Today Brooke Adams is 70, and Mary McCormack is 50. Today is also the birthday of Nick Nolte, Mary Steenburgen, John Williams, Seth Green, Robert Klein, John Grisham, Allan Rich, Cecily Strong, Mathilda May, Creed Bratton, William Jackson Harper, Ethan Phillips, and the late James Dean, Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, Gary Coleman, Audrey Meadows, Jules Verne, King Vidor, Jack Larson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Betty Field, Burt Mustin, Alejandro Rey, Charles Ruggles, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Bengt Ekerot. D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation premiered 104 years ago in 1915.