Today's Birthdays 12/10
Today's Birthdays 12/10
#0Today's Birthdays 12/10
Posted: 12/9/05 at 11:23pm
Emily Dickinson 12/10/1830 - 5/15/1886 American poet - poet, source matl' - This is My letter to the World, If You Were Coming in the Fall, Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church, Because I Could Not Stop for Death - The Belle of Amherst
Melvil Dewey 12/10/1851 - 12/26/1931 librarian: inventor of the Dewey Decimal System. WOW, that's organized!
Lew Brown 12/10/1883 - Feb 5, 1958 Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Director; one third of the songwriting team Henderson-DeSylva-Brown - George White's Scandals [1925]; Hot-Cha!; Crazy With the Heat; Good News (Alice Faye, Stubby Kaye)
Una Merkel 12/10/1903 - Jan 2, 1986 performer - Coquette (Helen Hayes); The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (Burgess Meredith, Martha Scott); The Ponder Heart (David Wayne, Juanita Hall); Take Me Along (Jackie Gleason)
Hermes Pan 12/10/1909 - Sep 19, 1990 choreographer - As the Girls Go (Bobby Clark, Jo Sullivan); tv's & film's Roberta; Top Hat; I Dream Too Much; Follow the Fleet; Swing Time; Shall We Dance; The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; Week-End in Havana; Sun Valley Serenade; Moon Over Miami; Roxie Hart; Hello Frisco, Hello; The Barkleys of Broadway; 3 Little Words; Kiss Me Kate; Hit The Deck; Viva La Vegas!; Silk Stockings; An Evening with Fred Astaire I & II; Can-Can; Flower Drum Song; The Pleasure of His Company
Chet (Chester Robert) Huntley 12/10/1911 - 3/20/1974 Emmy Award-winning newscaster: co-anchor [w/David Brinkley]: The Huntley-Brinkley Report [1958-1959, 1959-1960, 1960-1961, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1963-1964]. Goodnight, Chet....
Morton Gould 12/10/1913 - 2/21/1996 American composer and pianist - Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Stringmusic [1995]; Fall River Legend, Billion Dollar Baby; film score: Delightfully Dangerous
Dorothy Lamour 12/10/1914 - Sep 22, 1996 performer - [replacement] Oh Captain! (Tony Randall, Abbe Lane, Susan Johnson, Alexandra Danilova); film's Road to Singapore and other ‘Road’ movies with Bob Hope; The Love Goddesses, Pajama Party, Donovan’s Reef, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Hurricane; Miss New Orleans [1931]
Nelle Fisher 12/10/1920 - Oct 19, 1994 performer - One Touch of Venus; orig On the Town (Nancy Walker, Comden & Green); Razzle Dazzle (Dorothy Greener, Jane White); The Golden Apple
Harold Gould 12/10/1923 performer; earned a Ph.D. in theatre and taught speech and drama at Cornell University. - Fools (John Rubinstein, Mary Louise Wilson); Grown Ups (Frances Sternhagen, Bob Dishy); Artist Ascending a Staircase (Michael Cumpsty, John McMartin; Mixed Emotions; film's & tv's Romero, Dream Chasers, Seems Like Old Times, Kenny Rogers as the Gambler, The Sting, Rhoda, Under One Roof, The Golden Girls, Spencer, Singer & Sons, He & She, The Feather and Father Gang
Thomas Carlin 12/10/1928 - May 6, 1991 performer, father of Tony Carlin, husband of Frances Sternhagen (1956 - May 6, 1991) his death - Time Limit! (Arthur Kennedy, Richard Kiley, Frank Aletter); The Man in the Dog Suit (Tandy & Cronyn, Nancy Cushman); The Warm Peninsula (June Havoc, Larry Hagman, Farley Granger); Great Day in the Morning (David Canary, Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Frizzell, Frances Sternhagen); Players (Fred Gwynne); Total Abandon (Richard Dreyfuss, John Heard)
Dan Blocker 12/10/1928 - 5/13/1972 performer - Bonanza, Cimarron City, Come Blow Your Horn, Lady in Cement, Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County [I loved this big bear of an actor.]
Peter Michael Goetz 12/10/1941 performer - Ned & Jack (John Vickery, Barbara Sohmers); The Queen and the Rebels (Jeffrey Holt Gardner [debut], Campbell Scott [debut]; Stanley Tucci [debut], Fiddle Viracola); Brighton Beach Memoirs; 2000 Macbeth (Kelsey Grammer); tv's & film's Wolfen; Prince of the City; Father of the Bride; Room for 2; The Buccaneers
Tommy Kirk 12/10/1941 performer - tv's & film's Blood of Ghastly Horror, Village of the Giants, Pajama Party, Son of Flubber, The Absent-Minded Professor, The Swiss Family Robinson, The Shaggy Dog, Old Yeller, Bikini Beach
Crystal Field 12/10/1942 performer, choreographer - After The Fall (Faye Dunnaway, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards Jr., David Wayne); Marco Millions; The Changeling (John Phillip Law); film's Silver Bullet; Splendor in the Grass; Mortal Thoughts
Susan Dey 12/10/1952 performer - The Partridge Family, L.A. Law, Love and War, Emerald Point N.A.S., Blue River, Sunset Limousine, Comeback Kid, First Love
Kenneth Branagh 12/10/1960 performer, director - The Play What I Wrote; film's Henry V, Another Country, Othello, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Much Ado About Nothing, Look Back in Anger; autobiography: Beginning; cofounder: Renaissance Theater Company in England; tv's & film's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Shackleton; Hamlet; Othello; 1994 Frankenstein; 1989 Henry V; Maybury (Patrick Stewart, Cyril Cusack)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1910 - Tenor Enrico Caruso and conductor Arturo Toscanini were featured at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the world premiere of Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West.
1925 Actor Walter Huston searches for The Fountain at the Greenwich Village Theatre. This Eugene O'Neill drama directed by Robert Edmond Jones deals with Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth. It will run for 28 performances.
1926 What will happen when The Trumpet Shall Sound? Thornton Wilder has one answer in his play about a man who finds out his servants have turned his home over to the needy. Directed by Richard Boleslavsky, this show will run for 30 weeks.
1953 - Harry Belafonte debuted on Broadway in Almanac at the Imperial Theatre. Critics hailed Belafonte’s performance as “electrifyingly sincere.” Also starring in the show: Hermione Gingold, Billy DeWolfe, Polly Bergen and Orson Bean.
1974 Theatre titans Rex Harrison and Julie Harris star in Terrence Rattigan's In Praise of Love. It runs 200 performances at the Morosco Theatre.
1991 The first production of Tony Randall's National Actor's Theatre opens tonight at the Belasco Theatre. It's a revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, in a limited-run of 32 performances starring Martin Sheen, Martha Scott and Michael York.
1992 The songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty returns to Broadway with My Favorite Year, a musical adaptation of the film of the same title, starring Tim Curry, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin and Evan Pappas, with choreography by Thommie Walsh. It completes its 36-performance subscription run at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, but does not transfer to a commercial run. Ahrens & Flaherty go on to write Ragtime and Seussical & contribute to Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life.
2000 Opening night of Jane Eyre, the musical based on the Bronte novel. Critics say it may have opened too late in the cycle of operatic musicals, but producers keep it running, mainly at a loss, for 209 performances through the 2001 Tony Awards. Leading lady Marla Schaffel earns a Tony nomination and a cult following, but no awards.
2000 Jane Eyre with Marla Schaffel and James Barbour
2002 Madea with Fiona Shaw
ON THIS DAY IN:
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication.
1965 The Grateful Dead played their first concert, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
1967 Singer Otis Redding died in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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