Today's Birthday 5/19
Today's Birthday 5/19
#0Today's Birthday 5/19
Posted: 5/18/05 at 8:48pm
Johns Hopkins 5/19/1795 - 12/24/1873 American merchant; endowed Johns Hopkins University and hospital, Peabody Conservatory is now a part of JHU
Lorraine Hansberry 05/19/1930 - 1/12/1965 writer, - A Raisin in the Sun; To be Young, Gifted and Black
David Hartman 5/19/1935 performer, stage manager - Hello, Dolly!; The Yearling; film's & tv's Emmy Award-winning TV host: Good Morning America; Lucas Tanner, The Bold Ones; The Ballad of Josie (Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy)
Marilyn Chris 05/19/1938 performer, wife of Lee Wallace (December 14, 1975 - present) - The Birthday Party; The Seven Descents of Myrtle (Estelle Parsons, Harry Guardino, Brian Bedford)
Nancy Kwan 5/19/1939 performer - film's The World of Suzie Wong, Flower Drum Song, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Nora Ephron 5/19/1941 writer - tv's & film's Heartburn; You've Got Mail; Sleepless in Seattle; 2005 Bewitched; Adam's Rib (Ken Howard, Blythe Danner, Ron Rifkin); Heartburn; Silkwood
Pete Townshend 05/19/1945 writer, composer, lyricist - The Who's Tommy
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1924 Blossom Time - Gregory Ratof
1936 New Faces of 1936 - Imogene Coca,
Van Johnson
1937 Room Service - Eddie Albert, Sam Levene
1962 Bravo Giovanni - Cesare Siepi, Michele Lee, Larry Fuller
1964 The White House - Fritz Weaver, James Daly, Helen Hayes, Gene Wilder
1968 - Piano stylist and vocalist Bobby Short gained national attention as he presented a concert with Mabel Mercer at New York’s Town Hall. He had been the featured artist at the intimate Hotel Carlisle for years.
1973 Smith - Nicholas Dante, Don Murray
2002 An Evening With Mario Cantone
ON THIS DAY IN:
1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
On May 19, 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of 'Happy Birthday' for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1994 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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#3re: Today's Birthday 5/19
Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:29pm
the utterly singular Grace Jones (1952)
and me (1950)
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#4re: Today's Birthday 5/19
Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:52pmMe also (1959)
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
-- Author Unknown
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