James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986)

Cagney won an Oscar for his role as George M. Cohan in the musical film 
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). He gained additional fame for his tough guy 
roles in movies such as The Public Enemy (1931). In 1999, the American
Film Institute ranked him eighth among its 50 Greatest American Screen
Legends.

1949

 
Eva Marie Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey.

Saint received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 
for her role in the 1954 classic On the Waterfront. She also
starred in Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1959 spy thriller film North by
Northwest.

 
Kathy Bates from Misery.

Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

After appearing in several minor roles in film and television during the 1970s
and the 1980s, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery
(1990), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress; she also
received a Golden Globe. She followed this with major roles in Fried Green
Tomatoes (1991) and Dolores Claiborne (1995), before playing a featured
role as Molly Brown in Titanic (1997).

Australian born Nicole Mary Kidman’s breakthrough film role was in the 1989
thriller Dead Calm. She gained worldwide recognition for her performances in
the auto racing film Days of Thunder (1990).

From left: Santos Ortega as Inspector Queen (father of Ellery), Hugh
Marlowe as Ellery Queen and Marian Shockley as Ellery’s assistant,
Nikki, from the radio program The Adventures of Ellery Queen.

During the first season of The Adventures of Ellery Queen, Radio Guide
magazine called it "a CBS drama that will keep you on the edge of your
chair." It added "You will find Ellery Queen both brave and brilliant and
you will find yourself participating joyously in the ageless thrill of the
manhunt." Several repeats of the program appeared on different
networks, with the first one broadcast on CBS June 18, 1939, and
the last on ABC May 27, 1948.