On this day in movie history - Fire in the Sky (1993)

Fire in the Sky

directed by Robert Lieberman,

written by Tracy Tormé,

based on the book The Walton Experience by Travis Walton,

was released in the United States on March 12, 1993.

Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas, Bradley Gregg, Noble Willingham, Kathleen Wilhoite, James Garner, Georgia Emelin, Scott MacDonald, Wayne Grace, Kenneth White, Robert Covarrubias, Bruce Wright, Robert Biheller, Tom McGranahan Sr., Julie Ariola, Peter Vasquez, Gordon Scott, Mical Shannon Lewis, Courtney Esler, Holly Hoffman, Marcia MacLaine, Glen Lee, Vernon Barkhurst, Jerry Basham, Teresa Fox, Travis Walton, Susan Castillo, Jane Ferguson, Nancy Neifert, Charley Lang, Lynn Marie Sager, Mari Padron, John Breedlove, Frank Chavez, Louis A. Lotorto, Ronald Lee Marriott, Shinichi Mine, Scott M. Seekins, Eric Wilsey, Dana Walton, Natasha Henry.

On this day in movie history - The Andromeda Strain (1971)

The Andromeda Strain

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Nelson Gidding and Robert Wise,

based on the novel by Michael Crichton,

was released in the United States on March 12, 1971.

Music by Gil Mellé.

Cast:

Arthur Hill, James Olson, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Ramon Bieri, Carl Reindel, Frances Reid, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Ken Swofford, John Carter, Richard Bull, James W. Gavin, Garry Walberg, Emory Parnell, Georgia Schmidt, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Don Messick, Michael Crichton.

Born on this day – Myrna Fahey:

Actress

March 12, 1933 – May 6, 1973

Credits:

The Great American Beauty Contest (1973); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Monty Nash (1971); Peyton Place (1969); Rango (1967); The Time Tunnel (1967); Batman (1966); Perry Mason (1960–1966); Laredo (1965); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964–1965); Daniel Boone (1965); The Reporter (1964); Wagon Train (1960–1964); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1963); Laramie (1962); Here's Hollywood (1962); Father of the Bride (1961–1962); The Hour of St. Francis (1962); Man on the Beach (1961); Surfside 6 (1960–1961); Straightaway (1961); Acapulco (1961); Checkmate (1961); The Americans (1961); Thriller (1960); Bonanza (1960); Maverick (1959–1960); House of Usher (1960); The Alaskans (1960); Bachelor Father (1960); Overland Trail (1960); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959); The Story on Page One (1959); Face of a Fugitive (1959); Death Valley Days (1959); Colt .45 (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); The Ed Wynn Show (1958–1959); The Gray Ghost (1958); Flight (1958); The Light in the Forest (1958); Zorro (1958); Adventures of Superman (1958); Gunsmoke (1958); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1958); Harbor Command (1958); Matinee Theatre (1957); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Loving You (1957); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1957); West Point (1957); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); Warner Brothers Presents (1955); Kings Row (1955); Cavalcade of America (1954).

Born on this day – Georges Delerue:

 

Composer

March 12, 1925 – March 20, 1992

Credits: 

30 millions d'amis (1981); A (1965); A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972); A Little Romance (1979); A Little Sex (1982); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Man in Love (1987); A Mistress for the Summer (1960); A Show of Force (1990); A Summer Story (1988); A Time to Live (1985); A Walk with Love and Death (1969); Adieu, mes quinze ans... (1971); Agnes of God (1985); Alien Thunder (1974); All Night Long (1981); All the Memory in the World (1956); Alle Sieben Wellen (2010); Allégra (1978); Allons au cinéma (1978); Allumorphoses (1960); Along the Coast (1958); Amazing Stories (1986–1987); American Friends (1991); Americano (2011); Âmes d'argile (1955); Amos (1985); An Almost Perfect Affair (1979); André Masson et les quatre éléments (1959); Andromaque (1960); Angela (1973); Anne of the Thousand Days (1969); Arcana, connaissance de la musique (1971–1973); Arch of Triumph (1984); Arsène Lupin joue et perd (1980); Au pays de Guillaume le Conquérant (1954); Au rythme du siècle (1954); Au verre de l'amitié (1970); Bande-annonce de 'Le mépris' (1963); Banlieue Sud-Est (1977–1978); Barbe bleue (1979); Beaches (1988); Bergeval et fils (1977); Berre, cité du pétrole (1953); Biloxi Blues (1988); Black Robe (1991); Boomerang (1976); Bosphore (1964); Broken English (1981); Cadence (1990); Carné, l'homme à la camera (1985); Cartouche (1962); Casanova (1927); Céline (1992); Champs-Elysées (1983); Chère Louise (1972); Chères vieilles choses (1957); Children of the World (1971); Chillers (1990); Chouans! (1988); Chroniques de France (1968); Cine Chalom (2020); Cinéastes de notre temps (1967); Cinéma, de notre temps (1994–1996); Classe Tous Risques (1960–1965); Code Name: Dancer (1987); Confidentially Yours (1983); Contempt (1963); Countdown to Vengeance (1971); Course d'obstacles (1961); Crime Does Not Pay (1962); Crime et châtiment (1971); Crimes of the Heart (1986); Curly Sue (1991); Dandelions by the Roots (1964); Day for Night (1973); Deadly Intentions (1985); Dear Inspector (1977); Der Atem (1989); Der kleine Soldat (1971); Des hommes... une doctrine (1959); Des ruines et des hommes (1959); Descent Into Hell (1986); Diên Biên Phú (1992); Discorama (1963); Documenteur (1981); Don Carlos (1957); Du grabuge chez les veuves (1964); Enetime (1963); Entre la terre et le ciel (1959); Entre toutes les femmes (1974); Escale (1959); Escape from Sobibor (1987); Étoile de mer (1961); Èves futures (1964); Exposed (1983); Family Council (1986); Fantômas (1980); Femmes de personne (1984); Femmes Fatales (1976); Fernandel in Heureux qui comme Ulysse... (1970); Five Day Lover (1961); Fleuve invisible (1959); Fortune (1969); François Truffaut (1991); French Dressing (1964); Gaspard des montagnes (1965); Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (1989); Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978); Girl in His Pocket (1957); Give Her the Moon (1970); Greed in the Sun (1964); Guy de Maupassant (1982); Heartbreak Hotel (1988); Hélène ou La joie de vivre (1968); Her Alibi (1989); Hibernatus (1969); Highway Pick-Up (1963); Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959); Histoires de voyous (1978–1979); Horizon (1978); Huckleberry Finn (1967); Images des mondes perdus (1959); Images pour Baudelaire (1959); In the Tracks Of (2010); Incorrigible (1975); Ingénieurs de la mer (1951); Interlude (1968); Jacquou le croquant (1969); Jeudi on chantera comme dimanche (1967); Joe Versus the Volcano (1990); Josépha (1982); Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions (1979); Joyeuses commères de Windsor (1964); Jules and Jim (1962); Julia (1977); Julie pot-de-colle (1977); Jusqu'au bout du monde (1963); King of Hearts (1966); Kramer Junction (2012); La champ du possible (1962); La chute de la maison Usher (1981); La cloche tibétaine (1974); La contrebasse (1963); La corne d'or (1964); La derelitta (1978–1980); La femme de Jean (1974); La folle de Chaillot (1980); La grande cité d'Angkor (1954); La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (1984); La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession (1958); La mer et les jours (1958); La mort de Belle (1961); La naturalisée (1962); La nuit des Césars (1981); La nuit des rois (1957); La parole est au fleuve (1960); La petite vertu (1968); La première nuit (1958); La reine blanche (1991); La reine morte (1961); La rose et le sel (1965); La rue chinoise (1956); La vie continue (1981); L'africain (1983); L'âge ingrat (1964); Là-haut, les quatre saisons (1973); Laissez tirer les tireurs (1964); L'amour à la chaîne (1965); Lancelot du lac (1970); L'autre femme (1964); L'aventure et ses Terras-Nuevas (1952); Le bel âge (1960); Le bestiaire d'amour (1965); Le bon plaisir (1984); Le bonheur conjugal (1965); Le bonheur est pour demain (1961); Le bureau des mariages (1962); Le chandelier (1977); Le Cid (1962); Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur (1957); Le cousin de Callao (1962); Le dragon de Komodo (1956); Le grand échiquier (1982); Le grand escogriffe (1976); Le gros coup (1964); Le jeu du solitaire (1976); Le jeune homme vert (1979); Le journal d'Alphonse (2005); Le journal d'un fou (1963); Le largage à six heures du matin (1953); Le malade imaginaire (1971); Le mauvais (1973); Le montreur d'ombres (1959); Le mouton noir (1979); Le mystère du quai de Conti (1950); Le mythomane (1981); Le naufrage de Monte-Cristo (1977); Le Parapluie de l'éléphant de mer (1973); Le petit garçon de l'ascenseur (1962); Le point de mire (1977); Le Rescapé de Tikeroa (1981); Le revolver et la rose (1970); Le siècle a soif (1958); Le temps redonné (1964); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1964–1965); Le théâtre de la jeunesse: Le secret de Wilhelm Storitz (1967); Le village du milieu des brumes (1962); Le violon de Crémone (1967); Le volcan de la rue Arbat (1980); L'éducation sentimentale (1973); Lektionen (1963); Les amours du mal-aimé (1980); Les aveux les plus doux (1971); Les chevaux du soleil (1980); Les compagnons d'Eleusis (1975); Les cousins de la Constance (1970); Les cracks (1968); Les fleurs succombent en Arcadie (1973); Les gommes (1969); Les grandes espérances (1968); Les marines (1957); Les musiciens de la pellicule (1974); Les plaideurs (1967); Les rideaux blancs (1965); Les rois maudits (1972–1973); Les surmenés (1958); Les techniciens en pompons rouges (1952); Les théâtres de Paris (1964); Les visiteurs (1980); L'homme au parapluie (1956); L'homme qui revient de loin (1972); Liberty belle (1983); Lily Lamont (1983); L'Immortelle (1963); L'ingénu (1972); L'insoumis (1964); L'invité de FR3 (1980); Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978); L'oiseau bleu (1981); L'ondomane (1961); L'opéra-mouffe (1958); Louis de Funès, 100 ans déjà (2014); Louis Lecoin: le cours d'une vie (1966); Love and the Frenchwoman (1960); Love at Twenty (1962); Love Exists (1961); Love on the Run (1979); Love Play (1961); Love Story (2011); Love Thy Neighbor (1984); Lucky Jo (1964); Macbeth (1959); Madagascar (1954); Madame Ex (1978); Magnet of Doom (1963); Maid to Order (1987); Mais où sont les nègres d'antan? (1962); Male Companion (1964); Mam'zelle Souris (1957); Man Trouble (1992); Man, Woman and Child (1983); Marche française (1956); Marche ou crève (1960); Mary de Cork (1967); Mata Hari, agent H21 (1964); Mauregard (1970); Maxie (1985); Memories of Me (1988); Merci Natercia! (1960); Mesmerized (1985); Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (1978); Mijn vriend (1979); Milady (1977); Mira (1971); Mister Johnson (1990); Mit der linken Hand (1977); Molière pour rire et pour pleurer (1973); Mona, l'étoile sans nom (1966); Monsieur Cinéma (1980); Monsieur Laplanche (1963); Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue (1995); Nana (1981); Nevermore, Forever (1976); Night and Fog (1956); Nunca pasa nada (1963); O.S.S. 117 tue le taon (1971); On a volé la mer (1961); One Deadly Summer (1983); Oscar (1967); Oublie-moi, Mandoline (1976); Our Mother's House (1967); Our World (1967); Par-dessus le mur (1961); Paris au temps des cerises: La commune (1966); Paris by Night (1988); Paris Pick-Up (1962); Partners (1982); Paul et Virginie (1974); Paul Gauguin (1975); Picasso, romancero du picador (1961); Pierrot mon ami (1979); Pierrot the Fool (1989); Platoon (1986); Plus amer que la mort (1975); Police Python 357 (1976); Pourquoi la robe d'Anna ne veut pas redescendre (1975); Pourquoi Patricia? (1979); Practice Makes Perfect (1979); Premier voyage (1980); Première croisière (1954); Prince of the City (1981); Princes du sang (1952); Promise at Dawn (1970); Qualcosa di biondo (1984); Queenie (1987); Rapture (1965); Regards sur l'Indochine (1954); Renaud et Armide (1969); Rich and Famous (1981); Rich in Love (1992); Richard's Things (1980); Rififi in Tokyo (1963); Romulus le grand (1971); Sahara an IV (1961); Salvador (1986); Screen Two (1992); Shoot the Piano Player (1960); Show bises (1986); Silence of the Heart (1984); Silkwood (1983); Simone de Beauvoir (1979); Sin of Innocence (1986); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983); Somewhere, Someone (1972); Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1976); Steel Magnolias (1989); Stone Pillow (1985); Sultan à vendre (1974); Sunday in Peking (1956); Sunday Night (1966); Sundays and Cybèle (1960); Sur l'Arroyo (1956); Sword of Gideon (1986); That Man from Rio (1964); That Most Important Thing: Love (1975); The 25th Hour (1967); The Black Indies (1964); The Black Stallion Returns (1983); The Borgias (1981); The Brain (1969); The Conformist (1970); The Cousteau Odyssey (1978–1979); The Crucible (1957); The Day of the Dolphin (1973); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Devil by the Tail (1969); The Empty Screen or the Metaphysics of Movies (2017); The Escape Artist (1982); The Execution (1985); The French Revolution (1989); The Grilling (1981); The High Commissioner (1968); The Horse Ate the Hat (1928); The Horsemen (1971); The House on Carroll Street (1988); The Immoral Moment (1962); The Joker (1960); The Josephine Baker Story (1991); The Last Metro (1980); The Legend of Doom House (1971); The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987); The Long Absence (1961); The Love Game (1960); The Man from Chicago (1963); The Nina B. Affair (1961); The Passerby (1982); The Pick-up Artist (1987); The Pumpkin Eater (1964); The Reluctant Spy (1963); The Season for Love (1961); The Slap (1974); The Soft Skin (1964); The Song of Styrene (1958); The Sucker (1965); The Sunday of Life (1967); The Two of Us (1967); The Uninhibited (1965); The Vultures (1984); The Winner (1961); The Woman Next Door (1981); Thibaud (1969); To Kill A Priest (1988); Toine (1980); Touch and Go (1986); Tours du monde, tours du ciel (1991); True Confessions (1981); Tu enfanteras sans douleur (1956); Twins (1988); Two English Girls (1971); Two Timid Souls (1928); Un honnête homme (1963); Un otage (1970); Un Prince Belge de l'Europe, Charles-Joseph de Ligne (1963); Une alchimie (1966); Une autre vie (1971); Une question d'assurance (1960); Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux (1961); Up to His Ears (1965); Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978); Vacances au paradis (1961); Vacances portugaises (1963); Valparaiso (1963); Viva Maria! (1965); Vive le tour (1962); Voglia di volare (1984); Willie & Phil (1980); Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991); Women and War (1961); Women in Love (1969); Women of Valor (1986); Woyzeck (1964); Yvette (1971).

Born on this day – Harry Harrison:

 

Writer

March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012

Credits:

Books:

100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996); 50 in 50 (2001); A Rebel in Time (1983); A Science Fiction Reader (1973); A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985); Analog 6 (1969); Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1965 (1965); Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967 (1967); Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969 (1969); Antigrav (1975); Apeman, Spaceman (1968); Arm of the Law (1958); Backdrop of Stars (1968); Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series (1973); Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (1969); Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 (1970); Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 (1971); Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 (1972); Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 (1976); Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut (2010); Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965); Blast Off (1969); Captive Universe (1969); Confessions Illustrated (2022); Deathworld (1960); Deathworld 3 (1968); Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer (1964); Decade: The 1940's (1975); Decade: The 1950s (1976); Decade: The 1960s (1977); Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2 (2016); Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus (1968); Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (2010); Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974); Four for the Future (1969); Frontline Combat Volume 2 (2019); Frontline Combat Volume 3 (2021); Frontline Combat, Vol. 1 (2008); Galactic Dreams (1995); Great Balls of Fire (1977); Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! (2014); Hell's Cartographers (1975); Homeworld (1980); In Our Hands, the Stars / The Daleth Effect (1970); Invasion: Earth (1982); King and Emperor (1996); Make Room! Make Room! (1966); Mechanismo (1978); Montezuma's Revenge (1972); Navy Day (1954); Nebula Award Stories #2 (1966); Nova 1 (1970); Nova 2 (1972); Nova 3 / The Outdated Man (1973); Nova IV (1974); Nova One (1971); On the Planet of Bottled Brains (1990); On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1990); On the Planet of Zombie Vampires (1991); One King's Way (1994); One Step from Earth (1970); Plague from Space (1965); Planet of No Return (1981); Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation (1962); Planet Story (1979); Prime Number (1970); Psychoanalysis (2020); Queen Victoria's Revenge (1974); Return to Eden (1988); Science Against Man (1970); SF Authors' Choice 2 (1970); SF Authors' Choice 3 (1973); SF: Author's Choice (1968); Skyfall (1976); Spacecraft In Fact and Fiction (1979); Spaceship Medic (1970); Stainless Steel Rat (1961); Stainless Steel Visions (1992); Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1974); Stars and Stripes Forever (1998); Stars and Stripes in Peril (2000); Stars and Stripes Triumphant (2001); Starworld (1981); Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died (1972); Study War No More (1977); Tales from the Crypt Volume 3 (2023); Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987); Tales from the Planet Earth (1986); The 6th Annual Best SF 72 (1973); The Astounding Analog Reader (1972); The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two (1973); The Best of Harry Harrison (1977); The California Iceberg (1975); The Drabble Project (1988); The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories Volume 4 (2019); The EC Archives: Panic Volume 2 (2018); The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 4 (2017); The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 5 (2018); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 3 (2005); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5 (2019); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5 (2019); The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 (2015); The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy Volume 3 (2018); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Final Incoherent Adventure! (1992); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI (2016); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XIV (2018); The Hammer and the Cross (1993); The Idols of Wuld & Planet of the Damned (2016); The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding (1973); The Jupiter Legacy (1970); The Jupiter Plague (1965); The K-Factor (1960); The Lifeship / Lifeboat (1975); The Light Fantastic (1971); The Man from P.I.G. (1968); The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. (1974); The Misplaced Battleship (1960); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Planet of the Hippies from Hell / On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (1991); The Planet of the Robot Slaves (1989); The QEII is Missing (1980); The Repairman (1958); The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982); The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987); The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996); The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999); The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010); The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World (1971); The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994); The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978); The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970); The Technicolor Time Machine (1967); The Turing Option (1992); The Velvet Glove (1956); The Year 2000 (1970); The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); There Won't Be War (1991); Toy Shop (2010); Toy Shop and Two Others (2009); Tunnel Through the Deeps / A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (1972); Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1965); Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 (2007); Two-Fisted Tales Volume 3 (2016); Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 2 (2007); War with the Robots (1962); Weekend Book of Science Fiction (1981); Weird Fantasy Volume 1 (2016); Weird Science Volume 1 (2006); Weird Science, Vol. 2 (2007); West of Eden (1984); Wheelworld (1981); Winter in Eden (1986); Wondermakers 2 (1974); Worlds of If, February 1969 (1969); You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (1985).

Movies and television:

Bill the Galactic Hero (2014); New Nightmares (1993); Perversions of Science (1997); Prisoners of Gravity (1993); Soylent Green (1973); The Book Programme (1975–1979); The History of the SF Film (1982); Time Out of Mind (1979).

Born on this day – Jack Kerouac:

 

Writer

March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969

Credits:

Books:

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945); Atop an Underwood (1987); Beat Generation (1992); Big Sur (1962); Book of Blues (1995); Book of Dreams (1960); Book of Haikus (2003); Book of Sketches (1957); Collected Poems (1971); Dear Carolyn (1983); Departed Angels (2004); Desolation Angels (1965); Door Wide Open (2000); Dr. Sax (1959); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Field of Fantasies (2014); Good Blonde & Others (1993); Heaven and Other Poems (1977); Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010); Lonesome Traveler (1960); Mexico City Blues (1959); Old Angel Midnight (1973); On the Road (1957); Orpheus Emerged (2002); Pic (1971); Piers of the Homeless Night (2018); Pomes All Sizes (1992); Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (2019); San Francisco Blues (1991); Satori in Paris (1966); Scattered Poems (1971); Selected Letters, 1940-1956 (1995); Selected Letters, 1957-1969 (1999); Some of the Dharma (1997); The Dharma Bums (1958); The Haunted Life (2014); The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960); The Sea Is My Brother (1942); The Subterraneans (1958); The Town and the City (1950); The Unknown Kerouac (2016); Trip Trap (1973); Tristessa (1960); Vanity of Duluoz (1967); Visions of Cody (1960); Visions of Gerard (1963); Wake Up (2008); Windblown World (1947); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movie:

On the Road (2012).

Born on this day – Millard Kaufman:

 

Writer

March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009

Credits:

Books:

Bowl of Cherries (novel) (2008); Misadventure (2010); Plots & Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting (2001).

Movies and television:

Aladdin and His Lamp (1952); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Convicts 4 (1962); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Expanding World Relationships (1947); Gun Crazy (1950); Kung-Fu Magoo (2010); Living Free (1972); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); Never So Few (1959); Police Story (1976); Punchy de Leon (1950); Ragtime Bear (1949); Raintree County (1957); Raintree County (1957); Take the High Ground! (1953); The Klansman (1974); The Nativity (1978); The War Lord (1965); Trouble Indemnity (1950); Unknown World (1951).

Born on this day – Jesse Fuller:

 

Blues singer

Songwriter

Harmonica player

Guitarist

March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976

Kimberly Willis Holt, on writing:

Write every day.
Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can.
I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
- Kimberly Willis Holt.