Today's Birthdays 12/9
Today's Birthdays 12/9
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Posted: 12/8/05 at 7:50pm
John Milton 12/9/1608 - 11/8/1674 English poet and scholar; Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes; civil rights activist
Hermione Gingold 12/09/1897 - May 24, 1987 performer - John Murray Anderson's Almanac; First Impressions (Polly Bergen, Farley Granger, James Mitchell, Phyllis Newman); Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling so Sad (Alix Elias, Sam Waterston); orig A Little Night Music (Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Beth Fowler)
Emmett Kelly 12/9/1898 - 3/28/1979 American circus clown: Ringling Bros.: hobo, Weary Willie
Margaret Hamilton 12/9/1902 - 5/16/1985 performer - Another Language; The Dark Tower (William Harrigan); The Farmer Takes a Wife (Henry Fonda); Outrageous Fortune (Maria Ouspenskaya); The Men We Marry (Shirley Booth); Fancy Meeting You Again (Walter Matthau, Robert Earl Jones); Goldilocks (Elaine Stritch); UTBU (Tony Randal, Doris Rich, Thelma Ritter, Tom Aldredge, Alan Webb, dir by Nancy Walker); tv's & film's The Wizard of Oz, The Anderson Tapes, Brewster McCloud; Maxwell House commercials
Dalton Trumbo 12/9/1905 - 9/10/1976 American screenwriter and novelist, source mat'l - Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Roman Holiday, Spartacus, Exodus, The Sandpiper, Hawaii, Papillon; & antiwar novel, Johnny Got His Gun
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 12/9/1909 - 5/7/2000 husband of Mary Lee Eppling (1939 - 198 her death; Vera Shelton (1991 - 2000) his death; Joan Crawford (1929 - 1933) divorced; son of Anna Beth Sully & Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., performer - tv's & film's Ghost Story, Gunga Din, The Prisoner of Zenda, Accused, Catherine the Great, Scarlet Dawn; TV host: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents
Broderick Crawford 12/09/1911 - Apr 26, 1986 son of Helen Broderick - Sweet Mystery of Life (Gene Lockhart, Erskine Sanford); Of Mice and Men (Claire Luce, Will Geer, Sam Byrd); tv's & film's Ransom Money, Dark Forces, The Oscar, Last of the Comanches, Born Yesterday, All the King’s Men, Highway Patrol, King of Diamonds, The Interns
Kirk Douglas 12/9/1916 father of actor Mike Douglas, performer - 1942 3 Sisters (Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King); Trio (Richard Widmark); The Wind Is Ninety (Wendell Corey, Dickie Van Patten, Joyce Van Patten, Blanche Yurka); Woman Bites Dog (Frank Lovejoy, Mercedes McCambridge, E. G. Marshall); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ed Ames, Gene Wilder); film's Greedy, The Secret, Oscar, Queenie, Tough Guys, The Final Countdown, The Chosen, A Gunfight, There was a Crooked Man, The Arrangement, The Brotherhood, In Harm’s Way, Seven Days in May, Spartacus, Lonely are the Brave, Paths of Glory, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Lust for Life, Ulysses, Young Man with a Horn, Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful
Dina Merrill (Nedenia Hutton) 12/09/1925 daughter of E.F. Hutton & Marjorie Merriweather Post; heir to Post cereal fortune; wife of Stanley Rumbrough, Jr. (1946 - 1966) divorced; Cliff Robertson (1966 - 1986) divorced; Ted Hartley (1989 - present); performer - The Mermaids Singing; Angel Street (Christine Andreas); 1983 On Your Toes (Natalia Makarova, Christine Andreas, Starr Danias, Jerry Mitchell); film's Suture, Fear, Caddyshack 2, The Sundowners, Butterfield 8, Operation Petticoat, Hot Pursuit
Dick Van Patten 12/09/1928 Performer, Stage Manager - orig On Borrowed Time; orig The Skin of Our Teeth; Have I Got a Girl for You! (Patricia Benoit, Joseph Boland, Michael Gorrin, Nancy R. Pollock, Karen Thorsell); Thieves (Richard Mulligan, Marlo Thomas, Ann Wedgeworth); tv's & film's Eight is Enough, When Things Were Rotten, WIOU, The Partners, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Mama, A Dangerous Place, Spaceballs, Westworld, Superdad
John Cassavetes 12/9/1929 - 2/3/1989 1929 performer - Edge of the City, The Dirty Dozen, Rosemary’s Baby, Johnny Staccato; director: Big Trouble, Love Streams, Gloria, Opening Night, Faces, Shadows
Buck Henry [Buck Henry Zuckerman] 12/09/1930 son of Ruth Taylor, Source Material, Performer; Was member of an improvisationl theater group, The Premise, in Greenwich Village, early 1960s, along with George Segal. - The Graduate; Morning's at Seven (Julie Hagerty, Piper Laurie, Christopher Lloyd, Estelle Parsons, Frances Sternhagen, Bigg McGuire; tv's & film's Short Cuts, Grumpy Old Men, Eating Raoul, Catch-22, The Graduate; Emmy Award-winning writer: Ship of Spies, Get Smart [1966-67]; That was the Week That Was, To Die For, The Day of the Dolphin, What’s Up, Doc?, The Owl and the Pussycat, Catch-22, The Graduate; entertainer: The Steve Allen Show, The New Show; Breakfast of Champions
Judi Dench 12/09/1934 performer, Michael Williams (5 February 1971 - 11 January 2001) (his death) 1 daughter
- 1958 Twelfth Night (Joss Ackland); King Henry V (Laurence Harvey); Amy's View; tv's & film's As Time Goes By; A Fine Romance (w/Michael Williams); Mrs. Brown; 007 Series; Shakespeare In Love; Iris [poignant]; 2005 Pride & Prejudice; 2006 Casino Royal
Beau (Lloyd III) Bridges 12/9/1941 - son of actor Lloyd Bridges, brother of actor Jeff Bridges; performer, director - tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Without Warning: The James Brady Story [1991-92]; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader- Murdering Mom [1992-93]; Harts of the West, Ensign O’Toole; The Fabulous Baker Boys, Married to It, Sidekicks, The Hotel New Hampshire, Norma Rae, Two Minute Warning, The Other Side of the Mountain, For Love of Ivy, The Red Pony, Sea Hunt
Michael Nouri 12/09/1945 Performer, Stage Manager - 40 Carats (Julie Harris, Glenda Farrell); Victor/Victoria - tv's & film's To the Limit, Danielle Steele’s Changes, The Hidden, Flashdance, Gangster Wars, Love & War, The Gangster Chronicles, Downtown, The Curse of Dracula, The Bay City Blues, Beacon Hill; Last Holiday
John Malkovich 12/09/1953 performer - 1984 Death of a Salesman; The Caretaker; Burn This; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Death of a Salesman [1986]; Mulholland Falls, Dangerous Liaisons, True West, The Killing Fields, The Sheltering Sky, Places in the Heart, Of Mice and Men, In the Line of Fire, Empire of the Sun, Klimt
Donny Osmond 12/09/1957 performer, Brother of Marie Osmond - Little Johnny Jones (Ernie Sabella)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1967 - Tonight the new musical MATA HARI closes at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Produced by David Merrick and directed by Vincent Minnelli, it stars Pernell Roberts and Marisa Mell (in costumes by Irene Sharaff.) The book is by Jerome Coopersmith, the music by Edward Thomas and the lyrics by Martin Charnin. It loses $700,000.
1973 Hal Linden and Barbara McNair play Sid and Babe as an interracial romance in a revival of The Pajama Game, directed by George Abbott, also starring Cab Calloway, Ted Williams and Tiger Haynes. It runs 65 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
1974 Peter Ustinov and George S. Irving play the just-assassinated leaders of the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., in Ustinov's oddball afterlife comedy, Who's Who in Hell, which runs 8 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Also in the cast: Olympia Dukakis, Josef Sommer and Beau Bridges.
1999 Ann Hampton Callaway, Everett Bradley and Laura Benanti star in Swing!, a musical revue featuring swing music by various composers such as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. The lively show opens tonight and will go on to run for a substantial 461 performances and receive six 2000 Tony Award nominations including one for Best Musical.
2002 One of the most memorable flops of the new century opens at the Minskoff Theatre tonight: Dance of the Vampires, a campy musical about vampires stalking the European village of Lower Belabartokovich. Jim Steinman, who wrote many songs for rocker Meat Loaf, rolls out his first full Broadway score. The production, after six weeks of previews on Broadway will stagger on for 56 performances after critics hammer stakes into its heart. The show marks the (brief) return to Broadway of Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford as the bloodthirsty Count von Krolock. Also in the cast Max von Essen (sang w/him Dec. 2003 in Timeless Divas).
ON THIS DAY IN:
1907 Christmas seals went on sale for the first time, at the Wilmington, Del., post office. The proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.
1990 Solidarity founder Lech Walesa won Poland's presidential runoff by a landslide.
1996 Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey died in Kenya at age 83.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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Updated On: 12/9/05 at 07:50 PM
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