Wednesday, May 14, 2025

On this day in music history - Little Queen, by Heart (1977):


Little Queen

Album by Heart,
released May 14, 1977.

Track list:

Barracuda; Love Alive; Sylvan Song; Dream Of The Archer; Kick It Out; Little Queen; Treat Me Well; Say Hello; Cry To Me; Go On Cry; Too Long A Time; Stairway to Heaven.

On this day in movie history - Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975):


Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

directed and written by Chantal Akerman,
was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 14, 1975.

Cast:

Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical, Chantal Akerman.

Born on this day – Daniela Dessì:


Daniela Dessì


Opera singer

Soprano

May 14, 1957 – August 20, 2016

Credits:

Albums:

Antonio Vivaldi, The Farnace; Daniela Dessì sings Verdi; Domenico Cimarosa, Gli Horatii e i Curiazii; Enrico Toselli, Le Romanze Ritrovate; Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur; James Puccini, Madama Butterfly; Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini, Tosca; Gioachino Rossini, Ciro in Babilonia; Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville; Giuseppe Verdi, Aida; La Traviata; Love Duets; Puccini Arias; Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier.

Movies and television:

Adriana Lecouvreur (2000); Aida (2003); Così fan tutte (1989); Don Carlo (1992); Don John oder Der bestrafte Wüstling (1992); Elizabeth, Queen of England (1985); Francesca da Rimini (2004); Jordan: Fedora (2018); Sicilian Vespers (2010); Il Regio nel paese del melodramma (2015); La Bohème (1998); The Maiden of the West (2005); The Touchstone (1982); Madama Butterfly (2004); Mephistopheles (1989); My Favourite Opera (1991); Norma (2008); Work Across the Atlantic (2007); Pavarotti 30th Anniversary Gala (1998); Profil, Poveste, Personaj (2009); Puccini: La Bohème (2016); Tosca (2004); Tosca (2010).

Born on this day – Anne Wiazemsky:


Anne Wiazemsky


Actress

Writer

May 14, 1947 – October 5, 2017

Credits:

1 P.M. (1971); 28' (2012); 30 million friends (1992); All's Well (1972); Apostrophes (1989); Au hasard Balthazar (1966); Bouillon de culture (1992–1996); Capricci (1969); Compression (2015–2024); Couleur flesh (1978); Midnight Words (2012); Two of the Wave (2010); Die Auslieferung (1974) Don Juan (1978); Fingerprints (2007–2010); Free Spirits (2007); George who? (1973); Godard Cinema (2022); Godard Mon Amour (2017); Godard by Godard (2023); Frogs (1983); Civil Wars in France / The Bloody Week (1978); Noisy History of Youth (2020); Never Without My Book (1993); My name is Elisabeth (2006); Joyce digital (1984); La bande à Bonnot (1968); La grande librairie (2012–2017); The Passion (1978); The Bloody Week (1976); The truth about the imaginary passion of a stranger (1974); Lamiel (1967); The Studio (1974); The Great Departure (1972); The great Inquisitor (1979); The Patron (1983); The Frontenac Mystery (1975); Black bread (1974–1975); The Testament of a Murdered Jewish Poet (1987); The imprint of the Giants (1980); The Secret Child (1979); Angels 1943, Story of a Film (2004); Les Gauloises bleues (1968); Ideas and Men (1976); Old Moons (1969); L'examen du petit (1969); Leningrad Hospital (1983); L'inchiesta (1971); Lotte in Italia (1971); Mag Bodard, un destin (2005); Marine terrace (1988); Same Les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980); My Heart Is Red (1976); One + One (1968); Pigsty (1969); Portrait of a young girl from the late 60s to Brussels (1994); For Pleasure (1966); Who kisses too much... (1986); Raphaël or the Debauchee (1971); Rendez-vous (1985); Return from Africa (1973); She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985); Be beautiful and shut up! (1981); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Teorema (1968); The Chinese (1967); The Last Train (1973); The Seed of Man (1969); All These Beautiful Promises (2003); A legend, a life (1974); Foreign City (1988); Voices (2006); Night Flight (2004–2007); Weekend (1967); Wind from the East (1970).

Born on this day – Peggy Moffitt:


Peggy Moffitt


Actress

Model

May 14, 1940 – August 10, 2024

Credits:

Alcoa Theatre (1960); Art Be Damned! (2024); Basic Black (1967); Batman (1967); Battle Flame (1959); Blow-Up (1966); Girls Town (1959); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton (2001); Making the Boys (2011); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); Opus (1967); Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffitt (2012); Senior Prom (1958); Smog (1962); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Birds and the Bees (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968); The Young Captives (1959); Up Periscope (1959); Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966); You're Never Too Young (1955).

Born on this day – Pamela Lincoln:


Pamela Lincoln


Actress

May 14, 1937 – November 21, 2019

Credits:

A World Apart (1971); Anatomy of a Psycho (1961); Biography (1997); Bronco (1958); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Father Knows Best (1959); First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington (1975); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959); I Survived 'The Tingler' (2018); Love of Life (1951–1980); One Life to Live (1983–1984); One Step Beyond (1959); Scream for Your Lives! William Castle and 'the Tingler' (1999); Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007); Tattletales (1976); The Doctors (1977–1979); The Home Team (1960); The Man from Blackhawk (1960); The Tingler (1959); Tootsie (1982); Zane Grey Theatre (1959).

Born on this day – Franca Bettoia:


Franca Bettoia


Actress

May 14, 1936 – September 13, 2024

Credits:

Alfonso Samson producer by chance (2014); Attack of the Normans (1962); Ride Selvaggia (1960); Day by Day, Desperately (1961); Desert Warrior (1957); Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974); Duel of Champions (1961); El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa (1978); The Whistle to the Nose (1967); Colossal - the magnificent Macists (1977); La main chaude (1960); La pisana (1960); The foundling of Pompeii (1958); Le dialogue des Carmélites (1960); The Nights of the Teddy Boys (1959); Man of Straw (1958); Sandokan to the Rescue (1964); Sandokan vs. Sarawak leopard (1964); Tant d'amour perdu (1958); Shaved Heads (1993); The Dam on the Yellow River (1960); The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Lion of St. Mark (1963); The Man with a Cigar in His Mouth (1997); Ultimatum alla vita (1962); A stage all'opera (1955); Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968).

Born on this day – Kay Elliot:


Kay Elliot


Actress

Producer

May 14, 1929 – December 3, 1982

Credits:

Be A Famous Figure (1956); Bewitched (1969–1970); Death Valley Days (1969); Eight Is Enough (1978); Gas Pump Girls (1979); General Hospital (1980); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1967); Here's Lucy (1968); New Figures of 1957 (1956); New York Close-Up (1951–1952); Plaza Suite (1971); Star Trek / episode entitled: I, Mudd, originally aired November 3 (1967); The Magical World of Disney (1980); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Red Skelton Hour (1968–1969); The Severed Arm (1973); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968).

Born on this day – Loleh Bellon:


Loleh Bellon


Actress

Writer

Narrator

May 14, 1925 – May 22, 1999

Credits:

At The Assault on the Sky (1966); As Senhoras das Quintas Feiras (1988) In the cinema this evening (1974); Wanted (1989); Golden Helmet (1952); Chili-Impressions (1978); Compression (2016); Crime and Punishment (1955); Enigmas of History (1957); Eugene Sue (1974); Gaslight (1959); Gustave Moreau (1961); I must kill Monsieur Rumann (1966); Italics (1973); The Countess of Tende (1964); The factory of the King (1965); The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1984); The Night of the Molières (1988); The Wound and the Knife, Charles Baudelaire (1967); La vie de château (1985); L'art et les hommes (1959–1963); The Bel Age (1960); The Prints and Drawings Department (1955); The Guardian (1946); The Jet of Water (1973); The game of love and death (1961); The Barton Mystery (1949); The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949); The point of the day (1949); The Prize (1975); Tea Under the Cypresses (1971); The court of The Impossible (1970); Remoteness (1988); Remoteness (2009); The wings of The Dove (1981); Les beaux quartiers (1983); The Last Five Minutes (1959); Children of Disorder (1989); The Hot Hours of Montparnasse (1963); The new adventures of Vidocq (1971); Les Nuits de France Culture (2023); Midi-Première (1978–1979); My Old Lady (2014); Nevermore, Forever (1976); Paris Saint-Lazare (1982); Philippe (1958); Presence of the Past (1966); Ninety-Three (1962); Romulus The Great (1971); Siegfried (1963); Skipper Next to God (1951); Somewhere Someone (1972); A Morning Like Any Other (1956); A Question of Insurance (1960); Une seconde d'éternité (1977); Variations (1967).

Born on this day – Maria Michi:


Maria Michi


Actress

May 14, 1921 – April 7, 1980

Credits:

Appuntamento a Piazza di Spagna (1947); Brothers Blue (1973); Dedicato a un medico (1974); Down the Ancient Stairs (1975); Fatalità (1947); I problemi di Don Isidro (1978); Irene, Irene (1975); L'altra (1947); Last Tango in Paris (1972); Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1973); Legge di guerra (1961); Madam Kitty (1976); Mont-Dragon (1970); Paisan (1946); Redneck (1973); Rome, Open City (1945); Shamed (1947); The Breach (1970); The Charterhouse of Parma (1948); The Lady of Monza (1969); What Have You Done to Solange? (1972).

Born on this day – Albert Robida:


Albert Robida


Writer

Illustrator

Etcher

Lithographer

Caricaturist

May 14, 1848 – October 11, 1926

Credits:

Written work:

1430, the besieged of Compiègne; Contes pour les bibliophiles, with Octave Uzanne; The Beast in the Wood sleeping; Brittany (1900); La Fin des Livres, with Octave Uzanne; The Great Parisian masquerade; War in the Twentieth Century (1887); The War in the twentieth century (1887); La Part du hasard; The release of the opera in the year 2000 (1902); La Touraine (1892); La Vieille France series; The 19th century; The Twentieth Century (1883); The Twentieth Century (1883); The Twentieth Century / The electric life (1890); The Twentieth Century. La vie électrique (1890); The Journey of M. Dumollet; The Voyage of M. Dumollet; Les Escholiers du temps jadis; The Old Towns of Spain, notes and memorabilia; The Old Towns of Italy: notes and memories; The Old Ones Cities of Italy: notes and memories; The Clock of the Centuries Centuries (1902); The Island of Lutetia: ugliness and embellishments of the City; The Engineer von Satanas (1919); Normandy (1890); Paris from century to century century; the heart of Paris, splendours and memories; Paris, Splendours and Memories (1992); Provence, Paris, À la Librairie illustrée (1893); One Prophet caricaturist. War as it is; A Cottage in the Air / Cottage in the Sky; Engagement Trip to the Twentieth Century; Very extraordinary trips by Saturnin Farandoul (1879).

Movies and television:

Saturnino Farandola (1977); The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913).

Recommended reading - Star Trek: The Art of the Film, by Mark Cotta Vaz (2009):


Star Trek: The Art of the Film

By Mark Cotta Vaz.
Foreword by J. J. Abrams.

Published by Titan Books.
Film tie-in edition.
Published 2009.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1848566204
ISBN-13: 978-1848566200

Description:

Director J.J. Abrams’ new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, Star Trek features a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before, as it tells the story of how the brash Starfleet cadet James T. Kirk first meets a Vulcan named Spock, and earns the Captain’s chair of the Starship Enterprise. The film quickly became a critical and commercial smash hit worldwide, as audiences – confirmed Trekkers and newcomers alike – thrilled to a state-of-the-art action epic which both respected the legacy of Gene Roddenberry’s archetypal modern myth and forged ahead into an exciting future of its own.

Star Trek: The Art of the Film is a lavishly illustrated celebration of that new vision, tracing the evolution of the movie’s look through a stunning array of previously unseen pre-production paintings, concept sketches, costume and set designs, unit photography and final frames.

Written by New York Times-bestselling author Mark Cotta Vaz in close co-operation with the film’s production team, and including a Foreword by J.J. Abrams, this is the essential companion to the film.

Albert Einstein, on imagination:


Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein.