Doris Dowling
Actress
May 15, 1923 – June 18, 2004
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Born on this day – James Mason:
James Mason
Actor
May 15, 1909 – July 27, 1984
Credits:
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Harrowhouse (1974); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); 5 Fingers (1952); A
Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Dangerous Summer (1982); A Dangerous Summer:
Rekindled (2006); A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
(2009); A Place of One's Own (1945); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born:
Special Features (2010); A Touch of Larceny (1960); A.D. (1985); A.J. Cronin's
Hatter's Castle (1942); ABC Stage 67 (1966); About Faces (1960); AFI Life
Achievement Award (1983); Age of Consent (1969); Age of Consent: Helen Mirren -
A Conversation with Cora (2009); Alexandre (1983); Alibi (1942); All Star Revue
(1952); Alle origini della mafia (1976); Allons au cinéma (1977); Appointment
with Destiny (1971); Apropos Film (1967); Arena (1977–1995); Autobiography of a
Princess (1975); Bad Man's River (1971); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); Best of
British (1987); Bigger Than Life (1956); Biography (1987 / 1995); Blind Man's
Bluff (1936); Blood, Sweat and Tears (1971); Bloodline (1979); Bob Ballard: An
Explorer's Life (2020); Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World
with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Botany
Bay (1952); Cadence 3 (1983); Candlelight in Algeria (1943); Casino Royale: The
Royal Premiere (1967); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Catch As Catch Can (1937); Caught
(1949); Charade (1954); Charlie Rose (1999); Child's Play (1972); Chris Olsen -
The Boy Who Cried (2016); Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019); Cinéma cinémas
(1983); Clapper Board (1979); Cold Sweat (1970); Collector's World (1972); Compression
(2023); Cop-Out (1967); Corazón de... (2006); Crepa padrone, crepa tranquillo
(1970); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cross of Iron
(1977); Cry Terror! (1958); Cyrano de Bergerac (1938); Death Cell (1941); Dee
Time (1969); Della (1969); Dix de der (1975); Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame
Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983); Down Under with Ron and
Valerie Taylor (2009); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); Dr. Kildare (1965); Duffy
(1968); East Side, West Side (1949); Ellis in Freedomland (1952); Escape from
Zahrain (1962); Evil Under the Sun (1982); Face to Face (1952); Far into the Night
(1943); Film '72 (1972); Film Preview (1966); Filmworker (2017); Fire Over
England (1937); Forever, Darling (1956); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Gala
de l'Unicef (1966); Gala de l'union (1970); General Electric Summer Originals (1956);
General Electric Theater (1957); Genghis Khan (1965); George Washington (1984);
Georgy Girl (1966); Girl Talk (1968); Good Morning America (1979–1981); Goodyear
Theatre (1959); Great Expectations (1974); Great Performances (1988); Group
Madness (1983); Gypsy (1967); Halloween Monster Bash (1991); Heaven Can Wait
(1978); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hero's Island (1962); History of World Cinema:
Part I (2021); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Rivals
(2001–2002); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); Homage to Chagall: The
Colours of Love (1977); Home James (1972); Hot Stuff (1976); Hotel Reserve
(1944); I Met a Murderer (1939); In Search of Rembrandt (1969); Inside Edition
(2015); Inside Out (1975); Island in the Sun (1957); ITV Play of the Week (1966);
ITV Sunday Night Drama (1965); Ivanhoe (1982); I've Got a Secret (1956); James
Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside
Theatre (1958); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); John Brown's Raid (1960); John Keats:
His Life and Death (1973); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959); Julius
Caesar (1953); Kidnap Syndicate (1975); Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971); Kubrick
by Kubrick (2020); Kubrick Remembered (2014); La nuit des Césars (1985); Lady
Possessed (1952); Late Extra (1935); L'avare (1939); Lena (1964); Les nouveaux
rendez-vous (1980); Lolita (1962); Lolita, méprise sur un fantasme (2021); Lord
Jim (1965); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); Madame Bovary (1949); Man of Evil
(1944); Mandingo (1975); Martin Scorsese on 'Age of Consent' (2009); Max &
James & Danielle (2015); Mayerling (1968); Murder by Decree (1979); My Name
Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); NBC White Paper (1983); NET Festival (1970); Night
of 100 Stars (1982); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); North
by Northwest (1959); North Sea Hijack (1980); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild,
Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Odd Man Out (1947); Omnibus / Napoleon's
Love Letters (1953); One Way Street (1950); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
(1951); Panic! (1957); Parkinson (1972); Passion & Poetry: Sam's War (2011);
Password (1962–1967); People of the Wind (1976); Person to Person (1959); Personality
(1967); Playhouse 90 (1957–1960); Prince Valiant (1954); Prison Breaker (1936);
Release (1968); Rome in Madrid (1964); Room 237 (2012); Salem's Lot (1979); Schlitz
Playhouse (1954–1958); Secret Mission (1942); Sid & Judy (2019); Six
Fifty-Five Special (1981); Socrates (1982); Spring and Port Wine (1970); Square
Pegs (1939); Stars on Sunday (1970–1979); Stoney Burke (1962); Studio of the
Stars: The Elstree Story (1967); Survival (1974); Talking Pictures (2013); Telephone
Time (1957); Terror House (1942); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The
Agatha Christie Code (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action
Classics (2008); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Assisi Underground (1985);
The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Blue Max (1966); The Bob Hope Show (1955–1966);
The Boys from Brazil (1978); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Chevy Show (1955);
The Child (1954); The Circle (1939); The David Frost Show (1969); The Deadly
Affair (1967); The Decks Ran Red (1958); The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
(1951); The Desert Rats (1953); The Destructors (1974); The Dick Cavett Show
(1968); The Directors (2018); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The
Eamonn Andrews Show (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951–1955); The Fabulous Fox
(2004); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); The Flower in His Mouth (1975); The
Frank Sinatra Show (1952); The Golden Gong (1985); The Golden Years of
Alexander Korda (1968); The High Command (1937); The James Mason Show (1953); The
Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Last of Sheila (1973); The Late Show (1992); The
Left Hand of the Law (1975); The Legend of Silent Night (1968); The Linkletter
Show (1960); The London Nobody Knows (1968); The Look of the Week (1966–1967); The
MacKintosh Man (1973); The Magical World of Disney (1954 / 1976); The Making of
'20000 Leagues Under the Sea' (2003); The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil
Under the Sun' (1982); The Making of 'the Verdict' (1982); The Man Between
(1953); The Man in Grey (1943); The Many Faces of... (2013); The
Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1970); The Mike Douglas
Show (1967–1969); The Mill on the Floss (1936); The Moon in the Yellow River (1938);
The Passage (1979); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1962); The Prisoner of Zenda
(1952); The Pumpkin Eater (1964); The Reckless Moment (1949); The Return of the
Scarlet Pimpernel (1937); The River Nile (1962); The Royal Variety Performance
1979 (1979); The Sea Gull (1968); The Sea in Your Future (1971); The Search for
Alexander the Great (1981); The Search for the Nile (1971); The Seventh Veil
(1945); The Shooting Party (1984); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The
Spy in White (1936); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Story of Three
Loves / The Jealous Lover (1953); The Tell-Tale Heart (1953); The Tonight Show
Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965–1983);
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); The Uninhibited (1965); The Upturned Glass
(1947); The Verdict (1982); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Water Babies
(1978); The Wicked Lady (1945); The Wind in the Wires (1972); The World About
Us (1968); The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970); Theatre '62 (1962); They Met
in the Dark (1943); They Were Sisters (1945); This Is Your Life (1961–1973); Thunder
Rock (1942); Tiara Tahiti (1962); Today (1956); Torpedo Bay (1963); Troubled
Waters (1936); TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984); Twentieth Century Fox:
The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997);
Twice Branded (1936); Unknown Chaplin (1983); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1975); Verifica
incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); Vienna: The Years Remembered (1968);
Voyage of the Damned (1976); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
(1998); What's My Line? (1951–1966); Yellowbeard (1983); Your Show of Shows / Caesar's
Hour (1956); You're Putting Me On (1969).
Born on this day – Katherine Anne Porter:
Katherine Anne Porter
Writer
May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980
Credits:
Books:
40 Short Stories: A
Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Wreath for the
Gamekeeper (1959); Collected Essays and Occasional Writings (1973); Collected
Stories and Other Writings (2008); Conversations (1987); Downhome (1995); Downward
Path to Wisdom (1939); Eudora Welty (1941); Flowering Judas and Other Stories (1935);
Gertrude Stein, a self-portrait (1953); Gracious Greatness (1964); Growing Up
in the South (1991); Hacienda (1934); Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry (1996); Letters
of Katherine A. Porter (1990); Noon Wine (1937); Outline of Mexican popular
arts and crafts (1922); Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter (2012); Ship
of Fools (1962); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British
Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Stories of the Modern
South (1977); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The
Collected Stories (1965); The Cracked Looking-Glass (2018); The Days Before (1952);
The Flower of Flowers (1950); The Grave (2013); The Leaning Tower And Other
Stories (1944); The Never-Ending Wrong (1977); The Old Order (1955); The Short
Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); This Strange, Old World and Other Book Reviews (2008);
Uncollected Early Prose (1993); Women and Fiction (1975).
Movies and television:
ABC Stage 67 (1966); American
Masters (1986); American Playhouse (1985); Boston Blackie (1952); Camera Three
(1956–1964); Camera Three (1959–1961); Climax! (1956); Ship of Fools (1965); The
Circus (1990); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Fig Tree (1987); The
Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980); The Martyr (2010); The Wednesday Play
(1964).
Recommended reading - Keats, by Andrew Motion (1997):
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Keats
By Andrew Motion.
Filmed as Bright Star
(2009), directed by Jane Campion.
Published by Faber & Faber.
First published 1997.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0571346669
ISBN-13: 978-0571346660
Description:
“A definitive life of a great poet, and one of the finest
biographies of the decade.” – New Statesman.
First published in 1997, Keats was the
first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years,
and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the
story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of legend: the archetypal
life of the tortured genius, critically spurned and dying young. What Andrew
Motion brings to bear on the subject is a deep understanding of how Keats
fitted into the intellectual and political life of his time. Important
friendships with such anti-establishment figures as William Hazlitt and Leigh
Hunt are given their full due, and the closeness of his own spirit, as
expressed in his poems, to the ferment all around is made clear. Many
significant facts about Keats's schooldays and medical training, in particular,
enrich the picture. Keats emerges as a more political figure than he is usually
portrayed, but his personal sufferings, too, come into closer focus. Most
importantly, Andrew Motion – himself a distinguished poet and former poet
laureate – demonstrates how the poems continue to exert their power.
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