Born on this day – Cyd Charisse:

Cyd Charisse

Actress

Dancer

March 8, 1922 - June 17, 2008

Credits:

Empire State Building Murders (2008); Frasier (1995); Burke's Law (1995); Swimsuit (1989); Crazy Like a Fox (1986); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Glitter (1984); Sentimental Journey (1984); The Fall Guy (1984); Fantasy Island (1978–1983); Portrait of an Escort (1980); The Love Boat (1979); Hawaii Five-O (1978); Warlords of the Deep (1978); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Medical Center (1975); Fol-de-Rol (1972); Maroc 7 (1967); The Silencers (1966); Assassination in Rome (1965); Something's Got to Give (1962); Two Weeks in Another Town (1962); Checkmate (1961); Five Golden Hours (1961); Black Tights (1960); Party Girl (1958); Twilight for the Gods (1958); Silk Stockings (1957); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); It's Always Fair Weather (1955); Deep in My Heart (1954); Brigadoon (1954); Easy to Love (1953); The Band Wagon (1953); Sombrero (1953); Singin' in the Rain (1952); The Wild North (1952); The Mark of the Renegade (1951); ast Side, West Side (1949); Tension (1949); Words and Music (1948); The Kissing Bandit (1948); On an Island with You (1948); The Unfinished Dance (1947); Fiesta (1947); Till the Clouds Roll By / Roberta (1946); Three Wise Fools (1946); The Harvey Girls (1946); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); This Love of Mine (1944); In Our Time (1944); Thousands Cheer (1943); Something to Shout About (1943); This Love of Mine (1942); The Gay Parisian (1941); Escort Girl (1941).

Born on this day – Claire Trevor:

Claire Trevor

Actress

March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000

Credits:

Breaking Home Ties (1987); Murder, She Wrote (1987); The Love Boat (1983); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982); The Cape Town Affair (1967); How to Murder Your Wife (1965); The Stripper (1963); Dr. Kildare (1962); Two Weeks in Another Town (1962); The Investigators (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1961); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960); The Untouchables (1959); Wagon Train (1959); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Marjorie Morningstar (1958); Playhouse 90 (1957); The Mountain (1956); Producers' Showcase (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); Climax! (1956); Lucy Gallant (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); Man Without a Star (1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1954); The High and the Mighty (1954); General Electric Theater (1954); The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); My Man and I (1952); Hoodlum Empire (1952); Best of the Badmen (1951); Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951); Borderline (1950); The Lucky Stiff (1949); The Babe Ruth Story (1948); Key Largo (1948); The Velvet Touch (1948); Raw Deal (1948); Born to Kill (1947); The Bachelor's Daughters (1946); Crack-Up (1946); Johnny Angel (1945); Murder, My Sweet (1944); The Woman of the Town (1943); Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943); The Desperadoes (1943); Street of Chance (1942); Crossroads (1942); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); Texas (1941); Honky Tonk (1941); Dark Command (1940); Allegheny Uprising (1939); I Stole a Million (1939); Stagecoach (1939); Five of a Kind (1938); Valley of the Giants (1938); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938); Walking Down Broadway (1938); Big Town Girl (1937); Second Honeymoon (1937); Dead End (1937); One Mile from Heaven (1937); King of Gamblers (1937); Time Out for Romance (1937); Career Woman (1936); 15 Maiden Lane (1936); Star for a Night (1936); To Mary - with Love (1936); Human Cargo (1936); Song and Dance Man (1936); My Marriage (1936); Navy Wife (1935); Dante's Inferno (1935); Spring Tonic (1935); Black Sheep (1935); Elinor Norton (1934); Baby, Take a Bow (1934); Wild Gold (1934); Hold That Girl (1934); Jimmy and Sally (1933); The Mad Game (1933); The Last Trail (1933); Life in the Raw (1933); The Imperfect Lover (1932); The Meal Ticket (1931); Good Times (1931).

Born on this day – Maxine Jennings:

Maxine Jennings

Actress

March 8, 1909 – January 11, 1991

Credits:

Hawaii Five-O (1968); My Three Sons (1964); G.I. War Brides (1946); Mr. Wong, Detective (1938); The Dummy Owner (1938); Breakfast for Two (1937); The Big Shot (1937); On Again-Off Again (1937); There Goes My Girl (1937); Wrong Romance (1937); You Can't Buy Luck (1937); The Woman I Love (1937); Sea Devils (1937); We're on the Jury (1937); They Wanted to Marry (1937); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Dog Blight (1936); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936); Walking on Air (1936); Mary of Scotland (1936); Bunker Bean (1936); The Last Outlaw (1936); Fight is Right (1936); The Witness Chair (1936); Murder on a Bridle Path (1936); The Farmer in the Dell (1936); Love on a Bet (1936); Follow the Fleet (1936); Radio Barred (1936); Muss 'em Up (1936); Chatterbox (1936); I Dream Too Much (1935); Counselitis (1935); Another Face (1935); Old Man Rhythm (1935); A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935); Roberta (1935); Maybe It's Love (1935); Honeymooniacs (1929); The Godless Girl (1928).

Born on this day – Louise Beavers:

Louise Beavers

Actress

March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962

Credits:

The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961); The Facts of Life (1960); All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Frontier Doctor (1959); The Goddess (1958); Tammy and the Bachelor (1957); Playhouse 90 (1957); Teenage Rebel (1956); You Can't Run Away from It (1956); Good-bye, My Lady (1956); Star Stage (1956); General Electric Theater (1955); The Danny Thomas Show (1953–1954); Stories of the Century (1954); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); Beulah (1952); I Dream of Jeanie (1952); Colorado Sundown (1952); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951); The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951); My Blue Heaven (1950); The Jackie Robinson Story (1950); Girls' School (1950); Tell It to the Judge (1949); For the Love of Mary (1948); Good Sam (1948); A Southern Yankee (1948); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Banjo (1947); Lover Come Back (1946); Young Widow (1946); Delightfully Dangerous (1945); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Dixie Jamboree (1944); South of Dixie (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); Jack London (1943); Top Man (1943); All by Myself (1943); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Good Morning, Judge (1943); Tennessee Johnson (1942); Seven Sweethearts (1942); The Big Street (1942); Holiday Inn (1942); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Young America (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Belle Starr (1941); Kisses for Breakfast (1941); Sign of the Wolf (1941); Virginia (1941); I Want a Divorce (1940); No Time for Comedy (1940); Primrose Path (1940); Women Without Names (1940); Parole Fixer (1940); Reform School (1939); The Lady's from Kentucky (1939); Made for Each Other (1939); Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938); The Headleys at Home (1938); Brother Rat (1938); Life Goes On (1938); Scandal Street (1938); The Last Gangster (1937); Love in a Bungalow (1937); Wings Over Honolulu (1937); Make Way for Tomorrow (1937); Rainbow on the River (1936); General Spanky (1936); Wives Never Know (1936); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Annapolis Farewell (1935); Million Dollar Baby (1934); West of the Pecos (1934); Imitation of Life (1934); I Give My Love (1934); Dr. Monica (1934); Beggar's Holiday (1934); The Merry Frinks (1934); Cheaters (1934); Merry Wives of Reno (1934); I Believed in You (1934); Glamour (1934); Registered Nurse (1934); Strictly Fresh Yeggs (1934); The Woman Condemned (1934); A Modern Hero (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); I've Got Your Number (1934); Bedside (1934); Palooka (1934); Grin and Bear It (1933); Jimmy and Sally (1933); In the Money (1933); Only Yesterday (1933); Bombshell (1933); Notorious But Nice (1933); A Shriek in the Night (1933); Her Bodyguard (1933); Midnight Mary (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); What Price Innocence? (1933); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Big Cage (1933); Central Airport (1933); Pick-up (1933); The Phantom Broadcast (1933); Girl Missing (1933); 42nd Street (1933); Hunting Trouble (1933); Her Splendid Folly (1933); She Done Him Wrong (1933); Too Busy to Work (1932); Hesitating Love (1932); Wild Girl (1932); Hell's Highway (1932); Divorce in the Family (1932); Doctor X (1932); Unashamed (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); The Dark Horse (1932); Street of Women (1932); The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932); Night World (1932); Young America (1932); You're Telling Me (1932); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); The Expert (1932); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Good Sport (1931); Girls About Town (1931); Reckless Living (1931); Sundown Trail (1931); Annabelle's Affairs (1931); Party Husband (1931); 6 Cylinder Love (1931); Don't Bet on Women (1931); Millie (1931); Paid (1930); Knights Before Christmas (1930); Bright Lights (1930); Outside the Law (1930); Manslaughter (1930); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Recaptured Love (1930); Back Pay (1930); Safety in Numbers (1930); True to the Navy (1930); Honey (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1930); Wide Open (1930); Second Choice (1930); Nix on Dames (1929); Wall Street (1929); Barnum Was Right (1929); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Thunderbolt (1929); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Coquette (1929); Seeing the World (1927); Oriental Hugs (1928); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927).

Born on this day – Mississippi John Hurt:

Mississippi John Hurt

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966

Credits:

Albums:

1928 Sessions (1979); Ain't Nobody's Business (2008); American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt (2017); Avalon (2018); Avalon Blues (2012); Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings (1996); Blues Essentials (2008); Blues Routes Mississippi John Hurt (2009); Bluesville Presents (2024); Candy Man (2009); Candy Man Blues (2019); Christian Hymns - Delta Blues (2018); Coffee Blues (1995); D.C. Blues - The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2 (2000); D.C. Blues: The Library of Congress Recordings, Volume 1 (2004); Discovery (2021); Folk Songs and Blues (1963); Frankie & Albert (2005); Got The Blues (Can't Be Satisfied) (2008); I'm Satisfied (2005); Last Sessions (1966); Legend (1997); Live (2002); Live Blue Notes (2015); Louis Collins (2015); Make Me A Pallet (1991); Mississippi John Hurt Memorial Anthology (1994); Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (2021); Rediscovered (1998); Remastered from the Archives (2018); Satisfied (1960); Spike Driver Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings (Bonus Track Version) (2016); Stack O' Lee (2019); Stack o' Lee Blues (2015); The Best Of (1971); The Candy Man (2017); The Complete Studio Recordings (2000); The Greatest Songsters: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, 1927-1929 (1990); The Immortal (2006); The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt (1967); The Library of Congress Sessions, July 1963 (2014); The Rough Guide to Mississippi John Hurt (2019); Today! (1966); Vanguard Visionaries (2007); Worried Blues (1964).

Songs:

Ain't No Tellin'; Avalon Blues; Avalon, My Home Town; Beulah Land; Big Leg Blues; Blue Harvest Blues; Boys, You're Welcome; Candy Man Blues; Coffee Blues; Corrinna, Corrinna; Goodnight Irene; Got the Blues; Hey, Honey, Right Away; Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight; If You Don’t Want Me, Baby; I'm Satisfied; Joe Turner Blues; Louis Collins; Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor; Monday Morning Blues; My Creole Belle; Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home; Praying on the Old Camp Ground; Richland Women Blues; Shortnin' Bread; Spanish Fandang; Spider, Spider; Spike Driver Blues; Stack O'Lee Blues; Stagolee; The Chicken; You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley.

Movies and television:

A Man Called Hurt: The Life and Music of Mississippi John Hurt (2024); A Rosewood Daydream (1970); American Epic (2017); Dead Season (2012); Deadwood (2004); Festival (1967); Field Day (2004); Following Sean (2005); Infinitely Polar Bear (2014); Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2013); Mr. Mercedes (2017–2018); P.O.V. (2007); Passage to Mars (2016); Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013); Shadrach (1998); Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021); The Blues (2003); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); The Natural History of the Chicken (2000); The Yellow Handkerchief (2008); This Hour Has Seven Days (1966); Two Trains Runnin' (2016); Walk the Line (2005); Welcome to the Basement (2015).

Recommended reading - Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek, by Nana Visitor (2024):

Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek

By Nana Visitor.

Published by Insight Editions.

Published 2024.

Hardcover.

ASIN: B0C7P8NTH2

ISBN-13: 979-8886633016

Description:

Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.

The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 was a paradigm shift for women and people of color. Pioneering is no picnic, and she planned to leave the show until none other than the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. contextualized her appearance in people’s living rooms across America as a way for people of color to know they were indeed an important part of the future.

Since then, each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a future of equality. In her first book, Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how each show was trapped in its own era.

For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s also about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last sixty years, and how the role of women has changed in that time.

STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with more than a dozen women who starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin-Green, Terry Farrell, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Tawny Newsome, and Jess Bush.

INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. For the book, author Nana Visitor visited ESA HQ and interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station.

PIONEERING SERIES: Following the humanistic tenets of creator Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, throughout the decades, led the way in promoting diversity. Youths who grew up with Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, for example, not only learned to accept a woman as a leader but were also able to expand what they could imagine for themselves. The book makes clear how important storytelling is, and how the storytelling of Star Trek has had a profound effect on its audience.

Anne McCaffrey, on writing:

That's what writing is all about, after all,

making others see what you have put down on the page

and believing that it does, or could, exist

and you want to go there.

- Anne McCaffrey.