Born on this day – Tyrone Power:

Tyrone Power

Actor

May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958

Credits:

A Yank in the RAF (1941); ABC Late Night (1975); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); All This and World War II (1976); America at the Movies (1976); American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950); Armchair Theatre (1956); Biography (1995–1999); Blood and Sand (1941); Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000); Brigham Young (1940); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Café Metropole (1937); Captain from Castile (1947); Casting By (2012); Christmas with the Stars (1953); Ciclo Agatha Christie (2006); Cinépanorama (1957); Compression (2015); Count Three and Pray (1955); Crash Dive (1943); Day-Time Wife (1939); Death in Hollywood (1990); Death Scenes 2 (1992); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Eight Steps to Peace: World Law (1958); Flirtation Walk (1934); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Gay, Gay Hollywood (1980); Gene Tierney, une star oubliée (2017); Girls' Dormitory (1936); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Sex Symbols (1988); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2019); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); I'll Never Forget You (1951); In Old Chicago (1938); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); I've Got a Secret (1958); Jesse James (1939); Johnny Apollo (1940); King of the Khyber Rifles (1953); Ladies in Love (1936); Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001); Lloyd's of London (1936); Love Is News (1937); Lusitania Illusion (2010); Marie Antoinette (1938); Max Liebman Presents: Promenade (1955); Nightmare Alley (1947); Northern Frontier (1935); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982); Person to Person (1957); Pony Soldier (1952); Prince of Foxes (1949); Rawhide (1951); Rose of Washington Square (1939); School for Wives (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 2 (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform (1943); Second Fiddle (1939); Second Honeymoon (1937); Seven Days from Now (1957); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Show-Business at War (1943); Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000); Six-Five Special (1957); Solomon and Sheba (1959); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942); Standard Oil New Jersey Presents Its 75th Anniversary Entertainment (1957); Suez (1938); That Wonderful Urge (1948); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Black Rose (1950); The Black Swan (1942); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1955); The Eddy Duchin Story (1956); The Hollywood Collection: Anthony Quinn an Original (1990); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Long Gray Line (1955); The Luck of the Irish (1948); The Many Faces of Zorro (2000); The Mark of Zorro (1940); The Mississippi Gambler (1953); The Naked Archaeologist (2008); The Rains Came (1939); The Razor's Edge (1946); The Red, White and Blue Line (1955); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Rising of the Moon (1957); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Sun Also Rises (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The World at War (1973); The World's Most Beautiful Girls (1953); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Thin Ice (1937); This Above All (1942); Three of a Kind (1941); Tom Brown of Culver (1932); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Un jour de bonheur (1939); Uncommon Valor (1955); Untamed (1955); Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); We, the People (1949); What's My Line? (1955); When the Applause Died (1990); Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

Born on this day – Alice Howell:

Alice Howell

Actress

May 5, 1886 – April 12, 1961

Credits:

A Busted Honeymoon (1916); A Coat's Tale (1914); A Convict's Happy Bride (1920); A Nice Pickle (1925); A Wooden Legacy (1920); Alice in Society (1916); Automaniacs (1917); Balloonatics (1917); Bawled Out (1918); Beauty and the Boob (1919); Behind the Front (1919); Black Gold Bricks (1925); Blue Blood and Yellow Backs (1915); Bluffing Bluffers (1924); Bombs and Bangs (1914); Boulevard Profiteers (1921); Butterfly (1924); Caught in a Cabaret (1914); Caught in the Rain (1914); Choo Choo Love (1918); Cinderella Cinders (1920); Cupid and the Scrub Lady (1915); Cupid vs. Art (1918); Cursed by His Beauty (1914); Dad's Dollars and Dirty Doings (1916); Dangerous Pleasure (1924); Distilled Love (1920); Fair and Windy (1924); Fashion News (1930); Father Was a Loafer (1915); Fatty's Finish (1914); Flirtation a la Carte (1916); From Beanery to Billions (1915); Good Night, Nurse (1920); Green Tees (1924); He Loved the Ladies (1914); Hello, Mabel (1914); Her Bareback Career (1917); Her Bargain Day (1920); Her Lucky Day (1920); Her Naughty Eyes (1916); Her Unmarried Life (1918); Her Ups and Downs (1915); Hey, Doctor! (1918); Hoot Toot (1918); Horse Play (1924); How Stars Are Made (1916); In Dutch (1918); In the Claw of the Law (1915); Laughing Gas (1914); Life and Moving Pictures (1915); Lizzie's Lingering Love (1916); Lizzie's Shattered Dreams (1915); Love Is an Awful Thing (1922); Lover's Luck (1914); Lunatics in Politics (1920); Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (1915); Mabel's Busy Day (1914); Mabel's Married Life (1914); Madame Dynamite (1926); Marry When Young (1924); Mind Your Doctor (1924); Neptune's Naughty Daughter (1917); Oh, Baby! (1918); One Wet Night (1924); Papa's Pet (1925); Patching Things Up (1924); Pirates of the Air (1916); Rest in Pieces (1924); Room and Board: A Dollar and a Half (1915); Rough But Romantic (1915); Rubes and Romance (1920); She Did Her Bit (1917); Shipwrecked (1926); Shot in the Excitement (1914); Should Poker Players Marry? (1924); Silk Hose and High Pressure (1915); Sin on the Sabbath (1915); Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 3: Funny Girls (1998); Sleeping Sickness (1925); Society Architect (1927); Society Stuff (1919); Spring of 1964 (1924); Squirrel Time (1920); Stout Hearts But Weak Knees (1914); Tattle-Tale Alice (1916); Tears and Sunshine (1915); Tenting Out (1925); That's the Spirit (1924); The Bankruptcy of Boggs and Schultz (1916); The Birth of the Tramp (2013); The Bishop of Hollywood (1924); The Cabbage Queen (1918); The Cream of Hollywood (1924); The Curse of a Name (1915); The Double's Troubles (1916); The Elite of Hollywood (1923); The Game Hunter (1924); The Great Smash (1916); The Great Toe Mystery (1914); The High Spots on Broadway (1914); The Junior Year (1928); The Knockout (1914); The Lost Cord (1925); The Pride of the Force (1925); The Rounders (1914); The Sheik of Hollywood (1923); Their Last Haul (1915); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); Tillie's Terrible Tumbles (1916); Under a Spell (1925); Under New Management (1915); Unhand Me, Villain! (1916); Untamed Ladies (1918); Wandering Daughters (1923); Way Up North (1924); What's the Matter with Father? (1918); Who Chose Your Wife? (1921); Why Be Jealous? (1924); Why Pay Your Rent? (1924); Women's Rights (1924).

Jhumpa Lahiri, on books:

That's the thing about books.

They let you travel without moving your feet.

– Jhumpa Lahiri.

Charlotte Bronte, on writing:

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite and sleep -- it cannot be helped --

― Charlotte Brontë.

On this day in television history – Justified (2010 & 2011):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 8.
Episode entitled: Blowback.
Released May 4, 2010.
Directed by Jon Avnet.
Written by Graham Yost, Benjamin Cavell, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.
Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, W. Earl Brown, Jere Burns, M.C. Gainey, Rick Gomez, Fredric Lehne, William Ragsdale, Walton Goggins, David Haley, Chris Stacy, David Hill.

Justified

Season 2. Episode 13.
Episode entitled: Bloody Harlan.
Released May 4, 2011.
Directed by Michael Dinner.
Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.
Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, James Le Gros, David Meunier, Peter Murnik, Kevin Rankin, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Randolph Adams, Mark Atteberry, Sean Donnellan, William Gregory Lee, Tonja Kahlens, Savannah McReynolds, Ryan Smith, Andrey Batt, Jeremy Timmins, Seth Yohnka.

On this day in movie history - Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982):

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

directed by Carl Reiner,

written by Carl Reiner, George Gipe and Steve Martin,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1982.
Music by Miklós Rózsa and Steve Goodman.

Cast:

Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Kirk Douglas, Fred MacMurray, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Reni Santoni, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, George Gaynes, Francis X. McCarthy, Adrian Ricard, Charlie Picerni, Gene LeBell, George Sawaya, Britt Nilsson, Jean Beaudine, John Easton Stuart, Ronald Spivey, Bob Hevelone, Dieter Curt, Phillip Kearns, Kent Deigaard, Eugene Brezany, Brad Baird, William Conrad, Charles McGraw, Jeff Corey, John Miljan, Brian Donlevy, Norma Varden, Edmond O'Brien, Wally Brown, David LeBell, Cheryl Smith.

On this day in movie history – Gaslight (1944 movie & play):

Gaslight

directed by George Cukor,

written by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston,

based on the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1944.
Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:

Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes, Tom Stevenson, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel, Harry Adams, Lassie Lou Ahern, John Ardizoni, Frank Baker, Wilson Benge, Arnold Bennett, Florence Benson, Arthur Blake, Lillian Bronson, Alec Craig, Antonio D'Amore, Wynne Davis, Frank Eldredge, Maude Fealy, Al Ferguson, Helen Flint, Gibson Gowland, Gary Gray, Roger Gray, Bobbie Hale, Joy Harington, Tom Hughes, Jack Kirk, Pat Malone, Al Masiello, Charles McNaughton, Terry Moore, Clive Morgan, Georgie Nokes, Joseph North, Tarquin Olivier, Elsie Prescott, Joseph Romantini, Syd Saylor, Arthur Stone, Alix Terry, Morgan Wallace, Eric Wilton, Eustace Wyatt, Katherine Yorke, Phyllis Yuse, Guy Zanette.

Recommended reading:

Gas Light

a play by Patrick Hamilton.

Filmed as:

Gaslight (1940), directed by Thorold Dickinson.

Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor.

Published by Constable and Company Ltd.

First published 1939.

ASIN: B0DSZRVND4

Paperback.

Description:

This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when help arrives in the form of a former detective, Rough, who believes Manningham to be a thief and murderer. Aided by Bella, Rough proves Manningham's true identity and finally Bella achieves a few moments of sweet revenge for the suffering inflicted on her.