Sunday, June 23, 2024

Born on this day – Bob Fosse:


Bob Fosse

Actor

Choreographer

Dancer

Director

June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987

Born on this day – Irene Worth:


Irene Worth

Actress

June 23, 1916 – March 10, 2002

Credits:

9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); A Birthday Gala Tribute Noel Coward (1970); American Playhouse (1988); An Evening with... (1970); Another Shore (1948); Antigone (1949); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1978); Arena (1976); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1955); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Camera Three (1965–1978); Counsel's Opinion (1949); Deathtrap (1982); Drama Into Opera: Oedipus Rex (1961); Eyewitness (1981); Fast Forward (1985); Festival (1962); First Night (1964); Forbidden (1984); Great Performances (1980); Happy Days (1980); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1966); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); Just the Ticket (1998); King Lear (1970); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Ladies in Charge (1986); Lost in Yonkers (1993); Men, Women and Clothes (1957); Myself a Stranger (1949); Nicholas and Alexandra (1971); Omnibus (1959 / 1968); One Night with You (1948); Onegin (1999); Orders to Kill (1958); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Release (1968); Remember WENN (1996); Rich Kids (1979); Secret People (1952); Separate Tables (1983); Seven Seas to Calais (1962); Storyboard (1983); Tempo (1968); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 30th Annual Tony Awards (1976); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 45th Annual Tony Awards (1991); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1984); The Displaced Person (1977); The Duchess of Malfi (1949); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Alec Guinness (1987); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1996); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Scapegoat (1959); The Shell Seekers (1989); The Stratford Adventure (1954); The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984); The Way of the World (1975); The Winslow Boy / A Touch of Venus (1969); Thermidor (1964); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965); This Is Your Life (1980); To Die in Madrid (1963); Under This Sky (1979); Wednesday Theatre (1953); Working in the Theatre (1990).

Born on this day – Lillian Hall-Davis:


Lillian Hall-Davis

Actress

June 23, 1898 – October 25, 1933

Credits:

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); Shepperton Babylon (2005); Many Waters (1931); Her Reputation (1931); Just for a Song (1930); Volga Volga (1928); Tommy Atkins (1928); The Farmer's Wife (1928); King's Mate (1928); The Ring (1927); Boadicea (1927); As We Lie (1927); Roses of Picardy (1927); La proie du vent (1927); Blighty (1927); Nitchevo (1926); If Youth But Knew (1926); Adventure Mad (1926); Liebe macht blind (1926); Der Farmer aus Texas (1925); Blitzzug der Liebe (1925); The Passionate Adventure (1924); The Eleventh Commandment (1924); The Unwanted (1924); Quo Vadis? (1924); Castles in the Air (1923); Afterglow (1923); I pagliacci (1923); Should a Doctor Tell? (1923); The Hotel Mouse (1923); Married Love (1923); The Knockout (1923); The Right to Strike (1923); A Royal Divorce (1923); If Four Walls Told (1922); The Faithful Heart (1922); Brown Sugar (1922); The Game of Life (1922); Stable Companions (1922); The Wonderful Story (1922); Ernest Maltravers (1920); The Honeypot (1920); Carry On (1919); The Admirable Crichton (1918); La p'tite du sixième (1917).

National Typewriter Day – June 23:


National Typewriter Day

June 23

Elie Wiesel, on writing:


A word is worth a thousand pictures.

- Elie Wiesel.

Saturday, June 22, 2024

On this day in movie history - Astronaut (2019):


Astronaut

directed by Shelagh McLeod,
written by Shelagh McLeod, Carolyn Saunders and Maureen Dorey,
was released in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2019.
Music by Virginia Kilbertus.


Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Lyriq Bent, Krista Bridges, Colm Feore, Richie Lawrence, Art Hindle, Graham Greene, Judy Marshak, Jennifer Phipps, Joan Gregson, Karen LeBlanc, Paulino Nunes, Mimi Kuzyk, Mike Taylor, Colin Mochrie, Jeff Douglas, Rhona Shekter, Anthony Bekenn, Maria Ricossa, Jason Burke, Alex Hatz, Peter Valdron, Sandra Beech, Jonathan Walton, Lori Hallier, Ryan LaPlante, Rosemary Dunmore, Chris Gleason, Shelagh McLeod, Joanna O’Malley, Brendan Stevenson, Casie Stewart.

On this day in music history - Jupiters Darling, by Heart (2004):

The album Jupiters Darling,
by Heart,
was released on June 22, 2004.