Born on this day – Nicole Van Goethem:

Nicole Van Goethem

Animator

Illustrator

Writer

Director

May 31, 1941 - March 3, 2000

Credits:

Awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987,

for her movie: A Greek Tragedy (1985).

Book:

Drawing the Film (1988).

Movies and television:

A Greek Tragedy (1985); B.C. Rock (1980); Human Rights Article 13 (1988); John the Fearless (1984); Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (1975); Trouble in Paradise (1989); Verloren maandag (1974); Vol van gratie (1987).

Born on this day – Rainer Werner Fassbinder:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director

Actor

Composer

Writer

May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982

Credits:

Querelle (1982); Veronika Voss (1982); Theater in Trance (1981); Lola (1981); Lili Marleen (1981); Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980); The Third Generation (1979); The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979); In a Year with 13 Moons (1978); Despair (1978); Deutschland im Herbst (1978); The Stationmaster's Wife (1977); Women in New York (1977); Chinese Roulette (1976); Satan's Brew (1976); I Only Want You to Love Me (1976); Fear of Fear (1975); Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975); Fox and His Friends (1975); Like a Bird on a Wire (1975); Effi Briest (1974); Martha (1974); Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974); Nora Helmer (1974); World on a Wire (1973); Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972–1973); Jail Bait (1972); Bremen Freedom (1972); The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972); The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972); Beware of a Holy Whore (1971); Whity (1971); Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971); Rio das Mortes (1971); The Niklashausen Journey (1970); The American Soldier (1970); Warum läuft Herr R. Amok (1970); Das Kaffeehaus (1970); Gods of the Plague (1970); Katzelmacher (1969); Love Is Colder Than Death (1969); The Little Chaos (1967); This Night (1966); The City Tramp (1966).

Born on this day – Alida Valli:

Alida Valli

Actress

Director

Writer

May 31, 1921 – April 22, 2006

Credits:

Come diventai Alida Valli (2008); Angel of Death (2001); Probably Love (2001); Vino santo (2000); The Sweet Sounds of Life (1999); Fatal Frames (1996); A Month by the Lake (1995); The Final Scoop (1993); Il lungo silenzio (1993); Delitti privati (1993); Una vita in gioco 2 (1992); Zitti e mosca (1991); La bocca (1991); Una vita in gioco (1991); À notre regrettable époux (1988); Le jupon rouge (1987); Segreti segreti (1985); La ragazza dell'addio (1984); Dramma d'amore (1983); Piccolo mondo antico (1983); Il malinteso (1983); Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (1982); Aspern (1982); Quell'antico amore (1981–1982); La caduta degli angeli ribelli (1981); Sezona mira u Parizu (1981); Illa - Punto di osservazione (1981); La casa rossa (1981); Puppenspiel mit toten Augen (1980); Aquella casa en las afueras (1980); Verso l'ora zero (1980); L'eredità della Priora (1980); Inferno (1980); Licanthropus, il figlio della notte (1979); L'altro Simenon (1979); Luna (1979); Der Landvogt von Greifensee (1979); The Killer Nun (1979); Zoo zéro (1979); Indagine su un delitto perfetto (1978); Les grandes conjurations (1978); Dirty World (1978); Berlinguer: I Love You (1977); A Simple Heart (1977); Suspiria (1977); The Cassandra Crossing (1976); 1900 (1976); Le jeu du solitaire (1976); Il caso Raoul (1975); Cher Victor (1975); The Flesh of the Orchid (1975); The Antichrist (1974); The Big Scare (1974); Il consigliere imperiale (1974); Beyond Erotica (1974); Lisa and the Devil (1973); Indian Summer (1972); Diario di un italiano (1972); Eye in the Labyrinth (1972); Il lutto si addice ad Elettra (1972); The Spider's Stratagem (1970); The Mushroom (1970); L'amore in tutte le sue espressioni (1968); Oedipus Rex (1967); Umorismo in nero (1965); Desencuentro (1964); Dr. Kildare (1964); L'autre femme (1964); A la salida (1963); The Getaway Face (1963); Combat! (1963); The Paper Man (1963); The Castilian (1963); Ophélia (1963); Las momias de Guanajuato (1962); Homenaje a la hora de la siesta (1962); Al otro lado de la ciudad (1962); Disorder (1962); Il caso Maurizius (1961); La fille du torrent (1961); The Happy Thieves (1961); The Long Absence (1961); Le gigolo (1960); Il peccato degli anni verdi (1960); Le dialogue des Carmélites (1960); Ragazza mia (1960); Eyes Without a Face (1960); Signé: Arsène Lupin (1959); I figli di Medea (1959); L'uomo dai calzoni corti (1958); The Night Heaven Fell (1958); This Angry Age (1958); La grande strada azzurra (1957); Il Grido (1957); Senso (1954); La mano dello straniero (1954); We, the Women (1953); The World Condemns Them (1953); The Lovers of Toledo (1953); Ultimo incontro (1951); Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1951); Walk Softly, Stranger (1950); The White Tower (1950); The Third Man (1949); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Paradine Case (1947); Eugenie Grandet (1946); Il canto della vita (1945); Life Begins Anew (1945); Circo equestre Za-bum (1944); Apparizione (1943); T'amerò sempre (1943); Laugh Pagliacci (1943); Stasera niente di nuovo (1942); Addio Kira! (1942); We the Living (1942); Two Orphans (1942); Catene invisibili (1942); L'amante segreta (1941); Schoolgirl Diary (1941); Luce nelle tenebre (1941); Piccolo mondo antico (1941); La prima donna che passa (1940); Passione (1940); The Last Enemy (1940); Taverna rossa (1940); Manon Lescaut (1940); Her First Love (1939); Ball at the Castle (1939); Mille lire al mese (1939); La casa del peccato (1938); L'amor mio non muore! (1938); L'ha fatto una signora (1938); It Was I (1937); Il feroce Saladino (1937); I due sergenti (1936); Il cappello a tre punte (1935).

Born on this day – Don Ameche:

Don Ameche

Actor

Comedian

Vaudevillian

May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993

Born on this day – Kathlyn Williams:

Kathlyn Williams

Actress

Director

Writer

May 31, 1879 – September 23, 1960

Credits:

1861 (1911); A Colonel in Chains (1914); A Girl Named Mary (1919); A Little Child Shall Lead Them (1913); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Man's Home (1921); A Private Scandal (1921); A Romance of the Western Hills (1910); A Single Man (1929); A Sultana of the Desert (1915); A Virginia Courtship (1921); A Welded Friendship (1913); A Wise Old Elephant (1913); A Woman Laughs (1914); An Unexpected Fortune (1912); As the Fates Decree (1912); Back to the Primitive (1911); Big Timber (1917); Blasted Hopes (1910); Blood Money (1933); Broadway Gold (1923); Busy Day at the Selig General Office (1911); Captain Kate (1911); Caryl of the Mountains (1914); Chip of the Flying U (1914); Clarence (1922); Daddy Long Legs (1931); Dad's Girls (1911); Dora Thorne (1910); Driftwood (1912); Ebb Tide (1915); Everything for Sale (1921); Forbidden Fruit (1921); Getting Married (1911); Gold Is Not All (1910); Harbor Island (1912); Hearts and Masks (1914); Her Husband's Women (1929); Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919); Her Only Son (1913); Her Purchase Price (1919); Her Sacrifice (1914); Honeymoon Flats (1928); How They Stopped the Run on the Bank (1911); Hush (1921); I Hear Her Calling Me (from the Heart of Africa) (1917); In Old California When the Gringos Came (1911); In the African Jungle (1917); In the Midst of the Jungle (1913); In Tune with the Wild (1914); Into the Primitive (1916); Jealous George (1911); Jim and Joe (1911); Just a Wife (1920); Lieutenant Jones (1913); Life on the Border (1911); Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909); Locked Doors (1925); Lost in the Jungle (1911); Lost in Transit (1917); Man and His Other Self (1913); Maud Muller (1911); Mazeppa, or the Wild Horse of Tartary (1910); Morals (1921); Mrs. Hilton's Jewels (1913); Number 13, Westbound (1916); On Thanksgiving Day (1908); On the Trail of the Germs (1912); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Out of the Wreck (1917); Paid Back (1911); Pioneer Days (1917); Quest of His Youth (1920); Redeeming Love (1916); Rendezvous at Midnight (1935); Road to Paradise (1930); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Single Wives (1924); Sons of the North Woods (1912); Souls for Sale (1923); Sweet Alyssum (1915); Sweet Lady Peggy (1916); Taming Wild Animals (1910); Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1911); The Adopted Son (1912); The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); The Artist and the Brute (1913); The Best People (1925); The Better Wife (1919); The Black Orchid (1916); The Brand of Cain (1916); The Brotherhood of Man (1912); The Burglar Who Robbed Death (1913); The Carpet from Bagdad (1915); The Child of the Sea (1913); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Coming of Columbus (1912); The Coquette's Awakening (1915); The Cost of Hatred (1917); The Court of Death (1914); The Cruel Crown (1914); The Curse of the Redman (1911); The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1912 / 1916); The Enemy Sex (1924); The Fire Chief's Daughter (1910); The Flight of the Crow (1913); The Forged Parchment (1914); The Garden of Brides (1914); The Girl and the Judge (1913); The Girl at the Cupola (1912); The Girl with the Lantern (1912); The Governor's Daughter (1913); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Horseshoe (1912); The House of His Master (1912); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Inner Mind (1911); The King's Will (1914); The Lady or the Tigers (1914); The Last Dance (1912); The Leopard's Foundling (1914); The Lipton Cup: Introducing Sir Thomas Lipton (1913); The Losing Fight (1914); The Love of Penelope (1913); The Man from the East (1911); The Mansion of Misery (1913); The Merry Wives of Windsor (1910); The Ne'er Do Well (1915); The Painted Flapper (1924); The Prince Chap (1920); The Prosecuting Attorney (1912); The Queen of Hearts (1910); The Return (1916); The Rosary (1915); The Rose of Old St. Augustine (1911); The Royal Slave (1914); The Single Standard (1929); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spellbound Multitude (1914); The Spoilers (1914); The Stolen Melody (1913); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Stronger Mind (1912); The Survival of the Fittest (1911); The Temple of the Lion (1914); The Temptation of Adam (1916); The Thing We Love (1918); The Tide of Destiny (1913); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Tree and the Chaff (1913); The Tree of Knowledge (1920); The Turning Point (1912); The Two Ordeals (1914); The Two Orphans (1911); The U.P. Trail (1920); The Unwelcome Throne (1913); The Valiants of Virginia (1916); The Vision of the Shepherd (1915); The Wanderer (1925); The Warrior Maid (1914); The Wheels of Justice (1911); The Whispering Chorus (1918); The Witch of the Everglades (1911); The Woman of It (1914); The World's Applause (1923); The Young Mrs. Eames (1913); heir Stepmother (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not (1910); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Three Bags of Silver (1914); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Trimmed in Scarlet (1923); Two Men and a Woman (1913); Two Too Many (1913); Unholy Love (1932); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924); We Americans (1928); We Can't Have Everything (1918); Wedding Rings (1929); When a Girl Loves (1924); When Memory Calls (1912); When the Heart Rules (1912); With Love's Eyes (1913); Woman: Past and Present (1913).

Born on this day – Walt Whitman:

Walt Whitman

Writer

May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892

Poems:

1861; A Boston Ballad, 1854; A child said, What is the grass?; A Child's Amaze; A Clear Midnight; A Farm-Picture; A Glimpse; A Hand-Mirror; A Leaf For Hand In Hand; A March In The Ranks, Hard-prest; A Noiseless Patient Spider; A Paumanok Picture; A Proadway Pageant; A Promise To California; A Riddle Song; A Sight In Camp; A Song; A Woman Waits For Me; Aboard At A Ship's Helm; Adieu To A Soldier; After The Sea-Ship; Ages And Ages, Returning At Intervals; Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats; All Is Truth; American Feuillage; Among The Multitude; An Army Corps On The March; Apostroph; As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free; As Consequent, Etc.; As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life; As I lay With Head In Your Lap, Camerado; As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores; As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days; As I Watche'd The Ploughman Ploughing; As If A Phantom Caress'd Me; As The Time Draws Nigh; As Toilsome I Wander'd; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods; assurances; Bathed In War's Perfume; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Beautiful Women; Beginners; Beginning My Studies; Behavior; Behold This Swarthy Face; Bivouac on a Mountain Side; Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand; By Broad Potomac's Shore; By The Bivouac's Fitful Flame; Camps Of Green; Carol Of Occupations; Carol Of Words; Cavalry Crossing A Ford; Chanting The Square Deific; City Of Ships; Come Up From the Fields Father; Come Up From The Fields, Father; Come, Said My Soul; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Darest Thou Now O Soul; Darest Thou Now, O Soul; Debris; Delicate Cluster; Delicate Cluster; Despairing Cries; Dirge For Two Veterans; Drum-Taps; Earth! my Likeness!; Elemental Drifts; Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States; Excelsior; Faces Facing West From California's Shores; France, The 18th Year Of These States; From Pent-up Aching Rivers; Full Of Life, Now; Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun; God; Great Are The Myths; Had I the Choice; Here The Frailest Leaves Of Me; Hush'd Be the Camps Today; I Am He That Aches With Love; I Dream'd In A Dream; I Hear America Singing; I Heard You, Solemn-sweep Pipes Of The Organ; I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing; I Sing The Body Electric; I Sit And Look Out; I Thought I Was Not Alone; I Was Looking A Long While; In Cabin'd Ships At Sea; In Former Songs; In Midnight Sleep; Italian Music In Dakota; Joy, Shipmate, Joy!; Laws For Creations; Leaves Of Grass. A Carol Of Harvest For 1867; Lessons; Locations And Times; Long, Too Long America; Long, Too Long, O Land!; Look Down, Fair Moon; Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering; Mannahatta; Me Imperturbe; Mediums; Miracles; Mother And Babe; Myself And Mine; Native Moments; Night On The Prairies; No Labor-Saving Machine; Not The Pilot; Now Finale To The Shore; Now List To My Morning's Romanza; O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig!; O Captain! My Captain!; O Hymen! O Hymenee!; O Living Always--Always Dying; O Me! O Life!; O Star Of France; O Sun Of Real Peace; O You Whom I Often And Silently Come; Of Him I Love Day And Night; Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances; Of The Visage Of Things; Offerings; Old Ireland; On Journeys Through The States; On Old Man's Thought Of School; On The Beach At Night; On the Beach At Night Alone; On The Beach At Night, Alone; Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City; One Hour To Madness And Joy; One Song, America, Before I Go; One's Self I Sing; Or From That Sea Of Time; Or From That Sea Of Time; Other May Praise What They Like; Out From Behind His Mask; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Out of the Rolling Ocean, The Crowd; Over The Carnage; Passage To India; Pensive And Faltering; Pensive On Her Dead Gazing, I Heard The Mother Of All; Perfections; Pioneers! O Pioneers!; Poem Of Remembrance For A Girl Or A Boy; Poems Of Joys; Portals; President Lincoln's Burial Hymn; Primeval My Love For The Woman I Love; Proud Music Of The Storm; Quicksand Years; Race Of Veterans; Reconciliation; Recorders Ages Hence; Respondez!; Rise, O Days; Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone; Salut Au Monde; Says; Scented Herbage Of My Breast; Sea-Shore Memories; Sing Of The Banner At Day-Break; So Long; Sometimes With One I Love; Song At Sunset; Song For All Seas, All Ships; Song of Myself, X; Song Of The Broad-Axe; Song Of The Exposition; Song Of The Open Road; Song Of The Redwood-Tree; Song Of The Universal; Souvenirs Of Democracy; Spirit Whose Work Is Done; Spontaneous Me; Starting From Paumanok; States!; That Music Always Round Me; The Artilleryman's Vision; The Base Of All Metaphysics; The Centerarian's Story; The Dresser; The Indications; The Last Invocation; The Mystic Trumpeter; The Prairie-Grass Dividing; The Singer In The Prison; The Sleepers; The World Below The Brine; The Wound Dresser; There Was A Child Went Forth; These, I, Singing In Spring; This Compost; This Dust Was Once The Man; Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling; Thou Reader; Thought; Thoughts; To A Certain Cantatrice; To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire; To A Historian; To A President; To Old Age; To Rich Givers; To The East And To The West; To The Garden The World; To The Man-of-War-Bird; To Thee, Old Cause!; To Think Of Time; To You; Unfolded Out Of The Folds; Unnamed Lands; Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night; Virgil Strange I Kept On The Field; Virginia--The West; Voices; Walt Whitman's Caution; Wandering At Morn; Warble Of Lilac-Time; We Two Boys Together Clinging; We Two-How Long We Were Fool'd; Weave In, Weave In, My Hardy Life; What Am I, After All?; What Weeping Face; When I Heard At The Close Of The Day; When I Heard the Learned Astronomer; When I Peruse The Conquer'd Fame; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; Who Is Now Reading This?; Who Learns My Lesson Complete?; Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now In Hand; With Antecedents; World, Take Good Notice; Year Of Meteors, 1859 '60; Year That Trembled; Years Of The Modern; Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours.

Movies and television:

A Noiseless Patient Spider (2009); A Poetic Experiment: Walt Whitman (2015); A su aire (1974); Actor's Choice (1970); Aliment Roots (2018); American Experience (2008); Amerikai anzix (1975); Amici Novum (2021); Ancient Aliens (2011); Beyond the Unknown (2019); Calamus Variations (2024); David Byrne's American Utopia (2020); Dead Poets Society (1989); Drum-Taps (2019); Facing West (2020); Intolerance (1916); Lo que cuento al viento (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Maestro (2023); Manahatta (2011); Manhatta (1921); Messengers (2004); Middle Voices (2022); O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn! (2010); On the Trail of Mark Twain (1998); Plain-chant (1974); The Big Scary 'S' Word (2020); The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (2016); This Is What You Shall Do (2017); Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971); Whitman in the Woods. (2021); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Margaret Atwood, on reading:

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television...

because you are supplying just about everything...

you're a creator.

- Margaret Atwood.