On this day in movie history - The Naked City (1948)

The Naked City
a.k.a. Naked City

directed by Jules Dassin,

written by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, and based on a story by Malvin Wald,

was released in the United States on March 4, 1948.

Narrated by Mark Hellinger.

Music by Miklós Rózsa and Frank Skinner.

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them. 
– Narrator.

Cast:

Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia, House Jameson, Anne Sargent, Adelaide Klein, Grover Burgess, Tom Pedi, Enid Markey, Walter Burke, Virginia Mullen, Mark Hellinger.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)
 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 4. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: The Killing Game.

Released March 4, 1998.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Bryan Fuller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Danny Goldring, Mark Deakins, Mark Metcalf, J. Paul Boehmer, Paul Eckstein, Sam Alejan, Walter Altman, David Keith Anderson, John Austin, Brett Bell, Bernie Bielawski, Vladimir Blokh, Harry Boykoff, Paul Chipello, Robert Cox, Alexander Denk, Christopher Doyle, Ken Gruz, Peter Hendrixson, Dieter Horneman, Laird Macintosh, Marie Micheaux, Beth Persky, Irving Ross, Janine Stillo, John Wilkie.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 4. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: The Killing Game, Part II.

Released March 4, 1998.

Directed by Victor Lobl.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Bryan Fuller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Danny Goldring, Mark Deakins, Mark Metcalf, J. Paul Boehmer, Paul Eckstein, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Michael Bailous, Robert Cox, Alexander Denk, Brendan McIvor Fleming, Ken Gruz, Dieter Horneman, Elliott James, Laird Macintosh, Dennis Madalone, Angus McLellan, Marie Micheaux, John Wilkie.

On this day in television history - Justified (2014)

Justified
Season 5. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Whistle Past the Graveyard.

Released March 4, 2014.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano, Leonard Chang.

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

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Michael Rapaport, Kyle Bornheimer, A.J. Buckley, Dale Dickey, William Forsythe, Damon Herriman, Jesse Luken, Jacob Lofland, Danielle Panabaker, Amy Smart, Alicia Witt, Deidrie Henry, J. Anthony Pena, Justin Welborn, Jocelyn Ayanna, Monty Cox, Justin Huen, Anthony Ledesma, Jorge Lopez, Rolando Molina, Vincent Rivera, Russell Bertolino, David Meunier, Lisa Pevc, Jason Tobias.

On this day in music history - Don't Look Back, Fallen, and Centered

Don’t Look Back by John Lee Hooker (1997)

Fallen by Evanescence (2003)

Centered by Sherry Finzer & Karasvana (2022)

 

Don’t Look Back

Album by John Lee Hooker,

released March 4, 1997.

Track list: Dimples; The Healing Game; Ain't No Big Thing; Don't Look Back; Blues Before Sunrise; Spellbound; Travellin' Blues; I Love You Honey; Frisco Blues; Red House; Rainy Day.

Fallen

Album by Evanescence,

released March 4, 2003.

Track list: Going Under; Bring Me to Life; Everybody's Fool; My Immortal; Haunted; Tourniquet; Imaginary; Taking Over Me; Hello; My Last Breath; Whisper.

 

Centered

Album by Sherry Finzer & Karasvana,

released March 4, 2022.

Track list: Music of the Spheres; Sacred Spiral; Encircling the Illusion.

Tom Clancy, on writing:

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of white is filled with words.

If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

- Tom Clancy.

Recommended reading - Archer in Hollywood

 

Archer in Hollywood

by Ross MacDonald.

Published by Knopf.
Published 1967.

First edition.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 9997402529
ISBN-13: 978-9997402523
 
Description:

Anthology of three of Ross MacDonald’s novels, featuring the character private detective Lew Archer: The Moving Target; The Way Some People Die; The Barbarous Coast.

Born on this day – Ruby Dandridge:

Ruby Dandridge

Actress

March 3, 1900 – October 17, 1987

Credits:

A Hole in the Head (1959); A Night for Crime (1943); Beulah (1952); Black Moon (1934); Bosko's Easter Eggs (1937); Broken Strings (1940); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Can't Help Singing (1944); Carolina Blues (1944); Checkmate (1960); Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943); Corregidor (1943); Dead Reckoning (1946); Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Father of the Bride (1961–1962); Flop Goes the Weasel (1943); For All the People (1946); Front Row Center (1956); Gallant Lady (1942); Hat Check Honey (1944); Home in Oklahoma (1946); I Dood It (1943); Inside Job (1946); Junior Miss (1945); King Kong (1933); Ladies of Washington (1944); Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals (1937); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Matinee Theatre (1956); Melody Parade (1943); Midnight Shadow (1939); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Never a Dull Moment (1943); Road to Zanzibar (1941); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 9: The Judy Canova Radio Show (1946); Silly Billy (1948); Silver Skates (1943); Tap Roots (1948); The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1955); The Arnelo Affair (1947); The Clock (1945); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Night Before the Divorce (1942); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); Tish (1942); Yancy Derringer (1959).