Today's Birthdays 11/28

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Posted: 11/28/07 at 4:15pm

Gloria Grahame 11/28/1923 - Oct 5, 1981 film's & tv's Academy Award-winning actress: The Bad and the Beautiful [1952]; Oklahoma!, It’s a Wonderful Life, Not as a Stranger, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book I; died Oct 5, 1981

Hope Lange 11/28/1931 - Dec 19, 2003 performer, wife of Charles Hollerith, Jr. (1986 - present), wife of Alan J. Pakula (1963 - 1971) divorced, wife of Don Murray (1956 - 1961) divorced - The Patriots; The Supporting Cast; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actress: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir [1968-69, 1969-70]; Cooperstown, Ford: The Man & the Machine, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Death Wish, The Love Bug, Pocketful of Miracles, The Young Lions, Peyton Place, Bus Stop

Ed Harris 11/28/1950 dir., performer - 2005 Fool For Love, Precious Sons; Taking Sides; tv's & film's Riders of the Purple Sage, Nixon, Apollo 13, The Firm, Glengarry Glen Ross, China Moon, Places in the Heart, The Right Stuff, Knightriders; Empire Falls; Copying Beethoven; National Treasure: Book of Secrets

S. Epatha Merkerson [The "S." in her name doesn't stand for anything.] 11/28/1952 performer - 2008 Come Back, Little Sheba; Tintypes; The Piano Lesson; tv's Law & Order

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1918 A Place in the Sun with Florence Fair, John Halliday

1926 Ethel Barrymore stars in W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, which stays for 295 constant performances at Maxine Elliott's Theatre.

1934 Revenge with Music with Libby Holman, Georges Metaxa

1943 Lovers and Friends by Dodie Smith opens for a 21 week-run at the Plymouth Theatre. The stars are Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey, with direction by Gutherie McClintic.

1945, Strange Fruit blossoms under the direction of Jose Ferrer. Lillian Smith adapts her own novel, with help from her sister. The cast at the Royale Theatre includes Eugenia Rawls, Murray Hamilton and Ralph Meeker.

1951 I Am a Camera with Julie Harris

1957 Look Homeward Angel

1972 Via Galactica with Irene Cara, Mark Baker, Raul Julia, Damon Evans

1993 Gray's Anatomy - Spalding Gray

2001 Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's musical Roadside opens at York Theatre Company. They briefly have two musicals on New York stages: Both Roadside and their long-running phenomenon The Fantasticks will close within weeks of each other in early 2002.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1988 - Picasso’s Acrobat and Young Harlequin brought £21 million at Christie’s in London. The painting was one of many that Adolf Hitler had sold in 1939 to ‘cleanse’ Germany of the disturbing images created by painters such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.

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

Milla Updated On: 12/1/07 at 04:15 PM