Royalty of big screen and small

October 23, 1925 -- Johnny Carson (pictured as Carnac the Magnificent) was born.

"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." -- Anonymous.

October 22 -- Actress Joan Fontaine was born in 1917. She won the Oscar (for Suspicion) on her birthday in 1941.

"Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than to receive an Oscar." -- (Director) Luis Bunuel.

Then we have eternity to look forward to

Greta ("I vant to be alone") Garbo was born on this day in 1905.

"Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement." -- Aldous Huxley.

And desperately trying to catch up

Birthday of actress Lauren Bacall, born 1924. She was married to Humphrey Bogart.

"The whole world is about three drinks behind." -- Bogart.

August 15-17

August 15, 1785: Thomas DeQuincey, English author and opium eater, was born. He wrote:

"The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of God seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its spirit."



August 16, 1920: Poet Charles Bukowski was born. He wrote:

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”



August 17, 1893: Actress Mae West was born.

"All wickedness is little but to the wickedness of a woman." -- Ecclesiates.

He said, with clouded brow

Birthday of actress Doris Day. She was born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff in 1924.

"Her personality untouched by human emotions, her brow unclouded by human thought, her form unsmudged by the slightest evidence of femininity." -- Film critic John Simon, on Day.

Blonde on blonde

Birthday of Jean Harlow, American actress known as "The Blonde Bombshell," born in 1911. She died in 1937, at the age of 26.

"It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber." -- Anita Loos, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.