Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Born on this day – William Holden:


William Holden


Actor

April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981

Credits:

Adventures at the Jade Sea (1969); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Apartment for Peggy (1948); Arizona (1940); Ashanti (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978); Blaze of Noon (1947); Boots Malone (1952); Born Yesterday (1950); Breezy (1973); Casino Royale (1967); CinĂ© regards (1979); Damien: Omen II (1978); Dear Ruth (1947); Dear Wife (1949); Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953); Donahue (1976); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Escape to Athena (1979); Et par ord om Danmark (1960); Executive Suite (1954); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Fedora (1978); Force of Arms (1951); Forever Female (1953); Golden Boy (1939); Good Morning America (1977–1981); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Today (1955); I Love Lucy (1955); I Wanted Wings (1941); Invisible Stripes (1939); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Million Dollar Legs (1939); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); Mysteries of the Sea (1980); Network (1976); Once Upon a Time.... is Now Grace Kelly (1977); Open Season (1974); Our Town (1940); Paris When It Sizzles (1964); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1955); Picnic (1955); Prison Farm (1938); Producers' Showcase (1955); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); Reconnaissance Pilot (1943); Report on Hong Kong (1961); S.O.B. (1981); Sabrina (1954); Salute to Show Business (1957); Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954); Satan Never Sleeps (1962); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1955); Shooting Stars (1961); Stalag 17 (1953); Streets of Laredo (1949); Submarine Command (1951); Sunset Blvd. (1950); Texas (1941); World's Heavyweight Championship Fight: Floyd Patterson Heavyweight Champion of the World versus Ingemar Johansson Heavyweight Champion of Europe (1959); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 7th Dawn (1964); The American Movie Awards (1980); The Annual National Sports Awards (1974); The Blue Knight (1973); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); The Christmas Tree (1969); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954–1955); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); The Country Girl (1954); The Dark Past (1948); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Dean Martin Show (1968–1973); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1972); The Earthling (1980); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Fleet's In (1942); The Horse Soldiers (1959); The Jack Benny Program (1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Key (1958); The Lion (1962); The Man from Colorado (1948); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1977); The Moon Is Blue (1953); The Moviemakers (1971); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Remarkable Andrew (1942); The Revengers (1972); The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1981); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Turning Point (1952); The Wild Bunch (1969); The World of Suzie Wong (1960); Those Were the Days! (1940); Toward the Unknown (1956); 21 Hours at Munich (1976); Union Station (1950); Variety Girl (1947); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 (1954); What's My Line? (1956); When Time Ran Out... (1980); Wild Rovers (1971); Wild Rovers (1971); Wings Up (1943); You Can Change the World (1950); Young and Willing (1943).

Born on this day – Anne Shirley:


Anne Shirley


Actress

April 17, 1918 – July 4, 1993

Credits:

4 Devils (1928); A Man to Remember (1938); A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935); Alice's Egg Plant (1925); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Anne of Green Gables (1934); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Bachelor Bait (1934); Bombardier (1943); Boy Slaves (1939); Career (1939); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Chatterbox (1936); City Girl (1930); Condemned Women (1938); Emma (1932); Finishing School (1934); Four Jacks and a Jill (1942); Girls' School (1938); Government Girl (1943); Gun Smoke (1931); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hello Napoleon (1931); His Wooden Wedding (1925); Howdy Mate (1931); Lady Bodyguard (1943); Law of the Underworld (1938); Liliom (1930); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Man from Frisco (1944); Meet the Missus (1937); M'Liss (1936); Moonshine Valley (1922); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Mother Knows Best (1928); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); Night Life (1927); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Rich Man's Folly (1931); Riders of the Purple Sage (1925); Saturday's Children (1940); School for Girls (1934); Sins of the Fathers (1928); So and Sew (1936); So Big! (1932); Sorority House (1939); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Stella Dallas (1937); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Fast Set (1924); The Hidden Woman (1922); The History Chicks (2018); The Key (1934); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Man Who Fights Alone (1924); The Mayor of 44th Street (1942); The Powers Girl (1943); The Purchase Price (1932); The Rich Pup (1924); The Rustle of Silk (1923); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The World Is Ours (1938); This Side of Heaven (1934); Three on a Match (1932); Too Many Wives (1937); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Vigil in the Night (1940); West Point Widow (1941); Young America (1932).

Born on this day – Vivian Reed:


Vivian Reed


Actress

April 17, 1894 – July 19, 1989

Credits:

La belle vie (1985); Vivacious Lady (1938); Student Tour (1934); It's a Bear (1919); The Guilty Man (1918); The Bull's Eye (1917); Trials and Tribulations (1917); The Friendship of Beaupere (1917); The Lad and the Lion (1917); Little Lost Sister (1917); Lost and Found (1917); The Princess of Patches (1917); In the House of the Chief (1916); The Old Man Who Tried to Grow Young (1916); The Conflict (1916); The Return (1916); The Test of Chivalry (1916); The Hard Way (1916); The Temptation of Adam (1916); At Piney Ridge (1916); The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1916); A Social Deception (1916); The Dragnet (1916); Tom Martin: A Man (1916); Selig-Tribune, No. 93 (1916); The Sacred Tiger of Agra (1915); The Print of the Nails (1915); The Lost Messenger (1915); The Sculptor's Model (1915); The Eternal Feminine (1915); The Man with the Iron Heart (1915); The Scarlet Lady (1915); The Isle of Content (1915); Motherhood (1915); The Onion Patch (1915); The Journey's End (1915); Tiger Bait (1915); Ingratitude of Liz Taylor (1915); Perils of the Jungle (1915); The Heart of Maryland (1915); The Last Egyptian (1914); His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914); The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914); The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914).

On this day in music history - Beyond the Crossroads, by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2012):

The album Beyond the Crossroads,
by Peter Karp & Sue Foley,
was released on April 17, 2012.

J.K. Rowling, on writing:


Writing for me is a kind of compulsion,
so I don't think anyone could have made me do it,
or prevented me from doing it.

- J.K. Rowling.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

On this day in music history - Songs from a Secret Garden, by Secret Garden (2016):

The album Songs from a Secret Garden,
by Secret Garden,
was released on April 16, 2016.

Born on this day – Dusty Springfield:


Dusty Springfield

Singer

April 16, 1939 – March 2, 1999

Credits:

Albums:

A Brand New Me (1970); A Girl Called Dusty (1964); A Very Fine Love (1995); Cameo (1973); Dusty in Memphis (1969); Dusty... Definitely (1968); Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty (1965); Faithful (2015); It Begins Again (1978); Living Without Your Love (1979); Ooooooweeee!!! (1965); Reputation (1990); See All Her Faces (1972); Where Am I Going? (1967); White Heat (1982).

Movies, television and video:

1 a Minute (2010); 20 to 1 (2006); 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996); 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (1968); 45 Years (2015); 9-1-1 (2019); A Bucket o' French & Saunders (2007); A Home at the End of the World (2004); A Time for Loving (1972); A Touch of the Norman Vaughans (1964); A Walk on the Moon (1999); A Whole Scene Going (1966); Aikuiset (2019); Alex Strangelove (2018); All You Need Is Love (1977); Ambulance (2017); American Bandstand (1964–1965); American Horror Story (2012); Angels (1976); Anne Murray: The Sounds of London (1985); Another Evening with Burt Bacharach (1970); Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018); Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023); Arena (1989); Aspel & Company (1989); Baby It's You (1983); Bad Hair Days (2001); BAFTA British Academy Awards (1989); Bandstand (1967); BBC Show of the Week (1968); Beatrix, Oranje onder Vuur (2012); Billy Cotton Band Show (1965–1968); Birds of a Feather (1989); Blackpool Night Out (1964); Blue Murder (2004); Breakfast on Pluto (2005); Brian Pern: A Tribute (2017); Buster (1988); Call the Midwife (2012); Casino (1990); Casino Royale (1967); Castle Rock (2018); Catch Me If You Can (2002); Caught (2018); CBS This Morning (1989); Cilla (1969); Cilla's Celebration (1993); Clive Anderson Talks Back (1995); Colorspace Vol. 4 (2014); Coronation Street (1991–2016); Corvette Summer (1978); Cracker (1995); Crazyhead (2016); Crossing Jordan (2002); Daisy Jones & The Six (2023); Dancing on Ice (2010); Dancing with the Stars (2006); Daria (1998); Day of the Flowers (2012); De Mike Burstyn show (1981); Deadly Advice (1994); Dean Martin Presents: The Bobby Darin Amusement Co. (1972); Decidedly Dusty (1969); Dee Time (1967–1968); Definitely Dusty (1999); Della (1969); Der Lehrer (2018); Des O'Connor Tonight (1996); Dinah! (1975); Doctor Who (2008–2011); Doddy's Music Box (1967); Druckfrisch (2007); Duet Impossible (2006); Dusty (1966–1967); Dusty Springfield & Daryl Hall: Wherever Would I Be? (1995); Dusty Springfield (1969); Dusty Springfield in Dusty Springfield: Live at the BBC (2007); Dusty Springfield in Dusty Springfield: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1979); Dusty Springfield in Dusty Springfield: Reflections (2003); Dusty Springfield: Arrested by You (1990); Dusty Springfield: I Want to Stay Here (1990); Dusty Springfield: In Private (1989); Dusty Springfield: Nothing Has Been Proved (1989); Dusty Springfield: Reputation (1990); Dusty Springfield: Roll Away (1995); EastEnders (1994–2022); Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics (1999); Elvis: The Rebirth of the King (2017); Europarty (1968); Falling Water (2016); Family Ties (2000); Fanny and Elvis (1999); Fat City (1972); Festival di Sanremo (1965); First Timers (2018); Five O'Clock Club (1966); Flitterabend (1995); For me – formidable (1969); Frank-Étienne Towards Grace (2012); French and Saunders (1996); Frequency (2000); From the Beatles to Oasis: Forty Years of Granada Pop (1996); Frost on Saturday (1969); Frost on Sunday (1968); Funny Woman (2023); Getting It Right (1989); Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop (2005); Godzilla (2014); Good Morning Britain (2017); Good Omens (2023); Gossip (2000); Great Performances (1996); Guten Abend, Nachbarn (1972); Guth (2013); Hall Pass (2011); Heartbreaker (2010); Here Come the Girls (1963); Hippodrome (1966); How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008); Hullabaloo (1965); Imagine Me & You (2005); In the Cut (2003); Independent Lens (2005); Infamous (2006); Informer (2018); InRealLife (2013); Inspector Lewis (2007); Interview (2003); It Must Be Dusty (1968); It's All Over Town (1964); It's Lulu (1970–1971); It's Lulu, Not to Mention Dudley Moore (1972); Joop (1969); JT LeRoy (2018); Juke Box Jury (1963–1979); Just Dusty (2009); Just for Fun (1963); Känd frĂ¥n TV (2001); Karaoke Revolution (2009); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982); Kraft Music Hall Presents: The Des O'Connor Show (1970); La parenthèse enchantĂ©e (2000); Ladybirds (1965); Las Vegas (2006); Last Night in Soho (2021); Last Tango in Halifax (2013); Later... With Jools Holland (1995–1996); Life on Mars (2007); Little America (2020); Live from Her Majesty's (1985); Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998); Lorraine (2017); Los simuladores (2002); Love & Mercy (2014); Love & Money (1981); Love Songs at the BBC (2011); Luke Cage (2016); Luther (2011); Mad Cows (1999); Mad Men (2012); Mafia III (2016); Make Your Own Kind of Music! (1971); Malcolm in the Middle (2006); Masters of Sex (2015); Medium (2005); Merz gegen Merz (2020); Misfits (2013); Miss Match (2003); Mom and Dad (2017); Motown Master: Lamont Dozier at the BBC (2023); Movie Music Mania (2005); Mr. Robot (2016); Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (2021); MTV 80s - 1989 Wrapped! (2023); MTV 80s - Top 50 Hits of 1987! (2022); Music My Way (1973); Music Scene (1969); My Music: 60s & 70s Slow Songs (2015); My Music: '60s Girl Grooves (2013); My Music: Burt Bacharach's Best (2013); My Music: Rock Rewind '67-'69 (2017); My Music: The British Beat (2007); New British Canon (2019–2024); New Musical Express Poll Winners' Concert (1966); New Tricks (2006); Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008); Nigella: At My Table (2017); Nine Perfect Strangers (2021); No Escape (1994); Norbit (2007); Not Only... But Also (1966); Once More with Felix (1969); One Hit Wonderland (2014); Only Fools and Horses (1991); Open House (1964); Operation: Entertainment (1968–1969); Overspel (2015); Pam & Tommy (2022); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Pebble Mill at One (1995); Peninta-peninta (2007); Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop (2006); Pet Shop Boys: Montage - The Nightlife Tour (2001); Pet Shop Boys: Pop Art - The Videos (2003); Pet Shop Boys: Videography (1991); Pet Shop Boys: What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1987); Peter Sarstedt (1969); Pop Go the Sixties! (1969); Popular Voices at the BBC (2017); Priest (1994); Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act (2006); Pulp Fiction (1994); Queens of British Pop (2009); Rain (2001); Ram-Jam (1966); Ray Donovan (2017); Ready Steady Go, Volume 1 (1983); Ready, Steady, Go! (1963–1966); Richard Carpenter & Dusty Springfield: Something in Your Eyes (1987); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (1999); Rod McKuen (1971); Romance & Cigarettes (2005); Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004); RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2021); S.P.U.N.G (2002); SacrĂ©e soirĂ©e (1990); Samantha Who? (2007); Saturday Night at the Mill (1979); Saturday Night Out (1985); Saturday Stars (1968); Scandal (1989); Schlag auf Schlager (1970); School for Seduction (2004); Second City Firsts (1974); Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2008); Set It Up (2018); Sex Education (2020); Sha Na Na (1979); ShakespeaRe-Told (2005); Shirley (1979); Shivaree (1965–1966); Shopgirl (2005); Showbusiness (1988); Showtime (1968); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); ... Sings James Bond (2012); Sings Bacharach and David! (2012); SingStar Rocks! (2006); Sleepers (1996); Snap (2023); SOKO MĂ¼nchen (2002); Soul Power! (2013); Stand Up and Cheer (1972); Star Stories (2006); Stars and Garters (1965); Strange Planet (1999); Swan Song (2021); Sydney Tonight (1969); Tarbuck at the Prince of Wales (1966); Teachers (2002); Ted Lasso (2020); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1963–1966); The 15th Annual Grammy Awards (1973); The Andy Williams Show (1969–1970); The Associate (1996); The Babysitter (2017); The Bacharach Sound (1965); The Benny Hill Show (1961); The Best of Music Flashback Television Shows: Featuring Music Scene and Hullabaloo (2001); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Big Time (1980); The Blackpool Show (1967); The Boat That Rocked (2009); The Bobby Darin Show (1973); The Brave One (2007); The Britannia Music Awards 1988 (1988); The British Invasion (2010); The Bromley Boys (2018); The Brontes at the BBC (2016); The Corrupt Ones (1967); The Crowded Room (2023); The Dame Edna Experience (1989); The Dating Game (1968); The Deuce (2019); The Dick Cavett Show (1970); The Don Lane Show (1981); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1964–1966); The Ed Sullivan Show (1964); The Engelbert Humperdinck Show (1970); The Gigolos (2006); The Graham Stark Show (1964); The Grand Tour (2016); The Hollywood Palace (1969–1970); The Hunt (2020); The Jim Nabors Show (1978); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Johnny Cash Show (1970); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Ken Dodd Show (1966); The Kenny Everett Video Show (1980); The Last Days of the Board (1999); The Liberace Show (1969); The London Palladium Show (1967–1968); The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1966); The Mancini Generation (1972); The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971); The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1979); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1970); The Office (2008); The Parent Trap (1998); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Pop Spot (1965); The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009); The Red Skelton Hour (1967); The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1986); The Rolf Harris Show (1968–1971); The Roxy (1987); The Royal Variety Performance 1965 (1965); The Sara Cox Show (2019); The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973); The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973); The Springfields (1961); The Stunt Man (1980); The Sweet Ride (1968); The Toni Tennille Show (1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972–1973); The Very Thought of You (1998); The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972); The Wedding Tackle (2000); The Young Generation (1970); They Sold a Million (1973); This Is Tom Jones (1969–1970); Til Death Do Us Part (2017); Time for Blackburn (1968); Timeshift (2012–2016); Tin Men (1987); Toast (2010); Tom Jones and Such Special Friends (1971); Tom Jones Now! (1983); Tom Jones! (1966); Top Beat (1964); Top of the Pops (1966–1989); Top of the Pops: The Story of 1978 (2013); Two Weeks Notice (2002); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1965); Vinyl (2016); Viva Blackpool (2006); Waking the Dead (2009); What's Love Got to Do with It (1993); When Motown Came to Britain (2023); Where the Action Is (1965); While You Were Sleeping (1995); Will & Grace (2004); Wogan (1985); Wonderland (1999); WĂ¼nsch dir was (1969); ZDF-Fernsehgarten (1990).