Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Born on this day – Jeanne Helbling:

Jeanne Helbling

Actress

July 26, 1903 – August 6, 1985

Born on this day – Leigh Jason:

Leigh Jason

Director

Writer

July 26, 1904 – February 19, 1979

Born on this day – Lorna Gray:

Lorna Gray

Actress

July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017

Credits:

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002); Adventure in Sahara (1938); Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945); Along the Oregon Trail (1947); Andy Clyde Gets Spring Chicken (1939); Back to the Woods / Three Sappy People (1939); Beware Spooks! (1939); Biography (1997); Brimstone (1949); Bullets for Rustlers (1940); Cafe Hostess (1940); California Firebrand (1948); Captain America (1944); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Coast Guard (1939); Convicted Woman (1940); Dakota (1945); Daughter of Don Q (1946); Deadwood Dick (1940); Drums of the Desert (1940); Exposed (1947); F.B.I. 99 (1966); Fashion Model (1945); Father Steps Out (1941); Federal Operator 99 (1945); Flying G-Men (1939); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Hideout (1949); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); Home on the Range (1946); Last Frontier Uprising (1947); Lightnin' in the Forest (1948); Love's A-Poppin' (1953); Man from Rainbow Valley (1946); Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976); Missing Daughters (1939); Mooching Through Georgia / Pest from the West (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates (1966); O, My Darling Clementine (1943); Oh! Susanna (1951); Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939); Out California Way (1946); Outside These Walls (1939); Perils of Nyoka (1942); Red River Range (1938); Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942); Rock Island Trail (1950); Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940); Scandal Street (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Skinny the Moocher (1939); Smashing the Spy Ring (1938); So Proudly We Hail! (1943); Spoilers of the North (1947); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Tell It to a Star (1945); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Awful Goof (1939); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Gallant Legion (1948); The Girl Who Dared (1944); The Last Bandit (1949); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Man They Could Not Hang (1939); The Plunderers (1948); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Savage Horde (1950); The Sea Hornet (1951); The Stranger from Texas (1939); The 3 Stooges / Episode: You Nazty Spy! (1940); Those High Grey Walls (1939); Thrill of a Lifetime (1937); Tuxedo Junction (1941); Under Colorado Skies (1947); Up in the Air (1940); Valley of the Zombies (1946); Yellow Fin (1951).

Born on this Day - Jean Shepherd:

Jean Shepherd

Writer

Actor

Humorist

Radio and TV personality

July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999

Credits:

Books:

A Christmas Story (2003); A Fistful of Fig Newtons (1981); In God We Trust / aka In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (1966); The America of George Ade (1960); The Ferrari in the Bedroom (1972); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1978); Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (1970).

Author of In God We trust: All Others Pay Cash.

Filmed as A Christmas Story in 1983.

Albums:

Jean Shepherd – Into the Unknown With Jazz Music (1955); Jean Shepherd and Other Foibles (1959); Jean Shepherd Reads Poems of Robert Service (1975); “Live” At The Limelight (1965); The Declassified Jean Shepherd (1971); Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? (1960).

Movies and television:

A Christmas Story / Voice-over narration (1983); A Christmas Story 2 (2012); A Christmas Story Christmas (2022); A Christmas Story Live! (2017); A Fine Madness (1966); A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); America (1971); American Playhouse (1982–1985); Babe Ruth (1998); Chicago White Sox a Visual History (1987); Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (1997); Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius (1982); Flickers (1980); Jean Shepherd on Route 1... and Other Major Thoroughfares (1984); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Lenny Bruce: Without Tears (1972); Light Fantastic (1964); My Summer Story (1994); NET Playhouse (1970); New Faces (1954); No Whistles, Bells, or Bedlam (1973); Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (1987); Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988); Sesame Street (1976–2000); Shadows (1958); Shepherd's Pie (1978); Summer Incident (1960); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Driving Scene (1969); The Great American Road Racing Festival (1985); The Joe Franklin Show (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1969); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976 / 1978); The Radio Broadcast Vault (2019); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961–1962); Tiki Tiki (1971); Village Sunday (1960); Visions (1976).