Born on this day – Marguerite Chapman:

Marguerite Chapman

Actress

March 9, 1918 – August 31, 1999

Credits:

Barnaby Jones (1977); Police Story (1973); Hawaii Five-O (1975); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Frontier Circus (1962); Here's Hollywood (1961); Laramie (1961); Perry Mason (1960); The Amazing Transparent Man (1960); The Lineup (1959); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); Rawhide (1959); Pursuit (1958); The Millionaire (1958); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1958); Studio One (1958); Climax! (1955–1957); The Eve Arden Show (1957); Studio 57 (1954–1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957); Strange Stories (1956); Lux Video Theatre (1955–1956); TV Reader's Digest (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Shower of Stars (1955); The Star and the Story (1955); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); The Seven Year Itch (1955); City Detective (1953–1955); The Whistler (1955); Private Secretary (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1954); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1954); Your Play Time (1954); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Fireside Theatre (1953); Chevron Theatre (1952–1953); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Sea Tiger (1952); Man Bait (1952); Your Show of Shows (1951–1953); Flight to Mars (1951); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); Kansas Raiders (1950); The Green Promise (1949); The Gallant Blade (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Relentless (1948); Mr. District Attorney (1947); Rough But Hopeful (1946); The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946); One Way to Love (1946); Pardon My Past (1945); Counter-Attack (1945); Strange Affair (1944); My Kingdom for a Cook (1943); Destroyer (1943); Appointment in Berlin (1943); Times Square (1943); One Dangerous Night (1942); The Daring Young Man (1942); The Spirit of Stanford (1942); A Man's World (1942); Parachute Nurse (1942); Submarine Raider (1942); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Spy Smasher (1942); The Playgirls (1942); You're in the Army Now (1941); West of the Rockies (1941); The Body Disappears (1941); Navy Blues (1941); The Great Lie (1941); A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941); Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940); Four Sons (1940); On Their Own (1940).

Born on this day – Mickey Spillane:

Mickey Spillane

Writer

Actor

March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Century of Noir (2002); A Dangerous Cat (2017); A Long Time Dead (2016); An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012); An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012); Black Alley (1996); Bloody Sunrise (1965); Book Club (2014); Book Club (2014); Citadel (2016); Citadel (2016); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Complex 90 (2013); Condor in the Stacks (2015); Condor in the Stacks (2015); Crimes by Moonlight (2010); Day of the Guns (1964); Dead Dames Don't Sing (2016); Dead Dames Don't Sing (2016); Dead Street (2007); Death Leaves a Bookmark (2012); Death Leaves a Bookmark (2012); Dig Two Graves (2023); Every Seven Years (2015); Every Seven Years (2015); From the Queen (2015); From the Queen (2015); From the Queen (2015); Hoodoo Harry (2017); Hoodoo Harry (2017); Hot Lead, Cold Justice (2020); I, the Jury (1947); It's in the Book (2014); It's in the Book (2014); Kill Me If You Can (2022); Kill Me, Darling (2015); Killer Mine (1965); Killing Town (2018); King of the Weeds (2014); Kiss Her Goodbye (2009); Kiss Me, Deadly (1952); Lady, Go Die! (2012); Last Stage to Hell Junction (2019); Masquerade for Murder (2020); Masters of Noir, Volume One (2010); Me, Hood! (1963); Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #1 (2018); Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #2 (2018); Murder Never Knocks (2016); Murder, My Love (2019); My Gun Is Quick (1950); Mystery, Inc. (2015); Mystery, Inc. (2015); One Lonely Night (1951); Private Eyes (1998); Pronghorns of the Third Reich (2012); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Reconciliation Day (2016); Reconciliation Day (2016); Remaindered (2014); Remaindered (2014); Return of the Hood (1964); Rides a Stranger (2013); Rides a Stranger (2013); Seven Years (2018); Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek (2021); Skin (2012); So Long, Chief (2013); Something's Down There (2003); Stand Up and Die! (2022); Survival... Zero (1970); The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 (2011); The Big Bang (2010); The Big Kill (1951); The Big Showdown (2016); The Bloody Spur (2018); The Body Lovers (1967); The Book Case (2012); The Book of Ghosts (2013); The Book of the Lion (2015); The Book of Virtue (2012); The Book Thing (2012); The By-Pass Control (1966); The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (2018); The Compendium of Srem (2014); The Consummata (2011); The Dark Door (2022); The Day the Sea Rolled Back (1979); The Death Dealers (1966); The Deep (1961); The Delta Factor (1968); The Erection Set (1972); The Final Testament (2013); The Flier (1964); The Girl Hunters (1962); The Girl Who Did Say No (2020); The Goliath Bone (2008); The Gospel of Sheba (2014); The Haze (2016); The Hemingway Valise (2018); The Honeymoon Trap (2022); The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction (2012); The Killing Man (1989); The Last Cop Out (1973); The Last Honest Horse Thief (2018); The Last Stand (2018); The Legend of Caleb York (2015); The Little Men (2015); The Long Sonata of the Dead (2013); The Long Wait (1951); The Menace (2022); The Nature of My Inheritance (2014); The Pretty Little Box (2018); The Scroll (2014); The Sequel (2014); The Ship That Never Was (1982); The Snake (1964); The Tough Guys (1969); The Traitor (2022); The Travelling Companion (2016); The Twisted Thing (1966); The Will to Kill (2017); Tomorrow I Die (1984); Vengeance is Mine (1950); Vintage Spillane (1974).

Movies and television:

Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998); Mommy's Day (1997); Fallen Angels (1995); Mommy (1995); Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery (1994); Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (1989); The New Mike Hammer (1984–1987); More Than Murder (1984); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); I, the Jury (1982); Margin for Murder (1981); Miller Lite: Tastes Great, Less Filling (1976–1986); Columbo (1974); The Delta Factor (1970); The Girl Hunters (1963); Mike Hammer (1958–1959); My Gun Is Quick (1957); Kiss Me Deadly (1955); Mickey Spillane's 'Mike Hammer!' (1954); Ring of Fear (1954); The Long Wait (1954); I, the Jury (1953).

Born on this day – Samuel Barber:

Samuel Barber

Composer

Pianist

Conductor

Baritone

Teacher

March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981

Credits:

Compositions:

[First] Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12, 1937; 2nd movement revised as Night Flight, Op. 19a, 1964; A Hand of Bridge, opera in 1 act, 1953; A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15, 1940; Adagio for Strings, [arr. of 2nd movement of String Quartet], Op. 11, 1938; Agnus Dei, Op. 11, 1967; Andromache's Farewell, Op. 39, 1963; Antony and Cleopatra, opera in 3 acts after Shakespeare, 1966; arr. as orchestral Suite, 1947; Ballade, piano, Op. 46, 1977; Canzone (elegy), flute and piano, Op. 38a, 1961; Canzonetta, Op. 48 [posth.], 1981; Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21, 1944; Cello Concerto, Op. 22, 1945; Cello Sonata, Op. 6, 1932; Despite and Still: A Last Song, Op. 41, 1968-9; Die Natali, chorale preludes for Christmas, Op. 37, 1960; Dover Beach, Op. 3, 1933; Excursions, Op. 20, 1942-4; Fadograph of a Yestern Scene (after Joyce, Finnegans Wake), Op. 44, 1971; Four Songs, Op. 13, 1941; Hermit Songs, Op. 29, 1952-3; Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, 1947; Medea / Serpent Heart, ballet, Op. 23, 1946; Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a, 1953; Melodies passagères, Op. 27, 1950-51; Music for a Scene from Shelly, Op. 7, 1933; Nocturne (Homage to John Field), piano, Op. 33, 1959; Nuvoletta, Op. 25, 1947; Piano Concerto, Op. 38, 1962; Prayers of Kirkegaard, Op. 30, 1954; Reincarnations, Op. 16, 1937-40; Rev. as The Cave of the Heart 1947; Second Essay, Op. 17, 1942; Serenade, string quartet/string orchestra, Op. 1, 1930; Solo Instrumental; Sonata, piano, Op. 26, 1949; Souvenirs, ballet, 1955; Stille Nacht [arrangement of Silent Night from Die natali], Op. 37, 1960; String Quartet, Op. 11, 1936; Summer Music, wind quintet, Op. 31, 1956; Symphony [No. 1] in One Movement, Op. 9, 1936; Symphony No. 2, Op. 19, 1944; The Lovers, Op. 43, 1971; The School for Scandal, Op. 5, 1931-3; The Virgin Martyrs, Op. 8/1-2, 1936; Three Songs (Joyce), Op. 10, 1935; Three Songs, Op. 45, 1972; Toccata festiva, Op. 36, 1960; Twelfth Night, Op. 42, 1968; Two Songs, Op. 18, 1942; Vanessa, opera in 4 acts, 1956-7; Violin Concerto, Op. 14, 1939; Violin Sonata, Op. 4, 1928.

Movies and television:

20 Feet from Stardom / Sure On This Shining Night (2013); A Hand of Bridge (2017); A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019); A Nightmare on Sesame Street (1987); A Very Natural Thing (1974); Agnes Day (2009); Agnes Day (2009); Amélie (2001); American Dad! (2009); Antony & Cleopatra (1991); Antony & Cleopatra (1991); Artemis: The Neverending Quartet (2020); At Home with the Braithwaites (2001); Bodies (2023); Bravetown (2015); Camera Three (1971); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); Celeste (1991); Dancing Daze (1986); Donny (2013); Dudamel and the LA Phil Return to the Bowl (2021); El armario (2000); El Norte (1983); ER (1995); Experimenter / Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (2015); Falling for You (1995); Fermeture de l'usine Renault à Vilvoorde (La vie sexuelle des Belges, 3e partie) (1999); Ficció (2006); Hammarskjöld (2023); Happiness (1998); Himizu (2011); How I Met Your Mother (2010–2014); In My Room (2018); Jojo in the Stars (2003); Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000); Liubi (2005); Lorenzo's Oil (1992); Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (2022); Ma mère (2004); Medea (1954); Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie (2023); Misfits (2010); Moments Without Proper Names (1987); New World Symphony Wallcast Tm Concert 4 (2013); Nostalgia Critic (2011); Omnibus opera (2016); On Any Saturday (2008); One Symphony Place: A World Premiere Live from Music City (2006); Outlander (2019); Peace One Day (2004); Platoon (1986); Processen (2003); Reconstruction (2003); Red Dwarf (1999); Rusanne (2018); S1m0ne (2002); Sam & Barb's School for Scandal (2016); Samuel Barber in Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty (2017); Seinfeld (1996); Sicko (2007); Skate Boys (2015); So You Think You Can Dance (2012); South Park (2004); Spaced (1999–2001); Swimming Upstream (2003); Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006); The Ark of Madness (2007); The Bell Telephone Hour (1959); The Bonds of Springtime (2013); The Choir: Unsung Town (2009); The Cine-Masochist (2015); The Deep Blue Sea (2011); The Elephant Man (1980); The Grand Tour (2016); The Horse (1973); The Hunters (1996); The Man with the Wooden Face (2017); The Scarlet Letter (1995); The Simpsons (2003–2017); To Stay Alive: A Method (2016); Top Gear (2008); Vanessa (1978 / 2001 / 2019); Wasteland (2012); Where the Smiling Ends (2004); Wild Reeds (1994).

Born on this day – Wallace Fox:

Wallace Fox

Director

March 9, 1895 – June 30, 1958

Credits:

A Dream Came True (1945); A Son of the Sahara (1924); American Portrait (1940); Annie Oakley (1954); Arizona Territory (1950); Bad Men of the Border (1945); Blame It on Love (1940); Blazing Bullets (1951); Blazing Guns (1949); Block Busters (1944); Bowery at Midnight (1942); Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941); Bred in Old Kentucky (1926); Breed of the Sea (1926); Breed of the Sunsets (1928); Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945); Bullets for Bandits (1942); Call It Free (1955); Cannonball Express (1932); Career Girl (1944); Carnival Revue (1930); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Code of the Lawless (1945); Come and Get It! (1929); Devil on Deck (1932); Disappearing Enemies (1931); Docks of New York (1945); Driftin' Sands (1928); Evangeline (1929); Fence Riders (1950); Flying Devils (1933); Gun Packer (1938); Gun Town (1946); Gunman's Code (1946); Gunslingers (1950); Hearts and Hoofs (1930); Her Mad Bargain (1921); Jack Armstrong (1947); Joanna (1925); Kid Dynamite (1943); Laughing at Death (1929); Let's Get Tough! (1942); Little Women (1933); Madonna of the Streets (1924); Man in the Rough (1928); Men on Her Mind (1944); Million Dollar Kid (1944); Montana Desperado (1951); Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945); Mr. Sheldon Goes to Town (1939); My Son (1925); Near the Trail's End (1931); 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942); One Nutty Night (1930); Outlaw Gold (1950); Outlaws of Stampede Pass (1943); Over the Border (1950); Parading Pajamas (1931); Partners of the Trail (1931); Pillow of Death (1945); Playthings of Destiny (1921); Powdersmoke Range (1935); Pride of the Plains (1944); Racing Lady (1937); Ramar of the Jungle (1953–1954); Red Morning (1934); Riders of the Santa Fe (1944); Roots in the Soil (1949); Rustler's Round-Up (1946); Sea Goin' Sheiks (1931); Shanghaied (1927); Silver Raiders (1950); Six Gun Mesa (1950); Smart Alecks (1942); Some Babies (1930); Some Day When the Clouds Roll by (1945); Song of the Range (1944); Swell People (1930); The Amazing Vagabond (1929); The Avenging Rider (1928); The Bad Man (1923); The Bandit's Son (1927); The Bishop of the Ozarks (1923); The Corpse Vanishes (1942); The Daring Caballero (1949); The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936); The Gay Amigo (1949); The Gene Autry Show (1951–1953); The Ghost Rider (1943); The Girl from Monterrey (1943); The Girl of the Golden West (1923); The Great Mike (1944); The Invisible Fear (1921); The Lady Who Lied (1925); The Last of the Mohicans (1936); The Lawless Clan (1946); The Lone Star Vigilantes (1942); The Mexicali Kid (1938); The Mojave Kid (1927); The Range Rider (1951–1952); The Riding Renegade (1928); The Vagabond Lover (1929); The Valiant Hombre (1948); The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West (1947); Three Wise Clucks (1931); Trail of Courage (1928); Trail to Vengeance (1945); Trapped in Tia Juana (1932); Tropical Moon (1945); Twisted Tales (1931); Under the Cock-Eyed Moon (1930); West of Wyoming (1950); Western Renegades (1949); White Goddess (1953); Why Women Love (1925); Wild Beauty (1946); Yellow Dust (1936).

Born on this day – Vita Sackville-West:

Vita Sackville-West

Writer

Garden designer

March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962

Credits:

All Passion Spent (1931); All Passion Spent / Return of the Soldier / Two Days in Aragon (1987); Andrew Marvell (1933); Aphra Behn (1927); Berkeley Castle (1989); Challenge (1923); Country Notes (1940); Devil at Westease (1947); English Country Houses (1996); Even More for Your Garden (1958); Faces: Profiles of Dogs (1961); Family History (1932); Grand Canyon (1942); Grey Wethers (1923); Heir (1922); Heritage (1918); In Your Garden (1951); In Your Garden Again (1953); Joy of Gardening (1960); King's Daughter (1929); Knole and the Sackvilles (1922); Love Letters (2021); More for Your Garden (1955); No Signposts in the Sea (1960); Orchard and Vineyard (1921); Passenger to Teheran (1926); Pepita (1937); Poems of West and East (1917); Saint Joan of Arc (1936); Seducers in Ecuador (1924); Selected Poems (1941); Selected Writings (2002); Some Flowers (1937); The Dark Island (1934); The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Kuenstler (1932); The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921); The Eagle and the Dove (1943); The Easter Party (1953); The Edwardians (1930); The Garden (1946); The Illustrated Garden Book (1986); The Land (1926); The Land and The Garden (1989); The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1984); The Women's Land Army (1993); Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour (1932); Twelve Days (1987); Vita and Harold (1992); Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst (2014); Weather in the Streets / All Passion Spent / Frost in May (1994).

Born on this day – Béatrix Dussane:

Béatrix Dussane

Actress

Producer

Writer

Teacher

March 9, 1888 – September 17, 1948

Credits:

Awards:

Admission at the Comédie-Française (1903).

Books:

Au jour et aux lumières. 1 - Premiers pas dans le temple (1955); Au jour et aux lumières. 2 - Par les fenêtres (1958); Cas de conscience du comédien (1960); Dieux des planches (1964); Du nouveau sur Racine (1941); J'étais dans la salle, Paris (1963); La Comédie-Française (1960); Le Comédien sans paradoxe (1933); Le Théâtre (1958); Les Vers que je dis, pourquoi ne les diriez-vous pas (1943); Maria Casarès (1953); Mes quatre Comédies-Françaises, de Claretie à Bourdet (1939); Notes de théâtre (1940-1950) (1951); Reines de théâtre (1633-1941) (1944); Sophie Arnould, la plus spirituelle des bacchantes (1938); Un comédien nommé Molière (1956).

Stage (1903–1937):

Business is business; Don Quixote; Je suis trop grand pour moi; Jean de La Fontaine ou Le Distrait volontaire; La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas; La Coupe enchantée; La Courtisane; La Robe rouge; L'amour veille; Le Bon Roi Dagobert; Le Prince charmant; Le Quatrième; Le Voyage à Biarritz; Les Mouettes; Les Précieuses ridicules; L'Étincelle; Madame Quinze; Monsieur de Pourceaugnac; Monsieur Vernet; Poil; Romeo and Juliet; Sapho; The School for Husbands; Vautrin.

Movies and television:

École des vedettes (1958); En direct de... (1957); La galerie France 5 (2017); Le franciscain de Bourges (1968); Permission de minuit (1987); Portrait souvenir (1963); Trente-Six Chandelles (1956–1958); Tréteaux, racontez-nous / Narrator (1960).

Recommended reading - The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen E. Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry (1986):

The Making of Star Trek

By Stephen E. Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry.

Published by Del Rey.
Twenty Second Printing edition.
Published 1986.
Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0345340191
ISBN-13: 978-0345340191

Description:

"For would-be TV writers, directors and producers, this will be an education in itself, a polished but non-varnished look at how TV really works." – Publishers Weekly.

A complete history of what may be the most popular TV series ever – the original Star Trek episodes! Filled with quotations from cast members, memos to and from Gene Roddenberry, biographies of cast members, sketches, photographs, set descriptions, and even budgets and cast schedules, this volume is a fascinating, invaluable behind-the-scenes account of the development and production of the original Star Trek series.