Ursula K. Le Guin, on writing:

 

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?
I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.
- Ursula K. Le Guin.

Born on this day – Ethel Moses:

Ethel Moses

Actress

April 29, 1904 – June 1, 1982

Credits:

Stage:

Black Birds of 1935 (1935); Keep Shuffling (1928); Show Boat (1932).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2008); Birthright (1924); Birthright (1938); Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934); Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935); God's Step Children (1938); Gone Harlem (1938); Temptation (1935); Underworld (1937).

Born on this day – Fred Zinnemann:

 

Fred Zinnemann

Director

April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997

Credits:

A Hatful of Rain (1957); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Way in the Wilderness (1940); Act of Violence (1948); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1998); Behold a Pale Horse (1964); Benjy (1951); Biography (1998); Camille (1936); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents (2002); De película (1983–1987); Decision (1958); Die Öscars (2016); Elstree Britain's Hollywood (1989); Exercise No. One (1962); Eyes in the Night (1942); Film Profile (1961); Filmmakers in Action (2005); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Five Days One Summer (1982); Forbidden Passage (1941); Forgotten Victory (1939); Fred Zinnemann – Ein Hollywoodregisseur (1983); Friend Indeed (1937); From Here to Eternity (1953); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him (2001); Hands Up! (1981); Hawaii (1966); He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (2001); Help Wanted (1939); High Noon (1952); I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929); Julia (1977); Kid Glove Killer (1942); Little Mister Jim (1946); Making Montgomery Clift (2018); Man Trouble (1930); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); Nana (1934); Oklahoma! (1955); On Location with 'The Sundowners' (1960); One Against the World (1939); Our World (1987); People on Sunday (1930); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Redes (1936); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sonntagsgespräch (1986); Spécial cinéma (1983); Sprengbagger 1010 (1929); Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1991); Stuffie (1940); Teresa (1951); That Mothers Might Live (1938); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Ash Can Fleet (1939); The Clock (1945); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Dark Angel (1935); The David Susskind Show (1960); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Great Meddler (1940); The Greenie (1942); The Kid from Spain (1932); The Lady or the Tiger? (1942); The Making of 'High Noon' (1992); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The March of the Machines (1927); The Member of the Wedding (1952); The Men (1950); The Nun's Story (1959); The Old Man and the Sea (1958); The Old South (1940); The Search (1948); The Seventh Cross (1944); The Spy (1931); The Story of Doctor Carver (1938); The Sundowners (1960); The Wiser Sex (1932); They Live Again (1938); This Is Your Life (1956); Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 / The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); Weather Wizards (1939); While America Sleeps / Series: Crime Does Not Pay (1939); Your Last Act (1941).

Born on this day – Jack Williamson:

Jack Williamson

Writer

April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006

Credits:

Books:

A Sense of Wonder (1967); After World's End (1939); At the Human Limit (2011); Beachhead (1992); Bright New Universe (1967); Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods (1979); Darker Than You Think (1948); Darker Than You Think and Other Novels (2003); Demon Moon (1994); Dragon's Island / aka The Not-Men (1951); Dragon's Island and Other Stories (2002); Dreadful Sleep (1977); Farthest Star (1975); Firechild (1986); Gateway to Paradise (2008); Golden Blood (1933); H. G. Wells (1973); Islands of the Sun (1935); Jack Williamson SF Gateway Omnibus (2014); Jamboree (1969); Lady in Danger (1945); Land's End (1988); Lifeburst (1984); Manseed (1982); Mazeway (1990); One against the Legion (1939); People Machines (1971); Realm of Wizardry (1940); Rogue Star (1969); Salvage in Space (2011); Seetee Ship (1951); Seetee Shock (1950); Seventy-Five (2004); Spider Island (2002); Star Bridge (1955); Starchild (1965); Teaching Science Fiction (1980); Terraforming Earth (2001); The Alien Intelligence (1929); The Best of Jack Williamson (1978); The Black Sun (1997); The Blue Spot (1935); The Cometeers (1936); The Cosmic Express (2011); The Crucible of Power (2006); The Dome Around America / aka Gateway to Paradise (1955); The Early Williamson (1975); The Fortress of Utopia (1939); The Girl from Mars (1930); The Green Girl (1930); The Green Girl / The Robot Peril (2012); The Humanoid Touch (1980); The Humanoids (1949); The Humanoids and With Folded Hands (2002); The Legion of Space (1934); The Legion of Time (1938); The Metal Man and Others (1984); The Moon Children (1973); The Moon Era (1967); The Pandora Effect (1969); The Power of Blackness (1976); The Queen of the Legion (1982); The Reefs of Space (1964); The Reign of Wizardry (1964); The Silicon Dagger (1999); The Singers of Time (1991); The Stone from the Green Star (1931); The Stonehenge Gate (2005); The Trial of Terra (1962); The Ultimate Earth (2000); Trapped in Space (1968); Undersea City (1958); Undersea Fleet (1955); Undersea Quest (1954); Wall Around a Star (1975); With Folded Hands (2011); With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind (2010); Wizard's Isle (2000); Wolves of DarknessX (1999); Wonder's Child (1984); Xandulu (1934).

Movie, television and radio:

Dimension X (1950); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); The Creation of the Humanoids (1962).

Born on this day – Dolly Haas:

Dolly Haas

Actress

Singer

April 29, 1910 – September 16, 1994

Credits:

A Girl of the Street (1932); A Girl You Don't Forget (1932); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Broken Blossoms (1936); Carefree (1938); Der Ball (1931); Die kleine Schwindlerin (1933); Dolly macht Karriere (1930); Dolly, Lotte und Maria (1987); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Ein steinreicher Mann (1932); Eine Stunde Glück (1931); Es tut sich was um Mitternacht (1934); Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland (1975); Girls Will Be Boys (1934); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Großstadtnacht (1932); I Confess (1953); I Married an Angel (1942); Kleines Mädel - großes Glück (1933); Lamp Unto My Feet (1956); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Liebeskommando (1931); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Spy of Napoleon (1936); Star for a Night (1936); Studio One (1950–1956); The Bank Dick (1940); The Billy Rose Show (1951); The Exiles (1989); The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996); The Merry Widow (1952); The Page of the Hotel Dalmasse (1933); The Private Secretary Gets Married (1933); The Upright Sinner (1931); Things Are Getting Better Already (1932); Unfinished Business (1941); Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe? (1935).

Born on this day – Richard Carlson:

Richard Carlson

Actor

Director

Writer

April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977

Credits:

3-D Rarities (2015); A Millionaire for Christy (1951); A Stranger in Town (1943); Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Alcoa Premiere (1961); All I Desire (1953); An Annapolis Story (1955); Appointment with a Shadow (1957); Arrest and Trial (1964); Back Street (1941); Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996); Before the Flood (2016); Behind Locked Doors (1948); Bengazi (1955); Beyond Tomorrow (1940); Biography (2002); Bonanza (1968); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Bus Stop (1962); Cameo Theatre (1951); Cannon (1972–1973); Celanese Theatre (1952); Change of Habit (1969); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Climax! (1956); Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954); Crossroads (1957); Daktari (1966–1969); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Della (1965); Desert Death (1935); Eye Witness (1953); Famous Ghost Stories (1961); Film Breaks (1999); Flat Top (1952); Flight to California (1952); Fly-By-Night (1942); Footlights Theater (1953); For God and Country (1943); Four Guns to the Border (1954); Freedom 2000 (1974); Frontline (2008); Fury in the Pacific (1945); General Electric Guest House (1951); General Electric Theater (1954); Going My Way (1963); Gremlins (1984); Hemo the Magnificent (1957); Highways by Night (1942); Hold That Ghost (1941); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956); Island of the Lost (1967); It Came from Outer Space (1953); It Takes a Thief (1969); Jack Arnold erzählt (1983); Johnny Rocco (1958); Jungle Safari (1950); Khan! (1975); Kid Rodelo (1966); King Solomon's Mines (1950); Kraft Theatre (1955); Lancer (1969); L'antre du Mea (2017); Lights Out (1951); Little Accident (1939); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Mannix (1974); Matinee Theatre (1956); Men Into Space (1959); Mobile One (1975); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); No, No, Nanette (1940); Off to See the Wizard (1967); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971–1972); Omnibus / Segment: The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Perry Mason (1964–1966); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 7: Children of the Stars (1942); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rawhide (1965); Retreat, Hell! (1952); Return to the Valley (2003); Riders to the Stars (1954); Riverboat (1959); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1959); Seminole (1953); So Well Remembered (1947); Studio One (1950–1958); Sucker Bait (1943); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Amazing Mr. X (1948); The Aquanauts (1960); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Best of Hollywood (2018); The Blue Veil (1951); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Christophers (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Counterfeit Green (1972); The Detectives (1961–1962); The Doomsday Flight (1966); The Duke of West Point (1938); The F.B.I. (1969); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950–1951); The Fugitive (1964); The Ghost Breakers (1940); The Golden Blade (1953); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Howards of Virginia (1940); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1952); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Last Command (1955); The Linkletter Show (1953); The Little Foxes (1941); The Loretta Young Show (1960); The Loretta Young Show (1960–1961); The Magnetic Monster (1953); The Man and the Challenge (1959); The Man from Down Under (1943); The Maze (1953); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Power (1968); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1951); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Rose Bowl Story (1952); The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958); The Sound of Fury (1950); The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957); The Unchained Goddess (1958); The Universe According to Universal (2002); The Valley of Gwangi (1969); The Virginian (1964–1965); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); The Young in Heart (1938); These Glamour Girls (1939); This Man Dawson (1959–1960); Three for Jamie Dawn (1956); Thriller (1961); Too Many Girls (1940); Tormented (1960); Valentino (1951); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Wagon Train (1963–1964); West Point Widow (1941); Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952); White Cargo (1942); Winter Carnival (1939); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); Young Ideas (1943); Your Show of Shows (1951).

Born on this day – Maya Deren:

Maya Deren

Director

Cinematographer

Choreographer

Dancer

Film theorist

Lecturer

Writer

Photographer

Music composer

April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961

Credits:
 
The American Film Institute (AFI) created the Maya Deren Award, in 1986, to recognize and honor the work of independent video and film makers.
 
Written work:
 
An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946); Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti (1953) / aka The Voodoo Gods by Paladin (1975 & 1998); Film in Medias Res (2005); Film Poetics (2005); Film Production (2005).
 
Music albums:
 
Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (1980); Meringues and Folk Ballads of Haiti (1978); Voices of Haiti (1953).
 
Movies, video and television:
 

A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945); At Land (1944); At Land / The Very Eye of Night (1955); Black Lake (2020); Cinema16: American Short Films (2006); Dissent (2011); Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993); Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951); Eschew (2017); History's Mysteries (1999); Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001); Invocation: Maya Deren (1987); Julie's Smile (2013); Maeva (1961); Marianne (2005); Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2007); Maya Deren, Take 0 (2012); Meditation on Violence (1949); Medusa (1949); Meshes of the Afternoon (1943); Mother (2019); Probe and Night Beat (1957); Reminiscences of Yearning (2011); Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Satan's Playground (2006); Season of Strangers (1959); The Private Life of a Cat (1946); The Very Eye of Night (1955); This Changes Everything (2018); Vever (2018); Vever (for Barbara) (2019); Witch's Cradle (1944).

Born on this day – Irvin Kershner:

 

Irvin Kershner

Actor

Director

Producer

April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010

Born on this day – Lane Smith:

Lane Smith

Actor

April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005

On this day in movie and book history - The Hunger (1983)

The Hunger

Directed by Tony Scott,

written by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas,

based on the novel by Whitley Strieber,

was released in the United States on April 29, 1983.

Music by Howard Blake, Denny Jaeger and Michel Rubini.

Song in opening scene: Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus.

Additional music includes:

• Lakmé by Léo Delibes.
• Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major by Franz Schubert.

Cast:

Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Beth Ehlers, Dan Hedaya, Rufus Collins, Suzanne Bertish, James Aubrey, Ann Magnuson, John Stephen Hill, Shane Rimmer, Bauhaus, Douglas Lambert, Bessie Love, John Pankow, Willem Dafoe, Sophie Ward, Philip Sayer, Lise Hilboldt, Michael Howe, Edward Wiley, Richard Robles, George Camiller, Oke Wambu, Kent Miller, Fred Yockers, Susan Hunter, James Wassenich, Allan Richards, Hilary Six, Carole-Ann Scott, Howard Blake, Jane Leeves, Derek Lyons, Peter Murphy, James Payne.

Recommended reading:

The Hunger

by Whitley Strieber.

Filmed as The Hunger (1983), directed by Tony Scott.

Published by Gallery Books.

First published 1981.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1416583742

ISBN-13: 9781416583745

Description:

Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love and death go hand in hand.

On this day in movie history - Bad Country (2014)

Bad Country

directed by Chris Brinker,

written by Jonathan Hirschbein,

based on a story by Mike Barnett, Don 'Bud' Connor, Tom Abernathy and Jonathan Hirschbein,

was released in the United States on April 29, 2014.

Music by Jeff Danna and John Fee.

Cast:

Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Neal McDonough, Amy Smart, Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Don Yesso, Kevin Chapman, Christopher Denham, Alex Solowitz, John Edward Lee, Ritchie Montgomery, Frederick Weller, Patrick Brinker, Jeff Leaf, Bill Duke, Tom Berenger, Lazarus Jackson, Aldo Juliano, Dane Rhodes, Lex D. Geddings, Jake La Botz, Mike Barnett, Don 'Bud' Connor, John Lafayette, JD Evermore, Pat Fisher, Ron Gural, Matt Thompson, Hugh Wilson, Eddie Matthews, Dylan Yesso, John Braymer, Erika Bruun-Andersen, Gayle James, Caitlin Kearney, Mike Quintana, James Lew, Roger Behle, Mary Lane Haskell, Duane Cothren, Jarvis Green, Stephanie Carpenter, Garth Currie, Bobby Greer, Zach Hartman, Luke Hawx, Charles Hunt, De'Cha LaVeau, Hans Marrero, J. Travis Merendino, Gustavo I. Ortiz, James Ourso, Rehnan Overmiller, Michael Rhoads, Jason Stanly, Ronn Surels, Shirley Tregre, Joseph Uzzell, Bob Walker, Glen Warner, Jesse Yarborough.