Born on this day – Lucien Ballard:

Lucien Ballard

Cinematographer

May 6, 1908 – October 1, 1988

Credits:

A Ducking They Did Go (1939); A Kiss Before Dying (1956); A Nag in the Bag (1938); A Star Is Shorn (1939); A Time for Dying (1969); ABC Stage 67 (1966); Al Capone (1959); An Eye for an Eye (1966); Anna Lucasta (1958); Arruza (1972); Back to the Woods (1937); Band of Angels (1957); Beloved Bachelor (1931); Berlin Express (1948); Big Executive (1933); Black Saddle (1960); Blind Alley (1939); Blonde Venus (1932); Boeing, Boeing (1965); Bomber's Moon (1943); Breakheart Pass (1975); Breakout (1975); Broken Lullaby (1932); Buchanan Rides Alone (1958); Cash and Carry (1937); City of Fear (1959); Coast Guard (1939); Cold Turkey (1940); Craig's Wife (1936); Crime and Punishment (1935); Dangerous Curves (1929); Dear Brigitte (1965); Desire in the Dust (1960); Devil's Playground (1937); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Don't Bother to Knock (1952); Drum (1976); Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law (1963); Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970); Fixed Bayonets! (1951); Flat Foot Stooges (1938); Flight to Fame (1938); From Bad to Worse (1937); From Noon Till Three (1976); Girls Can Play (1937); Halfway to Hollywood (1938); Highway Patrol (1938); Holy Matrimony (1943); Home on the Rage (1938); Hour of the Gun (1967); How Sweet It Is! (1968); I Married a Woman (1958); I Promise to Pay (1937); I Take This Woman (1931); Inferno (1953); Junior Bonner (1972); L'académie des 9 (1982); Lady Ice (1973); Laura (1944); Law of the Plainsman (1960); Let Us Live (1939); Let's Make It Legal (1951); Life Begins with Love (1937); Love Me Tonight (1932); Man Bites Lovebug (1937); Marines, Let's Go (1961); Mikey and Nicky (1976); Monte Carlo (1930); Moontide (1942); Morocco (1930); Murder by Contract (1958); My Kingdom for... (1995); Nevada Smith (1966); New Faces (1954); Night Song (1947); Night Without Sleep (1952); No Census, No Feeling (1940); O. Henry's Full House (1952); One Hour with You (1932); Orchestra Wives (1942); Outside These Walls (1939); Pay or Die! (1960); Penitentiary (1938); Prince Valiant (1954); Rabbit Test (1978); Racketeers in Exile (1937); Return of the Texan (1952); Ride the High Country (1962); Rio Grande (1938); Roustabout (1964); Saints and Sinners (1962); Seven Cities of Gold (1955); South of the Boudoir (1940); Squadron of Honor (1938); St. Ives (1976); Susan Slade (1961); Swamp Water (1941); Sweet and Low-Down (1944); Take Her, She's Mine (1963); Target: The Corruptors (1962); Temptation (1946); Texas Stampede (1939); The 33rd (1959); The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970); The Bramble Bush (1960); The Caretakers (1963); The Desert Rats (1953); The Detectives (1960); The Devil Is a Woman (1935); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961–1963); The Eagle and the Hawk (1933); The Final Hour (1936); The Getaway (1972); The Glory Brigade (1953); The Hawaiians (1970); The House on Telegraph Hill (1951); The Killer Is Loose (1956); The Killing (1956); The King and Four Queens (1956); The King Steps Out (1936); The Lodger (1944); The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938); The Love Parade (1929); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1961); The Magnificent Matador (1955); The Mind Needer (1938); The New Interns (1964); The Nightshirt Bandit (1938); The Outlaw (1943); The Parent Trap (1961); The Party (1968); The Proud Ones (1956); The Raid (1954); The Rifleman (1963); The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); The Shadow (1937); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); The Three Stooges Follies (1974); The Thundering West (1939); The Undying Monster (1942); The Unholy Wife (1957); The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940); The Westerner (1960); The Wild Bunch (1969); This Is the Night (1932); This Love of Ours (1945); Thomasine & Bushrod (1974); Three Little Sew and Sews (1939); Three the Hard Way (1974); Tonight We Raid Calais (1943); True Grit (1969); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Venus Makes Trouble (1937); Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938); Wall of Noise (1963); What's the Matter with Helen? (1971); Whispering Ghosts (1942); White Feather (1955); Wild Geese Calling (1941); Will Penny (1967); Wives and Lovers (1963); Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939); Zane Grey Theatre (1960); Zorro (1960).

John Steinbeck, on inspiration and writing:

Ideas are like rabbits.

You get a couple and learn how to handle them,

and pretty soon you have a dozen.

- John Steinbeck.

On this day in television history - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022):

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,

created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet,

was released in the United States on May 5, 2022.
Theme music by Jeff Russo.
Composed by Nami Melumad.

Main cast:
Anson Mount, Babs Olusanmokun, Bruce Horak, Celia Rose Gooding, Christina Chong, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, Rebecca Romijn.

On this day in movie history - Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010):

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff,

documentary directed by Craig McCall,

was released in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2010.
Music by Mark Sayer-Wade.

Cast:
Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, John Mills, Alan Parker, Thelma Schoonmaker, Freddie Francis, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Richard Fleischer, Peter Yates, Kathleen Byron, Christopher Challis, Kevin McClory, Ian Christie, Moira Shearer, Peter Handford, George E. Turner, Michel Ciment, Michael Powell, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Hathaway, Orson Welles, John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Errol Flynn, Leslie Caron, Ava Gardner, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sylvester Stallone, Niki Cardiff, Tony Curtis, Dustin Hoffman, Deborah Kerr, Craig McCall.

On this day in movie history - Gladiator (2000):

Gladiator,

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson,

based on a story by David Franzoni,

was released in the United States on May 5, 2000.

Inspired by the book Those About to Die (The Way of the Gladiator) by Daniel P. Mannix.

Music by Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer.

Cast:
Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Harris, Ralf Möller, Tommy Flanagan, David Schofield, John Shrapnel, Tomas Arana, Spencer Treat Clark, David Hemmings, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Omid Djalili, Giannina Facio, Giorgio Cantarini, Adam Levy, Nicholas McGaughey, Chris Kell, Tony Curran, Mark Lewis, John Quinn, Alun Raglan, David Bailie, Chick Allan, David J. Nicholls, Al Ashton, Billy Dowd, Ray Calleja, Allan Corduner, Michael Mellinger, Said Amel, Gilly Gilchrist, Paul Bateman, Nick Beardshaw, Corey Booth, Michael Dickins, Malcolm Ellul, Simon Faulkner, James Fiddy, Peter Francis-Wemyss, Ruth Frendo, Kjeld Gogosha-Clark, Cara Higgins, Earl Hundt, Brad Jacobowitz, Mehdi Kashani, Tom Kay, Phil Lowes, Nic Main, Ray Mangion, Antonio Meitin, João Costa Menezes, Mike Mitchell, Arnold Montey, Antone Pagán, Norman Campbell Rees, Neil Roche, Paul Sacks, Steve Saunders, Christopher Say, Christian Simpson, Brian Smyj, Richard Stride, Tony Tomlinson, Paul Woodadge, Michael Yale.

On this day in movie history - Moonshine Highway (1996):

Moonshine Highway,

directed and written by Andy Armstrong,

was released in the United States on May 5, 1996.
Music by Steve Dorff.

Cast:
Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, Maria del Mar, Alex Carter, Gary Farmer, Jeremy Ratchford, Leslie Carlson, Dennis Fitzgerald, Raliegh Wilson, Michael Copeman, Jody Racicot, Rick Roberts, Lori Hallier, Eleanor Joy Lind, Dick Callahan, Doug Lennox, David Cronenberg, Beau Starr, Andy Armstrong, Stuart Hughes, J. Winston Carroll, Todd Schroeder, Mike Lee, Jason Deline.

On this day in movie history - Anne Frank Remembered (1995):

Anne Frank Remembered,

directed and written by Jon Blair,

based on the diary of Anne Frank,

was released in the United States on May 5, 1995.
Music by Carl Davis.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh.

Cast:
Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos, Kenneth Branagh, Janny Brandes-Brilslijper, Glenn Close, Rose De Liema, Sal De Liema, Buddy Elias, Bloeme Evers, Alice Frank, Anne Frank, Helene Frank, Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Robert Frank, Miep Gies, Kitty Gokkel-Egyedi, Hanneli Goslar, Abraham Holländer, Charlotte Kaletta, Juultje Ketellapper, Nelson Mandela, Frieda Menco, Laureen Nussbaum, Peter Pepper, Werner Peter Pfeffer, Hannah Pick-Goslar, Joely Richardson, Rosa Stern, Rie Swillens, Rachel Van Amerongen-Frankfoorder, Henk van Beersekamp, Martha van den Berg, Lucie van Dijk, Jacqueline van Maarsen, Elisabeth van Wijk-Voskuijl, Hans Wijnberg, Edith Frank, Jan Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Fritz Pfeffer, Auguste van Pels, Herman van Pels, Peter van Pels.