Here’s Today in Ginny for Thursday, August 22.

Hugh Bennett (1892) worked his way all through the movie business. He started out in small acting roles in the 1910s-he had the lead in TOO BAD, EDDIE (1916)-and advanced to editing films by the 1920s. Employed at Paramount, Bennett edited both MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH (1934) and MAID OF SALEM (1937). He would later move to the director’s chair in the 1940s, but his output was almost entirely Henry Aldrich films. The Wiggs cast and crew preparing for Bob and Lucy’s wedding stands in.

Cecil Kellaway (1893) was a fine character actor who seems a lot older than the age I’m showing here. Not long after his breakthrough role in WUTHERING HEIGHTS, he took on the small, uncredited role of Mr. Wendelhares, the choir director in THE UNDER-PUP (1939). He’d go on to be one whose roles would often be pivotal and always memorable. He played Nick, the doomed husband in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE and Dr. Chumley in HARVEY. He’s also a member of the exclusive Ginny-Elvis club since he also appeared in the Elvis film, SPINOUT. The photo is a screen cap from THE UNDER-PUP, and that's  the wonderful Gloria Jean who isn’t quite seated behind him.

Julius J. Epstein (1909) won an Oscar as a screenwriter for CASABLANCA, which was shared with his twin brother Phillip and Howard Koch. He would also win career awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics and the Writer’s Guild. Obviously, he used all the things he learned while working on the treatment for THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1936 (1935) when writing that classic. Seriously, though, he had a long string of hits, THE MALE ANIMAL, THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. According to quote search engines, he once said, “I stick my neck out for nobody. I’m the only cause I’m interested in.” Here he is, neck and all.