Born on this day – Mary Astor:

Mary Astor

Actress

May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987

Credits:

A Kiss Before Dying (1956); A Stranger in My Arms (1959); A Successful Calamity (1932); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); Across the Pacific (1942); Act of Violence (1948); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1959); All But Forgotten (1978); American Cinema (1995); And So They Were Married (1936); Any Number Can Play (1949); Backstory (2001); Beau Brummel (1924); Behind Office Doors (1931); Ben Casey (1963); Blonde Fever (1944); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Brigham Young (1940); Brother of the Bear (1921); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1960); Bullets or Ballots (1921); Burke's Law (1963); Cass Timberlane (1947); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Checkmate (1962); Claudia and David (1946); Climax! (1955–1957); Convention City (1933); Cynthia (1947); Danger (1954); Desert Fury (1947); Dinky (1935); Dodsworth (1936); Don Juan (1926); Don Q Son of Zorro (1925); Dr. Kildare (1962–1963); Dressed to Kill (1928); Dry Martini (1928); Easy to Love (1934); Enticement (1925); Fiesta (1947); Forever After (1926); Front Row Center (1955); Frontier Justice (1959); General Electric Theater (1959); Heart to Heart (1928); High Steppers (1926); Holiday (1930); Hollywood (1923); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Home Stories (1990); Hope (1922); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); I Am a Thief (1934); In the Good Old Summertime Intro (2004); Inez from Hollywood (1924); James Dean's Lost Slideshow (2013); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); John Smith (1922); Justice (1955); Kraft Theatre (1951–1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1954); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1960); Ladies Love Brutes (1930); Lady from Nowhere (1936); Listen, Darling (1938); Little Women (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1956–1957); Man of Iron (1935); Matinee Theatre (1956); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Men of Chance (1931); Midnight (1939); My Lady o' the Pines (1921); New Year's Eve (1929); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); No Place to Go (1927); No Time to Marry (1938); Northern Exposure (1994); Oh, Doctor! (1925); Okay for Sound (1946); Other Men's Women (1930); Page Miss Glory (1935); Paradise for Three (1938); Person to Person (1960); Playhouse 90 (1957–1960); Playing with Souls (1925); Playwrights '56 (1956); Ponds Theater (1955); Producers' Showcase (1955); Puritan Passions (1923); Rawhide (1961); Red Dust (1932); Red Hot Tires (1935); Return of the Terror (1934); Return to Peyton Place (1961); Robert Montgomery Presents (1956); Romance of the Underworld (1928); Rose of the Golden West (1927); Sailors' Wives (1928); Scarlet Saint (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories (1951); Second Fiddle (1923); Sentimental Tommy (1921); Show of Shows (1929); Smart Woman (1931); Some of the Greatest (1955); Star Stage (1956); Stay Tuned (1992); Straight from the Heart (1935); Studio 57 (1956); Studio One (1954–1958); Success (1923); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Angelus (1922); The Beggar Maid (1921); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Bright Shawl (1923); The Case of the Howling Dog (1934); The Confession (2018); The Defenders (1963); The Devil's Hairpin (1957); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fighting American (1924); The Fighting Coward (1924); The Great Lie (1941); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Hurricane (1937); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Lash (1930); The Little Giant (1933); The Lost Squadron (1932); The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Man Who Played God (1922); The Man with Two Faces (1934); The Marriage Maker (1923); The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1935); The Pace That Thrills (1925); The Palm Beach Story (1942); The Philadelphia Story (1959); The Power and the Prize (1956); The Price of a Party (1924); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Rapids (1922); The Rough Riders (1927); The Royal Bed (1931); The Rules of Film Noir (2009); The Runaway Bride (1930); The Sea Tiger (1927); The Sin Ship (1931); The Sunset Derby (1927); The Twentieth Century (1959); The Wise Guy (1926); The Woman from Hell (1929); The World Changes (1933); The Young Painter (1922); There's Always a Woman (1938); This Happy Feeling (1958); Those We Love (1932); Thousands Cheer (1943); Thriller (1960); 3-Ring Marriage (1928); To the Ladies (1923); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Trapped by Television (1936); Turnabout (1940); Two Arabian Knights (1927); U.S. Marshal (1958–1960); Unguarded Women (1924); Upperworld (1934); WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926); White Shoulders (1931); Wings of the Border (1921); Woman Against Woman (1938); Woman-Proof (1923); Yesterday and Today (1953); Young Ideas (1943); Youngblood Hawke (1964); Zane Grey Theatre (1957).

Born on this day – Aline MacMahon:

Aline MacMahon

Actress

May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991

Credits:

Actor's Choice (1970); Ah Wilderness! (1935); All the Way Home (1963); Babbitt (1934); Back Door to Heaven (1939); Big Hearted Herbert (1934); Camera Three (1978); Celanese Theatre (1952); Cimarron (1960); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2024); Diamond Head (1962); Dragon Seed (1944); Five Star Final (1931); For the Use of the Hall (1975); Frontiers of Faith (1952–1955); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006); Great Performances (1974); Guest in the House (1944); Heat Lightning (1934); Heroes for Sale (1933); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); I Could Go on Singing (1963); I Live My Life (1935); Kind Lady (1935); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Lamp Unto My Feet (1957–1961); Life Begins (1932); Mary Jane's Pa (1935); NET Playhouse (1969); Once in a Lifetime (1932); One Way Passage (1932); Out of the Fog (1941); Play of the Week (1959); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); Reward Unlimited (1944); Roseanna McCoy (1949); Seeds of Freedom (1943); Side Streets (1934); Silver Dollar (1932); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Studio One (1957–1958); The Defenders (1963–1964); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1961); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Flame and the Arrow (1950); The Heart of New York (1932); The Lady Is Willing (1942); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Man from Laramie (1955); The Merry Frinks (1934); The Mighty McGurk (1947); The Mouthpiece (1932); The Movie Crazy Years (1971); The Search (1948); The Shade of the Tree (1956); The Tonight Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The World Changes (1933); The Young Doctors (1961); Tish (1942); Twenty Years After (1944); Week-End Marriage (1932); When You're in Love (1937); While the Patient Slept (1935).

Born on this day – Dodie Smith:

Dodie Smith

Writer

May 3, 1896 – November 24, 1990

Credits:

Books:

The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956); The Starlight Barking (1967); Look Back with Love (1974); Look Back with Mixed Feelings (1978); Look Back with Astonishment (1979); Look Back with Gratitude (1985); I Capture the Castle (1948); Girl from the Candle-lit Bath (1961); The New Moon With the Old (1963); The Town in Bloom (1965); It Ends with Revelations (1967); Tale of Two Families (1970); The Midnight Kittens (1978); Service (1932); Autumn Crocus (1933); Touch Wood (1934); Call it A Day (1936); Bonnet Over the Windmill (1937); Dear Octopus (1938); Lovers and Friends (1947); Letter from Paris (1954); Amateur Means Lover (1962).

Movies and television:

101 Dalmatian Street (2020); 101 Dalmatians (1996); 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure (2002); 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor (1997); 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997–1998); 102 Dalmatians (2000); 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue (2000); Autumn Crocus (1934); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952); Call It a Day (1937); Call It a Day (1948); Call It a Day (1956); Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007); Cruella (2021); Darling, How Could You! (1951); Dear Octopus (1943); Dear Octopus (1953); Der erste Frühlingstag (1956); Der erste Frühlingstag (1962); Der erste Frühlingstag / Call it a Day (1961); I Capture the Castle (1954); I Capture the Castle (2003); ITV Play of the Week (1959); ITV Playhouse (1972); ITV Television Playhouse (1957); Jackanory (1986); Looking Forward (1933); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961); Primo giorno di primavera (1955); Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians (2008); Schoolgirl Rebels (1915); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1961); The Glorious Adventure (1922); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); The Uninvited (1944); To Each His Own (1946); Zo maar een dag in de lente (1960).

Born on this day – Denison Clift:

Denison Clift

Writer

Director

May 3, 1885 – December 17, 1961

Credits:

A Bill of Divorcement (1922); A Girl in Bohemia (1919); A Woman of No Importance (1921); All That Glitters (1937); And a Still Small Voice (1918); Bentley's Conscience (1922); City of Play (1929); Diana of the Crossways (1922); El impostor (1931); End of the Road (1944); Firebrand Trevison (1920); Flames of Desire (1924); Gambling in Souls (1919); Great Diamond Mystery (1924); Her Honor the Mayor (1920); High Seas (1929); His Birthright (1918); Honor Among Men (1924); Lost Money (1919); Man About Town (1932); Out to Win (1923); Paradise (1928); Phantom Ship (1935); Ports of Call (1925); Power Over Men (1929); Rose of the West (1919); Scotland Yard (1930); Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944); Snares of Paris (1919); Sonia (1921); Square Shooter (1920); Taxi for Two (1929); The Bride of the Colorado (1928); The Call of the Soul (1919); The Challenge of the Law (1920); The Coming of the Law (1919); The Danger Zone (1918); The Diamond Necklace (1921); The Divorce Trap (1919); The Hell Ship (1920); The Iron Heart (1920); The Last Adventurers (1937); The Last Straw (1920); The Little Wanderer (1920); The Love That Dares (1919); The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923); The Midnight Patrol (1918); The Old Wives' Tale (1921); The Speed Maniac (1919); The Spirit of Good (1920); The Splendid Sin (1919); The Tattlers (1920); The Woman Disputed (1928); The Yankee Clipper (1927); This Freedom (1923); Warn London (1934); Wedlock (1918); What Would You Do? (1920); When Fate Decides (1919); Why Men Forget (1921); Wolves of the Rail (1918).

Sappho, on words:

Although only breath,

words which I command are immortal.

- Sappho.

On this day in music history - Resurrection, by Anastacia (2014):

The album Resurrection,

by Anastacia,

was released on May 2, 2014.

Born on this day – Roscoe Lee Browne:

Roscoe Lee Browne

Actor

Director

May 2, 1922 – April 11, 2007

Credits:

14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); 19th Annual NAACP Image Awards (1987); 2002 Trumpet Awards (2002); 2003 Trumpet Awards (2003); 227 (1987); A Different World (1988–1992); AFI Life Achievement Award (1977); All in the Family (1972–1973); American Playhouse (1983); And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead (2015); Babe (1995); Babe: Pig in the City (1998); Baby Talk (1991); Barney Miller (1975); Batman: The Animated Series (1994); Behind the Broken Words (2003); Benson (1980); Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler (1964); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990); Biography (2000); Black Like Me (1964); Blacke's Magic (1986); Bonanza (1972); Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X (1994); Camera Three (1963 / 1964); CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (1981); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1996); Chronicles: Family Diaries I (1970); Cisco Pike (1971); Columbo (1990); Curtis Armstrong in Tales of a Fly on the Wall (2004); Dear God (1996); Disney Sing-Along Songs: 101 Notes of Fun (1989); Disney Sing-Along Songs: Very Merry Christmas Songs (1988); Dr. Scorpion (1978); East Side/West Side (1963); Eddie Presley (1992); Epic Movie (2007); ER (1999); Espionage (1963); EZ Streets (1997); Falcon Crest (1988); Farewell to the Planet of the Apes (1980); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1990); Flip (1972–1973); Foofur (1987); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010); Forest Warrior (1996); Freakazoid! (1995); Galapagos: Beyond Darwin (1996); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006); Good Times (1974); Haiti: Harvest of Hope (1994); Hamlet (2000); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995); Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004); Hard Time: The Premonition (1999); Head of the Class (1986); High Five (1982); Highway to Heaven (1988); History of the Negro People (1965); Hope Island (1999); Independent Lens (2006); Insight (1968); Is Everybody Happy But Me? (1980); John Grin's Christmas (1986); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); Judas Kiss (1998); Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986); King (1978); Lady in the Corner (1989); Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995); Law & Order (1992–2003); Legal Eagles (1986); Lionpower from MGM (1967); Logan's Run (1976); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Mannix (1968); Maude (1977–1978); McCoy (1975–1976); Me and My Brother (1968); Meeting of Minds (1978); Miss Winslow and Son (1979); Moments Without Proper Names (1987); Moon 44 (1990); Morgan's Ferry (2001); Naked in New York (1993); NBC Experiment in Television (1968); NET Playhouse (1967); New York Undercover (1996); Night Angel (1990); Noël (1992); Nothing Personal (1980); Oliver & Company (1988); Once in the Life (2000); Once Upon a Classic (1978); Open Window (1989); Phantom 2040 (1995); Planet of the Apes (1974); Power Masters (1987); Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love (1974); Ring Raiders (1989); RLS Legacy Virtual 3D Tour and Treasure Hunt (2003); Sanford and Son (1972); SeaQuest 2032 (1993–1994); Side Order of Life (2007); Smiley Face (2007); Soap (1977–1981); Space (1985); Spider-Man: Secret Wars (1999); Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1995–1998); Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown (2002); Spider-Man: The Venom Saga (2005); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Static Shock (2003–2004); Stuck with Each Other (1989); Super Fly T.N.T. (1973); Swamp Thing (1990); Sweet Deadly Dreams (2006); Sweet Justice (1995); Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970); Terror in the City (1964); That Was the Week That Was (1963–1985); The 2nd Annual Black Achievement Awards (1979); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The 46th Annual Tony Awards (1992); The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The Beast (1995); The Bob Braun Show (1970); The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men in 'the Cowboys' (1972); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Connection (1961); The Cowboys (1972); The Cowboys: Together Again (2007); The Defenders (1962); The Glass Ceiling (1991); The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (1986); The Invaders (1968); The John Larroquette Show (1994); The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970); The Magical World of Disney (1983); The Mambo Kings (1992); The Miracle Healers (1976); The Name of the Game (1969–1970); The Nativity (1987); The Notorious 7 (1997); The Outcasts (1969); The Papp Project (2001); The Pirates of Dark Water (1991); The Pompatus of Love (1995); The Proud Family (2003); The Ra Expeditions (1971); The Real Ghostbusters (1988); The Shield (2002); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Telemarketers: 36 Hrs (2009); The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (2000); The Wild Thornberrys (1999–2000); The World's Greatest Athlete (1973); Today (1975); Topaz (1969); Treasure Planet (2002); Treasure Planet Read-Along DVD (2003); Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977); Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003); Unknown Powers (1978); Uptight (1968); Uptown Saturday Night (1974); Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994); Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987); Will & Grace (2004); Working in the Theatre (1992); You Must Remember This (1992).