Born on this day – Carmelita Geraghty:

Carmelita Geraghty

Actress

Painter

March 21, 1901 – July 7, 1966

Credits:

50 Million Frenchmen (1931); A Close Shave (1929); A Jim Jam Janitor (1928); After the Fog (1930); All's Swell on the Ocean (1924); Bag and Baggage (1923); Black Oxen (1923); Brand of Cowardice (1925); Broadway Bad (1933); Brothers (1930); Button My Back (1929); Calling Hubby's Bluff (1929); Clunked on the Corner (1929); Courageous Fool (1925); Cyclone Cavalier (1925); Daybreak (1931); Discontented Husbands (1924); Don't Get Jealous (1929); Escapade (1932); Fight and Win (1924); Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (1930); Foolish Husbands (1929); Forgotten Women (1931); Geared to Go (1924); Graft (1931); High Speed (1924); His Unlucky Night (1928); Hubby's Weekend Trip (1928); Jealous Husbands (1923); Josselyn's Wife (1926); Jungle Mystery (1932); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Malay Nights (1932); Manhattan Butterfly (1935); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Men Without Law (1930); Millie (1931); Motorboat Mamas (1928); My Best Girl (1927); My Lady of Whims (1925); Night Life in Reno (1931); Object: Alimony (1928); Paris Bound (1929); Passionate Youth (1925); Pick 'Em Young (1930); Prestige (1931); Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930); Smith's Uncle (1926); South of Panama (1928); The Bargain Hunt (1928); The Campus Carmen (1928); The Canyon of Light (1926); The Devil Plays (1931); The Flaming Signal (1932); The Flying Mail (1926); The Girl from Everywhere (1927); The Gold Digger (1924); The Good-Bye Kiss (1928); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Hawk (1931); The Last Trail (1927); The Lily (1926); The Mississippi Gambler (1929); The Mysterious Stranger (1925); The Pleasure Garden (1925); The Slaver (1927); The Small Bachelor (1927); The Texas Ranger (1931); The Title Holder (1924); This Thing Called Love (1929); Through the Dark (1924); Trouble Brewing (1924); Uncle Tom (1929); Under the Rouge (1925); Venus of Venice (1927); What Every Girl Should Know (1927); What Men Want (1930); Winning His Way (1924).

Born on this day – Bo Carter:

Bo Carter

Blues musician

Songwriter

March 21, 1893 – September 21, 1964

Credits:

Albums:

Blue Comedy Bluesman (2023); Blues Essentials (1928-1950) (2012); Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks, Vol. Two (2012); Bo Carter Vol. 1 (1928 - 1931) (2005); Bo Carter Vol. 2 (1931 - 1934) (2005); Bo Carter, Bluer Than Blues (2012); Bo Carter, Vol. 5 (1938-1940) (2014); Bo Carter's Advice (2020); Instinctively the Blues - Bo Carter (2020); Banana in Your Fruit Basket (1978); Let Me Roll Your Lemon (2024); Policy Blues (2016); Policy Blues: Bo Carter 1931 – 1940 (2013); Presenting Bo Carter (1930); Pussy Cat Blues (2007); Reality (2009); Sorry Feeling Blues (2015); Twist and Shake (2018); Twist It Babe (1931-1940) (1992); Volume One (2012).

Movies and television:

8th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1974); A Star Is Born (2018); Ambros pur! II (2008); Aufgspuit! (2008); Bandstand (1961); Corrina, Corrina (1994); Dolezal Backstage (2016); Enlightened (2011); Glädjekällan (1993); Hollywood a Go Go (1965); I'm Not There (2007); Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007); Life (1999); Ranch Party (1958); Rhythm Round-Up (1945); Rockin' the Night Away (1988); The Blues (2003); The Buddy Holly Story (1978); The United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps Band (1944); The Year My Voice Broke (1987).

Born on this day – W. S. Van Dyke:

W. S. Van Dyke

Director

Writer

March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943

Credits:

According to Hoyle (1922); After the Thin Man (1936); Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939); Another Romance of Celluloid (1938); Another Thin Man (1939); Barriers Burned Away (1925); Bitter Sweet (1940); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Cairo (1942); California (1927); Daredevil Jack (1920); Destroying Angel (1923); Double Adventure (1921); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Eskimo (1933); Eyes of the Totem (1927); Eyes of the Totem (1927); Fate's Frame-Up (1919); Foreign Devils (1927); Forget Me Not (1922); Forsaking All Others (1934); Gift o' Gab (1917); Gold Heels (1924); Guilty Hands (1931); Half-a-Dollar Bill (1924); Hearts and Spurs (1925); Hide-Out (1934); His Brother's Wife (1936); I Live My Life (1935); I Love You Again (1940); I Married an Angel (1942); I Take This Woman (1940); Intolerance / aka Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916); It's a Wonderful World (1939); Journey for Margaret (1942); Laughing Boy (1934); Love on the Run (1936); Loving Lies (1924); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marie Antoinette (1938); Men of the Desert (1917); Naughty Marietta (1935); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931); New Moon (1940); Night Court (1932); Northwest Passage (1940); A Daughter of the City (1915); Oliver Twist (1916); On Trial (1917); Open Places (1917); Orphan Joyce (1916); Penthouse (1933); Personal Property (1937); Rage in Heaven (1941); Ranger of the Big Pines (1925); Riders of the Dark (1928); Rosalie (1937); Rose-Marie (1936); Ruth of the Range (1923); Sadie Goes to Heaven (1917); San Francisco (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 15 (1920); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Spoilers of the West (1927); Stand Up and Fight (1939); Sweethearts (1938); Tarzan the Ape Man (1932); The Adventurer (1927); The Avenging Arrow (1921); The Battling Fool (1924); The Beautiful Sinner (1924); The Boss of Camp Four (1922); The Cuban Love Song (1931); The Desert's Price (1925); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Gentle Cyclone (1926); The Hawk's Trail (1919); The Heart of the Yukon (1927); The Lady of the Dugout (1918); The Land of Long Shadows (1917); The Lash (1916); The Little Girl Next Door (1923); The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row (1916); The Milky Way (1922); The Miracle Makers (1923); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Pagan (1929); The Primitive Strain (1916); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Range Boss (1917); The Thin Man (1934); The Timber Wolf (1925); The Trail Rider (1925); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Trader Horn (1931); Under the Black Eagle (1928); Unprotected (1916); War Paint (1926); White Eagle (1922); White Shadows in the South Seas (1928); Winner Take All (1924); Winners of the Wilderness (1927); Wyoming (1928).

Recommended reading - After Midnight, by Helen Nielsen (1966):

After Midnight

by Helen Nielsen.

ASIN: B0007E0IM4

Published by Morrow.

First published 1966.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

Description:

A beautiful suspect with an intense desire to kill. The murder of Roger Warren seemed like an open-and-shut case.The evening before, Roger and his dazzling wife Wanda had moved from one bar to another, fighting loudly and publicly. The next morning, the dead figure of Roger was slumped in a living room chair … while Wanda lay sleeping in bed, a bloodied knife on the pillow beside her. At the District Attorney’s office, the bereaved beauty could remember nothing . . . except an intense desire to kill.

Wallace Stevens, on writing and imagination:

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

- Wallace Stevens.

On this day in television history - Justified (2012):

Justified

Season 3. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Guy Walks Into a Bar.

Released March 20, 2012.

Directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Written by Graham Yost, VJ Boyd, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Ingrid Escajeda, Ryan Farley, Jon Worley.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Mykelti Williamson, Jeremy Davies, Jere Burns, Marshall Allman, David Andrews, Jim Beaver, Rick Gomez, David Meunier, Stephen Root, Richard Speight Jr., Demetrius Grosse, William Gregory Lee, Jenn Lyon, Neal McDonough, Abby Miller, Bonnie Burroughs, Ezra Buzzington, Karly Rothenberg, Potsch Boyd, Jasmine Lowe, Tim Scanlon.

On this day in music history:

Halflife by Lacuna Coil (2000)

Unleashed Memories by Lacuna Coil (2001)

Halflife

EP by Lacuna Coil,

released March 20, 2000.

Track list: Halflife; Trance Awake; Senzafine; Hyperfast; Stars (Dubstar cover).

Unleashed Memories

Album by Lacuna Coil,

released March 20, 2001.

Track list: Heir Of A Dying Day; To Live Is To Hide; Purify; Senzafine; When A Dead Man Walks; 1:19; Cold Heritage; Distant Sun; A Current Obsession; Wave Of Anguish; Lost Lullaby.