On this day in movie history - Drive a Crooked Road (1954):

Drive a Crooked Road

directed by William Keighley,

written by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine,

based on a story by James Benson Nablo,

was released in the United States on March 10, 1954.
Music by George Duning.

Cast:

Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly, Harry Landers, Jerry Paris, Paul Picerni, Dick Crockett, Irene Bolton, John Close, Richard H. Cutting, John Damler, Linda Danson, Diana Dawson, Jean Engstrom, Mike Mahoney, Peggy Maley, Patrick Miller, Mort Mills, George Paul, Jeffrey Stone, Amzie Strickland, Howard Wright.

On this day in movie history - Journal of a Crime (1934):

Journal of a Crime

directed by William Keighley,

written by F. Hugh Herbert and Charles Kenyon,

based on the play by Jacques Deval,

was released in the United States on March 10, 1934.
A remake of Une vie perdue (1933), directed by Raymond Rouleau.
Music by Leo F. Forbstein.

Cast:

Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd, George Barbier, Douglas Dumbrille, Noel Madison, Henry O'Neill, Phillip Reed, Henry Kolker, Walter Pidgeon, Clay Clement.

Born on this day – Venetia Stevenson:

Venetia Stevenson

Actress

March 10, 1938 – September 26, 2022

Credits:

Servants of Twilight (1991); Hollywood Vice Squad (1986); Born American (1986); Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets (1984); Southern Comfort (1981); Take This Job and Shove It (1981); The Sergeant Was a Lady (1961); Studs Lonigan (1960); Seven Ways from Sundown (1960); The City of the Dead (1960); Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); The Big Night (1960); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); The Third Man (1959); Day of the Outlaw (1959); The Millionaire (1959); Island of Lost Women (1959); Lawman (1958); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); Sugarfoot (1957–1958); Violent Road (1958); Colt .45 (1958); Darby's Rangers (1958); Cheyenne (1957); Matinee Theatre (1957); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1957); Cavalcade of America (1954).

Born on this day – Alice Hirson:

Alice Hirson

Actress

March 10, 1929 – February 14, 2025

Credits:

7th Heaven (1996–2006); A Woman Called Moses (1978); ABC Afterschool Specials (1979); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); Another World (1970); Baby Blues (2000–2002); Barnaby Jones (1978); Barney Miller (1981); Bathtub Picnic (2010); Being There (1979); Blind Date (1987); Cold Case (2008); Crossings (1986); Dallas (1982–1988); Dear John (1991); Determination of Death (2001); Ellen (1994–1998); Equal Justice (1990); ER (1999); Family (1978); Flamingo Road (1981); Foley Square (1986); Full House (1987); General Hospital (1982); Godzilla: The Series (2000); Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952); Having Babies (1979); Having Babies II (1977); Home Fires (1992); Hotel (1985); Houston Knights (1987–1988); If Things Were Different (1980); If Tomorrow Comes (1986); Judging Amy (2001); Just Shoot Me! (2003); Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978); Law & Order (1993); Loose Change (1978); Loving (1993); Mancuso, FBI (1990); Mass Appeal (1984); Matlock (1986); Maude (1977); Men of a Certain Age (2011); Miss All-American Beauty (1982); Murdered: Soul Suspect (2014); Murphy Brown (1990–1996); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Night Vet (2014); Nightwing (1979); NYPD Blue (2001); One Life to Live (1971–1976); Paris (1979); Particular Men (1972); Private Benjamin (1980); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Psyko Ferret (2000); Quincy, M.E. (1977–1983); Revenge of the Nerds (1984); Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force (1978); Sitcom (1983); Slice of Water (2009); Slickers (1985); Somerset (1970–1976); St. Elsewhere (1983); Starlight Theatre (1951); Starman (1987); StarStruck (2010); Stepmonster (1993); Taxi (1981); The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985); The Big Picture (1989); The Death of Richie (1977); The Don of the Flies (2011); The Edge of Night (1956–1984); The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011); The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971); The Glass House (2001); The Lost (2006); The Magical World of Disney (1986–1987); The Ropers (1979); The Rules of Marriage (1982); The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2012); The Waltons (1977); Trash Truck (2021); Trauma Center (1983); When the Whistle Blows (1980); Will & Grace (2019).

Born on this day – Betty Amann:

Betty Amann

Actress

March 10, 1905 – August 3, 1990

Credits:

A Simple Sap (1928); Asphalt (1929); Das Lied der Nationen (1931); Daughters of Today (1933); Der Sträfling aus Stambul (1929); Der weiße Teufel (1930); Die große Sehnsucht (1930); Die kleine Schwindlerin (1933); East of Shanghai (1931); Hans in allen Gassen (1930); Hubby's Weekend Trip (1928); In Old Mexico (1938); Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943); Motorboat Mamas (1928); Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939); Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939); Niebezpieczny romans (1930); Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1930); Pyjamas Preferred (1932); Smith's Holiday (1928); Strictly Business (1931); Strictly in Confidence (1933); The Beach Club (1928); The Best Man (1928); The Big Bluff (1933); The Campus Carmen (1928); The Campus Vamp (1928); The Kick-Off (1926); The Perfect Lady (1931); The Rodeo (1929); Trail of the Horse Thieves (1929); Tugboat M 17 (1933).

Born on this day – Gregory La Cava:

Gregory La Cava

Director

Producer

March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952

Credits:

20,000 Legs Under the Sea (1917); A Bold Bad Man (1918); A Doity Deed (1920); A Heathen Benefit (1918); A Hot Time in the Gym (1917); A Picnic for Two (1918); A Quiet Day in the Country (1916); A Romance of '76 (1920); A Social Error (1922); A Sweet Pickle (1919); A Tale of a Kangaroo (1917); A Tankless Job (1917); A Tough Pull (1918); A Very Busy Day (1920); A Warm Reception (1920); A Wee Bit o' Scotch (1919); Abie Kabibble Outwitted His Rival (1917); Adventures of Mr. Nobody Holme (1916); After the Ball (1919); All for the Ladies (1918); All for the Love of a Girl (1920); Ananias Has Nothing on Hooligan (1917); Around the World in Half an Hour (1917); At the Circus (1917); At the Picnic (1917); Bang Go the Rifles (1916); Bed of Roses (1933); Big News (1929); Black's Mysterious Box (1915); Bullets and Bulls (1917); Burglars (1918); Business Is Business (1919); By the Sand Sea Waves (1917); Captain Goes a-Swimming (1916); Cartoons in a Barbershop (1915); Cartoons in a Sanitarium (1915); Cartoons in a Seminary (1915); Cartoons in the Country (1915); Cartoons in the Hotel (1915); Cartoons in the Kitchen (1915); Cartoons in the Laundry (1915); Cartoons in the Parlor (1915); Cartoons on the Beach (1915); Cartoons on Tour (1915); Chinese Question (1920); Crabs Iss Crabs (1918); Cupid's Advice (1920); Der Black Mitt (1918); Der Captain Discovers the North Pole (1917); Der Captain Goes-a-Flivvering (1917); Der Captain Is Examined for Insurance (1917); Der Captain's Birthday (1918); Der Captain's Magic Act (1916); Der Captain's Valet (1917); Der End of Der Limit (1917); Der Great Bear Hunt (1917); Der Last Straw (1917); Der Two Twins (1918); Der Wash on Der Line (1919); Doing His Bit (1918); Faint Hearts (1922); Fast and Furious (1917); Father Gets Into the Movies (1916); Fatherly Love (1921); Feel My Pulse (1928); Fifth Avenue Girl (1939); Fisherman's Luck (1918); Gabriel Over the White House (1933); Gallant Lady (1933); Good Night, Nurse (1919); Half a Bride (1928); Happy Gets the Razoo (1917); Happy Hooligan in Soft (1917); Happy Hooligan, Double-Cross Nurse (1917); Hash and Hypnotism (1918); He Tries His Hand at Hypnotism (1917); He Tries the Movies Again (1916); Hearts and Horses (1918); Helpful Hogan (1923); Hicks in Nightmareland (1915); His Country Cousin (1920); His Dark Past (1918); His First Command (1929); His Last Will (1918); His Nibs (1921); How Could William Tell? (1919); In Oil (1920); In the Zoo (1917); Iska Worreh (1917); It Beats the Dutch (1919); Jerry Ships a Circus (1916); Judge Rummy in Bear Facts (1920); Judge Rummy's Miscue (1919); Judge Rummy's Off Day (1918); Jungle Jumble (1919); Just Like a Woman (1916); Kats Is Kats (1920); Knock on the Window, the Door Is a Jamb (1920); Knocking the 'H' Out of Heinie (1919); Krazy and Ignatz Discuss the Letter 'G' (1916); Lady in a Jam (1942); Laugh and Get Rich (1931); Let's Get Married (1926); Living in a Big Way (1947); Maud the Educated Mule (1916); Mopping Up a Million (1918); Music Hath Charms (1917); My Man Godfrey (1936); Mysterious Yarn (1917); One Good Turn Deserves Another (1920); One Touch of Venus (1948); Paradise for Two (1927); Pat's Patents (1923); Peace and Quiet (1917); Pep (1918); Pigs in Clover (1919); Policy and Pie (1918); Poor Si Keeler (1916); Primrose Path (1940); Private Worlds (1935); Restless Wives (1924); Rheumatics (1918); Robbers and Thieves (1917); Round and Round Again (1916); Rub-a-Dub-Dub (1918); Rubbing It In (1919); Running Wild (1927); Saturday's Children (1929); Sauce for the Goose (1919); Say It Again (1926); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 10 (1924); Sharks Is Sharks (1917); She Married Her Boss (1935); Smart Woman (1931); Smash-Up in China (1919); Smokey Smokes (and) Lampoons (1920); Snappy Cheese (1919); So This Is Hamlet? (1923); So's Your Old Man (1926); Spirits (1918); Spring Fever (1920); Stage Door (1937); Sufficiency (1919); Swat the Fly (1918); Swinging His Vacation (1920); Symphony of Six Million (1932); Tell It to Sweeney (1927); Tempest in a Paint Pot (1917); That Reminds Me (1919); The Affairs of Cellini (1934); The Age of Consent (1932); The Animated Grouch Chaser (1915); The Best Man Loses (1918); The Breath of a Nation (1919); The Busybody (1923); The Dummy (1920); The Fiddling Fool (1923); The Four Orphans (1923); The Gay Defender (1927); The Great Handicap (1919); The Great Hansom Cab Mystery (1917); The Great Offensive (1917); The Great Umbrella Mystery (1920); The Half-Naked Truth (1932); The Latest in Underwear (1918); The Life of Reilly (1923); The Limburger Blows (1917); The Mysterious Vamp (1920); The New Recruit (1917); The New School Teacher (1924); The Pill Pounder (1923); The Sawdust Trail (1919); The Spider and the Fly (1917); The Tale of a Monkey (1917); The Tale of a Shirt (1919); The Tale of a Wag (1920); The Tales of a Fish (1917); The Tanks (1917); The Wrong Track (1920); Third, Jiggs and the Social Lion (1918); Three Strikes You're Out (1917); Throwing the Bull (1918); Too Many Cooks (1918); Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (1918); Transatlantic Flight (1919); Turn to Right Leg (1920); Twinkle Twinkle (1919); Unfinished Business (1941); Up in the Air (1918); Vanity and Vengeance (1918); War Gardens (1918); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Where Are the Papers (1919); Where Has My Little Coal Bin? (1919); White Hope (1917); Wild and Wicked (1923); Womanhandled (1925).

Born on this day – Sam Jaffe:

Sam Jaffe

Actor

Musician

March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984

Credits:

On the Line (1984); Nothing Lasts Forever (1984); The Love Boat (1983); Foul Play (1981); Battle Beyond the Stars (1980); Gideon's Trumpet (1980); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1980); Flying High (1978); Kojak (1977); The Bionic Woman (1976); The Sad and Lonely Sundays (1976); Medical Story (1975); Harry O (1975); Columbo (1975); S.W.A.T. (1975); The Best of Times (1974); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); Mooch (1974); QB VII (1974); The Snoop Sisters (1973); Saga of Sonora (1973); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Love, American Style / Love and the Wishing Star (1972); Circle of Fear (1972); Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972); The Tell-Tale Heart (1971); Enemies (1971); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? (1971); The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970); Quarantined (1970); Nanny and the Professor (1970); The Dunwich Horror (1970); Night Gallery / Escape Route (1969); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); Guns for San Sebastian (1968); Tarzan (1967); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); Batman (1966); Bonanza (1966); Daniel Boone (1965); Ben Casey (1961–1965); The Donna Reed Show (1964); The Defenders (1962); Cain's Hundred (1961); The Law and Mr. Jones (1960–1961); Naked City (1961); The Robert Herridge Theater (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1961); The Untouchables (1961); The Islanders (1961); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961); The Westerner (1960); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1959–1960); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Ben-Hur (1959); The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958); The Spies (1957); Main Street to Broadway (1953); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951); Under the Gun (1951); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); The Big Story (1949); Rope of Sand (1949); The Accused (1949); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); 13 Rue Madeleine (1947); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Gunga Din (1939); Lost Horizon (1937); We Live Again (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); A Cheap Vacation (1916).