Today's Birthdays 2/16
Today's Birthdays 2/16
#0Today's Birthdays 2/16
Posted: 2/15/06 at 9:20pm
Katharine Cornell 02/16/1898 - Jun 9, 1974 Wife of Guthrie McClintic (1921 - 1961) his death, Producer, Writer, Performer, Other, Theatre Owner/Operator - A Bill of Divorcement; The Enchanted Cottage; The Letter; The Barretts of Wimpole Street; Jezebel; 1935 Romeo and Juliet; The Doctor's Dilemma; Antigone; That Lady; The Prescott Proposals; The First Born (Kathleen Widdoes, Anthony Quayle, Mildred Natwick); Dear Liar; film's Stage Door Canteen [I can still hear her recite Juiliet]
Chester Morris 02/16/1901 - Sep 11, 1970 performer, Tours of "Turn to the Right", "So This is London" and the vaudeville "All The Horros of Home" with his family. Died of drug overdose, Brother of Adrian Morris, husband of Lillian Kenton Barker (11/30/40 - ?); one child: Kenton, Suzanne Kilborn (9/30/27 - 11/39) divorced; children: Brooks, Cynthia; son of William Morris & Etta Hawkins - The Copperhead; Crime (Sylvia Sidney, Jack La Rue); Whispering Friends; Fast Life (Claudette Colbert); Advise and Consent
Patty Andrews 2/16/1918 performer (The Andrews Sisters) tv's & film's Here's Lucy; The Joey Bishop Show; Argentine Nights; What's Cookin'; Give Out, Sisters; How's About It; Moonlight and Cactus; Her Lucky Night; Make Mine Music; Road To Rio; In the Navy; Hold that Ghost; Private Buckaroo; Follow the Boys; Little Toot; The Phynx; The Gong Show Movie
Vera-Ellen 02/16/1921 - Aug 31, 1981 performer, wife of Robert Hightower (1945 - 1946) divorced, Victor Rothschild (1954 - 1966) divorced - Very Warm for May; Higher and Higher (June Allyson, Marta Eggert, Jack Haley); Panama Hattie; By Jupiter; 1943 A Connecticut Yankee; film's On the Town; Call Me Madam; 3 Little Words; Wonder Man
Gretchen Wyler 02/16/1932 performer - Silk Stockings; Rumple; Sly Fox (Elliott Gould, Eddie Foy, Jr.); film's The Devil’s Brigade, The Marrying Man; Falcon Crest; Santa Barbara
Ron Faber 02/16/1933 performer - 1973 Medea; First Monday in October (Henry Fonda, Jane Alexander)
Brian Bedford 02/16/1935 performer - Five Finger Exercise; Lord Pengo; The Astrakhan Coat (James Coco, Roddy McDowall); 1968 & 1983 The Misanthrope; Private Lives (Tammy Grimes); Two Shakespearean Actors (Victor Garber, Judy Kuhn, Eric Stoltz); 1995 The Molière Comedies (Malcolm Gets); London Assurance; 2003 Tartuffe; tv's & film's The Adventures of Sir Francis Drake; Androcles and the Lion; More Tales of the City; Grand Prix
Barry Primus 02/16/1938 performer - The Nervous Set; The Changeling (Faye Dunaway); The Creation of the World and Other Business (Zoe Caldwell, George Grizzard); Teibele and Her Demon
John McEnroe 02/16/1959 performer, tennis’ bad boy for his frequent outbursts on the tennis court: Wimbledon Men’s Singles Champion [1981, 1983, 1984]; U.S. Open Men’s Singles Champion: [1979, 1980, 1981, 1984]; brother-in-law of Melissa Errico, husband of Tatum O'Neal (1986 - 1994) divorced, husband of Patty Smyth (1997 - present) - The Play What I Wrote [replacement]; tv's & film's Mr. Deeds; McEnroe
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1956 Eric Machwitz and Hy Kraft compose the book and Bernard Grun arranges Anton Dvorak's music forSummer Song. The plot deals with the composer's stay in America. Charles Hickman directs the 19 week run.
1959 Gertrude Berg plays a Jewish mother who charms Japanese widower (Cedric Hardwicke) in A Majority of One. This comedy by Leonard Spigelgass will run at the Shubert Theatre for 556 performances. It will return to the stage in 1999 at the Jewish Repertory Theatre.
1960 Sidney Lumet directs Caligula at the 54th Street Theatre in New York. This Albert Camus vision of the Roman emperor has music composed by David Amram. It will run for 38 performances.
1964 Comedian Bert Lahr has his final Broadway opening night in Foxy, a musical based on Ben Johnson's Volpone, but relocated to the California Gold Rush. Lyrics are by Johnny Mercer. Also in the cast are Larry Blyden and the young John Davidson. The show, which tried out in a remote Canadian mining down, manages only a 72-performance run at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
1965 Opening night for the Sherlock Holmes musical Baker Street at the Broadway Theatre, starring Fritz Weaver as the detective, Inga Swenson as the love interest, and Martin Gabel as Moriarty. It runs 311 performances. I wish Encores would do this show!
1977 The success of three inept thieves out for a major score is the starting point for American Buffalo. Robert Duvall, Kenneth McMillan, and John Savage thrash through the drama that marks David Mamet's Broadway debut. It will run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for 135 performances.
1989 Pauline Collins stars on Broadway at the Booth Theatre as Shirley Valentine opens. The one-character play by Willy Russell will earn a Tony nomination while its star wins the Tony, the Drama Desk, and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
2002 Edward Albee's controversial play The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? begins previews today. Telling the story of a man whose attraction for the ungulant of the title destroys his marriage, the drama goes on to win the Tony Award as Best Play.
ON THIS DAY IN:
On Feb. 16, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.
“That’s three down. We move now to Arlene Francis.” On this day in 1950, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, humorist Hal Block, and Louis Untermeyer joined host John Daly as one of the classics of early television debuted on CBS. What’s My Line stayed on the air for 17 years -- the longest-running game show in the history of prime-time network television
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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