Today's Birthdays 1/23
Today's Birthdays 1/23
#1Today's Birthdays 1/23
Posted: 1/23/07 at 3:27pm
John Hancock 1/23/1737 - 10/8/1793 American Revolutionary statesman, Mr. Hancock, as the President of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, was the first to put his signature on the Declaration of Independence. Hancock reportedly said, “I’ll sign it in letters bold enough so the King of England can see it without his spectacles on!” And he did. We still refer to this momentous event whenever we sign a document, “I’ll put my John Hancock on it.”
Edouard Manet 1/23/1832 - 4/30/1883 leader of the impressionist movement
Randolph Scott 1/23/1898 - Mar 2, 1987 performer - film's Last of the Mohicans, The Nevadan, Ride the High Country, To the Shores of Tripoli, Man in the Saddle, [1 of my favs:] Go West Young Man
Humphrey Bogart 01/23/1899 - Jan 14, 1957 performer, husband of Lauren Bacall (1945 - 1957) his death, Mayo Methot (1938 - 1945) divorced, Mary Philips (1928 - 193 divorced, tough-guy actor in 17 Broadway shows, including Hell's Bells (Shirley Booth) and The Petrified Forest, before heading out to Hollywood and becoming a film icon; film's Academy Award-winning actor: The African Queen [1951]; The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Caine Mutiny, The Barefoot Contessa, Tokyo Joe, Key Largo, Action in the North Atlantic, High Sierra, and 1 of my favs MY THREE ANGELS
Dan Duryea 01/23/1907 - Jun 7, 1968 performer - Dead End (Sidney Lumet, Leo Gorcey, David Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Marjorie Main); Missouri Legend (Jose Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Gish, Karl Malden); The Little Foxes (Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Dingle, Patricia Collinge, Frank Conroy); film's The Flight of the Phoenix, Five Golden Dragons, my favs: VALLEY OF DECISION, SCARLET STREET, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
Ernie Kovacs 1/23/1919 - 1/13/1962 died in car crash, performer - tv's & film's The Ernie Kovacs Show, Bell Book and Candle, North to Alaska
Marty Paich 1/23/1925 - Aug 12, 1995 pianist, composer, arranger with/for: Peggy Lee, Shorty Rogers’ Giants, Dorothy Dandridge, Shelley Manne, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, Dave Pell, Mel Torme, Ray Brown, Anita O’Day, Stan Kenton, Terry Gibbs, Ella Fitzgerald, and Buddy Rich
Jeanne Moreau 1/23/1928 performer - film's The Summer House, La Femme Nikita, The Last Tycoon, The Bride Wore Black, Jules et Jim, Viva Maria, Dangerous Liaisons
Chita Rivera 01/23/1933 performer, mother of Lisa Mordente, mother-in-law of Donnie Kehr, wife of Tony Mordente (divorced) - born today in Washington DC, the singer-dancer-actress will star in West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie, Sweet Charity, Pippin, Kiss of the Spider Woman and play Velma the original Chicago; film's Mayflower Madam; Sweet Charity; Pippin; Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life
Rutger Hauer 1/23/1944 performer, producer - film's Nighthawks, Blade Runner, Beyond Justice, Forbidden Choices, my fav: Lady Hawke (He & Pfiffer were positively GORGEOUS & both born to play their roles); Amelia (Diane Keaton), HBO's film Fatherland & Hostile Waters, Call of the Wild, NBC' s Hallmark presentation of Merlin" (Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Helena Bonham Carter). He also re-teamed with Hallmark producer Robert Halmi Sr., for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom.
SHOW THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1941 The unlikely combination of Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, Gertrude Lawrence and Danny Kaye make a hit out of the musical Lady in the Dark, the psychological profile of a female business executive. It runs 467 performances at the Alvin Theatre.
1953 Sylvia Regan's farce, The Fifth Season, exposing New York's garment industry, will run 654 performances at the Cort Theatre. Menasha Skulnik stars.
1958 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick make their Broadway debut as a team today, with the opening of their musical, Body Beautiful. It will run just 60 performances, but the team will return with scores to Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello! and She Loves Me.
1964 Arthur Miller explores his failed marriage with Marilyn Monroe in his drama After the Fall, which opens toda at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, where it runs 208 performances, starring Christopher Plummer and Barbara Loden star.
1975 Greg Antonacci sends a group of New York types on a hunt for the Elephant King of memory in his surreal Dance With Me, which transfers to Broadway from Off-Broadway today. It runs 396 performances at the Mayfair Theatre. Joel Zwick (dir'd MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING)
1986 Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood, the musical revue featuring the music of Jerome Kern (Show Boat, Roberta, Very Warm For May) opens tonight at the Ritz Theater and runs only 13 performances. The cast features Elaine Delmar, Liz Robertson, Scott Holmes, and the wonderful Elisabeth Welch.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1943 American drama critic Alexander Woollcott dies in New York today. He served as drama critic for the New York Times, the Herald and the Sun. Woollcott appeared as an actor in Brief Moment by S.N. Behrman and was said to have been the model for the character Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner, by Kaufman and Hart. His books include "Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play," "Enchanted Aisles, and As You Were. Woollcott was fifty-six years old.
1971 - It was a cold day in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was reported as the mercury fell to a minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
1976 Actor-singer Paul Robeson dies today at age 78. He appeared as the lead in O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and Shakespeare's Othello, and as Joe in Show Boat, among other performances. He was a spokesman for equal rights for all disenfranchised people.
1997 - The Swiss government, three banks and some businesses agreed to set up a private sector humanitarian fund for Nazi Holocaust victims and their heirs. Reportedly, the neutral Swiss profited from millions of dollars worth of gold deposited some fifty years earlier by victims of the Holocaust. It seems that the gold was also used to make deals with the Nazis.
2003 Nell Carter, the actress-singer who won a Tony Award for singing Fats Waller tunes in Ain't Misbehavin', dies today at age 54.
2005 the last of the great TV late night hosts, Johnny Carson passed away at his home in Malibu, CA. Generously gave breaks to many singers and comedians, as well as to help re-launch careers. That's all there is, there isn't any more.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
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#2re: Today's Birthdays 1/23
Posted: 1/23/07 at 6:10pm
a lot of big birthdays today!
happy happy to humphrey and chita!
hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..
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