Today's Birthdays 10/5
Today's Birthdays 10/5
#0Today's Birthdays 10/5
Posted: 10/4/06 at 11:28pm
Joshua Logan 10/05/1908 - Jul 12, 1988 Producer, Writer, Director, Choreographer, Performer, Stage Manager, husband of Nedda Harrigan (1945 - July 12, 198 his death, husband of Barbara O'Neil (? - ?) divorced - I WAS WAITING FOR YOU (Vera Allen); I MARRIED AN ANGEL (Dennis King, Vivienne Siegel, Walter Slezak, Vera Zorina); CHARLEY'S AUNT; BY JUPITER; ANNIE GET YOUR GUN; JOHN LOVES MARY; FANNY; ALL AMERICAN; HOROWITZ & MRS. WASHINGTON (Sam Levene, Esther Rolle)
Donald Pleasance 10/5/1919 - 2/2/1995 performer - film's You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage, Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Glynis Johns 10/05/1923 performer - 1956 MAJOR BARBARA (Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Cornelia Otis Skinner, John Astin), orig. A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Len Cariou); 1989 THE CIRCLE (Stewart Granger, Rex Harrison, Roma Downey); tv's & film's Batman; MARY POPPINS; The Sword and the Rose; Mad About Men; Lock Up Your Daughters!; & my fav The Court Jester (w/Danny Kaye)
Bill Dana 10/5/1924 performer - tv's The Golden Girls; The Steve Allen Show, The Bill Dana Show: “My name, Jose Jimenez.”
Diane Cilento 10/05/1933 wife of Anthony Shaffer (1985 - 2001) his death, wife of Sean Connery (1962 - 1973) divorced, performer - TIGER AT THE GATES; film's The Agony and the Ecstasy, Tom Jones, Negatives, Hombre, The Naked Edge
Thom Christopher 10/05/1940 performer - Noel Coward in 2 Keys (Anne Baxter, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy)
Heather MacRae 10/05/1946 performer, daughter of Gordon & Sheila MacRae - HERE'S WHERE I BELONG (Graciela Daniele, Walter McGinn); FALSETTOS; Hair [replacement]
Jeff Conaway 10/05/1950 performer - orig. ALL THE WAY HOME (Arthur Hill)
Karen Allen 10/05/1951 performer - MONDAY AFTER THE MIRACLE (debut, Jane Alexander); film's RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Dean Nolen 10/05/1964 performer - MAMMA MIA
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1948 The original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke opens with Margaret Phillips as Alma Winemiller. It runs a disappointing 102 performances and is considered minor Williams -- until a downtown production in the 1950s establishes the play's reputation, and that of its new star, Geraldine Paige, as well as helping to ignite the Off-Broadway movement.
1955 The Diary of Anne Frank with Susan Strasberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Jack Gilford & Lou Jacobi
1960 Becket with Kit Culkin (McCaully's pop), Marie Powers, Anthony Quinn, Louis Zorich, Laurence Olivier
1966 The Killing of Sister George w/Eileen Atkins
1977 Cleo on Broadway
1977 Hair
1995 Company
ON THIS DAY IN:
1969 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' made its debut on BBC Television.
1993 Agnes DeMille, 88, died today. The niece of Cecil B. DeMille, she spent much of her life as a self-characterized "storyteller", choreographing such Broadway classics as Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Paint Your Wagon.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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