Silent Wierdness

  Warner Brother's The Terror is without a doubt the world's very first "all talking" horror feature film; released in 19...

1791-1852 American writer and actor John Howard Payne was born on this date in New York City area (East Hampton). He was the one o...

1893-1962 French actor Jean Albert Duvaleix was born on this day in the Bordeaux region of the country.  His career in film spanne...

1876-1944 American humorist, author, columnist and occasional actor Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on this day in Paducah, Kentuck...

1894-1951 Olive Tell was born in New York City probably on this date in 1894--though some records either record her birth as unkno...

1906-1981 American singer, actress and member of the Lane Sisters, Lola Lane was born on this day in Macy, Indiana.  Her birth name ...

1819-1895 Opera composer Franz von Suppé was born on this day in Spalato, Dalmatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now ...

1863-1945? German illustrator and artist Heinrich Kley was born on this day in Karlsruhe, Germany.  He studied what was known as...

1903-1960 American character actor Ward Bond, birth name Wardell Edwin Bond--was born on this day in Benkelman, Nebraska.  His fam...

1911-1979 Merle Oberon was a woman with secrets. She went to great lengths to obscure her origins, the history of which was so con...

1898-1966 Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, England into a working class family; at the age of 3 he was placed with an aunt and ...

1902-1968 Born Tallulah Brockman Bankhead in Huntsville, Alabama to a wealthy and influential political family.  Her mother died t...

1898-1964 Born Rudolph Mayer in Krakau, Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in what would now be Poland), to Jewish parents.  ...

1896-1996 Born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City to immigrate Jewish parents who came from Romania; he was one of 12 children born ...