Today's Birthdays 11/3
Today's Birthdays 11/3
#0Today's Birthdays 11/3
Posted: 11/2/06 at 9:56pm
Vincenzo Bellini 11/03/1801 - Sep 23, 1835 opera composer - Master Class (killer aria: "Oh! Se una volta sola... Ah! non credea mirarti" [from La Sonnambula"] by Vincenzo Bellini)
Bert Freed 11/03/1919 - Aug 2, 1994 performer - One Touch of Venus (Mary Martin, Paula Laurence); Joy to the World (Alfred Drake)
Lynn Archer (Harriett Argenbright) 11/03/1922 - Jan 1, 2004 performer - I'm Solomon (Dick Shawn, Karen Morrow, Salome Jens, Ken Richards, Nicholas Dante); 1976 Fiddler on the Roof (Zero Mostel, Thelma Lee)
Leonard Stone 11/03/1923 performer - Redhead [nominated 1959 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical)](Gwen Verdon, Richard Kiley, Margery Beddow, Kevin Carlisle, Ken Richards, Doris Rich); orig Look Homeward Angel (Anthony Perkins, Jo Van Fleet, Arthur Hill, Bibi Osterwald, Arthur Storch, Rosemary Murphy)
Charles Nolte 11/03/1926 performer - Design for a Stained Glass Window (Charlton Heston, Carroll McComas); Billy Budd, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (John Hodiak, Henry Fonda)
Lois Smith 11/03/1930 performer - orig Orpheus Descending (Maureen Stapleton); Edwin Booth (Jose Ferrer, Marion Ross); Stages (Jack Warden); The Grapes of Wrath; Buried Child (totally blew me away!)
John Barry 11/03/1933 composer - The Little Prince and the Aviator (never officially opened, Michael York); film's Academy Award-winning composer: soundtracks: Born Free [1966], The Lion in Winter [1968], Out of Africa [1985], Dances with Wolves [1990]; The Cotton Club, The Day of the Locust, Eleanor & Franklin, Indecent Proposal, Midnight Cowboy, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shampoo, Somewhere in Time, James Bond movies, The Persuaders theme
Ken Berry 11/03/1933 performer - Billy Barnes Revue (Bert Convy, Joyce Jameson); Billy Barnes People (Jo Anne Worley); tv's & film's Mayberry RFD, F Troop, Mama’s Family, The Ken Berry “Wow” Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Ann Sothern Show, The Cat from Outer Space, Mountain Man, Herbie Rides Again
Jeremy Brett 11/03/1933 - Sep 12, 1995 Husband of Anna Massey (1958 - 1962) divorced - the following 4 plays in 1956 King Richard II; Romeo and Juliet; Macbeth; Troilus and Cressida; The Deputy; 1985 Aren't We All? (Claudette Colbert, Rex Harrison, Lynn Redgrave, Brenda Forbes); tv's & film's My Fair Lady; War & Peace (Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg); Sherlock Holmes tv series
Kate Capshaw 11/3/1953 performer, Mrs. Steven Spielberg - film's How to Make an American Quilt, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, Private Affairs, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Best Defense, A Little Sex, Duke of Groove, Black Tie Affair
Gary Ross 11/03/1956 writer, source mat'l, Son of Arthur Ross - Big
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1902 Sherlock Holmes with William Gillette
1927 The Rodgers and Hart musical A Connecticut Yankee, based on the Mark Twain time-travel story "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," opens at Broadway 's Vanderbilt Theatre for a run of 421 performances, one of the team's longest. William Gaxton stars as the Yankee. The score introduces "Thou Swell" and "On a Desert Island."
1930 Elizabeth the Queen with Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, Morris Carnovsky
1953 The Trip to Bountiful, a new play by Horton Foote, opens tonight at Henry Miller's Theatre. Lillian Gish, Jo Van Fleet and Eva Marie Saint are in the cast of this play, which is directed by Vincent J. Donehue. The show will run only 39 performances but will be made into an Oscar-winning film starring Geraldine Page in 1985.
1960 Tammy Grimes is the title character in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which opens tonight at the Winter Garden Theatre. Meredith Willson contributes music and lyrics to Richard Morris' book in this musical, staged by Dore Schary. Peter Gennaro choreographs. The show gets mixed reviews, but runs 532 performances.
2005 Sweeney Todd with Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, with Donna Lynne Champlin, Manoel Felciano & Alexander Gemignani
ON THIS DAY IN:
1956 - The classic MGM film, The Wizard of Oz, was first seen on television. The film cost CBS $250,000 to show. The movie was shown 18 times between 1956 and 1976, and you can probably catch it again no matter what year it is.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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