Alexandra Bastedo
Actress
Writer
March 9, 1946 – January 12, 2014
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Born on this day – Raul Julia:
Raul Julia
Actor
March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994
Street Fighter: The
Movie (1995); Down Came a Blackbird (1995); Street Fighter (1994); The Burning
Season: The Chico Mendes Story (1994); Addams Family Values (1993); Rabbit
Ears: The Monkey People (1992); The Plague (1992); Hammer: Addams Groove (1991);
The Addams Family (1991); Havana (1990); The Rookie (1990); Frankenstein
Unbound (1990); Presumed Innocent (1990); Mack the Knife (1989); Romero (1989);
Tequila Sunrise (1988); Moon Over Parador (1988); The Penitent (1988); Trading
Hearts (1988); Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988); Tango Bar (1987); The
Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987); The Morning After (1986); Florida Straits
(1986); La gran fiesta (1986); Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985); Compromising
Positions (1985); Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985); Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
(1984); The New Show (1984); American Playhouse (1983); Tempest (1982); The
Escape Artist (1982); Strong Medicine (1981); One from the Heart (1981); Ripe
Strawberries (1980); A Life of Sin (1979); Othello (1979); Eyes of Laura Mars
(1978); The Gumball Rally (1976); Death Scream (1975); Aces Up (1974); Great
Performances (1974); The Bob Newhart Show (1974); Sesame Street (1971–1972); The
Organization (1971); Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971); The Panic
in Needle Park (1971); McCloud (1970); Stiletto (1969); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Love
of Life (1951).
Born on this day – Jack Smight:
Jack Smight
Director
Producer
Actor
Writer
March 9, 1925 – September 1, 2003
The Favorite (1989); Number
One with a Bullet (1987); Code of Vengeance (1986); Remembrance of Love (1982);
Loving Couples (1980); Fast Break (1979); Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978); Damnation
Alley (1977); Midway (1976); Airport 1975 (1974); The Man from Independence
(1974); Legend in Granite (1973); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Linda
(1973); Double Indemnity (1973); Partners in Crime (1973); Madigan (1972); Banacek
(1972); The Longest Night (1972); McCloud (1971–1972); Columbo (1971); Rabbit,
Run (1970); The Traveling Executioner (1970); The Illustrated Man (1969); Strategy
of Terror (1969); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); The Secret War of Harry Frigg
(1968); Kaleidoscope (1966); Harper (1966); The Third Day (1965); Kraft
Suspense Theatre (1964–1965); Dr. Kildare (1963–1964); I'd Rather Be Rich (1964);
Arrest and Trial (1963); East Side / West Side (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock
Hour (1963); Alcoa Premiere (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The DuPont Show
of the Week (1962); Westinghouse Presents: That's Where the Town Is Going (1962);
The Defenders (1962); The Law and Mr. Jones (1961); The Enchanted Nutcracker (1961);
Theatre '62 (1961); Westinghouse Presents: Come Again to Carthage (1961); Route
66 (1961); Naked City (1961); Our American Heritage (1960–1961); Sunday
Showcase (1960–1961); The Twilight Zone (1959–1961); Art Carney Special
(1960–1961); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960); The Robert
Herridge Theater (1960); Destiny, West! (1960); The DuPont Show with June
Allyson (1959); The Sound of Miles Davis (1959); Oldsmobile Music Theatre (1959);
The Ten Commandments (1959); Alcoa Theatre (1958); Suspicion (1957–1958); General
Electric Theater (1956–1958); Victor Borge's Comedy in Music III (1958); Studio
One (1957–1958); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); Climax! (1956–1957); Star Stage
(1955–1956); Goodyear Playhouse (1955); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television
Playhouse (1955); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); Hollywood Theatre Time (1951);
One Man's Family (1949).
Born on this day – Marguerite Chapman:
Marguerite Chapman
Actress
March 9, 1918 – August 31, 1999
Barnaby Jones (1977); Police
Story (1973); Hawaii Five-O (1975); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Frontier Circus
(1962); Here's Hollywood (1961); Laramie (1961); Perry Mason (1960); The
Amazing Transparent Man (1960); The Lineup (1959); The Ann Sothern Show (1959);
Rawhide (1959); Pursuit (1958); The Millionaire (1958); Richard Diamond,
Private Detective (1958); Studio One (1958); Climax! (1955–1957); The Eve Arden
Show (1957); Studio 57 (1954–1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957); Strange
Stories (1956); Lux Video Theatre (1955–1956); TV Reader's Digest (1956); Celebrity
Playhouse (1956); Shower of Stars (1955); The Star and the Story (1955); Jane
Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); The
Seven Year Itch (1955); City Detective (1953–1955); The Whistler (1955); Private
Secretary (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1954); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1954);
Your Play Time (1954); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); Hollywood Opening
Night (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Fireside Theatre (1953); Chevron
Theatre (1952–1953); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Sea Tiger (1952); Man Bait
(1952); Your Show of Shows (1951–1953); Flight to Mars (1951); The Bigelow
Theatre (1951); Kansas Raiders (1950); The Green Promise (1949); The Gallant
Blade (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Relentless (1948); Mr. District Attorney
(1947); Rough But Hopeful (1946); The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946); One Way
to Love (1946); Pardon My Past (1945); Counter-Attack (1945); Strange Affair
(1944); My Kingdom for a Cook (1943); Destroyer (1943); Appointment in Berlin
(1943); Times Square (1943); One Dangerous Night (1942); The Daring Young Man
(1942); The Spirit of Stanford (1942); A Man's World (1942); Parachute Nurse
(1942); Submarine Raider (1942); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Spy Smasher (1942); The
Playgirls (1942); You're in the Army Now (1941); West of the Rockies (1941); The
Body Disappears (1941); Navy Blues (1941); The Great Lie (1941); A Girl, a Guy,
and a Gob (1941); Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940); Four Sons (1940); On
Their Own (1940).
Born on this day – Mickey Spillane:
Mickey
Spillane
Writer
Actor
March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006
Credits:
Books:
A Century of Great
Suspense Stories (2001); A Century of Noir (2002); A Dangerous Cat (2017); A
Long Time Dead (2016); An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012); An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012);
Black Alley (1996); Bloody Sunrise (1965); Book Club (2014); Book Club (2014); Citadel
(2016); Citadel (2016); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Complex 90 (2013); Condor
in the Stacks (2015); Condor in the Stacks (2015); Crimes by Moonlight (2010); Day
of the Guns (1964); Dead Dames Don't Sing (2016); Dead Dames Don't Sing (2016);
Dead Street (2007); Death Leaves a Bookmark (2012); Death Leaves a Bookmark (2012);
Dig Two Graves (2023); Every Seven Years (2015); Every Seven Years (2015); From
the Queen (2015); From the Queen (2015); From the Queen (2015); Hoodoo Harry (2017);
Hoodoo Harry (2017); Hot Lead, Cold Justice (2020); I, the Jury (1947); It's in
the Book (2014); It's in the Book (2014); Kill Me If You Can (2022); Kill Me,
Darling (2015); Killer Mine (1965); Killing Town (2018); King of the Weeds (2014);
Kiss Her Goodbye (2009); Kiss Me, Deadly (1952); Lady, Go Die! (2012); Last
Stage to Hell Junction (2019); Masquerade for Murder (2020); Masters of Noir,
Volume One (2010); Me, Hood! (1963); Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #1 (2018); Mickey
Spillane's Mike Hammer #2 (2018); Murder Never Knocks (2016); Murder, My Love (2019);
My Gun Is Quick (1950); Mystery, Inc. (2015); Mystery, Inc. (2015); One Lonely
Night (1951); Private Eyes (1998); Pronghorns of the Third Reich (2012); Pulp
Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Reconciliation Day (2016); Reconciliation
Day (2016); Remaindered (2014); Remaindered (2014); Return of the Hood (1964); Rides
a Stranger (2013); Rides a Stranger (2013); Seven Years (2018); Shoot-Out at
Sugar Creek (2021); Skin (2012); So Long, Chief (2013); Something's Down There (2003);
Stand Up and Die! (2022); Survival... Zero (1970); The Best American Mystery
Stories 2011 (2011); The Big Bang (2010); The Big Kill (1951); The Big Showdown
(2016); The Bloody Spur (2018); The Body Lovers (1967); The Book Case (2012); The
Book of Ghosts (2013); The Book of the Lion (2015); The Book of Virtue (2012); The
Book Thing (2012); The By-Pass Control (1966); The Caxton Private Lending
Library & Book Depository (2018); The Compendium of Srem (2014); The
Consummata (2011); The Dark Door (2022); The Day the Sea Rolled Back (1979); The
Death Dealers (1966); The Deep (1961); The Delta Factor (1968); The Erection
Set (1972); The Final Testament (2013); The Flier (1964); The Girl Hunters (1962);
The Girl Who Did Say No (2020); The Goliath Bone (2008); The Gospel of Sheba (2014);
The Haze (2016); The Hemingway Valise (2018); The Honeymoon Trap (2022); The
Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction (2012); The Killing Man (1989); The
Last Cop Out (1973); The Last Honest Horse Thief (2018); The Last Stand (2018);
The Legend of Caleb York (2015); The Little Men (2015); The Long Sonata of the
Dead (2013); The Long Wait (1951); The Menace (2022); The Nature of My
Inheritance (2014); The Pretty Little Box (2018); The Scroll (2014); The Sequel
(2014); The Ship That Never Was (1982); The Snake (1964); The Tough Guys (1969);
The Traitor (2022); The Travelling Companion (2016); The Twisted Thing (1966); The
Will to Kill (2017); Tomorrow I Die (1984); Vengeance is Mine (1950); Vintage
Spillane (1974).
Movies and television:
Mike Hammer, Private Eye
(1997–1998); Mommy's Day (1997); Fallen Angels (1995); Mommy (1995); Come Die
with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery (1994); Mike Hammer: Murder
Takes All (1989); The New Mike Hammer (1984–1987); More Than Murder (1984); Murder
Me, Murder You (1983); I, the Jury (1982); Margin for Murder (1981); Miller
Lite: Tastes Great, Less Filling (1976–1986); Columbo (1974); The Delta Factor
(1970); The Girl Hunters (1963); Mike Hammer (1958–1959); My Gun Is Quick (1957);
Kiss Me Deadly (1955); Mickey Spillane's 'Mike Hammer!' (1954); Ring of Fear
(1954); The Long Wait (1954); I, the Jury (1953).
Born on this day – Samuel Barber:
Samuel Barber
Composer
Pianist
Conductor
Baritone
Teacher
March 9, 1910 –
January 23, 1981
Credits:
Compositions:
[First] Essay for
Orchestra, Op. 12, 1937; 2nd movement revised as Night Flight, Op. 19a, 1964; A
Hand of Bridge, opera in 1 act, 1953; A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15,
1940; Adagio for Strings, [arr. of 2nd movement of String Quartet], Op. 11,
1938; Agnus Dei, Op. 11, 1967; Andromache's Farewell, Op. 39, 1963; Antony and
Cleopatra, opera in 3 acts after Shakespeare, 1966; arr. as orchestral Suite,
1947; Ballade, piano, Op. 46, 1977; Canzone (elegy), flute and piano, Op. 38a,
1961; Canzonetta, Op. 48 [posth.], 1981; Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21, 1944; Cello
Concerto, Op. 22, 1945; Cello Sonata, Op. 6, 1932; Despite and Still: A Last
Song, Op. 41, 1968-9; Die Natali, chorale preludes for Christmas, Op. 37, 1960;
Dover Beach, Op. 3, 1933; Excursions, Op. 20, 1942-4; Fadograph of a Yestern
Scene (after Joyce, Finnegans Wake), Op. 44, 1971; Four Songs, Op. 13, 1941; Hermit
Songs, Op. 29, 1952-3; Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, 1947; Medea / Serpent
Heart, ballet, Op. 23, 1946; Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op.
23a, 1953; Melodies passagères, Op. 27, 1950-51; Music for a Scene from Shelly,
Op. 7, 1933; Nocturne (Homage to John Field), piano, Op. 33, 1959; Nuvoletta,
Op. 25, 1947; Piano Concerto, Op. 38, 1962; Prayers of Kirkegaard, Op. 30, 1954;
Reincarnations, Op. 16, 1937-40; Rev. as The Cave of the Heart 1947; Second
Essay, Op. 17, 1942; Serenade, string quartet/string orchestra, Op. 1, 1930; Solo
Instrumental; Sonata, piano, Op. 26, 1949; Souvenirs, ballet, 1955; Stille
Nacht [arrangement of Silent Night from Die natali], Op. 37, 1960; String
Quartet, Op. 11, 1936; Summer Music, wind quintet, Op. 31, 1956; Symphony [No.
1] in One Movement, Op. 9, 1936; Symphony No. 2, Op. 19, 1944; The Lovers, Op.
43, 1971; The School for Scandal, Op. 5, 1931-3; The Virgin Martyrs, Op. 8/1-2,
1936; Three Songs (Joyce), Op. 10, 1935; Three Songs, Op. 45, 1972; Toccata
festiva, Op. 36, 1960; Twelfth Night, Op. 42, 1968; Two Songs, Op. 18, 1942; Vanessa,
opera in 4 acts, 1956-7; Violin Concerto, Op. 14, 1939; Violin Sonata, Op. 4,
1928.
Movies and television:
20 Feet from Stardom / Sure
On This Shining Night (2013); A Hand of Bridge (2017); A Midsummer Night's
Dream (2019); A Nightmare on Sesame Street (1987); A Very Natural Thing (1974);
Agnes Day (2009); Agnes Day (2009); Amélie (2001); American Dad! (2009); Antony
& Cleopatra (1991); Antony & Cleopatra (1991); Artemis: The Neverending
Quartet (2020); At Home with the Braithwaites (2001); Bodies (2023); Bravetown
(2015); Camera Three (1971); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); Celeste
(1991); Dancing Daze (1986); Donny (2013); Dudamel and the LA Phil Return to
the Bowl (2021); El armario (2000); El Norte (1983); ER (1995); Experimenter / Knoxville:
Summer of 1915 (2015); Falling for You (1995); Fermeture de l'usine Renault Ã
Vilvoorde (La vie sexuelle des Belges, 3e partie) (1999); Ficció (2006); Hammarskjöld
(2023); Happiness (1998); Himizu (2011); How I Met Your Mother (2010–2014); In
My Room (2018); Jojo in the Stars (2003); Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000); Liubi
(2005); Lorenzo's Oil (1992); Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (2022); Ma mère
(2004); Medea (1954); Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie (2023); Misfits
(2010); Moments Without Proper Names (1987); New World Symphony Wallcast Tm
Concert 4 (2013); Nostalgia Critic (2011); Omnibus opera (2016); On Any
Saturday (2008); One Symphony Place: A World Premiere Live from Music City (2006);
Outlander (2019); Peace One Day (2004); Platoon (1986); Processen (2003); Reconstruction
(2003); Red Dwarf (1999); Rusanne (2018); S1m0ne (2002); Sam & Barb's
School for Scandal (2016); Samuel Barber in Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
(2017); Seinfeld (1996); Sicko (2007); Skate Boys (2015); So You Think You Can
Dance (2012); South Park (2004); Spaced (1999–2001); Swimming Upstream (2003); Tenacious
D in the Pick of Destiny (2006); The Ark of Madness (2007); The Bell Telephone
Hour (1959); The Bonds of Springtime (2013); The Choir: Unsung Town (2009); The
Cine-Masochist (2015); The Deep Blue Sea (2011); The Elephant Man (1980); The
Grand Tour (2016); The Horse (1973); The Hunters (1996); The Man with the
Wooden Face (2017); The Scarlet Letter (1995); The Simpsons (2003–2017); To
Stay Alive: A Method (2016); Top Gear (2008); Vanessa (1978 / 2001 / 2019); Wasteland
(2012); Where the Smiling Ends (2004); Wild Reeds (1994).
Born on this day – Vita Sackville-West:
Vita Sackville-West
Writer
Garden designer
March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962
All Passion Spent (1931);
All Passion Spent / Return of the Soldier / Two Days in Aragon (1987); Andrew
Marvell (1933); Aphra Behn (1927); Berkeley Castle (1989); Challenge (1923); Country
Notes (1940); Devil at Westease (1947); English Country Houses (1996); Even
More for Your Garden (1958); Faces: Profiles of Dogs (1961); Family History
(1932); Grand Canyon (1942); Grey Wethers (1923); Heir (1922); Heritage (1918);
In Your Garden (1951); In Your Garden Again (1953); Joy of Gardening (1960); King's
Daughter (1929); Knole and the Sackvilles (1922); Love Letters (2021); More for
Your Garden (1955); No Signposts in the Sea (1960); Orchard and Vineyard (1921);
Passenger to Teheran (1926); Pepita (1937); Poems of West and East (1917); Saint
Joan of Arc (1936); Seducers in Ecuador (1924); Selected Poems (1941); Selected
Writings (2002); Some Flowers (1937); The Dark Island (1934); The Death of
Noble Godavary and Gottfried Kuenstler (1932); The Dragon in Shallow Waters
(1921); The Eagle and the Dove (1943); The Easter Party (1953); The Edwardians
(1930); The Garden (1946); The Illustrated Garden Book (1986); The Land (1926);
The Land and The Garden (1989); The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia
Woolf (1984); The Women's Land Army (1993); Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour (1932);
Twelve Days (1987); Vita and Harold (1992); Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst
(2014); Weather in the Streets / All Passion Spent / Frost in May (1994).
Stan Lee, on writing:
To me, writing is fun.
It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.
- Stan Lee.
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