BORN ON THIS DAY

LLOYD BrIDGeS (191398). The U.S. actor (right) starred in Airplane! and high Noon. he had been presented with a trophy for being America’s Fattest Baby by President William howard Taft (who was very fat himself). Bridges was part of an acting dynasty: his father, Lloyd Sr, was in silent films and two of his children, Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, joined the profession. IVOr NOVeLLO (1893-1951). The Welsh master of escapist musicals, after whom the Ivor Novello awards are named, found fame with his 1914 song Keep The home Fires Burning. he was also a film star, hailed as Britain’s ‘handsomest screen actor’. One critic gave him the back-handed compliment: ‘No one walks through his own tosh with quite the confidence of Ivor Novello.’