Born on this day – Max Ehrmann:

Max Ehrmann

Writer

Attorney

September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945

Books:

A Farrago; A Fearsome Riddle; A prayer, and other selections; Breaking Home Ties; Desiderata; Desiderata for Cat Lovers: A Guide to Life & Happiness; Desiderata for Dog Lovers; Desiderata for Horse Lovers; Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life; Desiderata: The Classic Manifesto for Living a Happy Life, with Additional Poems; Desiderata: Words for Life; Inspirational Desiderata Poem Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Patterns Surround Inspirational Quotes from the Classic Poem Desiderata by Max Ehrmann; Jesus; Lifting the Veil: Beloved Dead, Biography & Other Appreciations; Max Ehrmann's poems; Poems; The Desiderata of Faith: A Collection of Religious Poems; The Desiderata of Happiness: A Collection of Philosophical Poems; The desiderata of hope; The Desiderata of Love: A Collection of Poems for the Beloved; The Journal of Max Ehrmann; The Mystery of Madeline Le Blanc; The poems of Max Ehrmann; The Poems of Max Ehrmann - Scholar's Choice Edition; The Wife of Marobious a Play; The Wife Of Marobius.

Movies and television:

Absolutely Fabulous (2003); Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers (1972); F Is for Family (2018); Love Serenade (1996); Mr Inbetween (2019); Mudflats Living (1972); The David Frost Show (1970); The Ernie Sigley Show (1974).

Born on this day – T. S. Eliot:

T. S. Eliot

Writer

September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965

Credits:

Written work:

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917); Ara Vus Prec. (1919); The Waste Land (1922); Poems 1909-1925 (1925); Journey of the Magi (1927); A Song for Simeon (1928); Animula (1929); Selected Poems (1930); Ash Wednesday (1930); Marina (1930); Triumphal march (1931); Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939); East Coker (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943); Burnt Norton (1943); Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot: 1909-1935 (1945); The Undergraduate Poems of T. S. Eliot (1948); The Complete Poems and Plays (1952); The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954); Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (1963); Poems Written In Early Youth (1967); The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2018); Eeldrop and Appleplex & Ezra Pound (1917); Sweeney Agonistes (1932); The Rock (1934); Murder in the Cathedral (1935); The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1949); The Confidential Clerk (1950); The Film of Murder in The Cathedral (1952); The Elder Statesman (1959); Collected Plays (1962); The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot (2014); Ezra Pound (1918); The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays (1920); Homage to John Dryden (1924); John Dryden (1924); Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1927); For Lancelot Andrewes (1928); Dante (1929); Thoughts after Lambeth (1931); Charles Whibley: A Memoir (1931); Essays On Elizabethan Drama (1932); After Strange Gods (1934); Essays Ancient and Modern (1936); Christianity and Culture (1939); Idea of a Christian Society (1939); A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941); Introducing James Joyce (1942); Reunion By Destruction (1943); What is a classic? (1945); Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (1948); Milton; Annual Lecture on a Master Mind (1948); From Poe to Valery (1948); The Aims of Poetic Drama (1949); Selected Essays (1950); Poetry and Drama (1951); An Address to Members of the London Library (1952); The Value and Use of Cathedrals in England To-Day (1952); American Literature and the American Language (1953); The Three Voices of Poetry (1954); Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern (1954); The Literature of Politics (1955); The Frontiers of Criticism (1956); On Poetry And Poets (1957); Geoffrey Faber, 1889-1961 (1961); George Herbert (1962); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1964); To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings (1965); Elizabethan Essays (1969); The Classics And The Man Of Letters (1974); Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley (1989); The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1 (1988); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2 (2009); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3 (2012); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 4 (2013); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 5 (2014); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 6 (2016); Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7 (2017); Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 8 (2019); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 (2021); Identity And Self Respect (1952); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry (1992); Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

A Lovesong (2016); Aline (2020); American Playhouse (1983); America's Got Talent (2019); Animal Practice (2012); Apocalypse Now (1979); Arena (2009); Ashes (1975); Assassinio nella Cattedrale (1966); Assassinio nella cattedrale (2006 / 2012); Barbra Streisand: Memory (1981); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1955); Birthday Girl (2001); BoJack Horseman (2014); Broadway on Broadway (2000); BumtsiBum! (2021); Cats (2019); Cocktailparty (1967); Coctail party (1960); Conflict (1967); Connie and Carla (2004); Cover to Cover (1936); Der Familientag (1965); Der Privatsekretär (1963 / 1977); Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2003); Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011); Die Cocktailparty (1964); Diminishing Returns (2019–2020); Diminishing Returns Diminisodes (2020); Diva (2006); Eufòria (2023); Fame (1985); Four Quartets (2022); Funny People (2009); Glee (2014); Going to Seed (2009); Great Performances (1998–2003); Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014); Hengaillaan (2023); Hollow Men (2012); Il canto d'amore di Prufrock (1967); In Living Color (1991); Koktel (1967); Logan's Run (1976); Love Flesh (2011); Melvyn Bragg on Class & Culture (2012); Mord im Dom (1962); Murder in the Cathedral (1947 / 1951 / 1962); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2022); New in November 2011 (2012); No me la puc treure del cap (2010); Omnibus (1971); Omnibus / Segment: The Confidential Clerk (1954); Post Grad (2009); Raphael: Mi gran noche (2013); Rio 2 (2014); Saturday Night Live (1992); School of Rock (2003); Shining Time Station (1989); Solo (1970); Sopro (2021); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Startime (1960); Teatro estudio (1978); Television Theater (1997); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); Terra desolata (2008); Thames Film (1987); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); The 39th Annual Tony Awards (1985); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 43rd Annual Tony Awards (1989); The 51st Annual Tony Awards (1997); The 52nd Annual Tony Awards (1998); The Cocktail Party (1952 / 1957); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Family Reunion (1959); The Hollow Men (1975 / 2015); The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (2013); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Magic of David Copperfield V (1983); The Marvels (2023); The Masked Singer (2022); The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf (2002); The Reader (2008); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Rum Tum Tugger (1984); The Simpsons (2011); The Sunday Programme (2004–2005); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2019); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Waste Land (1981 / 1996 / 1999); The Wasteland (2015); The White Chateau (1938); Theatre 625 (1966); Theatre Parade (1936); This Is My Life (1992); Thursday Theatre (1964); Till Human Voices Wake Us (2015); Timeshift (2005); Total Eclipse (1995); Triptych (2018); Tu cara me suena (2016); Wellow (2021); What Happens to the Mountain (2017); Wurlitzer (1985); XI Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català (2019); Yellowjackets (2021).

Born on this day – Gladys Brockwell:

Gladys Brockwell

Actress

September 26, 1894 – July 2, 1929

Credits:

7th Heaven (1927); A Branded Soul (1917); A Chase by Moonlight (1915); A Confidence Game (1915); A Crook's Sweetheart (1914); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Man and His Mate (1915); A Political Feud (1914); A Relic of Old Japan (1914); A Romance of the Sawdust Ring (1914); A Sister to Salome (1920); Chasing Rainbows (1919); Chickie (1925); Conscience (1917); Destiny's Night (1914); Divorce (1914); Double Stakes (1921); Double Trouble (1915); Ethel's New Dress (1915); Fires of Conscience (1916); Flames of the Flesh (1920); For Liberty (1917); From Headquarters (1929); Hardboiled Rose (1929); Her One Mistake (1918); Her Sacrifice (1926); Her Temptation (1917); His Blind Power (1913); His Guiding Angel (1915); His Last Race (1923); Hollywood Bound (1928); Kultur (1918); Lights of New York (1928); Long Pants (1927); Man, Woman and Sin (1927); My Home Town (1928); Oliver Twist (1922); On the Night Stage (1915); One of the Discard (1914); One Touch of Sin (1917); Paid Back (1922); Penrod and Sam (1923); Pitfalls of a Big City (1919); Providence and the Twins (1915); Rose of Nome (1920); Settled at the Seaside (1915); Shorty and the Aridville Terror (1914); Sins of Her Parent (1916); So Big (1924); Spangles (1926); Stacked Cards (1914); Stella Maris (1925); The Ambassador's Envoy (1914); The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Argyle Case (1929); The Bird of Prey (1918); The Broken Commandments (1919); The Call of the Soul (1919); The Carnival Girl (1926); The Counterfeiter's Fate (1913); The Country Doctor (1927); The Crippled Hand (1916); The Darling of New York (1923); The Devil's Riddle (1920); The Devil's Wheel (1918); The Divorce Trap (1919); The Drake Case (1929); The Drug Traffic (1923); The Elegy (1927); The End of the Galley (1914); The End of the Trail (1916); The Evil Eye (1913); The Evil One (1913); The Foolish Virgin (1924); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Fortification Plans (1915); The Geisha (1914); The Harmless One (1913); The Home Towners (1928); The Honor System (1917); The Hottentot (1929); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); The Last Frontier (1926); The Last of the Line (1914); The Law and the Man (1928); The Moral Law (1918); The Mother of His Children (1920); The Narcotic Spectre (1914); The Necessary Evil (1925); The Old High Chair (1915); The Play's the Thing (1914); The Price of Her Soul (1917); The Price of Power (1916); The Purple Maze (1916); The Rattlesnake (1913); The Reckless Sex (1925); The Sage Hen (1921); The Satin Woman (1927); The Scarlet Road (1918); The She-Devil (1916); The Skyrocket (1926); The Sneak (1919); The Soul of Satan (1917); The Splendid Road (1925); The Strange Woman (1918); The Typhoon (1914); The Woman Disputed (1928); The Woman Who Followed Me (1916); The Worth of a Life (1914); The Wrath of the Gods (1914); Thieves (1919); To Honor and Obey (1917); Twinkletoes (1926); Unmarried Wives (1924); Up from the Depths (1915); When Mountain and Valley Meet (1913); White Lies (1920).

Born on this day – George Gershwin:

George Gershwin

Composer

Pianist

September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937

Born on this day – George Raft:

George Raft

Actor

Singer

Dancer

Producer

September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980

Credits:

A Bullet for Joey (1955); A Dangerous Profession (1949); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Air Force: The Radio Play (1943); All of Me (1934); All This and World War II (1976); American Justice: Target - Mafia (1993); American Masters (2020); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); Arena (2012); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Background to Danger (1943); Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (2003); Batman (1967); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970); Biography (2001); Black Widow (1954); Bogart (1967); Bolero (1934); Breakdowns of 1940 (1940); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); Broadway (1942); Brooklyn Bridge (1981); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets Over Hollywood (2005); Casino Royale (1967); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Celebrity Time (1952); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Compression (2015–2024); Curtains for Roy Earle: The Story of 'High Sierra' (2003); Dancers in the Dark (1932); Deadhead Miles (1972); Della (1969); Divided Highway: The Story of 'They Drive by Night' (2003); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Every Night at Eight (1935); Five Golden Dragons (1967); Follow the Boys (1944); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); George Jessel Show (1958); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Goldie (1931); Hammersmith Is Out (1972); Happy Days (1970); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hippodrome (1966); History's Greatest Mysteries (2023); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (1934); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Park (1946); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hush Money (1931); I Stole a Million (1939); If I Had a Million (1932); I'll Get You (1952); I'm the Law (1953); In This Corner... Boxing's Little Giants (1993); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Intrigue (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); It Had to Happen (1936); I've Got a Secret (1953); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); Johnny Allegro (1949); Johnny Angel (1945); Land of Liberty (1939); Limehouse Blues (1934); Loan Shark (1952); Love Is a Racket (1932); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Madame Racketeer (1932); Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994); Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012); Main Event (1961); Manpower (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Midnight Club (1933); Mobsters (2007); Momo: The Sam Giancana Story (2011); Mr. Ace (1946); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Night After Night (1932); Night World (1932); Nob Hill (1945); Nocturne (1946); Nous irons à Paris (1950); Ocean's Eleven (1960); Outpost in Morocco (1949); Palmy Days (1931); Pick-up (1933); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Queen of the Night Clubs (1929); Quick Millions (1931); Race Street (1948); Red Light (1949); Red Skelton Timex Special (1960); Red Skelton: A Career of Laughter (1992); Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook (1981); Rogue Cop (1954); Rogues Gallery (1997); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: 25th Anniversary Reunion (1993); Rumba (1935); Scarface (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 4 (1938); Screen Snapshots, Series 20, No. 7 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 28, No. 8: Vacation at Del Mar (1949); Sextette (1977); She Couldn't Take It (1935); Side Street (1929); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Skidoo (1968); Some Like It Hot (1959); Souls at Sea (1937); Spawn of the North (1938); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Stage Show (1955–1956); Stolen Harmony (1935); Taxi (1931); The Arthur Murray Party (1959); The Bowery (1933); The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1955); The David Frost Show (1969); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1964); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Generation Game (1974); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1957); The Glass Key (1935); The Great Sex War (1969); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955–1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Ladies Man (1961); The Lady's from Kentucky (1939); The Lee Phillip Show (1963); The Man from Cairo (1953); The Man with Bogart's Face (1980); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1980); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1954); The Movie Game (1970); The Name's the Same (1953–1955); The New London Palladium Show (1965); The Patsy (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1955–1960); The Return of Video Yesterbloop (1986); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1971); The Trumpet Blows (1934); The Upper Hand (1966); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); They Drive by Night (1940); Today (1966–1974); Tribute to Bogart (1972); Two Guys Abroad (1962); Under-Cover Man (1932); Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009); What's My Line? (1953); Whistle Stop (1946); With Orson Welles: Stories of A Life in Film (1990); You and Me (1938); Yours for the Asking (1936).

Born on this day - Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne:

Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne

"Godfather of Fitness"

Fitness and nutrition guru

Motivational speaker

Writer

Actor

September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011

Credits:

Books:

Abundant Health and Vitality After 40; Abundant Health and Vitality After Forty; Celebrating 90 Plus Years Of Healthy Living; Cooking With Jack; Fiscal Fitness; Foods For Glamour; Jack La Lanne's Power Juicer Fresh Recipe Collection; Jack La Lanne's Slim and Trim Diet and Exercise Guide; Jack Lalanne Way To Vibrant Good Health; Jack Lalanne's Fresh Recipe Collection; Live Young Forever; Revitalize Your Life; Revitalize Your Life After 50; Slim & Trim Diet & Exercise Guide.

Movies and television:

Arli$$ (2002); As Seen on TV: Fifty Years of Fitness (2005); Batman: The Movie (1966); Beefcake (1998); Bridget Loves Bernie (1973); California's Gold (1999); CBS Mornings (2009); Crook & Chase (1996); Diet America Challenge (1989); Fame, Fortune and Romance (1986); Here's Hollywood (1961); Here's Lucy (1969); History 101 (2022); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (2003); Hour Magazine (1985); How to Live Forever (2009); Howard Stern (1995–2004); Jack LaLanne's Juiceman Blender (2005); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2007); KTLA at 40: A Celebration of Los Angeles Television (1987); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Life with Bonnie (2003); McEnroe (2004); Mister Ed (1961–1963); More Wild Wild West (1980); Muscle Beach Then and Now (2011); Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2004); Peter Gunn (1960); Philbin's People (1969); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (2011); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel / Segment: Still Jumping (2006); Relatively Speaking (1988); Repossessed (1990); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); That Little Monster (1994); The 35th Annual Thalians Gala (1990); The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011); The Addams Family (1966); The Alan Thicke Show (1980–1981); The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008); The Chevy Chase Show (1977); The David Frost Show (1970); The David Letterman Show (1980); The Fountain of Groovy (1970); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1989); The Happy Ending (1969); The Infinite Power Workout (1997); The Jack LaLanne Show (1951–1975); The Jay Leno Show (2009); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Joy of Health & Fitness with Elaine LaLanne (2021); The Ladies Man (1961); The Man Show (2003); The Mike Douglas Show (1979); The Simpsons (1999); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1970); The Tony Danza Show (2004–2005); The Wayne Brady Show (2004); The Wilton North Report (1987–1988); The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006); Today (2008); TV Nation (1994); When the World Breaks (2010); Where Muscles Were Born (2009); You Bet Your Life (1959).

Born on this day – Barbara Britton:

Barbara Britton

Actress

September 26, 1920 – January 17, 1980