Events in Film & TV
Golden Globes
Mar 10 5th Golden Globes: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, & Rosalind Russell win
- Mar 11 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
Film & TV History
Mar 15 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
- Mar 15 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 18 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
- Mar 20 1st live televised symphony performances: Eugene Ormandy leads Philadelphia Orchestra on CBS, followed 90 minutes later by Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Orchestra on NBC
Academy Awards
Mar 20 20th Academy Awards: "Gentleman's Agreement", Loretta Young, Ronald Colman win
- Mar 21 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
Tony Awards
Mar 28 2nd Tony Awards: "Mister Roberts" (Play); Henry Fonda (Actor) and Joshua Logan (Director) win
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Mar 3 Byron MacGregor, newscaster
- Mar 5 Elaine Paige, British musical theater singer and actress (Evita; Sunset Boulevard), born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
- Mar 8 Jethro [Geoffrey Rowe], British stand-up comedian (This Train Don't Stop Camborne Wednesdays), born in St Buryan, Cornwall, England (d. 2021)
- Mar 11 Dominique Sanda [Varaigne], French actress (The Conformist, 1900, First Love), born in Paris, France
- Mar 13 Robert S. Woods, American actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons), born in Maywood, California
- Mar 14 Billy Crystal, American actor, writer and producer (Soap, City Slickers), born in Long Beach, New York
- Mar 20 John de Lancie, American actor (Star Trek Next Generation - "Q"; Days of Our Lives), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Mar 22 Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist (CNN), born in Augsburg, Germany
- Mar 25 Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter (Watchdog), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2020)
- Mar 28 Dianne Wiest, American Academy, Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe Award-winning stage and screen actress (Bullets Over Broadway; Parenthood; Hannah & Her Sisters), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- Mar 28 Matthew Corbett, British actor (The Sooty Show), born in Guiseley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Mar 29 (Walter) "Bud" Cort, American actor (M*A*S*H(film); Brewster McCloud; Harold and Maude), born in New Rochelle, New York
- Mar 30 Justin Deas, American actor (As The World Turns, Santa Barbara), born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania
- Mar 31 Rhea Perlman, American Emmy Award-winning actress (Taxi - "Zena"; Cheers - "Carla"), born in Brooklyn, New York
Weddings in Film & TV
- Mar 5 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
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