Born on this day – Anthony Caruso:

Actor

April 7, 1916 – April 4, 2003

Born on this day – Billie Holiday:

 

Singer

April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959

Born on this day – Frank V. Phillips:

Cinematographer

April 7, 1912 – April 12, 1994

Frank V. Phillips (holding camera), filming Escape to Witch Mountain (1975).

 

Credits:

The Ambush Murders (1982); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1981); The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981); Going Ape! (1981); Herbie Goes Bananas (1980); All God's Children (1980); Midnight Madness (1980); The Black Hole (1979); The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979); Goin' Coconuts (1978); Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978); Return from Witch Mountain (1978); The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978); Pete's Dragon (1977); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); Gus (1976); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); No Deposit, No Return (1976); The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper (1976); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); Escape to Witch Mountain (1975); The Island at the Top of the World (1974); Return of the Big Cat (1974); Men of the Dragon (1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Hog Wild (1974); A Dream for Christmas (1973); The Red Pony (1973); The World's Greatest Athlete (1973); Snowball Express (1972); Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Scandalous John (1971); The Wild Country (1970); Darker Than Amber (1970); The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969); Secrets of the Pirates' Inn (1969); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1969); Premiere (1968); The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968); The Young Loner (1968); Captain Nice (1967); Mosby's Marauders (1967); Run Buddy Run (1966); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966); 12 O'Clock High (1965–1966); Wild Wild Winter (1966); The Wild Wild West (1965); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Gunsmoke (1963–1965); The Cara Williams Show (1964); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960–1963); Rider on a Dead Horse (1962); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Perry Mason (1961); Hong Kong (1961); Hotel de Paree (1959–1960); Border Patrol (1959); A Matter of Attitude (1958); Jefferson Drum (1958); Navy Log (1956–1958); Colt .45 (1957); Circus Boy (1957); Maverick (1957).

Born on this day – William Wordsworth:

Writer

April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850

Credits:

A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (1816); An Evening Walk (1793); Descriptive Sketches (1793); Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822); Lyrical Ballads (1798); Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth (1820); Peter Bell (1819); Poems (1807); Poems (1815); Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth (1831); Thanksgiving Ode (1816); The Cornell Wordsworth (1975); The Excursion (1849); The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845); The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (various editions 1824–1854); The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (1979); The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1876); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974); The Recluse (1888); The River Duddon (1820); The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1838); The Waggoner (1819); The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons (1815); Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818); William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces (1965); William Wordsworth: The Poems (1981); Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1905).

Carson McCullers, on writing:

 

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

- Carson McCullers.

On this day in movie history - Dolan’s Cadillac (2009 / 2010)

Dolan’s Cadillac

directed by Jeff Beesley,

written by Richard Dooling,

based on the novella by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on April 6, 2010.

Music by James Mark Stewart.

Cast:

Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley, Greg Bryk, Aidan Devine, Al Sapienza, Karen LeBlanc, Cory Generoux, Vivian Ng, Patrick Bird, Eugene Clark, Max Keene, Robert Benz, Tim Allen, Amy Matysio, Tony Munch, Darla Biccum, Simon Chin, Sharmaine Yeoh, Amy Martin, Steven P. Park, Jonathan Lim, Melany Burant, Kevin Deon, Rob Hoskins.

On this day in movie history - Impulse (1990)

Impulse

directed by Sondra Locke,

written by Leigh Chapman,

based on a story by John DeMarco,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1990.

Music by Michel Colombier.

Cast:

Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg, Nicholas Mele, Eli Danker, Charles McCaughan, Lynne Thigpen, Shawn Elliott, Angelo Tiffe, Christopher Lawford, Nick Savage, Dan Bell, Tom Dahlgren, Daniel Quinn, David L. Crowley, Mark Rolston, Russell Curry, Pete Antico, Karl Anthony Smith, Paul Acerno, Maria Rangel, Don Ruffin, Cliff McLaughlin, Paul A. Calabria, Valente Rodriguez, Ronald L. Colby, Robert Phalen, Douglas Rowe, Wendy Gordon, Jerry Dunphy, Jerry Martinez, Peder Melhuse, Sorin Serene Pricopie, Thomas Rosales Jr., Elaine Kagan, Michael McCleery, James Edgcomb, J. Michael Flynn.