Today's Birthdays 10/2
Today's Birthdays 10/2
#0Today's Birthdays 10/2
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:04am
Richard III 10/2/1452 - 8/22/1485 King of England, source material
Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi 10/2/1869 - 1/30/1948 political and spiritual leader, source material
Groucho Marx 10/02/1890 - Aug 19, 1977 Producer, Writer, Source Material, Performer, brother of Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Harpo Marx, brother-in-law of Susan Marx, father of Arthur Marx, Nephew of Al Shean - I'LL SAY SHE IS; THE COCONUTS; ANIMAL CRACKERS; TIME FOR ELIZABETH (Otto Kruger, Katherine Alexander, written by Groucho); MINNIE'S BOYS; TV host: You Bet Your Life; comedian, actor: one of the Marx Brothers of vaudeville and film fame: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business
Bud Abbott 10/02/1896 - Apr 24, 1974 performer - STREETS OF PARIS (Gower Champion, Carmen Miranda); Abbott of Abbott & Costello; Who’s on First?, The Abbott & Costello Show
Graham Greene 10/02/1904 - Apr 3, 1991 writer - THE LIVING ROOM; THE POTTING SHED; THE COMPLAISANT LOVER (Sandy Dennis, Michael Redgrave, Gene Wilder); novel's & film's The Third Man, The Power and the Glory
William Marshall 10/02/1917 - 6/8/1994 Husband of Ginger Rogers (1961 - 1962) divorced, performer - LOST IN THE STARS (Todd Duncan [an incredible acting singer!], Robert McFerrin)
George Emmett‘Spanky’ McFarland 10/2/1928 - 6/30/1993 performer - Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies
Rex Reed 10/2/1938 newspaper columnist, author, movie critic; actor: Myra Breckenridge
Mark Baker 10/02/1946 performer - VIA GALACTICA; 1974 CANDIDE (Maureen Brennan)
Sting 10/02/1951 performer, composer - 1989 3 PENNY OPERA
Lorraine Bracco 10/02/1955 performer, wife of Daniel Guerard (? - 1980?) divorced, wife of Harvey Keitel (1982 - 1993) divorced,wife of Edward James Olmos (1994 - 2002) divorced - THE GRADUATE [replacement]
Catherine Kellner 10/02/1970 performer - The Iceman Cometh (Tony Danza, Robert Sean Leonard, Kevin Spacey, Ed Dixon); The 24 Hour Plays 2004
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1893 Charley's Aunt opens on Broadway, becoming one of the most enduring farces ever, later serving as the basis for the 1948 musical Where's Charley?
1933 Ah! Wilderness, a rare comedy from Eugene O'Neill, opens on Broadway.
1939 They Knew What They Wanted
1953 Comedy in Music, Victor Borge's solo revue of jokes and piano virtuosity, opens on Broadway and runs for 849 performances, still a record for a solo musical revue.
1958 Eugene O'Neill is the posthumous toast of Broadway tonight as his A Touch of the Poet opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The cast, directed by Harold Clurman, includes Kim Stanley and Helen Hayes, playing mother and daughter. Brooks Atkinson called the two ladies "the two finest actresses of their respective generations." The play, about a 19th century Irish family living in New England, runs 284 performances.
1994 The elaborate Harold Prince revival of Show Boat opens tonight at the Gershwin Theatre, with racial issues coming to the fore. The original production, which opened in 1927, contained the word "n*." The word was, for the most part, retained in the revival, even though the opening lyric of "Ol' Man River" is now "Colored folks work on the Mississippi." Elaine Stritch, Rebecca Luker, and Mark Jacoby star in the revival.
2003 Little Shop of Horrors
ON THIS DAY IN:
1949 - “Hennnnnnreeeeee! Henry Aldrich!” “Coming, Mother!” The popular radio program, The Aldrich Family, scored another distinction -- being the very first TV sitcom (situation comedy).
1950 The comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles M. Schulz was first published. [It} had only three characters at its inception: Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty (Reichardt) and Shermy. The world’s most famous beagle, Snoopy, made his first appearance on October 4th. Later, we were introduced to Linus, Lucy Van Pelt, Sally and Schroeder; and learned that the Peanuts gang came from the California town of Sebastopol, which really exists. Charlie Brown starred in his own Broadway musical, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, along with the rest of the gang; and in several movies; and in several TV specials. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas are rerun on TV year after year.
1955 - “Good Eeeeeeevening.” The master of mystery movies, Alfred Hitchcock, presented his brand of suspense to millions of viewers on CBS each week for ten years with Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And who could forget that theme song (The Funeral March of a Marionette)?
1959 - “There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fear and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the twilight zone.” Familiar words now, but they were first spoken this Friday night on CBS-TV at 10 p.m. by the creator and host of The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling.
1981 John Raitt and Rosemary Yorba were married today. The two had been engaged in 1940, but since their families disapproved, they went on to marry others.
1985 Actor Rock Hudson died at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.
2005 August Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of an epic cycle of dramas about the African-American experience in the 20th century, dies after a battle with cancer at age 60. His plays include Fences, The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars and Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Within weeks of his death, Broadway's Virginia Theatre will be renamed for him.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 10/2/06 at 12:04 AM
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