Today's Birthdays 12/25 Merry Christmas
Today's Birthdays 12/25 Merry Christmas
Today's Birthdays 12/25 Merry Christmas#0
Posted: 12/24/03 at 11:50pm
Clara Barton 12/25/1821 - 4/12/1912 nurse: founder of American Red Cross, source mat'l
Fay Templeton 12/25/1865 - Oct 3, 1939, durable musical comedy actress from the 1870s to the 1930s. Her appearances include Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway (Victor Moore), Roberta (Sydney Greenstreet, Tamara) and Fiddle-dee-dee.
Evelyn Florence Nesbit 12/25/1884 - 1/16/1967 performer, former Gibson Girl; mistress of Stanford White; mother of Russell Thaw; wife of Jack Clifford (May 24 1916 - 1933) divorced; Harry K. Thaw (April 4 1905 - 1915) divorced - Florodora [replacement]; The Wild Rose (Eddie Foy, Henry Miller
Bert Bertram 12/25/1893 - Oct 31, 1991 performer - The Bat (ZaZu Pitts, Lucile Watson); Child of Fortune (Betsy Von Furstenberg)
Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899 - 1/14/1957 performer, husband of Lauren Bacall (1945 - 1957) his death; Mayo Methot (1938 - 1945) divorced; Mary Philips (1928 - 193
divorced - Meet the Wife (Mary Boland, Clifton Webb); Saturday's Children (Beulah Bondi, Ruth Gordon); Chrysalis (Elisha Cook, E. Kazan, Osgood Perkins); The Petrified Forest (Leslie Howard); fav film's My 3 Angels; Sabrina; Caine Mutiny; Key Largo; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The Big Sleep; Casablanca; The Maltese Falcon; The Roaring 20's; Angels With Dirty Faces; The Petrified Forest
Cab Calloway (Cabell Calloway III) 12/25/1907 -‘Highness of Hi-De-Ho’: bandleader; epitomized Harlem in the 1920s, and who occasionally appeared on Broadway. Appearances include Porgy and Bess in 1953, and in 1968; singer: Minnie the Moocher, Blues in the Night; films: Stormy Weather, St. Louis Blues; The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz; fav When You're In Love [Grace Moore sings Minnie the Moocher w/Cab]
Tony Martin (Alvin Morris) 12/25/1912 performer; Alice Faye's ex, now married to dancer Cyd Charisse - film's Casbah, Hit the Deck
Rod Serling 12/25/1924 - 6/28/1975 scriptwriter: The Twilight Zone, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes, Seven Days in May
Hanna Schygulla 12/25/1943 performer - film's Dead Again, The Summer of Miss Forbes, Forever, Lulu, Casanova, Delta Force, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Sissy (Mary) Spacek 12/25/1949 performer - film's Academy Award-winning actress: Coal Miner’s Daughter [1980]; Missing, The River, Carrie
Laurie Gamache 12/25/1959 - A Chorus Line [replacement]; The Red Shoes
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1914 It's a Hello Broadway from creator-director George M. Cohan. The cast, including the leads Peggy Wood and Louise Dresser, bring on and strike the sets, speeding up the pace of this revue.
1917 - The play, Why Marry?, opened at the Astor Theatre in New York City. Jesse Lynch Williams won a Pulitzer the following year; Why Marry? was the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize.
1940 Opening night for Rodgers and Hart's hard-bitten musical, Pal Joey, starring Vivienne Segal and, in the title role, Gene Kelly, in his first (and last) Broadway lead. He'll soon be snapped up by Hollywood. Pal Joey stays only 374 performances, but gets a longer run in a 1950s revival.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England.
1776 Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J
1868 President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to everyone involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War.
1931 - Lawrence Tibbett was the featured vocalist as radio came to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The first opera was Hansel und Gretel, heard on the NBC network of stations. In between acts of the opera, moderator Olin Downes would conduct an opera quiz, asking celebrity guests opera-related questions. The program’s host and announcer was Milton Cross. He worked out of the Met’s Box 44.
1946 Comedian W.C. Fields died in Pasadena, Calif., at age 66.
1977 Comedian Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at age 88. Following his father's death and mother's complete emotional breakdown, Charlie joined a group of child dancers, the Eight Lancashire Lads. At age eight he appeared in the premiere performance of Peter Pan in 1904. It was with the Fred Karno company's tour of the U.S. that he caught the eye of Mack Sennett. The rest is film history.
1995 - Legendary singer/crooner, actor, comedian, and Rat-Pack member Dean Martin died at age 78 in Beverly Hills, California. On his tomb at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles are the words “EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY SOMETIME”.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 12/24/03 at 11:50 PM
re: Today's Birthdays 12/25 Merry Christmas#1
Posted: 12/25/03 at 12:14amAnd, of course, the Christ Child. Who wasn't ACTUALLY born on Dec. 25, in fact, not even in the winter. But this is when the virgin birth is celebrated, so, it seemed sad to leave that off. After all, he did star in both Godspell AND Jesus Christ, Superstar.
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