Today's Birthdays 8/15

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:51am

Napoleon 8/15/1769 - 5/5/1821 source material - was born on the island of Corsica, French general, First Consul and Emperor

Sir Walter Scott 8/15/1771 - 9/21/1832 Scottish novelist, poet, historian and biographer; fav poem THE LADY OF THE LAKE, IVANHOE

Ethel Barrymore 08/15/1879 - Jun 18, 1959 Daughter of Maurice Barrymore & Georgiana Drew, Mother of Ethel Barrymore Colt & John Drew Colt, Sister of John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, ex-wife of Russell Griswold Colt - 1905 DOLL'S HOUSE; 1922 ROMEO & JULIET (as Juliet); 1925 HAMLET (as Ophelia); fav. film THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER (Loretta Young, Joseph Cotton, Charles Bickford); Academy Award-winning actress: None But the Lonely Heart [1944]; Pinky

Ted Snyder 08/15/1881 - Jul 16, 1965 Composer, Lyricist, Performer - Up and Down Broadway (Irving Berlin, Eddie Foy); Fashions of 1924; FOSSE

Edna Ferber 08/15/1887 - Apr 16, 1968 Source Material, Writer - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: So Big [1925]; Show Boat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk, Ice Palace, Giant, Dawn O’Hara; playwright [w/George Kaufman]: The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door, The Land is Bright, Bravo

T.E. Lawrence 08/15/1888 - 5/1935 the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales

Signe Hasso 08/15/1911 - Jun 7, 2002 performer - THE APPLE CART (Jack Livesey [bro. of Roger]); fav film's HEAVEN CAN WAIT; JOURNEY FOR MARGARET; 7TH CROSS

Wendy Hiller 08/15/1912 - May 14, 2003 performer - THE HEIRESS (Basil Rathbone); MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (Cyril Cusak, Franchot Tone); ASPERN PAPERS (Maurice Evans); film's Academy Award-winning actress: Separate Tables [1958]; A Man for All Seasons, Major Barbara (Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Sybil Thorndike, Emlyn Williams, Deborah Kerr), Making Love, Murder on the Orient Express, Pygmalion, The Elephant Man, Toys in the Attic, David Copperfield, The Countess Alice, 1974 Murder on the Orient Express. 1 of my ALL TIME FAV films: I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING w/Roger Livesey, written & dir'd by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Ring Lardner, Jr. 08/15/1915 - Oct 31, 2000 son of Ring Lardner, Writer, Source Material, Member of Blacklisted 'Hollywood Ten' - FOXY; WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Huntz Hall 08/15/1919 - Jan 30, 1999 performer - DEAD END; film's DEAD END KIDS

Rose Marie (Rose Marie Mazetta, aka Baby Rose Marie) 08/15/1923 comedienne, actress - tv's & film's The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hollywood Squares, The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters, Cheaper to Keep Her (Tovah Feldshuh, Ian McShane, Priscilla Lopez, Jack Gilford, Mac Davis); The Doris Day Show; Lost & Found; Surge of Power

Oscar Peterson 08/15/1925 - 1 of the greatest jazz pianist: jazz trios, solos, played with all jazz greats, composer; biography: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing; tv's & film's Bright Lights, Big City; That Old Feeling; Trial and Error; Criminal; Six Feet Under; Fields of Endless Day

Janice Rule 08/15/1931 - Oct 17, 2003 performer, Ben Gazzara's ex - origs GREAT TO BE ALIVE (Vivienne Segal, David Nillo); orig PICNIC (Paul Newman (debut), Kim Stanley, Eileen Heckart, Ralph Mekker); THE NIGHT CIRCUS (Ben Gazzara, Arthur Storch); HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (Cyril Ritchard, Lainie Kazan, John Napier, Bruce Yarnell)

Abby Dalton 08/15/1932 performer - tv's THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW; FALCON CREST; The Young and the Restless; The Life and Times of Captain Barney Miller

Jim Dale 08/15/1935 Writer, Composer, Performer - SCAPINO (Tina Ustinov); BARNUM; 1985 JOE EGG; 1997 Candide; Address Unknown; 2006 The Threepenny Opera; tv's & film's 1985 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World; the "Carry On" Series; Pete's Dragon; The American Clock

Jill Haworth 08/15/1945 performer - orig CABARET (as Sally Bowles); tv's & film's Exodus; In Harm's Way; Twelve O'Clock High; It!; Tower of Evil; Mergers & Acquisitions

Zeljko Ivanek (His name is pronounced Zhel-ko Ee-Vah-nek) 08/15/1957 performer - 2006 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; The Pillowman (Billy Crudup, Jeff Goldbloom); THE SURVIVOR (Lonny Price); LOOT (Zoe Wannamaker, Alec Baldwin (debut)); Brighton Beach Memoirs; Two Shakespearean Actors; tv's & film's Dogville (Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, James Caan); Unfaithful; Black Hawk Down; Snow Falling on Cedars; Donnie Brasco; Mass Appeal; The Edge of Night; Lost; Live Free or Die Hard; Damages; Shark

Ron Bohmer 08/15/1961 [ibdb says 8/16/1961] performer; Husband of Sandra Joseph - The Woman in White; replacements in LES MIZ & SCARLET PIMPERNEL; 1990 FIDDLER; tv's & film's The Last Prom; Law & Order; Rescue Me

Debi Mazar 08/15/1964 performer - Speed-the-Plow; tv's & film's Goodfellas; Bullets Over Broadway; Temporarily Yours; Working; That's Life; The Practice; All of Us; Living with Fran; Entourage; Ugly Betty; A Beautiful Life

Michael Berresse 08/15/1964 performer - The Light in the Piazza; 1999 Kiss Me, Kate; 1990 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF; 1994 DAMN YANKEES; 1996 CHICAGO; 2006 A Chorus Line; tv's & film's Artificial Intelligence: AI; Law & Order

Debra Messing 08/15/1968 performer - tv's & film's Will & Grace, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Ned and Stacey; The Wedding Date; A Walk in the Clouds; The Starter Wife

Ben Affleck 8/15/1972 performer - tv's & film's Man About Town; Dazed & Confused, Chasing Amy, Shakespeare in Love, Pearl Harbor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Glory Daze, Good Will Hunting, Gigli, Jersey Girl; Against the Grain; Hollywoodland

Peter Hermann 08/15/1967 performer; Husband of Mariska Hargitay (August 28, 2004 - present) - 2007 Talk Radio (Liev Schreiber); 2001 Judgment at Nuremberg; tv's & film's Law & Order; Angela's Eyes; United 93; The Guiding Light

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1988 Ain't Misbehavin' with Nell Carter, Andre De Shields, Charlaine Woodard

2002 Hairspray - John Water's uncredited TV Announcer, Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Dick Latessa, Jackie Hoffman

On this date in:

1057 Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan.

1935 Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.

1939 The MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz" premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened on this day. Two dozen bands came to play on a wooden stage in the middle of a pasture. It was a happening unlike any other before it ... and, probably like none after. 450,000 people formed a love-in for three days and nights. Jimi Hendrix was there, Joan Baez, and Arlo Guthrie, too. Country Joe and the Fish, Santana, Crosby, Stills and Nash. Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, and so many more. There were hippies, and bikers, Viet Nam war vets, and high school kids ... college kids and college grads, longhaired and short, young and old ... and the world watched and joined in through the magic of the media.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days)

Milla

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 4:09pm

bump

[munkustrap926]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 6:13pm

Maybe this is why Michael Berresse wasn't on in A Chorus Line today?