Today's Birthdays 11/22
Today's Birthdays 11/22
#1Today's Birthdays 11/22
Posted: 11/21/06 at 9:28pm
George Eliot 11/22/1819 - 1880 writer, source mat'l - Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Radical, Daniel Deronda
Andre Gide 11/22/1869 - 2/19/1951 French writer - Public Gardens; Les Proces; 1952 Hamlet [translated by Gide]; The Immoralist (Louis Jourdan, James Dean, Geraldine Page, Charles Dingle)
Wiley Post 11/22/1989 - 8/15/1935 pioneer aviator, parachutist; co-author: Around the World in Eight Days; killed in plane crash [w/flying companion Will Rogers] source mat'l - Will Rogers Follies
Hoagy Carmichael 11/22/1899 - 12/27/1981; singer, piano player, band leader, attorney - Walk With Music (Kitty Carlisle); Alive and Kicking (Jack Cassidy, Jack Gilford, Carl Reiner, Bobby Van, Gwen Verdon); Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer: Stardust, Lazybones, Two Sleepy People, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Rockin’ Chair, [Up a] Lazy River, One Morning in May, The Nearness of You, Lamplighter’s Serenade, How Little We Know, Memphis in June, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, New Orleans
Geraldine Page 11/22/1924 - 6/13/1987 mother of Angelica Torn, wife of Rip Torn (1961 - 1987) her death, performer - The Rainmaker; Sweet Bird of Youth; Three Sisters; Absurd Person Singular; Clothes for a Summer Hotel (David Canary); Mixed Couples (Julie Harris, Rip Torn); 1987 Blithe Spirit (Richard Chamberlin, Blythe Danner, Judith Ivey); Academy Award-winning actress: The Trip to Bountiful [1985]; The Day of the Locust, Harry’s War, Pete ’n’ Tillie, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, Toys in the Attic; Emmy Award-winner: A Christmas Memory, ABC Stage 67 [1966-1967], The Thanksgiving Visitor [1968-1969]
Peter Hall 11/22/1930 Producer, Director, Designer, Other; Father of Edward Hall, Husband of Nicola Frei (1990 - present) 1 child, Maria Ewing (1982 - 1990) divorced, 1 child, Jacqueline Taylor (1965 - 1981) divorced; 2 children, Leslie Caron (1956 - 1966) divorced; 2 children - The Rope Dancers; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Via Galactica; 1974 As You Like It (Nigel Hawthorne); Bedroom Farce; Orpheus Descending (Vanessa Redgrave, Tammy Grimes, Marcia Lewis); orig. Amadeus (Jane Seymour, Tim Curry, Ian McKellen); 1996 An Ideal Husband; 1999 Amadeus
Robert Vaughn 11/22/1932 performer - replacement orig. Love Letters; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Washington: Behind Closed Doors [1977-78]; The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Magnificent Seven, The Big One, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge at Remagen, Delta Force, Superman 3, The Young Philadelphians; Law & Order
Terry Gilliam 11/22/1940 performer, writer, dir, source mat'l, Monty Python - 2005 Spamalot; tv's & film's Do Not Adjust Your Set; Marty (Marty Feldman); Monty Python, etc.; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tom Conti 11/22/1941 performer - Whose Life is it Anyway? (Jean Marsh); Last Licks; tv's & film's American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace, Masterpiece Theater, Shirley Valentine, The Wright Verdicts; Rabbit Fever
Richard Kind 11/22/1948 performer - replacements in Dirty Rotten Scountrals;Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Sly Fox; tv's & film's Spin City; Mad About You; For Your Consideration; 2005 The Producers
Jamie Lee Curtis 11/22/1958 actress: A Fish Called Wanda, Forever Young, Halloween ’78, Halloween 2: The The Nightmare Isn’t Over!, Trading Places, True Lies, My Girl, Mother’s Boys, Love Letters, Anything But Love, Dominick & Eugene, Operation Petticoat; daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1909 - Helen Hayes appeared for the first time on the New York stage. She was a member of the cast of Old Dutch, which opened at the Herald Square Theatre.
1927 - Funny Face - Fred & Adele Astaire, Victor Moore
1961 - A Man for All Seasons opened at the ANTA Playhouse in New York City. The play starred George Rose as the Common Man, Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk, Leo McKern as Thomas Cromwell, Keith Baxter as King Henry VIII and Olga Bellin as Margaret More. A Man for All Seasons ran for 637 performances, closing on Jun 1, 1963.
1965 - The production of Man of La Mancha, including the classic The Impossible Dream, opened in New York City for the first of 2,328 performances.
1993 - Laughter on the 23rd Floor - Nathan Lane, Randy Graff, Mark Linn-Baker, J. K. Simmons
1999 - Morning, Noon and Night with Spalding Gray
ON THIS DAY IN:
1880 - Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut -- in New York City.
1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel made its debut in Paris.
1943 Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at age 48.
On Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States.
1980 Actress Mae West died in Hollywood at age 87.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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