Today's Birthdays 10/15

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 10/14/07 at 9:22pm

Virgil 10/15/70 BC - 9/21/19 BC Roman poet - The Aeneid

John L. Sullivan 10/15/1858 - 2/2/1918 International Boxing Hall of Famer: World Heavyweight champion [1881-1889], Marquis of Queensbury Champion [1885-1892]; last bareknuckle championship fight [75 rounds in 1889]; actor: The Great John L. Sullivan, vaudeville

P. G. Wodehouse 10/15/1881 - Feb 14, 1975 Writer, Lyricist, Source Material - LEAVE IT TO JANE; SALLY; OH, KAY!; ROSALIE; ANYTHING GOES; VERY GOOD EDDIE; SHOW BOAT; book's Leave It to Psmith, The Inimitable Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, French Leave, Carry on Jeeves, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Mervyn Le Roy 10/15/1900 - 9/13/1987 of alzheimer's disease - Father of Warner LeRoy, husband of Edna Murphy (1930 - 1933), Doris Warner (1934 - 1942), Kitty Spiegel (1946 - ?) FOOLISH GRANDDAUGHTER SOLD OFF RUSSIAN TEA ROOM!- Film producer/director whose movies included "The Wizard of Oz". He started in vaudeville with an act called "LeRoy and Cooper"; film's 1940 Waterloo Bridge; Gypsy, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, The F.B.I. Story, Homecoming, 1949 Little Women, Madame Curie, A Majority of One, Quo Vadis, Rose Marie, Random Harvest, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Three on a Match, No Time For Sergeants

Mario Puzo 10/15/1921 - 7/2/1999 novelist: The Godfather, Fourth K.; screen playwright: The Godfather series, Earthquake, Superman: The Movie, Superman 2, The Cotton Club, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

José Quintero 10/15/1924 - Feb 27, 1999 Producer, Director - orig LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT; GANDHI; 1985 THE ICEMAN COMETH; Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Medea

Linda Lavin 10/15/1937 Wife of Ron Leibman (1969 - 1981) divorced, Kip Niven (1982 - 1991) divorced - Hollywood Arms; Tale of the Allergist's Wife; A FAMILY AFFAIR (Kander minus Ebb); IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN (Jack Cassidy); BROADWAY BOUND (Jason Alexander, Phyllis Newman, John Randolph); 1989 GYPSY [replacement]; Alice, Barney Miller, Room for Two

Penny Marshall 10/15/1942 performer - tv's & film's Laverne & Shirley, The Odd Couple, The Bob Newhart Show; director: Renaissance Man, Big, A League of Their Own, Awakenings, Jumpin’ Jack Flash; sister of director, producer Garry Marshall

Happy Birthday jdm

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1931 The Cat and the Fiddle with Odette Myrtil (as in ODETTE'S cabaret club in Pennsylvania that recently closed because of flooding)

1936 Tovarich with Marta Abba, Irina Feodorova, John Halliday, Cecil Humphreys

1952 The Time of the Cuckoo with Shirley Booth

1953 The Teahouse of the August Moon with John Forsythe, David Wayne, Paul Ford

1975 Trelawny of the "Wells" with John Lithgow, Meryl Streetp, Mary Beth Hurt, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Tucker

1981 Candida with Joanne Woodward & Jane Curtin

1987 Late Nite Comic with Robert LuPone

1998 More to Love with Rob Bartlett, Dana Reeve & Joyce Van Patten

ON THIS DAY IN:

1917 Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, was executed by a firing squad outside Paris.

1951 - I Love Lucy debuted on CBS-TV. For the next 20 years, Lucille Ball would be a TV regular.

1964 - An American treasure died. Cole Porter, renowned lyricist and composer, died at age 73. I’ve Got You Under My Skin and hundreds of other classics crossed all musical style and format boundaries throughout his long and rich career.

1973 - “From those of us working the late shift in Southern California, sweet dreams.” Tom Snyder would use this phrase to close his late-night show, Tomorrow, which debuted on NBC-TV this night. Tom would yuk it up with some of TV’s most interesting chatter -- right after the Tonight show. NBC would later add critic Rona Barrett to the show. Tomorrow ran until January of 1982.

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

Milla

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 10/14/07 at 11:23pm

And, it's my birthday too!!