Born on this day – Rhonda Fleming:

Rhonda Fleming

Actress

Singer

August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020

Credits:

50th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1981); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); Abilene Town (1946); Adventure Island (1947); Alias Jesse James (1959); All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Backtrack! (1969); Biography (1996–1999); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood (1983); Bullwhip (1958); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Celebrity Bowling (1974); Compression (2023–2024); Crosswinds (1951); Cry Danger (1951); Death Valley Days (1952); Dinah! (1977); Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008); Ellery Queen (1975); Entertainment This Week Salutes Paramount's 75th Anniversary (1987); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Follow the Sun (1962); Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (2002); Gun Glory (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Fun Festival (1952); Hollywood Glamour on Ice (1957); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Home Before Dark (1958); Hong Kong (1952 / 1961); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Inferno (1953); Inside TV Land (2001); Instant Love (1964); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got a Secret (1952–1967); Jivaro (1954); Kung Fu (1975); L.A. Confidential (1997); Last Hours Before Morning (1975); Little Egypt (1951); Love for Rent (1979); Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004); McMillan & Wife (1974); Nashville Now (1987); Needles and Pins (1973); Odongo: An Adventure of the African Frontier (1956); Out of the Past (1947); Password (1962); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1957); Police Woman (1974); Pony Express (1953); Praise (2003–2009); Reflets de Cannes (1959); Remembering Bing (1989); Rhonda Fleming: A Cinderella Story (2008); Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years (2001); Run for Your Wife (1965); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Premiere (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Jimmy McHugh's Song Party (1951); Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood (1958); Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special (1950); Screen Snapshots: WAIF International Ball (1957); Search (1973); Serpent of the Nile (1953); Shower of Stars (1956); Since You Went Away (1944); Slightly Scarlet (1956); Spellbound (1945); TCM Remembers 2020 (2020); Tennessee's Partner (1955); That's Entertainment! / The Lion Roars Again (1975); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Arthur Murray Party (1954); The Bell Telephone Hour (1962); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Big Circus (1959); The Big Record (1957); The Bob Hope Show (1957–1966); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952–1955); The Crowded Sky (1960); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959); The Eagle and the Hawk (1950); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Fighting Generation (1944); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Lover (1949); The Hour of Power (1980); The Investigators (1961); The Killer Is Loose (1956); The Last Outpost (1951); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Love Boat (1978); The Many Faces of Cleopatra (2009); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1973); The Name's the Same (1955); The Nude Bomb (1980); The Oscars (2021); The Patsy (1964); The Queen of Babylon (1954); The Red Skelton Chevy Special (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1961–1963); The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951); The Revolt of the Slaves (1960); The Road to Eltham (1978); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Virginian (1965); The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986); Those Redheads from Seattle (1953); Tropic Zone (1953); TV Club (1950); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971–1977); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Waiting for the Wind (1991); What's My Line? (1955); When Strangers Marry (1944); While the City Sleeps (1956); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Xpose (1982); Yankee Pasha (1954); You Don't Say (1964); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1974); Your First Impression (1961).

Born on this day – Eve Miller:

Eve Miller

Actress

August 8, 1923 – August 17, 1973

Credits:

Annie Oakley (1955–1956); April in Paris (1952); Arctic Fury (1951); Artists and Models (1955); Beyond the Forest (1949); Broadway Jungle (1955); Buckaroo from Powder River (1947); City Detective (1955); Code 3 (1957); Coronado 9 (1961); Crossroads (1955–1957); Diamond Horseshoe (1945); Fireside Theatre (1950–1953); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Frontier Doctor (1959); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); Inner Sanctum (1948); Kansas Pacific (1953); Lassie (1957); Mayor of the Town (1954); Mr. & Mrs. North (1954); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957); Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950); Navy Log (1957); Never Fear (1950); Perry Mason (1958); Pier 23 (1951); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); She's Working Her Way Through College (1952); Telephone Time (1956); The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1956); The Big Bluff (1955); The Big Trees (1952); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Desperate Women (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1954); The Lineup (1954–1959); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1955); The Range Rider (1951); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Story of Will Rogers (1952); The Vicious Years (1950); The Whistler (1955); The Winning Team (1952); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This My Son (1954); Trackdown (1957); Wire Service (1956); Your Show Time (1949); Zane Grey Theatre (1957).

Born on this day – Marisa Merlini:

Marisa Merlini

Actress

August 6, 1923 – July 27, 2008

Born on this day – Jean Hagen:

Jean Hagen

Actress

August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977

Credits:

A Life of Her Own (1950); Adam's Rib (1949); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); Ambush (1950); American Masters (2002); Arena (1953); Babylon (2022); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Ben Casey (1962); Carbine Williams (1952); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Climax! (1956); Dead Ringer (1963); Dr. Kildare (1963); General Electric Theater (1961); Good Heavens (1976); Half a Hero (1953); Latin Lovers (1953); Night Into Morning (1951); No Questions Asked (1951); Panic in Year Zero! (1962); Shadow in the Sky (1952); Shower of Stars (1954); Side Street (1949); Singin' in the Rain (1952); Spring Reunion (1956); Stagecoach West (1961); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Sunrise at Campobello (1960); Talking Pictures (1988); The 8th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1956); The Andy Griffith Show (1961); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); The Big Knife (1955); The Danny Thomas Show (1953–1956); The Detectives (1959); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Jimmy Durante Show (1954); The Law and Mr. Jones (1962); The Magical World of Disney (1978); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Shaggy Dog (1959); The Streets of San Francisco (1976); Wagon Train (1960–1963); Welcome to the Basement (2016); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' (2002); Zane Grey Theatre (1961).

Born on this day – Marcelle Derrien:

Marcelle Derrien

Actress

July 20, 1923 – November 2, 2008

Credits:

Chéri (1950); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Dieu a choisi Paris (1969); Le secret de Monte-Cristo (1948); Les J3 (1946); L'impeccable Henri (1948); L'inconnue n° 13 (1949); Man About Town (1947); Sombre dimanche (1948); The King's Musketeers (1951); To Each His Own Cinema / Segment: Épilogue (2007).

Born on this day – James E. Gunn:

James E. Gunn

Writer

Editor

Scholar

Anthologist

July 12, 1923 – December 23, 2020

Credits:

Books:

100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996); 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984); 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978); 100 Great Science Fiction Stories (1978); Afterlives (1986); All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger (1998); Alternate Worlds (1975); Arena (1976); Best SF: 1972 (1973); Best Tales of Terror (1962); Bio-Futures (1976); Breaking Point (1972); Comets (1986); Creations (1983); Crisis! (1986); Destination: Future (2010); Extraterrestrials (1988); Future Imperfect (1964); Gateways (2010); Gift from the Stars (2005); Golden Age SF (2006); Human Voices (1999); Inside Science Fiction (1992); Into the Unknown (1973); Isaac Asimov (1968); Kampus (1977); Little Green Men - Attack! (2017); Microcosmic Tales (1980); Mission: Tomorrow (2015); Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis (2018); Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975); Nebula Award Stories 4 (1968); Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008); Nova 2 (1972); One and Wonder (2013); One Hundred Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); Paratexts (2013); Pilgrims to Transcendence (2020); Reading Science Fiction (2018); Science Fiction A to Z (1982); Science Fiction Today And Tomorrow (1974); Sentinels (2010); Some Dreams Are Nightmares (1974); Space Opera (1974); Space Pioneers (2018); Star-Begotten (2017); Station in Space (1958); Synergy: New Science Fiction, Volume 4 (1989); Tales from Super-Science Fiction (2012); Talks with the Masters (2018); The 1978 Annual World's Best SF (1978); The Best of Astounding (1992); The Burning (1972); The Dreamers / aka The Mind Master (1980); The End of Summer (1979); The End of the Dreams (1975); The Gravity Business (1956); The Great SF Stories 17 (1988); The Great SF Stories 20 (1990); The Immortals (1962); The Joy Machine (1996); The Joy Makers (1961); The Last Dangerous Visions (2024); The Listeners (1972); The Magicians (1976); The Millennium Blues (2000); The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1988); The Road to Science Fiction 1 (1977); The Road to Science Fiction 2 (1979); The Road to Science Fiction 3 (1979); The Road to Science Fiction 4 (1982); The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998); The Road to Science Fiction 6 (1998); The Science of Science Fiction Writing (1988); The Stars Around Us (1970); The Stilled Patter (1956); The Unpublished Gunn (2020); The Witching Hour (1970); This Fortress World (1955); Tiger! Tiger! (1984); Time Travelers (1997); Transcendental (2013); Transformation (2017); Transgalactic (2016); Triax (1977); TV: 2000 (1982); Visions of the Future (2015); Where Do We Go from Here? (1971); Young Extraterrestrials (1984).

Born on this day – Cathy O'Donnell:

Cathy O'Donnell

Actress

July 6, 1923 – April 11, 1970

Credits:

Ben-Hur (1959); Bonanza (1964); Bury Me Dead (1947); Center Stage (1954); Climax! (1955); Compression (2023); Detective Story (1951); Eight O'Clock Walk (1954); In Town Today (1951); Lights Out (1951); Loves of Three Queens / Segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships (1954); Mad at the World (1955); Man Without a Gun (1959); Matinee Theatre (1956); My World Dies Screaming (1958); Never Trust a Gambler (1951); Orient Express (1953–1954); Perry Mason (1961); Side Street (1949); Sugarfoot (1961); Target (1958); Tate (1960); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The Amazing Mr. X (1948); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Californians (1958); The Deerslayer (1957); The Detectives (1960); The Man from Laramie (1955); The Miniver Story (1950); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1954); The Rebel (1960); The Story of Mankind (1957); The Woman's Angle (1952); These Amazing Shadows (2011); They Live by Night (1948); Wonder Man (1945); Zane Grey Theatre (1958).

Born on this day – Margarita Alexandre:

Margarita Alexandre

Actress

Director

Producer

July 3, 1923 – December 23, 2015

Born on this day – Yves Jean Bonnefoy:

Yves Jean Bonnefoy

Writer

Poet

Art historian

June 24, 1923 – July 1, 2016

Credits:

Books:

Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work (1993); Beginning and End of the Snow (2012); In the Shadow's Light (1991); Mythologies (1991); On the Motion and Immobility of Douve (1968); Poems: 1959-1975 (1985); Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (2011); Shakespeare and the French Poet (2004); The Anchor's Long Chain (2015); The Curved Planks (2007); The Digamma (2014); The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art (1995); The Present Hour (2013); Together Still (2017).

Movies and television:

Feu! Chatterton - Avant qu'il n'y ait le monde (Live acoustique) (2021); Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1960); Le Louvre imaginaire (1993); Le roi Lear (1965); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); Qu'est-ce que la poésie? (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1995).

Born on this day – Peggy Maley:

Peggy Maley

Actress

June 8, 1923 – October 1, 2007

Born on this day – Margot Trooger:

Margot Trooger

Actress

June 2, 1923 – April 24, 1994

Born on this day – Natalie Norwick:

Natalie Norwick

Actress

May 28, 1923 – December 20, 2007

Credits:

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956); 87th Precinct (1961); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950); Ben Casey (1962); Big Town (1955); Boots and Saddles (1957); Cavalcade of America (1955); Crusader (1955); Dark Shadows (1968–1969); Death Valley Days (1955); Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1957); Dragnet (1958); Gunsmoke (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1962); Hidden Fear (1957); I Led 3 Lives (1954); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Law of the Plainsman (1960); M Squad (1957); Matinee Theatre (1955); Medic (1954); Mike Hammer (1959); Navy Log (1956); Perry Mason (1958–1964); Ryan's Hope (1976); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Star Trek (1966); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Studio 57 (1955); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The Clock (1950); The D.A.'s Man (1959); The Detectives (1962); The Edge of Night (1982); The Halls of Ivy (1955); The Lineup (1954); The Millionaire (1956); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Rebel (1960); The Star and the Story (1956); The Thin Man (1957); You Are There (1955); Zane Grey Theatre (1961).

Born on this day – György Ligeti:

György Ligeti

Composer

May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006

Credits:

Music:

Allegro (1943); Andante and Allegretto, for string quartet (1950); Apparitions (1958–1959); Artikulation (1958); Atmosphères (1961); Aventures (1962); Baladă și joc (Ballad and Dance) (1950); Betlehemi királyok (Kings of Bethlehem) (1946); Bujdosó (The fugitive) (1946); Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947); Cello Concerto (1966); Chamber Concerto (1969–1970); Chromatische Phantasie (1956); Clocks and Clouds (1973); Concert românesc (1951); Continuum (1968); Continuum (1970) (adapted for two Player Pianos); Continuum (1970); Coulée (1969); Der Sommer (1989); Double Concerto (1972); Due capricci (1947); Éjszaka – Reggel (Night, morning) (1955); Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985); Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988–1994); Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes (1995–2001); Four Early Piano Pieces: Basso Ostinato (1941); Fragment (1961); From Études pour piano, Book 2:Ha folyóvíz volnék (1947); Haj, ifjuság! (Hey, youth!) (1951); Hamburg Concerto (1998–1999); Harmonies (1967); Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances) (1950); Három Weöres-dal (Three Weöres Songs) (1946–1947); Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg (1982); Hortobágy (1951); Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978); Húsvét (Easter) (1946); Idegen földön (Far from home) (1945–1946); Inaktelki nóták (Tunes from Inaktelk) (1953); Induló (March) (1942); Invention (1948); Kállai kettős (1952); Lakodalmas (Wedding dance) (1950); L'arrache-coeur (1994); Le Grand Macabre (1975–1977); lissandi (1957); Lontano (1967); Lux Aeterna (1966); Magány (Solitude) (1946); Magos Kősziklának (From the high rocks) (1946); Magyar Etüdök, for 16 voices after Sándor Weöres (1983); Mátraszentimrei dalok (Songs from Mátraszentimre) (1955); Melodien (1971); Musica ricercata (1951–1953); Négy lakodalmi tánc (1950); No. IX: Vertige (1990); No. VII: Galamb borong (1988); No. X: Der Zauberlehrling (1994); No. XI: En suspens (1994); No. XIII: L'escalier du diable (1993); No. XIVa: Coloana fără sfârşit (original version for Player Piano) (1993); Nonsense madrigals (1988–1993); Nouvelles Aventures (1962–1965); Öt Arany-dal (Five Arany Songs) (1952); Pápainé (Widow Pápai) (1953); Passacaglia ungherese (1978); Piano Concerto (1985–88); Pièce électronique no. 3 (1957–1958); Pletykázó asszonyok (1952); Poème Symphonique (1962); Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude) (1943); Ramifications (1968–1969); Requiem, for soprano and mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (1963–1965); Ricercare – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1953); Rondeau, One-man theatre for an actor and tape (1976); San Francisco Polyphony (1973–1974); Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000); Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953); Sonata for Solo Cello (1948/1953); Sonata for Solo Viola (1991–1994); Sonatina (1950); String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953–1954); String Quartet No. 2 (1968); Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968); The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea, for trumpet (1985); Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin (1982); Three Pieces for Two Pianos – Monument – Selbstporträt – Bewegung (1976); Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982); Trois Bagatelles, for David Tudor (1961); Violin Concerto (1989–93); Volumina (1961–62, revised 1966).

Movies and television:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2020: a toilet paper odyssey (2020); 56 villanás (2007); A Warning to the Curious (1972); Anónimo (2003); As Above, So Below (2014); Aurora (2018); Bang Bang Orangutang (2005); Barbie (2023); Berlin murmures (1991); Beyond My Reflection (2015); Blink of an Eye (2015); Brainwash (2010); Bruno n'a pas d'agent (1999); C'è musica & musica (1972); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); Club 2 (1983); Csalog-Kurtág-Ligeti; Der Paradiesgarten (1970); Die Früchte der Arbeit (1977); Ekpyrosis (2013); Elemental Mass (2013); Embers (2015); Enter the Green Abyss (2022); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Fist of Fury (1972); For the End of Time (2009); Giraffe (2019); Godzilla (2014); György Ligeti - Ein Komponist gibt Auskunft (1970); Heat (1995); Homecoming (2018); Hot for Cash (1974); Intervalo (2012); Jean Tardieu ou le 'voir-dit' (1991); Kinderspiel (2015); Klang aus dem Chaos - Aspekte der Neuen Musik (1969); La ira (1989); Le Grand Macabre (2012); Lemming (2005); Letters from War (2016); Little Spain (2011); Lonely Child: The Imaginary World of Claude Vivier (1988); Magánszám - Üljön le Hajós Andrással! (2003); Másnap (2004); Mediterranea (2011); Memoir of War (2017); Menschen & Mächte (2016); Merci La Vie (1991); Miss Gulag (2007); Mission Hill (1999–2002); Morrer no mar (1984); Musica ricercata (2023); Mutter (2002); NDR Talk Show (1989); Omnibus (1976); Orson Welles's the Other Side of the Wind: A Film by Orson Welles (2011); Other Worlds (2020); Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010); Paper Girls (2022); Polyformia (2008); Reel Iconic (2015); Requiem (1986); Schalcken the Painter (1979); Screen Two (1985); Shutter Island (2010); Stanley Kubrick in Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Strada Pia (1983); Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (2015); The Fear (El Miedo);  (2006); The Great Performance (2008); The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017); The Miracle of Tekir (2015); The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012); The Shining (1980); The Silent Witness (1978); The Trouville Zone (2013); The Vanity (2020); The War (2007); The Whole Town's Sleeping (2014); The Young Hitchikers (1971); Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä (2002); Um Filme Sem História (2002); Viagem a Portugal (2011); Winterspelt 1944 (1978).

Born on this day – Nicole Stéphane:

Nicole Stéphane

Director

Producer

Actress

May 27, 1923 – March 13, 2007

Born on this day – Joy Barlow:

Joy Barlow

Actress

May 18, 1923 – May 2, 1995

Credits:

Just Across the Street (1952); Look for the Silver Lining (1949); The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948); Two Guys from Texas (1948); Blackmail (1947); The Trespasser (1947); The Big Sleep (1946); Cinderella Jones (1946); Don't Fence Me In (1945); George White's Scandals (1945); Where Do We Go from Here? (1945); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); Earl Carroll Vanities (1945); To Have and Have Not (1944); Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (1944); Destination Tokyo (1943); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); Call of the Canyon (1942); Louisiana Purchase (1941).

Born on this day – Alice Backes:

Alice Backes

Actress

May 17, 1923 – March 15, 2007

Credits:

14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); 87th Precinct (1962); Adam-12 (1973–1974); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Amanda's (1983); Bachelor Father (1957–1958); Baretta (1976); Barnaby Jones (1980); Barney (1965); Barney Miller (1981); Ben Casey (1961); Bewitched (1964–1966); Blondie (1968–1969); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965); Breaking Point (1964); Bringing Up Buddy (1961); Burke's Law (1965); Cassie & Co. (1982); Columbo (1974); Columbo: A Trace of Murder (1997); Date with the Angels (1957); Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1957); Dr. Kildare (1961); Dragnet (1952); Dragnet 1967 (1969); Fear on Trial (1975); Gable and Lombard (1976); Gang Busters (1952); General Electric Theater (1959–1962); Going My Way (1963); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Gunsmoke (1959–1966); Half a House (1975); Hazel (1961–1966); Hennesey (1960); Here's Lucy (1968–1973); I Want to Live! (1958); Ichabod and Me (1962); Ironside (1974); It Started with a Kiss (1959); It Was a Very Good Year (1971); James at 16 (1977); Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978); Knight Rider (1984); Kolchak: Crackle of Death / Segment: Firefall (1974); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974); Lancer (1970); Law of the Plainsman (1959); Leave It to Beaver (1959–1962); Lux Playhouse (1958–1959); M Squad (1958); Mannix (1973); Maude (1974); Mayberry R.F.D. (1970–1971); Medic (1955); Mr. & Mrs. North (1954); Mr. Belvedere (1988); My Favorite Martian (1964); Outlaws (1962); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Project U.F.O. (1978); Riverboat (1960); Room 222 (1972); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Snowball Express (1972); Startime (1959–1960); Studio 57 (1958); Switch (1978); That Touch of Mink (1962); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Andy Griffith Show (1963); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); The Best Place to Be (1979); The Big Valley (1968); The Cat from Outer Space (1978); The Danny Kaye Special (1961); The Detectives (1960–1962); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Donna Reed Show (1959–1966); The Doris Day Show (1969); The Farmer's Daughter (1966); The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1969); The Glory Guys (1965); The Greatest American Hero (1983); The Jack Benny Program (1962–1963); The Magical World of Disney (1962 / 1982); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Man from Independence (1974); The Munsters (1965); The Outsider (1969); The Real McCoys (1957); The Rifleman (1960); The Rogues (1965); The Third Day (1965); The Tom Ewell Show (1961); The Twonky (1953); The Virginian (1962); This Is the Life (1984); Thriller (1960); Turnabout (1979); Up in Central Park (1948); Wagon Train (1963–1965); Welcome Back, Kotter (1977); Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? (1977); Winner Take All (1975); Women in Chains (1972); You Bet Your Life (1951).

Born on this day – Doris Dowling:

Doris Dowling

Actress

May 15, 1923 – June 18, 2004

Born on this day – Louise Meriwether:

Louise Meriwether

Writer

May 8, 1923 – October 10, 2023

Credits:

Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970); The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls (1971); The Heart Man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1972); Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story (1973); Francie's Harlem (1988); Fragments of the Ark (1994); Shadow Dancing (2000).

Television:

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003); American Masters (2017); Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016); Life with Linkletter (1970).

Born on this day – Anne Baxter:

Anne Baxter

Actress

May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985

Credits:

20 Mule Team (1940); A Royal Scandal (1945); A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950); All About Eve (1950); Amazing World of Radio (2018); Angel on My Shoulder (1946); Arena (1983); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Backstory (2000–2001); Banacek (1973); Batman (1966–1967); Bedevilled (1955); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (1994–1995); Blaze of Noon (1947); Bracken's World (1970); Campus Heat (1969); Cannon (1973); Carnival Story (1954); Charley's Aunt (1941); Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958); Checkmate (1960); Ciclo Alfred Hitchcock (2005); Cimarron (1960); Circus of Love (1954); Columbo (1973); Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (2009); Compression (2016–2023); Cowboy in Africa (1967); Crash Dive (1943); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Day at Night (1974); Dr. Kildare (1964); East of Eden (1981); exclusiv (1985); Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Follow the Sun (1951); Fools' Parade (1971); Gala Dinner Tribute to Aaron Spelling (1985); General Electric Theater (1957–1960); Guest in the House (1944); Hagen (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hitchcock Confidential (2019); Hitchcock: il brividio del genio (1985); Homecoming (1948); Hotel (1983–1986); Hour Magazine (1983); I Confess (1953); If Tomorrow Comes (1971); Ironside (1968–1969); Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Lapin 360 (1972); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lisa, Bright and Dark (1973); Little Mo (1978); Love Story (1973); Lux Playhouse (1958); Mannix (1973); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1973); Marilyn (1963); Mix Me a Person (1962); Mother Wore Tights (1947); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); My Three Sons (1967); My Wife's Best Friend (1952); Nero Wolfe (1979); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Nightmare / Companions in Nightmare (1968); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); Northern Exposure (1993); O. Henry's Full House / The Last Leaf (1952); One Desire (1955); Over Easy (1978); Paris 7000 (1970); Playhouse 90 (1958); Ritual of Evil (1970); Riverboat (1959); Run for Your Life (1968); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); Season of Passion (1959); Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984); Smoky (1946); Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); Stranger on the Run (1967); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); Swamp Water (1941); The 14th Annual NAACP Image Awards (1983); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 36th Annual Academy Awards (1964); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The Alan Hamel Show (1976–1977); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1983); The Arlene Francis Show (1957); The Arthur Murray Party (1958); The Best of Hollywood (1998); The Big Valley (1969); The Blue Gardenia (1953); The Busy Body (1967); The Catcher (1972); The Celebrity Game (1964–1965); The Challengers (1970); The Come On (1956); The Danny Thomas Hour (1968); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Joan Collins (1984); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Eve of St. Mark (1944); The F.B.I. (1968); The Family Jewels (1965); The Fighting Sullivans (1944); The Great Profile (1940); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1969); The Jerry Lewis Show (1968); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Late Liz (1971); The Linkletter Show (1958–1964); The Loner (1965); The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show (1976); The Love Boat (1981–1985); The Love Boat Fall Preview Special (1984); The Luck of the Irish (1948); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1984); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1978); The Name of the Game (1968–1970); The Name of the Game (1970); The North Star (1943); The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Pied Piper (1942); The Purple Heart (1944); The Razor's Edge (1946); The Spoilers (1955); The Tall Women (1966); The Ten Commandments (1956); The Ten Commandments: Making Miracles (2011); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1976); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Virginian (1968); The Walls of Jericho (1948); The Wandering Company (1985); This Is Your Life (1973 / 1985); Three Violent People (1956); To Tell the Truth (1958); Today (1984); Wagon Train (1959); Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Yellow Sky (1948); You Don't Say (1967–1968); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1971); You're My Everything (1949); Zane Grey Theatre (1959).

Born on this day – Joseph Heller:

Joseph Heller

Writer

May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999

Credits:

Books:

Catch-22 (1961); Closing Time (1994); God Knows (1984); Good as Gold (1979); No Laughing Matter (1986); Now and Then (1998); Picture This (1988); Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000); Something Happened (1974); The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014).

Movies and television:

Bombardovanje Nju Hejvna (1973); Camera Three (1962); Casino Royale (1967); Catch Five: Joseph Heller and Rembrandt (1992); Catch-22 (1970); Catch-22 (1973); Catch-22 (2019); Charlie Rose (1994); Dirty Dingus Magee (1970); Good Morning America (1985); Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1985); James Jones: Reveille to Taps (1985); Late Night with David Letterman (1986); McHale's Navy (1962); McLean and Company (1971); Pommitamme Pasilasta (1970); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Something Happened; The Book Programme (1974–1980); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The South Bank Show (1979–1984); Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976); Today (1968–1974); Wogan (1986).