Today's Birthdays 1/12

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:19pm

John Singer Sargent 1/12/1856 - 4/15/1925 Italian-born American artist; Madame X

Ferenc Molnár 01/12/1878 - Apr 1, 1952 Source Material, Writer, Director, Husband of Lili Darvas (1926 - April 1, 1952) his death - Liliom (Eva Le Gallienne, Joseph Schildkraut); The Swan; The Giardsman; Carnival; Carousel; The Play's the Thing

Texas Guinan 01/12/1884 - Dec 5, 1933 performer, source mat'l; Ran a speakeasy, the Rendezvous, on 50th Street (6th &7th Aves) during prohibition. - Hop o' My Thumb; Gay Paree [1925]; Padlocks of 1927 (Lillian Roth); film's The Wildcat; Incendiary Blonde

Tex Ritter 01/12/1905 Jan 2, 1974 performer; father of John Ritter - Green Grow The Lilacs; The Round Up; Mother Lode (Beulah Bondi, Melvyn Douglas); films Trouble in Texas (Rita Cansino [aka Rita Hayworth)

Jose Limon 01/12/1908 - Dec 2, 1972 Producer, Choreographer, Director, Performer - Lysistrata; Candide [pre-Bernstein]; As Thousands Cheer; Roberta; Lament for Ignacio Sanches Mejias; Nureyev and Friends

Patsy Kelly 01/12/1910 - Sep 24, 1981 performer - Earl Carroll's Sketch Book [1929] & [1930]; Flying Colors; No, No, Nanette; 1973 Irene; film's Every Night at Eight; Page Miss Glory; Pigskin Parage; Topper Returns; Rosemary's Baby; 1976 Freaky Friday

Luise Rainer 01/12/1910 - Wife of Clifford Odets (1937 - 1940), performer - 1942 A Kiss for Cinderella; 1950 The Lady from the Sea; film's The Great Ziegfeld; The Good Earth; The Great Waltz

André De Shields 01/12/1946 Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Choreographer, Director, Performer - Warp; Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Choreographer, Director, Performer 1 & 2; The Wiz; Ain't Misbehavin'; André DeShield's Haarlem Nocturne; Stardust; Play On!; The Full Monty (Patrick Wilson); Prymate (James Naughton); tv's & film's Another World; The Wiz; Extreme Measures

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1932 The Animal Kingdom with Ilka Chase

1938 Tortilla Flat

1939 The Importance of Being Earnest with Clifton Webb, Estelle Winwood

ON THIS DAY IN:

1976 Mystery writer Agatha Christie died at age 85.

(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

Milla