Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:


Gladys Bentley


Blues singer

Pianist

August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960

Credits:

Songs:

Before Midnight; Big Gorilla Man; Boogie Woogie Cue; Boogie'n My Woogie; Find out What He Likes; Fourth of July Boogie; Give It Up; Ground Hog Blues; How Long, How Long Blues; How Much Can I Stand; It Went to the Girl Next Door; Jingle Jangle Jump; June-Teeth Jamboree; Lay it on the Line; Lay It on the Line for Father; Moanful Wailin' Blues; Moanful Walkin' Blues; Red Beans And Rice; Red Beans and Rice Blues; Wild Geese Blues; Worried Blues.

Movies and television:

Before Stonewall (1984); Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024); Shirley (2020); You Bet Your Life (1958).

Born on this day – Jane Wyatt:

 

Jane Wyatt

Actress

August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006

Jane Wyatt in Star Trek.

Credits:

13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 20 Questions (1951); 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (1990); A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1977); A Most Unusual Man (1993); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1982); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Amelia Earhart (1976); Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989); Army Surgeon (1942); Baby Boom (1988); Bad Boy (1949); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Boomerang! (1947); Buckskin Frontier (1943); Canadian Pacific (1949); CBS Playhouse (1968); Chesterfield Presents (1952); Compression (2025); Confidential for Women (1966); Criminal Lawyer (1951); Family Theatre (1953); Fantasy Island (1978–1983); Father Knows Best (1954–1960); Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas (1977); Finding Shangri-La (2007); Fireside Theatre (1952); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); Frank Capra's American Dream (1997); Funny Women of Television (1991); Gemini Man (1976); General Electric Theater (1961); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); Gibbsville (1976); Girl from God's Country (1940); Girl Talk (1966); Going My Way (1963); Great Expectations (1934); Gypsy (1966); Happy Days (1982); Here Come the Brides (1970); Here's Hollywood (1961); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Home (1956); Hotel (1983–1987); Hour Magazine (1982); House by the River (1950); Hurricane Smith (1941); Insight (1966–1970); Interlude (1957); Katherine (1975); Kisses for Breakfast (1941); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Leave It to the Girls (1953); Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987); Lights Out (1952); Live with Kelly and Mark (1990); Lost Horizon (1937); Lost Horizon: Before and After Comparison (1999); Love, American Style (1969); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); March of Dimes Presents: Once Upon a Dime (1963); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1974); Medical Center (1975); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); My Blue Heaven (1950); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986); Neighbors (1971); Never Too Late (1965); No Minor Vices (1948); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Oh My Word (1966); On Your Way (1953); One More River (1934); Our Very Own (1950); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1974); Password (1962–1966); Philbin's People (1970); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942); Pioneers of Television (2014); Pitfall (1948); Play of the Week (1961); Playwrights '56 (1955); Prime Times (1983); Quincy, M.E. (1980); Reagan (2011); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 3 (1936); See How They Run (1964); St. Elsewhere (1983–1988); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986); Starman (1986); Story of a Family (1960); Strange Conquest (1946); Studio One (1952–1958); Super Password (1987); Superdome (1978); Task Force (1949); TCM Remembers 2006 (2006); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The 10th Annual American Cinema Awards (1994); The 10th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1958); The 12th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1960); The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 6th Annual American Cinema Awards (1989); The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards (1991); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Bachelor's Daughters (1946); The Bell Telephone Hour (1961–1963); The Chevy Show (1961); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Father Knows Best Reunion (1977); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1970); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1999); The Kansan (1943); The Kraft Music Hall (1970); The Love Boat (1979–1987); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Magical World of Disney (1977); The Making of 'Lost Horizon' (1999); The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950); The Match Game (1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1972–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1964); The Millionaire (1978); The Motorola Television Hour (1953–1954); The Nativity (1978); The Navy Comes Through (1942); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Special 84th Birthday Celebration for Buddy Ebsen (1992); The Steve Allen Show (1959); The Two Little Bears (1961); The Virginian (1964–1970); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992); This Is Show Business (1950); This Is Your Life (1973); Through Wendy's Window (1950); Today (1956); Tom Sawyer (1973); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); TV We Love (2025); Wagon Train (1962); Weekend for Three (1941); Weekend of Terror (1970); We're Only Human (1935); What's My Line? (1958); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Where Was I? (1952); You Don't Say (1967); You'll Never See Me Again (1973).Your First Impression (1963); Your Show of Shows (1952).

Born on this day – Samuel Fuller:

 

Samuel Fuller


Director

Writer

Actor

World War II veteran

August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997


Born on this day – Ralph Nelson:


Ralph Nelson


Director

Producer

Writer

Actor

August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987


Born on this day – Marjorie Reynolds:

 

Marjorie Reynolds


Actress

August 12, 1917 – February 1, 1997


Born on this day – Olympe Bradna:


Olympe Bradna


Actress

Dancer

August 12, 1920 – November 5, 2012


Born on this day – William Goldman:

William Goldman

Writer

Author and/or screenwriter of Marathon Man,

Princess Bride (book and screenplay), Heat

August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018

Credits:

Books:

Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).

Movies and television:

5 Minutes (2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters (2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000); Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci (1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003); Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look (2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993); Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100 Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon (1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies (2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face (2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars (2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of (1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year of the Comet (1992).

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