Born on this day – Pamela Lincoln:

 

Pamela Lincoln

Actress

May 14, 1937 – November 21, 2019

Credits:

A World Apart (1971); Anatomy of a Psycho (1961); Biography (1997); Bronco (1958); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Father Knows Best (1959); First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington (1975); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959); I Survived 'The Tingler' (2018); Love of Life (1951–1980); One Life to Live (1983–1984); One Step Beyond (1959); Scream for Your Lives! William Castle and 'the Tingler' (1999); Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007); Tattletales (1976); The Doctors (1977–1979); The Home Team (1960); The Man from Blackhawk (1960); The Tingler (1959); Tootsie (1982); Zane Grey Theatre (1959).

Born on this day – Peggy Moffitt:

 

Peggy Moffitt

Actress

Model

May 14, 1940 – August 10, 2024

Credits:

Alcoa Theatre (1960); Art Be Damned! (2024); Basic Black (1967); Batman (1967); Battle Flame (1959); Blow-Up (1966); Girls Town (1959); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton (2001); Making the Boys (2011); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); Opus (1967); Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffitt (2012); Senior Prom (1958); Smog (1962); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Birds and the Bees (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968); The Young Captives (1959); Up Periscope (1959); Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966); You're Never Too Young (1955).

Born on this day – Prentis Hancock:

 

Prentis Hancock

Actor

May 14, 1942 – May 30, 2025

Credits:

A Darker Side (2007); Alien Attack (1976); Armchair Thriller (1978–1980); Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2017); Bergerac (1989); Bernice Summerfield (2011); Bodyguards (1997); Bulman (1985); Chocky's Challenge (1986); Chocky's Children (1985); CI5: The New Professionals (1999); Colditz (1973); Danger UXB (1979); Danger: Marmalade at Work (1984); Defense of the Realm (1985); Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978); Dixon of Dock Green (1971); Doctor Who (1970–1978); Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks (Special Edition) (2019); Down to Earth: Filming Spearhead from Space (2011); Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1969); Finney (1994); Forget Me Not (1976); Fox (1980); Friend or Foe (1982); God's Frontiersmen (1989); Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985); ITV Playhouse (1969); Jekyll and Hyde (1990); Journey Through the Black Sun (1982); Kappatoo (1990); Kim (1984); Life and Death of Penelope (1976); Lime Street (1985); Minder (1980 / 1983); Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (1984); Next Time (2015); Outlander (2014); Paul Temple (1969–1971); Planetary Performance: Acting in Doctor Who (2007); Play for Today (1980); Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983); Return of the Saint (1979); Rogue's Rock (1976); Screenplay (1980); Secret Army (1979); Six Days of Justice (1972); Softly Softly: Task Force (1971); Space: 1999 (1975–1976); Spy Trap (1972–1973); Staying Alive (1996); Survivors (1977); Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who (2007); The Bill (1989); The Chief (1995); The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years, Behind the Scenes Vol 2 (2022); The Famous Five (1978); The Fear (1988); The Fenn Street Gang (1972); The Frighteners (1972); The Gerry Anderson Podcast (2024); The House on the Hill (1981); The Last of the Mohicans (1971); The Monster Club / Segment: Humgoo Story (1981); The New Avengers (1976); The Professionals (1982); The Protectors (1973); The Ribos File (2007); The Saint and the Brave Goose (1979); The Shadow of the Tower (1972); The Silver Sword (1971); The Thirty Nine Steps (1978); The View from Daniel Pike (1971); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971); This Is Your Life (1974); Warship (1977); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Who's Round (2015); Z Cars (1971).

Born on this day – Anne Wiazemsk:

 

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).

Born on this day – Daniela Dessì:

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).

On this day in movie and book history - Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

 

Jeanne Dielman

23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,

directed and written by Chantal Akerman,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 14, 1975.

 
Cast:
Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical, Chantal Akerman.

Recommended reading: 

Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday

by Ivone Margulies.

Published by Duke University Press Books.

Published 1996.

ISBN-10: 0822317230

ISBN-13: 9780822317234

Description:

Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In Nothing Happens, Ivone Margulies presents the first comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker.

Margulies grounds her critical analysis in detailed discussions of Akerman’s work – from Saute ma ville, a 13-minute black-and-white film made in 1968, through Jeanne Dielman and Je tu il elle to the present. Focusing on the real-time representation of a woman’s everyday experience in Jeanne Dielman, Margulies brings the history of social and progressive realism and the filmmaker’s work into perspective. Pursuing two different but related lines of inquiry, she investigates an interest in the everyday that stretches from postwar neorealist cinema to the feminist rewriting of women’s history in the seventies. She then shows how Akerman’s “corporeal cinema” is informed by both American experiments with performance and duration and the layering present in works by European modernists Bresson, Rohmer, and Dreyer. This analysis revises the tired opposition between realism and modernism in the cinema, defines Akerman’s minimal-hyperrealist aesthetics in contrast to Godard’s anti-illusionism, and reveals the inadequacies of popular characterizations of Akerman’s films as either simply modernist or feminist.

An essential book for students of Chantal Akerman’s work, Nothing Happens will also interest international film critics and scholars, filmmakers, art historians, and all readers concerned with feminist film theory.

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

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: The Neutral Zone.

Released May 14, 1988.

Directed by James L. Conway.

Written by Maurice Hurley, Deborah McIntyre, Mona Clee, Hannah Louise Shearer, Tracy Tormé, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Marc Alaimo, Anthony James, Leon Rippy, Gracie Harrison, Peter Mark Richman, Majel Barrett, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Shana Golden, Peter Lauritson, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Susan Sackett, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Preemptive Strike.

Released May 14, 1994.

Directed by Patrick Stewart.

Written by René Echevarria, Naren Shankar, René Echevarria.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Michelle Forbes, John Franklyn-Robbins, Natalija Nogulich, William Thomas Jr., Shannon Cochran, Richard Poe, Sam Alejan, Rick Avery, Renna Bartlett, Steve Blalock, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Debbie David, Holiday Freeman, Grace Harrell, Red Horton, Dawn Lovett, Buck McDancer, Christina Wegler Miles, Tom Morga, Rebecca Parker, Shawn Michael Perry, Keith Rayve, Robin Ritter, Joyce Robinson, Theresa St. Clair, Oliver Theess.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: Worst Case Scenario.

Released May 14, 1997.

Directed by Alexander Singer.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Martha Hackett, Majel Barrett, Steve Blalock, John Copage, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Ransom Gates, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Zach LeBeau, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Raphael Sbarge, John Alex Tampoya.

 

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: First Flight.

Released May 14, 2003.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Written by John Shiban, Chris Black, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Brigid Brannagh, Vaughn Armstrong, Keith Carradine, Michael Canavan, Victor Bevine, John Moody, Alexandrea Ortiz, Antony Acker, Amy Kate Connolly, Kevin Derr, Marnie Martin, Bobby Pappas, Lemuel Perry.

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: Bounty.

Released May 14, 2003.

Directed by Roxann Dawson.

Written by Hans Tobeason, Michael/Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Jordan Lund, Robert O'Reilly, Ed O'Ross, Michael Garvey, Louis Ortiz, Alexandrea Ortiz, Edward Conna, Daphney Damaraux, Duncan K. Fraser, Scott Sterling Hill, Aric Rogokos, Ben Scott.