Today's Birthdays 11/23
Today's Birthdays 11/23
#0Today's Birthdays 11/23
Posted: 11/22/05 at 9:51pm
Billy The Kid 11/23/1859 - 7/14/1881 American gunfighter of the Wild West, killed 21 men; last words: “Quien es? Quien es? (Who is it? Who is it?)” Bang. Bang. You’re dead.: killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner NM, source mat'l
Manuel de Falla 11/23/1876 - 11/14/1946 Spanish composer - Ah, to hear Victoria de los Angeles in her prime singing & playing any of his songs!
Guy Bolton 11/23/1884 - Sep 5, 1979 Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Source Material, Director - The Fallen Idol; Very Good Eddie; Leave It to Jane; Sally; Daffy Dill; Oh, Kay!; The Five O'Clock Girl {1 of my all-time fav songs: I See Your Face Before Me}; Rosalie Marilyn Miller, Frank Morgan); Simple Simon; Girl Crazy; Anything Goes; Ankles Aweigh
Boris Karloff 11/23/1887 - 2/3/1969 English actor, husband of Olive Wilton (1909 - ?) divorced - orig Arsenic and Old Lace; The Linden Tree (Una O'Conner); 1950 Peter Pan (Jean Arthur); The Lark (Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Theodore Bikel ; tv's& film's actor: Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Die Monster, Die!, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Mummy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Body Snatcher, Mystery Playhouse Starring Boris Karloff, host: Thriller; narrator: How the Grinch Stole Christmas; panelist: Down You Go
Erté 11/23/1892 - Apr 21, 1990 Also known as: Remain de Tirtoff [Birthname], derived the pseudonym Erté from the French pronunciation of his intials - La Plume de Ma Tante; André Heller's Wonderhouse
Victor Jory 11/23/1902 - 2/12/1982 dir, performer - The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Vera Allen, Eliz. Bergner, Irene Worth ); 1946 King Henry VIII; 1946 John Gabriel Borkman; A Pound on Demand / Androcles and the Lion; 1950 The Devil's Disciple (Maurice Evans, Marsha Hunt; tv's & film's Gone with the Wind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Miracle Worker, Papillon, Charlie Chan in Rio, Manhunt, Kings Row
Peter Gennaro 11/23/1919 - Sep 28, 2000 Choreographer, Performer - Arms and the Girl; origs Guys & Dolls; The Pajama Game; Bells Are Ringing; West Side Story; Fiorello; The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Bajour; Jimmy; Annie (& 1997 Revival); Carmelina; One Night Stand [never officially opened] Charles Kimbrough, Kate Mostel)
Jerry Bock 11/12/1928 - Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Choreographer - Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello, Mr. Wonderful (Jack Carter, Sammy Davis, Sr. & Jr.); Baker Street; The Apple Tree; The Rothschilds; The Madwoman of Central Park West
Susan Anspach 11/23/1939 performer - Lovers [Art Carney; Anspach & Blythe Danner were s/b]; And Things That Go Bump in the Night (Eileen Heckart, Ferdi Hoffman); tv's & film's Space; Blume in Love; Play It Again, Sam; 5 Easy Pieces
Franco Nero [Francesco Sparanero] 11/23/1941 performer; former partner of Vanessa Redgrave, who had a son, Carlo, by him - tv's & film's Camelot; Young Catherine; Die Hard 2; Force 10 from Navarone; Painted Lady (Helen Mirren)
Max Caulfield 11/23/1959 performer, married to Juliet Mills - Once a Catholic (Peggy Cass, Rachel Roberts); tv's & film's Grease 2; All My Children; The Colbys; Ryan's Hope
Aliane Baquerot Nov 23, 1978 performer, 1996 Olympian - Saturday Night Fever; Movin' Out (John Selya)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1937 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men opens at the Music Box Theater. Wallace Ford and Broderick Crawford star as traveling companions Lenny and George. It will run 207 performances.
1938 Eddie Albert, Ronnie Graham, Teddy Hart, Jimmy Savo and Burl Ives are The Boys From Syracuse. George Abbott adapted the story from Shakepeare's Comedy of Errors. Music and lyrics are supplied by Rodgers and Hart, and George Balanchine provides the choreography.
1944 The Man Who Had All the Luck certainly isn't lead actor Karl Swensen or anyone else involved in this drama -- by Arthur Miller. The show, about a man who realizes his luck is a result of careful planning and hard work, plays only four times.
1993 In order to get a review from Frank Rich of the New York Times before he leaves, Tony Kushner opens his Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika at the Walter Kerr Theatre tonight. Rich, who is known for raving about the first part of the play, is leaving his post soon, to be succeeded by a reviewer known for not being enthusiastic about the piece. When the review comes out, the play is defined as a "true millennial work of art." Perestroika runs in repertory with Millennium Approaches and runs for 216 performances.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1903 Singer Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in "Rigoletto."
1929 - Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on radio’s classic, Duffy’s Tavern. She also gave an Oscar-winning performance in 1952 in Come Back Little Sheba. Wish I'd seen her in JUNO.
1958 - Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared together in the GE Theatre production of A Turkey for the President...If we'd only known....
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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