Saturday, March 16, 2024
On this day in movie history - For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)
On this day in movie history - Breathless (1960)
Born on this day – Jerry Lewis:
Credits:
3 Ring Circus
(1954); Arizona Dream (1993); Artists and Models (1955); At War with the Army
(1950); Batman (1966); Ben Casey (1965); Boeing, Boeing (1965); Brothers
(1985); Cinderfella (1960); Cookie (1989); Cracking Up (1983); Curious George
2: Follow That Monkey! (2009); Don't Give Up the Ship (1959); Don't Raise the
Bridge, Lower the River (1968); Fight for Life (1987); Funny Bones (1995); Good
Grief (1991); Hardly Working (1980); Hollywood or Bust (1956); Hook, Line and
Sinker (1969); How Are the Kids? (1990); How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the
Border (1949); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); It's Only Money (1962);
Jerry Lewis Live (1984); Jumping Jacks (1952); Komedy Kapers (1956); Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit (2006); Li'l Abner (1959); Living It Up (1954); Mad
About You (1993); Max Rose (2013); Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis (2011);
Money from Home (1953); Mr. Saturday Night (1992); My Friend Irma (1949); My
Friend Irma Goes West (1950); Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000); One More
Time (1970); Par où t'es rentré? On t'a pas vu sortir (1984); Pardners (1956);
Pink Lady (1980); Red Line 7000 (1965); Road to Bali (1952); Rock-a-Bye Baby
(1958); Sailor Beware (1952); Saturday Night Live (1983); Scared Stiff (1953);
Sheriff Who (1967); Slapstick of Another Kind (1982); Startime (1959); Super
Force (1990); That's Life (1979); That's My Boy (1951); The Bellboy (1960); The
Big Mouth (1967); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1970); The Caddy (1953); The
Day the Clown Cried (1972); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Disorderly
Orderly (1964); The Errand Boy (1961); The Family Jewels (1965); The Geisha Boy
(1958); The Jerry Lewis Show (1963–1969); The King of Comedy (1982); The Ladies
Man (1961); The Nutty Professor (1963); The Nutty Professor (1996); The Nutty
Professor (2008); The Patsy (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1970); The Sad Sack
(1957); The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show (1966); The Simpsons (2003); The Stooge
(1951); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1970); The Trust (2016); Three
on a Couch (1966); Till Luck Do Us Part 2 (2013); To Catch a Cop (1984); Visit
to a Small Planet (1960); Way... Way Out (1966); Which Way to the Front?
(1970); Who's Minding the Store? (1963); Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit
Down (1970); Wiseguy (1988–1989); You're Never Too Young (1955).
Born on this day – Leo McKern:
Actor
March 16, 1920 - July 23, 2002
Credits:
2nd House
(1974); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Slight Ache (1965); A Tale of Two
Cities (1958); Agent 8 3/4 (1964); Alice in Wonderland (1966); All for Mary
(1955); Arena (1976); Armchair Theatre (1959–1967); Assignment Foreign Legion
(1957); Assignment K (1968); BBC Play of the Month (1973); BBC Sunday-Night
Theatre (1956–1958); Beatles Help Unseen Film Footage (1965); Bird's-Eye View
(1969); Candleshoe (1977); Chain of Events / London Story (1958); Children of
the Damned (1964); Chronicle (1978); Churchill's People (1975); Circles of
Deceit: Sleeping Dogs (1996); Confess, Killer (1957); Contrasts (1968); Damien:
Omen II (1978); Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968); Doctor in Distress
(1963); Drama (1977); Drama 61-67 (1962); Federation (1999); Film Night (1970);
Flight of the Dove (1957); Good King Wenceslas (1994); Great Performances
(1986); Hawkins' Rivers (1982); Help! (1965); Holiday in Spain (1960); Horizon
(1990); Hour of Mystery (1957); I Like Money (1961); ITV Play of the Week
(1957–1961); ITV Playhouse (1982); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1973); ITV
Television Playhouse (1957–1961); Jazz Boat (1960); King & Country (1964);
King Lear (1983); Ladyhawke (1985); Late Show London (1966); Leading the Blind
(1962); Lieutenant Kije (1979); Lisa (1962); Love Story (1965); Mafia No!
(1967); Massacre in Rome (1973); Molokai (1999); Murder in the Cathedral
(1951); Murder with Mirrors (1985); Noah (1960); Now You're Talking (1979);
Omnibus (1978); Our Mutual Friend (1976); Play for Today (1975–1981); Reilly:
Ace of Spies (1983); Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992); Ryan's Daughter (1970);
Saturday Playhouse (1960); Screen One (1993); Screen Two (1992); Sea Tales: The
Return (1977); Shades of Greene (1975); Snow, Sand and Savages: The Life of
Frank Hurley (1972); Some of Our Airmen Are No Longer Missing (1990); Space:
1999 (1975); Sunday Night (1965–1966); Sunday Story (1964); Sykes and A...
(1961); Tempo (19664); The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
(1975); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(1962); The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965); The Blue Lagoon (1980);
The Chain (1984); The Comet Is Coming! (1981); The Critical Point (1957); The
Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961); The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981); The
High Commissioner (1968); The House on Garibaldi Street (1979); The Last
Tasmanian (1978); The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1979); The Magical
World of Disney (1963); The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1972); The March of the
Peasants (1952); The Mouse That Roared (1959); The Nativity (1978); The Omen
(1976); The Prisoner (1967–1968); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Running
Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959); The Savage (1977); The Shoes of the
Fisherman (1968); The Sun Is God (1974); The Voyage of Bounty's Child (1984);
The Wednesday Play (1968); The Widows of Jaffa (1957); The World About Us
(1968); Theatre Night (1959–1989); They All Died Laughing (1964); Thirty-Minute
Theatre (1966); Time Without Pity (1957); Travelling North (1987); Travelling
North: Original Cast Screen Tests (1986); Web of Evidence (1959); Wogan (1989);
X the Unknown (1956); Yesterday's Enemy (1959).
Born on this day – Mercedes McCambridge:
Credits:
99 Women
(1969); A Farewell to Arms (1957); ABC Stage 67 (1966); About Faces (1960); All
the King's Men (1949); Amazing Stories (1987); Angel Baby (1961); Bewitched
(1968); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bonanza (1962–1970);
Cagney & Lacey (1988); Charlie's Angels (1978); Cimarron (1960); Climax!
(1955); Dr. Kildare (1964); Echoes (1982); Flying High (1978); Front Row Center
(1955–1956); Giant (1956); 'Giant' Stars Are Off to Texas (1955); Gunsmoke
(1971); Hagen (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Illinois Special: I Remember
Illinois (1968); Inside Straight (1951); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside
Theatre (1958); Johnny Guitar (1954); Killer by Night (1972); Lamp Unto My Feet
(1963); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lightning Strikes Twice (1951); Lost in
Space (1966); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1952); Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving
Pictures (1983); Magnum, P.I. (1981); Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969); Medical
Center (1970); Night Line (1964); One Man's Family (1949); Overland Trail
(1960); Panic! (1958); Rawhide (1959–1965); Riverboat (1959); Run Home, Slow
(1965); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1951);
Sixteen (1972); Spectrum (1958); Studio One (1953–1956); Suddenly, Last Summer
(1959); Tales of Tomorrow (1953); The 18th Annual Tony Awards (1964); The 25th
Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 26th
Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1952); The 26th Annual Tony Awards
(1972); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 60th Annual Academy Awards
(1988); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The Alan Young Show (1951); The
Bob Braun Show (1975–1981); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Concorde...
Airport '79 (1979); The Counterfeit Killer (1968); The Dakotas (1963); The
David Frost Show (1972); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors (1963); The Doctors
and the Nurses (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Exorcist (1973); The
Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Girls of Huntington House (1973); The Joey
Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Loretta Young Show (1956); The Mike Douglas Show
(1966–1974); The Name of the Game (1971); The Other Side of the Wind (2018);
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Red Skelton Hour (1957–1959); The
Sacketts (1979); The Scarf (1951); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); Thieves (1977); Tomorrow Coast to
Coast (1974); Touch of Evil (1958); Two for the Money (1972); Vacation
Playhouse (1965); Wagon Train (1957); Warner Pathé News Issue # 87 (1955); What's
My Line? (1951); Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975); Wire Service (1956–1957).
Born on this day – Frances Fuller:
Vickie Karp, on reading and writing:
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