Born on this day – Gale Robbins:

Gale Robbins

Actress

Singer

May 7, 1921 – February 18, 1980

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1960); Alcoa Theatre (1959); All Star Revue (1951–1952); Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Calamity Jane (1953); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Climax! (1955); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Double Jeopardy (1955); George Jessel Show (1959); Gunsmoke (1966); Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958); Harry James and His Music Makers (1953); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood House (1949); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); Johnny Midnight (1960); M Squad (1959); Markham (1960); Mister Ed (1962); Mr. Hex (1946); My Dear Secretary (1948); My Girl Tisa (1948); My Little Margie (1955); Oh My Word (1965); Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949); Passport to Danger (1956); Perry Mason (1965); Philip Marlowe (1960); Place the Face (1955); Quantrill's Raiders (1958); Race Street (1948); Stand Up and Be Counted (1972); State Trooper (1959); Strictly Dishonorable (1951); Stump the Stars (1953); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1954); The Barkleys of Broadway (1949); The Belle of New York (1952); The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1958); The Brigand (1952); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1952); The Comedy Spot (1960); The Ed Wynn Show (1950); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1955); The Fuller Brush Girl (1950); The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952); The Juke Box Jury (1956); The Millionaire (1957); The Red Skelton Hour (1956); The Untouchables (1961); The Windjammer (1945); Three Little Words (1950); Thriller (1962); Trackdown (1957); Valentine's Day (1965).

Born on this day – Bumble Bee Slim:

Bumble Bee Slim

Blues singer

Guitarist

May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968

Albums:

12 O clock Southern Train (2014); Aching Pain Blues (2023); Back in Town (2013); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 5 1935-1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 6 1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 8 1937-1951 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 9 (1934-1951) (2005); Chain Gang Bound (2015); From Georgia to Chicago 1931-1937 (1998); Got the Blues (2011); Greasy Greens And Blues (2012); Instinctively the Blues (2020); Jazz Figures (1934 -1935) Volume 3 (2011); Jazz Figures (1934) Volume 2 (2011); Jazz Figures (1935 - 1936) Volume 5 (2011); The Piedmont Blues (2024).

Born on this day – Gary Cooper:

Gary Cooper

Actor

May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961

Born on this day – Johannes Brahms:

Johannes Brahms

Composer

May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897

Born on this day – Robert Browning:

Robert Browning

Writer

May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889

Credits:

A Death in the Desert; A Grammarian's Funeral; A Toccata of Galuppi's; Abt Vogler; An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician; Andrea Del Sarto; Aristophanes' Apology (1875); Asolando: Prologue / Summum Bonum / Bad Dreams III / Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment / Epilogue (1889); Balaustion's Adventure (1871); Bells and Pomegranates (1841–46); Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes (play) (1841); Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles (play) (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday (play) (1844); Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and A Soul's Tragedy (plays) (1846); Bishop Blougram's Apology; By the Fire-side; Caliban upon Setebos; Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850); Cleon; Count Gismond; Dramatic Idyls (1879); Dramatic Idyls: Second Series (1880); Dramatis Personae (1864); Evelyn Hope; Ferishtah's Fancies (1884); Fifine at the Fair (1872); Fra Lippo Lippi; Home Thoughts from Abroad; How It Strikes a Contemporary; How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix; Jocoseria (1883); Johannes Agricola in Meditation; La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878); Love Among the Ruins; Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha; Meeting at Night; Memorabilia; Men and Women (1855); Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"; My Last Duchess; My Star; Numpholeptos; Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876); Pan and Luna; Paracelsus (1835); Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887); Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833); Porphyria's Lover; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871); Prospice; Rabbi Ben Ezra; Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers (1873); Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister; Sordello (1840); Strafford (play) (1837); Thamuris Marching; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877); The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church; The Inn Album (1875); The Laboratory; The Last Ride Together (1855); The Lost Leader; The Patriot; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; The Ring and the Book (1868–69); The Statue and the Bust; The Year's at the Spring.

Movies and television:

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912); A Light Woman (1920); About Religion (1964); Abra Cadabra (1983); As Husbands Go (1934); Child of M'sieu (1919); Classic Tales (2008); Directions (1965); Faerie Tale Theatre (1985); Fluteman (1982); It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000); James Lee's Wife (1913); Kummatty (1979); Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer? (1972–1976); Magic Hands (2016); My Last Duchess (2020); Pied Piper of Hamelin (1903); Pied Piper of Hamelin (2015); Pippa Passes; or, the Song of Conscience (1909); The Flight of the Duchess (1916); The Light Woman (1913); The Pied Piper (1907); The Pied Piper (1933); The Pied Piper (1972); The Pied Piper (1986); The Pied Piper by Adrian Mitchell (1986); The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1911); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1913); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1926); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1981); The Pied Piper of Hamlin (1992); The Reluctant Dragon (1987); The Ring and the Book (1914); The Sweet Hereafter (1997); Women and Roses (1914).

Recommended reading - Master Shots Volume 2, by Christopher Kenworthy (2011):

Master Shots

Volume 2

100 Ways to Shoot Great Dialogue Scenes

By Christopher Kenworthy.

Published by Michael Wiese Productions.

Published 2011.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1615930558

ISBN-13: 978-1615930555

Description:

Dialogue scenes are the most important moments in your film, but most directors get them wrong. If you block your scenes well, you do more than capture the basic scene; you echo the meaning, emotion, and drama of every moment. That is never more important than with dialogue. Whatever your budget, there is an exciting way to capture dialogue. It is a tragedy that so many directors are happy to open a scene with a moving master shot, and then just settle into dull coverage for the dialogue. You can do better than that and Master Shots Vol 2 gives you 100 ways to shoot dynamic dialogue.

Bonnie Friedman, on writing:

Writing teaches writing.

Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

- Bonnie Friedman.