Today's Birthdays 6/3
Today's Birthdays 6/3
#0Today's Birthdays 6/3
Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:33pm
George Broadhurst 6/3/1866 - Jan 31, 1952 playwright and producer , responsible for dozens of plays and musicals, including the first stage adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes. Also, namesake of the Broadhurst Theatre.
Maurice Evans 06/03/1901 - 3/12/1989 Producer, Director, Performer, Theatre Owner/Operator - 1935 Romeo & Juliet (Romeo to Katherine Cornell); 1950 The Devil's Disciple (Marsha Hunt, Victor Jory); The Teahouse of the August Moon; No Time For Seargents; Dial "M" for Murder; Tenderloin; The Aspern Papers
Josephine Baker 06/03/1906 - 4/12/1975 performer - The Chocolate Dandies; Ziegfeld Follies of 1936; An Evening With Josephine Baker
Paulette Goddard 06/03/1911 - 4/23/1990 performer - Wife of Edgar James (1927 - 1931) divorced, Erich Maria Remarque (1958 - 1970) his death, Burgess Meredith (1944 - 1950) divorced, Charles Chaplin (1936 - 1942) divorced. What an interesting array of men! - film's Diary of a Chambermaid; Reap the Wild Wind; Modern Times; The Women [speaks my fav. line in the film. something like: "Where I spit, no grass ever grows!"; Unconquered; So Proudly We Hail; Second Chorus; The Great Dictator; Ghost Breakers
Dorothy Kilgallen 06/03/1913 - Nov 8, 1965 (rumors still fly about her death) writer - Dream With Music; Broadway columnist, host of "Breakfast with Dick and Dorothy"; crime reporter; tv's What's My Line
Leo Gorcey 06/03/1917 - 6/2/1969 performer - Dead End; film's Dead End Kids series
Lili St. Cyr 06/03/1918 - Jan 29, 1999 performer, known as the "Queen of the Stripteasers", she was quoted as saying "Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?" - film's Son of Sinbad; The Naked and the Dead (195
Colleen Dewhurst 06/03/1924 - 8/22/1991 performer, dir.; President of Actors' Equity Association (1985-1991); mother of Alexander & Campbell Scott; wife of James Vickery (1947 - 1959) divorced, George C. Scott (1959 - 1965) divorced; remarried (1967 - 1972) divorced - 1952 Desire Under the Elms; Great Day in the Morning; The Good Woman of Setzuan; 1972 Mourning Becomes Electra; 1973 A Moon for the Misbegotten; Ned & Jack; An Almost Perfect Person (Geo. Hearn); 1988 Long Day's Journey Into Night; Love Letters (Jason Robards)
Allen Ginsberg 6/3/1926 - 4/5/1997 the "poet laureate" of the Beat Generation
Barbara Walsh 06/03/1955 wonderful performer - Falsettos; Blood Brothers; Big; Hairspray [replacement]
Jeff Blumenkrantz 06/03/1965 composer, performer - orig Into The Woods; A Class Act; Urban Cowboy
Karl Kenzler 06/03/1968 performer - 12 Angry men; The Caretaker (Kyle MacLaughlin, Patrick Stewart); 2002 Dinner at Eight; 1995 The Heiress; film's Neurotica (Brian D'Arcy James)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
The Honeymooners 06/03/1907 - Geo. M. Cohan
1931 Jump on the The Bandwagon at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. Arthur Schwartz and Howard Deitz provide lyrics and music with dancing turns by Fred and Adele Astaire and Tilly Losch. It rolls on for 260 performances.
1942 The Rodgers and Hart musical that had the longest run in its original production (421 performances) is the nearly forgotten By Jupiter, starring Ray Bolger, Benay Venuta and Vera-Ellen.
1971 No Sex Please - We're British begins performances at London's Strand Theatre. Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot penned this farce about a family man mistakenly inundated with pornography. It will stay for years in the West End, but enjoy only a brief Broadway run.
1975 The Fred Ebb-John Kander musical Chicago comes to New York City on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre. Director-choreographer Bob Fosse brings to life the story of a chorus girl who gets away with murder, literally. The cast features Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach.
1981 Al Pacino stars in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo at Off-Broadway's Circle in the Square Downtown. The production is directed by Arvin Brown and also starred Clifton James and Thomas Waites.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, now known as New York.
1937 The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne, in Monts, France.
2001 Mel Brooks' musical The Producers, based on his own film parody of Broadway, wins a record 12 Tony Awards, sweeping every category in which it was nominated.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, imdb)
Milla
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#1re: Today's Birthdays 6/3
Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:39pmmy birthday too!!
For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical.
~The Importance of Being Earnest~
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#2re: Today's Birthdays 6/3
Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:43pm
What about Joanna Gleason? I know I started another thread just for her, but how come she didn't make your list?
never mind... saw the date in the subject which differs from my local date...
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Updated On: 6/2/05 at 09:43 PM
#3re: Today's Birthdays 6/3
Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:55pm
It's great that you're such a loyal Joanna Gleason fan & that you created a separate birthday thread to celebrate her. Sorry to confuse you. Please note that I usually post birthdays the night before, so this thread is for Friday, June 3, 2005. Joanna's birthday was posted along with today's other birthday celebrants last night. That's why she's not included in this list.
Please click on the link.
Milla
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