Born on this day – Arnold Schoenberg:

Arnold Schoenberg

Composer

Music theorist

Teacher

Writer

September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951

Credits:
 
Compositions:

11 Waltzes for String Orchestra: III. Etwas langsam; 11 Waltzes for String Orchestra: V. Rasch; 3 Pieces for Chamber Orchestra: I. Rasche Viertel; 6 Orchester-Lieder, op. 8: I. Nature; A Survivor from Warsaw; Brettl-Lieder: Nachtwandler; Chamber Symphony No. 1; Chamber Symphony No. 2; Chamber Symphony no. 2, op. 38: II. Con fuoco; Das zerbrochene Krüglein; Die glückliche Hand; Die Jakobsleiter; Die Jakobsleiter: "Alter Weisheit" (Ein Ringender); Die Jakobsleiter: "Du bist immerhin zufrieden" (Gabriel); Die Jakobsleiter: "Ob rechts, ob links" (Gabriel); Die Jakobsleiter: "Wie, du doch schwankst" (Gabriel); Drei Klavierstücke; Du kehrst mir den Rücken; Erwartung; Five Pieces for Orchestra; Four Orchestral Songs; Friede auf Erden, op. 13; Genesis Suite; Gurre-Lieder; Herzgewächse; In hellen Träumen; Mädchenfrühling; Moses und Aron; Ode an Napoleon Bonaparte, op. 41; Pelleas und Melisande; Piano Concerto; Pierrot lunaire; Sechs Stücke für Klavier zu vier Händen: IV. Andante; Sechs Stücke für Klavier zu vier Händen: VI. Allegro molto; Serenade; Streichseptett; String Quartet no. 2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10: I. Mäßig (Moderato); String Quartet no. 2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10: II. Sehr rasch; Suite for Piano; Suite, op. 29: II. Tanzschritte; The Book of the Hanging Gardens; Theme and Variations, op. 43a: 8. Variation 7; Variations for Orchestra; Verklärte Nacht; Violin Concerto; Von heute auf morgen; Waldesnacht; Warum bist du aufgewacht; Weihnachtsmusik; Wind Quintet; Zwei Kanons: Wenn der schwer Gedrückte klagt.

 

Books:
 

Arnold Schoenberg / Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and ...; Fundamentals of Musical Composition; Gustav Mahler; Harmonia; Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint; Structural Functions of Harmony; Style and Idea: Selected Writings; Theory of Harmony.

 

Movies and television:

American Masters (1987); Antonia. (2015); Antrittskonzert von Christian Thielemann (2024); Appuntamento a Liverpool (1988); Arnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär (2024); Avenida Progreso (2012); Brows Held High (2012); Christian Thielemann dirigiert Moussa, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schönberg (2024); Cinema Falado (1986); Clairvoyant (2002); Claudio Abbado: Die Stille nach der Musik (1998); Dark Journey (1961); Degenerate Art (1993); Der gläserne Blick (2003); Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1990); Der Ort der Handlung (1977); Die Jakobsleiter (1961); Die Olympiasiegerin (1983); Drei Wege zum See (1976); En overlevende fra Warszawa (1973); Engel und Puppe (1974); Erwartung (1989 / 2008); Five Orchestral Pieces (1994); From Today Until Tomorrow (1997); Goodbye to Language (2014); Gurre-Lieder (2019); Hope@Home (2020); Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1973); It Seems Today (2018); La botella (2017); L'adage (1964); Lastauspaikka – Umschlagplatz (1987); Lazarus Heroification (2025); Le Cabinet des estampes (1955); Les anges gardiens (1995); Licht sing tausendfache Lieder (1985); Lives No Longer Ours (2011); L'occitanienne (2006); Lumière and Company (1995); Meine Wunder (1978); Mental Images (1987); Metamorphoses (2014); Moses and Aaron (1995 / 2009); Moses und Aron (1975 / 2006 / 2015); Musik in Zeiten von Krieg und Revolution (2016); My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg (1992); New Wave (1990); New World Symphony Wallcast Concert 2 (2013); New World Symphony Wallcast Concert 7 (2014); One Night, One Life (2002); Österreich - Unser Jahrhundert (1999); Perfect Darkness (2016); Pierrot Lunaire (1988 / 1990 / 2014); Qu'en savent les morts (1991); Rapport fra Nr. 24 (1994); Si fuera yo un helecho... (2006); Spektral Quartet: Experiments in Living (2020); Spielregel für einen Wiedertäuferfilm (1977); The Forbidden Room (2015); The Hunting Fever (2008); The Lively Arts (1977); The Swindle (1997); Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993); Through the Darkness (2021); Tom at the Farm (2013); Tones, Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic of Minimalism (2018); Transfiguré: 12 vies de Schönberg (2024); Tren de sombras (1997); Von Heute auf Morgen, Opera in un atto op. 32 (2011); Woman in Gold (2015); World of Music (1974).

Born on this day – Giovanni Pastrone:

Giovanni Pastrone

Director

Writer

September 13, 1883 – June 27, 1959

Credits:

Agnese Visconti (1910); Al cinematografo guardate... e non toccata (1912); An Enemy of the Dust (1910); Cabiria (1914); Foolshead's Last Roguery (1911); Giordono Bruno (1908); Hedda Gabler (1920); Henry the Third (1909); Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916); Julius Caesar (1909); La glu (1908); La guerra ed il sogno di Momi (1917); La luz, tríptico de la vida moderna (1917); La moglie di Claudio (1918); L'oeil, le pinceau et le cinématographe : naissance d'un art (2021); Maciste atleta (1918); Marvelous Maciste (1915); Outwitting the Hun (1918); Più forte che Sherlock Holmes (1913); Povere bimbe (1923); Primavera di lacrime (1911); Rigoletto (1909); The Fall of Troy (1911); The Palace of Flames (1912); The Warrior (1916); Tigre reale (1916).

Born on this day – J. B. Priestley:

J. B. Priestley

Writer

September 13, 1894 – August 14, 1984

Credits:

Books:

A Visit to New Zealand (1974); Adam in Moonshine (1927); An Inspector Calls (1948); Angel Pavement (1930); Benighted (1927); Beyond Time (2019); Black Water (1983); Black-Out in Gretley (1942); Bodley Head Leacock (1957); Bright Day (1946); Britain Under Fire (1942); Charles Dickens and His World (1961); Classics of the Supernatural (1998); Daylight On Saturday (1944); Delight (1949); Dragon's Mouth (1952); English Humour (1929); English Journey (1934); Essays of Today and Yesterday (1935); Faraway (1932); Farthing Hall (1929); Festival at Farbridge (1951); Figures in Modern Literature (1924); Found, Lost, Found (1976); George Meredith (1926); Ghosts for Christmas (1988); Hauntings (1968); I for One (1923); I Have Been Here Before (1938); I'll Tell You Everything (1932); Instead of the Trees (1977); It's An Old Country (1967); Jenny Villiers (1947); Johnson over Jordan (1939); Journey Down a Rainbow (1955); Let the People Sing (1939); Letter To A Returning Serviceman (1945); Literature and Western Man (1960); London End (1968); London Stories (2013); Lost Empires (1965); Low Notes on a High Level (1954); Man and Time (1964); Margin Released (1962); Medley Macabre (1966); Midnight On the Desert (1937); My Six Favorite Plays (1978); Open House (1927); Our Nation's Heritage (1939); Out of the People (1941); Out of Town (1968); Outcries and Asides (1974); Over The Long High Wall (1972); Papers from Lilliput (1922); Particular Pleasures (1975); Postscripts aka Britain Speaks (1940); Rain Upon Godshill (1938); Realms of Darkness (1985); Salt is Leaving (1966); Saturn Over the Water (1961); Self-Selected Essays (1937); Sir Michael and Sir George (1966); Snoggle (1971); Spirits of the Season (2018); Stories of the Occult (1978); Tales of the Dark 3 (1988); Talking (1926); The 31st of June (1961); The 6th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970); The Art of the Dramatist (1957); The Balconinny (1930); The Book of Bodley Head Verse (1926); The Carfitt Crisis (1975); The Doomsday Men (1938); The Edwardians (1970); The English (1971); The English Comic Characters (1925); The Good Companions (1929); The Great Book of Humour (1935); The Happy Dream (1976); The High Toby (1948); The Magicians (1954); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Masque of the Red Death (1964); The Other Place (1953); The Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume I (1949); The Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume II (1949); The Plays of J.B. Priestley - Volume III (1950); The Prince of Pleasure (1969); The Second Omnibus Book (1930); The Shapes of Sleep (1962); The Silver Ship (1932); The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Three (2018); The Wonderful World of the Theatre (1959); Theatre Outlook (1947); They Walk in the City (1936); Thomas Love Peacock (1966); Thoughts in the Wilderness (1957); Three Men in New Suits (1945); Time and the Conways (1937); Time Travelers (1997); Trumpets Over the Sea (1968); Victoria's Heyday (1972); When We Were Married (1938); Wonder Hero (1933).

Movies and television:

1940: A Reminiscence by J.B. Priestley (1965); A Severed Head (1971); Actor's Studio (1950); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1957); Alta comedia (1971–1974); An Evening with J.B. Priestley (1973); An Inspector Calls (1948 / 1954 / 1982 / 2015 / 2018 / 2020); Angel Pavement (1957–1967); Anoihtoi logariasmoi (2000); Armchair Theatre (1957); Au théâtre ce soir (1971–1979); Battle for Music (1943); BBC Play of the Month (1974–1983); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959); BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); Beshenoe zoloto (1977); Bright Shadow (1950); Britain at Bay (1940); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Ci sono già stato (1954); Conflict (1967); Conversations for Tomorrow (1964); Cornelius (1938); Dangerous Corner (1934 / 1946 / 1949 / 1965); De roos en de kroon (1963); Det er fra politiet (1960); Die Conways und die Zeit (1958); Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds (1962); Die Zeit und die Conways (1960); Doctor Who: The Cravat Doctor Adventures (2018); Doomsday for Dyson (1958); Eden End (1977); El teatro (1974); El temps i els Conway (1993); En inspektør ringer på (1961); Enas epitheoritis erhetai (1999); Encounter (1954); Ergens ligt een stad... (1964); Essi arrivarono a una città (1961); Estudio 1 (1967–2000); Gefährliche Kurve (1957); Gendel i gangstery (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1963); Great British Railway Journeys (2023); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Het begon in het paradijs (1960); Hidden History: The Lost Portraits of Bradford (2019); How the BBC Began (2022); I Have Been Here Before (1949 / 1964); Il tempo e la famiglia Conway (1954); In Front of the Children (1982); Inspektor Gull (1979); Inspektor sa vracia (1972); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1963); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1958); Jamaica Inn (1939); Jenny Villiers (1948); Kraft Theatre (1947–1951); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Laburnum Grove (1936 / 1938 / 1947); Last Holiday (1950 / 2006); Let the People Sing (1942); Little Ships (2010); Look Up and Laugh (1935); Lost City (1958); Lost Empires (1986); Matinee Theatre (1958); Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (1955); Music at Night (1952); Omnibus (1968–1969); On the Road (1980); On Trial (1960); One Man's Week (1971); One Pair of Eyes (1973); Onkel Phils Nachlaß (1965); Out of the Unknown (1966); Paradies auf erden (1967); Performance (1994); Playdate (1964); Primera fila (1963–1965); Prizraki zelyonoy komnaty (1992); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Salute to America (1939); Sau Jhooth Ek Sach (2004); Seit Adam und Eva (1955 / 1962); Shadows (1975); Silberhochzeit!?! (2015); Sing As We Go! (1934); Skandalnoye proishestviye v Brikmille (1981); Snoggl (1993); Snuki (1978); Somewhere in France (1942); Studio One (1952–1958); Summer Day's Dream (1949); Suspeita (1958); Tarkastaja tulee (1964); Teatro estudio (1977); Television Theater (1997); Teper pust ukhodit (1963); Thana Theke Aschi (1965 / 2010); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Germans Are Coming (2005); The Good Companions (1933 / 1949 / 1957 / 1980 / 1981); The Linden Tree (1949); The Long Mirror (1948); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1961); The Old Dark House (1932 / 1963); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The Rose and Crown (1946 / 1956 / 1963); The Time and the Conways (1966); The Venetian Door (1966); The Wednesday Play (1968); The Winslow Boy / A Touch of Venus (1969); The World at War (1973–1974); They Came to a City (1944); Thursday Theatre (1964–1965); Time and the Conways (1985); Timeshift (2015); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); To theatro ton neon (1973); Today (1968); Treasure on Pelican (1951); TV de Vanguarda (1954–1957); Un inspecteur vous demande (1965); Und das am Montagmorgen (1957 / 1959); Virage dangereux (1956); Vorhang auf! (1954); Vremya i semya Konvey (1984); We Live in Two Worlds (1937); Wenn wir verheiratet sind (1982); What Did You Do in the War, Auntie? 1939-45 (1995); When We Are Married (1938 / 1943 / 1949 / 1951 / 1957 / 1987); Whitehall Wonders (1949); You Know What People Are (1955); Zur Rose und Krone (1964).

Born on this day – Kathryn Boyd:

Kathryn Boyd

Actress

September 13, 1897 – March 16, 1965

Credits:
A Flying Ace Mystery (2022); Black Gold (1928); The Flying Ace (1926); Deceit (1923).

Born on this day – Lewis E. Lawes:

Lewis E. Lawes

Prison warden

Writer

September 13, 1883 – April 23, 1947

Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.
– Lewis E. Lawes.
 
Credits:

Books:

20,000 Years in Sing Sing; Cell 202, Sing Sing; Invisible Stripes; Life and Death in Sing Sing; Man's Judgment of Death: An Analysis of the Operation and Effect of Capital Punishment Based on Facts, Not on Sentiment; Meet the Murderer!; Sing Sing; Stone and Steel: The Way of...; Strange Stories from Sing Sing; Where Do I Go From Here? The Life Story of a Forger as told to Robert O. Ballou.

Movies and television:

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Invisible Stripes (1939); Kalimat Sharaf (1972); Over the Wall (1938); You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

Born on this day – Claudette Colbert:

Claudette Colbert

Actress

September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); Access Hollywood / Segment: In Memory (1996); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980 / 1982); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); America at the Movies (1976); American Horror Story (2012); Arise, My Love (1940); Azzedine Alaïa: Un couturier français (2022); Back to the Present (2015); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biography (2005); Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938); Boom Town (1940); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Bride for Sale (1949); Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Cinema 3 (1988); City Confidential (2007); Cleopatra (1934); Climax! (1955); Colgate Theatre (1958); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2016); Conquer by the Clock / The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (1943); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (2012); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (2013); Daughters of Destiny / Segment: Elisabeth (1954); Discovering Film (2015); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Extraordinary Women (2011); Family Honeymoon (1948); Film Time (1955); For the Love of Mike (1927); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Four Frightened People (1934); Frontier Justice (1959); Garabatos Claudette Colbert (1944); General Electric Theater (1958); General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957); Guest Wife (1945); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942); His Woman (1931); History Brought to Life (1950); Hitchcock (2012); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (1934); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Honor Among Lovers (1931); I Cover the Waterfront (1933); I Met Him in Paris (1937); I'll Tell the World (1939); Imitation of Life (1934); It Happened One Night (1934); It's a Wonderful World (1939); La grande mare (1930); Land of Liberty (1939); L'énigmatique Monsieur Parkes (1930); Let's Make It Legal (1951); Maid of Salem (1937); Make Me a Star (1932); Manslaughter (1930); Midnight (1939); Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita (2023); No Time for Love (1943); Outpost in Malaya (1952); Parrish (1961); Playhouse 90 (1957); Pontiac Star Parade (1959); Practically Yours (1944); Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon (2006); Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (2006); Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe (2005); Private Worlds (1935); Remember the Day (1941); Robert Montgomery Presents (1956); Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Secrets of a Secretary (1931); She Married Her Boss (1935); Since You Went Away (1944); Siskel & Ebert (1996); Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020); Skylark (1941); Sleep, My Love (1948); So Proudly We Hail! (1943); Stars of the Silver Screen (2015); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1984); Suspicion (1958); Telephone Time (1957); Texas Lady (1955); That's Entertainment! III (1994); The 13th Annual Tony Awards (1959); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Bells of St. Mary's (1959); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The Big Pond (1930); The Bride Comes Home (1935); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The Egg and I (1947); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Claudette Colbert (1984); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Gilded Lily (1935); The Hole in the Wall (1929); The Hollywood You Never See (1934); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Jack Benny Program (1951); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Lady Lies (1929); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Magic Makers (2023); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The Many Faces of Cleopatra (2009); The Misleading Lady (1932); The Moviemakers (1984); The Naked Archaeologist (2005–2006); The Palm Beach Story (1942); The Phantom President (1932); The Secret Fury (1950); The Secret Heart (1946); The Sign of the Cross (1932); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Smiling Lieutenant (1931); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956–1958); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987); The Wiser Sex (1932); Third Adam 2: The Great Seduction (2020); Three Came Home (1950); Three Cornered Moon (1933); Thunder on the Hill (1951); Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Tonight Is Ours (1933); Torch Singer (1933); Under Two Flags (1936); Welcome to the Basement (2015); What's My Line? (1956–1959); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Without Reservations (1946); Yesterday's Witness (1972); Young Man of Manhattan (1930); Zane Grey Theatre (1957–1960); Zaza (1938).

Born on this day – Gladys George:

 

Gladys George

Actress

September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954

Credits:

Agnese Visconti (1910); Al cinematografo guardate... e non toccata (1912); An Enemy of the Dust (1910); Cabiria (1914); Foolshead's Last Roguery (1911); Giordono Bruno (1908); Hedda Gabler (1920); Henry the Third (1909); Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916); Julius Caesar (1909); La glu (1908); La guerra ed il sogno di Momi (1917); La luz, tríptico de la vida moderna (1917); La moglie di Claudio (1918); L'oeil, le pinceau et le cinématographe : naissance d'un art (2021); Maciste atleta (1918); Marvelous Maciste (1915); Outwitting the Hun (1918); Più forte che Sherlock Holmes (1913); Povere bimbe (1923); Primavera di lacrime (1911); Rigoletto (1909); The Fall of Troy (1911); The Palace of Flames (1912); The Warrior (1916); Tigre reale (1916).