7/7 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts

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Posted: 7/7/03 at 9:38am

Gustav Mahler 07/07/1860 composer, conductor – NUREYEV; music also used in film DEATH IN VENICE

Richard Carle 07/07/1871 producer, writer, lyricist, composer, director, performer – WORDS & MUSIC; THE NEW YORKERS (Jimmy Durante)

Marc Chagall 07/07/1887 Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker and designer – If you get to Paris, ck out the ceiling of the Paris Opera! & in NYC the 2 huge paintings at the front of the Metropolitan Opera

Tom Powers 07/07/1890 performer – GLORIANA (Celeste Holm)

George Cukor 07/07/1899 director, performer – A REGULAR FELLER; THE GREAT GATSBY; films WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD (early version of his later A STAR IS BORN); DAVID COPPERFIELD; LITTLE WOMEN; PAT & MIKE; BORN YESTERDAY; IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU

Vittorio De Sica 07/07/1901 film director – GARDEN OF FINZI-CONTINIS; 2 WOMEN; BICYCLE THIEF; IT STARTED IN NAPLES

Gian-Carlo Menotti 07/07/1911 writer, lyricist, composer, director Pulitzer Prize winner – [I love this man! Helped this young singer when she sang for him at Spoletto.] TELEPHONE/MEDIUM; CONSUL; ST. OF BLEEKER ST.; AMAHL & THE NIGHT VISITORS

Ruth Ford 07/07/1915 performer – origs NO EXIT; HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA; GRASS HARP; HAROLD & MAUDE

Bill Oddie 07/07/1941 composer, writer, performer – CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS (Oddie & John Cleese)

Joel Siegel 07/07/1943 writer – book for THE FIRST (David Alan Grier, Lonette McKee) & GMA’S movie reviewer

Shelley Duvall 07/07/1949 performer – film’s THE SHINING (Will never forget the summer previews w/blood rushing out of elevator doors. Because of this, I still can’t watch this movie all the way thru)

David Elder 07/07/1966 performer – wonderful Billy Lawlor in revival of 42ND STREET; ONCE UPON A MATTERESS; TITANIC

Shows which opened on July 07:

Let My People Come 07/07/1976 – 1 IBDB pg says it opened this date, but the main pg for the show reads it never officially opened after 128 previews

ON THIS DAY IN:

1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. The institution of higher learning admitted eight students and one faculty member, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who also served as school president. Eventually became Columbia University. Many prestigious awards come from this university, including the Columbia Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (named after Joseph Pulitzer, a former Columbia professor). Alumni include Rogers, Hart & Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Benny, Melvin Douglas, Charles Coburn, Art Garfunkel, & I remember Jamie Hammerstein telling me he taught Joel Bishoff there & thru JB, that’s how Jamie came to produce I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE

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

Milla Updated On: 7/7/04 at 09:38 AM