Events in Film & TV
Academy Awards
Mar 16 6th Academy Awards: "Cavalcade" and its director Frank Lloyd, Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII), and Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory) win; host Will Rogers announces "Come and get it, Frank" and Frank Capra gets up
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Mar 3 Gia Scala, Italian actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
- Mar 4 Anne Haney, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire - "Mrs. Sellner"; Liar Liar - "Greta"), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2001)
- Mar 4 Barbara McNair, American singer ("Till There Was You") and actress (They Call Me MR. Tibbs), born in Racine, Wisconsin (d. 2007)
- Mar 5 James B Sikking, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Lt. Howard Hunter"; Star Trek 3; Doogie Howser), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 5 Nicholas Smith, English actor (Are You Being Served?), born in Surrey, England (d. 2015)
- Mar 6 John Noakes, British TV presenter, born in Yorkshire, England (d. 2017)
- Mar 8 Ron Taylor, Australian cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2012)
- Mar 9 Joyce Van Patten, American actress (Good Guys; Don Rickles Show), born in Queens, New York
- Mar 11 Sam Donaldson, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time), born in El Paso, Texas
- Mar 21 Al Freeman Jr, Tx, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie), (d. 2012)
- Mar 22 Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
- Mar 22 May Britt, Swedish actress (Young Lions), and wife of Sammy Davis Jr, born in Lidingö, Sweden
- Mar 23 Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor, born in Montréal, Québec (d. 2006)
- Mar 23 Mark Rydell, American actor (Havana, Punchline, Long Goodbye), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 26 Alan Arkin, American actor (Catch-22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 31 Richard Chamberlain, American stage and screen actor (Dr. Kildare (TV series); The Thorn Birds), born in Beverly Hills, California
- Mar 31 Shirley Jones, American Academy Award-winning actress (Elmer Gantry; Oklahoma!), and singer (Partridge Family), born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania
Deaths in Film & TV
- Mar 21 Lilyan Tashman, American actress (Millie, Bulldog Drummond), dies following cancer surgery at 34
