Born on this day – Harlan Ellison:

Harlan Ellison

Writer

May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018

Credits:

Books:

A Boy and His Dog (1969); A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Piece of the Action (1978); A Taste of Armageddon (1978); A Touch of Infinity (1959); Again, Dangerous Visions (1972); Again, Dangerous Visions 2 (1973); Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2014); Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2014); Alien Sex (1990); All Our Yesterdays (1978); All the Lies That Are My Life (1980); All the Sounds of Fear (1973); Alone Against Tomorrow (1972); Amok Time (1978); An Edge in My Voice (1985); Andromeda 1 (1976); Andromeda 2 (1977); Andromeda 3 (1978); Angry Candy (1988); Approaching Oblivion (1974); Balm in Gilead - Salves from the Souk of Imagination (2007); Best New Horror 2 (1991); Best New Horror 5 (1994); Best New Horror 6 (1995); Blood Is Not Enough (2019); Blood's a Rover (2019); Borderlands 1 (1990); Brain Movies, Volume 1 (2011); Brain Movies, Volume 2 (2011); Brain Movies, Volume 3 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 4 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 5 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 6 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 7 (2019); Brain Movies, Volume 8 (2019); Can & Can'tankerous (2015); Chatting with Anubis (1995); Children of the Streets / The Juvies (1961); Chrysalis 1 (1977); Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 (1977); Crucified Dreams (2011); Cthulhu 2000 (1995); Dangerous Visions (1967); Dangerous Visions 3 (1967); Dante's Disciples (1991); Dark Destiny (1994); Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate (1991); Dark Terrors 2 (1996); Darker Terrors 7 (2016); Day of the Dove (1978); Deathbird Stories (1975); Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 (1988); Dimensions of Harlan Ellison (2019); Doomsman (1972); Dream Corridor 1 (1996); Dream Corridor 2 (2007); Dream Corridor Quarterly (1996); Dream Corridor Special (1995); Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2009); Ellison Wonderland (1962); Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (2012); Fear the Abyss (2012); Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974); First Annual Collection (1988); Footsteps (1989); Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001); From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet (2001); From the Land of Fear (1967); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Gentleman Junkie (1961); Getting in the Wind (1959); Great Fantasy (1983); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Greatest Hits (2024); Hanukkah Lights of Stories and Narrative About Hanukkah (1995); Harlan 101 (2011); Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos (2013); Harlan Ellison's Movie (2010); Harlan Ellison's Watching (1988); Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town (1997); Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2013); Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror (1989); I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967); I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay (1987); In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998); Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990 (1990); Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper (1975); Jeffty Is Five (1977); Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King (1986); Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land (2013); Lone Star Universe (1976); Lore: A Quaint and Curious Volume of Selected Stories (2011); Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968); Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers, Vol. 11 (2011); Medea (1985); Mefisto in Onyx (1987); Memos From Purgatory (1961); Metamorphosis (1978); More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 (1973); Murder Plus (1992); Nebula Awards 13 (1980); Nebula Awards 41 2007 (2007); Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007); Night and the Enemy (1987); No Doors, No Windows (1975); None of the Above (2012); Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2014); Over the Edge (1970); Paingod and Other Delusions (1965); Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985); Partners in Wonder (1971); Phoenix Without Ashes (1975); Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967); Pulling a Train (2012); "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965); Rough Beasts (2012); Run for the Stars (2006); Season of Wonder (2012); Seventh Annual Collection (1994); Sex Gang (1959); Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012); Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2015); Shatterday (1980); Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores (2002); She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother (2003); Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016); Six Science Fiction Plays (1975); Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (1984); Slippage (1997); Soft Monkey (1987); Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009); Spider Kiss (1961); Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare (1996); Stalking the Nightmare (1982); Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980); Strange Wine (1978); Study War No More (1977); Summer Chills (2007); Ten Tales (1994); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1968); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series (1973); The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others (2003); The City on the Edge of Forever (1977); The Dark Void (1987); The Deadly Streets (1958); The Deathbird (1973); The Ellison Treatment (2019); The Ephemeral Ellison (2019); The Essential Ellison (1985); The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979); The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983); The Function of Dream Sleep (1988); The Galileo 7 (1978); The Giant Book of Best New Horror (1993); The Glass Teat (1970); The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990); The Horror Hall of Fame (1991); The Illustrated Harlan Ellison (1978); The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem (1994); The Last Dangerous Visions (2024); The Living Dead (2008); The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988 (1988); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2001 (2001); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1985 (1985); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989 (1989); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 (1999); The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006); The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1988); The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories (2019); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); The Man with 9 Lives (1959); The Other Glass Teat (1975); The Outer Limits, Volume One (1996); The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 (2009); The Region Between (1970); The Thinking Machine (1905); The Time of the Eye (1971); The Top of the Volcano (2014); The Trouble with Tribbles (1977); The Ultimate Undead (1993); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 (1986); The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V (1977); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Troublemakers (2001); Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985 (1985); Vic and Blood (1988); Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1973); Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s (2013); Web of the City (1958); Weird Heroes Volume 2 (1975); Working Without a Net (2020).

Movies and television:

2065 (2018); 40 Years of Star Trek (2006); 90 Minutes Live (1977–1978); A Boy and His Dog (1975); A Boy and His Dog; All Things Shining (2012); An Evening with Sharp Teeth (2009); Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023); Babylon 5 (1993–1998); Babylon 5 (1996–1998); Babylon 5 (1998); Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999); Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998); Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998); Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998); Back on Earth? (2013); Biography (1995); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (1994); Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man (2010); Cimarron Strip (1968); Circle of Fear (1973); Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams (2018); Dark Dreamers (2011); Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008); Fantasy Film Festival (1980); Historias para no dormir (1966); History's Mysteries (1999); I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995); In Conversation: Director L.Q. Jones & Writer Harlan Ellison (2013); Jackpot (1980); Kobresia: Fragments (2011); Last Sunset (2012); Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman (2005); Logan's Run (1977); Love, Death & Robots (2021); Masters of Fantasy (1998); Masters of Science Fiction (2007); Naked Hollywood (1991); NPRmageddon (2023); Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike (2014); Pizza with Mr. Harlan Ellison and Mr. Neil Gaiman (2009); Politically Incorrect (1999); Prisoners of Gravity (1990–1993); Prophets of Science Fiction (2012); PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1999); Ripcord (1963); Route 66 (1963); Science Future Science Fiction (2002); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013); Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005); Silver Surfer (1998); Since '45 - In the Extraordinary House of History (2017); Since '45 (1979); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek Phase II (2004–2007); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); Tales from the Darkside (1985); Television: The Enchanted Mirror (1981); Television: The Ultimate Drug (1981); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Anti Gravity Room (1995–1997); The Comet Chronicles (2011); The Delivery (2008); The Flying Nun (1968); The Godson (1971); The History of the SF Film (1982); The Hunger (1998); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2013); The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (1998); The Late Show (1989); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966–1967); The Masters of Comic Book Art (1987); The Mike Douglas Show (1962); The Oscar (1966); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outer Limits / The Human Operators (1999–2002); The Overstreet World of Comic Books (1993); The Pirates of Dark Water (1992–1993); The Simpsons (2014); The Sixth Sense (1972); The Starlost (1973–1974); The Starlost: Deception (1980); The Starlost: The Beginning (1980); The Terminator (1984); The Twilight Zone (1985–1989); The Young Lawyers (1971); 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (2006); To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1976); Try a Dull Knife (1992); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010).

Born on this day – Merry Anders:

Merry Anders

Actress

May 22, 1934 – October 28, 2012

Credits:

Intimate Portrait (2002); Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny (1995); Reginald LeBorg - Man nannte mich den Alleskönner (1987); Gunsmoke (1971); Will to Die (1971); Airport (1970); Lassie (1967–1968); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1968); Flight of the Cougar (1967); The Magical World of Disney (1966); Never Too Young (1965–1966); Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966); Get Smart (1966); Tickle Me (1965); Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964); Young Fury (1964); The Time Travelers (1964); The Addams Family (1964); The Virginian (1964); The Quick Gun (1964); Perry Mason (1961–1964); A Tiger Walks (1964); Arrest and Trial (1964); The Joey Bishop Show (1963–1964); Police Nurse (1963); House of the Damned (1963); The Jack Benny Program (1963); FBI Code 98 (1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1962); Death Valley Days (1952); Air Patrol (1962); Beauty and the Beast (1962); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1962); Patty (1962); Straightaway (1962); Westinghouse Preview Theatre (1961); Ichabod and Me (1961); Maverick (1960–1961); The Bob Cummings Show (1961); Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Secret of Deep Harbor (1961); 20,000 Eyes (1961); When the Clock Strikes (1961); Michael Shayne (1961); The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961); Bringing Up Buddy (1961); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960–1961); Police Dog Story (1961); Surfside 6 (1961); The Loretta Young Show (1955–1961); Bronco (1960–1961); Spring Affair (1960); The Walking Target (1960); Cheyenne (1957–1960); Young Jesse James (1960); Five Bold Women (1960); Bonanza (1960); ; The Hypnotic Eye (1960); Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade of the Stars (1960); The Real McCoys (1959); Sugarfoot (1957–1959); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); How to Marry a Millionaire (1957–1959); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); Mike Hammer (1959); State Trooper (1959); Decision (1958); Violent Road (1958); The Dalton Girls (1957); Broken Arrow (1957); Hear Me Good (1957); The Bob Cummings Show (1957); Escape from San Quentin (1957); Death in Small Doses (1957); No Time to Be Young (1957); Calypso Heat Wave (1957); Desk Set (1957); The Night Runner (1957); The Millionaire (1956); Matinee Theatre (1956); It's Always Jan (1955–1956); All That Heaven Allows (1955); TV Reader's Digest (1955); The Stu Erwin Show (1954–1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); Phffft (1954); Public Defender (1954); Princess of the Nile (1954); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953); Titanic (1953); Les Miserables (1952); Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Golden Girl (1951).

Born on this day – Elizabeth Rogers:

Elizabeth Rogers

Actress

May 18, 1934 – November 6, 2004

Credits:

A Sensitive, Passionate Man (1977); Adventures of the Queen (1975); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); Bewitched (1971); Bittersweet Love (1976); Bonanza (1965–1967); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dragnet 1966 (1969); Dragnet 1967 (1968); Falcon Crest (1984); Flood (1976); Goldie and the Boxer (1979); Grand Theft Auto (1977); Gunsmoke (1966); Hanging by a Thread (1979); Lacy and the Mississippi Queen (1978); Land of the Giants (1969); Little House on the Prairie (1981); Mannix (1969); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970); Medical Center (1970); Outrage! (1986); Slattery’s People (1965); Something Evil (1972); Star Trek (1967–1969); The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1980); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Swarm (1978); The Time Tunnel (1966); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Van (1977); The Waltons (1975); The Yellow Rose (1984).

On this day in movie history - Manhattan Melodrama (1934):

Manhattan Melodrama

directed by W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway and George Cukor,

written by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

based on a story by Arthur Caesar, Frank Dolan and Donald Ogden Stewart,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1934.
Music by William Axt.

Cast:

Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Isabel Jewell, Muriel Evans, Thomas E. Jackson, Isabelle Keith, Frank Conroy, Noel Madison, Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Ross.

On this day in movie history - The Black Cat (1934):

The Black Cat

directed by Edgar G. Ulmer,

written by Eve Greene and Richard Macaulay,

based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe,

was released in the United States on May 3, 1934.
Music by Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher, Harry Cording, Lucille Lund, Henry Armetta, Albert Conti, Virginia Ainsworth, Luis Alberni, King Baggot, Herman Bing, Symona Boniface, John Carradine, André Cheron, George Davis, Andy Devine, Anna Duncan, John George, Rodney Hildebrand, Lois January, Ula Love, Michael Mark, Tony Marlow, Alphonse Martell, Paul Panzer, Albert Pollet, Peggy Terry, Harry Walker, Paul Weigel.

Born on this day – Lois Duncan:

Lois Duncan

Writer

April 28, 1934 – June 15, 2016

Credits:

Books:

A Gift of Magic (1960); A Promise for Joyce (1959); Daughters of Eve (1979); Debutante Hill (1958); Don't Look Behind You (1989); Down a Dark Hall (1974); From Spring to Spring (1982); Gallows Hill (1997); Game of Danger (1962); Hotel for Dogs (1971); I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973); I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); Killing Mr. Griffin (1978); Locked in Time (1985); Love Song for Joyce (1958); Movie for Dogs (2010); News For Dogs (2009); Night Terrors (1996); On the Edge (1997); Peggy (1970); Point of Violence (1966); Ransom / aka Five Were Missing (1966); Season of the Two - Heart (1964); Seasons of the Heart (2007); Songs From Dreamland (1989); Stranger with My Face (1981); Summer of Fear (1976); Terrible Tales of the Happy Days School (1983); The Middle Sister (1962); The Third Eye / aka The Eyes of Karen Connors (1984); The Twisted Window (1987); They Never Came Home (1969); When the Bough Breaks (1973); Written In The Stars (2014).

Movies and television:

A Home for Everyone: The Making of 'Hotel for Dogs' (2009); Don't Look Behind You (1999); Down a Dark Hall (2018); Held for Ransom (2000); Hotel for Dogs (2009); I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997 / 2021 / 2021); I Know What You Did Last Summer: Alternate Ending (2022); I Know What You Did Last Summer: Deleted Scenes (2022); I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006); I've Been Waiting for You (1998); Killing Mr. Griffin (1997); Sightings (1992); Stranger with My Face (2009); Summer of Fear (1978); The Bikini Open 8 (1992); The Generation Why Podcast (2014); Unsolved Mysteries (1992).

On this day in movie history - The Woman Condemned (1934):

The Woman Condemned

directed by Dorothy Davenport,

written by Willis Kent,

was released in the United States on April 4, 1934.
Music by Lee Zahler.

Cast:

Claudia Dell, Lola Lane, Richard Hemingway, Jason Robards Sr., Paul Ellis, Douglas Cosgrove, Mischa Auer, Sheila Bromley, Louise Beavers, Tom O'Brien, Neal Pratt, Charles Doherty, Mary Gordon, Julia Griffith, Lindsay McHarrie, Eva McKenzie, Fletcher Norton, Hal Price, Charles Sullivan.

Born on this day – Richard Chamberlain:

Richard Chamberlain

Actor

Singer

Producer

March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025

Credits:

Book:

Shattered Love: A Memoir (2003).

Music:

All I Have to Do Is Dream (1963); Blue Guitar / They Long to Be Close to You (1963); Bride-Finding Ball (1976); Haleakala: How Maui Snared The Sun (Tone Poem) (1991); He Danced With Me / She Danced With Me (1976); Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo (1963); I Will Love You (1963); Joy in the Morning (1964); Love Me Tender (1962); Rome Will Never Leave You (1964); Secret Kingdom (1976); Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight) (1962); True Love (1963); What a Comforting Thing to Know (1976); Why Can't I Be Two People? (1976).

Movies and television:

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); 20th Century Fox Presents... A Tribute to Darryl F. Zanuck (1974); 39th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1982); A Man and a River (1973); A Thunder of Drums (1961); ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2003); Actors Entertainment (2010); Actors Reporter Interviews (2010); AFI Life Achievement Award (1984–1986); After They Were Famous (2005); Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959 / 1986); All the Winters That Have Been (1997); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986); Arthur Freed's Hollywood Melody (1962); At This Very Moment (1962); Autumn Ball (2007); Awakening World (2012); Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991); Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Biography (1995–1997); Bird of Prey (1995); Blackbeard (2006); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Brothers & Sisters (2010–2011); Buffalo Soldiers (2001); Caiga quien caiga (1997); Casanova (1987); Centennial (1978–1979); Champs-Elysées (1988); Chuck (2010); Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983); Coucou c'est nous! (1994); Dateline (1961–1977); Dee Time (1968); Desperate Housewives (2007); Die größten TV-Hits aller Zeiten - Die größten Kultserien (2004); Die Peter Alexander Show (1994); Dinah! (1975–1976); Dinah's Place (1972); Dr. Kildare (1961–1966); Dream West (1986); Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (2020); Endangered Hawaii (2000); Entertainment Tonight (1981–2007); F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'the Last of the Belles' (1974); Film '78 (1978); Film Night (1969–1973); Finding Julia (2019); Finite Water (2019); Gottschalks Haus-Party (1996); Great Performances (1978); Greed and Wildlife: Poaching in America (1989); Ground Zero (1999); Gunsmoke (1960); Gylne tider (2006–2007); Hawaii: Paradise in Peril (1993); Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey (2014); Hold On: It's the Dave Clark Five (1968); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hustle (2006); I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007); Inside 'the Swarm' (1978); Island Son (1989–1990); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); Ja niin joulu joutui... (1992); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); John & Leeza from Hollywood (1993); Joy in the Morning (1965); Julius Caesar (1970); Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015); King Solomon's Mines (1985); Krueger: Tales from Elm Street (2011 / 2017); La tele de tu vida (2007); Lachen mit Peter Alexander (2021); Lady Caroline Lamb (1972); L'antre du Mea (2023); Larry King Live (2003); Les Chroniques du Mea (2021); Leverage (2010–2012); March of Dimes Presents: Once Upon a Dime (1963); Matin Bonheur (1995); McLean and Company (1970); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Miss World 1967 (1967); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Mr. Lucky (1960); Murder by Phone (1982); Musical Comedy Tonight (1979); Na sowas! (1986); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of the Hunter (1991); Nightmare Cinema / Segment: Mirari (2018); Nip/Tuck (2006); Ordeal in the Arctic (1993); Perry Como's Christmas in the Holy Land (1980); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1965); Petulia (1968); Petulia: The Uncommon Movie (1968); Pioneers of Television (2013–2014); Rebildfest 1990 (1990); Rescue 8 (1960); Retrosexual: The 80's (2004); River Made to Drown In (1997); River Song: A Natural History of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon (1987); Riverboat (1960); Sacrée soirée (1990–1994); Scoundrels, Scallywags, and Scurvy Knaves (2006); Shogun (1980); So Graham Norton (2000); Spirit of Evolution (2025); Strength and Honour (2007); The 10th Annual People's Choice Awards (1984); The 15th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1963); The 1975 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1975); The 20th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1963); The 23rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1966); The 2nd Commitment to Life AIDS Project Benefit (1986); The 30th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1973); The 32nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1975); The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987); The 42nd Annual Tony Awards (1988); The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1986 (1986); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 4th Annual TV Land Awards (2006); The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The Andy Williams Show (1965); The Arsenio Hall Show (1989); The Astronomers (1991); The Black Ghiandola (2017); The Bob Hope Show (1963–1964); The Bob Hope Thanksgiving Special (1964); The Bourne Identity (1988); The Carol Burnett Show (1967); The Christmas Messenger (1975); The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Deputy (1961); The Dick Cavett Show (1970–1971); The Drew Carey Show (2002); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1967–1969); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Factor (2008); The Festival Game (1970); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Laurence Olivier (1983); The Films of Robert Bolt (1972); The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974); The Good Doctor (1978); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2010); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1981); The Lady's Not for Burning (1974); The Last Wave (1977); The Last Wave: Richard Chamberlain in Conversation with Paul Harris (2020); The Late Late Show (2006); The Little Mermaid (1974); The Lost Daughter (1997); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969); The Man in the Iron Mask (1977); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1981); The Mike Douglas Show (1970–1975); The Miracle (1985); The Music Lovers (1971); The Pavilion (2000); The Perfect Family (2011); The Portrait of a Lady (1968); The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2014); The Red Skelton Hour (1967); The Return of the Musketeers (1989); The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show (1966); The Secret of the Purple Reef (1960); The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976); The Swarm (1978); The Thorn Birds (1983); The Thorn Birds: Old Friends New Stories (2003); The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996); The Three Musketeers (1973); The Toni Tennille Show (1980); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1990); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Towering Inferno: Inside the Tower - We Remember (2006); The Towering Inferno: Irwin Allen, the Great Producer (2006); The Towering Inferno: Running on Fire (2006); The Uncommon Making of Petulia (2006); The View (2003); The Woman I Love (1972); Three Days of Hamlet (2012); Thriller (1960); ThunderCats (2011); Today (1964–2007); Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999); Touched by an Angel (2000); TV Guide Close Up: From Comedy Club to Primetime (2004); Twilight of Honor (1963); Twin Peaks (2017); Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985); We Are the Hartmans (2011); Wetten, dass..? (1995); What's My Line? (1962 / 1973); Whispering Smith (1961); Will & Grace (2005); You Don't Say (1964).

Born on this day – Alan Arkin:

Alan Arkin

Actor

Director

Writer

March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023

Recommended reading - The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain (1934):

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

Published by Vintage.

First published 1934.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679723250

ISBN-13: 978-0679723257

Description:

“A good, swift, violent story.” – Dashiell Hammett.

“A poet of the tabloid murder.” – Edmund Wilson.

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution — a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America’s bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.

“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man … has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent.” – James M. Cain.

On this day in movie history - Journal of a Crime (1934):

Journal of a Crime

directed by William Keighley,

written by F. Hugh Herbert and Charles Kenyon,

based on the play by Jacques Deval,

was released in the United States on March 10, 1934.
A remake of Une vie perdue (1933), directed by Raymond Rouleau.
Music by Leo F. Forbstein.

Cast:

Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd, George Barbier, Douglas Dumbrille, Noel Madison, Henry O'Neill, Phillip Reed, Henry Kolker, Walter Pidgeon, Clay Clement.

Born on this day – James B. Sikking:

James B. Sikking

Actor

March 5, 1934 – July 13, 2024

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1966); 20 Years of Must See TV (2002); A Woman Called Moses (1978); Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1997); Adam-12 (1968); An Evening at the Improv (1981); Around the World in 80 Days (1989); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Banyon (1972); Batman Beyond (1999–2000); Battle of the Network Stars XVII (1984); Bay Cove (1987); Bonanza (1967–1968); Brooklyn South (1997–1998); Brother on the Run (1973); Brotherhood of the Rose (1989); Cade's County (1971); Calling Doctor Storm, M. D. (1977); Cannon (1972–1974); Capricorn One (1977); CBS Summer Playhouse (1988); Chandler (1971); Charlie's Angels (1977–1979); Charro! (1969); Coffee, Tea or Me? (1973); Columbo (1974); Combat! (1963); Cop Rock (1990); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004); Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969); Dare to Love (1995); Dead Badge (1995); Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989); Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992); Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993); Dress Gray (1986); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1996); Eight Is Enough (1977); Ellery Queen (1976); Encore with John Palmer (2006–2010); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Hill Street Blues - Behind the Badge (2000); Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971); Family Flight (1972); Fever Pitch (2005); Final Approach (1991); First Steps (1985); Five Guns West (1955); General Hospital (1963); Gidget Gets Married (1972); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1967); Hawaii Five-O (1978); Here Come the Brides (1969–1970); Hill Street Blues (1982–1987); Hogan's Heroes (1968–1970); Honey West (1965); Hunter (1989); Imps* / Segment: Lite Blood (1983); In Like Flint (1967); In Pursuit of Honor (1995); Inside O.U.T. (1971); Invasion America (1998); Ironside (1967); Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou (1995); Johnny Staccato (1977); Just an American (2012); Kill Me If You Can (1977); L.A. Law (1986); Little House on the Prairie (1977); Longstreet (1971); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Intruder (1970); Lucan (1978); M*A*S*H (1973); Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1984); Made of Honor (2008); Man from Atlantis (1977); Man on a String (1972); Mannix (1970–1973); Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour (1984); Mission: Impossible (1970–1972); Mod Squad (1970–1973); Morons from Outer Space (1985); Mutiny (1999); My Favorite Martian (1965); My Mother the Car (1965–1966); Narrow Margin (1990); Narrow Margin: Featurette (1990); Never Con a Killer (1977); Night Gallery / Segments: Death in the Family; The Nature of the Enemy (1970–1971); Nowhere to Land (2000); O.K. Crackerby! (1965); Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988); On Guard - Bunco! (1974); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Operation Petticoat (1978); Ordinary People (1980); Outland (1981); Outrage (1973); Paris (1979); Password Plus (1981); Perry Mason (1961); Point Blank (1967); Point Blank the Documentary (2024); Police Story (1977); Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987); Rafferty (1977); Rawhide (1963); Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976); Rocket Power (2000); Room 222 (1972–1973); Run for Your Life (1966–1967); Sail to Glory (1967); Scorpio (1973); Search (1973); Seduced by Evil (1994); Soul Man (1986); Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); Starsky and Hutch (1978); Stay Tuned (1992); Submerged (2001); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The 10th Annual People's Choice Awards (1984); The 16th Annual People's Choice Awards (1990); The 24th Annual People's Choice Awards (1998); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007); The 8th Annual People's Choice Awards (1982); The 9th Annual People's Choice Awards (1983); The Alpha Caper (1973); The Astronaut (1972); The Barn Theatre: Tomorrow's Stars Today (2017); The Bionic Woman (1978); The Bob Newhart Show (1972); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Closer (2012); The Competition (1980); The Doris Day Show (1970–1973); The Electric Horseman (1979); The F.B.I. (1965–1974); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Feather and Father Gang (1976–1977); The Final Days (1989); The Fugitive (1964–1966); The Guardian (2001–2002); The History of Hill Street (2011); The Immortal (1971); The Incredible Hulk (1978); The Invaders (1967); The Jesse Owens Story (1984); The Last Hurrah (1977); The Loner (1965); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972); The Making of 'Up the Creek' (1984); The Marsha Warfield Show (1990); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979); The Name of the Game (1971); The New Centurions (1972); The Night God Screamed (1971); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Pelican Brief (1993); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Ring (1996); The Rockford Files (1977–1978); The Rookies (1972–1973); The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973); The Star Chamber (1983); The Strangler (1964); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Survivors (1969); The Terminal Man (1974); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1983); The Virginian (1965); The Young Lawyers (1970); Too Good to Be True (1988); Trouble in High Timber Country (1980); Turnabout (1979); Tyson (1995); Up the Creek (1984); Vicki! (1992); Von Ryan's Express (1965); Whisper of the Heart (1995); Who's the Boss? (1987); Wild About Harry (2009); World War II: Breadlines to Boomtimes (1994); Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977).

Born on this day – Gia Scala:

Gia Scala

Actress

March 3, 1934 – April 30, 1972

Credits:

It Takes a Thief (1969); The Name of the Game (1969); Operation Delilah (1967); Tarzan (1967); Jericho (1966); Run for Your Life (1965); 12 O'Clock High (1965); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); Convoy (1965); The Rogues (1964–1965); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Triumph of Robin Hood (1962); The Guns of Navarone (1961); Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1961); Hong Kong (1961); Two Girls on the Town (1961); Here's Hollywood (1961); The Islanders (1960); I Aim at the Stars (1960); Battle of the Coral Sea (1959); The Angry Hills (1959); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Ride a Crooked Trail (1958); The Two-Headed Spy (1958); The Tunnel of Love (1958); Don't Go Near the Water (1957); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Big Boodle (1957); Four Girls in Town (1957); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Price of Fear (1956); Never Say Goodbye (1956); All That Heaven Allows (1955).

Born on this day – Joan Hackett:

Joan Hackett

Actress

March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983

Credits:

Tales of the Unexpected (1985); Flicks / New Adventures of the Great Galaxy (1983); A Girl's Life (1983); Paper Dolls (1982); The Escape Artist (1982); The Long Summer of George Adams (1982); Only When I Laugh (1981); Mourning Becomes Electra (1981); One-Trick Pony (1980); The Long Days of Summer (1980); Trapper John, M.D. (1979); The Love Boat (1979); Taxi (1979); Sweepstakes (1979); The North Avenue Irregulars (1979); Pleasure Cove (1979); Another Day (1978); The Possessed (1977); Dead of Night (1977); Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); The American Woman: Portraits of Courage (1976); Mackintosh and T.J. (1975); Reflections of Murder (1974); The Terminal Man (1974); The Last of Sheila (1973); Class of '63 (1973); Rivals (1972); Lights Out (1972); Bonanza (1965–1972); Five Desperate Women (1971); U.S.A. (1971); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Dan August (1971); Love, American Style / Love and the Jury / Love and the Proposal (1970–1971); The Other Man (1970); How Awful About Allan (1970); The Young Country (1970); Daniel Boone (1969); Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969); The Name of the Game (1968); Assignment to Kill (1968); Judd for the Defense (1967); Will Penny (1967); Run for Your Life (1966); Court Martial (1966); The Group (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965); Ben Casey (1961–1964); The Wednesday Play (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); Channing (1964); The Great Adventure (1963); Empire (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); Combat! (1963); The Defenders (1961–1963); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Theatre '62 (1962); Gunsmoke (1962); Dr. Kildare (1962); The Twilight Zone (1962); The New Breed (1962); Westinghouse Presents: Come Again to Carthage (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1960); Diagnosis: Unknown (1960); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1959); Young Dr. Malone (1958).

Born on this day – N. Scott Momaday:

N. Scott Momaday

Writer

February 27, 1934 – January 24, 2024

Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush in 2007.

Credits:

A First American Views His Land (1976); Again the Far Morning (2011); Ancestral Voice (1989); Ancient Child (1989); Angle of Geese and Other Poems (1974); Bringing on the Indians (1971); Circle of Wonder (1993); Colorado (1978); Conversations with N. Scott Momaday (1997); Discovering the Land of Light (1985); Dream Drawings (2022); Earth Keeper (2020); Four Arrows & Magpie (2006); House Made of Dawn (1968); In the Bear's House (1999); In the Presence of the Sun (1992); Meditations (2016); On Bavarian Byways (1986); Sacred Legacy (2000); Storyteller (1992); The American Indian in an Unhappy Hunting Ground (1969); The Best of the West (1991); The Colors of Night (1976); The Death of Sitting Bear (poems);  (2020); The Gourd Dancer (1976); The Journey of Tai-Me (1967); The Man Made of Words (1997); The Names (1976); The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000); Three Plays (2019).

Born on this day – Barry Humphries:

Barry Humphries

Comedian

Actor

Writer

Satirist

February 17, 1934 – April 22, 2023