Born on this day – Adriana Asti:

Adriana Asti

Actress

April 30, 1931 – July 31, 2025

Credits:

8½ (1963); A Brief Vacation (1973); A Simple Heart (1977); A Woman's Name (2018); Accattone (1961); Action (1980); Addavenì quel giorno e quella sera (1979); All'ultimo minuto (1973); Amarcord (1973); Amore e ginnastica (1973); Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? (1972); Antigone (1971); Arrangiatevi (1959); Avvocati (1998); Babau 70 (1976); Before the Revolution (1964); Bimba - È clonata una stella (2002); Black Journal (1977); Boccaccio '70 (1962); Buio in sala (1950); Caligula (1979); Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023); Caprice Italian Style / Segment: Che cosa sono le nuvole? (1968); Che cosa sono le nuvole? (1968); Che fuori tempo che fa (2018); Chi dice donna dice donna / Segment: La donna erotica (1976); Chimère (1989); Cinéastes de notre temps (1966); Città di notte (1957); Come un uragano (1971); Compression (2016–2023); Cronache del '22 / Segment: Giorno di paga (1961); D'amore si muore (1972); Dans un grand vent de fleurs (1996); Disorder (1962); Donna Fabia (2018); Down the Ancient Stairs (1975); Du côté de chez Fred (1989); Duet for Cannibals (1969); Favola (1996); Franco Zeffirelli conformista ribelle (2022); Girl with a Suitcase (1961); I Knew Her Well (1965); I Nicotera (1972); I sogni nel cassetto (1957); I visionari (1968); Il buma (2002); Il cuore e il mondo (1958); Il grande fuoco (1995); Il maestro di Vigevano (1963); Il petomane (1983); Il prete bello (1989); In Memory of a Gentleman Friend (2009); Istintobrass (2013); Journal d'une femme de chambre (2015); Karol - The Pope, the Man (2006); La bella di Lodi (1963); La Faille (1975); La famiglia Ricordi (1995); La fiera della vanità (1967); La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione (2025); La pluie des prunes (2007); La prova d'amore (1974); La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no (1973); Le cameriere (1959); Le cri de la soie (1996); Le dialogue des Carmélites (1960); Le invasioni barbariche (2005); Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino (1972); Le ragazze di Milano (2007); Les allumettes suédoises (1996); Love Circle (1969); Ludwig (1973); L'ultimo Pulcinella (2008); Mafioso (1962); Man of the Year (1971); Mange ta soupe (1997); Maschio latino cercasi / Segment: Scambio made in Germany (1977); Mes parents chéris (2006); Nag la bombe (1999); Nipoti miei diletti (1974); Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005); Paese di mare (1972); Pasolini (2014); Pasolini maestro corsaro (2015); Pier Paolo Pasolini. Il santo infame (2015); Primo applauso (1957); Qualcuno bussa alla porta (1970); Rocco and His Brothers (1960); Run, Psycho, Run (1968); Sabato sera dalle nove alle dieci (1973); Sanremo Music Festival (1977); Sexual Counselor (1974); Silver Spoon Set (1960); Stato interessante (1977); Susanna tutta panna (1957); Sweet Deceptions (1960); TCM Remembers 2025 (2025); The Best of Youth (2003); The Hours of Love (1963); The Inheritance (1976); The Lions Are Loose (1961); The Phantom of Liberty (1974); The Secret Diary of Amarcord (1974); The Sensual Man (1973); The Seventh Room (1995); The Sex Machine (1975); Tinto Brass: The Orgy of Power (2007); Tosca e altre due (2003); Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005); Tutti innamorati (1959); Un amore targato Forlì (1976); Un ettaro di cielo (1958); Un tentativo sentimentale (1963); Una vita non violenta (1999); Unforgivable (2011); Vento del Sud (1960); Violent Summer (1959); Vita col padre (1956); Vor mir der Süden (2020); Who Killed Pasolini? (1995); Zorro (1975).

On this day in movie history - The Public Enemy (1931 movie & novel):

The Public Enemy

directed by William A. Wellman,

written by Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Harvey F. Thew,

based on the novel Beer and Blood by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon,

was released in the United States on April 23, 1931.

Music by David Mendoza.

Cast:

James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton, Beryl Mercer, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Murray Kinnell, Mae Clarke, Frank Coghlan Jr., Frankie Darro, Robert Homans, Sam McDaniel, William H. Strauss, Mia Marvin, Lev Abramov, Clark Burroughs, George Daly, Snitz Edwards, Rita Flynn, Dorothy Gee, Douglas Gerrard, Dorothy Gray, Ben Hendricks Jr., Eddie Kane, Arnold Lucy, Harold Minjir, Helen Parrish, Lee Phelps, Russ Powell, Purnell Pratt, Nanci Price, Joe Sawyer, Landers Stevens, Charles Sullivan, Lucille Ward, Adele Watson.

Recommended reading:

The Public Enemy

aka Beer and Blood.

By Kubec Glasmon & John Bright.

Filmed as The Public Enemy (1931), directed by William A. Wellman.

Published by Grosset & Dunlap.

Published 1931.

Hardcover.

ASIN: B0006ALC06

Description:

Photoplay novelization of the famed 1931 James Cagney classic gangster film. THE PUBLIC ENEMY (voted by the American Film Institute as the 8th greatest crime film in American film history) was a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman. based on a never-published novel by two former street thugs: "Beer and Blood" by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon (who had witnessed some of Al Capone’s murderous gang rivalries in Chicago!) A remarkable book in itself, one of those rare Grosset & Dunlap publications (like King Kong).

Born on this day – Margaret DePriest:

Margaret DePriest

Writer

Actress

April 19, 1931 – September 29, 2025

Credits:

All My Children (1989–1990); Another World (1986–1997); Days of Our Lives (1981–1984); General Hospital (1979–1981); How to Survive a Marriage (1975); Love of Life (1975); N.Y.P.D. (1968); One Life to Live (1990); Sunset Beach (1998–1999); The Catholic Hour (1958); The Doctors (1967–1976); The Edge of Night (1956–1984); True Story (1960); Where the Heart Is (1969–1973).

On this day in movie history - The Secret Six (1931):

The Secret Six

aka The Secret 6,

directed by George W. Hill,

written by Frances Marion,

was released in the United States on April 18, 1931.

Cast:

Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau, Paul Hurst, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy, John Miljan, DeWitt Jennings, Murray Kinnell, Fletcher Norton, Louis Natheaux, Frank McGlynn Sr., Theodore von Eltz, Lynton Brent, Mary Carlisle, Charles Giblyn, Joseph W. Girard, Betty Lawson, Tom London, George Magrill, Lee Phelps, Buddy Roosevelt, Oscar Rudolph, Hector V. Sarno, Carol Tevis, Arthur Thalasso, Walter Walker, S.D. Wilcox.

Born on this day – Patt Shea:

Patt Shea

Writer

April 12, 1931 – April 12, 2024

Credits:

All in the Family (1979); Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983); Bagdad Cafe (1990); Cagney & Lacey (1982); Gloria (1982–1983); Happy Days (1980); Hell Town (1985); I Married Dora (1987); In the Beginning (1978); In the Heat of the Night (1992); Lou Grant (1980–1981); Mama Malone (1984); Marblehead Manor (1987–1988); Nothing Is Easy (1987); Sanford (1980); The Egg Plant Lady (2000); The Golden Girls (1987); The Jeffersons (1977–1978); Valerie (1987).

Born on this day – John Gavin:

John Gavin

Actor

April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018

John Gavin (left), Vera Miles (right), in Psycho (1960).

Credits:

A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Breath of Scandal (1960); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); Alcoa Premiere (1962); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Back Street (1961); Behind the High Wall (1956); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (1998); Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Compression (2023); Convoy (1965); Cutter's Trail (1970); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Destry (1964); Disclosure (2020); Doctors' Private Lives (1979); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); Entertainment Tonight (2018); Everybody's Talking (1967); Fantasy Island (1978–1981); Flying High (1978); Four Girls in Town (1957); Hart to Hart (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hour Magazine (1986); Imitation of Life (1959); Insight (1960); It's Your Bet (1972–1973); Jennifer (1978); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1974); Keep It in the Family (1973); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); La casa de las sombras (1976); Mannix (1973); Maurice Woodruff Predicts (1969); Medical Center (1976); Midnight Lace (1960); Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968); Password (1965–1975); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pedro Páramo (1967); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Psycho (1960); Psycho Path (1998); Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970); Quantez (1957); Raw Edge (1956); Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010); Romanoff and Juliet (1961); Snap Judgment (1967); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); Spartacus (1960); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 16th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1959); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 56th Annual Academy Awards (1984); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2001); The City of Gods (1968); The Doris Day Show (1971); The Horror Show (1979); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1969); The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975); The Love Boat (1977); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969); The Making of 'Far from Heaven' (2002); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1971); The New Adventures of Heidi (1978); The Pat Boone Show (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The Virginian (1964); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); This Is Your Life (1973); Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967); To Tell the Truth (1973); Today (1985); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); You Don't Say (1965); Your First Impression (1964).

Born on this day – Ted Kotcheff:

Ted Kotcheff

Director

Producer

Actor

April 7, 1931 – April 10, 2025

Credits:

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996); A New Breed: Ted Kotcheff Remembers Billy Two Hats (2015); ABC Stage 67 (1966–1967); Armchair Theatre (1958–1964); At the Drop of Another Hat (1967); Barney's Version (2010); Big Guns, Bigger Heroes: The 1980's and the Rise of the Action Film (2012); Billy Two Hats (1974); Borrowed Hearts (1997); Buddy Faro (2000); Dad Strangelove (2025); David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema (2017); Drama 61-67 (1964); Drawing First Blood (2002); E! True Hollywood Story (2008); Encounter (1956–1957); Erase and Forget (2017); Espionage (1963); Family of Cops (1995); Fearless (2014); First Blood (1982); First Blood: Alternate Ending (2014); First Blood: Humorous Ending (2014); First Blood: Rambo Takes the 80s Part 1 (2018); First Night (1963–1964); First Performance (1957); Folks! (1992); Fun with Dick and Jane (1977); Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood (2014); Guts and Glory (2002); Hard (2014); Hidden Assassin (1995); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hour of Mystery (1957); I Love 1980's (2001); I'll Have You to Remember (1961); ITV Playhouse (1969); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Joshua Then and Now (1985); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–2012); Le soldat de cinéma (2013); Life at the Top (1965); Lights Out (1972); Love on the Run (1994); North Dallas Forty (1979); Not Quite Hollywood: Deleted and Extended Scenes (2008); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Of Mice and Men (1968); On Camera (1956–1957); On Screen! (2005); Performance (1975); Pierrot le fou (1965); / Cannes Film Festival (2009); Play for Today (1971–1972); Rambo (2008); Red Shoe Diaries (1992); Rx for the Defense (1973); Sauvage: Survivre au Cinéma (2017); SEGAL (2025); Shattered Glass (2003); Soul of an Artist (2017); Split Image (1982); SVU: The Beginning (2003); Switching Channels (1988); Talking Film (1981); Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema (2011); The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974); The Apprenticeship of Ted Kotcheff (2025); The Check Is in the Mail... (1986); The Desperate Hours (1967); The Great Canadian Culture Hunt (1976); The Human Voice (1966); The Larry Solway Show (1974); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962–1963); The Making of 'First Blood' (1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Planters (2019); The Return of Alex Kelly (1999); The Seventh Art (2013); Tiara Tahiti (1962); Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969); Uncommon Valor (1983); Wake in Fright (1971); War Gene (2020); We Get to Win This Time (2002); Weekend at Bernie's (1989); What Are Families for? (1993); When Muscles Ruled the World (2002); Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978); Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977); Winter People (1989).