On this day in movie and book history - Yield to the Night (1956 movie & novel):

Yield to the Night

a.k.a. Blonde Sinner,

directed by J. Lee Thompson,

written by John Cresswell, Joan Henry,

based on the novel Yield to the Night by Joan Henry,

released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 4, 1956.

Music by Ray Martin.

Cast: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Geoffrey Keen, Liam Redmond, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller, Marjorie Rhodes, Molly Urquhart, Mary Mackenzie, Harry Locke, Michael Ripper, Joyce Blair, Charles Clay, Athene Seyler, Peggy Livesey, Mona Washbourne, Alec Finter, Marianne Stone, Mercia Shaw, Charles Lloyd Pack, Dandy Nichols, John Charlesworth, Frank Hawkins, Shirley Anne Field, Fred Machon, Charles Rayford, Pat Ryan.

Recommended reading:

Yield to the Night

by Joan Henry

Published by Doubleday.
Published 1954.

ISBN-10: 0856175862
ISBN-13: 9780856175862

On this day in movie history - Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

directed by Carl Reiner,

written by Carl Reiner, George Gipe and Steve Martin,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1982.

Music by Miklós Rózsa and Steve Goodman.

Cast:

Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Kirk Douglas, Fred MacMurray, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Reni Santoni, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, George Gaynes, Francis X. McCarthy, Adrian Ricard, Charlie Picerni, Gene LeBell, George Sawaya, Britt Nilsson, Jean Beaudine, John Easton Stuart, Ronald Spivey, Bob Hevelone, Dieter Curt, Phillip Kearns, Kent Deigaard, Eugene Brezany, Brad Baird, William Conrad, Charles McGraw, Jeff Corey, John Miljan, Brian Donlevy, Norma Varden, Edmond O'Brien, Wally Brown, David LeBell, Cheryl Smith.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 4. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Half a Life.

Released May 4, 1991.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Peter Allan Fields, Ted Roberts, Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky, David 

Carren, J. Larry Carroll, Brannon Braga.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Majel Barrett, Michelle Forbes, Terrence E. McNally, Colm Meaney, Carel Struycken, David Ogden Stiers, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Thomas J. Booth, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Nyra Crenshaw, Debbie David, Jeremy Doyle, Melanie Hathorn, Randy James, Jeri McBride, Tim McCormack, Joyce Robinson, Georgina Shore, K. Uchizono, Guy Vardaman.

On this day in television history – Justified (2010 & 2011):

 

Justified
Season 1. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Blowback.

Released May 4, 2010.

Directed by Jon Avnet.

Written by Graham Yost, Benjamin Cavell, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, W. Earl Brown, Jere Burns, M.C. Gainey, Rick Gomez, Fredric Lehne, William Ragsdale, Walton Goggins, David Haley, Chris Stacy, David Hill.

Justified
Season 2. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Bloody Harlan.

Released May 4, 2011.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, James Le Gros, David Meunier, Peter Murnik, Kevin Rankin, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Randolph Adams, Mark Atteberry, Sean Donnellan, William Gregory Lee, Tonja Kahlens, Savannah McReynolds, Ryan Smith, Andrey Batt, Jeremy Timmins, Seth Yohnka.

On this day in music history - The album With Teeth, by Nine Inch Nails (2005)

With Teeth

by Nine Inch Nails

was released on May 3, 2005.

NIN has been one of my favorite bands since the first time I heard the opening bars of Pretty Hate Machine’s Head Like a Hole and With Teeth is a release that nearly equals Pretty Hate Machine’s cohesion, with it's songs among my ‘go to’ tunes for road trips.

The supporting tour was excellent as well – everyone on their feet joyfully singing along, yelling, fisted hands pumping in solidarity - unforgettable.

Well done Trent, bandmates, and guest artists – thank you.

Track list:

All the Love in the World; You Know What You Are?; The Collector; The Hand That Feeds; Love Is Not Enough; Every Day Is Exactly the Same; With Teeth; Only; Getting Smaller; Sunspots; The Line Begins to Blur; Beside You in Time; Right Where It Belongs.

#WithTeeth #NIN #NineInchNails #TrentReznor #TheHandThatFeeds #Only #EveryDayIsExactlyTheSame

Sappho, on words:

 

Although only breath,

words which I command are immortal.
- Sappho.

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).