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Monday, May 5, 2025

Born on this day – June Lang:


June Lang


Actress

May 5, 1917 – May 16, 2005

Credits:

The Felony Squad (1968); 77 Sunset Strip (1962); The Detectives (1961); City Detective (1953); Fireside Theatre (1950–1952); Lighthouse (1947); Three of a Kind (1944); Up in Arms (1944); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); Stage Door Canteen (1943); City of Silent Men (1942); Footlight Serenade (1942); Too Many Women (1942); The Deadly Game (1941); Redhead (1941); Isle of Destiny (1940); Convicted Woman (1940); Inside Information (1939); Captain Fury (1939); For Love or Money (1939); Forged Passport (1939); Zenobia (1939); Meet the Girls (1938); One Wild Night (1938); International Settlement (1938); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Wee Willie Winkie (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); White Hunter (1936); The Road to Glory (1936); Captain January (1936); Every Saturday Night (1936); The Country Doctor (1936); Bonnie Scotland (1935); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Music in the Air (1934); Love Time (1934); She Learned About Sailors (1934); Now I'll Tell (1934); The Man Who Dared (1933); I Loved You Wednesday (1933); Chandu the Magician (1932); She Wanted a Millionaire (1932); The Miracle Woman (1931); Young Sinners (1931).

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Born on this day – Maya Deren:


Maya Deren


Director

Cinematographer

Choreographer

Dancer

Film theorist

Lecturer

Writer

Photographer

Music composer

April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961


Credits:

The American Film Institute (AFI) created the Maya Deren Award, in 1986, to recognize and honor the work of independent video and film makers.

Written work:

An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946); Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti (1953) / aka The Voodoo Gods by Paladin (1975 & 1998); Film in Medias Res (2005); Film Poetics (2005); Film Production (2005).

Music albums:

Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (1980); Meringues and Folk Ballads of Haiti (1978); Voices of Haiti (1953).

Movies, video and television:

A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945); At Land (1944); At Land / The Very Eye of Night (1955); Black Lake (2020); Cinema16: American Short Films (2006); Dissent (2011); Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993); Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951); Eschew (2017); History's Mysteries (1999); Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001); Invocation: Maya Deren (1987); Julie's Smile (2013); Maeva (1961); Marianne (2005); Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2007); Maya Deren, Take 0 (2012); Meditation on Violence (1949); Medusa (1949); Meshes of the Afternoon (1943); Mother (2019); Probe and Night Beat (1957); Reminiscences of Yearning (2011); Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Satan's Playground (2006); Season of Strangers (1959); The Private Life of a Cat (1946); The Very Eye of Night (1955); This Changes Everything (2018); Vever (2018); Vever (for Barbara) (2019); Witch's Cradle (1944).

Friday, April 25, 2025

Born on this day – Ella Fitzgerald:


Ella Fitzgerald


Singer

April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996

Credits:

Albums:

30 By Ella (1968); A Classy Pair / with Count Basie (1979); A Perfect Match / with Count Basie (1979); All That Jazz (1989); Brighten the Corner (1967); Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961); Digital III At Montreux (1979); Dream Dancing (1978); Duke & Ella In Concerto / with Duke Ellington (1966); Easy Living / with Joe Pass (1986); Ella (1969); Ella 100 (1998); Ella À Nice (1982); Ella Abraça Jobim: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Song Book (1981); Ella and Basie! / with Count Basie / aka Ella and Basie!: On the Sunny Side of the Street with no differences (1963); Ella and Basie!: On the Sunny Side of the Street / with Count Basie (1963); Ella And Duke At The Cote D'Azur / with Duke Ellington (1966); Ella and Her Fellas (1957); Ella and Louis / with Louis Armstrong (1956); Ella and Louis Again / with Louis Armstrong (1957); Ella and Oscar / with Oscar Peterson (1975); Ella at Duke's Place / with Duke Ellington (1965); Ella At Juan-Les-Pins (1964); Ella At The Opera House (1958); Ella At Zardi's (2018); Ella Fitzgerald And Billie Holiday At Newport (1958); Ella Fitzgerald And Her Orchestra Live From The Roseland Ballroom, 1940 (1974); Ella Fitzgerald At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (1975); Ella Fitzgerald In Budapest (1999); Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" / aka The Intimate Ella with no differences (1960); Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers (1959); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (1956); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book / with Duke Ellington (1957); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (1959); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (1961); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book (1958); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (1963); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book (1964); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book (1956); Ella Fitzgerald With The Tommy Flanagan Trio (1996); Ella Fitzgerald: 100 Songs for a Centennial (2017); Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (1967); Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife (1960); Ella In Hamburg (1965); Ella In Hollywood (1961); Ella In Japan: 'S Wonderful (2011); Ella In London (1974); Ella In Rome: The Birthday Concert / Recorded: 1958 (1988); Ella Loves Cole (1972); Ella Returns To Berlin (1991); Ella Sings Broadway (1963); Ella Sings Gershwin (1950); Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962); Ella Swings Gently with Nelson (1962); Ella Swings Lightly (1958); Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960); Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings (1995); Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (2020); Fine and Mellow (1979); Fitzgerald and Pass... Again / with Joe Pass (1976); For Sentimental Reasons (1955); Get Happy! (1959); Hello, Dolly! (1964); Hello, Love (1959); J.A.T.P. In Tokyo: Live At The Nichigeki Theatre 1953 (1972); Jazz At Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972); Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl (1958); Lady Time (1978); Like Someone in Love (1957); Live At Mister Kelly's (2007); Live From The Cave Supper Club: Vancouver BC, Canada, 19 May 1968 (1999); Live In East Berlin 1967 (2023); Live in Paris, Vol. 1 / Recorded May 8 – October 7, 1957 (2012); Live in Paris, Vol. 2 / Recorded May 1, 1958; February 23 & 29, 1960 (2012); Live in Paris, Vol. 3 / February 28 & March 11, 1961; March 16, 1962 (2013); Lullabies of Birdland (1954); Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax (1955); Misty Blue (1968); Montreux '77 / with the Tommy Flanagan Trio (1977); Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall, July 5, 1973 (1973); Nice Work If You Can Get It: Ella Fitzgerald and André Previn Do Gershwin / with André Previn (1983); One O'Clock Jump / with Count Basie and Joe Williams (1957); Porgy and Bess / with Louis Armstrong (1959); Return To Happiness: Jazz At The Philharmonic, Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo, 1983 (1983); Rhythm Is My Business (1962); Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues / with Peggy Lee (1955); Songs in a Mellow Mood (1954); Sophisticated Lady / with Joe Pass (2001); Speak Love / with Joe Pass (1983); Sunshine Of Your Love (1968); Sweet and Hot (1955); Swingsation: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb (1998); Take Love Easy / with Joe Pass (1973); The Best Is Yet to Come (1982); The Complete Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions 1934-1941 (2014); The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve (1997); The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books (1994); The Complete Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife (1993); The Greatest Jazz Concert In The World / with Duke Ellington (1990); The Intimate Ella (1989); The Stockholm Concert, 1966 / with Duke Ellington (1984); These Are the Blues (1963); Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (1970); Twelve Nights In Hollywood (2009); Whisper Not (1966).

Movies, video and television:

20 to 1 (2011); 24 Nights (1999); 75 Jahre Rheinland-Pfalz (2022); 7th Heaven (2005); 9-1-1 (2019); A Capitol Fourth (1986); A Celebration of America's Music (1998); A Girls Night Out (2009); A Letter to True (2004); A Little Dream of Me (2012); A Place for Lovers (1968); A Really Big Show: Ed Sullivan's 50th Anniversary (1998); A Salute to Duke (1981); A Year in Music (2020–2022); Abbott and Costello in the Movies (1990); Adventures in Jazz (1949); Alan Yentob Remembers... Ella Fitzgerald (2024); All My Life (1966); All Star Summer Revue (1952); All You Need Is Love (1977); All-Star Salute to Pearl Bailey (1979); American Bandstand's 30th Anniversary Special (1981); American Horror Story (2012); American Hustle (2013); American Masters (1993–2014); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); America's Book of Secrets (2013); Amy's Orgasm (2001); An American Girl Story: Maryellen 1955 - Extraordinary Christmas (2016); An American Rhapsody (2001); Any Given Sunday (1999); Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993); Aqui na Terra (1993); Arena (1996); ARS medica (1996); Arthur Fiedler: Just Call Me Maestro (1979); Arts (2019); Aspel & Company (1990); Assassin's Creed (2016); At First Sight (1999); Avrupa Yakasi (2004); Barney's Version (2010); BBC Show of the Week (1965); Beautiful Blue Eyes (2009); Beauty (2022); Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990); Best of the Dean Martin Show (1979); Best on Record: The 9th annual Grammy Awards (1967); Better Call Saul (2015); Bewitched (2005); Beyond Tomorrow (2006); Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978); Black Mass (2015); Broadway Serenade (1939); Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2016); Buonasera Raffaella (1985–1986); But Not for Me (1959); Call the Midwife (2014); Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love (2023); Cavalcade of Stars (1950); C'est la vie (2001); Christmas with the Kranks (2004); Claws (2017); Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters (1997); Cold Case (2004–2007); Coloquio en Segovia (1964); Committed (2014); Containment (2016); Contract (1985); Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (2018); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2021); Damned in the U.S.A. (1992); Dancing on Ice (2009–2014); Dancing with the Stars (2006–2014); Dawson's Creek (2001); DCI Banks (2012); Desert Hearts (1985); Die Drehscheibe (1969); Dinah! (1976–1977); Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021); Discover Jazz (1986); Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988); Don't Say a Word (2001); Don't Worry Darling (2022); Down at the Dunbar (1979); Downsizing (2017); Drei D (1988); Driving Miss Daisy (1989); Election Night (1998); Electric Dreams (2017); Elf (2003); Ella (1964); Ella (2007); Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (1975); Ella Fitzgerald à l'Olympia (1963); Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Cheek to Cheek (2021); Ella Fitzgerald: Cheek to Cheek (live) (2022); Ella Fitzgerald: Frosty the Snowman (2020); Ella Fitzgerald: Good Morning Blues (Visualizer) (2023); Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019); Ella Fitzgerald: Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) (Lyric Video) (2017); Ella Fitzgerald: Live in Australia (1960); Ella Fitzgerald: Mack the Knife (Live) (2020); Ella Fitzgerald: Puttin' on the Ritz (Live) (2022); Ella Fitzgerald: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (2022); Ella Fitzgerald: Sleigh Ride (2021); Ella Fitzgerald: Taking A Chance on Love (Live) (2020); Ella Fitzgerald: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (Lyric Video) (2023); Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams (2020); Empire of Light (2022); Entertainment Tonight (1983); Eterna Magia (2007); Evening at Pops (1973); Everyone's Hero (2006); Fallout (2024); Fallout 3 (2008); Fallout 4 (2015); Flip (1970); Floor Show (1949); Focus (2001); Ford Star Jubilee (1955); Forever (2014); Forget Paris (1995); France Gall: Ella, elle l'a (1987); Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967); Frank Sinatra: One More for the Road (2019); Frankie Laine Time (1956); Friday Night Lights (2011); Friends with Kids (2011); Fringe (2010); Front Page Challenge (1970); Fuzzy's værksted (1992); Garconira (2013); Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World (2011); Ghost Whisperer (2005); Gilmore Girls (2002); Good Grief (2023); Grand Amphi (1971); Great Performances (1994–2007); Great Performances (2007); Gregory Porter's Popular Voices (2017); Grey's Anatomy (2012); Grumpy Old Men (1993); Häuser der Kunst (2023); Hawkeye (2021); Het bittere kruid (1985); Hightown (2021); Hollywood (2020); Honolulu (1939); House (2006); How About You (2007); How Playboy Changed the World (2012); Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009); Iltatähti (1974); Improvisation (1950 / 2004); Ismael's Ghosts (2017); It Runs in the Family (2003); It's Black Entertainment (2002); It's in the Groove (1949); Jazz (2001); Jazz Divas Gold (2013); Jazz Greats (1982); Jazz Legends in Their Own Words (2014); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Jojo Rabbit (2019); Joy (2015); Just Mercy (2019); Kak molody my byli (1985); Katastrofin aineksia (2008); King of Cool (2021); Kinsey (2004); Kissing Jessica Stein (2001); Koszmar minionej zimy (2011); Kreisler Bandstand (1951); Kriminalnyy talant (1989); L.A. Noire (2011); Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999); Le grand échiquier (1975); Legends (2007); Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960); Lethal Weapon (2017); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Life Is Bearable at Times... (2010); L'invité de FR3 (1978); Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990); Little Man Tate (1991); Lolita (1997); Longwave (2013); Looking for Grace (2015); Los simuladores (2002); Lou Rawls Parade of Stars (1980); Love Letters in the Sands of Time (2010); Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997); Love, Marilyn (2012); Lucifer (2020); Mad Men (2007); Malcolm X (1992); Manchester by the Sea (2016); Manhattan (2014); Mannenharten (2013); Marshall (2017); Masters of Sex (2013–2014); Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love (1990); Melanie (1982); Miami Rhapsody (1995); Midnight Son (2007); Mindhunter (2019); Miss Match (2003); Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (1998); Monty Don's French Gardens (2013); Moordterras (1991); More of 'the Best of the Hollywood Palace' (1993); Mörk sång: Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Petersons trio (1963); Mr. Nobody (2009); Muhammad Ali's 50th Birthday Celebration (1992); Music 55 (1955); Musiques au Coeur (1991); Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003); My Fellow Americans (1996); My Music: Songbook Standards - As Time Goes By (2015); My Music: Starlight Ballroom (2015); My Policeman (2022); My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996); MythBusters (2005); Nackt (2002); Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark (2014); Nat King Cole: The Incomparable Nat King Cole Volume 1 (1991); NDR Jazz Workshops (1962); Needle in a Timestack (2021); NET Festival (1968); Night-Club (1969); Noche del sábado (1966); Nurse Jackie (2010); Og avisen dør med døgnet (1969); Omnibus (1974–1989); On the Road (2012); One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014); One Fine Day (1996); One Life (2023); Only Murders in the Building (2021); Ordinary Love (2019); Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar (1995); Outer Banks (2020); Outer Range (2022); Outside the Wire (2021); Ovation (2015); Pan Am (2011); Panorama Pacific (1957); Paraphilia (2012); Parenthood (2012); Paris-Manhattan (2012); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Pepper Chocolate (2003–2004); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1966); Person to Person (1960); Pete Kelly's Blues (1955); Phantom Boy (2015); Playboy's Penthouse (1959); PopStory - Aneb od vinylu k iPodu (2020); Populaire (2012); Popular Voices at the BBC (2017); Preguntes freqüents (2018); President Kennedy's Birthday Salute (1962); Private Practice (2010); Protagonistas del recuerdo (2007); Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald (2017); Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013); Quincy (2018); Raging Bull (1980); Reaching for the Moon (2013); Real-Life Mallory (2010); Reframed: Marilyn Monroe (2022); Rembob'Ina (2021); Remember When... (1981–1985); Revenge (2011); Rhapsody in Black (2002); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Romeo! (2004); Ronnie's (2020); Röster och röstkonst (2000); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968); RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (2022); Salaud, on t'aime. (2014); Salute! (1983); Salvation (2017); Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration (1989); Sandler and Young's Kraft Music Hall (1969); Sandy Wexler (2017); Saturday Night Dance Party (1952); Saturday Night Live (1989); Secret History (1999); Sex and the City (1998); Showtime (1993); Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990); Sinatra Duets (1994); Sinatra: The Classic Duets (2002); Singin' in the Rain (2008); Sings the Great American Songbook (2010); Skins (2008); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Snow (2004); So You Think You Can Dance (2009–2014); So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2011); Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005); Soul Boys of the Western World (2014); Soul Power! (2013); Sphere (1998); St. Louis Blues (1958); Stage Show (1956); Stardom (2000); Stranger Things (2022); Strangers in the Night: The Bert Kaempfert Story (2003); Sunday Showcase (1959); Super Bowl VI (1972); Supernatural (2013); Swing Into Spring! (1959); Taxing Love (2018); Taylor (2008); Ted Lasso (2021); Teeth (2007); Telescope (1967); The 18th Annual Grammy Awards (1976); The 1st Annual Grammy Awards (1959); 20th NAACP Image Awards (1988); The 28th Annual American Music Awards (2001); The 2nd Annual Black Achievement Awards (1983); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960); The 32nd Annual Grammy Awards (1990); The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981); The 3rd Annual Grammy Awards (1961); The 50 Year Argument (2014); The 5th Annual American Music Awards (1978); The Accusation (2021); The Age of Adaline (2015); The American Music Awards (1982); The Andy Williams Show (1965–1967); The Andy Williams Show (1966 / 1970); The Answer Man (2009); The Apollo (2019); The Aviator (2004); The Bandit (1946); The Bell Telephone Hour (1959–1965); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Big Record (1958); The Bob Braun Show (1976); The Break-Up (2006); The Captain & Tennille Songbook (1979); The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978); The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion (1993); The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music (1980); The Clan (2015); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Crown (2020); The Danny Kaye Show (1966); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989); The Dean Martin Show (1966–1967); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1958–1963); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957–1969); The English Patient (1996); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra (1959); The Garry Moore Show (1959–1960); The Gentlemen (2024); The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1970); The Good Liar (2019); The Grammy Hall of Fame (1981); The Grass Harp (1995); The Holiday (2006); The Hollywood Palace (1967–1969); The Hollywood Palace (1970 / 1982); The In-Laws (2003); The Jo Stafford Show (1961); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1979 / 1981); The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997); The Last Tycoon (2017); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998); The Lively Ones (1962); The Man in the High Castle (2015); The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2022); The Master (2012); The Merv Griffin Show (1970); The Midnight Special (1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1975–1977); The Milton Berle Show (1958); The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim (2012); The Nat King Cole Show (1957); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1959); The Pearl Bailey Show (1971); The Perfect Find (2023); The Photograph (2021); The River (2012); The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012); The Setting Sun (1992); The Singing Detective (1986); The Sixties (2014); The Sopranos (2000); The Starter Wife (2008); The Steve Allen Playhouse (1963); The Tender Game (1958); The Thorn and the Rose (2000–2001); The Tonight Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1992); The Trip to Spain (2017); The Unforgettable Nat 'King' Cole (1988); The Uninvited Guest (2004); The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1991); The Voice (2015); The War Room (1993 / 2008); The West Wing (2002); The White Shadow (1981); The Worst Movies of All Time (2018); The X Factor UK (2015); They All Came Out to Montreux (2023); This Is Tom Jones (1970); Tidsrejsen (2014); Timex All-Star Swing Festival (1972); Today (1964); Toon in with Me (2024); Torch Song Trilogy (1988); Torchwood (2007); Trilogie De Tragedie (2016); Triptych (2013); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Two Lovers (2008); U2: Window in the Skies (2007); Un héroe se hace a patadas (1995); Unusual Occupations (1948); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1958–1963); Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år (1993); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); Waterloo Road (2014); Wayward Pines (2015); Welcome to Chippendales (2022); We'll Take Manhattan (2012); What If... (2012); What's My Line? (1962); When Harry Met Sally... (1989); When I Fall in Love: The One & Only Nat King Cole (2003); While You Were Sleeping (1995); Wild Blade (1991); Zeit.geschichte (2019); Zwei Männer am Herd (1999).

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Born on this day – Barry Nelson:


Barry Nelson


Actor

April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007

Credits:

A Guy Named Joe (1943); A Yank on the Burma Road (1942); Airborne Lifeboat (1945); Airport (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); Bataan (1943); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Ben Casey (1963); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2003); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Cannon (1973); CBS Playhouse (1968); Circle of Fear (1973); Climax! (1954–1958); Climb an Angry Mountain (1972); Colgate Theatre (1950); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Command Decision (1948); Dallas (1981); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Don't Talk (1942); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Eyes in the Night (1942); Fantasy Island (1983); Fitz and Bones (1981); Fools, Females and Fun (1974); Get the Message (1964); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); Here's Boomer (1981); Hollywood Screen Test (1948); How to Get Killed in One Easy Lesson (1943); Hudson's Bay (1959); Island Claws (1980); I've Got a Secret (1952); J.J. Starbuck (1988); Johnny Eager (1941); Kaz (1978); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre (1950); Kraft Theatre (1960); Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers (1974); Longstreet (1971); Love, American Style / Love and the Militant (1969); Lux Playhouse (1958); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Mary, Mary (1963); Mason (1977); McLean and Company (1970); Monsters (1990); Murder, She Wrote (1988); My Favorite Husband (1953–1955); My Wives Jane (1971); Nero Wolfe (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Password (1962–1967); Personality (1967–1968); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Producers' Showcase (1956); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rio Rita (1942); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Salvage 1 (1979); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Seven in Darkness (1969); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Snap Judgment (1968); Starlight Theatre (1950); Stars for Israel (1967); Sucker Bait (1943); Suspense (1950–1951); Taxi (1981); Tenth Avenue Angel (1948); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 20th Annual Tony Awards (1966); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Beginning or the End (1947); The Borgia Stick (1967); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950); The David Frost Show (1970); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The F.B.I. (1969); The Face Is Familiar (1966); The First Traveling Saleslady (1956); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Fred Waring Show (1951); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunter (1952); The Joan Rivers Show (1968); The Love Boat (1979); The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947); The Man with My Face (1951); The Match Game (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1966); The Name of the Game (1969); The Ropers (1979); The Shining (1980); The Twilight Zone (1964); Thriller (1973); Time to Kill (1945); To Tell the Truth (1962–1981); Undercover Maisie (1947); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977); What's My Line? (1961); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Winged Victory (1944); You're Putting Me On (1969); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Monday, April 14, 2025

Born on this day – Valerie Hobson:


Valerie Hobson


Actress

April 14, 1917 – November 13, 1998

Credits:

Atlantic Ferry (1941); August Weekend (1936); Badger's Green (1934); Blackout (1940); Blanche Fury (1948); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); Cabaret (1937); Chinatown Squad (1935); Continental Express (1939); Edge of Divorce (1953); Evening News British Film Awards (1978); Eyes of Fate (1933); Film Profile (1961); For Love of You (1933); Great Expectations (1934); Great Expectations (1946); Henry IV (1938); His Lordship (1932); Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949); Knave of Hearts (1954); Life Returns (1934); Murder Will Out (1952); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); No Escape (1936); Oh, What a Night (1935); Pasquinade (1937); Q Planes (1939); Rendezvous at Midnight (1935); Round the Film Studios (1937); Round the Film Studios (1937); Shadows of the Underworld (1939); Strange Wives (1934); Tele-Ho! (1937); The Adventures of Tartu (1943); The Drum (1938); The Great Impersonation (1935); The Hideout (1948); The Interrupted Journey (1949); The Man of Destiny (1950); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Passionate Sentry (1952); The Path of Glory (1934); The Promoter (1952); The Rocking Horse Winner (1949); The Spy in White (1936); The Years Between (1946); This Man Is News (1938); Tonight at 8:30 / Ways and Means (1952); Train of Events / The Composer (1949); Tugboat Princess (1936); Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934); U-Boat 29 (1939); Unpublished Story (1942); Werewolf of London (1935); When Thief Meets Thief (1937).

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Born on this day – Brad Dexter:


Brad Dexter


Actor

Producer

April 9, 1917 – December 12, 2002

Credits:

9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000); Cognac (1988); Skag (1980); Valentine (1979); The Incredible Hulk (1979); Winter Kills (1979); Project U.F.O. (1978); House Calls (1978); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); Vigilante Force (1976); Law and Order (1976); S.W.A.T. (1975); McCloud (1975); Kojak (1975); Shampoo (1975); Jory (1973); Mission: Impossible (1972); Lady Sings the Blues (1972); Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970); Mannix (1970); The Lawyer (1970); The Naked Runner (1967); Blindfold (1966); Von Ryan's Express (1965); Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965); None But the Brave (1965); Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964); Kings of the Sun (1963); Johnny Cool (1963); Death Valley Days (1963); Here's Hollywood (1962); Taras Bulba (1962); X-15 (1961); Alcoa Premiere (1961); The George Raft Story (1961); The Investigators (1961); Twenty Plus Two (1961); Surfside 6 (1961); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); General Electric Theater (1961); Hawaiian Eye (1961); The Aquanauts (1960); The Magnificent Seven (1960); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); 13 Fighting Men (1960); Bat Masterson (1960); Mr. Lucky (1960); Tightrope (1960); The Man from Blackhawk (1960); Vice Raid (1959); Bronco (1959); Colt .45 (1959); 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1959); This Man Dawson (1959); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959); Yancy Derringer (1959); Cimarron City (1959); Behind Closed Doors (1959); Pursuit (1959); Zane Grey Theatre (1958); Jefferson Drum (1958); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Wagon Train (1958); Run Silent Run Deep (1958); Studio One (1958); How to Marry a Millionaire (1957); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1957); The Oklahoman (1957); Between Heaven and Hell (1956); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); Climax! (1955); House of Bamboo (1955); Violent Saturday (1955); Untamed (1955); 99 River Street (1953); Macao (1952); The Las Vegas Story (1952); Fourteen Hours (1951); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Sinbad, the Sailor (1947); Heldorado (1946); Winged Victory (1944); The Mortal Storm (1940).

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Born on this day – Robert Bloch:


Robert Bloch


Writer

April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994

Credits:

Books:

15 Grusel Stories (1964); American Gothic (1974); Atoms and Evil (1962); Black Cat Weekly #13 (2021); Blood Runs Cold (1961); Bogey Men (1963); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Cold Chills (1977); Crimes and Punishments (2000); Dragons and Nightmares (1969); Fear and Trembling (1979); Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations (2004); Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (1971); Fever Dream and Other Fantasies (1970); Final Reckonings (1987); Firebug (1961); Flowers from the Moon (1998); Hell On Earth (2000); Horror-7 (1963); It's All in Your Mind (1971); Lori (1989); Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep (1987); Midnight Pleasures (1987); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); More Nightmares (1962); Mysteries of the Worm (1981); Nightmares (1961); Night-World (1972); Out of My Head (1981); Out of the Mouths of Graves (1979); Pleasant Dreams (1960); Pleasant Dreams / Nightmares (1959); Psycho (1959); Psycho House (aka Psycho III) (1990); Psycho II (1982); Psycho-paths (1991); Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997); Sea-Kissed (1945); Skeleton in the Closet (2008); Spiderweb (1954); Strange Eons (1978); Such Stuff as Screams Are Made of (1979); Tales in a Jugular Vein (1965); Terror (1962); Terror in the Night (1958); That Hellbound Train (2011); The Best of Robert Bloch (1977); The Couch (1962); The Crowded Earth (2009); The Cunning (aka There Is a Serpent in Eden) (1979); The Dead Beat (1960); The Devil with You! (1999); The Early Fears (1978); The House of the Hatchet (1960); The Jekyll Legacy (1990); The Kidnapper (1954); The King of Terrors (1977); The Laughter of a Ghoul (1977); The Living Demons (1967); The Night of the Ripper (1984); The Opener of the Way (1945); The Scarf (1947); The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (1987); The Shooting Star (1958); The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965); The Star Stalker (1968); The Todd Dossier (1969); The Will to Kill (1954); This Crowded Earth (1958).

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1986); Asylum (1972); Bates Motel (1987); Bates Motel (2013–2017); Battle-Axe: The Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2002); Bus Stop (1962); Cineficción Radio / Mannikins of Horror / Reaper (2019–2020); Circle of Fear (1972); Curious Matter Anthology (2019); Darkroom (1981); Dimension X (1950); Fear in the Dark (1991); Gemini Man (1976); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986); How to Plan a Movie Murder (1964); I Spy (1966); Journey to Midnight (1968); Journey to the Unknown (1968); Lock Up (1960–1961); Mannikin (1977); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Michaels' Movie Madness (1988); Monsters (1988–1989); Mother (2020); Night Gallery / Logoda's Heads (1971); Psycho (1960); Psycho (1988); Psycho (1998); Psycho II (1983); Psycho III (1986); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Run for Your Life (1966); Sanfter Schrecken / The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon (1977); Secrets and Mysteries (1983); Star Trek (1966–1967); Strait-Jacket (1964); Tales from the Darkside (1984–1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1980); Tambien la muerte puede morir (1990); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965); The Cabinet of Caligari (1962); The Cat Creature (1973); The Couch (1962); The Dead Don't Die (1975); The Deadly Bees (1966); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video (1993); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Horror of It All (1983); The House That Dripped Blood (1971); The Hunger (1998); The Manhunter (1974); The Night Walker (1964); The Plot Thickens (1963); The Psychopath (1966); The Return of Captain Nemo / Atlantis Dead Ahead (1978); The Skull / The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965); The Vault of Horror (1992); Three Dangerous Ladies / The Mannikin (1977); Thriller (1960–1962); Torture Garden (1967); Whispering Smith (1961); X Minus One (1955).

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Born on this day – Virginia Grey:


Virginia Grey


Actress

March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004

Credits:

A Perilous Journey (1953); Accused of Murder (1956); Airport (1970); All Star Revue (1951); All That Heaven Allows (1955); Another Thin Man (1939); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Bachelor in Paradise (1961); Back Street (1961); Bad Guy (1937); Bells of Capistrano (1942); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Biography (2003); Black Zoo (1963); Blonde Inspiration (1941); Blonde Ransom (1945); Bonanza (1962); Broadway Serenade (1939); Bullfighter and the Lady (1951); Burke's Law (1964); Captain Scarface (1953); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Climax! (1956); Crime of Passion (1956); Dames (1934); Desert Pursuit (1952); Don't Bet on Blondes (1935); Dramatic School (1938); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Fighting Lawman (1953); Fireside Theatre (1954–1955); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945); Flirtation Walk (1934); Flower Drum Song (1961); Footlights Theater (1953); Four Star Playhouse (1952–1954); General Electric Theater (1953–1960); George Jessel Show (1959); Glamour Girl (1948); Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935); Goodyear Theatre (1958); Grand Central Murder (1942); Grissly's Millions (1945); Heart to Heart (1928); Here's Hollywood (1961); Highway 301 (1950); Hollywood Greats (1977); House of Horrors (1946); Hullabaloo (1940); I Spy (1967); Idaho (1943); Idiot's Delight (1939); Ironside (1968); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956–1958); azz Mad (1928); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002); Jungle Jim (1948); Keeping Company (1940); Ladies in Distress (1938); Leather Gloves (1948); Love Has Many Faces (1965); Love, American Style / Love and the Hot Spell (1973); Madame X (1966); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970); Men in Her Diary (1945); Mexican Hayride (1948); Miraculous Journey (1948); Misbehaving Ladies (1931); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); My Three Sons (1966); No Name on the Bullet (1959); Old Hutch (1936); Our Relations (1936); Pacific Paradise (1937); Peter Gunn (1961); Playhouse 90 (1958); Portrait in Black (1960); Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938); Rosalie (1937); Rosie! (1967); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (1940); Secret Valley (1937); Secrets (1933); Secrets of the Underground (1942); She Gets Her Man (1935); Sis Hopkins (1941); Slaughter Trail (1951); Smooth as Silk (1946); Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938); So This Is New York (1948); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Stagecoach West (1960); Strangers in the Night (1944); Swamp Fire (1946); Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); Target Earth (1954); Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942); Test Pilot (1938); That's Entertainment! (1974); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Big Store (1941); The Canary Comes Across (1938); The Captain Is a Lady (1940); The Christophers (1957–1963); The David Niven Show (1959); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); The Eternal Sea (1955); The Firebird (1934); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Forty-Niners (1954); The Golden Fleecing (1940); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Last Command (1955); The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975); The Lone Wolf (1955); The Michigan Kid (1928); The Millionaire (1955–1958); The Naked Kiss (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1955–1966); The Restless Years (1958); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Rose Tattoo (1955); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The St. Louis Kid (1934); The Threat (1949); The Unexpected (1952); The Virginian (1966); The Women (1939); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Three Desperate Men (1951); Thunder Afloat (1939); Tish (1942); Trackdown (1958); U.S. Marshal (1959); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927); Unconquered (1947); Unknown Island (1948); Violets in Spring (1936); Wagon Train (1958–1961); Washington Melodrama (1941); Waterfront (1954); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Whistling in the Dark (1941); Who Killed 'Doc' Robbin? (1948); Wyoming (1947); Yancy Derringer (1959); Your Show of Shows (1952); Youth Takes a Fling (1938).

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Born on this day – Millard Kaufman:


Millard Kaufman


Writer

March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009

Credits:

Books:

Bowl of Cherries (novel) (2008); Misadventure (2010); Plots & Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting (2001).

Movies and television:

Aladdin and His Lamp (1952); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Convicts 4 (1962); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Expanding World Relationships (1947); Gun Crazy (1950); Kung-Fu Magoo (2010); Living Free (1972); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); Never So Few (1959); Police Story (1976); Punchy de Leon (1950); Ragtime Bear (1949); Raintree County (1957); Raintree County (1957); Take the High Ground! (1953); The Klansman (1974); The Nativity (1978); The War Lord (1965); Trouble Indemnity (1950); Unknown World (1951).

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Born on this day – David Goodis:


David Goodis


Writer

March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967

Credits:

Retreat from Oblivion (1939); Dark Passage (1946); Behold This Woman (1947); Nightfall / Missing Believed Murdered / The Dark Chase / Convicted (1947); Of Missing Persons (1950); Cassidy's Girl (1951); Of Tender Sin (1952); Street of the Lost (1952); The Burglar (1953); The Moon in the Gutter (1953); Black Friday (1954); The Blonde on the Street Corner (1954); Street of No Return (1954); The Wounded and the Slain (1955); Down There / Shoot the Piano Player (1956); Fire in the Flesh (1957); Night Squad (1961); Somebody's Done For (1967); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996).

Friday, February 28, 2025

Born on this day – Odette Laure:


Odette Laure


Actress

Writer

Producer

February 28, 1917 – June 10, 2004

Credits:

The Teacher (2000); History of Saturday (1999); The Dilettante (1999); Between Land and Sea (1997); Alice drinks whey (1995); Maigret (1994); Hostage Contempt (1992); Salt and pepper (1992); The Secret of the Little Billion (1992); Les mamies (1992); Little Nothings (1992); Stranger in the House (1992); A Beautiful Little Billion (1992); The ball of the Pain in the Neck (1992); Mamie by Night: Marathon Girl (1991) Jealousy (1991); Baby Express (1991); Daddy Nostalgia (1990); Chillers (1990); Périgord noir (1989); Julian Fontanes, magistrate (1983–1989); The Handyman (1988); The Gyrfalcon (1987); The Ring on the Finger (1986); Madame and Her Cops (1985–1986); A boy from France (1985); The Nanas (1985); The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1984); Good Juliette's birthday (1983); The Poacher of God (1983); Antoine et Julie (1981); The Landing (1981); The Loves of the Roaring Twenties (1981); The Little Theatre Antenne 2 (1978–1981); Saturday Night Follies (1980); The Ladies of Heart (1980); The Feather (1980); Les amours de la belle époque (1979); Romeo and Baucis (1979); At the End of the End of the Bench (1979); The Islanders (1979); The time of a Republic (1978); Monday the Party (1978); Southeast Suburbs (1977–1978); Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977); Au théâtre ce soir (1973–77); Marianne's life (1976); The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976); The Life Annuity (1972); The visit to the Old Lady (1971); Boulevard des faits divers: 65-66 (1966); When you are two (1962–1964); Vincent Scotto (1962); Guinguette (1959); The school of Cocottes (1958); Mitsou (1956); Flesh and the Woman (1954); La pocharde (1953); Let's Play the Game / Timidity (1952); Holiday for Henrietta (1952); This good Monsieur Durand (1950); Lady Paname (1950); La Marie du Port (1950).

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Born on this day – Brenda Joyce:


Brenda Joyce


Actress

February 25, 1917 – July 4, 2009

Credits:

Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949); 10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948); Shaggy (1948); Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948); Stepchild (1947); Tarzan and the Huntress (1947); Danger Woman (1946); The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946); Little Giant (1946); Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946); Pillow of Death (1945); The Enchanted Forest (1945); Strange Confession (1945); I'll Tell the World (1945); Tarzan and the Amazons (1945); Thumbs Up (1943); Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942); The Postman Didn't Ring (1942); Whispering Ghosts (1942); Right to the Heart (1942); Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941); Private Nurse (1941); Public Deb No. 1 (1940); Maryland (1940); Little Old New York (1940); Here I Am a Stranger (1939); The Rains Came (1939).

Born on this day – Anthony Burgess:




Credits:

Books:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); 99 Novels (1984); A Clockwork Orange (1962); 1985 (1978); A Clockwork Orange 2004 (1990); A Dead Man in Deptford (1993); A Long Trip to Teatime (1976); A Mouthful of Air (1992); A Vision of Battlements (1965); Abba Abba (1977); Any Old Iron (1989); Beard’s Roman Women (1976); Beds in the East (1959); Blooms of Dublin (1986); But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen? (1986); Byrne (1995); Coaching Days of England (1966); Devil of a State (1961); Earthly Powers (1980); Enderby (1968); Enderby Outside (1968); Enderby’s Dark Lady (1984); Ernest Hemingway and His World (1978); Flame into Being (1985); Future Imperfect (1994); Here Comes Everybody (1965); Homage To Qwert Yuiop (1986); Honey for the Bears (1963); Inside Mr. Enderby (1963); Joysprick (1973); Language Made Plain (1964); Little Wilson and Big God (1987); Man of Nazareth (1979); MF (1971); Moses (1976); Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991); Napoleon Symphony (1974); New York (1976); Nothing like the Sun (1964); Oberon Old and New (1985); On Going to Bed (1982); On Mozart (1991); One Hand Clapping (1961); One Man’s Chorus (1998); Shakespeare (1970); Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange (1972); The Age of the Grand Tour (1967); The Book of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage (2003); The Clockwork Testament (1974); The Devil’s Mode (1989); The Doctor is Sick (1960); The End of the World News (1982); The Enemy in the Blanket (1957); The Eve of Saint Venus (1964); The Heritage of British Literature (1983); The Kingdom of the Wicked (1980); The Novel Now (1967); The Pianoplayers (1986); The Right to an Answer (1960); The Wanting Seed (1956); The Worm and the Ring (1961); The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); This Man & Music (1982); Time for a Tiger (1956); Tremor of Intent (1966); Two Tales of the Future (1980); You’ve Had Your Time (1990).

Movies and television:

90 Minutes Live (1978); 100 Years of Ulysses (2022); 1984: A Personal View of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' (1983); A Clockwork Orange (1971 / 2007); À propos de 'La guerre du feu' (1981); A.D. (1985); After Dark (1988); An Examination of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1972); Anno Domini (1975); Apostrophes (1979–1989); Arena (1993); Artur och Maria (1992); Bains de minuit (1988); Barneys, Books and Bust Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize (2018); Call My Bluff (1967–1968); Camera Three (1972–1973); C'est à lire (1984); Cities (1979); Cyrano de Bergerac (1985 / 1990); Firing Line (1972); Frank Delaney (1983); Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1982); Front Row (2018); Great Performances (2008); I riassuntini (2018); Il était une fois... (2011); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2022); Le cannabis - Une plante entre le bien et le mal (1996); Le grand échiquier (1988); Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake, with Anthony Burgess (1973); Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches (1989); Make It New - a portrait of Anthony Burgess (1984); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); Muy personal (1988); Neanderthal (2000); Omnibus (1968); Orange mécanique, les rouages de la violence (2023); Ouvrez les guillemets (1973); Quest for Fire (1981); Read All About It (1977); Rencontre au sommet: Anthony Burgess/Isaac Bashevis Singer (1997); Review (1972); Saturday Night Clive (1990); Saturday Review (1985–1987); Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979–1980); Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork Orange (2000); Take It or Leave It (1964–1967); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); The Book Game (1982–1983); The Book Programme (1974–1980); The Burgess Variations (1999); The English Programme (1985); The Late Show (1989); The Levin Interviews (1981); The Quest for Fire Adventure (1982); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The South Bank Show (1978–1985); The Talk Show with Clive James (1990); Today (1978); Topsy-Turvy (1999); Videobook: A Clockwork Orange (2023); Vinyl (1965); Wogan (1985–1990); Word for Word (1978); Writers and Places (1981).

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Born on this day – Carson McCullers:


Carson McCullers


Writer

February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967

Credits:

Books:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud (1989); Among Sisters: Short Stories by Women Writers (1989); Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978); Clock Without Hands (1961); Collected Stories (1987); Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth (1986); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Growing Up in the South (1991); Hey-How for Halloween! (1974); Illumination and Night Glare (1999); Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Stories of the Modern South (1977); Sucker (1986); Sweet As a Pickle and Clean As a Pig (1964); Ten Modern American Short Stories (1965); The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951); The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964); The Haunted Boy (2018); The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940); The Member of the Wedding (1946); The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999); The Mortgaged Heart (1970); The Shorter Novels And Stories Of Carson McCullers (1972); The Square Root of Wonderful (1958); Women and Fiction (1975).

Movies and television:

A Tree a Rock a Cloud (2017); A Domestic Dilemma (2009); The Member of the Wedding (1997); Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991); The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991); The Member of the Wedding (1982); Une pierre, un arbre, un nuage (1981); A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud (1978); Zurück, wo ich begann (1970); The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968); Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Camera Three (1963); Miss Smith of Georgia (1962); ITV Play of the Week (1960); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958); Theatre Night (1957); Omnibus / The Sojourner (1953); The Member of the Wedding (1952); Ship's Reporter (1948–1952).

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Born on this day – Joseph Langland:


Joseph Langland


Writer

February 16, 1917 – April 9, 2007

Credits:

A Dream of Love (1986); An Interview and Fourteen Poems (1973); Any Body’s Song (1980); Selected Poems (1992); The Green Town (1956); The Sacrifice Poems (1975); The Wheel of Summer (1963); Twelve Preludes and Postludes (1988).

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Born on this day – Meg Wyllie:


Meg Wyllie


Actress

February 15, 1917 – January 1, 2002

In Star Trek (1966).

Credits:

1st & Ten (1987); 77 Sunset Strip (1960); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Angel (1960); Angie (1979); Babe (1975); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1974); Barney Miller (1976); Batman (1967); Beauty and the Beast (1962); Ben Casey (1961–1964); Benson (1979–1982); Better Late Than Never (1979); Bewitched (1969); Birth of a Timeless Legacy (2004); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1966); Bronk (1976); Brothers (1986); Bunco (1977); Cannon (1973); Channing (1964); Charlie's Angels (1977); Cimarron Strip (1967); Circle of Fear (1973); City of Angels (1976); Coach (1994); Cracking Up (1983); Days of Our Lives (1966–1980); Dear John (1990); Death Sentence (1974); Death Valley Days (1959–1962); Delta (1993); Designing Women (1989–1990); Dr. Kildare (1961–1962); Dragnet (1987); Eight Is Enough (1979); Elvis (1979); Emergency! (1972–1976); Family Matters (1993); Family Ties (1987); Fitzwilly (1967); Flight That Disappeared (1961); General Hospital (1982–1994); Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood (1981); Good Heavens (1976); Guestward Ho! (1961); Gunsmoke (1973); Have Faith (1989); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hennesey (1960); Highway to Heaven (1986); Hollywood Wives (1985); Hooperman (1988); How William Shatner Changed the World (2005); Ironside (1974); It Takes a Thief (1968); It's a Man's World (1962); Johnny Staccato (1976); Judd for the Defense (1968); Kojak (1975); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1955); Lassie (1966); Lipstick (1976); M Squad (1958); Mad About You (1994–1995); Major Dad (1992); Marnie (1964); Misfits of Science (1986); Mister Ed (1965); Mister Peepers (1952); Most Wanted (1976); Movin' On (1972); Mr. Belvedere (1987); My Three Sons (1963); Night Court (1985–1990); Nothing in Common (1986); Our Time (1974); Perry Mason (1962–1966); Peter Gunn (1959–1960); Playhouse 90 (1959); Police Story (1974); Police Woman (1974); Profiles in Courage (1964); Quincy, M.E. (1982); Rage! (1980); Reasonable Doubts (1991); Room 222 (1970); Run for Your Life (1966); Sea Hunt (1960); Search (1973); Second Thoughts (1983); Star Trek (1966); Steve Canyon (1959); Sutters Bay (1983); The Addams Family (1965); The Associates (1980); The Bob Newhart Show (1974); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1970); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1970); The F.B.I. (1966–1971); The Facts of Life (1986); The Fanelli Boys (1991); The Fugitive (1965); The Girl with Something Extra (1973); The Golden Girls (1987–1991); The Last Starfighter (1984); The Law and Mr. Jones (1962); The Lawless Years (1961); The Loner (1966); The Love Boat (1977); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); The New Adam-12 (1990); The New Breed (1961); The Paper Chase (1984); The Rounders (1966); The Thorn Birds (1983); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964); The Tribe (1974); The Turning Point of Jim Malloy (1975); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Untouchables (1959–1962); The Virginian (1963–1970); The Waltons (1973); Then Came Bronson (1969); This Is the Life (1966–1968); Tightrope (1960); To Boldly Go ... Season One (2004); Vanishing Point (1971); Wagon Train (1959–1965); Who's the Boss? (1987); Worth Winning (1989); Zane Grey Theatre (1959).