Born on this day – Henry Hathaway:

 

Director

Producer

March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985

 

Credits:

13 Rue Madeleine (1947); 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956); 5 Card Stud (1968); 75 Years of Cinema Museum (1972); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–1980); Airport (1970); An Eye for an Eye (1966); Bachelor Brides (1926); Behind the Make-Up (1930); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Brigham Young (1940); Call Northside 777 (1948); China Girl (1942); Circus World (1964); Come On, Marines! (1934); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Down to the Sea in Ships (1949); Empty Hands (1924); Fourteen Hours (1951); From Hell to Texas (1958); Garden of Evil (1954); Go West Young Man (1936); Grounds for Divorce (1925); Hangup (1974); Heritage of the Desert (1932); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Greats (1977); Home in Indiana (1944); Honest Hutch (1920); How the West Was Won (1962); Hula (1927); I Loved a Soldier (1936); Jes' Call Me Jim (1920); Johnny Apollo (1940); Jubilo (1919); Kiss of Death (1947); Legend of the Lost (1957); Lest We Forget (1937); Lord Jim (1925); Madame X (1920); Man of the Forest (1933); Mantrap (1926); Morocco (1930); Motion Picture Stars Attend Premiere of 'Call Northside 777' (1948); Nevada Smith (1966); Niagara (1953); Night After Night (1932); Nob Hill (1945); North to Alaska (1960); Now and Forever (1934); O. Henry's Full House (1952); Of Human Bondage (1964); Open All Night (1924); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Prince Valiant (1954); Raid on Rommel (1971); Rawhide (1951); Redskin (1929); Roads of Destiny (1921); Seven Thieves (1960); Shoot Out (1971); Souls at Sea (1937); Spawn of the North (1938); Sundown (1941); Sunset Pass (1933); Talking Film (1981); Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942); The Awakening (1928); The Black Rose (1950); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Call of the Canyon (1923); The Dark Corner (1946); The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951); The Dressmaker from Paris (1925); The House on 92nd Street (1945); The Last Round-Up (1934); The Last Safari (1967); The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935); The Love Doctor (1929); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The Moviemakers (1985); The Racers (1955); The Real Glory (1939); The Rough Riders (1927); The Shepherd of the Hills (1941); The Shopworn Angel (1928); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Slim Princess (1920); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); The Storm Woman (1917); The Texan (1930); The Thundering Herd (1925); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936); The Virginian (1929); The Way of All Flesh (1927); The Witching Hour (1934); The World and Its Woman (1919); To the Last Man (1933); True Grit (1969); Under the Tonto Rim (1933); Underworld (1927); White Witch Doctor (1953); Wild Horse Mesa (1932); Wing and a Prayer (1944); Wolf Song (1929); Woman Obsessed (1959); You're in the Navy Now (1951).

Born on this day – Clara Smith:

Blues singer

March 13, 1894 – February 2, 1935

 
Credits:

Ain't Nothin' Cookin' What You're Smellin' / Separation Blues (1926); All Night Blues / Play It (Do It a Long Time Papa) (1923); Broken Busted Blues / Court House Blues with Louis Armstrong; Cheatin' Daddy / You Don't Know Who's Shakin' Your Tree (1927); Court House Blues / The L & N Blues (1926); Don't Never Tell Nobody / Waitin' for the Evenin' Mail (1923); Ease It / Percolatin' Blues (1927); Far Away Blues / I'm Going Back to My Used to Be (1923); For Sale / You Dirty Dog (1931); Freight Train Blues / Done Sold My Soul to the Devil (And My Heart's Done Turned to Stone) (1924); Frosty Mornin' Blues / Easy Come Easy Go Blues; Gin Mill Blues / Got My Mind on That Thing (1929); Good Looking Papa Blues / Don't Advertise Your Man (1924); He's Mine, All Mine / Steel Drivin' Sam (1925); How'm I Doin' / Whip It to a Jelly (1926); I Got Everything A Woman Needs / Every Woman's Blues (1923); I Never Miss the Sunshine (I'm So Used to the Rain) / Awful Moanin' Blues (1923); I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down / You Don't Know My Mind (1924); Irresistible Blues / I Want My Sweet Daddy Now (1923); It's Tight Like That / Daddy Don't Put That Thing on Me Blues (1929); Jelly Look What You Done Done / It's All Coming Home to You (1928); Kansas City Man Blues / Uncle Sam Blues (1924); Kind Lovin' Blues / Down South Blues (1923); Livin' Humble / Get on Board (1927); Mean Papa Turn in Your Key / Back Woods Blues (1924); My Good for Nuthin' Man / When I Steps Out (1925); Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin' / If You Only Knowed (1925); Nobody's Blues but Mine / My Man Blues (1925); Oh! Mister Mitchell / Where Is My Man (1930); Ol' Sam Tages / Unemployed Papa-Charity Workin' Mama (1931); Papa I Don't Need You Now / Tired of the Way You Do (1929); San Francisco Blues / Chain Gang Blues (1924); Shipwrecked Blues / My John Blues; Steamboat Man Blues / Sobbin' Sister Blues (1928); That's Why The Undertakers Are Busy Today / Black Woman's Blues (1927); The Basement Blues / Mama's Gone, Good Bye (1924); The Market Street Blues / It Takes the Lawd (To Tell What's on My Mind) (1925); Troublesome Blues / You Can't Get It Now (1927); Wanna Go Home / Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (1928); West Indies Blues / The Clearing House Blues (1924).

Albert Einstein, on imagination:

 

Imagination is everything.

It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein.
 

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).