Events in Film & TV
Grammy Awards
Mar 1 36th Grammy Awards: "I Will Always Love You"; Whitney Houston; Sting; Toni Braxton; Mary Chapin-Carpenter win
- Mar 7 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top
People's Choice Awards
Mar 8 20th People's Choice Awards: Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Arnold win (TV)
- Mar 10 1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouri's funeral
Film & TV History
Mar 18 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
- Mar 20 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Indecent Proposal" wins
- Mar 20 WrestleMania X, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Bret Hart beats Yokozuna to win WWF Championship
Academy Awards
Mar 21 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
Music History
Mar 21 English actor Dudley Moore arrested for hitting his girlfriend
Not a Moment Too Soon
Mar 22 "Not a Moment Too Soon" second studio album by Tim McGraw is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)
Film & TV History
Mar 23 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Mar 14 Ansel Elgort, American actor (Fault in our Stars), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 16 Sierra McClain, American actress (Sierra James-Daddy's Little Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia
- Mar 29 Sulli [Choi Jin-ri], South Korean K-pop singer (f(x)) and actress (Fashion King), born in Basun, South Korea (d. 2019)
Weddings in Film & TV
Ricki Lake
Mar 26 American actress and talk show hostess Ricki Lake (25) weds American illustrator Rob Sussman (28) in Las Vegas, Nevada; divorce in 2004
Deaths in Film & TV
John Candy (1950-1994)
Mar 4 Canadian actor and comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies of a heart attack at 43
- Mar 6 Leighton Noble [Faye Leighton Jepson], American big band singer, bandleader, and TV host, dies at 81
- Mar 6 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, activist and politician, dies of lung cancer at 73
- Mar 6 Tengiz Abuladze, Soviet Georgian filmmaker (Repentance), dies at 70
- Mar 8 John Ewart, Australian radio, stage, and screen actor (The Muddle-Headed Wombat.; The Picture Show Man), dies of throat cancer at 65
- Mar 9 Charles Bukowski, German-born American columnist (Notes of a Dirty Old Man) and writer (Hollywood: A Novel) who was described as a "laureate of American lowlife", dies of leukemia at 73
- Mar 9 Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
- Mar 9 Fernando Rey [Arambillet], Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time), dies of bladder cancer at 76
- Mar 9 John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
- Mar 15 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
- Mar 17 Harold Myers, British film journalist (Variety), dies at 81
- Mar 17 Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm), dies of cancer at 68
- Mar 20 Don Goddard, American news anchor (ABC Evening News, 1958-59), dies at 89
- Mar 20 Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
- Mar 21 Dack Rambo, American actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
- Mar 21 Lili Damita [Liliane Carré], French actress and wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
- Mar 21 Macdonald Carey, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Lock Up), dies of cancer at 81
- Mar 23 Giulietta Masina, Italian actress, (La Strada; Nights of Cabiria; The White Sheik) and wife of director Federico Fellini, dies of lung cancer at 73
- Mar 23 Jim Moloney, American actor and writer, dies of Parkinson's disease at 64
- Mar 29 Bill Travers [William Inge Lindon-Travers], British actor, director, officer and animal rights activist (Born Free, Gorgo), dies at 72
- Mar 29 Paul Grimault, French animator (Le Roi et l'oiseau), dies at 89
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