Video: 'Diner' trailer
(Friday, March 5, 1982) — Diner, a comedy-drama film about a group of male high school friends, now in their twenties, who reunite for the wedding of one of their group, opened today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Barry Levinson, the film starred Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser and Claudia Cron.
Video: '49th Parallel' trailer
(Thursday, March 5, 1942) — 49th Parallel, a film about a stranded German U-boat crew that tries to evade capture in Canada during World War II, premiered tonight in New York (it had already premiered in London on Oct. 8, 1941).
Directed by Michael Powell, the film stars Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier and Raymond Massey.
(Friday, March 5, 1512) — Cartographer Gerardus Mercator, creator of the Mercator Projection map of the world, was born today in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, Holy Roman Empire.
'The Good Samaritan' behind-the-scenes
(Wednesday, March 4, 1992, 9:30 p.m. ET) — Jerry tracks down a hit-and-run driver, then he wants to date her on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV sitcom Seinfeld.
(Saturday, March 4, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Tabitha has to take a test to prove her intelligence and is very nervous on tonight’s episode of the ABC-TV situation comedy series Bewitched.
(Sunday, March 4, 1962, 8 p.m. EST) — Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain talks about his record setting 100 point game on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
(Tuesday, March 4, 1952) — Ronald Reagan, 41, and Nancy Davis, 30, were married today in a simple ceremony designed to avoid the press at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
The only people in attendance were actor William Holden, the best man, and his wife, actress Brenda Marshall, the matron of honor.
(Saturday, March 4, 1922) — Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel, opened today in Berlin.
Directed by F. W. Murnau, the classic German Expressionist horror film stars Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
(Monday, March 4, 1912) — Groundbreaking took place today for Ebbets Field, a Major League Baseball park located in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957.
(Wednesday, March 1, 1972, 10:00 p.m. ET) — A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice–an earwig–in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV anthology series Night Gallery.
