Born on this day – Michael Schlesinger:

Michael Schlesinger

Director

Producer

Writer

September 4, 1950 – January 9, 2025

Credits:

13 Ghosts: The Magic of Illusion-O (2001); A Stanley Kramer Production (2016); American Frontiers: Anthony Mann at Universal (2019); Battle-Axe: The Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2002); Beast Wishes (2012); Bride of Finklestein (2015); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Budd Boetticher: An American Original (2005); Complicated Women (2003); Damn Dirty Geeks (2017); Dark and Stormy Night (2009); Film It Again, Sam: The Katzman Chronicles (2015); Footprints (2009); Forces of Nature: Anthony Mann at Universal (2025); Frank Capra's American Dream (1997); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Godzilla 2000 (1999); If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017); Imagining 'Heavy Metal' (1999); Imitation of Wife (2015); In the Picture (2012); It's a Frame-Up! (2013); It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993); Monstrkyd Manor (2016); Obey the Lost Skeleton! (2004); Out of Print (2014); Psychette: William Castle and 'Homicidal' (2002); Rita (2003); Rock and Doris (try to) Write a Movie (2024); Schmo Boat (2015); Screen Test / Contestant (1981) (1979–1984); So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004); Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007); Stu's Show (2013–2018); Taking the Punishment Poll (2002); That Guy Dick Miller (2014); The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster (2015); The Biffle Murder Case (2015); The Lost Skeleton Returns Again (2008); They Came from Beyond - Sam Katzman at Columbia (2023); Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007); Trailers from Hell (2016–2025); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Yesterday Was a Lie (2009).

Born on this day – Mitzi Gaynor:

Mitzi Gaynor

Actress

Singer

Dancer

September 4, 1931 – October 17, 2024

Credits:

20 to 1 (2010); 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (2011); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); All About Alfred (1998); American Masters (2021); Anything Goes (1956); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Present High Hopes (1959); Biography (1999–2001); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion (2024); Ça c'est l'amour (2003); Call the Midwife (2013); Cavalcade of Champions (1973); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2019); Danny Thomas Special: My Home Town (1966); Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Ed Sullivan Presents: The Beatles (2003); Eye for an Eye (1996); For Love or Money (1963); Frank Sinatra: One More for the Road (2019); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Funny You Never Knew (2019); George Jessel Show (1959); Golden Girl (1951); Good Morning America (2006); Happy Anniversary (1959); Hello: A Portrait of Leslie Phillips (2013); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); It's Your Health (1949); Les Girls (1957); Lykke og krone (1962); Marilyn (1963); Mia, a Dancer's Journey (2014); Mission: Impossible (1989); Mitzi & 100 Guys (1975); Mitzi (1968); Mitzi Gaynor: Impressions of the Fox Years (2007); Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years (2008); Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife (1974); Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20's (1976); Mitzi... The First Time (1973); Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not (1978); Mitzi... Zings Into Spring (1977); Mitzi's 2nd Special (1969); Monty and the Movies (2024); My Blue Heaven (1950); My Music: A Classic Christmas (2019); Out of My Dreams: Oscar Hammerstein II (2012); Passion, Prejudice and South Pacific: Creating an American Masterpiece (2009); Perry Como's Winter Show (1971); Red Carpet Report (2013); Reflets de Cannes (1956–1958); Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021); Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1969); So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2010); South Pacific (1958); Springtime in Greenland (1981); Surprise Package (1960); Take Care of My Little Girl (1951); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 16th Annual Satellite Awards (2011); The 1974 Annual Las Vegas Entertainment Awards (1974); The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1972); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The Birds and the Bees (1956); The Bob Braun Show (1984); The Children of Lindos (1960); The Dick Clark Show (1960); The Donald O'Connor Show (1954–1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954–1964); The Fabulous Fox (2004); The Frank Sinatra Show (1959); The George Jessel Show (1953); The I Don't Care Girl (1953); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2012); The Jack Benny Hour (1959); The Joker Is Wild (1957); The Kraft Music Hall (1967); The Merv Griffin Show (1970); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967–1977); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Your Life (1960); Three Young Texans (1954); Vancouver: Focus on Expo 86 (1986); Welcome to Woop Woop (1997); We're Not Married! (1952); Women He's Undressed (2015).

Born on this day – John Cephas:

John Cephas

Blues guitarist

September 4, 1930 – March 4, 2009

Credits:

Albums:

Bluesmen (1993); Cool Down (1996); Dog Days of August (1986); Flip, Flop & Fly (1992); From Richmond to Atlanta (2000); Goin' down the Road Feelin' Bad (1998); Guitar Man (1987); Homemade (1999); Let It Roll: Bowling Green (1985); Living Country Blues USA, vol. 1 (1981); Richmond Blues (2008); Shoulder to Shoulder (2006); Somebody Told the Truth (2002); Sweet Bitter Blues (1984 / 1994); Walking Blues (1988).

Born on this day – Joan Aiken:

Joan Aiken

Writer

September 4, 1924 – January 4, 2004

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977); A Bundle of Nerves (1976); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996); A Children's Literary Treasury (2022); A Cluster of Separate Sparks / aka The Butterfly Picnic (1972); A Creepy Company (1993); A Fit of Shivers (1990); A Foot in the Grave (1989); A Ghostly Gallery (2023); A Goose on Your Grave (1987); A Handful of Gold (1995); A Harp of Fishbones (1972); A Necklace of Raindrops (1968); A Small Pinch of Weather (1969); A Touch of Chill (1979); A Whisper in the Night (1981); All and More / aka All You've Ever Wanted (1953); All But a Few (1974); Arabel and Mortimer Stories (2019); Arabel's Raven (1972); Armitage, Armitage Fly Away Home (1968); Bestiary! (1985); Black Hearts in Battersea (1964); Blackground (1989); Bone and Dream (2002); Bridle the Wind (1983); Castle Barebane (1976); Chilling Christmas Tales (1992); Christmas Forever (1993); Cold Shoulder Road (1995); Come Flee with Me (1978); Conrad Aiken, Our Father (1989); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dangerous Games (1999); Dark Interval / aka Hate Begins at Home (1967); Dead Man's Lane (1996); Deception / aka If I Were You (1987); Dido and Pa (1986); Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972); Drabble II - Double Century (1990); Eliza's Daughter (1994); Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes (1984); Emma Watson (1996); Escaped Black Mamba (1973); Fantastic Fables (2023); Fantasy Stories (1994); Fantasy Stories (1996); Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice (1984); Foul Matter (1983); Ghostly Beasts (2002); Ghostly Haunts (1994); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Girl's Choice (1969); Give Yourself a Fright (1989); Go Saddle the Sea (1977); Gothic (2004); Haunting Christmas Tales (1991); Helena and the Wild Man (2000); Horror Stories (1988); In Thunder's Pocket (2001); Is / aka Is Underground (1992); ise Girl (2000); Jane Fairfax (1990); Lady Catherine's Necklace (2000); Last Movement (1977); Mansfield Revisited (1984); Mice and Mendelson (1978); Midnight Is a Place (1974); Midwinter Nightingale (2003); Moon Cake (1998); More Arabel and Mortimer (2019); More Than You Bargained for (1955); Morningquest (1992); Mortimer and Arabel (1992); Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (1979); Mortimer Says Nothing (1985); Mortimer's Bread Bin / aka The Bread Bin (1974); Mortimer's Cross (1983); Mortimer's Mine (1995); Mortimer's Pocket (1994); Mortimer's Portrait on Glass (1982); Mortimer's Tie (1976); Mystery Stories (1996); Mystifying (2008); New Terrors 1 (1980); New Terrors Omnibus (1985); Night Fall (1969); Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966); Nightshade (2000); Not What You Expected (1974); Over the Rainbow (1983); Past Eight O'Clock (1986); Psychos (2012); Return to Harken House / aka Voices (1988); Scaremongers (1998); Scary! (1998); Secret City (1997); Serve Me Stefan (2000); Shadows and Moonshine (1990); Shivers for Christmas (1995); Silent Night (2002); Silver Jackanory (1991); Simply the Best (1996); Siren Stories (2023); Skin of the Soul (1990); Smoke from Cromwell's Time (1970); Snow Horse (2004); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2002); Song of Mat and Ben (2000); Spellbound (2007); Strangeness (1977); Street (1978); Tale of a One-Way Street (1978); The 10th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1969); The 1st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959); The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967); The Angel Inn (1976); The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3 (2009); The Cockatrice Boys (1996); The Crystal Crow (1967); The Cuckoo Tree (1971); The Dark Side (2007); The Embroidered Sunset (1970); The Erl King's Daughter (1988); The Faithless Lollybird (1977); The Far Forests (1977); The Fifth Armada Ghost Book (1973); The Fifth Ghost Book (1969); The Five-Minute Marriage (1977); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966); The Fortune Hunters (1965); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Gift Giving (2016); The Girl From Paris / aka The Young Lady from Paris (1982); The Green Flash (1971); The Haunting of Lamb House (1987); The Jewel Seed (1997); The Kingdom and the Cave (1960); The Kingdom Under the Sea (1971); The Kingfisher Treasury of Five-Minute Stories (2004); The Kitchen Warriors (1983); The Last Slice of the Rainbow (1985); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 (2012); The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997); The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000); The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995); The Midnight Moropus (1993); The Monkey's Wedding (2011); The Mooncusser's Daughter (1974); The Moon's Revenge (1987); The Mystery of Mr Jones's Disappearing Taxi (1982); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1975); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The People in the Castle (2016); The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds (1996); The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997); The Random House Book of Ghost Stories (1991); The Scream (2002); The Serial Garden (2008); The Shadow Guests (1980); The Shoemaker's Boy (1991); The Silence of Herondale (1964); The Sixth Ghost Book: Book 2 (1970); The Skin Spinners (poems) (1976); The Smile of the Stranger (1977); The Spiral Stair (1979); The Stolen Lake (1981); The Teeth of the Gale / aka In the Teeth of the Gale (1988); The Tenth Ghost Book (1974); The Tinker's Curse (1978); The Way to Write for Children (1981); The Weeping Ash / aka The Lightning Tree (1980); The Whispering Mountain (1968); The Windscreen Weepers (1969); The Winter Sleepwalker (1991); The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962); The Wooden Dragon (2004); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 (2012); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990); The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989); The Youngest Miss Ward (1998); Triangles (1973); Trouble with Product X / aka Beware of the Bouquet (1966); Up the Chimney Down (1984); Voices in an Empty House (1975); Weather Witches and Wise Women (2023); Winterthing (1972).

Movies and television:

Black Hearts in Battersea (1995–1996); Jackanory (1968–1992); Jackanory Playhouse (1977–1979); Joan Aiken (1969); L'ultima fetta di arcobaleno (2023); Midnight Is a Place (1977–1978); Mort un dimanche de pluie (1986); Mortimer & Arabel (1993–1994); Night Gallery / Segment: Marmalade Wine (1971); Rainy Story (1988); Read All About It (1974); Shadows (1976–1978); Television Theater (1998); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989).

Born on this day – Remo Giazotto:

Remo Giazotto

Composer

Musicologist

Writer

September 4, 1910 – August 26, 1998

Noted for his biography and catalogue of the works of Tomaso Albinoni.

Remo Giazotto composed Adagio in G minor,

transcribed from a fragment of a sonata manuscript by Tomaso Albinoni.

Credits:

Written work:

Mozart Annals (1956); Busoni: life in the opera (1947); Giovan Battista Viotti (1956); Harmonics Concenti in Aere Veneto (1955); Melodrama in Genoa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1941); The Patricio of Hercole Bottrigari demonstrated practically by an anonymous cinquecentesco, CHM, i (1953); The War of the Stages, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, i (1967), 245–86, 465–508; III (1969), 906–33; V (1971), 1304–52; The music in Genoa in public and private life from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century (1951); The Italian music in London during the Purcell years (1955); Musurgia nova (1959); In the CCC year of Antonio Cesti's death: twenty-two letters found in the Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, iii (1969), 496–512; Melodramatic Poetry and Critical Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1952); Tomaso Albinoni, 'Venetian amateur violin musician' (1671–1750) (1945); Life of Alessandro Stradella (1962); Vivaldi (1965).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2009); Anatomy (2000); Ballet Adagio (1972); Bob's Burgers (2014); Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973); Chloe and Theo (2015); Company Party (1972); Des hommes et des montagnes (1953); Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019); EastEnders (2005); Endeavour (2014); Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984); Interlude (1968); La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède (1982–1983); Lara Fabian: Adagio (1999); Love Song for Tough Guys (2021); Manchester by the Sea (2016); Murder in Texas (1981); POOP (2014); Red Sun (1970); Ring 0: Birthday (2000); Rollerball (1975); Rolling to You (2018); Show Me Love (1998); Space: 1999 (1975); The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974); The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018); The Inbetweeners 2 (2014); The Silence of Others (2018); Velvet Buzzsaw (2019); Void (2018).

Born on this day – Meade Lux Lewis:

Meade Lux Lewis

Blues musician

Pianist

Composer

September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964

Credits:

Albums:

A Summer Sky Shines (2015); All That Jazz, Vol. 138: Jabouti! (2021); Barrel House Blues (2020); Barrel House Piano (1957); Bear Cat Crawl (2015); Blues De Lux' (2015); Boogie on Down (2015); Boogie Woogie (1941); Boogie Woogie Boys 1938-1944 (2014); Boogie Woogie Classic Blues Accompaniments (1955); Boogie Woogie Kings (2009); Boogie Woogie Piano and Drums (1955); Boogie Woogie Stomp (1998); Boogie Woogie Trio (2011); Boogie Woogie Trio, Vol. 1 (2017); Boogie Woogie Trio, Vol. 2 (1997); Cat House Piano (1955); Chicago Flyer (2016); Chicago Piano Blues and Boogie Woogie 1936–1951 Vol. 3, Oldie Blues OL 2827 (1984);Colours of Music History (2014); Complete Jazz Series 1939 – 1941 (2009); Complete Jazz Series 1941 – 1944 (2009); Complete Jazz Series 1946 – 1954 (2009); Far Ago Blues (2015); Frompy Stomp (2021); Giant of Blues and Boogie Woogie 1905–1964, Oldie Blues OL 2810 (1982); Gliding from Glendale to Chicago (2005); Honky Tonk Train Blues (2009); Jazz Piano Masters - Meade Lux Lewis (2011); Lux's Boogie (2012); Masters of Boogie Piano: Five Classic Albums Plus (2013); Meade "Lux" Lewis (1939 to late 1940s) (2005); Meade Lux Lewis Selected Favorites Volume 1 (2006); Melancholy (2016); Original Jazz Sound: Cat House Piano 1955 (2012); Shooboody (2023); Spirit of Boogie Woogie (2015); Tell Your Story, Oldie Blues OL 2805 (1975); The Best Boogie Woogie Piano (2013); The Blues Piano Artistry Of Meade Lux Lewis (1990); The Boogie Woogie Trio vol. 1 (1995); The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis (1983); The First Day (1992); The Original Boogie Woogie Piano Giants (2023); The Ultimate Jazz Archive 17 - Boogie Woogie (2 Of 4) (2007); Tidal Boogie (1996); Yancey's Last Ride (1957).

Movies and television:

A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (1999); Ain't Misbehavin' (1974); Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2018); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Cow-Cow Boogie (1943); Emily's First 100 Days of School (2006); Fuzzy Wuzzy (1946); I'll Be There (2003); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Low Down Dog (1944); Mississippi Masala (1991); New Orleans (1947); Nightmare (1956); Swingtime Jamboree (1946); The Blues (2003); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Mike Douglas Show (1962); The Roaring 20's (1961).

Born on this day – Joseph J. Dowling:

Joseph J. Dowling

Actor

September 4, 1850 – July 8, 1928

Credits:

A Certain Rich Man (1921); A Confidence Game (1915); A Law Unto Herself (1918); A Little Sister of Everybody (1918); A Man in the Open (1919); A Man's Country (1919); A Man's Man (1917); A Piece of Amber (1915); A Romance of Old Holland (1914); A Splendid Hazard (1920); A Trick of Fate (1919); A White Man's Chance (1919); Adele (1919); Alimony (1917); All of a Sudden Norma (1919); An Alien Enemy (1918); And a Still Small Voice (1918); Bawbs O' Blue Ridge (1916); Beckoning Roads (1919); Big Happiness (1920); Blindfolded (1918); Bullets and Brown Eyes (1916); Carmen of the Klondike (1918); College Days (1915); Confessions of a Queen (1925); Dollar Devils (1923); Enemies of Children (1923); Eric the Red's Wooing (1914); Everybody's Sweetheart (1920); Fightin' Mad (1921); Flower of Night (1925); Free and Equal (1918); Ghost of the Rancho (1918); Her Night of Romance (1924); Her Purchase Price (1919); His Brother's Keeper (1915); His Nibs (1921); His Robe of Honor (1918); Home (1916); Honor's Cross (1918); Humdrum Brown (1918); If You Believe It, It's So (1922); Josselyn's Wife (1919); Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Live Sparks (1920); Lord Jim (1925); Lorraine of the Lions (1925); Madam Who? (1918); Maid o' the Storm (1918); Master of His Home (1917); More Trouble (1918); New Lives for Old (1925); One Clear Call (1922); One Dollar Bid (1918); One Night in Rome (1924); Paddy O'Hara (1917); Patriotism (1918); Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922); Riders of the Dawn (1920); Sink or Swim (1920); Sleuthing (1913); Social Ambition (1918); Somewhere in France (1916); Sudden Jim (1917); Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924); The Apostle of Vengeance (1916); The Bargain (1914); The Beautiful Liar (1921); The Beckoning Flame (1915); The Bells (1918); The Breaking Point (1921); The Brink (1915); The Christian (1923); The Courtship of Myles Standish (1923); The Criminal (1916); The Danger Point (1922); The Deserter (1916); The Devil to Pay (1920); The Dream Cheater (1920); The False Code (1919); The Gaiety Girl (1924); The Girl Who Came Back (1923); The Girl Who Ran Wild (1922); The Goddess of Lost Lake (1918); The Golden Princess (1925); The Grim Comedian (1921); The Gun Fighter (1917); The Half Breed (1922); The Hammer (1915); The House of Whispers (1920); The Iced Bullet (1917); The Iron Strain (1915); The Joyous Liar (1919); The Kentucky Colonel (1920); The Kite (1915); The Law Forbids (1924); The Lighthouse Keeper's Son (1915); The Little Irish Girl (1926); The Long Lane's Turning (1919); The Lord Loves the Irish (1919); The Lure of Egypt (1921); The Man from Oregon (1915); The Master Man (1919); The Midnight Stage (1919); The Miracle Man (1919); The Other Woman (1921); The Pinch Hitter (1917); The Pride of Palomar (1922); The Rainmaker (1926); The Reward (1915); The Scourge of the Desert (1915); The Scrub (1915); The Sea Ghost (1915); The Shoal Light (1915); The Silver Bell (1914); The Sin of Martha Queed (1921); The Smart Aleck (1920); The Spenders (1921); The Spider and the Rose (1923); The Square Deal Man (1917); The Stepping Stone (1916); The Thoroughbred (1916); $30,000 (1920); The U.P. Trail (1920); The Yankee Way (1917); Those Who Dare (1924); Tiger Rose (1923); Todd of the Times (1919); Trail of the Axe (1922); Unseen Hands (1924); Untamed Youth (1924); Wedlock (1918); What Love Will Do (1923); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); With Hoops of Steel (1918); Women Who Give (1924); Wooden Shoes (1917).