Today's Birthdays 11/21
Today's Birthdays 11/21
#0Today's Birthdays 11/21
Posted: 11/20/05 at 9:35pm
Jean Francois Voltaire 11/21/1694 - 5/30/1778 French writer, philosopher, François Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire whose satirical novel "Candide" served as source material for the 1956 Leonard Bernstein/Lillian Hellman/Dorothy Parker musical.
Adolph Marx, better known as Harpo 11/21/1888 - Sep 28, 1964, silent sibling Brother of Groucho, Chico, Zeppo; husband of Susan Marx (1936 - 1964) his death; nephew of Al Shean; uncle of Arthur Marx; comedy team, performer seen on Broadway in I'll Say She Is, Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts, and a character in the biographical musical Minnie's Boys; tv's I Love Lucy
Reginald Denny 11/21/1891 - Jun 16, 1967 performer - King Richard III (John Barrymore, Robert Whitehouse); All Men Are Alike (Bobby Clark)
Rene Magritte 11/21/1898 - 8/15/1967 Belgian painter
Vivian Blaine (Stapleton) 11/21/1921 - 12/9/1995 performer - orig Guys and Dolls; Say, Darling; Enter Laughing; replacements in Company & Zorba film's State Fair, Guys and Dolls, Those Two
Joseph Campanella 11/21/1933 performer - The Captains and the Kings; A Gift of Time [Received a 1962 Tony nomination as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for his performance in "A Gift of Time", which was written and directed by Garson Kanin, and which starred Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland.]; Hot Spot (Judy Holliday, Carmen De Lavallade, George Furth); tv's & film's For Heaven's Sake (Florence Henderson); The Golden Girls, Ben, Meteor, Original Intent, The President’s Plane is Missing, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Sky Hei$t, The Colbys, The Lawyers, The Nurses, Mannix; narrator: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau; host: Emergency Call
Robert Drivas 11/21/1938 Director, Performer - The Firstborn (Anthony Quayle, Katharine Cornell, Kathleen Widdoes); And Things That Go Bump in the Night (Susan Anspach); It Had to Be You (Joseph Bologna, Renee Taylor); Little Me (James Coco, Victor Garber, James Brennan, Bebe Neuwirth)
Laurence Luckinbill 11/21/1940 (another sources lists 1934) performer, husband of Lucie Arnaz (1980 - present) - Beekman Place (Arlene Francis, Fernand Gravet, George Coulouris); Poor Murderer; The Shadow Box; Past Tense (Barbara Feldon); Dancing in the End Zone (Pat Carroll); tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning executive producer: Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie [1992-1993]; actor: Lyndon, Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier, Messenger of Death, Cocktail, The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau
Marlo Thomas 11/21/1937 performer, daughter of Danny Thomas, wife of Phil Donahue (1980 - present) - Thieves (Richard Mulligan); Social Security (Ron Silver, Olympia Dukakis, Joanna Gleason); The Shadow Box; tv's & film's forever THAT GIRL!; Playing Mona Lisa; The Joey Bishop Show; Starstruck
Natalia Makarova 11/21/1940 ballerina: Kirov Ballet [now Saint Petersburg Ballet]: 1959-1970] performer - Makarova and Company; 1983 On Your Toes
Juliet Mills 11/21/1941 performer, Daughter of Mary Hayley Bell & John Mills, Goddaughter of Vivien Leigh, sister of Hayley Mills, wife of Maxwell Caulfield (1980 - present) - Five Finger Exercise; Alfie (Terence Stamp); Emmy Award-winning actress: QB VII, Parts 1 & 2, ABC Movie Special [1974-75]; Nanny and the Professor, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Cracker Factory
Harold Ramis 11/21/1944 - performer, writer, dir. - tv's & film's writer: Ghostbusters series, Armed and Dangerous, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Stripes, Meatballs; writer, director: Multiplicity, Groundhog Day, Club Paradise, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Caddyshack, actor: Ghostbusters series, Second City TV, Love Affair, Stealing Home, Baby Boom
Goldie Hawn (Btudlendgehawn) 11/21/1945 performer - tv's & film's Academy Award-winning actress: Cactus Flower [1969]; First Wives Club, Bird on a Wire, Butterflies are Free, Housesitter, Death Becomes Her, Private Benjamin, Shampoo, The Sugarland Express, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Good Morning, World
Lorna Luft 11/21/1952 performer - Judy Garland "At Home at the Palace"; replacement Promises, Promises; tv's Trapper John, M.D., Where the Boys Are ’84, Grease 2; daughter of singer-actress Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft; sister of singer-actress Lisa Minelli, Joey Luft; sister-in-law to Peter Allen
Cherry Jones 11/21/1956 performer - Doubt; Stepping Out (Carol Woods); 1988 Macbeth; Our Country's Good (J. Smith-Cameron); Angels in Amer I & II; The Heiress; The Night of the Iguana; Major Barbara; Imaginary Friends; tv's & film's Erin Brokovich; Murder in a Small Town & The Lady In Question (both w/Gene Wilder)
Paul Schoeffler 11/21/1958 performer - Cyrano - The Musical; 1998 Peter Pan; 2003 Nine
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1934 With words and music by Cole Porter, Anything Goes opens tonight at the Alvin Theatre. The cast includes Ethel Merman, William Gaxton and Victor Moore in this one year-plus run. The book, about cabaret singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy No. 13 chasing around a France-bound ocean liner, is provided by Bolton, Wodehouse, Lindsay and Crouse. Songs include "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow."
1944 George S. Kaufman directs his own script of The Late George Apley, based on the Pulitzer-winning novel by John P. Marquand. Leo G. Carroll plays the title character, and the production runs 384 performances at the Lyceum Theatre.
1979 Strider, based on a story by Tolstoy, comes to the Helen Hayes Theatre after first being seen at the Chelsea Theatre Center. Gerald Hiken stars as a horse named Strider and is saddled with the part for 27 weeks.
1983 Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury comes to life in a musical by Trudeau and Elizabeth Swados. It runs just 104 performances at the Biltmore Theatre, but features several future stars: Gary Beach, Kate Burton and Mark Linn-Baker.
1993 - Cyrano - The Musical - Bill Van Dijk, Timothy Nolen, Anne Runolfsson, Paul Schoeffler, Christian Nova & James Barbour (both in the ensemble)
1999 Carol Burnett raises a glass with fellow partygoers John Barrowman, George Hearn, Ruthie Henshall and Bronson Pinchot as they try Putting It Together, which opened tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The cocktail party is a front to perform a "review" of songs by Stephen Sondheim. The show was conceptualized and created by Sondheim in 1992, when it was produced in London by Cameron Mackintosh. It then came to Off Broadway starring Julie Andrews. Now on Broadway at last, the show will run 103 performances.
1994 Eileen Atkins and Vanessa Redgrave star in the Zoe Caldwell-directed Vita and Virginia, which opens tonight at the Union Square Theatre. The story follows that of Virginia Woolf, whom Atkins has played before in A Room of One's Own. This show, which The Times calls a "literary tea-for-two," runs 29 performances.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1877 Inventor Thomas A. Edison unveiled the phonograph. On February 19, 1878, Edison received a patent for the device.
1955 - The first lady of the American stage, Helen Hayes, was honored for her many remarkable years in show business, as the Fulton Theatre in New York City was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre.
1970 Actress Carlotta Monterey, widow of playwright Eugene O'Neill, dies at the age of 82.
1980 - The largest TV audience ever, an estimated 82 million people, watched as Sue Ellen’s sister, Kristin Shepard, shot J.R. Ewing on Dallas. The jilted mistress was seen holding the smoking gun after a summer of viewers asking that haunting question, “Who Shot J.R.?” Eighty percent of all viewers watched the show.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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Posted: 11/21/05 at 12:47pmwahoo! H B D cherry! here's a glass of tawny port raised in your honor...
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