Today's Birthdays 12/14

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Posted: 12/14/03 at 9:12pm

Nostradamus 12/14/1503 - 7/2/1566 French astrologer and physician.

Morey Amsterdam 12/14/1908 - Oct 27, 1996 Lyricist, Composer, Writer, Performer, comedian - Blue Holiday (Ethel Waters); Hilarities (Connie Stevens); The Dick Van Dyke Show; radio: NBC Monitor; died Oct 27, 1996

Dan Dailey Dec 14, 1913 - Oct 16, 1978 performer - orig Babes in Arms; Stars In Your Eyes; Catch Me if You Can (Tom Bosley); film's When My Baby Smiles at Me, State Fair, There’s No Business like Show Business

Abbe Lane 12/14/1932 - Nov 10, 1959 Wife of Xavier Cugat (1952 - 1963) divorced - Oh Captain! (Tony Randall)

George Furth 12/14/1932 performer, writer - A Cook for Mr. General (Dustin Hoffman); Company; Twigs (Sada Thompson, Robert Donley); The Supporting Cast (Hope Lange); Merrily We Roll Along; Precious Sons (Ed Harris)

Barbara Leigh-Hunt 12/14/1935 performer - 1954 A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stanley Holloway, Moira Shearer); 1974 Sherlock Holmes [MY 1ST BROADWAY SHOW!](John Wood, Philip Locke)

Lee Remick 12/14/1935 - 7/2/1991 performer - Be Your Age (Conrad Nagel); Anyone Can Whistle (Harry Guardino, Angela Lansbury); Wait Until Dark (Robert Duvall); film's & tv's Bridge to Silence, The Omen, QB VII, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Tempest, Days of Wine and Roses, Anatomy of a Murder, The Long, Hot Summer

Lewis Arquette 12/14/1935 - Feb 10, 2001 performer - Ovid's Metamorphoses (Valerie Harper)

Marilyn Cooper 12/14/1936 performer - origs. West Side Story; Gypsy; I Can Get It for You Wholesale; 2 By 2; Working (Patti LuPone, Joe Mantegna, Lynne Thigpen); Ballroom (Dorothy Loudon, Vincent Gardenia); Woman of the Year; Broadway Bound

Patty Duke 12/14/1946 performer, wife of Harry Falk (1965 - 1969) divorce;, Michael Tell (1970 - 1970) annulled, Michael Pearce (1986 - present), 1 son; John Astin (1972 - 1985) divorced, 2 sons - Sean Astin and Mackenzie Astin - The Miracle Worker (Anne Bancroft, Michael Constantine, Roger De Koven, Patricia Neal); Isle of Children (Bonnie Bedelliatv's & film's Academy Award-winning actress: The Miracle Worker [1962]; Emmy: Captains and the Kings [1976-1977]

Tom Mardirosian 12/14/1947 performer - Happy End; Cuba & His Teddy Bear (Robert De Niro, Ralph Macchio); My Favorite Year (Evan Pappas, Lanie Kazan)

Alice Ripley 12/14/1963 performer - The Who's Tommy (Michael Cerveris, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Norm Lewis); Sunset Boulevard; King David; Side Show (Norm Lewis, Phillip Officer, Hugh Panaro, Emily Skinner, Andy Gale); James Joyce's The Dead; 2000 The Rocky Horror Show

Tammy Blanchard 12/14/1976 performer - 2003 Gypsy (Bernadette

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1936 Kaufman and Hart prove You Can't Take It With You at the Booth Theatre. Henry Travers, Josephine Hull and Mitzi Hajos are among the zany household that will keep laughs rolling for 837 performances.

1945 Betty Field stars as Dream Girl at the Coronet Theatre. Elmer Rice, married to Field, stages his own work which will run for 348 performances.

1976 George C. Scott plays a con man in Larrry Gelbart's Gold Rush-era comedy Sly Fox, based on Ben Jonson's Volpone. The supporting cast includes Jack Gilford, Bob Dishy, Hector Elizondo and Scott's wife, Trish Van Devere. It stays 495 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre.

1978 Dorothy Loudon plays a middle-aged woman who finds a second life on the dance floor in Michael Bennett's musical Ballroom, based on "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom." It runs 116 performances at the Majestic Theatre.

1980 Much was hoped from Onward Victoria, a musical about suffragist Victoria Woodhull (Jill Eikenberry). But it closed on opening night at the Martin Beck Theatre.

1982 Karen Allen plays a grown-up Helen Keller in William Gibson's The Monday After the Miracle, a sequel to his hit, The Miracle Worker. Jane Alexander plays her teacher in the drama, which shutters after just 7 performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

1983 - The musical biography of Peggy Lee opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City. The show was titled Peg. You say you are not familiar with this gem? The reason could be that the show closed three days later after only five performances. Jazz guitarist great Bucky (John Pizzarelli's pop) was in the pit.

1989 Jay Allen's Tru, which recounts the life of Truman Capote in his own words, opens tonight at the Booth Theatre. The writer is played Robert Morse, who will win a Tony Award. This production will run 295 performances.


ON THIS DAY IN:

1999 Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the ''Peanuts'' comic strip.

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

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