Today's Birthdays 1/19

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 10:30pm

Edgar Allen Poe 1/19/1809 - 10/7/1849 American writer/poet The Raven; author of suspense tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, source material -The System of Dr. Tarr (Lowell Sherman)

Paul Cezanne 1/19/1839 - 10/22/1906 French Post-Impressionist painter

Alexander Woollcott 01/19/1887 - Jan 23, 1943 Writer, Director, Performer, godfather of Sheridan Morley, Theatre critic for NY Times. Inspiration for the role of "Sheridan Whiteside" in "The Man Who Came to Dinner." - The Channel Road; Brief Moment; The Dark Tower; Wine of Choice

John Raitt 01/19/1917 performer, Bonnie Raitt's pop - origs Carousel; Magdalena; Three Wishes for Jamie (Anne Jeffreys, Jeff Morrow, Charlotte Rae, Bert Wheeler); Carnival in Flanders; The Pajama Game; A Joyful Noise; A Musical Jubilee; tv's & film's The Pajama Game, The Chevy Show, The Buick Circus Hour

Guy Madison 1/19/1922 2/6/1996 performer, 1st wife Gail Russell - tv's & film's Zorro, Drums in the Deep South, Special Forces, Hell Commandos, Till the End of Time, Wild Bill Hickock

Jean Stapleton 01/19/1923 performer - origs In the Summer House; Damn Yankees; Bells Are Ringing; Juno; Rhinoceros; Funny Girl; 1986 Arsenic and Old Lace; Emmy Award-winning actress: All in the Family [1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1977-1978]; Bells are Ringing, Cinderella, Damn Yankees, Klute

Fritz Weaver 01/19/1926 performer - The Chalk Garden; All American; Baker Street; Angels Fall (Barnard Hughes); 1991 The Crucible; tv's & films Holocaust, Marathon Man, Black Sunday

Michael Crawford 01/19/1942 performer - Black Comedy / White Lies (Geraldine Page, Lynn Redgrave's debut); The Phantom of the Opera; Dance of the Vampires; film's Condorman, Hello, Dolly!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Knack

Dolly Parton 1/19/1946 - performer, composer - film's 9-to-5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias; owns Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee

Desi Arnaz Jr. 1/19/1953 performer - Dino, Desi and Billy: Through Spray Colored Glasses; Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV this day, as Lucy Ricardo of I Love Lucy gave birth to a baby boy -- just as she actually did in real life -- following the script to the letter! The audience for the program was greater than that watching the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower the following day.

William Ragsdale 01/19/1961 performer - Biloxi Blues; Getting Away With Murder (Christine Ebersole, Terrence Mann, John Rubinstein, Josh Mostel)

Scott Schwartz 01/19/1974 son of Stephen Schwartz, director - Jane Eyre (James Barbour, Marla Schaffel, Mary Stout); Golda's Balcony

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1853 Verdi's opera ''Il Trovatore'' premiered in Rome.

1971 - Ruby Keeler made her comeback in the play, No, No Nanette, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. Keeler played the role of Sue Smith in the revival of the 1925 hit musical. The show played on for 861 performances.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1966 Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.

2001 In a deal sparing himself possible indictment, President Clinton acknowledged for the first time making false statements under oath about Monica Lewinsky; he also surrendered his law license for five years.

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

Milla Updated On: 1/19/04 at 10:30 PM

[CJR]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 10:46pm

Today is also Tracy Shayne's (A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, Phantom, Chicago) Birthday