Happy Birthday, Ruby Keeler (1910-1993)
with Lee Dixon in Typewriter number from Ready, Willing and Able, 1937
"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else."
Happy Birthday, Sean Connery (1930-2020)
Happy Birthday, Walt Kelly (1913-1973)
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
Happy Birthday, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
On Aug. 25, 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was launched, led by A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster.
The porters worked for the Pullman Company, whose founder, George Pullman, invented the overnight sleeping train car in the 1880s in Chicago.
Pullman hired Black men and women to serve as porters and maids to the mostly white passengers who used the cars.
By using Blacks in a service capacity, he was drawing upon the master-servant relationship of slavery days when Blacks were servants to white masters.
The union played a vital role in U.S. labor and Civil Rights Movement history. Activists including E. D. Nixon of the Montgomery Bus Boycott were leaders of the BSCP. [Zinn]
Ernest Fiene
End Of Day, Monhegan
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
Boat Yard, Winter Harbor, Maine
Ernest Fiene
Fishermans Cove, Maine, 1953
"The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead."
Happy 97th Birthday, Roger Corman
with Vincent Price.