7/6 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts

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Posted: 7/6/03 at 12:47am

Will D. Cobb 07/06/1876 lyricist/composer - songs featured in TINTYPES

George Meader 07/06/1888 performer - CAT AND THE FIDDLE (Eddie Foy Jr., Georges Metaxa); IDIOT'S DELIGHT (Lunt & Fontanne, Sidney Greenstreet); AMPHYTRYON 38 (Lunt & Fontanne, Sidney Greenstreet)

Frida Kahlo 07/06/1907 - painter, source material

Dorothy Kirsten 7/6/1910 wonderful opera singer - as I recall, a protegee of Grace Moore; I'll never forget when, after she retired, someone dropped out of singing Butterfly & she stepped in & did a beautful job, film's THE GREAT CARUSO w/Mario Lanza

LaVerne Andrews 07/06/1915 singer: contralto in The Andrews Sisters

Sebastian Cabot 07/06/1919 performer - revival LOVE FOR LOVE; TV's Mr. Giles French on FAMILY AFFAIR

Nancy Davis 07/06/1921 performer, Mrs. Ronald Regan - LUTE SONG

Margaret Phillips 07/06/1923 performer - ANOTHER PART OF THE FORREST (Jean Hagen, Patricia Neal); SUMMER & SMOKE (Anne Jackson); BLACK COMEDY/WHITE LIES (debuts of Michael Crawford & Lynn Redgrave)

Merv Griffin 07/06/1925 performer, talk show host, game show developer - revival of FINNIAN'S RAINBOW

William Whitman 07/06/1925 performer - JANE (based on shortshory by S. Maugham; w/Edna Best, Basil Rathbone)

Susan Johnson 07/06/1927 performer - BUTTRIO SQUARE; MOST HAPPY FELLA (Richard Torigi, Robert Weede, Art Lund, Jo Sullivan, Zena Bethune, Shorty Long); OH CAPTAIN! (Tony Randall, Alexandra Danilova); WHOOP-UP; DONNYBROOK! (Eddie Foy, Art Lund, Philip Bosco, Joan Fagan)

Janet Leigh 07/06/1927 performer, discovered by Norma Shearer - MURDER AMONG FRIENDS (Jack Cassidy); & Hitchcock's PSYCHO, TOUCH OF EVIL; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup) 07/06/1935 14th Dalai Lama: Nobel Peace Prize winner: Tibetan spiritual leader, source material

Walter McGinn 07/06/1936 performer - HERE'S WHERE I BELONG (prod'd by Mitch Miller; James Coco, Graciela Daniele, Ken Kercheval, Heather MacRay); THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON (Charles Durning, Richard Dysart, Paul Sorvino)

Ned Beatty 07/06/1937 performer - 2003 revival of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF & 1 of my altime fav films HEAR MY SONG

Shows which opened on July 06:

Yokel Boy 07/06/1939 Buddy Ebsen's debut

ON THIS DAY IN:

1912 - Jim Thorpe gained fame as the world’s greatest athlete when the Olympic Games opened in Stockholm, Sweden. Thorpe, a full-blooded Indian, was known as Bright Path, his given Indian name. When the King of Sweden called Thorpe “the greatest athlete in the world,” Thorpe replied by saying, “Thanks, King.”

1972 Actor Brandon de Wilde (30) dies today in Lakewood, Ca. At 7 yrs. old, he won the Donaldson Award for his performance in Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, the youngest actor ever to receive that honor.

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

Milla Updated On: 7/6/04 at 12:47 AM