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Posted: 12/26/06 at 10:50pm
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 - Oct 18, 2006 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 [Terry Sue 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) - 2006 3 Days of Rain; 2005 The Odd Couple; 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
1927 Show Boat, with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
1948 The Madwoman of Chaillot with Martita Hunt, John Carradine & Estelle Winwood
1954 The Saint of Bleecker Street with Mignon Dunn, Richard Cassilly
1961 Subways Are for Sleeping - Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Orson Bean, Gordon Connell, Phyllis Newman, Valerie Harper
1965 The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade with Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson and Glenda Jackson
1966 At the Drop of Another Hat with Michael Flanders & Donald Swan
1972 Purlie with Robert Guillaume
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. Along with the Rockettes (or Rockets as they were originally pronounced) were singers and dancers who performed in production numbers between films like my friends Ken Richard and Elizabeth Hepburn.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
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 - Oct 18, 2006 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 [Terry Sue 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) - 2006 3 Days of Rain; 2005 The Odd Couple; 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
1927 Show Boat, with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
1948 The Madwoman of Chaillot with Martita Hunt, John Carradine & Estelle Winwood
1954 The Saint of Bleecker Street with Mignon Dunn, Richard Cassilly
1961 Subways Are for Sleeping - Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Orson Bean, Gordon Connell, Phyllis Newman, Valerie Harper
1965 The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade with Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson and Glenda Jackson
1966 At the Drop of Another Hat with Michael Flanders & Donald Swan
1972 Purlie with Robert Guillaume
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. Along with the Rockettes (or Rockets as they were originally pronounced) were singers and dancers who performed in production numbers between films like my friends Ken Richard and Elizabeth Hepburn.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
