Today's Birthdays 12/29

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Posted: 12/29/03 at 6:40pm

Jeanne-Antoinette Pompadour 12/29/1721 - 4/15/1764 French mistress of Louis XV, source mat'l

Pablo Casals 12/29/1876 - 10/22/1973 Spanish cellist and conductor

Viveca Lindfors 12/29/1920 - Oct 25, 1995 performer - I've Got Sixpence; Anastasia (Hurd Hatfield); 1971 Dance of Death (Rip Torn); film's Backstreet Justice, Adventures of Don Juan, Stargate, A Question of Guilt, Natural Enemies

Inga Swenson 12/29/1932 performer - The First Gentleman; orig Camelot; 110 in the Shade; Baker Street (Fritz Weaver, Martin Gabel; Christopher Walken & Tommy Tune as killers)[my fav cabaret opening no. is "What A Night This Is Going To Be"]; tv's & film's The Miracle Worker, Advise and Consent, North and South TV miniseries

Mary Tyler Moore Dec 29, 1936 performer, producer - Breakfast at Tiffany's; Noises Off; Sweet Sue (Lynn Redgrave); tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actress: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1972-1973, 1973-1974, 1975-1976], Stolen Babies [1992-93]; The Dick Van Dyke Show, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ordinary People; her legs starred on Richard Diamond, Private Eye; started in TV as ‘Happy Hotpoint’ [Hotpoint Appliance elf: 1955]

Jon Voight 12/29/1938 Producer, Performer, father of Angelina Jolie (with Marcheline Bertrand); husband of Marcheline Bertrand (1973 - 197 divorced, Lauri Peters (1962 - 1967) divorced - replacement in orig Sound of Music; 1992 The Seagull (Tyne Daly, Ethan Hawke)

Ted Danson 12/29/1947 performer, husband of Mary Steenburgen (1995 - present), partner of Whoopi Goldberg (? - ?) - Status Quo Vadis (Bruce Boxleitner); tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Cheers [1989-1990 and 1992-1993]; Three Men and a Baby, The Onion Field, Gulliver’s Travels, Becker

Gelsey Kirkland 12/29/1952 - dancer: ballerina, author: The Little Ballerina and Her Dancing Horse, Dancing on My Grave: An Autobiography, Shape of Love

Jennifer Ehle 12/29/1969 Daughter of Rosemary Harris -The Real Thing; Design For Living (Alan Cumming, Marisa Berenson, T. Scott Cunningham)

Jude Law 12/29/1972 performer - Indiscretions (Cynthia Nixon, Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees, Eileen Atkins); film's The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gattaca, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Enemy at the Gates, my fav, I cried all the way thru Artificial Intelligence: AI

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1932 Twentieth Century is a reworking by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of Charles Milholland's play. This comedy will run at the Broadhurst Theatre for 19 weeks. Moffat Johnston and Eugenie Leontovich are featured in the cast.

1953 Judith Anderson and Mildred Dunnock are In the Summer House. Directed by Jose Quintero, this story of a dominating mother written by Jane Bowles will run, to some acclaim, for only 55 performances. A Joanne Akalaitis-directed revival at Lincoln Center in 1993 also fared poorly.

1973 Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst star in a revival of O'Neil''s A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Morosco Theatre. it runs 313 performances and the performances become definitive for a generation.

1998 The Broadway-bound revival of Annie Get Your Gun, starring Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat, begins performances tonight at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The Kennedy Center engagement is the production's only pre-Broadway stop. Annie Get Your Gun will go on to win two Tony Awards and run for more than 1,000 performances.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in England.

1890 U.S. troops killed as many as 400 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee, S.D.

1953 - Jean Stapleton debuted in her first Broadway play. She starred with Judith Anderson in the production, In the Summer House, which opened in New York. It closed after only 55 performances.

1975 A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people.

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

Milla Updated On: 12/29/03 at 06:40 PM