Born on this day – Paul Sorvino:

Paul Sorvino

Actor

Opera singer

Writer

Sculptor

April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022

Credits:

A Fine Mess (1986); A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives (1993); A Place for Heroes (2014); A Question of Honor (1982); A Touch of Class (1973); A Winter Rose (2014); Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game (2017); Acts of Desperation (2018); Age Isn't Everything (1991); Airship Dracula (2012); Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2016); Almost Partners (1987); American Perfekt (1997); Angel and Big Joe (1976); As Long As We Both Shall Live (2016); Backstreet Justice (1994); Bad Blood (2017); Bad Impulse (2019); Beneath the Leaves (2019); Bert D'Angelo / Superstar (1976); Betrayed by Innocence (1986); Bloodbrothers (1978); Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders (1997); Bulworth (1998); Careful What You Wish For (2015); Carnera: The Walking Mountain (2008); Chasing Gold (2016); Cheaters (2000); Chiefs (1983); Chiller (1985); Ciao America (2002); Cold Deck (2015); Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014); Cover Me (1995); Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2017); Cruising (1980); Cry Uncle (1971); Dead Broke (1998); Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972); Detours (2016); Dick Tracy (1990); Divorce Invitation (2012); DMZ (1990); Doc West (2009); Dog Watch (1997); Don't Touch My Daughter (1991); Drinks with Dee Dee Sorvino (2020); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1997); Dummy (1979); Elementary (2014); Escape Clause (1996); Executor (2017); For the Love of Money (2012); Foreclosed (2013); God Don't Make the Laws (2011); Godfather of Harlem (2019–2021); Goodfellas (1990); Goodnight, Joseph Parker (2004); Grandfathered (2016); Great Performances (1974); Greetings from the Shore (2007); Gutfeld! (2021); Handy Manny (2011); Harlem Aria (1999); Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002); Houdini (1998); How Sweet It Is (2013); I Will... I Will... For Now (1976); I, the Jury (1982); Iggy Azalea Feat. Rita Ora: Black Widow (2014); Imaginary Friend (2012); Immigrant (2013); Insight (1979); It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974); Jack & Bobby (2004); Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012); Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997); Kidnapped in Romania (2016); Kill the Irishman (2011); Kiss-Kiss, Dahlings! (1992); Knock Off (1998); Last Hour (2008); Law & Order (1991–1992); Lily of the Feast (2010); Longshot (2001); L'onore e il rispetto (2006); Lost and Found (1979); Lost Cat Corona (2017); Love Is All There Is (1996); Made for Each Other (1971); Mafia Doctor (2003); Mambo Italiano (2003); Melanie (1982); Men with Guns (1997); Micmacs (2009); Mineville (2010); Money Talks (1997); Moonlighting (1986); Most Guys Are Losers (2020); Most Wanted (1997); Mr. 3000 (2004); Mr. Fix It (2006); Murder, She Wrote (1989); My Mother's Secret Life (1984); Nixon (1995); No Deposit (2015); Off the Wall (1983); Oh, God! (1977); Once Upon a Time in Queens (2013); Papa (2018); Parallel Lives (1994); Paulie (2013); Perfume (2001); Plan B (2001); Price for Freedom (2017); RebelTaxi (2015); Reds (1981); Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008); Rhode Island Blue (2001); Romeo + Juliet (1996); Rules Don't Apply (2016); Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe (2009); Scriptfellas (1999); See Spot Run (2001); Seventh Avenue (1977); Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974); Sicilian Vampire (2015); Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987); Still Standing (2004–2006); Streghe verso nord (2001); Surviving (1985); Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974); That Championship Season (1982); That's Life (2000–2002); The Amati Girls (2000); The Art of the Cigar (1996); The Bandit Hound (2016); The Birthday Cake (2021); The Brink's Job (1978); The Bronx Bull (2016); The Brooklyn Banker (2016); The Cooler (2003); The Day of the Dolphin (1973); The Devil's Carnival (2012); The Family Man (2000); The Firm (1993); The Gambler (1974); The Goldbergs' Excellent Adventure (2014); The Great American Heist (2022); The Greg Gutfeld Show (2015); The Hybrids Family (2015); The Oldest Rookie (1987–1988); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); The Red Maple Leaf (2016); The Rocketeer (1991); The Streets of San Francisco (1976); The Stuff (1985); The Thin Blue Lie (2000); The Trouble with Cali (2012); The Wild Stallion (2009); Today's F.B.I. (1981); Triggerman (2009); Turk 182 (1985); Undercover Grandpa (2017); Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986); Very Close Quarters (1984); Welcome to Acapulco (2019); We'll Get By (1974–1975); Where's Poppa? (1970); With Intent to Kill (1984); Without Consent (1994); Wives' Tales (2008); Work with Me (1999).

Born on this day – Herman Raucher:

Herman Raucher

Writer

April 13, 1928 – December 28, 2023

Credits:

Books:

A Glimpse of Tiger (1971); Maynard's House (1980); Summer of '42 (1971); There Should Have Been Castles (1978); Watermelon Man (1970).

Movies and television:

Sweet November (2001); Ode (1999); Morning Patrol (1987); The Great Santini (1979); The Other Side of Midnight (1977); Ode to Billy Joe (1976); Remember When (1974); Class of '44 (1973); Summer of '42 (1971); Watermelon Man (1970); Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969); Sweet November (1968); Follow That Dream (1962); Studio One (1958); Matinee Theatre (1957); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956).

Born on this day – Stanley Donen:

Stanley Donen

Director

Choreographer

April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019

Credits:

24th Annual Academy Awards (1952); A Date with Judy (1948); AFI Life Achievement Award (1985); American Masters (2004–2008); Anchors Aweigh (1945); Arabesque (1966); Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993); Autodefensa (2022); Bedazzled (1967); Best Foot Forward (1943); Big City (1948); Blame It on Rio (1984); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); Ceremonia de clausura 44ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián (1996); Charade (1963); Ciné regards (1979); Cinema (1969); Cinema 3 (1989); Cinéma cinémas (1986); Cover Girl (1944); Damn Yankees (1958); Deep in My Heart (1954); Der Klang der Bilder (1995); Fearless Fagan (1952); Film '80 (1980); Film Review (1967); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Funny Face (1957); Give a Girl a Break (1953); Great Performances (1996); Hey, Rookie (1944); Holiday in Mexico (1946); Hollywood U.K. British Cinema in the Sixties (1993); Hollywood's Best Film Directors (2009); Indiscreet (1958); Inside the Actors Studio (1995); It's Always Fair Weather (1955); Jam Session (1944); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Killer McCoy (1947); Kismet (1955); Kiss Them for Me (1957); Les mystères du premier film (1995); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1976); Lionel Richie: Dancing on the Ceiling (1986); Living in a Big Way (1947); Love Is Better Than Ever (1952); Love Letters (1999); Love's Labour's Lost (2000); Lucky Lady (1975); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Moonlighting (1986); Movie Movie / Baxter's Beauties of 1933 / Dynamite Hands (1978); No Leave, No Love (1946); Omnibus (1995); On the Town (1949); Once More, with Feeling! (1960); Pierrot the Fool (1984); Pour le cinéma (1969); Private Screenings (2006); Revista de cine (1976); Rich, Young and Pretty (1951); Royal Wedding (1951); Saturn 3 (1980); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Singin' in the Rain (1952); Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' (1997); Sodankylä Forever (2010); Staircase (1969); Stanley Donen: You Just Do It (2010); Surprise Package (1960); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949); That's Entertainment!: The Masters Behind the Musicals (2004); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The Children of Lindos (1960); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Audrey Hepburn (1991); The Grass Is Greener (1960); The Hollywood Fashion Machine (1995); The Hollywood Soundtrack Story (1995); The Kissing Bandit (1948); The Lionel Richie Collection (2003); The Little Prince (1974); The Making of Lionel Richie's Dancing on the Ceiling (1986); The Nation's Favourite Dance Moment (2013); The Pajama Game (1957); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); This Time for Keeps (1947); Two for the Road (1967); What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' (2002); Zapper n'est pas jouer (1990).

Born on this day – Mari Blanchard:

Mari Blanchard

Actress

April 13, 1923 – May 10, 1970

Credits:

It Takes a Thief (1968); The Virginian (1967); Burke's Law (1965); Valentine's Day (1965); Breaking Point (1964); McLintock! (1963); Twice-Told Tales (1963); Don't Knock the Twist (1962); Perry Mason (1962); The Detectives (1962); 77 Sunset Strip (1961); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Gunslinger (1961); The Roaring 20's (1961); Klondike (1960–1961); Rawhide (1959–1961); Sea Hunt (1960); Bronco (1960); Mr. Lucky (1960); Laramie (1960); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960); Shotgun Slade (1959); Bachelor Father (1959); Sugarfoot (1959); Not for Hire (1959); The Texan (1959); The Green Peacock (1958); Karasu (1958); The Witches from Another World (1958); No Place to Land (1958); The Frank Sinatra Show (1957); The Millionaire (1957); Jungle Heat (1957); She Devil (1957); Stagecoach to Fury (1956); Canasta de cuentos mexicanos (1956); The Cruel Tower (1956); Casablanca (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); It's a Great Life (1955); The Crooked Web (1955); The Return of Jack Slade (1955); Son of Sinbad (1955); The Linkletter Show (1955); Climax! (1955); Destry (1954); Black Horse Canyon (1954); Rails Into Laramie (1954); The Veils of Bagdad (1953); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Terry and the Pirates (1952); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952); Back at the Front (1952); Assignment: Paris (1952); The Brigand (1952); Something to Live For (1952); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); Overland Telegraph (1951); The Unknown Man (1951); Ten Tall Men (1951); Bannerline (1951); No Questions Asked (1951); On the Riviera (1951); Mr. Music (1950); Copacabana (1947).

Mabel Seeley, on writing:

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

- Mabel Seeley.

On this day in music history - Damayanti, by 2002 (2011):

The album Damayanti,

by 2002,

was released on April 12, 2011.

On this day in movie history - Original Sins (1995):

Original Sins,

aka Acts of Contrition,

directed by Jan Egleson,

written by John Pielmeier,

was released in the United States on April 12, 1995.
Music by Gary Chang.

Cast:
Mark Harmon, Julianne Phillips, Ron Perlman, David Clennon, Gustave Johnson, Betty Miller, Sarah Trigger, Patrick Donnelly, Kate Bennis, William Young, Bronia Wheeler, Alexandra Loria, Jason Raposa, Bo Chun, William Mathis, Dorothy Brodesser, Bates Wilder, Leigh French, Kevin Foster McCarthy, Mike Nikitas.