#bornonthisday — Public Fediverse posts
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Happy Birthday Corita Kent! Also known as Sister Mary Corita, the acclaimed artist and teacher was born on this day in 1918. She used painting and calligraphy to convey ideas about peace, racial harmony, and social justice. Learn more about her and her role in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community with award-winning documentary Rebel Hearts.
Our Rebel Hearts Curriculum Guide features a hands-on Visual Arts lesson about The Power of Corita Kent’s Calligraphic Art. It's a great way to help students find their voice through multi-media artwork. For grades 9-12.
#CoritaKent #ArtEducation #ArtLessons #ArtTeacher #Education #Art #Homeschooling #Edutooters #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #BornOnThisDay #ArtHistory #CoritaDay
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"I long for peace, before I die" #rip #freddie #bornonthisday
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“He was amazing to watch. It was a lesson in itself. I think I learned more about acting from John than anybody.”
— Al Pacino on John Cazale (1935-1978)
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Ida Lupino directing THE TWILIGHT ZONE in 1963.
The only woman to direct an episode of Rod Serling’s iconic series was born on this date.
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"My dad took my hand and said, ‘Honey, whatever you want to do, just do your best.’"
Oscar winner Eva Marie Saint is 100 today.
📸 LIFE Magazine, 1949
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Happy 99th birthday to TV's greatest space mom 🚀
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“Don't let anybody tell you it can't be done. I did it. You can, too." — Lela Swift (1919–2015) #BornOnThisDay
She rose from the CBS secretarial pool to become a groundbreaking director of 1950s live TV, then iconic soaps like DARK SHADOWS and RYAN’S HOPE (for which she won 3 Emmys).
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"We were trying to think of who could play Endora. And Elizabeth and I were in New York, at Bloomingdales, and there we ran into Agnes Moorehead. And I thought, ‘My God. There she is!’”
— #WilliamAsher, director/producer of #BewitchedEmmy winner #AgnesMoorehead (1900–1974) was #BornOnThisDay.
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Fondly remembering Lawrence Rory Guy (1926-2016), the imposing, Grammy-winning American actor, author and journalist, born in Kansas #OnThisDay. He adopted the stage name #AngusScrimm as the unforgettable, indestructible (and 6 foot 4) mortician Jebediah Morningside, a.k.a. #TheTallMan in Don Coscarelli's creepy, surreal #Phantasm (1979), reprising the role in four sequels between 1988 and 2016 while stealing scenes in various other genre films.
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Happy 90th birthday to #DebraPaget, the American film, stage, radio and TV actor, born in Denver #OnThisDay. She worked for Robert Siodmak, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Fritz Lang, among others, but particularly memorable opposite Vincent Price in her last two features, Roger Corman's #TalesOfTerror (1962) and #TheHauntedPalace (1963).
#HappyBirthday #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #GothicHorror #Poe #ClassicHorror
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His penchant for inventive gore, gallows humour and sexual deviance was particularly well served by #ReAnimator (1985) and #FromBeyond (1986).
#StuartGordon #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #HorrorMovies #SplatterMovies #Lovecraft #FromBeyond #ThePitAndThePendulum #RobotJox #Dagon #CastleFreak #Dolls
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His penchant for inventive gore, gallows humour and sexual deviance was particularly well served by #ReAnimator (1985) and #FromBeyond (1986).
#StuartGordon #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #HorrorMovies #SplatterMovies #Lovecraft #FromBeyond #ThePitAndThePendulum #RobotJox #Dagon #CastleFreak #Dolls
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His penchant for inventive gore, gallows humour and sexual deviance was particularly well served by #ReAnimator (1985) and #FromBeyond (1986).
#StuartGordon #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #HorrorMovies #SplatterMovies #Lovecraft #FromBeyond #ThePitAndThePendulum #RobotJox #Dagon #CastleFreak #Dolls
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His penchant for inventive gore, gallows humour and sexual deviance was particularly well served by #ReAnimator (1985) and #FromBeyond (1986).
#StuartGordon #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #HorrorMovies #SplatterMovies #Lovecraft #FromBeyond #ThePitAndThePendulum #RobotJox #Dagon #CastleFreak #Dolls
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His penchant for inventive gore, gallows humour and sexual deviance was particularly well served by #ReAnimator (1985) and #FromBeyond (1986).
#StuartGordon #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #HorrorMovies #SplatterMovies #Lovecraft #FromBeyond #ThePitAndThePendulum #RobotJox #Dagon #CastleFreak #Dolls
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Remembering Violet Mary Klotz, a.k.a. #MaeClarke (1910-92), the American film, theatre and television actor, born in Philadelphia #OnThisDay. In Hollywood from 1929, she was unforgettably mistreated by James Cagney in #ThePublicEnemy (1931) and #LadyKiller (1933) and immortalised as Colin Clive's bride in her second collaboration with James Whale, #Frankenstein (1931).
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #UniversalMonsters #GothicHorror #WarnerGangsters #PreCode
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Remembering Robert Burgess Aldrich (1918-93), the uncompromising American film / television director, producer and screenwriter, born in Rhode Island #OnThisDay. His penchant for cruelty, domestic battlegrounds, gallows humour and complex, sometimes grotesque older female characters resulted in unforgettable collaborations with, among others, Ralph Meeker, Beryl Reid, and (pictured) Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
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“I may have the baby, right here!”
— (very pregnant) Eva Marie Saint winning her Oscar for ON THE WATERFRONT in 1955Happy 99th birthday to our queen!
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Remembering #ElisabethBrooks (1951-97), the Canadian film, stage and television actor, born in Toronto #OnThisDay. She worked primarily on television, but particularly memorable as Marsha Quist, the predatory, statuesque #Werewolf who seduces Dee Wallace's husband at the commune in Joe Dante's beloved #TheHowling (1981).
#OTD #BOTD #BornOnThisDay #Werewolves #Lycanthropy #HorrorMovies
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the incarcerated protagonist of #TheSnakePit (1948), Bette Davis' duplicitous cousin in #HushHushSweetCharlotte and, pictured, as the terrorised, wealthy widow in Walter Grauman's remarkable, brutal #LadyInACage (both 1964).
#OliviaDeHavilland #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #GoldenEraHollywood #FilmNoir
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Dr. Moreau, Quasimodo, King Herod, and the brash Yorkshire man taking refuge at James Whale's #TheOldDarkHouse (1932).
Pictured here with Robert Mitchum, with whom he made his only film as director, the initially rejected #TheNightOfTheHunter (1955), one of the strangest, scariest, most beautiful Hollywood films of all time.
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#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #PreCode #HorrorMovies #FilmNoir #SouthernGothic #GoldenEraHollywood
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the incestuous shape-shifting mum in Stephen King's #Sleepwalkers (1992), a titular role in #InstituteBenjamenta, the Borg Queen in #StarTrek: First Contact (1996) and a moving representation of post-'MeToo' empowerment in Charlotte Colbert's #SheWill (2022).
#AliceKrige #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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Happy birthday, #PhilHarris!
Most people know him as Jack Benny's bandleader, or the voice of Baloo or O'Malley the Alley Cat.
But I love him best for the radio sitcom he did w/ his wife Alice Faye. Listen on Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Harris_Faye_Singles #BornOnThisDay #OTR #OldtimeRadio
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#HappyB|irthday to #NancyAllen, the American film / television actor, born in New York #OnThisDay in 1950. A murdered hitchhiker in #ForcedEntry (1975) and an unrepentant bully in #Carrie (1976), she would go on to play appealing heroines for Brian De Palma in #DressedToKill (1980) and #BlowOut (1981), alongside Lewis in Paul Verhoeven's #RoboCop (1987).
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#HappyBirthday to American film, stage and TV actor, artist and director, #PeterWeller, born in Wisconsin #OnThisDay in 1947. Best known as the ill-fated Alex Murphy and his eponymous alter-ego in #RoboCop (1987), he has excelled as oddballs and laconic outsiders in an eclectic range of roles, notably #TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossthe8thDimension (1984), #CatChaser (1989) and as William Lee in #NakedLunch (1991).
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#GuyLombardo (1902–1977) was born on this day.
The Canadian bandleader ushered in the New Year for half a century — first on radio, then on TV.
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...#TwistedNerve (1969), Hitchcock's #Frenzy (1972) and the twins' mum in #TheKrays (1990). Unforgettable as the black-clad Mrs Baylock, loyal Nanny to the Antichrist in Richard Donner's #TheOmen (1976).
#BillieWhitelaw #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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...#TwistedNerve (1969), Hitchcock's #Frenzy (1972) and the twins' mum in #TheKrays (1990). Unforgettable as the black-clad Mrs Baylock, loyal Nanny to the Antichrist in Richard Donner's #TheOmen (1976).
#BillieWhitelaw #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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...#TwistedNerve (1969), Hitchcock's #Frenzy (1972) and the twins' mum in #TheKrays (1990). Unforgettable as the black-clad Mrs Baylock, loyal Nanny to the Antichrist in Richard Donner's #TheOmen (1976).
#BillieWhitelaw #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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...#TwistedNerve (1969), Hitchcock's #Frenzy (1972) and the twins' mum in #TheKrays (1990). Unforgettable as the black-clad Mrs Baylock, loyal Nanny to the Antichrist in Richard Donner's #TheOmen (1976).
#BillieWhitelaw #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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...#TwistedNerve (1969), Hitchcock's #Frenzy (1972) and the twins' mum in #TheKrays (1990). Unforgettable as the black-clad Mrs Baylock, loyal Nanny to the Antichrist in Richard Donner's #TheOmen (1976).
#BillieWhitelaw #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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Happy 88th birthday, #LeeMeriwether!
Miss America 1955 became the first big screen Catwoman in BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966) + an Emmy nominee for BARNABY JONES.
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Happy 70th birthday to #NellCampbell, a.k.a. #LittleNell, the Australian theatre, film and TV actress, born in Sydney #OnThisDay. Beloved as Columbia in both the original Royal Court Theatre production of #TheRockyHorrorShow in 1973, and the 1975 film adaptation, she reunited with the same team as Nurse Ansalong in the long-underrated #ShockTreatment (1981), while making memorable appearances for Ken Russell, Derek Jarman and Alan Parker.
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Happy 70th birthday to #NellCampbell, a.k.a. #LittleNell, the Australian theatre, film and TV actress, born in Sydney #OnThisDay. Beloved as Columbia in both the original Royal Court Theatre production of #TheRockyHorrorShow in 1973, and the 1975 film adaptation, she reunited with the same team as Nurse Ansalong in the long-underrated #ShockTreatment (1981), while making memorable appearances for Ken Russell, Derek Jarman and Alan Parker.
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Happy 70th birthday to #NellCampbell, a.k.a. #LittleNell, the Australian theatre, film and TV actress, born in Sydney #OnThisDay. Beloved as Columbia in both the original Royal Court Theatre production of #TheRockyHorrorShow in 1973, and the 1975 film adaptation, she reunited with the same team as Nurse Ansalong in the long-underrated #ShockTreatment (1981), while making memorable appearances for Ken Russell, Derek Jarman and Alan Parker.
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Happy 70th birthday to #NellCampbell, a.k.a. #LittleNell, the Australian theatre, film and TV actress, born in Sydney #OnThisDay. Beloved as Columbia in both the original Royal Court Theatre production of #TheRockyHorrorShow in 1973, and the 1975 film adaptation, she reunited with the same team as Nurse Ansalong in the long-underrated #ShockTreatment (1981), while making memorable appearances for Ken Russell, Derek Jarman and Alan Parker.
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Happy 70th birthday to #NellCampbell, a.k.a. #LittleNell, the Australian theatre, film and TV actress, born in Sydney #OnThisDay. Beloved as Columbia in both the original Royal Court Theatre production of #TheRockyHorrorShow in 1973, and the 1975 film adaptation, she reunited with the same team as Nurse Ansalong in the long-underrated #ShockTreatment (1981), while making memorable appearances for Ken Russell, Derek Jarman and Alan Parker.
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- while co-starring several times with Christopher Lee, including as werewolf queen Stirba in the frankly astonishing Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985).
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #ExploitationCinema #Giallo #HorrorMovies
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Remembering (Jacques) #MichaelSarrazin (1940-2011), the talented Canadian actor, born in Quebec #OnThisDay. His screen career spanned six decades, memorably as beautiful but disturbed, ill-fated characters in a trio of genre films: opposite Gayle Hunnicutt in #EyeOfTheCat (1969), as the physically declining Creature in Jack Smight's #FrankensteinTheTrueStory (1973) and the eponymous, haunted college professor in #TheReincarnationOfPeterProud (1975).
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...the star of the U.S. #Gojira-cut #Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) - and pictured here as the wife / dog-murdering travelling salesman in Hitchcock's immortal #RearWindow (1954).
#RaymondBurr #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #ClassicTV #CultTelevision #GoldenAgeHollywood #FilmNoir #Kaiju
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Remembering William (Bill) Paxton (1955-2017), the gifted American actor, filmmaker, producer and musician, born in Texas #OnThisDay. Equally good as offbeat, unhinged, gung-ho and haunted characters, he was particularly memorable as the doomed Hudson in #Aliens (1986), Severen in #NearDark (1987), the Sheriff in #OneFalseMove (1992) and Hank in Sam Raimi's #ASimplePlan (1998). His only feature film as director-star was the subversive #Frailty (2001).
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Remembering William (Bill) Paxton (1955-2017), the gifted American actor, filmmaker, producer and musician, born in Texas #OnThisDay. Equally good as offbeat, unhinged, gung-ho and haunted characters, he was particularly memorable as the doomed Hudson in #Aliens (1986), Severen in #NearDark (1987), the Sheriff in #OneFalseMove (1992) and Hank in Sam Raimi's #ASimplePlan (1998). His only feature film as director-star was the subversive #Frailty (2001).
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Remembering William (Bill) Paxton (1955-2017), the gifted American actor, filmmaker, producer and musician, born in Texas #OnThisDay. Equally good as offbeat, unhinged, gung-ho and haunted characters, he was particularly memorable as the doomed Hudson in #Aliens (1986), Severen in #NearDark (1987), the Sheriff in #OneFalseMove (1992) and Hank in Sam Raimi's #ASimplePlan (1998). His only feature film as director-star was the subversive #Frailty (2001).
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Remembering William (Bill) Paxton (1955-2017), the gifted American actor, filmmaker, producer and musician, born in Texas #OnThisDay. Equally good as offbeat, unhinged, gung-ho and haunted characters, he was particularly memorable as the doomed Hudson in #Aliens (1986), Severen in #NearDark (1987), the Sheriff in #OneFalseMove (1992) and Hank in Sam Raimi's #ASimplePlan (1998). His only feature film as director-star was the subversive #Frailty (2001).
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Remembering William (Bill) Paxton (1955-2017), the gifted American actor, filmmaker, producer and musician, born in Texas #OnThisDay. Equally good as offbeat, unhinged, gung-ho and haunted characters, he was particularly memorable as the doomed Hudson in #Aliens (1986), Severen in #NearDark (1987), the Sheriff in #OneFalseMove (1992) and Hank in Sam Raimi's #ASimplePlan (1998). His only feature film as director-star was the subversive #Frailty (2001).
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Pictured here as one of TV's scariest monsters, the vampiric Vegas serial killer Janos Skorzeny, tracked by Kolchak in ABC's iconic #TheNightStalker (1972).
#BarryAtwater #BOTD #BornOnThisDay #OTD #CultTelevision #CultTV
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#RobertGerringer (1926-1989) was born on this day.
He was a familiar face on soap operas like THE EDGE OF NIGHT, TEXAS and GUIDING LIGHT.
But he’s best remembered for #DarkShadows, where he lost his job because he wouldn't cross the picket line of a NABET technician’s strike.
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'"Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.”
— #DonRickles (1926–2017) #BOTD📷 THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL (Sept 18, 1968)
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"I like people that, for some reason, are extremely optimistic….Ed Wood...did all this creative stuff, and he stunk, but it didn’t occur to him that it wasn’t good, because he was enjoying it so much. And who says that he’s wrong?"
Writer/director #AmyHeckerling was #BornOnThisDay.
#FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh #Clueless #LookWhosTalking #JohnnyDangerously #FilmMastodon
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...employing an eclectic range of actors including Simone Simon, Kim Hunter, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Among the highlights: Robson's brilliant, influential Greenwich Village Satanic cult chiller #TheSeventhVictim (1943) - still among Hollywood's bleakest hours.
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #ValLewton #ClassicHorror #1940sHorror #HorrorNoir #GoldenEraHollywood #HorrorMovies
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