Today's Birthdays 11/28

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Today's Birthdays 11/28#1

Posted: 11/28/08 at 9:32pm

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

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

Randy Newman [Randall Stuart Newman] 11/28/1943 composer; Cousin of composers Thomas Newman, Joey Newman, Maria Newman and David Newman; Nephew of composers Alfred Newman, Emil Newman and Lionel Newman; On February 12, 2002, he broke the all-time record for most Oscar nominations without any wins (the previous record was 15; Newman got two nominations for Monsters, Inc. (2001) and made it to 16). (This record has been surpassed. As of March 2006, sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell has 18 nominations but not a single Oscar.) In March of 2002, Newman finally won his first Academy Award for writing the Best Song in Monsters, Inc. (2001). In his acceptance speech, he thanked the music branch of the academy for giving him all those chances "to be humiliated." - Matters of the Heart; tv's & film's Toy Story 1 & 2 ["When She Loved Me" & "I Will Go Sailing No More" 2 of my fav songs, incredibly beatuful & poignant]; Monk; Ragtime; Malice; James and the Giant Peach; Michael; The Full Monty; Beautiful People ["Sail Away"]; Meet the Fockers ["Crazy 'bout My Baby"] Can you tell I'm wild 'about this writer!

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 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:

1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

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.

2000 George W. Bush's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring "legal finality" to the presidential election by ending any further ballot recounts; Al Gore's team countered that the nation's highest court should not interfere in Florida's recount dispute.

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

Milla