Born on this day – Jan Schwieterman:

Jan Schwieterman

Actor

September 30, 1972 – February 28, 2025

Credits:

Along the Way (2007); American Intellectuals (1999); Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction / Segment: Rock & Roll Ears (1998); ER (1994); Fallen Arches (1998); Felicity (1998–1999); Forever (1996); Good Burger (1997); Good Burger 2: Good Burger 1 Movie Recap (2024); McKenna (1994); NightMan (1998); Undressed (1999); Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999); Wasted (1996).

On this day in television history - M*A*S*H (1972 – 1983):

M*A*S*H

developed by Larry Gelbart,

based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker,

was originally aired in the United States on CBS and ran for eleven seasons,

from September 17, 1972 – February 28, 1983.
Theme music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers, G. W. Bailey, Kellye Nakahara, Jeff Maxwell, Johnny Haymer, Allan Arbus, Edward Winter.

On this day in movie history - Hotel Monterey (1972):

Hotel Monterey

silent documentary directed and written by Chantal Akerman,

released at the Venice Biennale in Italy on September 4, 1975.
Filmed in 1972.

On this day in movie history - The New Centurions (1972):

The New Centurions

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Stirling Silliphant,

based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh,

was released in the United States on August 3, 1972.
Music by Quincy Jones.

Cast:

George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Erik Estrada, Clifton James, Richard E. Kalk, James Sikking, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Mittie Lawrence, Isabel Sanford, Carol Speed, Tracee Lyles, Burke Byrnes, William Atherton, Peter De Anda, Ed Lauter, Dolph Sweet, Stefan Gierasch, Debbie Fresh, Mike Lane, Roger E. Mosley, Charles H. Gray, Read Morgan, Michael DeLano, Adriana Shaw, Pepe Serna, Bea Thompkins, Hilly Hicks, Shaaron Claridge, Herbert Coley, Otis Day, Dick DeCoit, Lieux Dressler, Brent Dunsford, Raymond Guth, Kitten Natividad, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Anne Ramsey.

On this day in movie history - Fat City (1972):

Fat City

directed by John Huston,

written by Leonard Gardner,

based on the novel by Leonard Gardner,

was released in the United States on July 26, 1972.
Music by Kenneth Hall.

Cast:

Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto, Art Aragon, Curtis Cokes, Sixto Rodriguez, Billy Walker, Wayne Mahan, Ruben Navarro, Álvaro López, Carl D. Parker, Bill Riddle, Al Silvani.

On this day in movie history - Prime Cut (1972):

Prime Cut

directed by Michael Ritchie,

written by Robert Dillon,

was released in the United States on June 28, 1972.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek, Janit Baldwin, William Morey, Clint Ellison, Howard Platt, Les Lannom, Eddie Egan, Therese Reinsch, Bob Wilson, Gordon Signer, Gladys Watson, Wayne Savagne.

On this day in movie history - Beware! The Blob (1972):

Beware! The Blob

aka Beware the Blob, Son of Blob, The Blob II and The Blob Returns,

directed by Larry Hagman,

written by Jack Woods and Anthony Harris,

based on the story A Chip Off the Old Blob by Richard Clair and Jack H. Harris,

was released in the United States on June 21, 1972.

Music by Mort Garson.

Cast:

Robert Walker Jr, Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Shelley Berman, Godfrey Cambridge, Larry Hagman, Carol Lynley, Marlene Clark, Gerrit Graham, J.J. Johnston, Danny Goldman, Rockne Tarkington, Dick Van Patten, Tiger Joe Marsh, Tim Baar, Fred Smoot, Randy Stonehill, Del Close, Cindy Williams, Preston Hagman, John Houser, Larry Norman, Robert N. Goodman, Patrick McAllister, Bill Coontz, Byron Keith, Margie Adleman, William Foster, Judy Graubart, Sid Haig, Jack H. Harris, Burgess Meredith, Conrad Rothmann.

On this day in movie history - Boxcar Bertha (1972 movie & book):

Boxcar Bertha

directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington,

based on the book Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha by Ben Reitman,

released in the United States on June 13, 1972.

Music by Gib Guilbeau and Thad Maxwell.

Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey, John Carradine, Victor Argo, David Osterhout, Grahame Pratt, ‘Chicken’ Holleman, Harry Northup, Ann Morell, Marianne Dole, Joe Reynolds, Jerry Cortez, Louie Elias, Michael Fitzgerald, Gerald Raines, Gayne Rescher, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Scorsese. #Noir

Recommended reading:

Sister of the Road:

The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha

By Ben Reitman.

Filmed as Boxcar Bertha (1972), directed by Martin Scorsese.

Published by AK Press.

First published 1937.

ISBN-10: 1902593030

ISBN-13: 9781902593036

Description:

Born in the shadows of a railroad yard, of a wandering mother who took her lovers where she found them and a father who was scarcely conscious of her arrival in the world, Bertha Thompson took to the road as soon as the restless impulses of adolescence stirred in her. She was more interested in wanders than those who settled down in homes, more interested in criminals than law-abiding citizens. She wanted to see how they lived, live as they did, know what they were like. As a result of her restlessness and curiosity, she became, in fifteen years of wandering, a hobo, treveling from one end of the country to the other in box-cars, decking passenger trains, and hitchhiking; member of a gang of shoplifters, traveling as the mistress of one of the men; a prostitute working in a Chicago brothel; the mother of a child of an unknown father; and a research worker for a New York social service bureau. Sister of the Road is Bertha s own story of those fifteen years and the record of her conclusions about them. Gifted with a naturally keen intelligence, fearless of consequences to herself, willing and eager to do and be everything which other members of her group did and were, her story is a mine of little-known information and a succession of moving human stories about that vast and growing army of homeless, jobless, wandering women who live by begging, stealing, cheating, prostituting themselves, and occasionally working at legitimate jobs.

On this day in music history:

Starman by David Bowie (1972)

To The Wind… by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2023)

Starman

Song by David Bowie,

released April 28, 1972.

To The Wind…

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel,

released April 28, 2023.

Track list: Celtic Contemplation; Blue Dream; The Void; Light in the Darkness; My Hands Were Busy; Necessity for the Mundane; Rain On My Coat; Reverie.