Today's Birthdays 1/9
Today's Birthdays 1/9
#0Today's Birthdays 1/9
Posted: 1/8/06 at 8:01pm
Dame Gracie Fields 1/9/1898 - 9/27/1979 English entertainer - comedienne: Walter, Walter, I Took My Harp to A Party, The Biggest Aspidistra in the World; singer: Sally, Now is the Hour, Around the World
Vilma Bánky (Lonchit) 1/9/1898 - 3/18/1991 performer - film's Son of the Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle
Sir Rudolf Bing 1/9/1902 - 9/2/1997 manager: Metropolitan Opera House [1950-1972]
Simone de Beauvoir 1/9/1908 - 4/14/1986 French feminist writer
Richard Milhous Nixon 1/9/1913 - 4/22/1994 37th president of the United States (1969-74), the first American president to resign from office following his involvement in the Watergate scandal; source mat'l
Fernando Lamas 01/09/1915 - Oct 8, 1982 performer, Husband of Arlene Dahl (1954 - 1960) divorced - Happy Hunting (Ethel Merman, Estelle Parsons); tv's & film's The Girl Rush; 1954 Rose Marie; Flamingo Road; Falcon Crest
Brian Friel 01/09/1929 writer - Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Dancing at Lughnasa; Translations (Dana Delany, Brian Dennehy, Rufus Sewell)
Bob Denver 01/09/1935 performer - Play It Again, Sam [replacement]; tv's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis [I still remember how he exclaimed "Wo-rk!", Gilligan’s Island, Back to the Beach, Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
Susannah York 1/9/1941 - performer - tv's & film's Devices and Desires, Superman 2, The Awakening, Superman: The Movie, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones, Tunes of Glory, Jane Eyre, Second Chance
J. K. Simmons [Jonathan Kimble Simmons] 01/09/1955 performer, used to be my neighbor - A Change in the Heir [1 of my fav flops](Mary Stout, Judy Blazer, Jeffrey Herbst); 1992 Guys and Dolls; Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Nathan Lane, Randy Graff, Mark Linn-Baker); tv's & film's Law & Order; Spiderman 1 & 2; The Cider House Rules; Oz; The Closer
Joely Richardson 1/9/1965 performer; daughter of Tony Richardson & Vanessa Redgrave, granddaughter of Michael Redgrave, niece of Corin & Lynn Redgrave, sister of Natasha Richardson - film's The Patriot, Behaving Badly, Lady Chatterley, 101 Dalmatians, The Affair of the Necklace; Her real mother, Vanessa Redgrave, plays the mother of Joely's character on the TV series "Nip-Tuck."
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1924 Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924 at the Times Square Theatre is selections of several London revues. Starring are Jack Buchanan, Gertrude Lawrence, and Beatrice Lillie who are immediate hits with the public. The show runs beyond the season and sets a pattern for intimate, witty revues.
1929 Elmer Rice captures a Street Scene at the Playhouse Theatre in New York. This stark drama about tenement life will win the Pulitzer Prize and run for 601 performances. The 1947 revival is set to music with a score by Kurt Weill and lyrics by poet Langston Hughes.
1942 - Gower Champion and Mischa Auer are featured in the new musical THE LADY COMES ACROSS, with music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John La Touche and book by Fred Thompson & Dawn Powell. The production is choreographed by George Balanchine and staged by Romney Brent, under the supervision of Morrie Ryskind. It lasts for three performances at the 44th Street Theatre.
1952 Celeste Holm searches for peace as Anna Christie. This O'Neill drama has a two-week run at the New York City Center. It will move to the Lyceum Theatre for a brief run.
1961 - The play, Rhinoceros, opened on Broadway, starring two of the theatre’s true stars -- Eli Wallach and Zero Mostel.
1962 Romulus, satirizing the end of the Roman Empire, will have a much shorter life than its subject, with just 69 performances to its calender. Gore Vidal adapted this Friedrich Duerrenmatt work. Cyril Ritchard stars.
1978 The great Mary Martin has her final Broadway opening night, in Aleskei Arbuzov's drama Do You Turn Somersaults? opposite Anthony Quayle. It will run just 16 performances at the 46th Street Theatre.
2003 Tartuffe with Brian Bedford, Henry Goodman, J. Smith-Cameron & Jeffrey Carlson
ON THIS DAY IN:
1972 Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported biography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake.
2004 Obie-winning monologist Spalding Gray, author of Swimming to Cambodia, Sex and Death to Age 14, Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy, disappears after leaving his home in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan. He is later ruled a suicide.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 1/9/06 at 08:01 PM
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