Born on this day – Mike Kellin:

Mike Kellin

Actor

Singer

April 26, 1922 – August 26, 1983

Credits:

87th Precinct (1961); A Clear and Present Danger (1970); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958); All in the Family (1976); Assignment: Munich (1972); At the Waterfront After the Social: The Legacy of Sleepaway Camp (2014); At War with the Army (1950); Banning (1967); Barney Miller (1976); Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980); Ben Casey (1964); Black Saddle (1959); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1964); Bonino (1953); Camera Three (1958); Combat! (1965); Cover Me Babe (1970); Crime Photographer (1951); Danger (1955); Decoy (1958); Dr. Kildare (1962); Echoes (1982); F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980); Fitz and Bones (1981); Flamingo Road (1982); Fools' Parade (1971); Freebie and the Bean (1974); Galactica 1980 (1980); Girlfriends (1978); God Told Me To (1976); Goodyear Playhouse (1951–1952); Great Performances (1971); Grindl (1964); Gunsmoke (1966); Hands of Mystery (1951); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1961); Hell Is for Heroes (1962); Honestly, Celeste! (1954); Hurricane Smith (1952); I'm Healthy, I'm Alive and I'm Free (1977); Inner Sanctum (1954); Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964); Ironside (1974); Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016); Johnny Staccato (1959); Just Before Dawn (1981); Kojak (1974); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1959); Lonelyhearts (1958); Lost in Space (1966); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1953); Man Against Crime (1953); Midnight Express (1978); Midnight Express: The Finished Film (2008); Mister Peepers (1952–1953); Mr. Novak (1964–1965); Naked City (1959–1963); Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976); Nightside (1973); Omnibus (1961); On the Yard (1978); One Step Beyond (1960); Outlaws (1962); Paternity (1981); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Rawhide (1964); Rendezvous (1959); Riot (1969); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Rocky King, Detective (1950); Route 66 (1961–1962); Save Our Stream (1965); Seventh Avenue (1977); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960); Sleepaway Camp (1983); Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (1992); So Fine (1981); So Young, So Bad (1950); Stanley (1956); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Studio One (1954–1957); Suspense (1949–1953); Switch (1978); Terror at Alcatraz (1982); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Art of Crime (1975); The Boston Strangler (1968); The Catcher (1972); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1951); The Connection (1973); The Defenders (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Great Impostor (1960); The Incident (1967); The Islanders (1961); The Jazz Singer (1980); The Mail Story (1954); The Maltese Bippy (1969); The Mountain Road (1960); The New Breed (1961); The People Next Door (1970); The Phynx (1970); The Rifleman (1959); The Stranger (1954); The Tenth Level (1976); The Tragedy of King Lear (1982); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Untouchables (1960–1961); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960–1966); The Web (1953); The Wonderful Country (1959); Those Mad, Mad Moviemakers (1974); Tightrope (1960); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959).

Born on this day – Bernard Malamud:

Bernard Malamud

Writer

April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986

Credits:

Books:

A Malamud Reader (1967); A New Life (1961); A World of Fiction (1983); Baseball: a Literary Anthology (2002); Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Dubin's Lives (1977); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); God's Grace (1982); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Idiots First (1963); Penguin Modern Stories 1 (1969); Pictures of Fidelman (1969); Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards (1970); Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards (1973); Rembrandt's Hat (1973); Selected Stories (1950); Talking Horse (1980); The Assistant (1957); The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Complete Stories (1997); The Fixer (1966); The Magic Barrel (1950); The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999); The Natural (1952); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The People (1989); The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983); The Tenants (1971); Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1973); Winter's Tales 15 (1969); Wonderful Town (2000); Writing New York (1998).

Awards:

National Jewish Book Award: The Assistant (1958); National Book Award for Fiction: The Magic Barrel (1959); National Book Award for Fiction: The Fixer (1967); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Fixer (1967); O. Henry Award: Man in the Drawer, published in the April 1968 edition of The Atlantic Monthly (1969); PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the runner-up award for The Stories (1984).

Movies and television:

Der Gehilfe (1978); Shoestring Theatre (1959); Storyboard (1961); Take Pity (1996); The Angel Levine (1970); The Assistant (1997); The Book Programme (1980); The First Seven Years (1998); The Fixer (1968); The Matchmaker (1984); The Model (1994); The Natural (1984); The Tenants (2005); Writers and Places (1980).

Born on this day – Shirley Griffith:

Shirley Griffith

Blues singer

Guitarist

April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974

Credits:

Mississippi Blues (1973); The Blues of J. T. Adams and Shirley Griffith: Indiana Ave. Blues (1964); The Blues of Shirley Griffith: Saturday Blues (1965).

Book references:

Blues: A Regional Experience (Greenwood Guides to American Roots Music) 1st Edition, by Eric LeBlanc (2013); The Guinness Who's Who of Blues, by Colin Larkin (1995).

Born on this day – Dorothy Sebastian:

Dorothy Sebastian

Actress

April 26, 1903 – April 8, 1957

Credits:

A Woman of Affairs (1928); Allez Oop! (1934); Among the Living (1941); Beauty à la Mud (1926); Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925); Brothers (1930); California (1927); Compression (2017); Contraband (1933); Contrabando (1932); Days of Jesse James (1939); Free and Easy (1930); George White's Scandals (1945); Hell's Island (1930); His First Command (1929); Isle of Forgotten Women (1927); Kansas Cyclone (1941); Ladies Must Play (1930); Love (1927); Montana Moon (1930); Morgan's Last Raid (1929); No Sleep on the Deep (1934); Officer O'Brien (1930); On Ze Boulevard (1927); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Radio Barred (1936); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Rough Riders' Round-up (1939); Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 (1930); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 20 (1930); Ship of Wanted Men (1933); Ships of Hate (1931); Show People (1928); Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927); Spite Marriage (1929); Tea for Three (1927); The Adventurer (1927); The Arizona Kid (1939); The Arizona Wildcat (1927); The Big Gamble (1931); The Deceiver (1931); The Demi-Bride (1927); The Devil's Apple Tree (1929); The Haunted Ship (1927); The House of Scandal (1928); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Lightning Flyer (1931); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Mysterious Pilot (1937); The Rainbow (1929); The Rounder (1930); The Show (1927); The Single Standard (1929); The Spirit of Youth (1929); The Unholy Night (1929); The Utah Kid (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Wide Open Spaces (1931); The Women (1939); Their Hour (1928); They Never Come Back (1932); Torrent (1926); True to the Army (1942); Twelve Miles Out (1927); Why Women Love (1925); Winds of Chance (1925); Wyoming (1928); You'd Be Surprised (1926).

Born on this day – Hamilton MacFadden:

Hamilton MacFadden

Actor

Writer

Director

April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977

Credits:

Are You There? (1930); As Husbands Go (1934); Charlie Chan Carries On (1931); Charlie Chan in Paris (1935); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); Charlie Chan in Rio (1941); Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933); Cheaters at Play (1932); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Crazy That Way (1930); Crazy That Way (1930); Dressed to Kill (1941); Elinor Norton (1934); Escape by Night (1937); Fighting Youth (1935); Five of a Kind (1938); Harmony at Home (1930); Hold That Girl (1934); Inside the Law (1942); It Can't Last Forever (1937); Keep Smiling (1938); Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940); Oh, for a Man! (1930); Pardon Our Nerve (1939); Pier 13 (1940); Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941); Riders of the Purple Sage (1931); Sea Racketeers (1937); Second Hand Wife (1933); Sharpshooters (1938); She Was a Lady (1934); Shooting High (1940); Sleepers West (1941); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Tarnished Angel (1938); The Black Camel (1931); The Fourth Horseman (1932); The Honeymoon's Over (1939); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Lady in Question (1940); The Legion of Missing Men (1937); The Man Who Dared (1933); The Power of God (1942); The Reluctant Dragon (1941); Their Mad Moment (1931); Three Legionnaires (1937); Time Out for Murder (1938); Touchdown, Army (1938); Trick for Trick (1933); Unmarried (1939); While New York Sleeps (1938); Wilson (1944); Yesterday's Heroes (1940); Young America (1942); Youth for the Kingdom (1945).

Daniel J. Boorstin, on books:

Books are the main source of our knowledge, our reservoir of first faith, memory, wisdom, morality, poetry, philosophy, history and science.

- Daniel J. Boorstin.

On this day in movie history - Amélie (2001):

Amélie,

directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

written by Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

was released in France on April 25, 2001.
Music by Yann Tiersen.

Cast:
Audrey Tautou, Flora Guiet, Mathieu Kassovitz, Amaury Babault, André Dussollier, Rufus, Serge Merlin, Lorella Cravotta, Clotilde Mollet, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, Jamel Debbouze, Maurice Bénichou, Kevin Fernandes, Michel Robin, Andrée Damant, Claude Perron, Armelle, Ticky Holgado, Fabienne Chaudat.