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Catherine II 5/2/1729 - 11/17/1796 German-born empress of Russia (1762-96), source mat'l Tyrone Power, Sr. 05/02/1869 - Dec 23, 1931 performer; father of Tyrone Power, Jr. - 1922 The Rivals [prod'd by The Players Club](Pedro De Cordoba); 1922 Hamlet (John Barrymore); 1927 Julius Caesar (Harry Davenport, Basil Rathbone) Hedda Hopper 05/02/1885 - 2/1/66 gossip columnist; wife of DeWolf Hopper (1913 - 1922) divorced, mother of William Hopper - The Pied Piper (DeWolf Hopper); Divided By Three (Ju...

Junius Brutus Booth 05/01/1796 - 11/30/1852 performer, the 1 that started it all: father of Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. who excelled as a theatrical manager, while Edwin Booth surpassed his father as an actor. A third son was the accused assassin of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth; he, himself, was a contemporary of Kean Kate Smith 5/1/1909 - 6/17/1986 the American singer who was considered the "first lady of radio," was born. 1931 - Singer Kate Smith began her long and illustrious radio ca...

Bert Wheeler 04/07/1895 - 1/18/1968 comedy partner of actor Robert Woolsey, performer - Ziegfeld Follies of 1923; Rio Rita (Robert Woolsey, Ada-May); New Priorities of 1943; Laugh Time (Ethel Waters, Frank Fay); 3 Wishes for Jamie (John Raitt); The Gang's All Here (E. G. Marshall) Walter Winchell 4/7/1897 - 2/20/1972 vaudeville performer, journalist, gossip columnist: New York Mirror, radio commentator: “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.” Billie Holiday 04/07/1915 -...

Harry Houdini 03/24/1874 - 10/31/1926 Brother of Theo Hardeen, Husband of Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner (June 22, 1894 - October 31, 1926) his death, American magician and escape artist - 1918 & 1926 Harry Houdini Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle 03/24/1887 - Jun 29, 1933 performer - Baby Mine (Humphrey Bogart); film's The Lizzies of Mack Sennett Mabel and Fatty Keystone Comedies with Charlie Chaplin Richard Conte 3/24/1910 - 4/15/1975 performer - film's I?ll Cry Tomorrow, The Godfather, Hotel, A Walk in...

Hazel Dawn 03/23/1891 - Aug 28, 1988 performer - The Demi-Virgin (Charley Ruggles); Keep Kool (Ruby Stevens [aka Barbara Stanwyck, her last bway show before going off to Hollywood]; My Romance (Anne Jeffreys); tv's & film's Kraft Television Theatre; Devotion; Margie (Jeanne Crain) Joan Crawford 03/23/1905 - May 10, 1977 performer - film's Academy Award-winning actress: Mildred Pierce [1945]; A Woman?s Face, Night Gallery, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Above Suspicion, Grand Hotel Akira Kur...

Joseph Schildkraut 03/22/1895 - Jan 21, 1964 performer - Liliom; The Firebrand (Frank Morgan, Edward G. Robinson); Alice in Wonderland (Howard Da Silva, Eva Le Gallienne, Burgess Meredith); Clash by Night (Tallulah Bankhead, Lee J. Cobb); The Diary of Anne Frank (Susan Strasbergm, Jack Gilford, Lou Jacobi, Dennie Moore) Karl Malden [Mladen Sekulovich] [Birthname] 03/22/1919 performer ? origs Golden Boy; Key Largo; All My Sons; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Desperate Hours; The Egghead; tv?s &...

Johann S. Bach 3/21/1685 - 7/28/1750 German composer of the Baroque era - Gottes Zeit, Toccata and Fugue in d minor, Little Organ Book, Mass in B Minor, Magnificat, solo cello sonatas Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. 03/21/1867 - July 22, 1932 Director, Theatre Owner/Operator, producer husband of Billie Burke (1913 - 1932) his death, Anna Held (1897 - 1913) divorced - Ziegfeld Follies: annual variety shows famous for the Ziegfeld Girls [1907-1930s]; Sally; Show Boat; He will go on to become one of the m...

Henrik Ibsen 03/20/1828 - May 23, 1906 writer - revolutionized world theatre with his realistic dramas A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, Rosmersholm and Peer Gynt. The only Ibsen I've seen is Janet McTeer's Doll house and Kate Burton's Hedda Gabler. I know it's gilding the lily to say the plays are brilliant, but I must also add that both actresses were enthralling, especially McTeer. Michael Redgrave 03/20/1908 - 3/21/1985 - He will play opposite the likes of Olivier and Gielgud. His wif...

Moms Mabley 03/19/1894 - May 23, 1975 performer; Stage Name was "Jackie" Mabley, the name of an old boyfriend. - Fast & Furious (Etta Moten); Blackberries of 1932; Swingin' The Dream (Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Dandridge, Dorothy McGuire); films: Boarding House Blues, Emperor Jones, Amazing Grace, Killer Diller Hugh Wheeler 03/19/1912 - Jul 26, 1987 writer - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Knight, Doris Rich); A Little Night Music; Candide; Sweeney Todd; Meet Me in St. Louis; film's...

Johann Strauss, Sr. 03/18/1804 - Sep 24, 1849 Composer - The Great Waltz; 3 Waltzes Edward Everett Horton 3/18/1886 - 9/29/1970 performer - 1912 Elevating a Husband; 1951 Springtime for Henry; tv's & film's narrator: Fractured Fairy Tales on The Bullwinkle Show; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Lost Horizon, Sex and the Single Girl, Arsenic and Old Lace; Gay Divorcee; Shall We Dance; His Horace Hardwick in TOP HAT was super! Smiley (Lester Alvin) Burnette 3/18/1911 - 2/16/1967 performer, 1 of...

Shemp Howard 03/17/1895 - Nov 23, 1955 performer, member of 3 Stooges - A Night in Spain (Helen Kane); A Night in Venice; The Three Stooges films Gloria Swanson 3/17/1899 - 4/4/1983 another source says 3/27/1899; wife of Wallace Beery (1916 - 1919) divorced, performer; studied to be an opera singer - A Goose for the Gander; Bathsheba; 1950 Twentieth Century; Nina (David Niven); film's 1934 Music in the Air (John Boles, Douglass Montgomery, Marjorie Main); Sunset Blvd; Queen Kelly; Sadie Thomp...

James Madison 3/16/1751 - 6/28/1836 4th president of the United States (1809-17); source mat'l - 1776 Conrad Nagel 03/16/1897 - 2/24/1970 performer - A Goose for the Gander (Gloria Swanson); 1951 Music in the Air; Goodbye, My Fancy (Sam Wannamaker, Madeline Carroll, Shirley Booth); Be Your Age (Hildy Parks, Lee Remick, Patricia Ripley); 4 Winds (Ludmilla Toretzka, Ann Todd); The Captains and the Kings (Joseph Campanella, Lee Grant, Peter Graves, Gavin MacLeod, Charles Ruggles); film's The Mys...

George Brent 03/15/1904 - May 26, 1979 husband of Constance Worth (1937 - 1937) divorced, Ann Sheridan (1942 - 1943) divorced, Ruth Chatterton (1932 - 1934) divorced, performer - Love, Honor and Betray (Clark Gable, Glenda Farrell, Alice Brady); film's my fav's Dark Victory & The Spiral Staircase Margaret Webster 03/15/1905 - Nov 13, 1972 daughter of Ben Webster & May Whitty, performer - 1938 Hamelt (Maurice Evans); 1940 12th Night (Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans); 1941 Macbeth (Judith Anderson, ...

Johann, elder Strauss 3/14/1804 - 9/24/1849 Austrian composer of Viennese waltzes; & what a scandal it was to dance the `waltz back then! Albert Einstein 3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955 Nobel Prize-winning physicist [1921]: developed the Theory of Relativity; source mat'l Horton Foote 03/14/1916 - 3/4/2009 Writer, Performer; father of Hallie Foote - The Day Emily Married; The Coggerers; Only The Heart (Mildred Dunnock, June Walker); Six O'Clock Theatre (Frederic March, E. G. Marshall); The Chase (John ...

Harold Stone 03/13/1913 - Nov 18, 2005 Producer, Director, Performer, Stage Manager - Honeymoon (Thomas Mitchell); One Touch of Venus; Abraham Cochrane (Olympia Dukakis, Ann Harding); A Way of Life [never officially opened]; Ring Around the Bathtub (Carol Kane, Elizabeth Ashley) Tessie O'Shea 03/13/1913 - Apr 21, 1995 performer - The Girl Who Came to Supper; A Time for Singing (Steven Boockvor); Something's Afoot (Gary Beach, Liz Sheridan); Broadway Follies; film's The Way Ahead, The Russians...

Vaslav Nijinsky 3/12/1890 - 4/8/1950 Russian ballet dancer, source mat'l - Nijinksy George White 03/12/1892 - Nov 11, 1968 Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Director, Performer, Theatre Owner/Operator - George White Scandles series; Runnin' Wild (Elizabeth Welsh, George Stephens) Roger L. Stevens 3/12/1910 - 2/2/1998 producer: West Side Story, Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons, Tea and Sympathy, Deathtrap, First Monday in October, Mary, Mary; founding chairman: National Council on the Arts,...

Dorothy Gish 03/11/1898 - Jun 4, 1968 performer, sister of Lillian Gish, wife of James Rennie (12/26/1920 - 1935) divorced - The Streets of New York, or Poverty is No Crime; Morning's at Seven (Enid Markey); The Magnificent Yankee (Louis Calhern); The Man (Peggy Ann Garner, Richard Boone); film's Orphans of the Storm; Centennial Summer (1 of the worst films ever made); Our Hearts Were Young & Gay (adorable film!) Jessie Matthews 03/11/1907 - Aug 20, 1981 mother of Catherine Countess Grixoni (...

I can't find it anywhere on the site. Does anyone have a link? Thanks a bunch? Milla

Today would have been my dear friend Gilda Drago Van Berger’s 89th birthday! This lady had more energy than any bunch of people I know & loved life to the very end. She could have written a book: "Been There, Done That and Back Again!" It was she who taught me that “We’re not here for a long time. We’re here for a good time! So make it magical. Live, Love & Laugh!" Happy Birthday, Gilda! Barry Fitzgerald 03/10/1888 - Jan 4, 1961 performer, Brother of Arthur Shields - 1934 & 1940 Juno and the ...

Modest Mussorgsky 3/9/1839 - 3/16/1881 Russian composer who wrote "Boris Godunov" Eddie Foy 03/09/1856 - Feb 16, 1928 performer, comic, dancer: entertained on the musical stage and in vaudeville for four decades; father of The Seven Little Foys - Mr. Hamlet of Broadway; Up & Down Broadway (had a perf. named Irving Berlin in the cast) Will Geer 03/09/1902 - Apr 28, 1978 performer - 1928 The Merry Wives of Windsor (Otis Skinner); origs: Let Freedom Ring (Tom Ewell); Of Mice and Men (Broderick C...