Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/March/March 18

March 18:

Film releases

• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore

• TV series, begins airing on ABC

• 1884 - Bernard Cronin (d. 1968), a British author and journalist

Deaths

• 1978 - Leigh Brackett (b. 1915), an American science fiction author and screenwriter