Jack Kerouac, on writing:

 

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
- Jack Kerouac.

On this day in music history - Ice - Piano Slightly Chilled, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2015)

Ice - Piano Slightly Chilled

by Fiona Joy Hawkins

was released on April 5, 2015.

On this day in movie history - Tampico (1944)

Tampico

directed Lothar Mendes,

written by Kenneth Gamet and Fred Niblo Jr.,

based on the story by Ladislas Fodor,

was released in the United States on April 5, 1944.

Music by David Raksin.

Cast:

Edward G. Robinson, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Robert Bailey, Marc Lawrence, E.J. Ballantine, Mona Maris, Tonio Selwart, Larry Arnold, Trevor Bardette, Martin Black, Sammy Blum, Helen Brown, Ralph Byrd, Harry Carter, Martin Cichy, Ann Corcoran, David Cota, Victor Cox, Paul Cristo, Jean Del Val, Ludwig Donath, Carl Ekberg, Ben Erway, Arno Frey, Martin Garralaga, Kit Guard, Louis Hart, Peter Helmers, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Harvey Karels, Paul Kruger, Charles Lang, Rolf Lindau, Chris-Pin Martin, Margarita Martín, Antonio Moreno, Rudolf Myzet, Fred Nurney, Daniel Ocko, Nestor Paiva, Karen Palmer, Grace Poggi, Otto Reichow, Roy Roberts, Constantine Romanoff, Muni Seroff, George Sorel, Juan Varro, Hans von Morhart.

Born on this day – Gale Storm:

 

Actress

Singer

April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009

Credits:

Abandoned (1949); Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994); Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Burke's Law (1964–1965); Campus Rhythm (1943); Celebrity Bowling (1975); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); City of Missing Girls (1941); Crime Smasher (1943); Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950); Dateline: Disneyland (1955); Donny and Marie (1976); Footlights Theater (1952); Foreign Agent (1942); Forever Yours (1945); Freckles Comes Home (1942); G.I. Honeymoon (1945); Gambling Daughters (1941); Glamour Girl (1943); Gypsy (1966–1967); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); Hands of Mystery (1949); He Plays Gin Rummy (1942); Here's Hollywood (1960); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); Hollywood Theatre Time (1950); Hour Magazine (1986); How to Go Places (1954); I Know Somebody Who Loves You (1941); I'm a Shy Guy (1943); It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947); Jesse James at Bay (1941); Let's Get Away from It All (1941); Let's Go Collegiate (1941); Lure of the Islands (1942); Man from Cheyenne (1942); Merry-Go-Roundup (1941); Murder, She Wrote (1989); My Little Margie (1952–1955); Nearly Eighteen (1943); One Crowded Night (1940); Penthouse Serenade (1941); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1955–1957); Person to Person (1959); Red River Valley (1941); Revenge of the Zombies (1943); Rhyme and Reason (1975); Rhythm Parade (1942); Rim of the Wheel (1951); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Saddlemates (1941); ShirleyMania (2002); Shower of Stars (1957); Smart Alecks (1942); Stage Show (1956); Stampede (1949); Sunbonnet Sue (1945); Swing Parade of 1946 (1946); The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1972); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Big Record (1957); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Bob Braun Show (1974); The Bob Hope Show (1953); The Buddy Rogers Show (1951); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1954); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1960); The Dude Goes West (1948); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956–1960); The Garry Moore Show (1961); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1999); The John Barbour Show (1975); The Kid from Texas (1950); The Love Boat (1979–1987); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Merv Griffin Show (1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1971); The Milton Berle Show (1955); The Movie Game (1970); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1958); The Texas Rangers (1951); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Underworld Story (1950); The Unexpected (1952); This Is Your Life (1957); Tom Brown's School Days (1940); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1981); Uncle Joe (1941); Where Are Your Children? (1943); Walk a Crooked Mile (1948); What's My Line? (1955–1957); Woman of the North Country (1952); You Don't Say (1964).

Born on this day – Robert Bloch:

 

Writer

April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994

Credits: 

Books: 

15 Grusel Stories (1964); American Gothic (1974); Atoms and Evil (1962); Black Cat Weekly #13 (2021); Blood Runs Cold (1961); Bogey Men (1963); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Cold Chills (1977); Crimes and Punishments (2000); Dragons and Nightmares (1969); Fear and Trembling (1979); Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations (2004); Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (1971); Fever Dream and Other Fantasies (1970); Final Reckonings (1987); Firebug (1961); Flowers from the Moon (1998); Hell On Earth (2000); Horror-7 (1963); It's All in Your Mind (1971); Lori (1989); Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep (1987); Midnight Pleasures (1987); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); More Nightmares (1962); Mysteries of the Worm (1981); Nightmares (1961); Night-World (1972); Out of My Head (1981); Out of the Mouths of Graves (1979); Pleasant Dreams (1960); Pleasant Dreams / Nightmares (1959); Psycho (1959); Psycho House (aka Psycho III) (1990); Psycho II (1982); Psycho-paths (1991); Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997); Sea-Kissed (1945); Skeleton in the Closet (2008); Spiderweb (1954); Strange Eons (1978); Such Stuff as Screams Are Made of (1979); Tales in a Jugular Vein (1965); Terror (1962); Terror in the Night (1958); That Hellbound Train (2011); The Best of Robert Bloch (1977); The Couch (1962); The Crowded Earth (2009); The Cunning (aka There Is a Serpent in Eden) (1979); The Dead Beat (1960); The Devil with You! (1999); The Early Fears (1978); The House of the Hatchet (1960); The Jekyll Legacy (1990); The Kidnapper (1954); The King of Terrors (1977); The Laughter of a Ghoul (1977); The Living Demons (1967); The Night of the Ripper (1984); The Opener of the Way (1945); The Scarf (1947); The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (1987); The Shooting Star (1958); The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965); The Star Stalker (1968); The Todd Dossier (1969); The Will to Kill (1954); This Crowded Earth (1958).

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1986); Asylum (1972); Bates Motel (1987); Bates Motel (2013–2017); Battle-Axe: The Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2002); Bus Stop (1962); Cineficción Radio / Mannikins of Horror / Reaper (2019–2020); Circle of Fear (1972); Curious Matter Anthology (2019); Darkroom (1981); Dimension X (1950); Fear in the Dark (1991); Gemini Man (1976); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986); How to Plan a Movie Murder (1964); I Spy (1966); Journey to Midnight (1968); Journey to the Unknown (1968); Lock Up (1960–1961); Mannikin (1977); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Michaels' Movie Madness (1988); Monsters (1988–1989); Mother (2020); Night Gallery / Logoda's Heads (1971); Psycho (1960); Psycho (1988); Psycho (1998); Psycho II (1983); Psycho III (1986); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Run for Your Life (1966); Sanfter Schrecken / The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon (1977); Secrets and Mysteries (1983); Star Trek (1966–1967); Strait-Jacket (1964); Tales from the Darkside (1984–1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1980); Tambien la muerte puede morir (1990); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965); The Cabinet of Caligari (1962); The Cat Creature (1973); The Couch (1962); The Dead Don't Die (1975); The Deadly Bees (1966); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video (1993); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Horror of It All (1983); The House That Dripped Blood (1971); The Hunger (1998); The Manhunter (1974); The Night Walker (1964); The Plot Thickens (1963); The Psychopath (1966); The Return of Captain Nemo / Atlantis Dead Ahead (1978); The Skull / The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965); The Vault of Horror (1992); Three Dangerous Ladies / The Mannikin (1977); Thriller (1960–1962); Torture Garden (1967); Whispering Smith (1961); X Minus One (1955).

Born on this day – Gregory Peck:

 

Actor

April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003

Born on this day – Bette Davis:

Actress

April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989

Credits:

Wicked Stepmother (1989); The Whales of August (1987); As Summers Die (1986); Murder with Mirrors (1985); Hotel (1983); Right of Way (1983); Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982); A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982); Family Reunion (1981); Skyward (1980); The Watcher in the Woods (1980); White Mama (1980); Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979); Death on the Nile (1978); Return from Witch Mountain (1978); The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978); Laugh-In (1977); The Disappearance of Aimee (1976); Burnt Offerings (1976); Hello Mother, Goodbye! (1974); Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973); The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972); The Scopone Game (1972); Madame Sin (1972); Bunny O'Hare (1971); Connecting Rooms (1970); It Takes a Thief (1970); The Anniversary (1968); Gunsmoke (1966); The Decorator (1965); The Nanny (1965); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); Where Love Has Gone (1964); Dead Ringer (1964); The Empty Canvas (1963); Perry Mason (1957); The Virginian (1962); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); Wagon Train (1959–1961); Pocketful of Miracles (1961)The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); The Scapegoat (1959); John Paul Jones (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Suspicion (1958); General Electric Theater (1957–1958); Studio 57 (1958); Telephone Time (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); The Catered Affair (1956); Storm Center (1956); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Virgin Queen (1955); The Star (1952); Phone Call from a Stranger (1952); Another Man's Poison (1951); Payment on Demand (1951); All About Eve (1950); Breakdowns of 1949 (1949); Beyond the Forest (1949); June Bride (1948); Winter Meeting (1948); Deception (1946); A Stolen Life (1946); The Corn Is Green (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Old Acquaintance (1943); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); Watch on the Rhine (1943); Now, Voyager (1942); In This Our Life (1942); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942); The Little Foxes (1941); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); Shining Victory (1941); The Great Lie (1941); The Letter (1940); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); If I Forget You (1940); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Old Maid (1939); Juarez (1939); Dark Victory (1939); The Sisters (1938); Jezebel (1938); That Certain Woman (1937); It's Love I'm After (1937); Kid Galahad (1937); A Day at Santa Anita (1937); Marked Woman (1937); Satan Met a Lady (1936); The Golden Arrow (1936); The Petrified Forest (1936); Dangerous (1935); Special Agent (1935); Front Page Woman (1935); The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935); Bordertown (1935); Housewife (1934); Of Human Bondage (1934); Fog Over Frisco (1934); Jimmy the Gent (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); The Big Shakedown (1934); Just Around the Corner (1933); Bureau of Missing Persons (1933); Ex-Lady (1933); The Working Man (1933); Parachute Jumper (1933). 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932); Three on a Match (1932); The Cabin in the Cotton (1932); The Dark Horse (1932); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); So Big! (1932); Hell's House (1932); The Man Who Played God (1932); The Menace (1932); Way Back Home (1931); Waterloo Bridge (1931); Seed (1931); Bad Sister (1931).