Today's Birthdays 10/17

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 10/17/03 at 10:46pm

Jean Arthur 10/17/1900 - Jun 19, 1991 1950 performer - PETER PAN (Boris Karloff); film's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON; THE MORE THE MERRIER; SHANE

Irene Ryan 10/17/1902 - Apr 26, 1973 performer - COMES A DAY; PIPPIN; tv's THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES

Arthur Miller 10/17/1915 playwrite, brother of Joan Copeland, husband of Inge Morath (1962 - 2002) her death, husband of Mary Jane Slattery (1940 - 1956) divorced, husband of Marilyn Monroe (1956 - 1950) divorced - THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK; ALL MY SONS; THE CRUCIBLE; DEATH OF A SALESMAN

June Allyson 10/17/1917 performer - VERY WARM FOR MAY; HIGHER & HIGHER; BEST FOOT FORWARD

Marsha Hunt 10/17/1917 performer - THE DEVIL'S DESCIPLE (Victor Jory)

Rita Hayworth 10/17/1918 - May 14, 1987 performer, daughter of Eduardo & Volga Cansino,Niece of Elsa Cansino, niece of Vinton Hayworth, niece of Angel Cansino -

Montgomery Clift 10/17/1920 - Jul 23, 1966 performer - FLY AWAY HOME (Sheldon Leonard); film's THE LIFT; A PLACE IN THE SUN; SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER; JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

Tom Poston 10/17/1921 performer, husband of Suzanne Pleshette (2001 - present) - WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER

Gretchen Cryer 10/17/1935 Writer, lyricist, performer - mother of Jon Cryer, wife of David Cryer (1954 - 196 divorced - LITTLE ME (Sid Cesar, Margery Beddow); 110 IN THE SHADE; SHELTER

Cameron Mackintosh 10/17/1946 producer - CATS; OLIVER; SONG & DANCE; LES MIZ; PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Susan Stroman 10/17/1954 Writer, Choreographer, Director, Performer, wife of Mike Ockrent (1996 - December 2, 1999) his death - CRAZY FOR YOU; BIG; CONTACT; THE MUSIC MAN; THOU SHALT NOT

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Tenderloin 10/17/1960

1965 Barbara Harris and John Cullum star in the reincarnation musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.

1967 - “Gimme a head with hair. Long, beautiful hair...” The rock musical HAIR opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater for a limited run. After much trial and error, involving several openings and closings, HAIR eventually opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater on April 29, 1968. It closed on July 1, 1972 after 1,742 performances.

1982 A revival of Sam Shepard's True West is at the Cherry Lane Theatre tonight. Gary Sinise (Steppenwolf's A Streetcar Named Desire and the film "Forrest Gump") directs and stars in this show, which runs 762 performances. Co-stars are John Malkovich, Sam Schacht and Margaret Thomson. Although the original production at the Public Theater in 1980 was repudiated by its author, he appreciated this new version, as did critics and theatregoers, who have since regarded the mounting as a landmark. True West finally reached Broadway in 2000, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternating roles at Circle in the Square

1983 - Actor Anthony Quinn lit up the Great White Way in the revival of the 1968 musical, Zorba, that reunited Quinn with Lila Kedrova, who played Madame Hortense. They both had appeared in the film portrayal, Zorba the Greek, which won Quinn a nomination for Best Actor, and an Oscar for Kedrova as Best Supporting Actress. This was one of the few films that came before the Broadway show, rather than the reverse.

Flower Drum Song 10/17/2002

ON THIS DAY IN:

1919 The Radio Corporation of America was created.

1951 Today is Walter Kerr's first day as "guest critic" at the Herald-Tribune. He will end up staying for 15 years, leaving only because of the demise of the paper. In his first review, he classifies the show A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry as "vigorous, dignified and overly intellectualized." Kerr is best known for his work at the New York Times, whose staff he joined in 1966. The Ritz Theatre was renamed in his honor in 1990.

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

Milla

[Lorelai]

Posted: 10/22/03 at 5:27pm

I can't believe I missed this!
I didn't even know it was Stro's birthday until I read an old newspaper article today, then I saw it on here.
Hard to believe she's 49 years old....don't see her slowing down anytime soon.
Oh well.....happy belated ms. stroman