Today's Birthdays 1/3
Today's Birthdays 1/3
#0Today's Birthdays 1/3
Posted: 1/2/06 at 9:59pm
Lucretia Mott 1/3/1793 - 11/11/1880 Early women’s rights activist: one of the founders of the movement; teacher, minister, antislavery leader, source mat'l
J.R.R. Tolkien 1/3/1892 - 9/2/1973 English novelist and scholar, author of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Marion Davies 1/3/1897 - Sep 22, 1961 performer - Ziegfeld Follies of 1916; Words and Music; film's Runaway Romany, When Knighthood Was in Flower, The Patsy, Show People, my fav: Going Hollywood
ZaZu Pitts 01/03/1898 - 6/7/1963 - performer - Ramshackle Inn; 1953 The Bat (Lucile Watson); film's Busby Berkeley’s 1933 musical: Dames
Anna May Wong 01/03/1905 - Feb 3, 1961 performer - On the Spot (Glenda Farrell); film's fav 1924 Thief of Bagdad; Dangerous to Know & Piccadilly
Ray Milland 1/3/1907 - 3/10/1986 performer - film's Academy Award-winning actor: The Lost Weekend [1945], We’re Not Dressing, Star-Spangled Rhythm, Lady in the Dark, Let’s Do It Again, X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes; The Man Who Played God
Victor Borge 01/03/1909 - Dec 23, 2000 pianist, comedian: phonetic punctuation: "bpft"; pianist and comedian whose 1953 Comedy in Music will run 888 performances, the longest run ever for a solo musical on Broadway. He will follow it with Comedy in Music, Opus 2 in 1964 and Comedy With Music in 1977, but will not achieve another long run.
Maxene Andrews 1/3/1961 - Oct 21, 1995 singer [w/sisters LaVerne and Patti]: group: The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love?, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Rum and Coca Cola; solo: I Suppose; on Broadway with Patti: Over Here
Jesse White 01/03/1917 - Jan 9, 1997 performer - orig & 1970 Harvey; 1947 The Cradle Will Rock; Red Gloves (Dick Martin, Charles Boyer)
Buddy Kaye 01/03/1918 - Lyricist, Composer - Hilarities (Morey Amsterdam, Connie Stevens); tv's & film's Follies Girl; Till the End of Time [title song]; The Great Rupert (Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake); Richard the Lionheart (Dermot Walsh); I Dream of Jeannie {theme song); Hurry Sundown; The Trouble with Girls; The Bridges of Madison County
Robert Loggia 01/03/1930 - performer - 1964 Three Sisters; orig Boom Boom Room (Charles Durning, Charlotte Rae); film's Independence Day, Wild Palms, Big, Armed and Dangerous, Prizzi’s Honor, Scarface, Psycho 2, Pink Panther series, A Woman Called Golda, Speedtrap, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Mancuso FBI
Dabney Coleman 1/3/1932 performer - A Call on Kuprin (George Voskovec, Eugenie Leontovich); film's Judicial Consent, The Beverly Hillbillies, Amos and Andrew, Clifford, Never Forget, Short Time, Dragnet, The Man with One Red Shoe, Tootsie, On Golden Pond, 9 to 5, North Dallas Forty, The Other Side of the Mountain, Cinderella Liberty, The President’s Plane is Missing, Buffalo Bill, The Guardian, Courting Alex
Mel Gibson 1/3/1956 - performer, from Peekeskill, NY - film's Academy Award-winning director: Braveheart [1995]; actor: Braveheart, Maverick, The Man Without a Face, Lethal Weapon series, Forever Young, Hamlet, Bird on a Wire, Tequila Sunrise, Mad Max series, Mrs. Soffel, The Road Warrior, The Year of Living Dangerously, Summer City, Conspiracy Theory, The Patriot, What Women Want; The Singing Detective
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1928 Beatrice Lillie and Clifton Webb are in the cast of She's My Baby -- or so says the man who pretends to be a father and husband in order to borrow $200,000. Rodgers and Hart provide the music and lyrics to this Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby book.
1938 A dramatic night on Broadway as the Mercury Theatre presents Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre after the original production was shut down by the WPA for its attack on capitalism. Will Geer plays Mr. Mister. It runs 108 performances.
1944 Ruth Gordon writes and stars in her autobiographical play, Over 21, which opens tonight at the Music Box Theatre and runs 221 performances.
1945 Richard Basehart is the lead in The Hasty Heart. This John Patrick drama at the Hudson Theatre, about patients in a military hospital in Southeast Asia, will run 207 performances.
1952 Twelve years after it was critically slammed, the hard-bitten musical Pal Joey gets a revival that becomes one of Rodgers and Hart's longest: 540 performances for a show whose cast includes Harold Lang, Helen Gallagher, Elaine Stritch and, recreating her original role, Vivienne Segal. During the run of this production, Lang will be replaced by his understudy, Bob Fosse -- his first Broadway lead.
1957 The Small War on Murray Hill gets a small showing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. This comedy by Robert E. Sherwood highlighting an incident during the Revolutionary War wins just 12 performances, despite a cast that includes Leo Genn, Jan Sterling and Daniel Massey. Garson Kanin directs.
1962 Brecht on Brecht, or more precisely George Tabori on Brecht. Tabori translates and adapts a sampler of Brecht's prose, poetry, songs and drama. Lotte Lenya, Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark and Anne Jackson are among the cast for 424 performances at Theatre deLys in New York.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1521 Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1980 Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of 'Born Free,' was killed in Kenya by a servant.
1985 - Soprano Leontyne Price bid adieu to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She sang the title role of Aida. Price had been part of the Met since 1961.
1992 Actress, Judith Anderson, who appeared in New York productions of Hamlet and Medea, dies today.
2000 The last new daily 'Peanuts' comic strip by Charles Schulz ran in 2,600 newspapers.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
The Goat
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#3re: Today's Birthdays 1/3
Posted: 1/3/06 at 10:29pmWell, my birthday is January 3rd, and I am happy about everyone on this list except Mel Gibson, given his politics. I think Dorothy Arzner, one of the rare women studio directors during the late 20s, 30s, and early 40s was also born on the 3rd--oh, and Victoria ("Dallas" and beauty product informercials) Principal.
#4re: Today's Birthdays 1/3
Posted: 1/3/06 at 10:42pm
It's my birthday today too! Happy Birthday The Goat--and I agree with you about Mel Gibson 
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