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M. Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024)

Paul Scofield (January 21, 1922 – March 19, 2008)

Pioneering comedian/actor Jackie "Moms" Mabley was born today in 1897. #botd

Elvis Presley made a $1,000 cash deposit down payment on Graceland on March 19, 1957.

The Academy Awards were televised for first time on March 19, 1953. #Oscars were awarded at RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood and televised on NBC. Winners included THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, and Gloria Grahame. #OnThisDay

The final episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” titled "The Last Show," premiered on CBS on March 19, 1977.

#TCM is celebrating Betty Compson today. She was #botd in 1897.

Happy 90th birthday to Ursula Andress!

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Good on Jon Ossoff for exposing Donald Trump for using a dead soldier’s casket in a fundraising email. One of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen from any politician in my 20-year career.

Anthony Minghella (January 6, 1954 – March 18, 2008), pictured with his Academy Award for Best Director for THE ENGLISH PATIENT in 1997.

Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in a production still for Hitchcock’s THE 39 STEPS (1935).

Natasha Richardson (May 11, 1963 – March 18, 2009)

🚨HOLY SH*T: Mark Kelly just showed Tulsi Gabbard a Trump email to donors promising he’d let them in national security briefings for cash. "Do you think (his) supporters should be able to pay and receive private national security briefings?" Gabbard: …

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

Peggy Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978)

Fess Parker (August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010)

The M*A*S*H episode "Abyssinia, Henry,” the shocking S3 finale, originally aired on March 18, 1975.

Vilma Bánky (January 9, 1901 – March 18, 1991)

Birthday remembrance - Robert Donat #botd