Monday, May 13, 2024

Born on this day – Leighton Gage:

 

Writer

May 13, 1942 – July 26, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Vine in the Blood (2011); Blood of the Wicked (2007); Buried Strangers (2009); Dying Gasp (2010); Every Bitter Thing (2010); Perfect Hatred (2013); The Ways of Evil Men (2014).



Born on this day – Burny Mattinson:


Animator

Director

Producer

May 13, 1935 – February 27, 2023

Credits:

A Perfect Little Lady: The Story of Lady and the Tramp (2006); Aladdin (1992); All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989); Beauty and the Beast (1991); Big Hero 6 (2014); Casey Bats Again (1954); Disney's Halloween Treat (1984); DTV Monster Hits (1987); Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016); House of Mouse (2001); How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (2007); Lady and the Tramp (1955); Lady's Pedigree: The Making of 'Lady and the Tramp' (2006); Les Chroniques du Mea (2020); Lilo & Stitch (2002); Mary Poppins (1964); Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (2022); Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983); Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse / Mickey's Christmas Carol (2001); Mulan (1998); Oliver & Company (1988); Once Upon a Studio (2023); One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961); Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty (2008); Pocahontas (1995); Pretty as a Picture Art and Design (2006); Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians (2008); Robin Hood (1973); Ruff Animation (2006); Sleeping Beauty (1959); Strange World (2022); Tarzan (1999); The Aristocats (1970); The Art of Disney Animation (1988); The Ballad of Nessie (2011); The Bare Necessities: The Making of 'The Jungle Book' (2007); The Black Cauldron (1985); The Fox and the Hound (1981); The Great Mouse Detective (1986); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996); The Jungle Book (1967); The Lion King (1994); The Magical World of Disney / Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1982); The Making of Mickey's Christmas Carol (1984); The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977); The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece (1996); The Oscars (2023); The Prince and the Pauper (1990); The Rescuers (1977); The Small One (1978); The Sword in the Stone (1963); Timeless Tales / The Prince and The Pauper (2005); Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection / The Ballad of Nessie & How to Hook up Your Home Theater (2015); Winnie the Pooh (2011); Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974); Wish (2023).

 

Born on this day – Herbert Ross:



Actor

Choreographer

Director

May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001

Credits:

A Christmas Festival (1959); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–1981); All Star Revue (1952–1953); All Star Revue (1953); All Star Revue (1953); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Barbra in Movieland (1968); Biography (2000); Boys on the Side (1995); Boys on the Side (1995); California Suite (1978); Camera Three (1978); Carmen Jones (1954); Dancers (1987); Dinah! (1978); Doctor Dolittle (1967); Doctor Dolittle (1967); E! True Hollywood Story (2007); Footloose (1984); Footloose (2011); Funny Girl (1968); Funny Lady (1975); Funny Lady (1975); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969); Great Performances (1986); Great Performances (1986); I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982); I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982); In Full Bloom (2002); In Full Bloom (2002); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Intimate Portrait (1998); Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires (1999); Kenny Loggins: Footloose (Version 2) (1984); Max Dugan Returns (1983); Max Dugan Returns (1983); Meet Me in St. Louis (1959); My Blue Heaven (1990); My Blue Heaven (1990); Nijinsky (1980); On Location with the Owl and the Pussycat (1970); Pennies from Heaven (1981); Pennies from Heaven (1981); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1964); Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera (1994); Play It Again, Sam (1972); Pontiac Star Parade: Four for Tonight (1960); Protocol (1984); Rinaldo in campo (1963); Shirley MacLaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996); Soapdish (1991); Steel Magnolias (1989); Summer Holiday (1963); T.R. Baskin (1971); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002); The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play (1977); The Bacchantes (1961); The Bell Telephone Hour (1963–1966); The Buick Berle Show, 1954 (1995); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Fantasticks (1964); The Goodbye Girl (1977); The Jerry Lewis Show (1957); The Last of Sheila (1973); The Making of 'the Goodbye Girl' (1977); The Martha Raye Show (1954); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1955); The Nut House!! (1964); The Owl and the Pussycat (1970); The Paul Winchell Show (1954); The Secret of My Success (1987); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Sunshine Boys (1975); The Turning Point (1977); This Is Streisand (1968); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1981); True Colors (1991); Undercover Blues (1993); Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough (1997); We, the People (1949); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966); Wonderful to Be Young! (1961); Wonderful Town (1958).


Born on this day – Lillian Adams:


Actress

May 13, 1922 – May 25, 2011


Born on this day – Édouard Molinaro:


Director

Writer

May 13, 1928 – December 7, 2013


Born on this day – Daphne du Maurier:



Writer

May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989

Credits:

Books:

Birds of Prey (2010); Castle Dor (1940); Come Wind, Come Weather (1940); Cornish Tales of Terror (1970); Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre (1987); Don't Look Now (1971); Don't Look Now and Other Stories (1973); Early Stories (1954); Echoes From the Macabre (1971); Enchanted Cornwall (1989); Frenchman's Creek (1941); Gerald (1935); Golden Lads (1975); Happy Christmas (1953); Hungry Hill (1943); I'll Never Be Young Again (1932); Jamaica Inn (1936); Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953); Letters from Menabilly (1993); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); Mary Anne (1954); My Cousin Rachel (1951); Myself When Young (1977); Rebecca (1938); Rule Britannia (1972); Split Second and Other Stories (1981); Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (2021); The Apple Tree (1952); The Birds and Other Stories (1952); The Breaking Point / The Blue Lenses and Other Stories (1959); The Doll (2011); The Du Mauriers (1937); The Flight of the Falcon (1965); The Glass-Blowers (1963); The House on the Strand (1969); The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (1960); The King's General (1946); The Loving Spirit (1931); The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999); The Parasites (1949); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Progress of Julius / Julius (1933); The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories (1981); The Rendezvous and Other Stories (1980); The Scapegoat (1957); The Treasury of Du Maurier Short Stories (1960); The Winding Stair (1977); The Young George Du Maurier (1952); Vanishing Cornwall (1967); Witches' Brew (1984).

Movies and television:

Alta comedia (1973); Anamika: The Untold Story (2008); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); BBC2 Playhouse (1975); Broadway Television Theatre (1952); Danger (1955); Daphne du Maurier (1971); Daphné du Maurier: sur les traces de Rebecca (2017); Don't Look Now (1973); Frenchman's Creek (1944); Frenchman's Creek (1998); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952–1963); Guiding Light (1982); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Hostinec Jamaica (1972); Hungry Hill (1947); Jamaica Inn (1939); Jamaica Inn (1983); Jamaica Inn (2014); Kiskanç kadin (1966); Kraft Theatre (1950–1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); L'auberge de la Jamaïque (1995); Le général du roi (2014); 'Let's Pretend...' - The Make-Believe World of Daphne Du Maurier (1977); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Marea di Settembre (1963); Masterpiece Mystery (1985); Matinee Theatre (1956); Mi amor por ti (1969); Morning Patrol (1987); My Cousin Rachel (1952); My Cousin Rachel (1983); My Cousin Rachel (2017); Ocho estrellas en busca del amor (1964); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pursuit (1958); Rebecca (1940); Rebecca (1947); Rebecca (1969); Rebecca (1979); Rebecca (1997); Rebecca (2020); Rebecca, la prima moglie (2008); Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love / Kiss Me Again Stranger (1974); Rick Stein in du Maurier Country (2007); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); September Tide (1958); Suspense (1953); Suspicion (1958); The Birds (1963); The Birds II: Land's End (1994); The Bondwoman (1974); The Lifeforce Experiment (1994); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Scapegoat (1959); The Scapegoat (2012); The Unexpected (1952); The Years Between (1946); Theatre '62 (1962); Une seconde d'éternité (1977); Urangatha Sundary (1969); Utharam (1989).


Charlotte Bronte, on writing:

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

- Charlotte Bronte.