga Reicher

Actress

June 12, 1884 – September 2, 1971

Credits:

Stage:

Caliban of the Yellow Sands (1916); Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (1911); June Madness (1912); On the Eve (1909); The Next of Kin (1909); The Stronger (1913); The Thunderbolt (1911); When the Young Vine Blooms (1915).

Movies and Television:

A Lover's Oath (1925); Beyond Victory (1931); Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939); Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940); Dracula's Daughter (1936); Ex-Lady (1933); Flesh (1932); I Married a Doctor (1936); It Could Happen to You (1937); Lucky Star (1929); Mordprozeß Mary Dugan (1931); New Moon (1930); Rendezvous (1935); Sporting Chance (1931); The Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Godless Girl (1928); The House of a Thousand Candles (1936); The King of Kings (1927); The Leopard Lady (1928); True Heaven (1929).

Born on this day – Nina Mae McKinney:

Nina Mae McKinney

Actress

June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967

Credits:

American Masters (1997); BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935); Biography (1995); Blood Money (1933); Classified X (2007); Copper Canyon (1950); Danger Street (1947); Dark Waters (1944); Gang Smashers (1938); Hallelujah (1929); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Kentucky Minstrels (1934); Manhattan Serenade (1929); Mantan Messes Up (1946); Night Train to Memphis (1946); On Velvet (1938); Passing the Buck (1932); Pie, Pie, Blackbird (1932); Pinky (1949); Reckless (1935); Safe in Hell (1931); Sanders of the River (1935); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Straight to Heaven (1939); Swanee Showboat (1940); That's Black Entertainment (1990); The Birth of Television (1976); The Black Network (1936); The Devil's Daughter (1939); The Lonely Trail (1936); The Nicholas Brothers: We Sing and We Dance (1992); The Power of the Whistler (1945); They Learned About Women (1930); Together Again (1944); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); What Price Jazz (1934).

Born on this day – William Lundigan:

 

William Lundigan

Actor

June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975

Born on this day – Priscilla Lane:

 

Priscilla Lane

Actress

June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995

Credits:

3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); Blues in the Night (1941); Bodyguard (1948); Brother Rat (1938); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938); Daughters Courageous (1939); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Four Daughters (1938); Four Mothers (1941); Four Wives (1939); Fun on a Weekend (1947); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); La case du siècle (2022); Love, Honor and Behave (1938); Men Are Such Fools (1938); Million Dollar Baby (1941); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); Play Your Part (1941); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Saboteur (1942); Silver Queen (1942); Stars on Horseback (1943); Swingtime in the Movies (1938); The John Garfield Story (2003); The Meanest Man in the World (1943); The Roaring Twenties (1939); Varsity Show (1937); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939).

Born on this day – Irwin Allen:

 

Irwin Allen

Director

Producer

Photographed on the set of The Swarm (1978)

June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991

Born on this day – Richard M. Sherman:

Richard M. Sherman

Songwriter

June 12, 1928 – May 25, 2024

Born on this day – Anne Frank:

Anne Frank

Writer

Author of The Diary of Anne Frank

June 12, 1929 – March 12,1945

Credits:

Books:

The Diary, aka Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and The Diary of Anne Frank (1948).

Movies and television:

1945: 12 Städte, 12 Schicksale (2015); 1945: Amsterdam - Der Völkermord (2015); 60 Minutes (2022); A Tale of Two Sisters (2015); Acting for a Cause (2021); Anne Frank House VR (2018); Anne Frank Parallel Stories (2019); Anne Frank Remembered (1995); Anne Frank Video Diary (2020); Anne Frank: 70 Years Later (2015); Anne Frank's Diary (1999); Anne Frank's Holocaust (2015); Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari (1979); Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (2017); Bild Live (2022); Biography (2000); Classmates of Anne Frank (2008); De Erfenis van Anne Frank (2015); El diari d'Anna Frank (1996); Fantastic (2012); Format 60 (1970); Front Row (2012); Gedenkfeier in Bergen-Belsen (2015); Hanneli and Anne (2017); History (2015); History Daily (2022); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Kaaskoppen & waterlanders (2008); La casa del darrere (2009); Love All You Have Left (2017); My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021); No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story (2015); Otto Frank, Father of Anne (2010); Silence is Violence (2021); The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988); The Brief Life of Anne Frank (2001); The CJN Daily (2022); he Decibel (2022); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 / 1962 / 1967 / 1980 / 1985 / 1987 / 1995 / 2009 / 2016); The History Chicks (2018); The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank (1988); The Twentieth Century (1964); The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022); The World at War (1974); Timmen (1968); Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries (2019); Where Is Anne Frank (2021); Who Betrayed Anne Frank (2001); Witness History: Archive 2012 (2012).