Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Born on this day – Darren McGavin:


Actor

May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006

Credits:

13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 43: The Richard Petty Story (1972); A Bond of Iron (1979); A Christmas Story (1983); A Perfect Stranger (1994); A Song to Remember (1945); A Word to the Wives... (1955); African Gold (1965); Airport '77 (1977); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); American Reunion (1976); Anatomy of a Crime (1969); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1977); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1952–1956); Around the World in 80 Days (1989); Banyon (1971); Beau James (1957); Ben Casey (1964); Berlin Affair (1970); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Billy Madison (1995); Blood and Concrete (1991); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bracken's World (1970); Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976); Buckskin (1959); Bullet for a Badman (1964); Burke's Law (1995); By Dawn's Early Light (1990); Cade's County (1971); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Captain America (1990); Cavalcade of Champions (1973); CBS Summer Playhouse (1987); Celebrity Doubletalk (1967); Celebrity Sweepstakes (1975–1977); Child in the Night (1990); Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (1997); Cimarron Strip (1967); Civil Wars (1992); Climax! (1956); Confidential for Women (1966); Counter-Attack (1945); Court Martial (1966); Crime Photographer (1951–1952); Custer (1967); Danger (1952–1954); Dead Heat (1988); Death Valley Days (1961); Decision (1958); Derby (1995); Dinah! (1975); Disneyland '59 (1959); Don Adams' Screen Test (1975); Donovan's Kid (1979); Dr. Kildare (1965); Entertainment Tonight (1986); Eye Guess (1966); Fallen Angels (1995); Family Feud / All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); Fantasy Island (1978); Fear (1946); Firebird 2015 AD (1981); Flag (1988); Freedom to Speak (1983); From the Hip (1987); Fudge (1995); Games People Play (1980); Gargoyles (1995); Goodyear Playhouse (1952); Grace Under Fire (1996); Gunsmoke (1965–1966); Gypsy (1965); Hangar 18 (1980); Happy Hell Night (1991); Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973); Hay que matar a B. (1974); Here Comes the Judge (1972); Here's Hollywood (1960); Highway to Heaven (1988); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Home Again (1979); Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978); I Remember You (1949); Ike: The War Years (1979); Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American (2003); In the Name of Blood (1989); Inherit the Wind (1988); It Takes Two (1969–1970); It's Always Jan (1955); It's Your Bet (1970–1973); Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1973); Kiss and Tell (1945); Kojak: It's Always Something (1990); Kolchak: Crackle of Death (1974); Kolchak: Demon and the Mummy (1975); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1953); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1962); Lamp Unto My Feet (1951–1952); Law and Order (1976); Love for Rent (1979); Love, American Style / Love and the Fly (1970); Magnum, P.I. (1981); Mama (1954); Mannix (1970); Mastergate (1992); Matinee Theatre (1956); Matt Lincoln (1970); Mike Hammer (1958–1959); Millennium (1997); Miracles & Other Wonders (1992); Missing Links (1964); Mission Mars (1968); Mission: Impossible (1967); Monsters (1989); Mooch (1974); Mr. I. Magination (1949–1952); Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971); Murder, She Wrote (1992); Murphy Brown (1989–1992); My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985); Mysteries of the Ancient World (1994); NBC Experiment in Television (1968); Nero Wolfe (1981); Night Stalker (2005); No Deposit, No Return (1976); Not Until Today (1979); Omnibus / Jack Be Normal / The Virtuous Island / The Man in the Cool, Cool Moon (1953–1955); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1974); Password (1961–1974); Perfect Harmony (1991); Philbin's People (1970); Play Your Hunch (1960); Playdate (1963); Police Story (1974); Ponds Theater (1954); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); Producers' Showcase (1955); Pros & Cons (1999); Purex Summer Specials (1962); Queen for a Day (1951); Raw Deal (1986); Rawhide (1961); Riverboat (1959–1961); Robert Montgomery Presents (1956); Route 66 (1961); Sam Cade (1972); Shaft (1974); She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945); Short Short Dramas (1953); Sibs (1992); Sisters (1995); Small & Frye (1983); Small Time (1996); Something Evil (1972); Stagecoach West (1961); Still Waters Burn (2008); Studio One (1951–1958); Summertime (1955); uspense (1952–1954); Talent Scouts (1962); Tales from the Darkside (1985); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: A Table at Ciro's (1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1983); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Tattletales (1975–1977); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 14th Annual Tony Awards (1960); The 43rd Annual Writers Guild Awards (1991); The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004); The 50th Anniversary Gala for USC's Film Department (1979); The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2006); The Alcoa Hour (1956–1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The American Clock (1993); The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Barbara Walters (1994); The Arthur Murray Party (1960); The Baron and the Kid (1984); The Bob Wilkins Lost Film Collection (2009); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1971); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); The Challenge (1970); The Challengers (1970); The Commish (1995); The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Telly Savalas (1974); The Death of Me Yet (1971); The Defenders (1963–1964); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Diamond Trap (1988); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Evil Touch (1973–1974); The Face Is Familiar (1966); The Felony Squad (1966); The Forty-Eight Hour Mile (1970); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1991); The Ghouls (2003); The Great Christmas Movies (1998); The Great Sioux Massacre (1965); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Hitchhiker (1985); The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark (1993); The Islanders (1961); The Joey Bishop Show (1968–1969); The Legend of Jud Starr (1967); The Love Boat (1980–1981); The Magical World of Disney (1968–1982); The Making of 'Billy Madison' (1995); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Man with the Golden Arm (1955); The Martian Chronicles (1980); The Match Game (1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1971–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1968–1977); The Movie Game (1971); The Name of the Game (1968–1970); The Natural (1984); The New Steve Allen Show (1964); The Night Stalker (1972); The Night Strangler (1973); The Object Is (1964); The O'Briens (1985); The Outsider (1967–1969); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Price Is Right (1964); The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. (1984); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Rogues (1965); The Rookies (1972); The Six Million Dollar Man (1973); The Telltale Clue (1954); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1968); The Tribe (1970); The Users (1978); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Virginian (1964–1967); The Web (1952); The X-Files (1998–1999); To Tell the Truth (1961–1965); Today (1968); Touched by an Angel (1997); Turk 182 (1985); Unclaimed Fortunes (1989); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971); Waikiki (1980); Welcome to the Basement (2019); What's My Line? (1961–1973); Witchcraft (1961); Worlds Beyond (1986); You Don't Say (1968); Your Next Job (1945); Zero to Sixty (1978).


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Born on this day – Gale Robbins:


Actress

Singer

May 7, 1921 – February 18, 1980


Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1960); Alcoa Theatre (1959); All Star Revue (1951–1952); Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Calamity Jane (1953); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Climax! (1955); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Double Jeopardy (1955); George Jessel Show (1959); Gunsmoke (1966); Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958); Harry James and His Music Makers (1953); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood House (1949); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); Johnny Midnight (1960); M Squad (1959); Markham (1960); Mister Ed (1962); Mr. Hex (1946); My Dear Secretary (1948); My Girl Tisa (1948); My Little Margie (1955); Oh My Word (1965); Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949); Passport to Danger (1956); Perry Mason (1965); Philip Marlowe (1960); Place the Face (1955); Quantrill's Raiders (1958); Race Street (1948); Stand Up and Be Counted (1972); State Trooper (1959); Strictly Dishonorable (1951); Stump the Stars (1953); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1954); The Barkleys of Broadway (1949); The Belle of New York (1952); The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1958); The Brigand (1952); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1952); The Comedy Spot (1960); The Ed Wynn Show (1950); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1955); The Fuller Brush Girl (1950); The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952); The Juke Box Jury (1956); The Millionaire (1957); The Red Skelton Hour (1956); The Untouchables (1961); The Windjammer (1945); Three Little Words (1950); Thriller (1962); Trackdown (1957); Valentine's Day (1965).


Born on this day – Bumble Bee Slim:


Blues singer

Guitarist

May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968


Credits:

Albums:

12 O clock Southern Train (2014); Aching Pain Blues (2023); Back in Town (2013); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 5 1935-1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 6 1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 8 1937-1951 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 9 (1934-1951) (2005); Chain Gang Bound (2015); From Georgia to Chicago 1931-1937 (1998); Got the Blues (2011); Greasy Greens And Blues (2012); Instinctively the Blues (2020); Jazz Figures (1934 -1935) Volume 3 (2011); Jazz Figures (1934) Volume 2 (2011); Jazz Figures (1935 - 1936) Volume 5 (2011); The Piedmont Blues (2024).



Born on this day – Gary Cooper:

 

Actor

May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961


Born on this day – Johannes Brahms:

 

Composer

May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897


Born on this day – Robert Browning:

 
Writer

May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889

Credits:

A Death in the Desert; A Grammarian's Funeral; A Toccata of Galuppi's; Abt Vogler; An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician; Andrea Del Sarto; Aristophanes' Apology (1875); Asolando: Prologue / Summum Bonum / Bad Dreams III / Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment / Epilogue (1889); Balaustion's Adventure (1871); Bells and Pomegranates (1841–46); Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes (play) (1841); Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles (play) (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday (play) (1844); Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and A Soul's Tragedy (plays) (1846); Bishop Blougram's Apology; By the Fire-side; Caliban upon Setebos; Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850); Cleon; Count Gismond; Dramatic Idyls (1879); Dramatic Idyls: Second Series (1880); Dramatis Personae (1864); Evelyn Hope; Ferishtah's Fancies (1884); Fifine at the Fair (1872); Fra Lippo Lippi; Home Thoughts from Abroad; How It Strikes a Contemporary; How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix; Jocoseria (1883); Johannes Agricola in Meditation; La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878); Love Among the Ruins; Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha; Meeting at Night; Memorabilia; Men and Women (1855); Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"; My Last Duchess; My Star; Numpholeptos; Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876); Pan and Luna; Paracelsus (1835); Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887); Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833); Porphyria's Lover; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871); Prospice; Rabbi Ben Ezra; Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers (1873); Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister; Sordello (1840); Strafford (play) (1837); Thamuris Marching; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877); The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church; The Inn Album (1875); The Laboratory; The Last Ride Together (1855); The Lost Leader; The Patriot; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; The Ring and the Book (1868–69); The Statue and the Bust; The Year's at the Spring.

Movies and television:

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912); A Light Woman (1920); About Religion (1964); Abra Cadabra (1983); As Husbands Go (1934); Child of M'sieu (1919); Classic Tales (2008); Directions (1965); Faerie Tale Theatre (1985); Fluteman (1982); It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000); James Lee's Wife (1913); Kummatty (1979); Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer? (1972–1976); Magic Hands (2016); My Last Duchess (2020); Pied Piper of Hamelin (1903); Pied Piper of Hamelin (2015); Pippa Passes; or, the Song of Conscience (1909); The Flight of the Duchess (1916); The Light Woman (1913); The Pied Piper (1907); The Pied Piper (1933); The Pied Piper (1972); The Pied Piper (1986); The Pied Piper by Adrian Mitchell (1986); The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1911); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1913); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1926); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1981); The Pied Piper of Hamlin (1992); The Reluctant Dragon (1987); The Ring and the Book (1914); The Sweet Hereafter (1997); Women and Roses (1914).


Bonnie Friedman, on writing:

 

Writing teaches writing.
Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
- Bonnie Friedman.