Born on this day – Sharon Lynn:

 

Actress

Singer

April 9, 1901 – May 26, 1963

Credits:

It Came from Hollywood (1982); Thistledown (1938); Way Out West (1937); Go Into Your Dance (1935); Enter Madame! (1934); Big Executive (1933); The Big Broadcast (1932); Discarded Lovers (1932); Too Many Cooks (1931); Men on Call (1930); Lightnin' (1930); Up the River (1930); Man Trouble (1930); Wild Company (1930); Crazy That Way (1930); Let's Go Places (1930); Sunny Side Up (1929); Happy Days (1929); The One Woman Idea (1929); Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929); Speakeasy (1929); Red Wine (1928); Give and Take (1928); Son of the Golden West (1928); None But the Brave (1928); Dad's Choice (1928); Aflame in the Sky (1927); The Cherokee Kid (1927); Jake the Plumber (1927); Clancy's Kosher Wedding (1927); The Coward (1927); Tom's Gang (1927); City of Shadows (1927); Curlytop (1924).

Born on this day – Mance Lipscomb:

Blues singer

Guitarist

April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976

Credits:

Albums:

Captain, Captain! (1996); Mama Don't Allow (1996); Navasota (2021); So Different Blues (1993); Texas Sharecropper and Songster (1960); Texas Songster: Volume 2 (1964); Trouble in Mind (1969); Vol. 4 (1967); Vol. 5: Texas Blues and 3 Other Songs (1970); Volume 6 (1974).

Movies and television:

A Well-Spent Life (1971); Blues Under the Skin (1973); Singin' the Yodeling Blues (1983); The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970); The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996).

Book:

I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman (1993).

Born on this day – Thomas Meighan:

 

Actor

April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936

Credits:

Peck's Bad Boy (1934); Madison Square Garden (1932); Cheaters at Play (1932); Skyline (1931); Young Sinners (1931); The Argyle Case (1929); The Mating Call (1928); The Racket (1928); The City Gone Wild (1927); We're All Gamblers (1927); Blind Alleys (1927); The Canadian (1926); Tin Gods (1926); Fascinating Youth (1926); The New Klondike (1926); Irish Luck (1925); The Man Who Found Himself (1925); Old Home Week (1925); Coming Through (1925); Tongues of Flame (1924); The Alaskan (1924); The Confidence Man (1924); Pied Piper Malone (1924); Woman-Proof (1923); Hollywood (1923); Homeward Bound (1923); The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 13 (1922); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (1922); Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan / Short (1922); Back Home and Broke (1922); The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922); Manslaughter (1922); If You Believe It, It's So (1922); Our Leading Citizen (1922); The Bachelor Daddy (1922); A Prince There Was (1921); Cappy Ricks (1921); The Conquest of Canaan (1921); White and Unmarried (1921); The City of Silent Men (1921); The Easy Road (1921); Frontier of the Stars (1921); Quest of His Youth (1920); Civilian Clothes (1920); The Prince Chap (1920); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); Peg o' My Heart (1919); Male and Female (1919); The Thunderbolt (1919); The Miracle Man (1919); The Probation Wife (1919); The Heart of Wetona (1919); Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan in a Liberty Loan Appeal / Short (1918); The Forbidden City (1918); Out of a Clear Sky (1918); Heart of the Wilds (1918); In Pursuit of Polly (1918); Missing (1918); M'Liss (1918); Eve's Daughter (1918); Madame Jealousy (1918); The Land of Promise (1917); Arms and the Girl (1917); The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917); Her Better Self (1917); The Silent Partner (1917); Sleeping Fires (1917); Sapho (1917); The Slave Market (1917); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); The Storm (1916); Common Ground (1916); The Dupe (1916); The Clown (1916); The Sowers (1916); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916); Pudd'nhead Wilson (1916); The Immigrant (1915); Armstrong's Wife (1915); The Secret Sin (1915); Blackbirds (1915); Out of the Darkness (1915); The Fighting Hope (1915); Kindling (1915); Danny Donovan, the Gentleman Cracksman (1914).

Patricia A. McKillip, on imagination:

 

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps.

It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
- Patricia A. McKillip.

On this day in music history - Hopes & Dreams (2003)

Hopes & Dreams

by Lisa Lynne

was released on April 8, 2003.

Born on this day – Douglas Trumbull:

Director

Writer

Inventor

Special effects supervisor

April 8, 1942 – February 7, 2022

Credits:

10th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards (2012); 2001 and Beyond (2001); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork (2007); 2001: The Making of a Myth (2001); 2001: The Science of Futures Past (2012); Ain't It Cool with Harry Knowles (2012); Back to the Future... The Ride (1991); Big Ball (1983); Blade Runner (1982); Blade Runner: Convention Reel (1982); Brainstorm (1983); Candy (1968); Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future (2018); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Cyberspace (1996); Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007); Douglas Trumbull - Lighting the Starship Enterprise (2016); Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now (2002); Exploring 'the Tree of Life' (2011); Fantasy Film Festival (1979); Golden Eyes (2011); Gravity: Looking to the Stars - The Evolution of Space Films (2015); Greatest Sci-Fi Movies (2015); HypaSpace (2008); In Search of the Obelisk (1993); Inglorious Treksperts (2019); James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2021); Leonardo's Dream (1989); Les ateliers du rêve: les grands studios de cinéma dans le monde (1985); Let's Go (1985); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Making Close Encounters (1990); Miradas 2 (2008); Movies and Stuff (2015); Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020); New Magic (1983); Night of Dreams (1978); On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000); Phenomenon Blade Runner (2021); Secret Access: UFOs on the Record (2011); Silent Running (1972); 'Silent Running': By Director Douglas Trumbull (2002); Since '45 - In the Extraordinary House of History (2017); Since '45 (1979); Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Centennial Gala (2016); Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (2022); Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007); Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); Starlost (1973); The 16th Annual Satellite Awards (2011); The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film (2001); The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1993); The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1994); The History of the SF Film (1982); The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001); The Making of 'Silent Running' (1974); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The Reality Trip (1997); The Starlost (1973); The Starlost (1973–1974); The Starlost: Deception (1980); The Tree of Life (2011); Theater of Time (1993); To Dream of Roses (1990); To the Moon and Beyond (1964); Tour of the Universe (1985); Trumbull Land (2018); Valkokangas (1984); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007).

Born on this day – Eric Porter:

Actor

April 8, 1928 – May 15, 1995