Friday, April 3, 2026

Born on this day – Doris Day:


Doris Day


Actress

Singer

Animal welfare activist

April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019


Credits:

Albums:

Annie Get Your Gun (1963); Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962); Bright and Shiny (1961); By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953); Calamity Jane (1953); Cuttin' Capers (1959); Day by Day (1956); Day by Night (1957); Day Dreams (1955); Doris Day's Sentimental Journey (1965); Duet (1962); Hooray for Hollywood (1958); I Have Dreamed (1961); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); Latin for Lovers (1965); Listen to Day (1960); Love Him (1963); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); My Heart (1985); On Moonlight Bay (1951); Show Time (1960); Tea for Two (1950); The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964); The Love Album (1967); The Pajama Game (1957); What Every Girl Should Know (1960); With a Smile and a Song (1964); You'll Never Walk Alone (1962); Young at Heart (1954); Young Man with a Horn (1950); You're My Thrill (1949).

Songs:

A Bushel and a Peck; A Chocolate Sundae on a Saturday Night; A Faded Summer Love; A Fellow Needs a Girl; A Foggy Day; A Full Time Job; A Guy Is a Guy; A Hundred Years from Today; A Little Kiss Goodnight; A Load of Hay; A Perfect Understanding; A Red Kiss on a Blue Letter; A Very Precious Love; A Woman's Touch; A Wonderful Guy; Abide with Me; Again; Ain't We Got Fun?; All Alone; All I Do is Dream of You; All through the Day; Another Go Around; Any Way the Wind Blows; Anything You Can Do; Are You Lonesome Tonight?; Aren't You Glad You're You?; As Long As He Needs Me; At Last; At the Café Rendezvous; Au Revoir Is Goodbye with a Smile; Autumn Leaves; Baby Doll; Be a Child at Christmas Time; Be Mine Tonight (Noche De Ronda); Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee; Be Still and Know; Be True to Me (Sabor A Mi); Before I Loved You; Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered; Blame My Absent-Minded Heart; Bless This House; Bluebird on Your Windowsill; Blues in the Night; Bright and Shiny; But Beautiful; But Not for Me; By the Light of the Silvery Moon; Canadian Capers; Candy Lips; Can't Help Falling in Love; Caprice; Catch the Bouquet; Cheek to Cheek; Choo Choo Train (Ch-Ch-Foo); Christmas Present; Christmas Story; Clap Yo' Hands; Close Your Eyes; Come to Baby, Do!; Confess; Control Yourself; Crazy Rhythm; Cuddle up a Little Closer; Cuttin' Capers; Daffa Down Dilly; Dansero; Darn That Dream; Day by Day; Daydreaming; Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly; Do Do Do; Do Not Disturb; Do Re Mi; Doin' What Comes Naturally; Domino; Don't Take Your Love From Me; Dream a Little Dream of Me; Easy to Love; Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think); Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own); Every Now and Then (You Come Around); Everybody Loves a Lover; Everybody Loves My Baby; Everywhere You Go; Falling; Falling in Love Again; Fine and Dandy; Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love); Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words); Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread); For All We Know; Funny; Gently Johnny; Get Out and Get Under the Moon; Getting to Know You; Give a Little Whistle; Give Me Time; Gone with the Wind; Gotta Feelin'; Happy Talk; Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas; He'll Have to Cross the Atlantic; Hello, My Lover, Goodbye; Here in My Arms; Here We Go Again; He's Home For a Little While; He's So Married; Hey There; High Hopes; Hold Me in Your Arms; Hoop-Dee-Doo; Hooray for Hollywood; How Insensitive; I Believe in Dreams; I Can Do Without You; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell; I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You); I Don't Want to Walk Without You; I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze; I Got Lost in His Arms; I Got the Sun in the Morning; I Had the Craziest Dream; I Hadn't Anyone Till You; I Have Dreamed; I Know That You Know; I Love Paris; I Love the Way You Say Goodnight; I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful); I Need Thee Every Hour; I Only Have Eyes for You; I Remember You; I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Pray'rs); I See Your Face Before Me; I Want to Be Happy; I Wish I Had a Girl; If I Can Help Somebody; If I Could Be with You; If I Give My Heart to You; If I Had My Life to Live Over; If I Were a Bell; If You Were the Only Girl; If You Will Marry Me; I'll Always Be with You; I'll Be Around; I'll Be Home for Christmas; I'll Buy That Dream; I'll Forget You; I'll Never Slip Around Again; I'll Never Smile Again; I'll Never Stop Loving You; I'll Remember April; I'll See You in My Dreams; I'll String Along with You; I'm an Indian Too; I'm Beginning to Miss You; I'm Beginning to See the Light; I'm Confessin' (That I Love You); I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles; I'm In Love; I'm in the Mood for Love; I'm Not at All in Love; I'm Sitting on Top of the World; I'm Still Sitting under the Apple Tree; Imagination; In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town; In the Garden; In the Moon Mist; In the Still of the Night; Instant Love; It All Depends on You; It Could Happen to You; It Had to Be You; It Happened at the Festival of Roses; It Might as Well Be Spring; It Takes Time; It's a Great Feeling; It's a Lovely Day Today; It's a Quiet Town in Cross-Bone County; It's Been a Long, Long Time; It's Better to Conceal Than Reveal; It's Easy to Remember; It's Magic; It's the Sentimental Thing to Do; It's You or No One; I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; I've Grown Accustomed to His Face; I've Never Been in Love Before; I've Only Myself to Blame; Julie; Just an Old Love of Mine; Just Blew in from the Windy City; Just One Girl; Just One of Those Things; Keep Smilin', Keep Laughin', Be Happy; King Chanticleer; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!; Let Me Call You Sweetheart; Let No Walls Divide; Let the Little Girl Limbo; Let's Face the Music and Dance; Let's Fly Away; Let's Take a Walk Around the Block; Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk; Let's Walk That-a-Way; Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries; Little Girl Blue; Lollipops and Roses; Losing You; Love Him; Love Is Here to Stay; Love Me in the Daytime; Love Me or Leave Me; Love Somebody; Love Ya; Lover Come Back; Lullaby of Broadway; Ma Says, Pa Says; Make Someone Happy; Makin' Whoopee!; Mama, What'll I Do; Me Too (Ho Ha! Ho Ha!); Mean to Me; Meditation; Mister Tap Toe; Mood Indigo; Moon Song; Moonglow; Moonshine Lullaby; More; Move Over, Darling; My Buddy; My Darling, My Darling; My Dream Is Yours; My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time; My Kinda Love; My Love and Devotion; My Number One Dream Came True; My One and Only Love; My Romance; My Ship; My Young and Foolish Heart; Nearer My God to Thee; Never Look Back; Nice Work if You Can Get It; Night and Day; Night Life; No Two People; Nobody's Heart; Nobody's Sweetheart; Not Only Should You Love Him; (Now & Then There's) A Fool Such as I; (Where Are you ) Now That I Need You; Oh Me! Oh My! Oh You!; Oh What a Beautiful Dream; Oh, But I Do; Oh, How I Miss You Tonight; Ohio; On Moonlight Bay; On the Street Where You Live; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Once-a-Year Day; Oops; Oo-Wee Baby; Orange Colored Sky; Our Day Will Come; Over and Over Again; Over the Rainbow; Papa, Won't You Dance with Me?; Pennies from Heaven; People Will Say We're in Love; Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps; Periwinkle Blue; Pete; Pillow Talk; Please Don't Eat the Daisies; Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; Por Favor; Powder Your Face with Sunshine; Pretty Baby; Pumpernickel; Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon; Quicksilver; Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars; Rainbow's End; Ready, Willing and Able; Remind Me; Ridin' High; Sam, the Old Accordion Man; Save a Little Sunbeam (for a Rainy, Rainy Day); Say Something Nice About Me; Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair); Secret Love; Send Me No Flowers; Sentimental Journey; Serenade in Blue; Seven and a Half Cents; Shaking the Blues Away; Shanghai; Should I Surrender?; Silver Bells; Since I Fell for You; Singin' in the Rain; Sleepy Baby; Sleepy Lagoon; Slightly Out of Tune (Desafinado); Small Talk; Snowfall; Snuggled on Your Shoulder; Soft as the Starlight; Softly, as I Leave You; Somebody Loves Me; Someday I'll Find You; Someone Else's Roses; Someone Like You; Something Wonderful; Sometimes I'm Happy; Soon; Sooner or Later; Sorry; Stardust; Stars Fell on Alabama; Stay on the Right Side, Sister; Stay with the Happy People; Steppin' Out with My Baby; Street of Dreams; Sugarbush; Summer Has Gone; Swinging on a Star; Tacos, Enchiladas and Beans; Tea for Two; Teacher's Pet; Tell Me (Tell Me Why); Tell Me, Tell Me, Dreamface; Ten Cents A Dance; Ten Thousand Four Hundred And Thirty-Two Sheep; That Certain Party; That Old Black Magic; That Old Feeling; That's the Way He Does It; The Best Thing for You; The Black Hills of Dakota; The Blue Train; The Children's Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack); The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire); The Christmas Waltz; The Circus is on Parade; The Comb and Paper Polka; The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away); The Deevil, Devil, Divil; The Everlasting Arms; The Game of Broken Hearts; The Glass Bottom Boat; The Gypsy in My Soul; The Inch-worm; The Lady's in Love with You; The Lamp Is Low; The Last Mile Home; The Last Time I Saw You; The Lilac Tree; The Lord's Prayer; The More I See You; The Night We Called it A Day; The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else); The Party's Over; The Prodigal Son; The River Seine; The Song is You; The Surrey With the Fringe on Top; The Very Thought Of You; The Way You Look Tonight; The Whole World Is Singing My Song; There Once Was a Man; There They Are; There Will Never Be Another You; There's A Rising Moon; There's Good Blues Tonight; There's No Business Like Show Business; They Say It's Wonderful; This Can't Be Love; Thoughtless; Three Coins in the Fountain; Till My Love Comes to Me; Till the End of Time; Till We Meet Again; Time to Say Goodnight; 'Tis Harry I'm Plannin' to Marry; Too Marvelous For Words; Toyland; Twinkle and Shine; Twinkle Lullaby; Under a Blanket of Blue; Very Good Advice; Wait Till You See Him; Walk with Him; We'll Be Together Again; We'll Love Again; What Does a Woman Do?; What Every Girl Should Know; Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera); What's the Use of Wond'rin'?; When I Fall in Love; When I Grow Too Old to Dream; When I'm Not Near the Boy I Love; When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along); When Your Lover Has Gone; When You're Smiling; White Christmas; Who Are We to Say (Obey Your Heart); Who Knows What Might Have Been?; Why Can't I?; Why Don't We Do this More Often?; Winter Wonderland; With a Smile and a Song; With a Song in My Heart; Wonderful One; Would I Love You, Love You, Love You; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away); Yes; You Are My Sunshine; You Can Have Him; You Can't Get A Man with A Gun; You Can't Have Everything; You Do Something to Me; You Go to My Head; You Love Me; You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It); You My Love; You Should Have Told Me; You Stepped Out of a Dream; You Was; You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart); You'll Never Know; You'll Never Walk Alone; Your Eyes Have Told Me So; You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me; You're My Thrill; Zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

Movies and television:

1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Alex in Wonderland (1970); Ambulance (2017); American Crime Story (2018); American Masters (2007–2011); Antz (1998); April in Paris (1952); Bates Motel (2017); Before Stonewall (1984); Better Things (2017); Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962); Biography (1987 / 1998); Boston Legal (2008); Brighton Rock (2010); Bronson (2008); By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953); Calamity Jane (1953); Call the Midwife (2012–2017); Caprice (1967); Catalina Island (1966); Children / Death and Transfiguration (1983); Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (1997); Cold Case (2005); Comme les autres (2008); Corporate (2019); Crime Wave (1953); Crossing Jordan (2001); Cruella (2021); Cuéntame cómo pasó (2019); Dancing with the Stars (2006); Des O'Connor Tonight (1994); Do Not Disturb (1965); Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage (1994); Dopesick (2021); Doris Day Today (1975); Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey (1991); Doris Day's Best Friends (1985–1986); Druzina (2017); Emilka placze (2006); Every Girl's Dream (1966); Father of My Children (2009); First Person with Maria Shriver (1993); Formula 1: BBC Sport (2011); Four Corners (1988); Frankie & Alice (2010); Fred Claus (2007); Gilmore Girls (2002); Good Morning Britain (2017–2019); Gross Anatomy (1989); Grumpier Old Men (1995); Happy Days (1974); Havana (1990); Heart and Souls (1993); Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (2003); Homeward Bound (1994); I don't even like apple pie (1989); I Saw the Light (2015); I, Tonya (2017); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); Infamous (2006); Is It Love or Is It Conscription? (1941); It Happened to Jane (1959); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Julie & Julia (2009); Julie (1956); Just Like a Woman (1992); Katherine Jenkins: A Girl from Neath (2008); Keisarikunta (2004); Krueger: Tales from Elm Street (2017); Young Man with a Horn (1950); Krueger: The Legend of Elm Street (2016); Lady in the Water (2006); Legends (2007); A Letter to True (2004); Level 16 (2018); Love Hard (2021); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); Lover Come Back (1961); Lucky Me (1954); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); Mad Men (2010); Madman Muntz: American Maverick (2005); Mafia II (2010); Married Life (2007); Midnight Lace (1960); Moeder, ik wil bij de revue (2012); Mona Lisa Smile (2003); Move Over, Darling (1963); Mrs. America (2020); My Dinner with Hervé (2018); My Dream Is Yours (1949); My Lost Horizon (1941); My Music: Big Band Vocalists (2012); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); NASA (1966); New Year's Day (1989); No Sudden Move (2021); Noble (2014); On Moonlight Bay (1951); Once Over, Lightly (1941); One Chance (1966); Other People's Children (2022); Pebble Mill at One (1995); Picture a Perfect Christmas (2019); Pillow Talk (1959); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960); Private Parts (1997); Quantum Leap (1989); Rat (2000); Ray Donovan (2013); Riverdale (2017); Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023); Romance on the High Seas (1948); Rustin (2023); Sawako no asa (2011–2017); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); See You in My Dreams (1951); Send Me No Flowers (1964); Sex Education (2021); Shooting the Hollywood Stars (2011); Six Feet Under (2005); Sleepers (1996); So You Want a Television Set (1953); Star Life (1990); Starlift (1951); Storm Warning (1950); Strictly Ballroom (1992); Summertime Blues (1988); Sun Records (2017); Sylvie's Love (2020); Tea for Two (1950); Teacher's Pet (1958); That Touch of Mink (1962); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 15th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1958); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The 20th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1963); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960); The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1989); The 50th Annual Grammy Awards (2008); The Art Of... When You're Hot, Young, Poor and a Filmmaker! (2012); The Ballad of Josie (1967); The Bob Hope Show (1950); The Boys in the Band (2020); The Bronze (2015); The Celluloid Closet (1995); The Doris Day Show (1968–1973); The Doris Day Story: Everybody's Darling (1998); The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special (1971); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Epic of Detective Mandy: Book One - Satan Claus (1989); The Following (2014); The Founder (2016); The Glass Bottom Boat (1966); The Governor & J.J. (1969); The Handmaid's Tale (2019); The John Denver Show (1974); The Long Day Closes (1992); The Man Who Drove with Mandela (1998); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018–2023); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Pajama Game (1957); The Pet Set (1971); The Rookie: Feds (2023); The Simpsons (2005); The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983); The Thrill of It All (1963); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1973–1976); The Tunnel of Love (1958); The West Point Story (1950); The Winning Team (1952); The World Unseen (2007); This Is Music (1958); Three Wishes (1995); Timeshift (2012); Tohuwabohu (1996); Tortilla Soup (2001); Tratsch im Treppenhaus (1966); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (1984–1992); Under the Sea 3D (2009); Valencia (2018); Vegas (2012); Vicki Lawrence in Vicki! (1993); Waiting (1991); Watchmen (2019); What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar (2009); What's My Line? (1954–1957); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968); Who's Doing the Dishes? (2016); With Six You Get Eggroll (1968); WPC 56 (2013); Young at Heart (1954).

Born on this day – John Batten:


John Batten


Actor

April 3, 1903 – August 10, 1993

Credits:

As Good As New (1933); Backstage (1927); Call Me Mame (1933); For Those in Peril (1944); High Finance (1933); The Battle of the Sexes (1928); The Chorus Kid (1928); The Church Mouse (1934); The Godless Girl (1928); The Great Game (1930); The Greenwood Tree (1929); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929); The Love Waltz (1930); The Wonderful Story (1932); Trapped in a Submarine (1932).

Born on this day – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco:


Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco


Composer

Pianist

Writer

April 3, 1895 – March 16, 1968

Credits:

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957); A Letter for Evie (1946); A Slight Case of Larceny (1953); A Yank at Eton (1942); Above Suspicion (1943); Address Unknown (1944); Adventures in Silverado (1948); Adventures of Rusty (1945); Alias a Gentleman (1948); And Then There Were None (1945); Asana Travelogue (2012); Bad Bascomb (1946); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Barbary Pirate (1949); Barbed Wire (1952); Bataan (1943); Batman and Robin (1949); Battle of Rogue River (1954); Battle Stations (1956); Bewitched (1945); Big Leaguer (1953); Black Eagle (1948); Blondie's Hero (1950); Boston Blackie (1948); Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945); Brave Warrior (1952); Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947); Cannibal Attack (1954); Captain Pirate (1952); Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951); Captive Girl (1950); Charge of the Lancers (1954); Chinatown at Midnight (1949); Courage of Lassie (1946); Crash Landing (1958); Creature with the Atom Brain (1955); Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946); Criminal Lawyer (1951); Cripple Creek (1952); Cry of the Hunted (1953); Cry of the Werewolf (1944); Customs Agent (1950); Dangerous Business (1946); Desire Me (1947); Desperate Search (1952); Devil Goddess (1955); Devil Ship (1947); Down to Earth (1947); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Drums of Tahiti (1954); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Duel on the Mississippi (1955); Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956); El Alaméin (1953); Emergency Wedding (1950); Escape in the Fog (1945); Everybody Does It (1949); Fingers at the Window (1942); Forgotten Treasure (1943); Fury of the Congo (1951); Gaslight (1944); Gentle Annie (1944); Goldtown Ghost Riders (1953); Harem Girl (1952); Harrigan's Kid (1943); Hellcats of the Navy (1957); He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hurricane Island (1951); I Love a Mystery (1945); In Our Time (1944); Inca Gold (1943); Jack McCall, Desperado (1953); Journey for Margaret (1942); Jungle Jim (1948); Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952); Jungle Man-Eaters (1954); Jungle Manhunt (1951); Just Before Dawn (1946); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Key Witness (1947); Lassie Come Home (1943); Last of the Redmen (1947); Last Train from Bombay (1952); Main Street After Dark (1945); Man in the Dark (1953); Manhattan (1944); Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945); Mark of the Gorilla (1950); Mask of the Avenger (1951); Masterson of Kansas (1954); Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942); Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944); Mrs. Parkington (1944); Mule Train (1950); My Name Is Julia Ross (1945); Mysterious Intruder (1946); Mysterious Island (1951); Night Editor (1946); Nine Girls (1944); Okinawa (1952); Orchestra of Exiles (2012); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Out of the Depths (1945); Pirates of the High Seas (1950); Pirates of Tripoli (1955); Plan for Destruction (1943); Prince of Pirates (1953); Prison Ship (1945); Prison Warden (1949); Racing Luck (1948); Rage in Heaven (1941); Rationing (1944); Reunion in France (1942); Revenue Agent (1950); Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950); Savage Mutiny (1953); Secret Command (1944); Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956); Sergeant Mike (1944); Serpent of the Nile (1953); Seven Sweethearts (1942); Shadowed (1946); Shadows in the Night (1944); She's a Soldier Too (1944); Siren of Bagdad (1953); Slaves of Babylon (1953); Smuggler's Gold (1951); Somewhere I'll Find You (1942); Son of Lassie (1945); Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960); Streets of Ghost Town (1950); Strictly Dishonorable (1951); Superman (1948); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Big Gusher (1951); The Black Parachute (1944); The Brave Bulls (1951); The Brigand (1952); The Canterville Ghost (1944); The Clock (1945); The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945); The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949); The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947); The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945); The Crooked Web (1955); The Cross of Lorraine (1943); The Devil's Henchman (1949); The Devil's Mask (1946); The Fighting Frontiersman (1946); The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948); The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944); The Giant Claw (1957); The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957); The Hard Man (1957); The Heavenly Body (1944); The Hidden Eye (1945); The Long Wait (1954); The Lost Tribe (1949); The Love Machine (1971); The Loves of Carmen (1948); The Maestro (2018); The Man Who Dared (1946); The Mark of the Whistler (1944); The Miami Story (1954); The Millerson Case (1947); The Missing Juror (1944); The Phantom Thief (1946); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945); The Prince of Thieves (1948); The Return of the Vampire (1943); The Return of the Whistler (1948); The Saracen Blade (1954); The Secret of St. Ives (1949); The Soul of a Monster (1944); The Stars Look Down (1940); The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945); The Stratton Story (1949); The Unknown (1946); The Unwritten Code (1944); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Werewolf (1956); The White Squaw (1956); The World Was His Jury (1958); Thief of Damascus (1952); Time Out of Mind (1947); Tortilla Flat (1942); Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948); Two-Man Submarine (1944); U-Boat Prisoner (1944); Undercurrent (1946); Valley of Head Hunters (1953); Vendetta (1942); Voice of the Whistler (1945); Voodoo Tiger (1952); We Were Dancing (1942); Whirlwind Raiders (1948); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); White Cargo (1942); Without Love (1945); Zombies of Mora Tau (1957).

Recommended reading - three books on movies, by George Stevens Jr:


Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute

By George Stevens Jr.

Published by Vintage.
Published 2007.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1400033144
ISBN-13: 978-1400033140

Description:

“Impressive and entertaining … A sweeping and valuable compendium of picture-making and picture lore.” – Peter Bogdanovich, The Wall Street Journal.

The first book to bring together interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.

Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang (“I learned only from bad films”), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini (“Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It’s absolutely impossible to improvise”). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema’s most talented pioneers.


Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation

By George Stevens Jr.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Published 2014.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0307474984
ISBN-13: 978-0307474988

Description:

“Magnificent … A collection that is compendious, illuminating, and utterly indispensable.” – Director’s Guild of America Quarterly.

A rich companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the pioneering moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age, this time with a focus on filmmakers of the 1950s to present day.

The Next Generation brings together conversations with moviemakers at work from the 1950s – during the studios’ decline – to today’s Hollywood. Directors, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, composers, film editors, and independent filmmakers appear within these pages, including Steven Spielberg, Nora Ephron, George Lucas, Sidney Poitier, Meryl Streep, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, and more. We see how the filmmakers of today and those of Hollywood’s Golden Age face the same challenges of both art and craft – to tell compelling stories on the screen. And we see the ways in which actors and directors work together, how each director has his or her own approach, and how they share techniques and theories.

“An entertaining in-depth look into the art, economics, and politics of filmmaking for those of us for whom film still has the impact of being struck by lightning … Essential reading … A sine qua non of film books, one that belongs on the shelf of every film student or serious fan.” – New York Journal of Books.

“Cuts across the spectrum of genres and artistic attitudes … A rare treat [and] an eclectic one … A treasure-trove to flip through and savor.” – Los Angeles Times.


My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington

By George Stevens Jr.

Published by University Press of Kentucky.
Published 2022.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0813195241
ISBN-13: 978-0813195247

Description:

The son of a celebrated Hollywood director emerges from his father’s shadow to claim his own place as a visionary force in American culture. George Stevens, Jr. tells an intimate and moving tale of his relationship with his Oscar-winning father and his own distinguished career in Hollywood and Washington. Fascinating people, priceless stories and a behind-the-scenes view of some of America’s major cultural and political events grace this riveting memoir.

George Stevens, Jr. grew up in Hollywood and worked on film classics with his father and writes vividly of his experience on the sets of A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). He explores how the magnitude of his father’s talent and achievements left him questioning his own creative path. The younger Stevens began to forge his unique career when legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow recruited him to elevate the Motion Picture Service at the United States Information Agency in John F. Kennedy’s Washington. Stevens’ trailblazing efforts initiated what has been called the “golden era” of USIA filmmaking and a call to respect motion pictures as art. His appointment as founding director of the American Film Institute in 1967 placed him at the forefront of culture and politics, safeguarding thousands of endangered films and training a new generation of filmmakers. Stevens’ commitment to America’s cultural heritage led to envisioning the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors and propelled a creative life of award-winning films and television programs that heightened attention to social justice, artistic achievement, and the American experience.

Stevens provides a rare look at a pioneering American family spanning five generations in entertainment: from the San Francisco stage in the 19th century to silent screen comedies, Academy Award-winning films, Emmy Award-winning television programs and a Broadway play in the 21st century. He reveals the private side of the dazzling array of American presidents, first ladies, media moguls, and luminaries who cross his path, including Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, the Kennedys, Yo-Yo Ma, Cary Grant, James Dean, Bruce Springsteen, Barack and Michelle Obama, and many more.

In My Place in the Sun, George Stevens, Jr. shares his lifelong passion for advancing the art of American film, enlightening audiences, and shining a spotlight on notable figures who inspire us. He provides an insightful look at Hollywood’s Golden Age and an insider’s account of Washington spanning six decades, bringing to life a sparkling era of American history and culture.

April 3 – National Film Score Day:

Celebrating music in the movies.

Jhumpa Lahiri, on stories:


I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next.
I have no other criterion.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Thursday, April 2, 2026

On this day in television history - Justified (2013):


Justified

Season 4. Episode 13.
Episode entitled: Ghosts.
Released April 2, 2013.
Directed by Bill Johnson.
Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Benjamin Cavell, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.
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, Walton Goggins, Jere Burns, Sam Anderson, Rick Gomez, John Kapelos, Mike O’Malley, Max Perlich, Lindsay Pulsipher, Troy Ruptash, William Gregory Lee, Jesse Luken, Natalie Zea, Zoran Korach, Jonathan Kowalsky, Guy Nardulli, Timothy Eulich, A.J. Dunn.