Born on this day – Constance Cummings:

 

Actress

May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005

Born on this day – James Mason:

Actor

May 15, 1909 – July 27, 1984

Credits:

11 Harrowhouse (1974); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); 5 Fingers (1952); A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Dangerous Summer (1982); A Dangerous Summer: Rekindled (2006); A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009); A Place of One's Own (1945); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); A Touch of Larceny (1960); A.D. (1985); A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942); ABC Stage 67 (1966); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1983); Age of Consent (1969); Age of Consent: Helen Mirren - A Conversation with Cora (2009); Alexandre (1983); Alibi (1942); All Star Revue (1952); Alle origini della mafia (1976); Allons au cinéma (1977); Appointment with Destiny (1971); Apropos Film (1967); Arena (1977–1995); Autobiography of a Princess (1975); Bad Man's River (1971); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); Best of British (1987); Bigger Than Life (1956); Biography (1987 / 1995); Blind Man's Bluff (1936); Blood, Sweat and Tears (1971); Bloodline (1979); Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life (2020); Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Botany Bay (1952); Cadence 3 (1983); Candlelight in Algeria (1943); Casino Royale: The Royal Premiere (1967); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Catch As Catch Can (1937); Caught (1949); Charade (1954); Charlie Rose (1999); Child's Play (1972); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Clapper Board (1979); Cold Sweat (1970); Collector's World (1972); Compression (2023); Cop-Out (1967); Corazón de... (2006); Crepa padrone, crepa tranquillo (1970); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cross of Iron (1977); Cry Terror! (1958); Cyrano de Bergerac (1938); Death Cell (1941); Dee Time (1969); Della (1969); Dix de der (1975); Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983); Down Under with Ron and Valerie Taylor (2009); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); Dr. Kildare (1965); Duffy (1968); East Side, West Side (1949); Ellis in Freedomland (1952); Escape from Zahrain (1962); Evil Under the Sun (1982); Face to Face (1952); Far into the Night (1943); Film '72 (1972); Film Preview (1966); Filmworker (2017); Fire Over England (1937); Forever, Darling (1956); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Gala de l'Unicef (1966); Gala de l'union (1970); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Electric Theater (1957); Genghis Khan (1965); George Washington (1984); Georgy Girl (1966); Girl Talk (1968); Good Morning America (1979–1981); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Great Expectations (1974); Great Performances (1988); Group Madness (1983); Gypsy (1967); Halloween Monster Bash (1991); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hero's Island (1962); History of World Cinema: Part I (2021); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977); Home James (1972); Hot Stuff (1976); Hotel Reserve (1944); I Met a Murderer (1939); In Search of Rembrandt (1969); Inside Edition (2015); Inside Out (1975); Island in the Sun (1957); ITV Play of the Week (1966); ITV Sunday Night Drama (1965); Ivanhoe (1982); I've Got a Secret (1956); James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1958); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); John Brown's Raid (1960); John Keats: His Life and Death (1973); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959); Julius Caesar (1953); Kidnap Syndicate (1975); Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971); Kubrick by Kubrick (2020); Kubrick Remembered (2014); La nuit des Césars (1985); Lady Possessed (1952); Late Extra (1935); L'avare (1939); Lena (1964); Les nouveaux rendez-vous (1980); Lolita (1962); Lolita, méprise sur un fantasme (2021); Lord Jim (1965); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); Madame Bovary (1949); Man of Evil (1944); Mandingo (1975); Martin Scorsese on 'Age of Consent' (2009); Max & James & Danielle (2015); Mayerling (1968); Murder by Decree (1979); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); NBC White Paper (1983); NET Festival (1970); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); North by Northwest (1959); North Sea Hijack (1980); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Odd Man Out (1947); Omnibus / Napoleon's Love Letters (1953); One Way Street (1950); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Panic! (1957); Parkinson (1972); Passion & Poetry: Sam's War (2011); Password (1962–1967); People of the Wind (1976); Person to Person (1959); Personality (1967); Playhouse 90 (1957–1960); Prince Valiant (1954); Prison Breaker (1936); Release (1968); Rome in Madrid (1964); Room 237 (2012); Salem's Lot (1979); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); Secret Mission (1942); Sid & Judy (2019); Six Fifty-Five Special (1981); Socrates (1982); Spring and Port Wine (1970); Square Pegs (1939); Stars on Sunday (1970–1979); Stoney Burke (1962); Studio of the Stars: The Elstree Story (1967); Survival (1974); Talking Pictures (2013); Telephone Time (1957); Terror House (1942); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The Agatha Christie Code (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Assisi Underground (1985); The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Blue Max (1966); The Bob Hope Show (1955–1966); The Boys from Brazil (1978); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Chevy Show (1955); The Child (1954); The Circle (1939); The David Frost Show (1969); The Deadly Affair (1967); The Decks Ran Red (1958); The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951); The Desert Rats (1953); The Destructors (1974); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Directors (2018); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951–1955); The Fabulous Fox (2004); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); The Flower in His Mouth (1975); The Frank Sinatra Show (1952); The Golden Gong (1985); The Golden Years of Alexander Korda (1968); The High Command (1937); The James Mason Show (1953); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Last of Sheila (1973); The Late Show (1992); The Left Hand of the Law (1975); The Legend of Silent Night (1968); The Linkletter Show (1960); The London Nobody Knows (1968); The Look of the Week (1966–1967); The MacKintosh Man (1973); The Magical World of Disney (1954 / 1976); The Making of '20000 Leagues Under the Sea' (2003); The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' (1982); The Making of 'the Verdict' (1982); The Man Between (1953); The Man in Grey (1943); The Many Faces of... (2013); The Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1969); The Mill on the Floss (1936); The Moon in the Yellow River (1938); The Passage (1979); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1962); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); The Pumpkin Eater (1964); The Reckless Moment (1949); The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937); The River Nile (1962); The Royal Variety Performance 1979 (1979); The Sea Gull (1968); The Sea in Your Future (1971); The Search for Alexander the Great (1981); The Search for the Nile (1971); The Seventh Veil (1945); The Shooting Party (1984); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Spy in White (1936); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Story of Three Loves / The Jealous Lover (1953); The Tell-Tale Heart (1953); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965–1983); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); The Uninhibited (1965); The Upturned Glass (1947); The Verdict (1982); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Water Babies (1978); The Wicked Lady (1945); The Wind in the Wires (1972); The World About Us (1968); The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970); Theatre '62 (1962); They Met in the Dark (1943); They Were Sisters (1945); This Is Your Life (1961–1973); Thunder Rock (1942); Tiara Tahiti (1962); Today (1956); Torpedo Bay (1963); Troubled Waters (1936); TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twice Branded (1936); Unknown Chaplin (1983); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1975); Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); Vienna: The Years Remembered (1968); Voyage of the Damned (1976); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); What's My Line? (1951–1966); Yellowbeard (1983); Your Show of Shows / Caesar's Hour (1956); You're Putting Me On (1969).

Born on this day – Joseph Cotton:

Actor

May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994

Barbara Kingsolver, on writing:

 

Close the door.

Write with no one looking over your shoulder.
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you;
figure out what you have to say.
It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
 
- Barbara Kingsolver.

On this day in music history - The album Little Queen, by Heart (1977)

Little Queen

by Heart

was released on May 14, 1977.

Born on this day – Daniela Dessì:

 

Opera singer

Soprano

May 14, 1957 – August 20, 2016

Credits:

Albums:

Antonio Vivaldi, Il Farnace; Daniela Dessì sings Verdi; Domenico Cimarosa, Gli Horatii e i Curiazii; Enrico Toselli, Le Romanze Ritrovate; Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur; Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly; Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini, Tosca; Gioachino Rossini, Ciro in Babilonia; Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville; Giuseppe Verdi, Aida; La Traviata; Love Duets; Puccini Arias; Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier.

Movies and television:

Adriana Lecouvreur (2000); Aida (2003); Così fan tutte (1989); Don Carlo (1992); Don Giovanni oder Der bestrafte Wüstling (1992); Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1985); Francesca da Rimini (2004); Giordano: Fedora (2018); I Vespri Siciliani (2010); Il Regio nel paese del melodramma (2015); La Bohème (1998); La fanciulla del West (2005); La pietra del paragone (1982); Madama Butterfly (2004); Mefistofele (1989); My Favourite Opera (1991); Norma (2008); Opera Across the Atlantic (2007); Pavarotti 30th Anniversary Gala (1998); Profil, Poveste, Personaj (2009); Puccini: La Bohème (2016); Tosca (2004); Tosca (2010).

Born on this day – Anne Wiazemsk:

 

Actress

Writer

May 14, 1947 – October 5, 2017

Credits:

1 P.M. (1971); 28' (2012); 30 millions d'amis (1992); All's Well (1972); Apostrophes (1989); Au hasard Balthazar (1966); Bouillon de culture (1992–1996); Capricci (1969); Compression (2015–2024); Couleur chair (1978); Des mots de minuit (2012); Deux de la Vague (2010); Die Auslieferung (1974); Don Juan (1978); Empreintes (2007–2010); Esprits libres (2007); George qui? (1973); Godard Cinema (2022); Godard Mon Amour (2017); Godard par Godard (2023); Grenouilles (1983); Guerres civiles en France / La semaine sanglante (1978); Histoire bruyante de la jeunesse (2020); Jamais sans mon livre (1993); Je m'appelle Elisabeth (2006); Joyce digital (1984); La bande à Bonnot (1968); La grande librairie (2012–2017); La passion (1978); La semaine sanglante (1976); La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu (1974); Lamiel (1967); L'atelier (1974); Le grand départ (1972); Le grand inquisiteur (1979); Le mécène (1983); Le mystère Frontenac (1975); Le pain noir (1974–1975); Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1987); L'empreinte des géants (1980); L'enfant secret (1979); Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film (2004); Les Gauloises bleues (1968); Les Idées et les hommes (1976); Les vieilles lunes (1969); L'examen du petit (1969); L'hôpital de Leningrad (1983); L'inchiesta (1971); Lotte in Italia (1971); Mag Bodard, un destin (2005); Marine terrace (1988); Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980); Mon coeur est rouge (1976); One + One (1968); Pigsty (1969); Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (1994); Pour le plaisir (1966); Qui trop embrasse... (1986); Raphaël ou le débauché (1971); Rendez-vous (1985); Return from Africa (1973); She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985); Sois belle et tais-toi! (1981); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Teorema (1968); The Chinese (1967); The Last Train (1973); The Seed of Man (1969); Toutes ces belles promesses (2003); Une légende, une vie (1974); Ville étrangère (1988); Voices (2006); Vol de nuit (2004–2007); Weekend (1967); Wind from the East (1970).