Today's Birthdays 1/13
Today's Birthdays 1/13
#0Today's Birthdays 1/13
Posted: 1/13/06 at 12:13am
Kay Francis 01/13/1899 - Aug 26, 1968 performer - film's Street of Chance (William Powell) Raffles (Ronald Colman); One-Way Passage [my fav] (William Powell); Dr. Monica
Robert Stack 01/13/1919 - May 14, 2003 performer - gave Deanna Durbin her 1st screen kiss in First Love; tv's Elliot Ness in The Untouchables; Airplane
Gwen Verdon 01/13/1925 - Oct 17, 2000 mother of Nicole Fosse, wife of Bob Fosse (1960 - September 23, 1987) his death, Performer, Production Crew, Creative Consultant - Tony Award-winning Actress: Damn Yankees [1956], Can-Can [1954]; High Button Shoes; films: Damn Yankees!, The Cotton Club, Cocoon
Frances Sternhagen 01/13/1930 performer, mother of Tony Carlin, wife of Thomas Carlin (1956 - May 6, 1991) his death - Viva Madison Avenue!; All Over (Coleen Dewhurst); Enemies (Barbara Cook, Nancy Marchand, Christopher Walken); Equus; On Golden Pond; 1995 The Heiress; 2005 Seascape; film's Raising Cain, Doc Hollywood, Bright Lights, Big City, Outland, Starting Over, Driving Miss Daisy
Charles Nelson Reilly 01/13/1931 Director, Performer - origs Bye Bye Birdie; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Hello, Dolly!; Skyscraper; The Belle of Amherst; tv's & film's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cannonball Run; game show panelist: Match Game P.M.
Kevin Anderson 01/13/1960 performer - Brooklyn (Eden Espinosa); 1999 Death of a Salesman (Brian Dennehy); 1989 Orpheus Descending (Tammy Grimes, Vanessa Redgrave, Marcia Lewis)
Penelope Ann Miller 01/13/1964 performer - Biloxi Blues; 1988 Our Town; On the Waterfront (wish I'd seen this) (James Gandolfini, Jerry Grayson [Suffered a heart attack on stage during a press preview])
Happy Birthday gavrochegirl!
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1951 Claude Rains heads the cast of Darkness at Noon at the Alvin Theatre. Adapted by Sidney Kingsley from Arthur Koestler's novel, this drama, depicting the Stalinist purges, will go on to win the Drama Critics' Circle Award.
1971 A Doll's House with Claire Bloom & Donald Madden
2000 Wrong Mountain with Ron Rifkin, Daniel Davis
ON THIS DAY IN:
1864 Composer Stephen Foster died in New York City. (My 1st recital song (when I was 6) was "I Dream of Jeannie" With The Light Brown Hair
1898 Emile Zola's defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, "J'accuse," was published in Paris.
1910 - Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn were heard via a telephone transmitter; rigged by DeForest Radio-Telephone Company to broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
1941 Irish nationalist, poet, and dramatist James Joyce dies in Zurich. Always being interested in Ibsen, one of Joyce's earliest publications was an essay on the playwright titled "Ibsen's New Drama." Included among Joyce's many works is one play, Exiles, which he wrote in 1918. In 1959 Zero Mostel will play Leopold Bloom in Ulysses in Nighttown, an adaptation of Joyce's Ulysses by Marjorie Barkentin. Others in the show include Margery Beddow, Tom Lee Jones, David Ogden Stiers & Swen Swenson. Joyce was 59 years old. In 2000, a musical adaptation of Joyce's short story, The Dead, would come to Broadway's Belasco Theater.
1992 Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
1962 Comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles
1966 - Elizabeth Montgomery’s character, Samantha, on Bewitched, had a baby. Tabitha was the name given to the witch’s daughter. She could wriggle her nose and cause all kinds of problems for daddy, just like her mom.
1976 English actress Margaret Leighton dies today at the age of 53. She played a variety of classic roles and starred in the London production of The Philadelphia Story. In 1962, she won the Tony award for her portrayal of Hannah Jelkes in The Night of the Iguana.
1984 Brooks Atkinson, longtime drama critic for The New York Times, dies today. Atkinson was the first critic in recorded history to have a theatre named after him. Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater has, in recent years, housed productions of Noises Off, Jane Eyre, On The Waterfront, and She Loves Me.
2002 The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, ends its landmark run at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village after more than 41 years. The final tally: 17,162 performances.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 1/13/06 at 12:13 AM
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