Today's Birthdays 12/7
Today's Birthdays 12/7
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Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:01pm
Fay Bainter 12/07/1892 - Apr 13, 1968 performer - Arms and the Girl; Dodsworth (Walter Huston); working in stock at age five, and by the time she was 19 was one of the privileged members of theatrical impresario David Belasco's company. First starring on Broadway in 1912, Bainter was cast in ingenue or romantic parts for the first portion of her career. When she finally decided to give movies a try, it was as a mature, somewhat plump character actress. film's Jezabel; The Children's Hour; Our Town; Journey for Margaret; 1945 State Fair; June Bride; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; The Kid From Brooklyn; In 1958, she appeared in the touring company of the Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night in the role of Mary Tyrone -- a difficult and demanding assignment even for a woman half her age, but one that she pulled off brilliantly. Bainter returned to films as an unsympathetic wealthy dowager in The Children's Hour (1961), which earned her another Oscar nomination
Eli Wallach 12/07/1915 performer; Husband of Anne Jackson (1948 - present) 1 of my fav acting "Eveready Bunnies" - Skydrift (Rita Moreno's bway debut]; 1947 Antony and Cleopatra (Katharine Cornell, Charlton Heston, Tony Randall); The Rose Tattoo (Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Sal Mineo, Ludmilla Toretzka); Camino Real (Hurd Hatfield, Jo Van Fleet); Mademoiselle Colombe (Julie Harris, Sam Jaffe); Major Barbara (Glynis Johns, Charles Laughton, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Burgess Meredith, John Astin, Pat Ripley); Rhinoceros (Zero Mostel, Anne Jackson); Twice Around the Park; 1994 The Flowering Peach (Anne Jackson, Josh Mostel); film's The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Hurd Hatfield 12/07/1917 - Dec 26, 1998 performer - Camino Real (Eli Wallach, Jo Van Fleet); 1941 12th Night (Yul Brynner); The Strings, My Lord, Are False (Ruth Gordon); Venus Observed (Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer; Directed by Laurence Olivier); Anastasia (Viveca Lindfors, Eugenie Leontovich, Joseph Anthony); The Lovers (Darren McGavin, Pernell Roberts, Joanne Woodward, Morris Carnovsky); 1959 Much Ado About Nothing (John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Nancy Marchand, Jean Marsh, Betsy Von Furstenberg)
Ted Knight 12/07/1923 - Aug 26, 1986 performer - Some of My Best Friends (Alice Drummond, Bob Balaban); tv's Mary Tyler Moore Show
Ellen Stewart 12/07/1931 producer; LaMama Experimental Theatre Club, Café LaMama - Godspell; Torch Song Trilogy
Ellen Burstyn [Edna Rae Gillooly] 12/07/1932 performer; President of Actors' Equity Association (1982-1985) - Same Time, Next Year; 84 Charing Cross Road; Shimada; Sacrilege; Oldest Living Confederate Widow (I saw this & think that w/some "fixing" it might have worked); tv's & film's The Doctors; The Last Picture Show; The Exorcist; The Ellen Burstyn Show; The Spitfire Grill; That's Life; The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Harry Chapin 12/07/1942 - Jul 16, 1981 lyricst, composer, performer - The Night That Made America Famous (Lynne Thigpen, Mercedes Ellington)
Ken Nagy 12/07/1963 performer - Sally Marr...and her escorts (Joan Rivers); 1995 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; 1992 The Most Happy Fella (Spiro Malas)
Jeffrey Wright 12/07/1965 performer - Angels in America Parts 1 & 2; Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk; Topdog/Underdog
Maria Calabrese 12/07/1967 choreographer, performer - The Will Rogers Follies; My Favorite Year; The Who's Tommy; 1995 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; 1996 Once Upon a Mattress; The Civil War
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1932 Walk a Little Faster to the St. James Theatre. You'll see Beatrice Lillie starring in skits by S.J. Perelman. Vernon Duke and E.Y. Harburg provide music, including the song "April in Paris." It will run 15 weeks.
1944 Seven Lively Arts with Benny Goodman; Bert Lahr, Bea Lillie, Alicia Markova, Red Norvo, Helen Gallagher, Delores Gray, Nan Wynn
1959 Saratoga with Howard Keel, Carol Lawrence, Odette Myrtil
1967 How Now, Dow Jones with Martin Ambrose, Brenda Vaccaro, Tommy Tune
1975 The Norman Conquests, a trilogy of three comedies, opens tonight at the Morosco Theatre. Alan Ayckbourn’s set of plays includes stars Ken Howard, Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, and Estelle Parsons. The show will run for 76 performances.
1982 84 Charing Cross Road with Ellen Burstyn [opened on EB's birthday]
1983 Heartbreak House with Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Philip Bosco, Dana Ivey, Amy Irving, Jan Miner
2000 Two-time Tony winner John Cullum stars in Wendy Wasserstein's latest, Old Money. The play opens tonight at Lincoln Center Theatre's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, under the direction of Mark Brokaw. Even before the first performance, Old Money had sold out tickets for its entire run through Jan. 14, 2001.
2003 Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thomposon star in HBO's TV adaptation of Tony Kushner's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Angels in America, which draws 4.2 Million viewers, making it the year's top cable movie. It will also go on to win 11 Emmy Awards, the most ever for a single broadcast.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1941 - The Day That Will Live In Infamy. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. The attack sank three other ships and damaged many additional vessels. More than 180 aircraft were destroyed. An act that led to America's entry into World War II. "Those who forget history are damned to repeat it."
1946 Laurette Taylor dies today. Her career spanned almost 40 years. Two of her more memorable performances were in Peg O' My Heart, created by her husband J. Hartley Manners; and Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie. Featured in Rick McKay's "Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There"
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, yahoo.movies.com)
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