Today's Birthdays 12/27

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Today's Birthdays 12/27#0

Posted: 12/27/04 at 11:32am

Sydney Greenstreet 12/27/1879 - 1/8/1954 performer - 1907 The Merchant of Venice (Dame Sybil Thorndike); 1914 Lady Windermere's Fan (Pedro De Cordoba); The Good Earth (Mme. Alla Nazimova, Claude Rains); Roberta (Tamara, Faye Templeton); 1935 The Taming of the Shrew (Lunt & Fontanne); Idiot's Delight (Lunt & Fontanne); Amphitryon 38 (Lunt & Fontanne); 1938 The Seagull (Lunt & Fontanne, Uta Hagen); 1940 The Taming of the Shrew (Lunt & Fontanne, Cameron Mitchell); There Shall Be No Night (Lunt & Fontanne, Montgomery Clift); film's Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific, Passage to Marseilles, Malaya

Marlene Dietrich (Maria Magdelene von Losch) 12/27/1901 - 5/6/1992 German-born American performer, the magnetic movie star and singer who was considered an international symbol of glamour - Marlena Dietrich on Broadway; film's The Blue Angel, 1st German talkie; Morocco, Kismet, Destry Rides Again, Judgment at Nuremberg, Witness for the Prosecution

Oscar Levant 12/27/1906 - 8/14/1972 performer, composer, conductor; brother of Harry S. Levant; husband of June Gale (December 1, 1939 - August 14, 1972) his death - Burlesque (Barbara Stanwyck); Ripples (Eddie Foy, Jr.); The American Way (Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Dickie Van Patten, David Wayne); film's An American in Paris, The Bandwagon, Romance on the High Seas

Anna Russell 12/27/1911 lyricist, composer, performer - operatic parodies: The Ring of the Nibelungs, How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera; Anna Russell's Little Show

Tommy Rall 12/27/1929 performer - Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'!; Small Wonder; Miss Liberty; Call Me Madam (Ethel Merman, Paul Lukas, Pat Harrington; Standby: Elaine Stritch (Mrs. Sally Adams)); Juno; Milk & Honey; Cafe Crown (Theodore Bikel, Sam Levene, Ken Richards, Alan Alda, Brenda Lewis); Cry For Us All

Martin Milner 12/27/1931 - The Ninety Day Mistress (Tony Lo Bianco); tv's & film's Life With Father (Irene Dunne, Wm Powell); Surfside 6, Route 66, Adam 12, Columbo, The Halls of Montezuma, Mr. Roberts, Valley of the Dolls

Tovah Feldshuh 12/27/1952 performer; Sister of David Feldshuh - Golda's Balcony; Cyrano (Leigh Beery, Christopher Plummer); Dreyfus in Rehearsal (Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene); Hart (Larry Guittard, Jimmy Brennan); Yentl; Saravà (Randy Graff); Lend Me a Tenor (Philip Bosco, Jane Connell, Victor Garber, Ron Holgate, J. Smith-Cameron); tv's & film's Holocaust, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, Brewster’s Millions, Blue Iguana, A Day in October

Joe Mantello 12/27/1962 performer; Partner of Jon Robin Baitz (1990 - 2002) - Angels in America 1 & 2; Love! Valour! Compassion!; An Evening With Mario Cantone; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Edie Falco, Stanley Tucci); Take Me Out; Wicked; 2004 Assassins; Laugh Whore; Glengarry Glen Ross

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1897 "Cyrano de Bergerac," the play by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris.

1922 Romeo & Juliet - Ethel Barrymore, Charlotte Granville

Imagine this night in 1927:

1927 Show Boat, with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.

1961 Subways Are for Sleeping - Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Orson Bean, Gordon Connell, Phyllis Newman, Valerie Harper

ON THIS DAY IN:

1932 - Radio City Music Hall, in New York City, opened. It was the largest indoor theatre in the world. The gala grand opening show was a six-hour extravaganza that lost half a million dollars within three weeks. The theatre has since been renovated to recapture its original decorative charm. An Art Deco cathedral of entertainment, it seats more than 6,200 people and is still a must-see for those visiting New York. During the holiday season, audiences continue to get a kick out of seeing the world-famous Rockettes perform in precision on Radio City Music Hall’s nearly 10,000-square-foot stage.

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

Milla Updated On: 12/28/04 at 11:32 AM