Although only breath,
words which I command are immortal.
- Sappho.
- Sappho.
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Born on this day – Denison Clift:
Denison Clift
Writer
Director
May 3, 1885 – December 17, 1961
Credits:
A Bill of Divorcement (1922); A Girl in Bohemia (1919); A Woman of No Importance (1921); All That Glitters (1937); And a Still Small Voice (1918); Bentley's Conscience (1922); City of Play (1929); Diana of the Crossways (1922); El impostor (1931); End of the Road (1944); Firebrand Trevison (1920); Flames of Desire (1924); Gambling in Souls (1919); Great Diamond Mystery (1924); Her Honor the Mayor (1920); High Seas (1929); His Birthright (1918); Honor Among Men (1924); Lost Money (1919); Man About Town (1932); Out to Win (1923); Paradise (1928); Phantom Ship (1935); Ports of Call (1925); Power Over Men (1929); Rose of the West (1919); Scotland Yard (1930); Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944); Snares of Paris (1919); Sonia (1921); Square Shooter (1920); Taxi for Two (1929); The Bride of the Colorado (1928); The Call of the Soul (1919); The Challenge of the Law (1920); The Coming of the Law (1919); The Danger Zone (1918); The Diamond Necklace (1921); The Divorce Trap (1919); The Hell Ship (1920); The Iron Heart (1920); The Last Adventurers (1937); The Last Straw (1920); The Little Wanderer (1920); The Love That Dares (1919); The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923); The Midnight Patrol (1918); The Old Wives' Tale (1921); The Speed Maniac (1919); The Spirit of Good (1920); The Splendid Sin (1919); The Tattlers (1920); The Woman Disputed (1928); The Yankee Clipper (1927); This Freedom (1923); Warn London (1934); Wedlock (1918); What Would You Do? (1920); When Fate Decides (1919); Why Men Forget (1921); Wolves of the Rail (1918).
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
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