Events in Film & TV
- Mar 1 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast
Grammy Awards
Mar 2 9th Grammy Awards: "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra wins best record, "Michele" by The Beatles best song
Music Single
Mar 20 The Supremes release single "The Happening"
- Mar 20 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
Film Premiere
Mar 21 Musical comedy film "Thoroughly Modern Millie", starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing, premieres at the Criterion Theatre, NYC
- Mar 29 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Mar 1 George Eads, American actor (CSI), born in Fort Worth, Texas
- Mar 3 Elizabeth Cheshire, actress (Jill-Sunshine), born in Burbank, California
- Mar 4 Tim Vine, English comedian (Not Going Out) and presenter (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), born in London, England
- Mar 6 Connie Britton, American actress (Spin City, Friday Night Lights), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Mar 11 John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor, singer, presenter and writer (Captain Jack Harkness-Doctor Who), born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Mar 14 Melissa Brennan Reeves, American actress (Jen-Days of our Lives), born in Eatontown, New Jersey
- Mar 15 Pierre Coffin, French animator, film director, voice of the Minions (Despicable Me franchise), born in France
- Mar 16 Lauren Graham, American actress and author (Gilmore Girls, Parenthood), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Mar 20 Bryan Genesse, actor, (Rocco-Bold & Beautiful, Grady-Street Justice)
- Mar 23 Sandra Reinhardt, Pitts, actress (Another World, Illegal in Blue)
- Mar 25 Doug Stanhope, American comedian
- Mar 27 Talisa Soto, American actress (License to Kill), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Mar 30 Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress, singer (Give A Reason), and lyricist, born in Kita Tokyo, Japan
Weddings in Film & TV
Liza Minnelli
Mar 3 American singer Liza Minnelli (20) weds Australian singer-songwriter Peter Allen (23); divorce 1974
Deaths in Film & TV
- Mar 2 Gordon Harker, British actor (Facts of Love, Champagne, Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
- Mar 5 Mischa Auer [Ounskowsky], Russian actor (My Man Godfrey), dies from a heart attack at 61
- Mar 6 Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
- Mar 11 Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
- Mar 11 Joseph Forte, British-American actor (Reefer Madness; Life With Luigi), dies at of a heart attack at 75
- Mar 17 Richard Reeves, American character actor (The Adventures of Superman; Date With an Angel), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 54
- Mar 23 Duncan Macrae, Scottish actor (Casino Royale, The Little Kidnappers), dies at 61
- Mar 27 David L. Snell, American pianist and composer for films (MGM Studio), dies at 69
- Mar 31 Don Alvarado [Jose Page], American actor (Captain Thunder, Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies from cancer at 66
