Born on this day – Thelma Ritter:

Thelma Ritter

Actress

February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969

Credits:

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968); The Incident (1967); Boeing, Boeing (1965); Move Over, Darling (1963); A New Kind of Love (1963); For Love or Money (1963); How the West Was Won (1962); Wagon Train (1962); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); The Second Time Around (1961); Frontier Circus (1961); The Misfits (1961); Startime (1960); General Electric Theater (1960); Pillow Talk (1959); A Hole in the Head (1959); Telephone Time (1957); Kraft Theatre (1957); The Proud and Profane (1956); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955); Lucy Gallant (1955); Kraft Theatre (1955); Goodyear Playhouse (1955); Daddy Long Legs (1955); The Best of Broadway (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Rear Window (1954); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953); Pickup on South Street (1953); Titanic (1953); With a Song in My Heart (1952); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); As Young as You Feel (1951); The Mating Season (1951); All About Eve (1950); I'll Get By (1950); Perfect Strangers (1950); Father Was a Fullback (1949); City Across the River (1949); A Letter to Three Wives (1949); Call Northside 777 (1948); Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Recommended reading - Gold Coast, by Elmore Leonard (1980):

Gold Coast

By Elmore Leonard.

Published by MarinerBks.

First published 1980.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062206095

ISBN-13: 978-0062206091

Description:

“Lean, mean, darkly funny.” – Boston Globe.

“A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense.” – Dallas Morning News.

Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida’s Gold Coast and you’ll quickly discover that it’s so. In this classic Elmore Leonard thriller, a beautiful mafia widow stands to lose everything her late mob boss husband left her if she succumbs to her desire for an attractive Detroit ex-con – so the two conspire to outwit the thugs the dead capo assigned to make sure she stays chaste. Superior crime fiction in the vein of John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker – chock full of the eccentric characters, black humor, and razor-sharp dialogue for which the acclaimed creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (of TV’s Justified) is justifiably famous – Gold Coast is gold standard Leonard.

Doris Betts, on writing:

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

- Doris Betts.

On this day in movie history - Highwaymen (2004):

Highwaymen

directed by Robert Harmon,

written by Craig Mitchell and Hans Bauer,

was released in the United States on February 13, 2004.
Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Colm Feore, Gordon Currie, Andrea Roth, Noam Jenkins, Toby Proctor, James Kee, Guylaine St-Onge, Joe Pingue, Martin Roach, Ron Bell, Paul Rutledge, Kelly Jones, Bryan Renfro, Ralph Chapman, Jason McCormack, Paul Mota, Michael Stevens.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: When The Bough Breaks.

Released February 13, 1988.

Directed by Kim Manners.

Written by Hannah Louise Shearer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jerry Hardin, Brenda Strong, Jandi Swanson, Paul Lambert, Ivy Bethune, Dierk Torsek, Michele Marsh, Dan Mason, Philip Waller, Concetta D'Agnese, Jessica Bova, Vanessa Bova, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Richard Sarstedt, Guy Vardaman, McKenzie Westmore, Amy Wheaton, Jeremy Wheaton.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Tapestry.

Released February 13, 1993.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Ned Vaughn, J.C. Brandy, Clint Carmichael, Rende Rae Norman, John de Lancie, Clive Church, Marcus Nash, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, Nick Dimitri, Inez Edwards, Holiday Freeman, Goldie Gareza, Melanie Hathorn, Christi Haydon, Rad Milo, Tom Morga, Keith Rayve, Joyce Robinson.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: The Cloud.

Released February 13, 1995.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Tom Szollosi, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga, Kenneth Biller.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Angela Dohrmann, Judy Geeson, Larry Hankin, Luigi Amodeo, Johnetta Anderson, Derek Anthony, Jasmin Bischoff, Kenneth David Ebling, Tarik Ergin, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Susan Henley, Julie Jiang, Dennis Madalone, Bob Mascagno, Coleman McClary, Jaehne Moebius, Jordan Monheim, Karole Nellis, Louis Ortiz, Chad Patterson, Jerry L. Quinn, Richard Sarstedt, Marshal Silverman, Simon Stotler.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 1. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Shuttlepod One.

Released February 13, 2002.

Directed by David Livingston.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, Stephen Beck, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Jane Bordeaux, Cynthia Uhrich.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Absolute Candor.

Released February 13, 2020.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michael Chabon, Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Peyton List, Amirah Vann, Rebecca Wisocky, Ian Nunney, Evan Parke, Erik Armando Alvarez, Jaime Barcelon, Kay Bess, Donny Boaz, David Chattam, Willow Geer, Djamel Hamdad, Ken Lyle, Linda Nile, Ciro Suarez, Heather Wynters, Michele Echols, Daniel Edlund, Penelope Grimaldi, Ife Moore, Michael Eshaun York.

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Dancing with Syndication in the Pale Moonlight.

Released February 13, 2022.

Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss.

Visual Effects and animation by Jeremy Samples.

Cast: Mark A. Altman, Rick Berman, André Bormanis, David Carson, Nicole de Boer, Penny Johnson Jerald, Cirroc Lofton, Gates McFadden, Ronald D. Moore, Larry Nemecek, Denise Okuda, Michael Okuda, Andrew Robinson, Nana Visitor.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1977):

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: The Bringers of Wonder: Part 1.

Released February 13, 1977.

Directed by Tom Clegg.

Written by Terence Feely.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon, Toby Robins, Stuart Damon, Jeremy Young, Drewe Henley, Patrick Westwood, Cher Cameron, Al Lampert, Billy J. Mitchell, Earl Robinson, Robert Sheedy, Nicholas Young, Albin Pahernik, Glenda Allen, Peter Brayham, Sarah Bullen, Jenny Cresswell, Joe Dunne, David Jackson, Robert Reeves, Roy Scammell.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 20.
Episode entitled: Mugger Murder.
Released February 13, 1959.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Richard Deming and Robert C. Dennis.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Grace Raynor, Bern Hoffman, Jaclynne Greene, James Chandler, Gene Roth, Byron Morrow.