"I’ve never seen Carol say no autographs. I’ve never heard somebody say hello, that she didn’t say hello back...She loves the fact that people watched her and put her where she is today. She’s very appreciative."
— Tim Conway in 2007
“Sidney Lumet came up to me during the filming of this and said, ‘Al, it’s out of our hands, buddy.’ And that’s the feeling I had with it. It took on its own life.”
“Don't let anybody tell you it can't be done. I did it. You can, too." — Lela Swift (1919–2015) #BornOnThisDay
She rose from the CBS secretarial pool to become a groundbreaking director of 1950s live TV, then iconic soaps like DARK SHADOWS and RYAN’S HOPE (for which she won 3 Emmys).
"We were trying to think of who could play Endora. And Elizabeth and I were in New York, at Bloomingdales, and there we ran into Agnes Moorehead. And I thought, ‘My God. There she is!’”
— #WilliamAsher, director/producer of #Bewitched
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
— Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) #BornOnThisDay
“I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.”
-William Saroyan, novelist
Happy 90th birthday to #DebraPaget, the American film, stage, radio and TV actor, born in Denver #OnThisDay. She worked for Robert Siodmak, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Fritz Lang, among others, but particularly memorable opposite Vincent Price in her last two features, Roger Corman's #TalesOfTerror (1962) and #TheHauntedPalace (1963).
He worked in the film industry from 1919 to 1976 and directed 18 episodes of the TV shows bearing his name. He was nominated for five Best Director Oscars, winning none. His personal favourite of his own features was the witty, wonderful and characteristically macabre Shadow of a Doubt (1943). We remember the incomparable Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980), Master of Suspense (among other things), born in Leytonstone on this day.
Barney (Don Knotts) acts as Opie's personal trainer in this episode of The Andy Griffith Show (A Medal for Opie, 1962). By the way, Opie (Ron Howard) would later go on to become an award-winning filmmaker.
Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali was a member of the Italian Resistance during WWII. He carried forged exit visas hidden in his handlebar & seat to Jews in hiding, & ultimately helped save an estimated 800 Jews from the Nazis. #BicycleBirthday #BornOnThisDay July 18, 1914
#HappyBirthday to Alice Maud Krige, the beguiling South African actor / producer, born #OnThisDay in 1954. An ethereal presence as Eva / Alma in John Irvin's evocative, pictured #GhostStory (1981), her 100+ screen credits include as the future Mary Shelley in #HauntedSummer (1988),
the incestuous shape-shifting mum in Stephen King's #Sleepwalkers (1992), a titular role in #InstituteBenjamenta, the Borg Queen in #StarTrek: First Contact (1996) and a moving representation of post-'MeToo' empowerment in Charlotte Colbert's #SheWill (2022).
Happy #BicycleBirthday to mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, theoretical biologist, and bicycle devotee Alan Turing! #BornOnThisDay June 23, 1912
77 urodziny świętuje dziś Anthony Frederick "Tony" Levin – amerykański muzyk i kompozytor, multiinstrumentalista, uznany muzyk sesyjny. #ThisDayInMusic#BornOnThisDay
Remembering William (Bill) Paxton (1955-2017), the gifted American actor, filmmaker, producer and musician, born in Texas #OnThisDay. Equally good as offbeat, unhinged, gung-ho and haunted characters, he was particularly memorable as the doomed Hudson in #Aliens (1986), Severen in #NearDark (1987), the Sheriff in #OneFalseMove (1992) and Hank in Sam Raimi's #ASimplePlan (1998). His only feature film as director-star was the subversive #Frailty (2001).