On this day in movie history - Diva (1981):

Diva,

directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix,

written by Jean-Jacques Beineix and Jean Van Hamme,

based on the novel by Delacorta,

was released in France on March 11, 1981.
Music by Vladimir Cosma.

Cast:
Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer, Gérard Darmon, Chantal Deruaz, Jacques Fabbri, Patrick Floersheim, Thuy An Luu, Jean-Luc Porraz, Laure Duthilleul, Dominique Pinon, Dominique Besnehard, Isabelle Mergault, Anny Romand, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Raymond Aquilon, Eugène Berthier, Gérard Chaillou, Andrée Champeaux, Nathalie Dalyan, Laurence Darpy, Michel Debrane, Etienne Draber, Nane Germon, Gabriel Gobin, Jim Adhi Limas, Louise Malapert, Dimo Mally, Vaneta Mally, Alain Marcel, Marthe Moudiki-Moreau, Robyn Bernard, Yann Roussel, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Louis Vitrac, Tania Zabaloieff, Vladimir Cosma.

On this day in movie history - THX 1138 (1971):

THX 1138,

directed by George Lucas,

written by George Lucas and Walter Murch,

based the 1967 short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB by George Lucas,

was released in the United States on March 11, 1971.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Painting shown on the Unit Chapel booth screens:
Christ Giving His Blessing, by Hans Memling (1478).

Cast:
Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Don Pedro Colley, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, James Wheaton, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Jack Walsh, Mark Lawhead, Robert Feero, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Claudette Bessing, Susan Stroh, Henry Jacobs, Bill Love, Doc Scortt, Gary Austin, Scott L. Menges, Toby L. Stearns, Paul K. Haje, Ralph Chesse, Dion M. Chesse, Bruce Chesse, Mello Alexandria, Brandyn Barbara Artis, Morris D. Erby, Willie C. Barnes, Richard Quinnell, Jean M. Durand, Scott Beach, Neva Beach, Terence McGovern, Julie Payne, James Cranna, Ruth Silveira, Bruce Mackey, David Ogden Stiers, Bart Patton, Dennis Falt, Jack Rigg, Matthew Robbins.

Born on this day – Valerie French:

Valerie French

Actress

March 11, 1928 – November 3, 1990

Credits:

One of the Boys (1982); One Life to Live (1977); The Adams Chronicles (1976); All My Children (1977); Shalako (1968); Armchair Theatre (1968); Champion House (1967); ITV Playhouse (1968); The Prisoner (1967); Love Story (1967); The Nurses (1965); A Flame in the Wind (1964); The Best of the Post (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1960); Alcoa Theatre (1958–1960); The Alaskans (1960); Goodyear Theatre (1958–1960); Bold Venture (1959); The Story on Page One (1959); The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959); The Third Man (1959); Ten Little Indians (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Hard Man (1957); Trackdown (1957); Decision at Sundown (1957); The 27th Day (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956); The Edge of Night (1965); Jubal (1956); Marriage a la Mode (1955); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Tonight's the Night (1954); Maddalena (1954); Strictly Personal (1953).

Born on this day – Peter R. Hunt:

Peter R. Hunt

Director

Editor

Producer

March 11, 1925 – August 14, 2002

Credits:

A Cry from the Streets (1958); Assassination (1987); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1959); Damn the Defiant! (1962); Deadline Midnight (1961); Death Hunt (1981); Doublecross (1956); Dr. No (1962); Eyes of a Witness (1991); Ferry to Hong Kong (1959); Gold (1974); Goldfinger (1964); Gulliver's Travels (1977); Hell in Korea (1956); Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986); Loss of Innocence (1961); Next to No Time! (1958); Night Games (1980); On the Fiddle (1961); Paradise Lagoon (1957); Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983); Probation Officer (1960); Rough Cut (1980); Salute to Show Business (1957); Shirley's World (1972); Shout at the Devil (1976); Sink the Bismarck! (1960); Strange Portrait (1966); The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978); The Ipcress File (1965); The Last Days of Pompeii (1984); The Persuaders! (1971); The Persuaders! (1971); The Secret Tent (1956); The Six Proud Walkers (1954); The Venusian (1954); There Was a Crooked Man (1960); This Man Craig (1966); This Week (1956–1959); Touch and Go (1955); Wild Geese II (1985).

Born on this day – Raoul Walsh:

Raoul Walsh

Director

Actor

March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980

Credits:

11:30 P.M. (1915); A Bad Man and Others (1915); A Distant Trumpet (1964); A Lion Is in the Streets (1953); A Man for All That (1915); A Private's Affair (1959); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Along the Great Divide (1951); Artist and Models (1937); Baby Face Harrington (1935); Background to Danger (1943); Band of Angels (1957); Battle Cry (1955); Betrayed (1917); Big Brown Eyes (1936); Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952); Blue Blood and Red (1916); Camino del infierno (1931); Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951); Carmen (1915); Cheyenne (1947); College Swing (1938); Colorado Territory (1949); Come September (1961); Dangerous Business (1920); Dark Command (1940); Desperate Journey (1942); Die große Fahrt (1931); Distant Drums (1951); East of Suez (1925); Esther and the King (1960); Evangeline (1919); Every Night at Eight (1935); Fighter Squadron (1948); For His Master (1914); From Now On (1920); Gentleman Jim (1942); Glory Alley (1952); Going Hollywood (1933); Gun Fury (1953); Helen of Troy (1956); Hello, Sister! (1933); High Sierra (1940); His Return (1915); Hitting a New High (1937); Home from the Sea (1915); Hot for Paris (1929); I'll Say So (1918); In Old Arizona (1928); In This Our Life (1942); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Kindred of the Dust (1922); Klondike Annie (1936); La femme à abattre (1993); La gran jornada (1931); Lest We Forget (1914); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Life in Hollywood No. 5 (1927); Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923); Manpower (1941); Marines, Let's Go (1961); Me and My Gal (1932); Me, Gangster (1928); Montana (1950); Northern Pursuit (1943); Objective, Burma! (1945); On the Jump (1918); One Sunday Afternoon (1948); Out of the Deputy's Hands (1914); Paid with Interest (1914); Peer Gynt (1915); Pillars of Society (1916); Pursued (1947); Rosita (1923); Sadie Thompson (1928); Sailor's Luck (1933); Salty O'Rourke (1945); San Antonio (1945); Sands of Fate (1914); Saskatchewan (1954); Sea Devils (1953); Serenade (1921); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); Sierra Jim's Reformation (1914); Silver River (1948); Siren of Hell (1915); Spendthrift (1936); St. Louis Blues (1939); Stallion Road (1947); The Angel of Contention (1914); The Artist's Wife (1915); The Availing Prayer (1914); The Baited Trap (1914); The Banker's Daughter (1914); The Big Trail (1930); The Bowery (1933); The Buried Hand (1915); The Celestial Code (1915); The Cock-Eyed World (1929); The Comeback (1915); The Conqueror (1917); The Death Dice (1915); The Deep Purple (1920); The Delta Factor (1970); The Detective's Stratagem (1913); The Dishonored Medal (1914); The Double Deception (1915); The Double Knot (1914); The Enforcer (1951); The Exposure (1914); The Fatal Black Bean (1915); The Fencing Master (1915); The Final Verdict (1914); The Greaser (1915); The Great Leap: Until Death Do Us Part (1914); The Honor System (1917); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); The Innocent Sinner (1917); The King and Four Queens (1956); The Lady of the Harem (1926); The Lawless Breed (1952); The Life of General Villa (1914); The Little Country Mouse (1914); The Lone Cowboy (1915); The Love Pirate (1915); The Loves of Carmen (1927); The Lucky Lady (1926); The Man I Love (1946); The Man Who Came Back (1931); The Monkey Talks (1927); The Mystery of the Hindu Image (1914); The Naked and the Dead (1958); The Oath (1921); The Old Fisherman's Story (1914); The Only Clue (1914); The Outlaw's Revenge (1915); The Pride of New York (1917); The Pseudo Prodigal (1913); The Rebellion of Kitty Belle (1914); The Red Dance (1928); The Regeneration (1915); The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914); The Serpent (1916); The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958); The Silent Lie (1917); The Smuggler (1915); The Spaniard (1925); The Stranger (1913); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); The Strongest (1920); The Tall Men (1955); The Thief of Bagdad (1924); The Unpainted Portrait (1914); The Wanderer (1925); The Woman and the Law (1918); The World in His Arms (1952); The Yellow Ticket (1931); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); They Drive by Night (1940); They Never Knew (1914); This Is the Life (1917); Uncertain Glory (1944); Under Pressure (1935); What Price Glory (1926); When Fate Frowned (1914); When Thief Meets Thief (1937); White Heat (1949); Who Shot Bud Walton? (1914); Wild Girl (1932); Women of All Nations (1931); You're in the Army Now (1937).

Harold Ross, on writing:

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories,

and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece on paper

and then went back and filled in the spaces.

- Harold Ross.

On this day in music history - Feast of Joy and Love, by Laura Sullivan (2007):

The album Feast of Joy and Love,

by Laura Sullivan,

was released on March 10, 2007.