On this day in movie history - Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982):

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid,

directed by Carl Reiner,

written by Carl Reiner, George Gipe and Steve Martin,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1982.
Music by Miklós Rózsa and Steve Goodman.

Cast:

Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Kirk Douglas, Fred MacMurray, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Reni Santoni, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, George Gaynes, Francis X. McCarthy, Adrian Ricard, Charlie Picerni, Gene LeBell, George Sawaya, Britt Nilsson, Jean Beaudine, John Easton Stuart, Ronald Spivey, Bob Hevelone, Dieter Curt, Phillip Kearns, Kent Deigaard, Eugene Brezany, Brad Baird, William Conrad, Charles McGraw, Jeff Corey, John Miljan, Brian Donlevy, Norma Varden, Edmond O'Brien, Wally Brown, David LeBell, Cheryl Smith.

On this day in movie history: Gaslight (1944):

Gaslight,

directed by George Cukor,

written by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston,

based on the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1944.
Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes, Tom Stevenson, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel, Harry Adams, Lassie Lou Ahern, John Ardizoni, Frank Baker, Wilson Benge, Arnold Bennett, Florence Benson, Arthur Blake, Lillian Bronson, Alec Craig, Antonio D'Amore, Wynne Davis, Frank Eldredge, Maude Fealy, Al Ferguson, Helen Flint, Gibson Gowland, Gary Gray, Roger Gray, Bobbie Hale, Joy Harington, Tom Hughes, Jack Kirk, Pat Malone, Al Masiello, Charles McNaughton, Terry Moore, Clive Morgan, Georgie Nokes, Joseph North, Tarquin Olivier, Elsie Prescott, Joseph Romantini, Syd Saylor, Arthur Stone, Alix Terry, Morgan Wallace, Eric Wilton, Eustace Wyatt, Katherine Yorke, Phyllis Yuse, Guy Zanette.

On this day in movie history - Manhattan Melodrama (1934):

Manhattan Melodrama,

directed by W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway and George Cukor,

written by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

based on a story by Arthur Caesar, Frank Dolan and Donald Ogden Stewart,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1934.
Music by William Axt.

Cast:
Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Isabel Jewell, Muriel Evans, Thomas E. Jackson, Isabelle Keith, Frank Conroy, Noel Madison, Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Ross.

Born on this day – Paul Gleason:

Paul Gleason

Actor

May 4, 1939 – May 27, 2006

Credits:

2005 MTV Movie Awards (2005); 21 Jump Street (1989); A Time to Revenge (1997); A*Teens: Dancing Queen (1999); Abominable (2006); Adam-12 (1971–1974); All My Children (1978); Another Life (1981–1984); Anything for Love (1985); Arthur (1981); B.L. Stryker (1990); Banacek (1972); Beauty and the Beast (1987); Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998); Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction / Creepy Comics (1999); Boiling Point (1993); Boy Meets World (1997); Cagney & Lacey (1984); Call to Glory (1984); CBS Playhouse (1969); Challenge of a Lifetime (1985); Chicago Hope (1999); C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967); Cold Case (2005); Columbo (1975); Dallas (1985); Dark Skies (1996); Dawson's Creek (2003); Day at the Beach (1997); Dead Last (2001); Diagnosis Murder (1999); Die Hard (1988); Digital Man (1995); Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975); Doubletake (1985); Dragnet (2003); Drake & Josh (2004); Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985); Falcon Crest (1987); False Arrest (1991); Fastlane (2002); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1990); Forever, Lulu (1986); Fort Apache the Bronx (1981); Fourth Story (1991); Friends (2000); George Lopez (2005); Ghost Chase (1987); Gimme a Break! (1986); Grace Under Fire (1997); Hardball (1990); Hardcastle and McCormick (1984); He Knows You're Alone (1980); Hill Street Blues (1984); Hit Man (1972); I Love Trouble (1994); Ike: The War Years (1979); In the Living Years (1994); It's About Time (1967); Johnny Be Good (1988); Kate & Allie (1986); L.A. Law (1991); Life Goes On (1989); Lifted (1988); Little Laura and Big John (1973); Loaded Weapon 1 (1993); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994); Looking for Richard (1996); Lost on Earth (1997); M.U.G.E.N (1999); Magnum, P.I. (1984); Majority Rule (1992); Malcolm in the Middle (2004); Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992); Married People (1990); McCloud (1974); Melrose Place (1998); Miami Blues (1990); Miami Vice (1986); Mission: Impossible (1972); Money Talks (1997); Monty Nash (1971); Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987); Murder, She Wrote (1989–1992); MysteryDisc: Many Roads to Murder (1983); MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone? (1982); Nash Bridges (1998); National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002); NewsRadio (1997); Night Game (1989); No Code of Conduct (1998); Not Another Teen Movie (2001); Nothing to Lose (1994); One West Waikiki (1994–1996); Panic in Year Zero! (1962); Petticoat Junction (1966); Private Duty Nurses (1971); Red Letters (2000); Remington Steele (1984); Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994); Rich Girl (1991); Riptide (1984); Running Cool (1993); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1984); Seinfeld (1994); Shadow Conspiracy (1997); She's Having a Baby (1988); Sidekicks (1987); Ski Party (1965); Social Misfits (2001); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Spooner (1989); Starting Now (1989); Sun Gods (2002); Supercarrier (1988); Superior Court (1986–1990); Tales from the Crypt (1991); Tender Mercies (1983); Texas (1982); The A-Team (1984–1986); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1971); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Book of Caleb (2008); The Breakfast Club (1985); The District (2001); The Drew Carey Show (1999); The Equalizer (1986); The F.B.I. (1968); The Giving Tree (2000); The Great Santini (1979); The Green Hornet (1967); The Guardian (2002); The Invaders (1967); The Making of Bret Michaels (2002); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Myersons (2001); The Organization (2001); The Passing (2011); The Pink Garter Gang (1971); The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981); The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968); The Waiter (1993); The Weber Show (2001); The Wonder Years (1992); Then Came Bronson (1969); There Goes My Baby (1994); Toma (1973); Trading Places (1983); Veronica's Closet (1999–2000); Vigilante Force (1976); Walker, Texas Ranger (1997); Where Does It Hurt? (1972); Wild Cactus (1993); Winter A-Go-Go (1965); Wishman (1992); Women at West Point (1979).

Born on this day – Eleanor Coppola:

Eleanor Coppola

Documentary film director

Cinematographer

Writer

Artist

May 4, 1936 – April 12, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now (1979); Notes on a Life (2008).

Documentaries, movies and television:

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012); A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004); A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now (2006); A Visit to China's Miao Country (1996); An American Rhapsody (2001); Apocalypse Now (1979); Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto (2014); Celebrity Page (2017–2021); Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007); Dementia 13 (1963); Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' (2007); Front Row Flynn (2018); Full Tilt Boogie (1997); Heard Any Good Movies Lately?: The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now (2006); Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991); Hollywood Insider (2021); Lost in Translation (2003); Love Is Love Is Love (2020); Made in Hollywood (2021); Making of 'The Virgin Suicides' (1998); Napa Valley Dreams (2013); On the Rocks (2020); On the Set of 'CQ' (2002); Paris Can Wait (2016); Ryska Alaska (1992); Somewhere (2010); Teknolust (2002); Tell Them We Were Here (2021); The 19th Annual Rudolph Valentino Awards (1991); The 43rd Annual Directors Guild Awards (1991); The Beguiled (2017); The Birth of 5.1 Sound (2006); The Bling Ring (2013); The Dream Studio (2004); The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990); The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' (2007); The Music of Apocalypse Now (2006); The Rain People (1969); THX 1138 (1971); You're a Big Boy Now (1966).

Born on this day – Audrey Hepburn:

Audrey Hepburn

Actress

Humanitarian

May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1968: The Year That Changed America (2018); 20 to 1 (2010); 5 News (2007); A New Look at the Legend of Robin Hood and Maid Marian (1976); A World of Love (1970); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976–1989); Always (1989); American Masters (1986); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (2012); Au-delà de l'écran (1965); Audrey (2020); Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993); Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (2017); Audrey Hepburn: Ein Star auf der Suche nach sich selbst (2004); Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words (1993); Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2020); ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005); Banda sonora (2012); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Beautiful Like a Poem (2020); Before Breakfast (2010); Bert Stern: Original Madman (2011); Betty Crocker Star Matinee (1952); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Biography (1995–1997); Bloodline (1979); Bob Hope's Birthday Spectacular in Paris (1989); Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); Britain's Finest (2005); C à vous (2020); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); CBS Television Workshop (1952); CBS This Morning (1989–1991); Celebrity Page (2020); Charade (1963); Cinemania (2002); Cinépanorama (1956); Compression (2023); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (2013); Danny Kaye International Children Award for Unicef (1991); Darcey Bussell's Looking for Audrey (2014); Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Diminishing Returns (2020); Discovering Film (2015); Donahue (1990); Doors (2022); Dove Chocolate: Audrey Hepburn (2013); Du côté de chez Fred (1989); Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002); Entertainment Tonight (1989–2024); Extra (2017); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018); Film Review (1967–1968); Film Theory (2022); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); Funny Face (1957); Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993–1994); Génération Barracuda (2023); Gilmore Girls (2006); Godard Cinema (2022); Good Morning America (1989–1992); Great Performances (1991); Green Mansions (1959); Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur (2022); Gregory Peck: His Own Man (1988); Großstadtrevier (2016); Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991); Hollywood Babylon (1971); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood Greats (2001); Hollywood Insider (2020–2022); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Hollywood sul Tevere (2009); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Home Stories (1990); Hour Magazine (1988); How to Steal a Million (1966); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); I Love Audrey (2013); Inside Edition (2017); Intimate Portrait (1996); ITV Evening News (2007); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Kids First (1990); King of Cool (2021); Kulturplatz (2008); La exhibición analógital (2019); La nuit des Césars (1987); Larry King Live (1989–1990); Larry King Live: 10th Anniversary Volume One (1995); Larry King TNT Extra 2 (1991); Las Campos (2017); Laughter in Paradise (1951); Leave It to the Girls (1951); Legenden (2005); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Lerner and Loewe: Broadway's Last Romantics (1988); Les Chroniques du Mea (2022); Les Nuits de France Culture (2022); Little Black Dress: The History of a Legendary Frock (2016); London Tonight (2007); Love Among Thieves (1987); Love in the Afternoon (1957); Love Lust (2011); Mayerling (1957); Michael Grade's Stars of the Musical Theatre (2014); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Movie Music Mania (2005); MsMojo / Moon River / I Could Have Danced All Night (2021–2023); My Fair Lady (1964); Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita (2023); Nazi Collaborators (2010); Nederlands in zeven lessen (1948); Nikotin - Droge mit Zukunft (2020); Nine Perfect Strangers (2021); Nostalgia Critic (2017); Nous irons à Monte Carlo (1951); Nunca es tarde (2017); Omaggio a Roma (2009); Omnibus (1978–2001); One Wild Oat (1951); Paris When It Sizzles (1964); Piaggio Vespa Commercial (2014); Private Screenings (2001); Producers' Showcase (1957); Queer Eye: We're in Japan! (2019); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1990); Remembering 'Roman Holiday' (2002); Restoring Roman Holiday (2002); Robin and Marian (1976); Robin Hood: The First Celebrity Outlaw (2018); Roman Holiday (1953); Running Man (2014); S1m0ne (2002); Sabrina (1954); Saturday-Night Revue (1950); Sauce Tartare (1949); Secret People (1952); Secret Voices of Hollywood (2013); Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (2018); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); Ta Compagnie me manque III (2012); Talking Pictures (2017); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); Tellement Gay! Homosexualité et pop culture (2015); The 100 Greatest Musicals (2003); The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (1968); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 35th Annual Academy Awards (1963); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Tony Awards (1991); The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1990 (1990); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 51st Annual Academy Awards (1979); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988); The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992); The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The Arthur Murray Party (1954); The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000); The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1989); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Children's Hour (1961); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952–1965); The Fairest Fair Lady (1964); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Audrey Hepburn (1991); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Gregory Peck (1992); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Kate Smith Hour (1952); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1981 / 1991); The Last Movie Painter (2020); The Lavender Hill Mob (1951); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Magic of Audrey (2008); The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995); The Movies (2019); The Nun's Story (1959); The Steve Allen Show presented by Knickerbocker Beer (1954); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1976); The Unforgiven (1960); The World's Most Photographed (2005); They All Laughed (1981); They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson (2006); Today (1953–1955); Today (2011 / 2021); Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (1990); Treasury of Children's Stories (1996); Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020); Trumbo (2015); TV Privé (1974–1983); TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards (1976); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Two for the Road (1967); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1974); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1959 (1960); Very Ralph (2019); Vito (2011); VM Show Vol. 2 (2005); Wait Until Dark (1967); War and Peace (1956); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); Was bin ich? (1988); We Go to Monte Carlo (1953); We, the People (1951); Welcome to the Basement (2012–2015); Wogan (1988–1989); Wogan: The Best Of (2015); Women in Film Crystal Awards (1996); World Film Report (2008); World War Weird (2018); Young Wives' Tale (1951).

Born on this day – James Ellison:

James Ellison

Actor

May 4, 1910 – December 23, 1993

Credits:

23 1/2 Hours Leave (1937); 8 Girls in a Boat (1934); After Office Hours (1935); Almost a Gentleman (1939); Annapolis Salute (1937); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Army Surgeon (1942); Bar 20 Rides Again (1935); Bar 20 Rides Again (1950); Battle of the Buttes (1952); Best Foot Forward (1943); Border Justice (1951); Borderland (1937); Buried Loot (1935); Calendar Girl (1947); Call of the Prairie (1936); Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942); Carolina (1934); Central Airport (1933); Charley's Aunt (1941); Colorado Ranger (1950); Crooked River (1950); Dead Man's Trail (1952); Death on the Diamond (1934); Dixie Dugan (1943); Earth Aid, Our World: A Users Guide (1993); Everybody's Dancin' (1950); Fast on the Draw (1950); Fifth Avenue Girl (1939); G.I. War Brides (1946); Heart of the West (1936); Heart of the West (1950); Hitch Hike Lady (1935); Hollywood and Vine (1945); Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935); Hostile Country (1950); Hotel for Women (1939); I Killed Geronimo (1950); I Walked with a Zombie (1943); Ice-Capades (1941); Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1944); Kentucky Jubilee (1951); Lady, Let's Dance (1944); Last of the Wild Horses (1948); Man from the Black Hills (1952); Marshal of Heldorado (1950); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); Next Time I Marry (1938); Oklahoma Justice (1951); Play Girl (1932); Play Girl (1941); Prairie Vengeance (1951); Reckless (1935); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Sorority House (1939); Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934); Student Tour (1934); Texas City (1952); Texas Lawmen (1951); That Other Woman (1942); The Barrier (1937); The Eagle's Brood (1935); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Gang's All Here (1943); The Ghost Goes Wild (1947); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936); The Plainsman (1936); The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950); The Undying Monster (1942); The Winning Ticket (1935); They Met in Argentina (1941); Three on a Trail (1950); Three on the Trail (1936); Trail Dust (1936); Vivacious Lady (1938); West of the Brazos (1950); When the Girls Take Over (1962); Whistling Hills (1951); You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940); Zenobia (1939).

Confucius, on reading:

No matter how busy you may think you are,

you must find time for reading,

or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

- Confucius.