7/8 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts
7/8 Celebrity Birthdays, Events & Thoughts
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Posted: 7/8/03 at 11:55am
Gertrude Niesen 07/08/1911 performer – ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1936 (w/Eve Arden, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice [her last Bway appearance], Judy Canova, Bob Hope, Nicholas Bros.)
Walter Kerr 07/08/1913 writer, lyricist, dir. - Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic: New York Herald Tribune, New York Times; SONG OF BERNADETTE; KING OF HEARTS; GOLDILOCKS; Broadway’s Ritz Theater renamed for him.
Pamela Brown 07/08/1917 performer – 1947 revival THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (w/Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud, Jane Baxter)
Craig Stevens 07/08/1918 performer, married to Alexis Smith (49 yrs.) – HERE’S TO LOVE (w/Janis Page, Fred Gwynn, Michael Bennett, Bayoork Lee); TV’s PETER GUNN
Ann Thomas 07/08/1920 performer – HOME IS THE HERO (w/Christopher Plummer, Peggy Ann Garner)
Paul E. Richards 07/08/1924 performer – A FAR COUNTRY (w/Steven Hill, Kim Stanley, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick O’Neal, Lili Darvas)
Barbara Loden 07/08/1932 performer, married to Elia Kazan? – AFTER THE FALL (w/Faye Dunnaway, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jr., David Wayne), film SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS
Marty Feldman 07/08/1933 performer – YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (“What hump?”), SILENT MOVIE
Steve Lawrence performer married to Eydie Gorme – WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN (w/Robert Alda, Sally Ann Howes, Barry Newman); GOLDEN RAINBOW (w/Eydie)
Marcia Rodd 07/08/1940 performer – LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (James Coco, Linda Lavin, Doris Roberts)
Anjelica Huston 07/08/1951 performer Walter’s granddaughter & John’s daughter – 1969 HAMLET (w/Nicol Williamson, Francesca Annis, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey), Oscar for PRIZZI’S HONOR
Kevin Bacon 07/08/1958 performer married to Kyra Sedgwick– AN ALMOST HOLY PICTURE; film’s FOOTLOOSE; WILD THINGS
Valarie Pettiford 07/08/1960 performer – BIG DEAL (w/Wayne Cilento, Cady Huffman)
Billy Crudup 07/08/1968 performer – ARCADIA (w/Victor Garber, Robert Sean Leonard)
ON THIS DAY IN:
1907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first ''Follies'' on the roof of the New York Theater in NYC.
1929 The new musical Show Girl starring Ruby Keeler opens tonight. During the out-of-town tryouts, Al Jolson came to the rescue when wife Keeler froze onstage, mid-show. Jolson jumped out of the audience, onto the stage and began to sing Keeler's next number, "Liza," in an effort to get the actress back on track.
1958 - The first gold record album presented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was awarded to the soundtrack LP, OKLAHOMA! for selling $1M in sales.
1967 Vivien Leigh dies today at 54. She won an Oscar for her performance as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," Leigh also starred as Blanche DuBois in the Laurence Olivier-directed London premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she repeated on film. VL won a Tony for her role in the 1963 musical version of Tovarich (Book: David Shaw; Lyrics: Anne Croswell; Music: Lee Pockriss).
(sources: IBDB, NYT On This Day, playbill.com & 440.com’s Those Were The Days)
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