Friday, May 31, 2024

On this day in movie history - Easy Money (2000):


Easy Money,
French title: Argent content,
directed by Philippe Dussol,
was released in France on May 31, 2001.
18-minute short movie, filmed in color and black and white.
Written by Philippe Dussol and Mathias Pothier.

Cast:
Anne Charrier, Fred Dussol, Philippe Dussol.

Born on this day – Nicole Van Goethem:


Nicole Van Goethem

Animator

Illustrator

Writer

Director

May 31, 1941 - March 3, 2000

Credits:

Awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987,
for her movie: A Greek Tragedy (1985).

Book:

Drawing the Film (1988).

Movies and television:

A Greek Tragedy (1985); B.C. Rock (1980); Human Rights Article 13 (1988); John the Fearless (1984); Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (1975); Trouble in Paradise (1989); Verloren maandag (1974); Vol van gratie (1987).

Born on this day – Rainer Werner Fassbinder:


Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director

Actor

Composer

Writer

May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982

Credits:

Querelle (1982); Veronika Voss (1982); Theater in Trance (1981); Lola (1981); Lili Marleen (1981); Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980); The Third Generation (1979); The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979); In a Year with 13 Moons (1978); Despair (1978); Deutschland im Herbst (1978); The Stationmaster's Wife (1977); Women in New York (1977); Chinese Roulette (1976); Satan's Brew (1976); I Only Want You to Love Me (1976); Fear of Fear (1975); Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975); Fox and His Friends (1975); Like a Bird on a Wire (1975); Effi Briest (1974); Martha (1974); Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974); Nora Helmer (1974); World on a Wire (1973); Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972–1973); Jail Bait (1972); Bremen Freedom (1972); The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972); The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972); Beware of a Holy Whore (1971); Whity (1971); Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971); Rio das Mortes (1971); The Niklashausen Journey (1970); The American Soldier (1970); Warum läuft Herr R. Amok (1970); Das Kaffeehaus (1970); Gods of the Plague (1970); Katzelmacher (1969); Love Is Colder Than Death (1969); The Little Chaos (1967); This Night (1966); The City Tramp (1966).

Born on this day – Alida Valli:


Alida Valli

Actress

Director

Writer

May 31, 1921 – April 22, 2006


Credits:

Come diventai Alida Valli (2008); Angel of Death (2001); Probably Love (2001); Vino santo (2000); The Sweet Sounds of Life (1999); Fatal Frames (1996); A Month by the Lake (1995); The Final Scoop (1993); Il lungo silenzio (1993); Delitti privati (1993); Una vita in gioco 2 (1992); Zitti e mosca (1991); La bocca (1991); Una vita in gioco (1991); À notre regrettable époux (1988); Le jupon rouge (1987); Segreti segreti (1985); La ragazza dell'addio (1984); Dramma d'amore (1983); Piccolo mondo antico (1983); Il malinteso (1983); Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (1982); Aspern (1982); Quell'antico amore (1981–1982); La caduta degli angeli ribelli (1981); Sezona mira u Parizu (1981); Illa - Punto di osservazione (1981); La casa rossa (1981); Puppenspiel mit toten Augen (1980); Aquella casa en las afueras (1980); Verso l'ora zero (1980); L'eredità della Priora (1980); Inferno (1980); Licanthropus, il figlio della notte (1979); L'altro Simenon (1979); Luna (1979); Der Landvogt von Greifensee (1979); The Killer Nun (1979); Zoo zéro (1979); Indagine su un delitto perfetto (1978); Les grandes conjurations (1978); Dirty World (1978); Berlinguer: I Love You (1977); A Simple Heart (1977); Suspiria (1977); The Cassandra Crossing (1976); 1900 (1976); Le jeu du solitaire (1976); Il caso Raoul (1975); Cher Victor (1975); The Flesh of the Orchid (1975); The Antichrist (1974); The Big Scare (1974); Il consigliere imperiale (1974); Beyond Erotica (1974); Lisa and the Devil (1973); Indian Summer (1972); Diario di un italiano (1972); Eye in the Labyrinth (1972); Il lutto si addice ad Elettra (1972); The Spider's Stratagem (1970); The Mushroom (1970); L'amore in tutte le sue espressioni (1968); Oedipus Rex (1967); Umorismo in nero (1965); Desencuentro (1964); Dr. Kildare (1964); L'autre femme (1964); A la salida (1963); The Getaway Face (1963); Combat! (1963); The Paper Man (1963); The Castilian (1963); Ophélia (1963); Las momias de Guanajuato (1962); Homenaje a la hora de la siesta (1962); Al otro lado de la ciudad (1962); Disorder (1962); Il caso Maurizius (1961); La fille du torrent (1961); The Happy Thieves (1961); The Long Absence (1961); Le gigolo (1960); Il peccato degli anni verdi (1960); Le dialogue des Carmélites (1960); Ragazza mia (1960); Eyes Without a Face (1960); Signé: Arsène Lupin (1959); I figli di Medea (1959); L'uomo dai calzoni corti (1958); The Night Heaven Fell (1958); This Angry Age (1958); La grande strada azzurra (1957); Il Grido (1957); Senso (1954); La mano dello straniero (1954); We, the Women (1953); The World Condemns Them (1953); The Lovers of Toledo (1953); Ultimo incontro (1951); Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1951); Walk Softly, Stranger (1950); The White Tower (1950); The Third Man (1949); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Paradine Case (1947); Eugenie Grandet (1946); Il canto della vita (1945); Life Begins Anew (1945); Circo equestre Za-bum (1944); Apparizione (1943); T'amerò sempre (1943); Laugh Pagliacci (1943); Stasera niente di nuovo (1942); Addio Kira! (1942); We the Living (1942); Two Orphans (1942); Catene invisibili (1942); L'amante segreta (1941); Schoolgirl Diary (1941); Luce nelle tenebre (1941); Piccolo mondo antico (1941); La prima donna che passa (1940); Passione (1940); The Last Enemy (1940); Taverna rossa (1940); Manon Lescaut (1940); Her First Love (1939); Ball at the Castle (1939); Mille lire al mese (1939); La casa del peccato (1938); L'amor mio non muore! (1938); L'ha fatto una signora (1938); It Was I (1937); Il feroce Saladino (1937); I due sergenti (1936); Il cappello a tre punte (1935).

Born on this day – Don Ameche:


Don Ameche

Actor

Comedian

Vaudevillian

May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993

Born on this day – Kathlyn Williams:


Kathlyn Williams

Actress

Director

Writer

May 31, 1879 – September 23, 1960

Credits:

1861 (1911); A Colonel in Chains (1914); A Girl Named Mary (1919); A Little Child Shall Lead Them (1913); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Man's Home (1921); A Private Scandal (1921); A Romance of the Western Hills (1910); A Single Man (1929); A Sultana of the Desert (1915); A Virginia Courtship (1921); A Welded Friendship (1913); A Wise Old Elephant (1913); A Woman Laughs (1914); An Unexpected Fortune (1912); As the Fates Decree (1912); Back to the Primitive (1911); Big Timber (1917); Blasted Hopes (1910); Blood Money (1933); Broadway Gold (1923); Busy Day at the Selig General Office (1911); Captain Kate (1911); Caryl of the Mountains (1914); Chip of the Flying U (1914); Clarence (1922); Daddy Long Legs (1931); Dad's Girls (1911); Dora Thorne (1910); Driftwood (1912); Ebb Tide (1915); Everything for Sale (1921); Forbidden Fruit (1921); Getting Married (1911); Gold Is Not All (1910); Harbor Island (1912); Hearts and Masks (1914); Her Husband's Women (1929); Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919); Her Only Son (1913); Her Purchase Price (1919); Her Sacrifice (1914); Honeymoon Flats (1928); How They Stopped the Run on the Bank (1911); Hush (1921); I Hear Her Calling Me (from the Heart of Africa) (1917); In Old California When the Gringos Came (1911); In the African Jungle (1917); In the Midst of the Jungle (1913); In Tune with the Wild (1914); Into the Primitive (1916); Jealous George (1911); Jim and Joe (1911); Just a Wife (1920); Lieutenant Jones (1913); Life on the Border (1911); Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909); Locked Doors (1925); Lost in the Jungle (1911); Lost in Transit (1917); Man and His Other Self (1913); Maud Muller (1911); Mazeppa, or the Wild Horse of Tartary (1910); Morals (1921); Mrs. Hilton's Jewels (1913); Number 13, Westbound (1916); On Thanksgiving Day (1908); On the Trail of the Germs (1912); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Out of the Wreck (1917); Paid Back (1911); Pioneer Days (1917); Quest of His Youth (1920); Redeeming Love (1916); Rendezvous at Midnight (1935); Road to Paradise (1930); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Single Wives (1924); Sons of the North Woods (1912); Souls for Sale (1923); Sweet Alyssum (1915); Sweet Lady Peggy (1916); Taming Wild Animals (1910); Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1911); The Adopted Son (1912); The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); The Artist and the Brute (1913); The Best People (1925); The Better Wife (1919); The Black Orchid (1916); The Brand of Cain (1916); The Brotherhood of Man (1912); The Burglar Who Robbed Death (1913); The Carpet from Bagdad (1915); The Child of the Sea (1913); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Coming of Columbus (1912); The Coquette's Awakening (1915); The Cost of Hatred (1917); The Court of Death (1914); The Cruel Crown (1914); The Curse of the Redman (1911); The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1912 / 1916); The Enemy Sex (1924); The Fire Chief's Daughter (1910); The Flight of the Crow (1913); The Forged Parchment (1914); The Garden of Brides (1914); The Girl and the Judge (1913); The Girl at the Cupola (1912); The Girl with the Lantern (1912); The Governor's Daughter (1913); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Horseshoe (1912); The House of His Master (1912); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Inner Mind (1911); The King's Will (1914); The Lady or the Tigers (1914); The Last Dance (1912); The Leopard's Foundling (1914); The Lipton Cup: Introducing Sir Thomas Lipton (1913); The Losing Fight (1914); The Love of Penelope (1913); The Man from the East (1911); The Mansion of Misery (1913); The Merry Wives of Windsor (1910); The Ne'er Do Well (1915); The Painted Flapper (1924); The Prince Chap (1920); The Prosecuting Attorney (1912); The Queen of Hearts (1910); The Return (1916); The Rosary (1915); The Rose of Old St. Augustine (1911); The Royal Slave (1914); The Single Standard (1929); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spellbound Multitude (1914); The Spoilers (1914); The Stolen Melody (1913); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Stronger Mind (1912); The Survival of the Fittest (1911); The Temple of the Lion (1914); The Temptation of Adam (1916); The Thing We Love (1918); The Tide of Destiny (1913); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Tree and the Chaff (1913); The Tree of Knowledge (1920); The Turning Point (1912); The Two Ordeals (1914); The Two Orphans (1911); The U.P. Trail (1920); The Unwelcome Throne (1913); The Valiants of Virginia (1916); The Vision of the Shepherd (1915); The Wanderer (1925); The Warrior Maid (1914); The Wheels of Justice (1911); The Whispering Chorus (1918); The Witch of the Everglades (1911); The Woman of It (1914); The World's Applause (1923); The Young Mrs. Eames (1913); heir Stepmother (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not (1910); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Three Bags of Silver (1914); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Trimmed in Scarlet (1923); Two Men and a Woman (1913); Two Too Many (1913); Unholy Love (1932); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924); We Americans (1928); We Can't Have Everything (1918); Wedding Rings (1929); When a Girl Loves (1924); When Memory Calls (1912); When the Heart Rules (1912); With Love's Eyes (1913); Woman: Past and Present (1913).

Born on this day – Walt Whitman:


Walt Whitman

Writer

May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892

Poems:

1861; A Boston Ballad, 1854; A child said, What is the grass?; A Child's Amaze; A Clear Midnight; A Farm-Picture; A Glimpse; A Hand-Mirror; A Leaf For Hand In Hand; A March In The Ranks, Hard-prest; A Noiseless Patient Spider; A Paumanok Picture; A Proadway Pageant; A Promise To California; A Riddle Song; A Sight In Camp; A Song; A Woman Waits For Me; Aboard At A Ship's Helm; Adieu To A Soldier; After The Sea-Ship; Ages And Ages, Returning At Intervals; Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats; All Is Truth; American Feuillage; Among The Multitude; An Army Corps On The March; Apostroph; As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free; As Consequent, Etc.; As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life; As I lay With Head In Your Lap, Camerado; As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores; As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days; As I Watche'd The Ploughman Ploughing; As If A Phantom Caress'd Me; As The Time Draws Nigh; As Toilsome I Wander'd; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods; assurances; Bathed In War's Perfume; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Beautiful Women; Beginners; Beginning My Studies; Behavior; Behold This Swarthy Face; Bivouac on a Mountain Side; Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand; By Broad Potomac's Shore; By The Bivouac's Fitful Flame; Camps Of Green; Carol Of Occupations; Carol Of Words; Cavalry Crossing A Ford; Chanting The Square Deific; City Of Ships; Come Up From the Fields Father; Come Up From The Fields, Father; Come, Said My Soul; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Darest Thou Now O Soul; Darest Thou Now, O Soul; Debris; Delicate Cluster; Delicate Cluster; Despairing Cries; Dirge For Two Veterans; Drum-Taps; Earth! my Likeness!; Elemental Drifts; Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States; Excelsior; Faces Facing West From California's Shores; France, The 18th Year Of These States; From Pent-up Aching Rivers; Full Of Life, Now; Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun; God; Great Are The Myths; Had I the Choice; Here The Frailest Leaves Of Me; Hush'd Be the Camps Today; I Am He That Aches With Love; I Dream'd In A Dream; I Hear America Singing; I Heard You, Solemn-sweep Pipes Of The Organ; I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing; I Sing The Body Electric; I Sit And Look Out; I Thought I Was Not Alone; I Was Looking A Long While; In Cabin'd Ships At Sea; In Former Songs; In Midnight Sleep; Italian Music In Dakota; Joy, Shipmate, Joy!; Laws For Creations; Leaves Of Grass. A Carol Of Harvest For 1867; Lessons; Locations And Times; Long, Too Long America; Long, Too Long, O Land!; Look Down, Fair Moon; Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering; Mannahatta; Me Imperturbe; Mediums; Miracles; Mother And Babe; Myself And Mine; Native Moments; Night On The Prairies; No Labor-Saving Machine; Not The Pilot; Now Finale To The Shore; Now List To My Morning's Romanza; O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig!; O Captain! My Captain!; O Hymen! O Hymenee!; O Living Always--Always Dying; O Me! O Life!; O Star Of France; O Sun Of Real Peace; O You Whom I Often And Silently Come; Of Him I Love Day And Night; Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances; Of The Visage Of Things; Offerings; Old Ireland; On Journeys Through The States; On Old Man's Thought Of School; On The Beach At Night; On the Beach At Night Alone; On The Beach At Night, Alone; Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City; One Hour To Madness And Joy; One Song, America, Before I Go; One's Self I Sing; Or From That Sea Of Time; Or From That Sea Of Time; Other May Praise What They Like; Out From Behind His Mask; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Out of the Rolling Ocean, The Crowd; Over The Carnage; Passage To India; Pensive And Faltering; Pensive On Her Dead Gazing, I Heard The Mother Of All; Perfections; Pioneers! O Pioneers!; Poem Of Remembrance For A Girl Or A Boy; Poems Of Joys; Portals; President Lincoln's Burial Hymn; Primeval My Love For The Woman I Love; Proud Music Of The Storm; Quicksand Years; Race Of Veterans; Reconciliation; Recorders Ages Hence; Respondez!; Rise, O Days; Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone; Salut Au Monde; Says; Scented Herbage Of My Breast; Sea-Shore Memories; Sing Of The Banner At Day-Break; So Long; Sometimes With One I Love; Song At Sunset; Song For All Seas, All Ships; Song of Myself, X; Song Of The Broad-Axe; Song Of The Exposition; Song Of The Open Road; Song Of The Redwood-Tree; Song Of The Universal; Souvenirs Of Democracy; Spirit Whose Work Is Done; Spontaneous Me; Starting From Paumanok; States!; That Music Always Round Me; The Artilleryman's Vision; The Base Of All Metaphysics; The Centerarian's Story; The Dresser; The Indications; The Last Invocation; The Mystic Trumpeter; The Prairie-Grass Dividing; The Singer In The Prison; The Sleepers; The World Below The Brine; The Wound Dresser; There Was A Child Went Forth; These, I, Singing In Spring; This Compost; This Dust Was Once The Man; Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling; Thou Reader; Thought; Thoughts; To A Certain Cantatrice; To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire; To A Historian; To A President; To Old Age; To Rich Givers; To The East And To The West; To The Garden The World; To The Man-of-War-Bird; To Thee, Old Cause!; To Think Of Time; To You; Unfolded Out Of The Folds; Unnamed Lands; Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night; Virgil Strange I Kept On The Field; Virginia--The West; Voices; Walt Whitman's Caution; Wandering At Morn; Warble Of Lilac-Time; We Two Boys Together Clinging; We Two-How Long We Were Fool'd; Weave In, Weave In, My Hardy Life; What Am I, After All?; What Weeping Face; When I Heard At The Close Of The Day; When I Heard the Learned Astronomer; When I Peruse The Conquer'd Fame; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; Who Is Now Reading This?; Who Learns My Lesson Complete?; Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now In Hand; With Antecedents; World, Take Good Notice; Year Of Meteors, 1859 '60; Year That Trembled; Years Of The Modern; Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours.

Movies and television:

A Noiseless Patient Spider (2009); A Poetic Experiment: Walt Whitman (2015); A su aire (1974); Actor's Choice (1970); Aliment Roots (2018); American Experience (2008); Amerikai anzix (1975); Amici Novum (2021); Ancient Aliens (2011); Beyond the Unknown (2019); Calamus Variations (2024); David Byrne's American Utopia (2020); Dead Poets Society (1989); Drum-Taps (2019); Facing West (2020); Intolerance (1916); Lo que cuento al viento (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Maestro (2023); Manahatta (2011); Manhatta (1921); Messengers (2004); Middle Voices (2022); O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn! (2010); On the Trail of Mark Twain (1998); Plain-chant (1974); The Big Scary 'S' Word (2020); The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (2016); This Is What You Shall Do (2017); Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971); Whitman in the Woods. (2021); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Margaret Atwood, on reading:


More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television...
because you are supplying just about everything...
you're a creator.

- Margaret Atwood.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

On this day in movie history - The Terror (1963):


The Terror,
directed by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale,
Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob and Jack Nicholson,
written by Leo Gordon, Jack Hill and Roger Corman,
was released in France on May 30, 1963.
Music by Ronald Stein.


Cast:
Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann, Jonathan Haze.

On this day in movie history - While the City Sleeps (1956):


While the City Sleeps,
directed by Fritz Lang,
written by Casey Robinson,
based on the novel The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein,
was released in France on May 30, 1956.
Inspired by the true 1946 case the Chicago serial killer William Heirens.
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.


Cast:
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, John Drew Barrymore, James Craig, Ida Lupino, Robert Warwick, Mae Marsh, Ralph Peters, Sandra White, Larry J. Blake, Celia Lovsky, Ed Hinton, Pitt Herbert, Vladimir Sokoloff, David Andrews, Eddie Baker, Ralph Brooks, Leonard Carey, Russell Custer, John Damler, Sayre Dearing, George DeNormand, Joe Devlin, Sam Finn, Mike Lally, Andrew Lupino, Ralph Manza, Mickey Martin, Joey Ray, Cosmo Sardo, Charles Sherlock, Olan Soule, Bert Stevens, Carleton Young.

Born on this day – Meredith MacRae:


Meredith MacRae

Actress

Singer

Talk show host

May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000

Born on this day – Michael J. Pollard:


Michael J. Pollard

Actor

May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019

Born on this day – Michael Small:


Michael Small

Composer

May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003

Born on this day – Agnès Varda:


Agnès Varda

Director

Writer

Photographer

Artist

May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019

Born on this day – Hal Clement:


Hal Clement

Writer

Painter

May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003

Credits:

Books:

Analog: Writers' Choice Volume II (1984); Astounding Science Fiction, May 1958 (1958); Attitude (1943); Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Close to Critical (1964); Cycle of Fire (1957); Decade: The 1940's (1975); Fossil (1993); Half Life (1999); Heavy Planet (2001); Hot Planet (2016); Iceworld (1951); Intuit (1987); Left of Africa (1976); Mission of Gravity (1954); Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society (1995); Music of Many Spheres (2000); Natives of Space (1965); Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (2000); Needle (1949); Noise (2003); Ocean On Top (1967); Phases in Chaos (1991); Planet for Plunder (2012); Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium (1975); SF Authors' Choice 2 (1970); Small Changes (1969); Star Light (1971); Stellar #2 (1976); Stellar #2 (1976); Stellar #3 (1977); Stellar #4 (1978); Stellar #5 (1980); Stellar #6 (1980); Stellar #7 (1981); Stellar Short Novels (1976); Still River (1987); The Ascent of Wonder (1994); The Best of Hal Clement (1979); The Diplomacy Guild (1990); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Green World (2010); The Hard SF Renaissance (2003); The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding (1973); The Nitrogen Fix (1980); The Ranger Boys in Space (1956); The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV (1976); Through the Eye of a Needle (1978); Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter (1999); Unnatural Diplomacy (1992); Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton (2000).

Movies and television:

50th Anniversary Brunch Noreascon Three Videotape (1989); Amok (1985); Prisoners of Gravity (1992); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992).

Born on this day – Louise Campbell:


Louise Campbell

Actress

May 30, 1911 – November 5, 1997

Credits:

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Bowery Boy (1940); Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937); Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938); Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937); Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939); Bush Pilot (1947); Devil Ship (1947); Emergency Squad (1940); Men with Wings (1938); NBC Television Theatre (1946); Night Club Scandal (1937); Scandal Street (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Star Maker (1939); Wild Money (1937).

Born on this day – Gloria Shea:


Gloria Shea

Actress

May 30, 1910 – February 8, 1995

Credits:

23 -- Skidoo (1930); A Demon for Trouble (1934); A Private Engagement (1930); A Successful Failure (1934); Absent Minded Abner (1932); Alias the Professor (1933); Big City Blues (1932); Big Time or Bust (1933); Black Gold (1936); Bolero (1934); Booklovers (1929); Dance, Girl, Dance (1933); Dancing Around (1929); Dangerous Intrigue (1936); Glorifying the American Girl (1929); Great God Gold (1935); His Vacation (1932); I Like It That Way (1934); Laddie (1935); Life Begins (1932); Men of Action (1935); Money Means Nothing (1934); One-Way Ticket (1935); Smoking Guns (1934); Strange People (1933); The Dude Bandit (1933); The Eleventh Commandment (1933); The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933); The Gob (1930); The Heart Breaker (1930); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Love Kiss (1930); The Night Mayor (1932); The Oil Raider (1934); The Phantom of the Air (1933); The Varsity Show (1930); They Call It Sin (1932); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Umpa (1933); We're Rich Again (1934); Women Won't Tell (1932).

Born on this day – Howard Hawks:


Howard Hawks

Director

Producer

Writer

May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 47th Annual Academy Awards (1975); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Little Princess (1917); A Song Is Born (1948); Adventure (1925); Air Force (1943); American Masters (2001–2008); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Ball of Fire (1941); Barbary Coast (1935); Big John (2006); Biography (1993–2001); Bob Hampton of Placer (1921); Bringing Up Baby (1938); Cary Grant and Howard Hawks (2003); Ceiling Zero (1936); Cinema (1967); Code of the West (1925); Come and Get It (1936); Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' (2007); Corvette K-225 (1943); Dark Hearts: The Secret Of Haunting Melissa (2014); Dinty (1920); El Dorado (1966); Empty Hands (1924); Fazil (1928); Femme Fatales (2012); Fig Leaves (1926); Filmmakers in Action (2005); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Go and Get It (1920); Hatari! (1962); Hawks on Hawks (2017); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (1942); His Girl Friday (1940); Hollywood Greats (1977); Hollywood Insider (2021); Honesty - The Best Policy (1926); Howard Hawks on the Front Page and His Girl Friday (2017); Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life (1978); Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997); Howard Hawks: Reporter's Notebook (2000); I Was a Male War Bride (1949); In Again, Out Again (1917); Indianapolis Speedway (1939); Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977); La foule hurle (1932); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017); Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet (Carnet Filmé: 29 janvier 1979) (1979); Lord Jim (1925); Man's Favorite Sport? (1964); Metropolis Refound (2010); Monkey Business (1952); Neues aus der Welt des Films (1971); North of 36 (1924); O. Henry's Full House (1952); One Handshake Away: Peter Bogdanovich and the Icons of Cinema (2024); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Open All Night (1924); Paid to Love (1927); Penrod (1922); Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo (1970); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Quicksands (1923); Red Line 7000 (1965); Red River (1948); Rio Bravo (1959); Rio Lobo (1970); Scarface (1932); Scarface (1983); Sergeant York (1941); Talking Pictures (2016); Targets (1968); Test Pilot (1938); The Air Circus (1928); The Big Sky (1952); The Big Sleep (1946); The Cradle Snatchers (1927); The Criminal Code (1930); The Crowd Roars (1932); The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924); The Dawn Patrol (1930); The Dawn Patrol (1938); The Devil's Cargo (1925); The Dreamers (2003); The Dressmaker from Paris (1925); The Great Professional: Howard Hawks (1967); The Heritage of the Desert (1924); The Light of Western Stars (1925); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Outlaw (1943); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Road to Glory (1926); The Road to Yesterday (1925); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Thing from Another World (1951); Tiger Love (1924); Tiger Shark (1932); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today We Live (1933); Trent's Last Case (1929); Twentieth Century (1934); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Underworld (1927); Viva Villa! (1934); Welcome to the Basement (2020).

Charles de Lint, on writing:


Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do,
so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

- Charles de Lint.

World MS Day – May 30:


In support of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research: