Today's Birthdays 1/10
Today's Birthdays 1/10
#1Today's Birthdays 1/10
Posted: 1/9/07 at 11:25pm
Count Aleksei Nikolayevich Tolstoy Jan 10, 1883 - Feb 23, 1945 author - Ivan the Terrible; Tsar Fyodor; Anna Karenina; War and Peace; The Death of Ivan Ilych
Francis X. Bushman 01/10/1883 - 8/23/1966 performer - The Rosary, Neptune’s Daughter, The Thirteenth Man, Dick Tracy, Hollywood Boulevard, David and Bathsheba, Sabrina, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Ray Bolger [Raymond Wallace Bulcao] 1/10/1904 - Jan 15, 1987 performer, Husband of Gwen Rickard (1929 - 1987) his death - This triple threat will appear in numerous shows and in 1948 star in Where's Charley?, the musical version of Charley's Aunt. A yellow brick road will stretch out before him in Hollywood.
Paul Henreid 1/10/1908 - 3/29/1992 Austrian-born American actor - performer - Don Juan in Hell (Ricardo Montalban, Agnes Moorehead); tv's & film's The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Deep in My Heart, Casablanca, Goodbye, Mr. Chips; director: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Battle in Blue, Battle Shock, Tall Lie
Donald Brooks 01/10/1928 - 8/1/2005 designer - No Strings; Barefoot in the Park; Fade Out - Fade In; Flora, The Red Menace; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Promises, Promises; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Minnie's Boys; Carmelina; Dance a Littler Closer
Salvatore Mineo 01/10/1939 - Feb 12, 1976 performer, Murdered by robber in his home. Directed "Fortune and Men's Stages" and "The Children's Mass." - The Rose Tattoo; Dinosaur Wharf (Leo Penn); Something About a Soldier (Ken Kercheval, Kevin McCarthy, Ralph Meeker); Start Movin’, Lasting Love; actor: The Gene Krupa Story; Rebel Without a Cause
James Lapine 1/10/1949 writer, director - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Sunday in the Park with George; Into the Woods; Falsettos; Passion; Dirty Blonde; Amour; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; tv's & film's Impromptu (Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Julian Sands, Anna Massey, Bernadette Peters, Emma Thompson); Life with Mikey; Earthly Possessions (Susan Sarandon); Table Settings
Trini Alvarado 01/10/1967 performer - Runaways (Jossie de Guzman, Sheila Gibbs, Jon Matthews, Toby Parker); tv's & film's Starstruck; 1994 Little Women; Little Children
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1911 Sigmund Romberg writes his first complete Broadway score for The Whirl of the World, which opens today at the Winter Garden. A brochure describes it thus: "An Isle of Gorgeousness, Fun and Music, Entirely Surrounded by Girls." The formula proves a winner, running 161 performances.
1941 Two sweet little old ladies help nudge melancholy people off to a better world in the macabre comedy Arsenic and Old Lace which opens its 1444-performance run today at the Fulton Theatre. Jean Adair and Josephine Hull play the sisters and Boris Karloff plays their brother.
1947 Ella Logan and Albert Sharpe look to the rainbow in Fred Saidy and Yip Harburg's Finian's Rainbow, about a leprechaun who turns human when his crock of gold is stolen and buried near Fort Knox. The show opens a 725-performance run tonight. David Wayne and Michael Kidd will go on to win the very first Tony Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Choreographer, respectively.
1968 Some of the first openly gay characters seen on the Broadway stage are played by Milo O'Shea and Eli Wallach in Charles Dyer's The Staircase, which runs 61 performances at the Biltmore Theatre.
1981 - The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert and Sullivan, opened on Broadway. The show, starring pop singers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith, was made into a movie in 1983.
2000 Dirty Blonde, written by and starring Claudia Shear, opens at the New York Theater Workshop. It will run for 40 performances before transferring to Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1776 Thomas Paine published the pamphlet "Common Sense."
1951 Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis dies
1969 - The final issue of The Saturday Evening Post appeared after 147 years of publication. It returned in limited publication years later. Norman Rockwell’s art was a popular item in the Post.
1971 "Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS.
1971 Coco Chanel dies. Was Played by Katharine Hepburn in the 1970 Alan Lerner/Andre Previn Broadway Musical, "Coco".
1982 Paul Lynde dies of cardiac arrest due to extreme substance abuse
1997 Actor, producer, writer, director Sheldon Leonard dies of natural causes. Received the rank of Eagle Scout (the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America); Receiving five Emmy awards for his producing/directing efforts, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1992 and received in 1995 a lifetime membership into the Director's Guild of America. Accepting the honor, Sheldon typically quipped, "Giving a lifetime membership to a guy 88 years old -- big f***ing deal!"
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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