National Spinach Day – March 26:

 

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On this day in music history - The album Brigade, by Heart (1990)

Brigade

by Heart

was released on March 26, 1990.

On this day in movie history - Brannigan (1975)

Brannigan

directed by Douglas Hickox,

written by Christopher Trumbo, Michael Butler, William P. McGivern and William W. Norton,

based on a story by Christopher Trumbo and Michael Butler,

was released in the United States on March 26, 1975.

Music by Dominic Frontiere.

Cast:

John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon, Daniel Pilon, John Stride, James Booth, Arthur Batanides, Ralph Meeker, Barry Dennen, Lesley-Anne Down, Pauline Delaney, Del Henney, Brian Glover, Stewart Bevan, Janette Legge, Anthony Booth, Tony Robinson, Don Henderson, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Enid Jaynes.

On this day in movie history - The Illustrated Man (1969)

The Illustrated Man

directed by Jack Smight,

written by Howard B. Kreitsek,

based on the book by Ray Bradbury,

was released in the United States on March 26, 1969.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers, Tim Weldon, Christine Matchett, Pogo (the dog).

Born on this day – James Caan:

Actor

March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022

Credits:

Queen Bees (2021); The Pack Podcast (2021); JL Family Ranch 2 (2020); Out of Blue (2018); Con Man (2018); Undercover Grandpa (2017); Holy Lands (2017); The Red Maple Leaf (2016); JL Ranch (2016); Good Enough (2016); The Good Neighbor (2016); Sicilian Vampire (2015); The Wrong Boyfriend (2015); The Throwaways (2015); Preggoland (2014); A Fighting Man (2014); Back in the Game (2013–2014); The Outsider (2014); The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013); Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013); Magic City (2013); Blood Ties (2013); For the Love of Money (2012); That's My Boy (2012); Small Apartments (2012); Hawaii Five-0 (2012); Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The 4D Experience (2011); Detachment (2011); The Annoying Orange (2010); Henry's Crime (2010); Family Guy (2009); Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009); Mercy (2009); Middle Men (2009); New York, I Love You (2008); Get Smart (2008); Wisegal (2008); Las Vegas (2003–2007); The Godfather: The Don's Edition (2007); The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (2007); The Godfather: Mob Wars (2006); The Godfather (2006); Santa's Slay (2005); The Simpsons (2004); Crossing Jordan (2001); Elf (2003); Jericho Mansions (2003); The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003); Dogville (2003); Untitled Eric Gilliland Project (2002); Blood Crime (2002); City of Ghosts (2002); Lathe of Heaven (2002); This Thing of Ours (2002); Night at the Golden Eagle (2001); In the Shadows (2001); Viva Las Nowhere (2001); A Glimpse of Hell (2001); Warden of Red Rock (2001); The Way of the Gun (2000); Luckytown (2000); The Yards (2000); Mickey Blue Eyes (1999); Poodle Springs (1998); This Is My Father (1998); NewsRadio (1996); Bulletproof (1996); Eraser (1996); Bottle Rocket (1996); North Star (1996); A Boy Called Hate (1995); Flesh and Bone (1993); The Program (1993); Honeymoon in Vegas (1992); For the Boys (1991); The Dark Backward (1991); Misery (1990); Dick Tracy (1990); Alien Nation (1988); Gardens of Stone (1987); Les uns et les autres (1983); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982); Bolero (1981); Thief (1981); Hide in Plain Sight (1980); Chapter Two (1979); 1941 (1979); Comes a Horseman (1978); The Godfather Saga (1977); Another Man, Another Chance (1977); A Bridge Too Far (1977); Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976); Silent Movie (1976); The Killer Elite (1975); Rollerball (1975); Funny Lady (1975); Gone with the West (1974); The Godfather Part II (1974); Freebie and the Bean (1974); The Gambler (1974); Cinderella Liberty (1973); Slither (1973); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); The Godfather (1972); Brian's Song (1971); T.R. Baskin (1971); Rabbit, Run (1970); The Rain People (1969); Get Smart (1969); The F.B.I. (1969); Journey to Shiloh (1968); Submarine X-1 (1968); Games (1967); Countdown (1967); El Dorado (1966); Red Line 7000 (1965); The Glory Guys (1965); Wagon Train (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); Lady in a Cage (1964); Channing (1964); Breaking Point (1963); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); Combat! (1963); Death Valley Days (1963); Ben Casey (1963); Irma la Douce (1963); Dr. Kildare (1963); Wide Country (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); The Untouchables (1959); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Route 66 (1961); Play of the Week (1961); Naked City (1958).

Born on this day – Alan Arkin:

Actor

Director

Writer

March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023

Born on this day – Luke Askew:

 

Actor

March 26, 1932 – March 29, 2012

Born on this day – Leonard Nimoy:

Actor

Director

Singer

Photographer

Writer

March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015

Born on this day – Strother Martin:

 

Actor

March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980

Born on this day – Sterling Hayden:

Actor

Writer

March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986

Credits:

The Blue and the Gray (1982); Venom (1981); Gas (1981); 9 to 5 (1980); The Outsider (1979); Winter Kills (1979); King of the Gypsies (1978); The Godfather Saga (1977); 1900 (1976); Is It Any Wonder? (1975); Cry, Onion (1975); Deadly Strangers (1975); Banacek (1972); The Final Programme (1973); The Starlost (1973); The Long Goodbye (1973); Le grand départ (1972); The Godfather (1972); Angel's Leap (1971); Loving (1970); Ternos Caçadores (1969); Hard Contract (1969); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); Goodyear Theatre (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1957–1958); Ten Days to Tulara (1958); Terror in a Texas Town (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); General Electric Theater (1957); Zero Hour! (1957); Wagon Train (1957); Gun Battle at Monterey (1957); Valerie (1957); The Iron Sheriff (1957); Zane Grey Theatre (1957); Crime of Passion (1956); 5 Steps to Danger (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); The Killing (1956); The Come On (1956); Top Gun (1955); The Last Command (1955); Shotgun (1955); The Eternal Sea (1955); Timberjack (1955); Battle Taxi (1955); Suddenly (1954); Naked Alibi (1954); Johnny Guitar (1954); Arrow in the Dust (1954); Prince Valiant (1954); Fighter Attack (1953); So Big (1953); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); Crime Wave (1953); Take Me to Town (1953); Kansas Pacific (1953); The Star (1952); Flat Top (1952); The Golden Hawk (1952); Hellgate (1952); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Flaming Feather (1952); Journey Into Light (1951); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Manhandled (1949); El Paso (1949); Variety Girl (1947); Blaze of Noon (1947); Bahama Passage (1941); Virginia (1941).

Born on this day – Viktor Frankl:

Neurologist

Psychiatrist

Writer

Holocaust survivor

March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997

Credits:

Man's Search for Meaning (1946); Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (1997); On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders (2004); Psychotherapy and Existentialism (1967); The Doctor and the Soul (1955); The Unheard Cry for Meaning (2011); The Will to Meaning (1988); Viktor Frankl Recollections: An Autobiography (2000); Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (2020).

 

Born on this day – Robert Frost:

 

Writer

March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963

Credits:

Books and plays:

30 Press Presents: Classic Horror Poems Volume One (2023); A Boy's Will (1913); A Masque Of Reason (1945); A Prayer in Spring (2011); Baseball: a Literary Anthology (2002); Birches (1916); Blueberries (2014); Christmas Trees (1990); Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (1995); Come in and Other Poems (2000); Dark (2000); In the Clearing (1957); Mountain Interval (1916); New Hampshire (1923); North of Boston (1914); O Taste and See: Food Poems (2003); Selected Poems (1955); Selected Poems of Robert Frost (1955); Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1969); Swinger of Birches (1961); The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry (1992); The Collected Poems of Robert Frost (1930); The Collected Prose (2008); The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1 (2014); The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2 (2016); The Poetry of Robert Frost (1930); The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart (1992); The Road Not Taken (1916); The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (1916); The Robert Frost Collection (2011); The Runaway (1998); Versed in Country Things (1996); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); You Come Too (1916).

Poem titles:

A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury; A Brook in the City; A Cabin in the Clearing; A Concept Self-Conceived; A Considerable Speck; A Dream Pang; A Drumlin Woodchuck; A Girl's Garden; A Hundred Collars; A Late Walk; A Leaf Treader; A Line-storm Song; A Lone Striker; A Minor Bird; A Missive Missile; A Never Naught Song; A Passing Glimpse; A Patch of Old Snow; A Peck of Gold; A Prayer in Spring; A Record Stride; A Reflex; A Roadside Stand; A Servant to Servants; A Soldier; A Star In A Stone Boat; A Time to Talk; A Trial Run; A Winter Eden; A Wishing Well; Acceptance; Accidentally on Purpose; Acquainted with the Night; Acquainted with the Night; After Apple-Picking; After-Flakes; All Revelation; America is Hard to See; An Afterword; An Encounter; An Old Man's Winter Night; Asking for Roses; Assertive; At Woodward's Gardens; Atmosphere; Auspex; Away!; Bereft; Birches; Blueberries; Bond and Free; Brown's Descent, or the Willy-nilly Slide; Build Soil; But Outer Space; Canis Major; Choose Something Like a Star; Christmas Trees; Clear and Colder; Closed for Good; Come In; Cranberries at Noon; Departmental; Desert Places; Design; Devotion; Directive; Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least?; Dust in the Eyes; Dust of snow; Ends; Escapist – Never; Etherealizing; Evil Tendencies Cancel; Fire and Ice; Fireflies in the Garden; Flower-gathering; For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration; For Once, Then, Something; Forgive O, Lord; Four-Room Shack; Fragmentary Blue; From Iron; Gathering Leaves; Ghost; Going for Water; Good Hours; Hannibal; Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length; Home Burial; How Hard Is It to Keep from Being King When It's in You and in the Situation; Hyla Brook; I Will Sing You One; Immigrants; In A Disused Graveyard; In a Glass of Cider; In a Vale; In Divés' Dive; In Equal Sacrifice; In Neglect; In the Home Stretch; In Time of Cloudburst; In Winter in the Woods; Into My Own; Iris by Night; It Takes All Sorts; Kitty Hawk; Leaves Compared with Flowers; Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of a Great Success; Locked Out; Lodged; Lost in Heaven; Love and a Question; Meeting and Passing; Mending Wall; Misgiving; Moon Compasses; Mowing; My Butterfly; My November Guest; Neither Out Far nor in Deep; Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same; New Hampshire; Not All There; Not Quite Social; Nothing Gold Can Stay; Now Close the Windows; October; Of the Stones of the Place; On a Bird Winging in its Sleep; On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk); On Being Chosen Poet of Vermont; On Going Unnoticed; On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations; On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base; On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind; Once by the Pacific; One Guess; One More Brevity; Our Doom to Bloom; Out, Out; Pan with Us; Paul's Wife; Pea Brush; Peril of Hope; Pertinax; Pod of the Milkweed; Precaution; Provide, Provide; Putting in the Seed; Quandary; Questioning Faces; Range-Finding; Reluctance; Revelation; Riders; Rose Pogonias; Sand Dunes; Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight; Skeptic; Snow; Some Science Fiction; Spoils of the Dead; Spring Pools; Stars; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Storm Fear; Taken Doubly; Taken Singly; Ten mills; The Aim Was Song; The Andes; The Armful; The Axe-Helve; The Bad Island – Easter; The Bear; The Bearer of Evil Tidings; The Birthplace; The Black Cottage; The Bonfire; The Cocoon; The Code; The Cow in Apple Time; The Death of the Hired Man; The Demiurge's Laugh; The Discovery of the Madeiras; The Door in the Dark; The Draft Horse; The Egg and the Machine; The Exposed Nest; The Fear; The Figure in the Doorway; The Flood; The Flower Boat; The Freedom of the Moon; The Generations of Men; The Gift Outright; The Gold Hesperidee; The Grind-Stone; The Gum-Gatherer; The Hardship of Accounting; The Hill Wife; The Himalayas; The Housekeeper; The Investment; The Last Mowing; The Last Word of a Blue Bird; The Lesson for Today; The Line-Gang; The Lovely Shall Be Choosers; The Malverns; The Master Speed; The Milky Way Is a Cowpath; The Moon; The Most of It; The Mountain; The Need of Being Versed in Country Things; The Objection to Being Stepped on; The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs; The Onset; The Outlands; The Oven Bird; The Pasture; The Pauper Witch of Grafton; The Peaceful Shepherd; The Road Not Taken; The Rose Family; The Self-seeker; The Silken Tent; The Sound of Trees; The Span of Life; The Star Splitter; The Strong Are Saying Nothing; The Subverted Flower; The Telephone; The Thatch; The Times Table; The Trial by Existence; The Tuft of Flowers; The Vanishing Red; The Vantage Point; The Vindictives; The White-Tailed Hornet; The Witch of Coos; The Wood-pile; The Wrights' Biplane; There Are Roughly Zones; They Were Welcome to Their Belief; To A Moth Seen In Winter; To a Thinker; To Earthward; To the Thawing Wind; Tree at My Window; Two Look at Two; Two Tramps in Mud Time; Unharvested; Version; Voice Ways; Waiting Afield at Dusk; Waspish; We Vainly Wrestle; West-Running Brook; What Fifty Said; Why Wait for Science; Wind and Window Flower.

Harper Lee, on writing:

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer.

There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.

– Harper Lee.