William Cameron Menzies
Production designer
Director
Producer
July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Born on this day – Clara Horton:
Clara Horton
Actress
July
29, 1904 – December 4, 1976
Credits:
A Bit o'
Heaven (1915); A Friend in Need (1914); A Grim Fairy Tale (1923); A Jungle Hero
(1916); A Puritan Episode (1913); A Son's Devotion (1913); A Soul's Tragedy
(1915); A Wise Judge (1913); Action (1921); All Around Frying Pan (1925);
Almost a Husband (1919); Animated Weekly, No. 68 (1913); At the Court of Prince
Make Believe (1914); Auntie's Money Bag (1914); Because of Bobbie (1912);
Bengal Tiger (1936); Beyond the Trail (1926); Big Hearted Jim (1913); Blind
Youth (1920); Christopher of Columbus (1923); Clara and Her Mysterious Toys
(1913); Coming Home (1914); Dolls (1912); Down to the Sea in Cabs (1927);
Everywoman (1919); Fighting Blood (1923); Filial Love (1912); For Better or for
Worse (1913); For His Child's Sake (1913); Gall of the Wild (1923); Girls on
Probation (1938); Golden Shackles (1927); Grandfather's Romance (1914); Huck
and Tom (1918); In an Old Trunk (1914); In the Days of Old (1914); In Wrong
(1919); It's a Great Life (1920); Judy Punch (1923); Just Kids (1914); Just Off
Broadway (1942); Kidnapping the King's Kids (1915); Makers of Men (1925);
Making Uncle Jealous (1912); Mind Over Motor (1923); Nadine of Nowhere (1916);
Nineteen and Phyllis (1920); Oh, Bridget! (1925); Outside Inn (1927); Over Here
(1927); Penrod (1922); Playmates (1913); Prisoners of Love (1921); Sailor Izzy
Murphy (1927); Shadows of the Harbor (1915); Sherlock's Rival (1927); Six
Second Smith (1923); Some Punches and Judy (1923); Speed Madness (1925);
Stepping on the Gas (1927); Taxi (1931); That Night (1927); The Answer (1915);
The Banker's Daughter (1913); The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond (1912);
The Broadway Gallant (1926); The Crimson Cross (1913); The Darling of the
Mounted (1912); The Detective's Santa Claus (1913); The Dupe (1914); The End of
a Perfect Fray (1923); The Faith Healer (1913); The Fightin' Comeback (1927);
The Fortune Hunter (1927); The Girl from Outside (1919); The Governor's Veto
(1913); The Greatest of These (1914); The Heart of a Woman (1920); The Higher
Impulse (1914); The Homecoming (1912); The Key (1913); The Knight in Gale
(1923); The Knight That Failed (1923); The Light in the Clearing (1921); The
Little Band of Gold (1915); The Little Mother of Black Pine Trail (1913); The
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920); The Long Shift (1915); The Motive
(1922); The New Dress (1915); The Passing Parade (1912); The Plow Woman (1917);
The Return of Lady Linda (1913); The Servant in the House (1921); The Slippery
Spy (1914); The Sons of a Soldier (1913); The Spectre Bridegroom (1913); The
Trail of the Hanging Rock (1913); The Trouble Chaser (1926); The Vengeance of
Guido (1915); The Violinist (1914); The Wheel (1925); The Whirlwind Finish
(1918); The Winning Girl (1919); The Wondrous Melody (1914); The Yellow Dog
(1918); Thirteen at Table (1913); Three Faces West (1927); Time to Kill (1942);
Tom Sawyer (1917); Two Stones with One Bird (1923); Under the Lion's Paw
(1916); Up in the Air (1927); Us Kids (1916); When Gale and Hurricane Meet
(1923); When Little Lindy Sang (1916); Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942); Why Aunt
Jane Never Married (1913); Willie and the Muse (1914); Winning the Futurity
(1926); Wrongs Righted (1924).
Born on this day – Clara Bow:
Clara Bow
Actress
July
29, 1905 – September 27, 1965
Credits:
100 Years at
the Movies (1994); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); All You Need Is
Love (1977); Arena (2012); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Beyond the
Rainbow (1922); Biography (2002); Black Lightning (1924); Black Oxen (1923);
Call Her Savage (1932); Capital Punishment (1925); Children of Divorce (1927);
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
(1999); Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012); Dancing Mothers
(1926); Dangerous Curves (1929); Daughters of Pleasure (1924); Down to the Sea
in Ships (1922); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Edith Head: The Paramount
Years (2002); Empty Hearts (1924); Enemies of Women (1923); Eve's Lover (1925);
Fascinating Youth (1926); Fashions in Love (1936); Flappers, Speakeasies, and
the Birth of Modern Culture (2010); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
(2011); Free to Love (1925); Get Your Man (1927); Grit (1924); Helen's Babies
(1924); Her Wedding Night (1930); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Babylon (1971);
Hollywood on Parade (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934); Hollywood
Rebellen (2013); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Snapshots
#11 (1929); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Golden Years
(1961); Hoopla (1933); Hula (1927); It (1927); Kick In (1931); Kid Boots
(1926); Kiss Me Again (1925); Ladies of the Mob (1928); Love Among the
Millionaires (1930); Love Lust (2011); Mantrap (1926); March of the Movies
(1933); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Maytime (1923); Moguls &
Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Monty and the Movies (2024); Movies
Golden Age (1961); MsMojo (2023); My Lady of Whims (1925); My Lady's Lips
(1925); No Limit (1931); Paramount on Parade (1930); Parisian Love (1925);
Poisoned Paradise (1924); Red Hair (1928); Rough House Rosie (1927); Screen
Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949); Screen Snapshots
Series 12, No. 12 (1932); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 9 (1937); Screen
Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 20, No. 1 (1940);
Screen Snapshots Series 28, No. 6 (1948); Screen Snapshots Series 5, No. 4
(1924); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 4,
No. 15 (1924); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Sex in the
20th Century (2001); Shadow of the Law (1926); Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100
caras (1998); Shooting the Hollywood Stars (2011); Sigrid Holmquist (2010);
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020); The 20th Century: A Moving
Visual History (1999); The Adventurous Sex (1925); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973);
The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Best Bad Man (1925); The Casting Couch (1995);
The Daring Years (1923); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
(1995); The Flapper Story (1985); The Fleet's In (1928); The House That Shadows
Built (1931); The Keeper of the Bees (1925); The Lawful Cheater (1925); The
Love Goddesses (1965); The Pill Pounder (1923); The Plastic Age (1925); The
Primrose Path (1925); The Runaway (1926); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); The
Scarlet West (1925); The Wild Party (1929); This Woman (1924); Three Week Ends
(1928); True to the Navy (1930); Two Can Play (1926); Why Be Good? Sexuality
& Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wine (1924); Wings (1927); Yesterday
and Today (1953).
Born on this day – Thelma Todd:
Thelma Todd
Actress
July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935
Credits:
A Trip
Through the Paramount Studio (1927); Abie's Irish Rose (1928); After the Dance
(1935); Air Fright (1933); Air Hostess (1933); All Teed Up (1930); Aloha
(1931); Alum and Eve (1932); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and
Crimes (2010); An All American Toothache (1936); Another Fine Mess (1930);
Asleep in the Feet (1933); Babes in the Goods (1934); Backs to Nature (1933);
Beauty and the Bus (1933); Bottoms Up (1934); Broadminded (1931); Bum Voyage
(1934); Call Her Savage (1932); Careers (1929); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931);
Cheating Blondes (1933); Chickens Come Home (1931); Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934);
Command Performance (1931); Corsair (1931); Counsellor at Law (1933); Crazy
Feet (1929); Death Scenes (1989); Deception (1932); Dollar Dizzy (1930); Done
in Oil (1934); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Fascinating Youth (1926);
Fashion News (1930); Fireman, Save My Child (1927); Follow Thru (1930); God
Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994);
Heart to Heart (1928); Her Man (1930); Her Private Life (1929); High C's
(1930); Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934); History's Mysteries: Infamous Murders
(2001–2004); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood Scandals and
Tragedies (1988); Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014);
Horse Feathers (1932); Hot Money (1935); Hotter Than Hot (1929); House of
Horror (1929); Hurdy Gurdy (1929); I'll Be Suing You (1934); Inside the Marx
Brothers (2003); Klondike (1932); Let's Do Things (1931); Lightning Strikes
Twice (1934); Look Out Below (1929); Looser Than Loose (1930); Love Fever
(1931); Maid in Hollywood (1934); Maids a la Mode (1933); Mary Stevens, M.D.
(1933); Monkey Business (1931); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood
Police Blotter (1992); Naughty Baby (1928); Nevada (1927); No Limit (1931); On
the Loose (1931); One Track Minds (1933); One-Horse Farmers (1934); Opened by
Mistake (1934); Palooka (1934); Personality Parade (1938); Players at Play
(1929); Pobre infeliz (1930); Red Noses (1932); Rough Seas (1931); Rubber Heels
(1927); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 3 (1935); Screen Snapshots Series 22,
No 10 (1942); Sealskins (1932); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Show Business
(1932); Shy Boy (1929); Sing Sister Sing (1935); Sitting Pretty (1933);
Slightly Static (1935); Snappy Sneezer (1929); Sneak Easily (1932); Son of a
Sailor (1933); Soup and Fish (1934); Speak Easily (1932); Stepping Out (1929);
Strictly Unreliable (1932); Swanee River (1931); Take the Stand (1934); The Age
of Ballyhoo (1973); The Bachelor Girl (1929); The Bargain of the Century
(1933); The Big Timer (1932); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Crash (1928); The
Devil's Brother (1933); The Fighting Parson (1930); The Gay Defender (1927);
The Haunted House (1928); The Head Guy (1930); The Hot Heiress (1931); The King
(1930); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Maltese Falcon (1931); The Misses
Stooge (1935); The Nickel Nurser (1932); The Noose (1928); The Old Bull (1932);
The Pajama Party (1931); The Pip from Pittsburg (1931); The Poor Rich (1934); The
Real McCoy (1930); The Shield of Honor (1927); The Shrimp (1930); The Soilers
(1932); The Tin Man (1935); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Voice of
Hollywood No. 13 (Second Series) (1932); This Is the Night (1932); Three Chumps
Ahead (1934); Top Flat (1935); Treasure Blues (1935); Trial Marriage (1929);
Twin Triplets (1935); Two for Tonight (1935); Unaccustomed As We Are (1929);
Vamping Venus (1928); War Mamas (1931); When the Applause Died / Death in
Hollywood (1990); Whispering Whoopee (1930); Yesterday and Today (1953); You
Made Me Love You (1933).
Born on this day – Chester Himes:
Chester Himes
Writer
July
29, 1909 – November 12, 1984
Credits:
Books:
A Rage in Harlem / aka For Love
of Imabelle (1957); A Century of Noir (2002); A Case of Rape (1980); All God's
Chillun Got Pride (2025); All Shot Up (1960); Black Noir (2009); Black On Black
(1973); Blind Man with a Pistol / aka Hot Day Hot Night (1969); City Sleuths
and Tough Guys (1988); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965); Crime Novels: American
Noir of the 1950 (1997); Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (2023);
Hard-boiled (1995); If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945); Lonely Crusade (1947);
Murderous Schemes (1996); My Life of Absurdity (1976); Pinktoes (1961); Plan B
(1993); Run Man Run (1966); The Big Gold Dream (1960); The Collected Stories of
Chester Himes (1990); The Crazy Kill (1959); The End of a Primitive (1955); The
Heat's On / aka Come Back, Charleston Blue (1966); The Quality of Hurt (1972);
The Real Cool Killers (1959); The Third Generation (1954); Yesterday Will Make
You Cry / aka Cast the First Stone (1952).
Movies and television:
A Rage in Harlem (1991); Camera
Three (1972); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972); Come Back Charleston Blue
(1972); Cosmic Slop (1994); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); Dossier Souvenirs
(1970); If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968); Three and a Half Thoughts (2006); Un
sang d'encre (1998).
Born on this day – Helen Chapman:
Helen Chapman
Actress
July 29, 1918 – November 1, 1986
Credits:
Alias Nick Beal (1949);
All-American Co-Ed (1941); Bells Are Ringing (1960); Blaze of Noon (1947);
Borrowed Trouble (1948); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Call
Me Mister (1951); Chicago Deadline (1949); Confidence Girl (1952); Cowboy G-Men
(1953); Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1952–1953); Dangerous Assignment (1952);
Double Diving (1939); Easy to Wed (1946); Girl Crazy (1943); Give a Girl a
Break (1953); Good News (1947); High Tension (1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952); I
Dood It (1943); Jackson and Jill (1949); Knock on Wood (1954); Lillian Russell
(1940); Man About Town (1939); Man Against Crime (1954); Man with a Camera
(1959); Martin Kane (1954); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); My
Dog Shep (1946); My Favorite Spy (1951); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948);
O.S.S. (1946); Outlaw Roundup (1944); Panic! (1957); Prairie Chickens (1943);
Racket Squad (1953); Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958); Rocky King, Detective (1954); Show
Boat (1951); Sing Another Chorus (1941); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Smooth as Silk
(1946); So Goes My Love (1946); Somewhat Secret (1939); Son of Sinbad (1955);
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); The Belle of New York (1952); The Box
Brothers (1956); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Farmer's Daughter (1947);
The Files of Jeffrey Jones (1952); The French Line (1953); The House Across the
Bay (1940); The Last Angry Man (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Thrill of
Brazil (1946); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); You're a Sweetheart (1937).
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