On this day in music history - Poèmes, by Renée Fleming (2012):

The album Poèmes,

by Renée Fleming,

was released on February 20, 2012.

On this day in movie history - The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947):

The Devil Thumbs a Ride,

directed and written by Felix E. Feist,

based on the novel by Robert C. DuSoe,

was released in the United States on February 20, 1947.
Music by Paul Sawtell and Roy Webb.

Cast:
Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford, Andrew Tombes, Harry Shannon, Glen Vernon, Marian Carr, William Gould, Josephine Whittell, Phil Warren, Robert Malcolm, Arthur Q. Bryan, Roger Creed, Harry Depp, George Dockstader, Dick Edwards, Sarah Edwards, Dick Elliott, Carl Faulkner, Lee Frederick, Raoul Freeman, Dorothy Granger, Chuck Hamilton, William Joy, Perc Launders, Bert LeBaron, Lee Phelps, Tom Pilkington, Victor Potel, Harry Raven, John Roy, Dick Rush, Cy Slocum, Tex Swan, Minerva Urecal.

Born on this day – Kurt Cobain:

Kurt Cobain

Musician

Singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994

Born on this day – Brion James:

Brion James

Actor

February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999

Born on this day – Sidney Poitier:

Sidney Poitier

Actor

Director

Diplomat

February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022

Credits:

The Last Brickmaker in America (2001); The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999); David and Lisa (1998); Free of Eden (1998); The Jackal: Alternate Ending (1998); The Jackal (1997); Mandela and de Klerk (1997); To Sir, with Love II (1996); Children of the Dust (1995); Sneakers (1992); Separate But Equal (1991); Little Nikita (1988); Shoot to Kill (1988); A Piece of the Action (1977); Let's Do It Again (1975); The Wilby Conspiracy (1975); Uptown Saturday Night (1974); A Warm December (1973); Buck and the Preacher (1972); The Organization (1971); Brother John (1971); They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970); The Lost Man (1969); For Love of Ivy (1968); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); In the Heat of the Night (1967); To Sir, with Love (1967); Duel at Diablo (1966); A Patch of Blue (1965); The Slender Thread (1965); The Bedford Incident (1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Long Ships (1964); Lilies of the Field (1963); Pressure Point (1962); Paris Blues (1961); A Raisin in the Sun (1961); All the Young Men (1960); Porgy and Bess (1959); Our Virgin Island (1958); The Defiant Ones (1958); The Mark of the Hawk (1957); Band of Angels (1957); Something of Value (1957); Edge of the City (1957); Good-bye, My Lady (1956); Kraft Theatre (1952–1955); Ponds Theater (1955); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Go Man Go (1954); Omnibus (segment entitled The Bad Men) (1952); Red Ball Express (1952); CBS Television Workshop (1952); Cry, the Beloved Country (1951); No Way Out (1950); Sepia Cinderella (1947).

Born on this day – Richard Matheson:

Richard Matheson

Writer

February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013

Credits:

65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); 7 Steps to Midnight (1993); A Primer of Reality (2002); A Stir of Echoes (1958); Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002); American Pulp (1997); Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Bloodlines (2006); Button, Button: Uncanny Stories (2007); By the Gun (1994); California Sorcery (1999); Camp Pleasant (2001); Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (1989); Collected Stories, Vol. 2 (2005); Collected Stories, Vol. 3 (2005); Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003); Comedy of Terrors (1964); Completely Doomed (2007); Darker Places (2004); Duel — Horror Stories of the Road (1987); Duel (1971); Earthbound (1982); Flight or Fright (2018); Fury on Sunday (1953); Generations (2012); Great Black Magic Stories (1974); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead (2011); Hell House (1971); Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror (1989); Hunger and Thirst (2000); Hunted Past Reason (2002); I Am Legend / The Omega Man (1954); If This Goes On (1965); Journal of the Gun Years (1991); Kiss the Whip (2005); Kolchak Scripts (2003); Kolchak the Night Stalker Volume 1 (2004); Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor (1982); Leave Yesterday Alone (2013); Masques V (2006); Mediums Rare (2000); Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1961); Now You See It... (1995); Off Beat: Uncollected Stories (2020); Other Kingdoms (2011); Passion Play (2000); Pride (2002); Richard Matheson Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales (2011); Ride the Nightmare (1959); Road Rage (2012); Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master (1995); Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987); Rod Serling's Other Worlds (1978); Second Annual Collection (1989); Shadow on the Sun (1994); Shock!: Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify (1961); Shock II: Thirteen Tales to Haunt the Imagination (1964); Shock III (1966); Shock Waves (1970); Slaughter House (1953); Someone is Bleeding (1953); Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return (1975); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5 (1972); Steel and Other Stories (2011); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Taps and Sighs (2000); The Beardless Warriors of World War II (1960); The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1988); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); The Box (2008); The Dead That Walk (2009); The Devil's Generation (1973); The Gun Fight (1993); The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Shrinking Man (1956); The Link (2006); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012); The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (1996); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Night Stalker (1973); The Night Strangler (1974); The Path (1993); The Richard Matheson Companion (2007); The Shores of Space (1957); The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013); The Twilight Zone (2017); The Twilight Zone Scripts (1998); The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams (1990); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); Third from the Sun: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1954); Unrealized Dreams (2005); Visions Deferred (2009); Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 (2007); What Dreams May Come (1978); Woman / Third from the Sun / Born of Man (1954).

Born on this day – Robert Altman:

Robert Altman

Director

Writer

Producer

Actor

February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006

Credits:

3 Women (1977); A Perfect Couple (1979); A Prairie Home Companion (2006); A Wedding (1978); Afterglow (1997); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1958); Aria (1987); Basements (1987); Better Football (1954); Beyond Therapy (1987); Bodyguard (1948); Bonanza (1960–1961); Brewster McCloud (1970); Bronco (1960); Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976); Bus Stop (1961–1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); California Split (1974); Christmas Eve (1947); Combat! (1962–1963); Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982); Cookie's Fortune (1999); Corn's-A-Poppin' (1955); Countdown (1967); Dr. T & the Women (2000); Endless Love (1981); Events (1970); Fool for Love (1985); Gosford Park (2001); Great Performances (1993–1996); Gun (1997); Hawaiian Eye (1959); HealtH (1980); Honeymoon for Harriet (1950); How to Run a Filling Station (1953); Images (1972); John Bromfield in U.S. Marshal (1959–1960); Kansas City (1996); Killer App (1998); King Basketball (1952); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1962–1964); Lawman (1961); Liv (1998); M Squad (1958); M*A*S*H (1970); Maverick (1960); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); Modern Football (1951); Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994); Nashville (1975); Nightmare in Chicago (1964); O.C. and Stiggs (1985); Peter Gunn (1961); Popeye (1980); Pot au feu (1967); Precious Blood (1982); Premiere (1968); Quintet (1979); Rattlesnake in a Cooler (1982); Ready to Wear (1994); Remember My Name (1978); Rich Kids (1979); Roads and Bridges (2001); Route 66 (1961); Saturday Night Live / Sissy's Roles (1977); Secret Honor (1984); Short Cuts (1993); Short Cuts: Deleted Scenes (2004); Streamers (1983); Sugarfoot (1959–1960); Surfside 6 (1961); Suspicion (1957); Tanner '88 (1988); Tanner on Tanner (2004); That Cold Day in the Park (1969); The Builders (1954); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988); The Company (2003); The Delinquents (1957); The Dirty Look (1954); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1960); The Gallant Men (1962); The Gingerbread Man (1998); The James Dean Story (1957); The Katherine Reed Story (1965); The Last Mile (1953); The Late Show (1977); The Laundromat (1985); The Long Goodbye (1973); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Magic Bond (1956); The Man from Blackhawk (1960); The Millionaire (1958–1959); The Party (1964); The Perfect Crime (1955); The Player (1992); The Pulse of the City (1953); The Roaring 20's (1960–1961); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Sound of Bells (1952); Thieves Like Us (1974); Trixie (2000); Troubleshooters (1959); Vincent and Theo (1990); Welcome to L.A. (1976); Whirlybirds (1958–1959).

Born on this day – Ansel Adams:

Ansel Adams

Photographer

Environmentalist

February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984

Burton Rascoe, on writers:

A writer is working when looking out the window.

- Burton Rascoe.