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:

To the day and to the lights. 1 - First Steps in the Temple (1955); To the day and to the lights. 2 - Through the Windows (1958); Case of conscience of the actor (1960); Gods of the Boards (1964); Du nouveau sur Racine (1941); I was in the hall, Paris (1963); La Comédie-Française (1960); The Comedian without paradox (1933); The Theatre (1958); The verses I say, why do you not Would You Not Say (1943); Maria Casarès (1953); My four Comédies-Françaises, from Claretie to Bourdet (1939); Notes de théâtre (1940-1950) (1951); Queens of theatre (1633-1941) (1944); Sophie Arnould, the wittiest of the Bacchantes (1938); An Actor Named Molière (1956).

Internship (1903–1937):

Business is business; Don Quixote; I'm too big to me; Jean de La Fontaine or The Voluntary Distracted; The Countess of Escarbagnas; The Enchanted Cup; The Courtisan; The Red Dress; Love watches; The Good King Dagobert; Prince Charming; The Fourth; The Journey to Biarritz; Seagulls; The Precious Ridiculous; The Spark; Madame Quinze; Monsieur de Pourceaugnac; Mr. Vernet; Hair; Romeo and Juliet; Sappho; The School for Husbands; Vautrin.

Movies and television:

École des vedettes (1958); Live from... (1957); La galerie France 5 (2017); The Franciscan of Bourges (1968); Permission of midnight (1987); Souvenir Portrait (1963); Thirty-six Candles (1956–1958); Stage Narrator (1960).

Born on this day – Lilian Braithwaite:

Lilian Braithwaite

Actress

March 9, 1873 – September 17, 1948

Credits:

A Man About the House (1947); A Man of Mayfair (1931); Because (1918); Castles in Spain (1920); Dombey and Son (1917); Downhill (1927); Garryowen (1920); General Post (1920); I Stand Condemned (1934); Justice (1917); Mary-Find-the-Gold (1921); Masks and Faces (1917); Motherhood (1915); The Chinese Puzzle (1919 / 1932); The Gay Lord Quex (1917); The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917); The World's Desire (1915); Venetian Nights (1931).

Stan Lee, on writing:

To me, writing is fun.

It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

- Stan Lee.

Go Pens!

March 8, 2026

Pittsburgh Penguins: 5

Boston Bruins: 4

YEAH!

GO PENS!

On this day in movie history - Mine 9 (2019):

Mine 9

directed and written by Eddie Mensore,

was released at Cinequest in the United States on March 8, 2019.

Music by Mauricio Yazigi.

Cast:

Terry Serpico, Mark Ashworth, Kevin Sizemore, Clint James, Drew Starkey, Erin Elizabeth Burns, Alpha Trivette, Francine Locke, Elizabeth Houston, Annie Thrash, Owen Vaccaro, Tuesday Beebe, Vanley Boro, Shelby Tsuhlares, Patrick Lemon, Karl Funk, Joseph W. Peterson Jr., Brian J. Cain, Richard Langsmith, John Vella, Dave Jones, Brendon Lewis, Sheldon Lewis, Brecken Lewis, Matthew Keegan Osburn, Scottie Hurley, Tom Sayers, Ralph Campbell, Roger Looney, Dan Justice, Josh Rowe, Brandon May.