Born on this day – Peggy Knudsen:

Actress

April 22, 1923 – July 11, 1980

Credits:

A Stolen Life (1946); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Bat Masterson (1959–1961); Betrayed Women (1955); City Detective (1955); Copper Canyon (1950); General Electric Theater (1960); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Half Past Midnight (1948); Hilda Crane (1956); Howie (1962); Humoresque (1946); Istanbul (1957); Lock Up (1959); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Never Say Goodbye (1946); Panic! (1957); Perilous Waters (1948); Perry Mason (1958–1959); Pete and Gladys (1960); Racket Squad (1951); Roses Are Red (1947); Shadow of a Woman (1946); So This Is Hollywood (1955); Stallion Road (1947); Target (1958); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958–1961); The Big Sleep (1946); The Bob Cummings Show (1955); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); The Eve Arden Show (1958); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1955); The George Burns Show (1958); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1957); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The Millionaire (1956); The People's Choice (1955–1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Real McCoys (1958); The Thin Man (1957); The Unfaithful (1947); Tightrope (1959); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trouble Preferred (1948); Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946); Unchained (1955); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

Born on this day – Byron Haskin:

 

Director

April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984

Credits:

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); Across the Pacific (1926); Across the Pacific (1942); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Alcoa Theatre (1957); All American (1940); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); Always in My Heart (1942); Armored Command (1961); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); As the Earth Turns (1934); Black Fury (1935); Black Waters (1929); Bobbed Hair (1925); Broken Chains (1922); Brother Orchid (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Bullet Scars (1942); Captain Sindbad (1963); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Caught in the Fog (1928); City for Conquest (1940); Clothes Make the Pirate (1925); Colleen (1936); Conquest of Space (1955); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Desperate Journey (1942); Dive Bomber (1941); Dodge City (1939); Don Juan (1926); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Flight Angels (1940); Flowing Gold (1940); Four Wives (1939); From the Earth to the Moon (1958); Gambling on the High Seas (1940); Ginsberg the Great (1927); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Green Light (1937); High Sierra (1940); His Majesty O'Keefe (1954); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood (1980); Hurricane's Gal (1922); I Married a Doctor (1936); I Walk Alone (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); Irish Hearts (1927); It All Came True (1940); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); King of the Lumberjacks (1940); Lilly Turner (1933); Little Big Shot (1935); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Madonna of Avenue A (1929); Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948); Manpower (1941); Man-Woman-Marriage (1921); Matinee Ladies (1927); Millionaires (1926); On Approval (1930); On Thin Ice (1925); On Trial (1928); On Your Toes (1939); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Passage to Marseille (1944); Personal Maid's Secret (1935); Plunder (1930); Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); September Storm (1960); Side Streets (1934); Silver City (1951); Silver Dollar (1932); Slander the Woman (1923); Slim (1937); South of Suez (1940); Stage Struck (1936); Star Trek (1966); Strings (1933); Studio 57 (1957); Submarine D-1 (1937); Tarzan's Peril (1951); The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Boss (1956); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); The Californians (1957–1958); The Deadline (1931); The Fighting 69th (1940); The First Texan (1956); The Golden Cocoon (1925); The Great Lie (1941); The Great Sex War (1969); The Guilty Generation (1931); The Little Savage (1959); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Naked Jungle (1954); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Power (1968); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Redeeming Sin (1929); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Sea Beast (1926); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Singing Fool (1928); The Siren (1927); The Speckled Band (1931); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); The War of the Worlds (1953); The World's a Stage (1922); They Drive by Night (1940); This Our Life (1942); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Tons of Money (1930); Too Late for Tears (1949); Torrid Zone (1940); Treasure Island (1950); Truck Busters (1943); Virginia City (1940); Warpath (1951); We Are Not Alone (1939); When a Man Loves (1927); Where the Worst Begins (1925); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wild Harvest (1947); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Wings of the Navy (1939); Wolf's Clothing (1927); World of Giants (1959).

Born on this day – Henry Fielding:

Writer

April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754

Credits:

A Journey from This World to the Next (1749); Amelia (1751); An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (aka Shamela) (1741); An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751); An Old Man Taught Wisdom (1735); Grub Street Opera (1731); Historical Register for the Year 1736 (1737); Jonathan Wild (aka The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great) (1743); Joseph Andrews (aka The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742); Joseph Andrews / Shamela (1961); Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755); Legal Writings (1919); Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq (1743); Pasquin (1736); Plays and Poems (1919); Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap (aka The Coffee-House Politician) (1730); The Author's Farce (1730); The Collected Works of Henry Fielding (1997); The Complete Works of Henry Fielding (1902); The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding (1993); The Covent Garden Journal (1752); The Female Husband (1746); The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (aka Tom Jones) (1749); The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings (1974); The Modern Husband (1732); The Old Debauchees (1732); The True Patriot (1745); The Wedding Day (1743); The Works of Henry Fielding (1900); Tragedy of Tragedies (1731).

Richard Eberhart, on writing:

 

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

- Richard Eberhart.

On this day in movie history - Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time. Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (2020)

 

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time. Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

documentary directed by Danny Wolf

was released in the United States on April 21, 2020.

Cast:

Peter Bogdanovich, Barry Bostwick, Jeff Bridges, Gary Busey, Joe Dante, Illeana Douglas, Fran Drescher, Jeff Goldblum, Pam Grier, Michael McKean, Kevin Pollak, Rob Reiner, Penelope Spheeris, Anthony Timpone, John Turturro, John Waters.

On this day in music history - The Undercurrent, by Sherry Finzer (2023)

The Undercurrent

by Sherry Finzer

was released on April 21, 2023.