Friday, March 22, 2024

Born on this day – Virginia Grey:


Virginia Grey

Actress

March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004

Credits:

A Perilous Journey (1953); Accused of Murder (1956); Airport (1970); All Star Revue (1951); All That Heaven Allows (1955); Another Thin Man (1939); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Bachelor in Paradise (1961); Back Street (1961); Bad Guy (1937); Bells of Capistrano (1942); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Biography (2003); Black Zoo (1963); Blonde Inspiration (1941); Blonde Ransom (1945); Bonanza (1962); Broadway Serenade (1939); Bullfighter and the Lady (1951); Burke's Law (1964); Captain Scarface (1953); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Climax! (1956); Crime of Passion (1956); Dames (1934); Desert Pursuit (1952); Don't Bet on Blondes (1935); Dramatic School (1938); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Fighting Lawman (1953); Fireside Theatre (1954–1955); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945); Flirtation Walk (1934); Flower Drum Song (1961); Footlights Theater (1953); Four Star Playhouse (1952–1954); General Electric Theater (1953–1960); George Jessel Show (1959); Glamour Girl (1948); Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935); Goodyear Theatre (1958); Grand Central Murder (1942); Grissly's Millions (1945); Heart to Heart (1928); Here's Hollywood (1961); Highway 301 (1950); Hollywood Greats (1977); House of Horrors (1946); Hullabaloo (1940); I Spy (1967); Idaho (1943); Idiot's Delight (1939); Ironside (1968); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956–1958); azz Mad (1928); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002); Jungle Jim (1948); Keeping Company (1940); Ladies in Distress (1938); Leather Gloves (1948); Love Has Many Faces (1965); Love, American Style / Love and the Hot Spell (1973); Madame X (1966); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970); Men in Her Diary (1945); Mexican Hayride (1948); Miraculous Journey (1948); Misbehaving Ladies (1931); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); My Three Sons (1966); No Name on the Bullet (1959); Old Hutch (1936); Our Relations (1936); Pacific Paradise (1937); Peter Gunn (1961); Playhouse 90 (1958); Portrait in Black (1960); Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938); Rosalie (1937); Rosie! (1967); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (1940); Secret Valley (1937); Secrets (1933); Secrets of the Underground (1942); She Gets Her Man (1935); Sis Hopkins (1941); Slaughter Trail (1951); Smooth as Silk (1946); Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938); So This Is New York (1948); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Stagecoach West (1960); Strangers in the Night (1944); Swamp Fire (1946); Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); Target Earth (1954); Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942); Test Pilot (1938); That's Entertainment! (1974); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Big Store (1941); The Canary Comes Across (1938); The Captain Is a Lady (1940); The Christophers (1957–1963); The David Niven Show (1959); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); The Eternal Sea (1955); The Firebird (1934); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Forty-Niners (1954); The Golden Fleecing (1940); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Last Command (1955); The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975); The Lone Wolf (1955); The Michigan Kid (1928); The Millionaire (1955–1958); The Naked Kiss (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1955–1966); The Restless Years (1958); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Rose Tattoo (1955); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The St. Louis Kid (1934); The Threat (1949); The Unexpected (1952); The Virginian (1966); The Women (1939); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Three Desperate Men (1951); Thunder Afloat (1939); Tish (1942); Trackdown (1958); U.S. Marshal (1959); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927); Unconquered (1947); Unknown Island (1948); Violets in Spring (1936); Wagon Train (1958–1961); Washington Melodrama (1941); Waterfront (1954); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Whistling in the Dark (1941); Who Killed 'Doc' Robbin? (1948); Wyoming (1947); Yancy Derringer (1959); Your Show of Shows (1952); Youth Takes a Fling (1938).

Born on this day – Karl Malden:


Karl Malden

Actor

March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009

Credits:

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); 13 Rue Madeleine (1947); 24th Annual Academy Awards (1952); 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1999); 62nd Academy Awards Nominations Announcement (1990); 63rd Academy Awards Nominations Announcement (1991); 64th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement (1992); A Man Named Brando (2006); A Streetcar in Hollywood (2006); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); A Streetcar on Broadway (2006); Absolute Strangers (1991); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–2009); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); Alice in Wonderland (1985); All Fall Down (1962); All-Star Party for Lucille Ball (1984); American Masters (1989); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950); Baby Doll (1956); Baby Doll: See No Evil (2006); Back to the Streets of San Francisco (1992); Barbra: The Concert (1994); Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Billion Dollar Brain (1967); Billy Galvin (1986); Biography (1995–2000); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); Blue (1968); Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (1993); Bombers B-52 (1957); Boomerang! (1947); Brando (2007); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Caine Below Zero (1967); Call Me Anna (1990); Captains Courageous (1977); Celanese Theatre (1952); Censorship and Desire (2006); Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936); Cheyenne Autumn (1964); Come Fly with Me (1963); Dead Ringer (1963); Dinah! (1975–1979); Diplomatic Courier (1952); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Earth and the American Dream (1992); Entertainment – 1955 (1955); Fatal Vision (1984); Fear Strikes Out (1957); Film '79 (1979); Gypsy (1962); Halls of Montezuma (1951); Here's Hollywood (1960–1962); Hollywood Greats (2006); Hot Millions (1968); Hotel (1967); How the West Was Won (1962); I Confess (1953); Imagine (2004); Journey to Jerusalem (1941); Kiss of Death (1947); Larry King Live (2004); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1997); Life with Linkletter (1970); Meteor (1979); Midi-Première (1975); Miracle on Ice (1981); Murderers' Row (1966); My Father, My Son (1988); Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982); Nevada Smith (1966); Nightlife (1987); Nuts (1987); On the Waterfront (1954); One on One with John Tesh (1992); One-Eyed Jacks (1961); Operation Secret (1952); Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992); Parrish (1961); ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005); Patton (1970); Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954); Pollyanna (1960); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1993); Ruby Gentry (1952); Skag (1980); Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989); Summertime Killer (1972); Take the High Ground! (1953); Talking Film (1981); The 22nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1996); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 35th Annual Academy Awards (1963); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 3th Annual American Cinema Awards (1986); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 42nd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards (1990); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 43rd Annual Directors Guild Awards (1991); The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 6th Annual Golden Satellite Awards (2002); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003); The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967); The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Milton Berle (1980); The Annual National Sports Awards (1974); The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The First Annual Golden Satellite Awards (1997); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Great Impostor (1960); The Gunfighter (1950); The Hanging Tree (1959); The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1984); The Last Movie Stars (2022); The Life and Times of Kirk Douglas (2000); The Lionhearts (1998); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); The Sellout (1952); The Sting II (1983); The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968–1980); The West Wing (2000); They Knew What They Wanted (1940); They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993); This Is Your Life (1971); Time Limit (1957); Today (1968); Twilight Time (1982); Unsolved Mysteries (1987); Wait (2023); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (1990); Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950); Who Is Norman Lloyd? (2007); Wild Rovers (1971); Winged Victory (1944); With Intent to Kill (1984); Wogan (1990); Word of Honor (1981).

Born on this day – Raymond Z. Gallun:


Raymond Z. Gallun

Writer

March 22, 1911 – April 2, 1994
Credits:

A Step Farther Out (1950); Apollo at Go (1963); Avalanche (1935); Big Pill (1952); Bioblast (1985); Child of the Stars (1936); Editorial (1984); Old Faithful (1934); Passport to Jupiter (1951); People Minus X (1957); Seeds of the Dusk (1938); Skyclimber (1981); Starclimber (1991); The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun (1978); The Crystal Ray (1929); The Eden Cycle (1974); The Machine That Thought (1939); The Planet Strappers (1961); The Revolt of the Starmen (1932); The Son of Old Faithful (1935); The Space Dwellers (1929).

Herta Muller, on writing:


I have always written only for myself - to clarify things,
to clarify things with myself,
to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

- Herta Muller.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

On this day in music history: Soft Place to Fall, by Deborah Coleman (2000):

The album Soft Place to Fall,
by Deborah Coleman,
was released on March 21, 2000.

On this day in music history - Magical Ring, by Clannad (1983):

The album Magical Ring,
by Clannad,
was released on March 21, 1983.

On this day in movie history - The Hitch-Hiker (1953):


The Hitch-Hiker

directed by Ida Lupino,
written by Ida Lupino and Collier Young,
was released in the United States on March 21, 1953.
Inspired by the true 1950–1951 Billy Cook murder case.
Music by Leith Stevens.


Cast:

Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Wendell Niles, Jean Del Val, Clark Howat, Natividad Vacío, Rodney Bell.