Today's Birthdays 11/26

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 11/26/04 at 5:22pm

Emlyn Williams 11/26/1905 - Sep 25, 1987 Writer, Director, Performer - Night Must Fall; The Corn Is Green; Someone Waiting (Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis); film's Night Must Fall (Robert Montgomery [very scarey], Roz Russell, Dame May Whitty); The Corn is Green (Bette Davis)

Eugene Ionesco 11/26/1909 - 3/28/1994 absurdist playwright: The Bald Soprano, The Chairs

Cyril Cusack 11/26/1910 - 10/7/1993 Father of Sinéad Cusack, father-in-law of Jeremy Irons, husband of Maureen Cusack, performer - orig. A Moon for the Misbegotten (Wendy Hiller, Franchot Tone); film's Far and Away, My Left Foot, The Tenth Man, 1984, True Confessions, Les Miserables, The Day of the Jackal, Sacco & Vanzetti, King Lear, Harold and Maude, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew, Fahrenheit 451, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Elusive Pimpernel, Odd Man Out, Late Extra

Charles M. Schulz 11/26/1922 - Feb 12, 2000 writer, source mat'l - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Stanley Lebowsky 11/26/1926 - 1986 Composer, Arranger, Musical Director, Performer, Musical Supervisor, husband of Carol Estey - Whoop-Up; Irma La Douce; Tovarich; 1/2 A Sixpence; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Gantry; Ari (John Savage, Martin Ross; Jamie Ross, Jack Gwillim, David Cryer, Constance Towers); Pippin; Chicago; The Act; The 1940's Radio Hour (Mary Cleere-Haran, Dee Dee Bridgewater);1981 Can-Can; Cats; Singin' in the Rain; Me and My Girl; Fosse

John Carter 11/26/1927 - Goldilocks; Take Me Along; No Strings; A Delicate Balance (George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris, Elaine Stritch, Mary Beth Hurt, Elizabeth Wilson Edna)

Louis Turenne 11/26/1933 performer - The Devils; Happy Birthday, Wanda June; Ring Around the Bathtub; Cyrano (the lovely Leigh Beery, Tovah Feldshuh, Christopher Plummer); orig Amadeus; The Loves of Anatol (Philip Bosco, Michael Learned, the beautiful voiced opera singer/actress Patricia Brooks [w/whom I worked]); 1993 St. Joan

Robert Goulet 11/26/1933 Husband of Vera Novak (1982 - present); husband of Louise Longmore (? -1962) divorced; One daughter, Nikki; husband of Carol Lawrence (1963-1981) divorced; 2 sons, Christopher and Michael, performer - orig & 1993 Camelot; The Happy Time (David Wayne, Charles Durning, Jeanne Arnold); film's, etc. Mr. Wrong, I’d Rather be Rich, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Scrooged, Blue Light

Marian Mercer 11/26/1935 performer - Greenwillow; New Faces of 1962; Promises, Promises (Jill O'Hara, Jerry Orbach, Graciela Daniele, Ken Howard, Baayork Lee, Donna McKechnie); A Place for Polly; Hay Fever (Shirley Booth, John Williams, Sudi Bond, Sam Waterston, Carole Shelley); 1978 Stop the World - I Want to Get Off; Blossoms & Neglect (Paul Rudd, Kate Reid)

Evans Evans 11/26/1936 wife of John Frankenheimer (1962 - 2002) his death, performer - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Eileen Heckart, Pat Hingle, Teresa Wright); A Distant Bell (Martha Scott, Nydia Westman); The 49th Cousin

Daniel Davis 11/26/1945 performer - 2004 La Cage aux Folle; The Frogs; Wrong Mountain; The Invention of Love; Talking Heads; tv's Niles in The Nanny; Matlock

Tandy Cronyn 11/26/1945 daughter of Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy, performer, Stg Mgr - The Good Woman of Setzuan; 1971 The Playboy of the Western World (Frances Sternhagen, David Birney); 1981 An Enemy of the People (Susan Sharkey, Philip Bosco, Conrad Bain)

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1864 Edwin Booth opens a four-month stand in Hamlet at the old Winter Garden Theatre.

1900 Sarah Bernhardt and Benoit Constant Coquelin open for a five-week engagement, in French, at the Garden Theatre in New York. Bernhardt plays Camille, Tosca, Roxanne, and, in a burst of early non-traditional casting, two "breeches" roles, Hamlet and L'Aiglon (Napoleon).

1930 Rex Harrison makes his London debut as the Hon. Fred Thrippleton in Florence Kilpatrick's Getting George Married at the Everyman Theatre.

1940 Ethel Barrymore plays Miss Moffat in Emlyn Williams' play The Corn Is Green, about a teacher who changes the life of a small Welsh village. It opens at the National Theatre and runs 477 performances.

1946 Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist drama No Exit proclaims that "Hell is other people" in a production that opens today at the Biltmore Theatre and runs 31 performances.

1964 A middle-aged man (Paul Ford) suddenly finds he's going to be a father again in the Sumner Arthur Long comedy Never Too Late, which opens today at the Playhouse Theatre and runs 1007 performances.

Walking Happy 11/26/1966 - Norman Wisdom, George Rose, Gretchen Van Aken, Louise Troy, Sharon Dierking. Movie was wonderful, how was this show?

ON THIS DAY IN:

1789 A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.

1832 - For 12½ cents, passengers began riding the first streetcar railway in America. The New York City service ran from City Hall to 14th Street.

1922 - The tomb of the Boy King, Tutankhamen, was discovered in Egypt by Lord Carnarvon of England and Howard Carter of the United States. The find was called, “The greatest archaeological discovery of all time.” People in America, looking for brevity in identifying great things before they forget, shortened the name to Tut.

1940 The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.

1942 "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.

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

Milla

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 11/26/04 at 7:52pm

Today's also my mom's b-day. ^_^ Happy b-day to mom.

[Mamie]

Posted: 11/26/04 at 10:18pm

Happy Birthday Danny D - Knock em dead tonight!