Today's Birthdays 11/19

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 9:19pm

Ned Sparks 11/19/1883 - Apr 3, 1957 performer, fabulous character actor! - Jim Jam Jems (Joe E. Brown); The All-Star Idlers of 1921(Ed Wynn); fav films: Stage Door Canteen; The Bride Walks Out; 1934 Imitation of Life; Lady for a Day; The Miracle Man; and of course 42nd Street

Eleanor Powell 11/19/1912 - Feb 11, 1982 performer, In 1920's was world champion in tapdancing; in 1930's went to Hollywood (Queen of Ra-Ta-Taps); in 1960's did night clubs and Vegas, wife of Glen Ford (1943-1959) divorced; 1 son, Peter Ford, am I correct in remembering EP became a minister? - Follow Thru (Katharine Cornell); Hot-Cha! (Bert Lahr); George White's Music Hall Varieties [1932, 19333] (Lili Damita); At Home Abroad (Bea Lilli, Reginald Gardiner, Eddie Foy, Jr.); fav film's Broadway Melody of 1936; Born to Dance; Rosalie; Broadway Melody of 1940

Alan Young 11/19/1919 - 84 years young, performer - The Girl in the Freudian Slip; tv's & film's Emmy-Award winning show: The Alan Young Show [1950]; Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Time Machine [Is the only actor to appear in both The Time Machine (1960) and The Time Machine (2002)]; cartoon voice: Scrooge McDuck; and my fav forever Wilbur Post in Mr. Ed

Gene Tierney 11/19/1920 - Nov 6, 1991 performer, Oleg Cassini's ex - Mrs. O'Brien Entertains (Walter Kinsella); Ring Two (Betty Field); The Male Animal (Wm. Defore); Dragonwyck; Leave Her to Heaven, forever Laura and Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

James Lee Barrett 11/19/1929 Writer, Source Material - Shenandoah [Based on an original screenplay by James Lee Barrett] (John Cullum, 1975 AND 1989!)

Dick Cavett 11/19/1936 performer - replacements in Otherwise Engaged & Into the Woods; 2000 Rocky Horror Show; host The Dick Cavett Show

Kathleen Quinlan 11/19/1954 performer - tv's & film's The Promise, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, American Graffiti, Airport ’77, Apollo 13, Family Law

Rob Ashford 11/19/1959 Choreographer, Performer - 1987 Anything Goes; 1992 The Most Happy Fella (Spiro Malas, Sonya Hayden, Liz Larsen); My Favorite Year (Evan Pappas [bring him back], Nora Mae Lyng, Lanie Kazan, Michael McGrath, Josh Mostel, Mary Stout); Parade; Ring Round the Moon (Fritz Weaver, Irene Worth, Marian Seldes, Philip Hoffman, Frances Conroy); 1999 Kiss Me, Kate; Seussical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; The Boys from Syracuse

Allison Janney 11/19/1960 performer - 1996 Present Laughter; 1997 A View From the Bridge (Anthony LaPaglia); Emmy Award-winning Supporting Actress: The West Wing [2000, 2001, 2002]; The Guiding Light, Private Parts, Primary Colors, The Impostors, David and Lisa, Drop Dead Gorgeous, American Beauty

Meg Ryan 11/19/1961 performer - film's When a Man Loves a Woman, When Harry Met Sally, D.O.A., Sleepless in Seattle, Top Gun, One of the Boys, Addicted to Love, City of Angels, You’ve Got Mail

Jodie Foster 11/19/1962 performer - Academy Award-winning actress: The Accused [1988], Silence of the Lambs [1991]; Mayberry R.F.D., NAPOLEON & SAMANTHA, Bugsy Malone, Taxi Driver, Napoleon and Samantha, Sommersby, Paper Moon, Maverick; director: Little Man Tate

Savion Glover 11/19/1973 Source Material, Choreographer, Performer - replacement The Tap Dance Kid; Black and Blue (Ruth Brown); Jelly's Last Jam (Gregory Hines, Keith David, Tonya Pinkins, Stephanie Pope); Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk

Happy Birthday // DirtyWickedDresser

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1906 George Arliss and Mrs. Fiske star in The New York Idea, Langdon Mitchell's play which runs 66 performances at the Lyric Theatre.

1923 Jacob Ben-Ami and Winifred Lenihan are The Failures. There will be only 40 performances at the Garrick Theater of H.R. Lenormand's play. In the story "She," out of desperation, takes up the world's oldest profession, while "He" struggles at the second oldest (playwriting).

1936 Kurt Weill writes his first Broadway score since immigrating to the U.S. Johnny Johnson, which has a book by Paul Green and direction by Lehman Engel, is an antiwar musical about a young soldier. Produced by the Group Theatre at its height, the show features an enviable cast: Jules Garfield, Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Sanford Meisner, Morris Carnovsky and Luther Adler. It runs 68 performances at the 44th Street Theatre.

1962 Charles Boyer stars in Lord Pengo at the Royale Theater. S.N. Behrman adapted his The Days of Duveen specifically for Boyer. The cast of this comedy included a young Brian Bedford, Agnes Moorehead, Henry Daniell and Lee Richardson.

1981 Katharine Hepburn makes her final Broadway appearance in Ernest Thompson's drama, West Side Waltz, opposite Dorothy Loudon.

1985 Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport opens tonight at the Booth Theatre with a cast that includes Judd Hirsch and Cleavon Little. The replacements later on in this show, which runs for 890 performances, are Ossie Davis and Hal Linden. The New York Times' Frank Rich pans Rappaport, although it goes on to win the 1986 Tony Award for Best Play, and Hirsch will win for Best Actor. Gardner calls this "proof that there's life after Frank Rich." The 1996 movie version, directed by Gardner himself, included Davis and Walter Matthau.

1997 Peter Riegert, Patti LuPone, and Rebecca Pidgeon star in David Mamet's new play The Old Neighborhood, which opens tonight at the Booth Theatre. The show, which is a trio of scenes, follows a divorced, middle-aged man's emotion-generating visit to his old Chicago neighborhood.

1998 On the Town with Lea DeLaria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Annie Golden, Tai Jimenez, Mary Testa, Chandra Wilson

ON THIS DAY IN:

1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr. was involved in a serious auto accident in San Bernardino, CA. Three days later, Davis lost the sight in his left eye. He later referred to the accident as the turning point of his career.

1961 American playwright Dorothy Heyward is dead at the age of 81. She wrote Porgy, that would later be adapted for Porgy and Bess and Mamba's Daughters with her husband DuBose Heyward, and Jonica with Moss Hart.

1971 Today marks the official opening in New York City of Playwrights Horizons, at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts, with a staged reading of Margaret Power's Victims Anonymous. Robert Moss is founder and producing director of this venture to support and encourage new American playwrights.

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

Milla
Updated On: 11/19/05 at 09:19 PM

[DirtyWickedDresser]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 10:49pm

Today is my birthday too! I knew that I shared it with Jodie Foster and Meg Ryan but it's cool to see all the others. Thanks

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 11/19/05 at 3:06pm

Happy Birthday, DWD! Make it a magical day...

Milla

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 11/19/05 at 7:52pm

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