7/3 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts

[do_re_milla]

7/3 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts#0

Posted: 7/3/03 at 11:04pm

George M. Cohan 07/03/1878 actor, singer, composer, source material – HARRIGAN; & source for YANKEE DOODLE DANDY & GEORGE M

Franz Kafka 07/03/1883 source material - METAMORPHOSIS

Gilbert Miller 07/03/1884 writer, director, producer son of Henry Miller – THE GOOD FAIRY & VICTORIA REGINA (both Helen Hayes); EDWARD MY SON (Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Morley)

Doris Lloyd 07/03/1896 performer – orig. AN INSPECTOR CALLS

George Sanders – 07/03/1906 performer – REBECCA, ALL ABOUT EVE

Dorothy Kilgallen – 07/03/1913 as listed by NYT (IBDB lists her bd as 06/03/1913)columnist, journalist & panelist – book for DREAM WITH MUSIC (w/Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts); TV’s WHAT’S MY LINE

Leueen MacGrath 07/03/1914 writer, performer – also in orig. EDWARD MY SON, book for SILK STOCKINGS

Rae Allen 07/03/1926 performer – origs. PAJAMA GAME, DAMN YANKEES, OLIVER, replacements in FIDDLER & CLEAR DAY

Ken Russell 07/03/1927 director – film TOMMY

David Shire 07/03/1937 composer/orchestrator – BABY, COMPANY, BIG

Tom Stoppard 07/03/1937 writer - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, ARCADIA, INVENTION OF LOVE (left at intermission)

Betty Buckley 07/03/1947 performer – DROOD, CATS, CARRIE, SUNSET BLVD & TV’s 8 IS ENOUGH

Audra McDonald 07/03/1970 performer – CAROUSEL; MASTER CLASS; RAGTIME

Patrick Wilson 07/03/1973 performer – FULL MONTY; OKLAHOMA

Shows which opened on July 03:

Billy Barnes Revue 07/03/1959

ON THIS DAY IN:

1940 The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted with their network radio show on NBC. Now, I ask you, “Who’s On First?”

1957 A young Broadway performer Judy Tyler (24 dies today in an auto accident. Tylerhad a major role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream. She had also recently completed shooting on the Elvis Presley film "Jailhouse Rock."

1971 Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris at 27.

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

Milla Updated On: 7/3/04 at 11:04 PM

[TheaterBaby]

re: 7/3 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts#1

Posted: 7/3/03 at 11:14pm

How ironic that George M. Cohan was born the day before Independance day!
Now I'll have to listen to my George M! CD because it's his birthday, and it's a patriotic recording.

"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~

[Dollypop]

re: re: 7/3 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts#2

Posted: 7/5/03 at 3:51pm

All hail Patrick Wilson!!!!!!!!

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)