Monday, March 25, 2024

Born on this day – Jeanne Cagney:


Jeanne Cagney

Actress

March 25, 1919 – December 7, 1984

Born on this day – Jean Rogers:


Jean Rogers

Actress

March 25, 1916 – February 24, 1991

Born on this day – Curley Weaver:


Curley Weaver

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 25, 1906 – September 20, 1962

Born on this day – Ed Begley:


Ed Begley

Actor

March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970

Born on this day – Ray Enright:


Ray Enright

Director

March 25, 1896 – April 3, 1965

Credits:

Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); The Man from Cairo (1953); Flaming Feather (1952); Kansas Raiders (1950); Montana (1950); South of St. Louis (1949); Return of the Bad Men (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Albuquerque (1948); Trail Street (1947); One Way to Love (1946); Man Alive (1945); China Sky (1945); 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943); The Iron Major (1943); Destroyer (1943); Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943); The Rear Gunner (1943); Sin Town (1942); Men of Texas (1942); The Spoilers (1942); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Law of the Tropics (1941); Bad Men of Missouri (1941); Throwing a Party (1941); Thieves Fall Out (1941); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); River's End (1940); An Angel from Texas (1940); Teddy the Rough Rider (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); On Your Toes (1939); Angels Wash Their Faces (1939); Naughty But Nice (1939); Going Places (1938); Hard to Get (1938); Gold Diggers in Paris (1938); Swing Your Lady (1938); Back in Circulation (1937); The Singing Marine (1937); Slim (1937); Ready, Willing and Able (1937); Sing Me a Love Song (1936); China Clipper (1936); Earthworm Tractors (1936); Snowed Under (1936); Miss Pacific Fleet (1935); We're in the Money (1935); Alibi Ike (1935); Traveling Saleslady (1935); While the Patient Slept (1935); The St. Louis Kid (1934); Dames (1934); The Circus Clown (1934); Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934); I've Got Your Number (1934); Havana Widows (1933); The Silk Express (1933); Tomorrow at Seven (1933); Blondie Johnson (1933); The Tenderfoot (1932); Play Girl (1932); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Local Boy Makes Good (1931); Side Show (1931); Gold Dust Gertie (1931); Scarlet Pages (1930); Outward Bound (1930); Dancing Sweeties (1930); Golden Dawn (1930); Song of the West (1930); Skin Deep (1929); Kid Gloves (1929); Stolen Kisses (1929); The Little Wildcat (1928); Land of the Silver Fox (1928); Domestic Troubles (1928); The Girl from Chicago (1927); Jaws of Steel (1927); Tracked by the Police (1927); The Better 'Ole (1926); The Man on the Box (1925); Verse and Worse (1921).

Born on this day – Béla Bartók:


Béla Bartók

Composer

Pianist

Ethnomusicologist

March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945

Credits:

Music compositions:

14 Bagatelles; 44 Duos for Two Violins; Allegro barbaro; An Evening at the Village; BB 34, Sz. 30; Bluebeard's Castle; Buciumeana; Cantata Profana; Concerto for Orchestra; Contrasts; Dance Suite; Divertimento for String Orchestra; Études de Bartók; Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs; Hungarian Folk Tunes: III; Hungarian Pictures; Kossuth; Maruntel; Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107, BB 105: Volume VI: 148-153: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm; Mikrokosmos; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Out of Doors; Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Piano Method (Zongoraiskola), BB 66, Sz. 52: 116. Moderato; Piano Sonata; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, BB 36b (op. 1): I. Adagio molto; Rhapsody No. 1; Rhapsody No. 2; Romanian Christmas Carols; Romanian Folk Dances; Slovakian Dance; Sonata for Solo Violin; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Sonatina; Sonatina, BB 102a: III. Finale. Allegro vivace; String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 6; Suite, Op. 14; The Barbarian; The Miraculous Mandarin; The Wooden Prince; Two Pictures: I. In voller Blüte; Viola Concerto; Violin Concerto No. 1; Violin Concerto No. 2.

Movies and television:

40 éves a Cantemus (2015); A Bibo Reader (2002); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1970); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1981); A kékszakállú herceg vára (2005); À la découverte des Français (1957); A la memoria del autor (1966); A Nyolcak nyomában (2011); A varázsló álma (1987); A zene határtalanul (2016); Aleph, lectures contades (2000); Anthropoid (2016); Artemis: The Neverending Quartet (2020); Back on Stage (2020); Bal Masqué (1981); Bartok (2017); Bartók Béla: Az éjszaka zenéje (1970); Bartók Béla: Kontrasztok (1981); Bartóks Requiem (2008); Behind Closed Doors (1988); Being John Malkovich (1999); Bluebeard's Castle (1963); Bluebeard's Castle (2022); Budapeströl jut eszembe (2001); Caniche (1979); Catatonic (2009); Celibidache (1992); China Lake (1983); Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy (1986); Cinderella (2021); Concerto for Orchestra (1965); Contrasts (1968); Control Room (2004); Correspondances (1953); Cosmos (1980); Csodálatos mandarin (2001); Das muss man erst mal aussprechen können (2021); Das Versprechen (2023); Des hommes qui ont perdu racine (1956); Diamantino (2018); Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music (2007); Doctor Who (1967–1968); Doomwatch (1972); Drakengard (2003); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1988); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (2020); Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990); Égetö Eszter (1989); El grosso concerto (2001); Életbevágó (2000); El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963); Este a székelyeknél (1998); Flaming Creatures (1963); Fuchsmühl (1974); Full House (1972); Grâce à la musique (1981); Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986); Hamsun (1996); Het slot van hertog Blauwbaard (1965); Hope@Home (2020); Impressions de New York (1956); Imre Eck and Maria Bretus in Csodálatos mandarin (1970); (In Here) I Am God (2018); Ocio (2022); In memoriam Gyarmathy Tihamér (2016); In Search of Dracula (1974); Katzenspiel (1972); Kékszakállú (2016); Klaus Mäkelä dirige Ravel, Debussy et Bartók (2023); Kristallnacht (2022); Le Cabinet des estampes (1954); Le chateau de Barbe-Bleu / La voix humaine (2015); Le mandarin merveilleux (1964); Le roman (1991); Legion (2017); Les grands interprètes (1967); Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997); Long Time No See (2019); Magritte (1978); Medvetánc (1972); Melinda and Melinda (2004); Mindennap (1980); Miroirs (2016); My Homeland (1976); NET Festival (1968); New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1959–1963); Not Reconciled (1965); Obiettivo sul territorio (2009); Oldás és kötés (1963); Orchestre National de France (1964); Playing Mona Lisa (2000); Polyformia (2008); Public Eye (1971); Pursuit (1997); Ready Player One (2018); Réfugiés Algériens (1958); Rosa (1992); Senseless (1962); Simon Says (2015); Singing the Blues in Red (1986); STAR WARS EP 5: Attack of the Phantom Past (2016); Star Wars Ep 6: The Last Laser Master (2018); Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981); Stick and Bone (1968); Studio One (1953); Szörnyeteg (1975); Tatort (2017); The Boris Giltburg Five Minute Library (2017); The Catch (1946); The Good Mother (1988); The Illiac Passion (1967); The Legacy (2009); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2015); The Prediction (1991); The Shepherds of Cat Island (2020); The Shining (1980); The Silent Revolution (2018); The Souvenir (2019); The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2010); The Young Pope (2016); Trainwreck (2001); Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2006); Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1995); Un paso al frente (1966); Un petit prince (1984); Visions (1977); Zongora a levegöben (1976).

James A. Michener, on writing:


I love writing.
I love the swirl of words as they tangle with human emotions.

- James A. Michener.