Today's Birthdays 1/30

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Posted: 1/30/04 at 2:07pm

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1/30/1882 - 4/12/1945 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.; 1 of the greats! only President elected 4 times [died 83 days after 4th inauguration], only President to serve more than two terms; source mat'l; married to Eleanor Roosevelt

Hugh Marlowe 01/30/1911 - May 2, 1982 performer - Flight to the West; It Takes Two; Laura

David Wayne 01/30/1914 - Feb 9, 1995 performer - Finian's Rainbow; Mister Roberts; The Loud Red Patrick (Arthur Kennedy); After The Fall (Faye Dunaway, Lou Frizzell, Jason Robards Jr., Hal Holbrook); The Yearling, The Happy Time); film's Adam’s Rib, Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie, The Good Life, The Tender Trap, The Last Angry Man, The Three Faces of Eve, The Adromeda Strain

John Ireland 01/30/1915 - Mar 21, 1992 performer - Native Son; Counterattack; Deadfall (Clarence Derwent); film's Gunfight at the OK Corral [1957], Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the King’s Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Messenger of Death

Bernard Gersten 01/30/1923 Producer, Performer, Other, Theatre Owner/Operator, Stage Manager; hsband of Cora Cahan, ucle of Alexandra Gersten - All You Need Is One Good Break (Lee Grant); Roman Candle (Inger Stevens, Julia Meade); Do Re Mi; The au Pair Man (Charles Durning, Julie Harris); Ballroom; Death and the King's Horseman (Vanessa Williams in ensemble); Gray's Anatomy; Morning, Noon and Night (Spalding Gray); Vincent in Brixton; 2003 Henry IV

Dorothy Malone 1/30/1925 performer - film's Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces

Harold Prince 01/30/1928 Producer, Director, Performer, Other, Stage Manager; he will win a record 20 Tony awards (as of 2003); father of Daisy Prince, husband of Judy Prince, son-in-law of Saul Chaplin - all origs: Tickets, Please! (Larry Kert, Jack Albertson); Call Me Madam; Wonderful Town; Poor Bitos (Diana Muldaur, Donald Pleasance); Baker Street (Fritz Weaver, Inga Swenson); "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman"; Cabaret; Zorba; Follies; A Little Night Music; Some of My Best Friends (Ted Knight); On the Twentieth Century; Sweeney Todd; Merrily We Roll Along; Grind (Stubby Kaye, Carol Woods, Ben Vereen); The Phantom of the Opera; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Parade; Hollywood Arms

Mitch Leigh 01/30/1928 Producer, Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator, Director - Man of La Mancha; Cry For Us All; Home Sweet Homer (Yul Brynner, Joan Diener, Martin Vidnovic); Ain't Broadway Grand

Ruth Brown 01/30/1928 performer - Amen Corner; Black & Blue (Cyd Glover, Savion Glover, Kevin Ramsey)

Gene Hackman 01/30/1930 performer - Children From Their Games (Peggy Cass, John McMartin, Brenda Vaccaro); A Rainy Day in Newark (Zachary Scott, Dody Goodman); Any Wednesday (Sandy Dennis, Don Porter); Poor Richard (Alan Bates); The Natural Look (Jerry Orbach, Doris Roberts, Andreas Voutsinas); film's Young Frankenstein; Bonnie & Clyde; The French Conncection; Superman series; Mississippi Burning; The Quick & the Dead; Downhill Racer

Gino Conforti 01/30/1932 performer - A Family Affair; She Loves Me; Fiddler on the Roof; Poor Bitos; Man of La Mancha

Tammy Grimes 01/30/1934 performer, mother of Amanda Plummer, wife of Christopher Plummer (1956 - 1960) divorced - origs: Look After Lulu; The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Rattle of a Simple Man (Edward Woodward, George Segal); High Spirits; The Only Game in Town (Barry Nelson, Leo Genn); California Suite; 1989 42nd Street (Vanessa Redgrave, Marcia Lewis); film's The Runner Stumbles, Backstreet Justice

Vanessa Redgrave 01/30/1937 daughter of Rachel Kempson & Michael Redgrave, mother of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson, Carlo Gabriel Nero, partner of Franco Nero (separated), wister of Lynn Redgrave, Corin Redgrave, wife of Tony Richardson (1962 - 1967) divorced; performer - 1976 The Lady from the Sea; 1989 Orpheus Descending; 2003 Long Day's Journey Into Night; tv's & film's fav Mary, Queen of Scotts; Playing For Time; Julia; A Man For All Seasons

Charles S. Dutton 01/30/1951 performer - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; film's A Time to Kill, The Piano Lesson, Alien 3, Runaway, Crocodile Dundee 2, Cat’s Eye, Roc; Emmy Award-winning director: The Corner

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1928 It all becomes a Strange Interlude at the Golden Theatre. Eugene O'Neill's nine-act saga of Nina Leeds and the men in her life stars Lynn Fontanne. It will run 426 performances and go on to win the Pulitzer Prize.

1929 Beau Geste comes to life at His Majesty's Theatre in London. Directed by Basil Dean, who also adapted with Charlton Mann, from the novel by P.C. Wren. Laurence Olivier is Beau guarding Fort Zindernauf until the last.

1935 Opening night for George Abbott's long-running gambling comedy, Three Men on a Horse starring Garson Kanin, Shirley Booth, Sam Leven and Teddy Hart. It will run 835 performances.

1936 Picking up where her late husband, Florenz Ziegfeld, left off, Billy Burke produces the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 with Bob Hope, Fanny Brice, Josephine Baker, Eve Arden and Judy Canova. It runs 115 performances at the Winter Garden.

1957 Eugenia starring Tallulah Bankhead plays at the Ambassador Theatre in New York. This Randolph Carter adaptation of Henry James' novel "The Europeans" will play only 12 performances. Herbert Machiz provides the brief direction.

1958 Franklin Roosevelt's life at the family retreat of Campobello Island, Maine, is dramatized in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, which will run 556 performances at the Cort Theatre. Ralph Bellamy plays FDR. Also in the cast in a minor role: James Earl Jones.

1986 The Steppenwolf Theater Company's production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker opens tonight and will run 45 performances at the Circle in the Square. The cast features Gary Sinise, Jeff Perry, and Alan Wilder.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Ghandi was murdered by a Hindu extremist in New Delhi. Ghandi had led his nation to independence from British rule through his philosophy of non-violent confrontation.

1972 Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as ''Bloody Sunday.''

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

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