Events in Film & TV
Music Recording
Mar 27 Frank Sinatra records "I'm a Fool to Want You"
Academy Awards
Mar 29 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Judy Holliday and José Ferrer win
Theater Premiere
Mar 29 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King and I", based on the novel "Anna and the King of Siam", opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 1,246 performances, winning 5 Tony Awards; Star Yul Brynner would lead the cast of the 1956 film version, and play the role over 4,200 times
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Mar 2 Cassie Yates, Macon Ga, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty)
- Mar 4 Gwen Welles, American actress (Desert Hearts, Sticky Fingers), born in NYC, New York (d. 1993)
- Mar 4 Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer ("Nerai uchi"), and actress (Kamen Island), born in Kitakyushu, Japan
- Mar 5 Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor
- Mar 9 Zakir Hussain, Punjabi tabla virtuoso, composer, producer (Global Drum Project), and film actor, born in Mahim, India
- Mar 12 Caren Kaye, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 13 Fred Berry, African-American actor (Rerun-What's Happening), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2003)
- Mar 14 Rigdon "Rick" Dees, American actor, voice artist and radio disc jock (The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown), born in Jacksonville, Florida
- Mar 16 Kate Nelligan, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle), born in London, Ontario
Kurt Russell (72 years old)
Mar 17 American actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
- Mar 18 (Patrick) "Paul" Barber, English stage and screen actor (The Full Monty; Only Fools and Horses - "Denzil"), born in Liverpool, England
- Mar 20 Tanya Boyd, actress (Celeste-Days of our Life), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Mar 23 Lis Howell, British broadcaster (director of programs GMTV), born in Liverpool. England
- Mar 28 Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician, born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1995)
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