Born on this day – Katharine Whitehorn:

Katharine Whitehorn

Writer

Radio presenter

March 2, 1928 – January 8, 2021

Credits:

Cooking in a Bedsitter (aka Kitchen in the Corner: A Complete Guide to Bedsitter Cookery) (1961); Observations (1970); Only on Sundays (1966); Roundabout (1962); Selective Memory by Katharine Whitehorn (2007); Sunday Best (1976); View from a Column (1981).

Born on this day – Jennifer Jones:

Jennifer Jones

Actress

March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009

Credits:

The Towering Inferno (1974); Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969); The Idol (1966); Tender Is the Night (1962); A Farewell to Arms (1957); The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Beat the Devil (1953); Terminal Station (1953); Ruby Gentry (1952); Carrie (1952); Gone to Earth (1950); Madame Bovary (1949); We Were Strangers (1949); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Duel in the Sun (1946); Cluny Brown (1946); Love Letters (1945); The Fighting Generation (1944); Since You Went Away (1944); The Song of Bernadette (1943); Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939); The Streets of New York (1939); New Frontier (1939).

Born on this day – David Goodis:

David Goodis

Writer

March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967

Credits:

Retreat from Oblivion (1939); Dark Passage (1946); Behold This Woman (1947); Nightfall / Missing Believed Murdered / The Dark Chase / Convicted (1947); Of Missing Persons (1950); Cassidy's Girl (1951); Of Tender Sin (1952); Street of the Lost (1952); The Burglar (1953); The Moon in the Gutter (1953); Black Friday (1954); The Blonde on the Street Corner (1954); Street of No Return (1954); The Wounded and the Slain (1955); Down There / Shoot the Piano Player (1956); Fire in the Flesh (1957); Night Squad (1961); Somebody's Done For (1967); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996).

Born on this day – Marjorie Weaver:

Marjorie Weaver

Actress

March 2, 1913 – October 1, 1994

Credits:

Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Boston Blackie (1952); We're Not Married! (1952); Big Town (1952); Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945); Fashion Model (1945); Leave It to Blondie (1945); Shadow of Suspicion (1944); Pardon My Rhythm (1944); The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944); You Can't Ration Love (1944); Let's Face It (1943); Just Off Broadway (1942); The Mad Martindales (1942); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942); Man at Large (1941); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Murder Among Friends (1941); Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940); Murder Over New York (1940); Maryland (1940); Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940); Shooting High (1940); The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939); The Honeymoon's Over (1939); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Hold That Co-ed (1938); I'll Give a Million (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); Sally, Irene and Mary (1938); Second Honeymoon (1937); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Life Begins in College (1937); Danger - Love at Work (1937); Hot Water (1937); The Californian (1937); Big Business (1937); This Is My Affair (1937); Melody for Two (1937); On the Avenue (1937); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Polo Joe (1936); Here Comes Carter (1936); China Clipper (1936).

Born on this day – Dr. Seuss:

Dr. Seuss

Writer

Illustrator

Animator

Director

March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991

Credits:

Horton Hatches the Egg (1940); Horton Hears a Who! (1954); The Cat in the Hat (1957); The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958); The Cat in the Hat Songbook (1967); The Cat's Quizzer (1976); I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978); And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937); The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938); The Seven Lady Godivas (1939); The King's Stilts (1939); McElligot's Pool (1947); Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948); Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949); If I Ran the Zoo (1950); Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953); On Beyond Zebra! (1955); If I Ran the Circus (1956); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957); Happy Birthday to You! (1959); Green Eggs and Ham (1960); One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960); Ten Apples Up on Top! (1961); Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962); Hop on Pop (1963); Dr. Seuss's ABC (1963); Fox in Socks (1965); I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965); I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (1965); Come over to My House (1966); The Foot Book (1968); The Eye Book (1968); My Book about Me (1969); Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1970); The Lorax (1971); I Can Write! (1971); In a People House (1972); Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (1972); The Shape of Me and Other Stuff (1973); Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973); There's a Wocket in my Pocket! (1974); Great Day for Up (1974); The Many Mice of Mr. Brice (1974); Wacky Wednesday (1974); Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog? (1975); Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! (1975); Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (1975); Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! (1976); Please Try to Remember the First of Octember! (1977); Oh Say Can You Say? (1979); Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! (1980); Hunches in Bunches (1982); The Butter Battle Book (1984); The Tooth Book (1984); You're Only Old Once! (1986); I Am Not Going to Get up Today! (1987); Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990); Daisy-Head Mayzie (1994); My Many Colored Days (1996); Seuss-isms (1997); Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (1998); Dr. Seuss's Clever Creatures (2008); What Was I Scared Of? (2009); Fox in Socks, Bricks and Blocks (2011); Sneetches on Beaches (2012); Dr. Seuss's Sleep Softly Book (2012); My, Oh My--A Butterfly! (2014); The Grinch's Great Big Flap Book (2014); What Pet Should I Get? (2015); Oh, the Places I'll Go! (2016); My Book About Christmas (2016); Happy Birthday to Me! by Me, Myself (2017); Gerald McBoing Boing (2017); Dr. Seuss's 1 2 3 (2019); Dr. Seuss's I Love Pop! (2019); Dr. Seuss's People, Places, and Things (2019); Dr. Seuss's Oh, What I've Learned: Thanks to My Teachers! (2022); I Can Draw It Myself, By Me, Myself (1970); Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958); The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961); A Hatful of Seuss (1967); I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories (1969); The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs the Dough (1987); The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories (2011); Dr. Seuss on the Loose (2011); A Who's Who of the Dr. Seuss Crew (2013); Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories (2014).

Recommended reading - Star Trek: The Making of the TV Series (1991):

Star Trek: The Making of the TV Series

By Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry.

Published by Titan Books Ltd.

Published 1991.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1852863633

ISBN-13: 978-1852863630

Description:

The behind-the-scenes story of the most popular science fiction show ever made!

Did you know … that Captain Kirk was originally Captain April? That Mr. Spock was nearly dropped as a character? That Dr. McCoy’s medical instruments were salt shakers? Why all buttons were banned? How the ‘beam down’ effect was achieved? What happens at Warp Factor Eight? All this, and much, much more, is revealed in this book that tells the complete behind-the-scenes story of the production of the science fiction series that became a phenomenon – Star Trek!

Catherine Drinker Bowen, on writing:

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen.