Born on this day – Dodie Smith:

Dodie Smith

Writer

May 3, 1896 – November 24, 1990

Credits:

Books:

The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956); The Starlight Barking (1967); Look Back with Love (1974); Look Back with Mixed Feelings (1978); Look Back with Astonishment (1979); Look Back with Gratitude (1985); I Capture the Castle (1948); Girl from the Candle-lit Bath (1961); The New Moon With the Old (1963); The Town in Bloom (1965); It Ends with Revelations (1967); Tale of Two Families (1970); The Midnight Kittens (1978); Service (1932); Autumn Crocus (1933); Touch Wood (1934); Call it A Day (1936); Bonnet Over the Windmill (1937); Dear Octopus (1938); Lovers and Friends (1947); Letter from Paris (1954); Amateur Means Lover (1962).

Movies and television:

101 Dalmatian Street (2020); 101 Dalmatians (1996); 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure (2002); 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor (1997); 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997–1998); 102 Dalmatians (2000); 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue (2000); Autumn Crocus (1934); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952); Call It a Day (1937); Call It a Day (1948); Call It a Day (1956); Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007); Cruella (2021); Darling, How Could You! (1951); Dear Octopus (1943); Dear Octopus (1953); Der erste Frühlingstag (1956); Der erste Frühlingstag (1962); Der erste Frühlingstag / Call it a Day (1961); I Capture the Castle (1954); I Capture the Castle (2003); ITV Play of the Week (1959); ITV Playhouse (1972); ITV Television Playhouse (1957); Jackanory (1986); Looking Forward (1933); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961); Primo giorno di primavera (1955); Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians (2008); Schoolgirl Rebels (1915); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1961); The Glorious Adventure (1922); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); The Uninvited (1944); To Each His Own (1946); Zo maar een dag in de lente (1960).

Born on this day – Aline MacMahon:

 

Aline MacMahon

Actress

May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991

Credits:

Actor's Choice (1970); Ah Wilderness! (1935); All the Way Home (1963); Babbitt (1934); Back Door to Heaven (1939); Big Hearted Herbert (1934); Camera Three (1978); Celanese Theatre (1952); Cimarron (1960); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2024); Diamond Head (1962); Dragon Seed (1944); Five Star Final (1931); For the Use of the Hall (1975); Frontiers of Faith (1952–1955); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006); Great Performances (1974); Guest in the House (1944); Heat Lightning (1934); Heroes for Sale (1933); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); I Could Go on Singing (1963); I Live My Life (1935); Kind Lady (1935); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Lamp Unto My Feet (1957–1961); Life Begins (1932); Mary Jane's Pa (1935); NET Playhouse (1969); Once in a Lifetime (1932); One Way Passage (1932); Out of the Fog (1941); Play of the Week (1959); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); Reward Unlimited (1944); Roseanna McCoy (1949); Seeds of Freedom (1943); Side Streets (1934); Silver Dollar (1932); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Studio One (1957–1958); The Defenders (1963–1964); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1961); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Flame and the Arrow (1950); The Heart of New York (1932); The Lady Is Willing (1942); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Man from Laramie (1955); The Merry Frinks (1934); The Mighty McGurk (1947); The Mouthpiece (1932); The Movie Crazy Years (1971); The Search (1948); The Shade of the Tree (1956); The Tonight Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The World Changes (1933); The Young Doctors (1961); Tish (1942); Twenty Years After (1944); Week-End Marriage (1932); When You're in Love (1937); While the Patient Slept (1935).

Born on this day – Mary Astor:

 

Mary Astor

Actress

May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987

Credits:

A Kiss Before Dying (1956); A Stranger in My Arms (1959); A Successful Calamity (1932); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); Across the Pacific (1942); Act of Violence (1948); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1959); All But Forgotten (1978); American Cinema (1995); And So They Were Married (1936); Any Number Can Play (1949); Backstory (2001); Beau Brummel (1924); Behind Office Doors (1931); Ben Casey (1963); Blonde Fever (1944); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Brigham Young (1940); Brother of the Bear (1921); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1960); Bullets or Ballots (1921); Burke's Law (1963); Cass Timberlane (1947); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Checkmate (1962); Claudia and David (1946); Climax! (1955–1957); Convention City (1933); Cynthia (1947); Danger (1954); Desert Fury (1947); Dinky (1935); Dodsworth (1936); Don Juan (1926); Don Q Son of Zorro (1925); Dr. Kildare (1962–1963); Dressed to Kill (1928); Dry Martini (1928); Easy to Love (1934); Enticement (1925); Fiesta (1947); Forever After (1926); Front Row Center (1955); Frontier Justice (1959); General Electric Theater (1959); Heart to Heart (1928); High Steppers (1926); Holiday (1930); Hollywood (1923); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Home Stories (1990); Hope (1922); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); I Am a Thief (1934); In the Good Old Summertime Intro (2004); Inez from Hollywood (1924); James Dean's Lost Slideshow (2013); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); John Smith (1922); Justice (1955); Kraft Theatre (1951–1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1954); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1960); Ladies Love Brutes (1930); Lady from Nowhere (1936); Listen, Darling (1938); Little Women (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1956–1957); Man of Iron (1935); Matinee Theatre (1956); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Men of Chance (1931); Midnight (1939); My Lady o' the Pines (1921); New Year's Eve (1929); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); No Place to Go (1927); No Time to Marry (1938); Northern Exposure (1994); Oh, Doctor! (1925); Okay for Sound (1946); Other Men's Women (1930); Page Miss Glory (1935); Paradise for Three (1938); Person to Person (1960); Playhouse 90 (1957–1960); Playing with Souls (1925); Playwrights '56 (1956); Ponds Theater (1955); Producers' Showcase (1955); Puritan Passions (1923); Rawhide (1961); Red Dust (1932); Red Hot Tires (1935); Return of the Terror (1934); Return to Peyton Place (1961); Robert Montgomery Presents (1956); Romance of the Underworld (1928); Rose of the Golden West (1927); Sailors' Wives (1928); Scarlet Saint (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories (1951); Second Fiddle (1923); Sentimental Tommy (1921); Show of Shows (1929); Smart Woman (1931); Some of the Greatest (1955); Star Stage (1956); Stay Tuned (1992); Straight from the Heart (1935); Studio 57 (1956); Studio One (1954–1958); Success (1923); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Angelus (1922); The Beggar Maid (1921); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Bright Shawl (1923); The Case of the Howling Dog (1934); The Confession (2018); The Defenders (1963); The Devil's Hairpin (1957); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fighting American (1924); The Fighting Coward (1924); The Great Lie (1941); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Hurricane (1937); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Lash (1930); The Little Giant (1933); The Lost Squadron (1932); The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Man Who Played God (1922); The Man with Two Faces (1934); The Marriage Maker (1923); The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1935); The Pace That Thrills (1925); The Palm Beach Story (1942); The Philadelphia Story (1959); The Power and the Prize (1956); The Price of a Party (1924); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Rapids (1922); The Rough Riders (1927); The Royal Bed (1931); The Rules of Film Noir (2009); The Runaway Bride (1930); The Sea Tiger (1927); The Sin Ship (1931); The Sunset Derby (1927); The Twentieth Century (1959); The Wise Guy (1926); The Woman from Hell (1929); The World Changes (1933); The Young Painter (1922); There's Always a Woman (1938); This Happy Feeling (1958); Those We Love (1932); Thousands Cheer (1943); Thriller (1960); 3-Ring Marriage (1928); To the Ladies (1923); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Trapped by Television (1936); Turnabout (1940); Two Arabian Knights (1927); U.S. Marshal (1958–1960); Unguarded Women (1924); Upperworld (1934); WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926); White Shoulders (1931); Wings of the Border (1921); Woman Against Woman (1938); Woman-Proof (1923); Yesterday and Today (1953); Young Ideas (1943); Youngblood Hawke (1964); Zane Grey Theatre (1957).

Born on this day – Norman Corwin:

Norman Corwin

Writer

Producer

Director

Professor

May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011

Born on this day – Lamar Boren:

Lamar Boren

Cinematographer

Writer

May 3, 1917 – January 15, 1986

Born on this day – Jane Morgan:

Jane Morgan

Actress

Singer

May 3, 1924 – August 4, 2025

Credits:

Albums:

A Jane Morgan Happening (1968); All the Way (1958); An American Songbird In Paris 9 (2007); At the Cocoanut Grove (2013); Broadway in Stereo (1959); Essential Masters (2013); Fascination - The Ultimate Collection (2009); Fascination (1957); Fresh Flavor (1966); Give My Regards To Broadway (2012); Great Songs from the Great Shows of the Century - Vol.1 (2019); Great Songs from the Great Shows of the Century - Vol.2 (2019); Great Songs From the Great Shows of the Century (1959); Her Golden Years (2020); In Gold (2016); In My Style (1965); In Nashville (1970); In Spain (2001); Jane Morgan (2001); Jane Morgan at The Cocoanut Grove (2006); Jane Morgan at the Cocoanut Grove (Live) (2014); Jane Morgan in Gold Today's Hits... Tomorrow's Golden Favorites (1966); Jane Morgan Serenades "The Victors" (1963); Jane Morgan Sings the Great Golden Hits (1961); Jane Morgan Time (1959); Jane Morgan: The Day the Rains Came (2017); Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1967); Live from Cocoanut Grove (2012); Love Is Like Champagne (2023); Love Makes the World Go Round (1961); Mutual Admiration Society (2008); Sings Popular Favourites (2009); Sings Showstoppers (2008); Smile (2006); Something Old, Something New, Somehing Borrowed, Something Blue (2001); Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1958); The American Girl from Paris (1956); The Ballads of Lady Jane (1960); The Ballads of Lady Jane / The Second Time Around (2011); The Big Hits from Broadway (1961); The Day the Rains Came (1958); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1964); The Myth of Jane Morgan (1947); The Second Time Around (1961); Traces of Love (1969); Vintage Gold (2014); What Now My Love (2006); What Now My Love? / Jane Morgan at the Cocoanut Grove (2013).

Songs:

A Girl Named Johnny Cash; A Lover's Concerto; A Wonderful Guy; Adios; Adios You Belong To My Heart Magic Is The Moonlight; All the Way; An Affair to Remember; April In Portugal; Baseball, Baseball; Catch a Falling Star; Fascination; Forever My Love; From the First Hello to the Last Goodbye; If Only I Could Live My Life Again; I'll Be Seeing You; I'm New at the Game; It's Been A Long, Long Time; It's Today; Kiss Away; Love Is Like Champagne; Love Me True; Melodie D'Amour; My Favourite Things; My Foolish Heart; Side by Side; The Day the Rains Came; The Second Time Around; Till; Two Different Worlds; Was It Day, Was It Night?; We Need A Little Christmas; You Belong to My Heart.

Movies and television:

A Love Story (2005); American Bandstand (1957); Call the Midwife (2013); Cavalcade of Stars (1952); Club 60 (1957); Coliseum (1967); Dee Time (1967); Diner (1982); Extra (2015); Fallout (2024); Girl Talk (1966); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hippodrome (1966); International Cabaret (1967); It Takes a Thief (1970); Juke Box Jury (1964); Malamondo (1964); Nancy Drew (2007); Ocean's Thirteen (2007); Ocean's Twelve (2004); On Parade (1964); Operation: Entertainment (1969); Password (1966); Penthouse Party (1951); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1958–1962); Person to Person (1953); Peter Gunn (1961); Petit jour, grande nuit (1947); Songbook Sessions: Jane Morgan (2021); Star of the Family (1951); Startime (1960); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 38th Annual Academy Awards (1966); The 39th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1965); The Bell Telephone Hour (1965–1966); The Big Record (1957–1958); The Blue Angel (1954); The Bob Newhart Show (1961); The Chevy Showroom Starring Andy Williams (1959); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1954); The David Frost Show (1969); The Dean Martin Show (1966–1968); The Dick Clark Show (1959); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950–1970); The Faye Emerson Show (1951); The Frankie Howerd Show (1953); The Garry Moore Show (1959); The George Jessel Show (1953); The Hollywood Palace (1964–1968); The Howard Miller Show (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1961); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957–1969); The Jimmy Dean Show (1963–1965); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Johnny Cash Show (1971); The Jonathan Winters Show (1956); The Kraft Music Hall (1969); The Laraine Day Show (1951); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1962–1970); The Next Karate Kid (1994); The Patti Page Oldsmobile Show (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1967); The Timex Show (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1970); The Val Doonican Show (1967); Three Cheers (1953); Timex All-Star Jazz Show (1958); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1959–1960); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1959–1964); What's My Line? (1968).

Born on this day – Jeanne Bal:

Jeanne Bal

Actress

May 3, 1928 – April 30, 1996

Credits:

Adventures of the Sea Hawk (1958); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Bachelor Father (1961); Birth of a Timeless Legacy (2004); Bonanza (1963); Checkmate (1961); Company of Killers (1970); Diagnosis: Unknown (1960); For the Love of Spock (2016); Hey, Landlord (1966); I Spy (1968); Insight (1969); Karen (1964); Love and Marriage (1959–1960); Matt Lincoln (1970); McHale’s Navy (1965); Mr. Novak (1963–1964); Perry Mason (1961–1965); Riverboat (1961); Route 66 (1961); Sci Fi Visionaries (2004); Shotgun Slade (1961); Sid Caesar Invites You (1958); Star Trek (1966); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Fugitive (1964); The Loretta Young Show (1953–1961); The Sid Caesar Show (1958); Thriller (1961); Wagon Train (1963).