Today's Birthdays 2/9

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Posted: 2/9/05 at 10:54am

Mrs. Patrick Campbell 02/09/1865 Source Material, Director, Performer, She had a long correspondence with playwright George Bernard Shaw, and appeared in many of his plays, creating the role of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion - 1908 & 1932 Electra; 1914 Pygmalion; Dear Liar (Katharine Cornell, Brian Aherne)

Ronald Colman 02/09/1891 - May 19, 1958 The Green Goddess; The Green Goddess; La Tendresse; film's Lost Horizon, Prisoner of Zenda, Around the World in 80 Days, Romola

Peggy Wood 02/09/1892 - Mar 18, 1978 Wife of John V. A. Weaver (1934 - 193 his death, performer - Maytime; 1928 The Merchant of Venice (George Arliss, Spring Byington); Blithe Spirit; The Rape of the Belt (Constance Cummings, Philip Bosco)

Brian Donlevy 02/09/1901 - Apr 5, 1972 performer - The Boy Friend; Three-Cornered Moon; Life Begins at 8:40; film's Destry Rides Again, Wake Island, Arizona Bushwackers, Five Golden Dragons, Jesse James, Dangerous Assignment

Heather Angel 02/09/1909 - Dec 13, 1986 wife of Robert B. Sinclair (1944 - 1970) his death, Ralph Forbes (1934 - 1937) divorced, performer - Love of Women (Leo G. Carroll ; The Wookey (Edmund Gwyenn)

Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Hovick) 2/9/1914 - Apr 26, 1970 partner of Otto Preminger (mother of Erik Lee Preminger ); sister of June Havoc, wife of Alexander Kirkland (1942 - 1944) divorced,
performer, stripper, writer, source mat'l - Ziegfeld Follies of 1936; Du Barry Was a Lady [replacement]; The Naked Genius (Joan Blondell, Robert Downing); film's You Can’t Have Everything, The Trouble with Angels, The Stripper, My Lucky Star; subject of Broadway show & film: Gypsy; sister of actress, June Havoc. Please note another source lists her birthdate as Jan 8, 1911

Carmen Miranda 02/09/1919 - Aug 5, 1955 performer - The Streets of Paris (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bobby Clark, Gower Champion, Ramon Vinay); film's & tv's A Date With Judy (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor); Copacabana, Springtime in the Rockies, Down Argentine Way; Chiquita Banana. Pls. note 1 source lists her birth yr as 1909.

Kathryn Grayson 2/9/1922 performer - orig Camelot [replacement]; film's Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat, The Kissing Bandit, It Happened in Brooklyn, Anchors Aweigh

Roger Mudd 2/9/1928 newsman: CBS News, NBC News, PBS; descendent of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd who treated John Wilkes Booth. The Mudd family has been trying to prove Dr. Mudd's innocence, to no avail. "His name is Mudd" came into use.

Bella Jarrett 02/09/1931 - performer - 1978 Once in a Lifetime ((Jayne Meadows Allen, John Lithgow, Julia Duffy, Michael Jeter, Lee Meredith, Jerry Zaks); Lolita (Donald Sutherland, Ian Richardson, Shirley Stoler [I miss her, great gal!), Blanche Baker)

Ronnie Clair Edwards 02/09/1933 performer - The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Michael Moriarty, Sam Waterston, James Woods); The Lincoln Mask; Patio/Porch

Carole King 02/09/1942 performer, composer, lyricist - Uptown...It's Hot! (Maurice Hines, Lovette George); Blood Brothers [replacement]

Mia Farrow 02/09/1945 performer, daughter of John N.B. Villiers-Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan, partner of Woody Allen (No longer together), wife of André Previn (1970 - 197 divorced, Frank Sinatra (1966 - 196 divorced - Romantic Comedy (Anthony Perkins); tv's & film's Peyton Place; Rosemary's Baby

Judith Light 02/09/1949 performer - 1975 A Doll's House (Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston); Hertzl (Louis Zorich, Roger De Koven); tv's Law & Order; Who's The Boss

Charles Shaughnessy 02/09/1955 performer - Urinetown [replacement]; tv's The Nanny

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1931 The romance between poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett is dramatized in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, which stars Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne. The production runs 370 performances at the Empire Theatre.

1984 Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli play mother and daughter in The Rink, Kander & Ebb's musical about a family that runs a roller-skating rink. After five nominations, Rivera will win her first Tony Award for the role. The show will run 204 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre.

1988 Kate Nelligan and Alec Baldwin star in Serious Money, Caryl Churchill's drama about greed in the Reagan/Thatcher era. It runs just 15 performances at the Royale Theatre

ON THIS DAY IN:

1964 - Several days after their arrival in the U.S., the Beatles made the first of three record-breaking appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. The audience viewing the Fab Four was estimated at 73,700,000 people in TV land. The Beatles sang She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand. One could barely hear the songs above the screams of the girls in the audience.

1966 - Liza Minnelli brought her night club act to the Big Apple. She opened in grand style at the Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel in New York.

1966 Singer-entertainer Sophie Tucker dies today. She appeared in numerous revues, including Ziegfeld Follies of 1909 and the Earl Carroll Vanities in 1924. She was 82 years old.

1969 - A young lady named Roslyn Kind made her quiet TV debut this night on The Ed Sullivan Show. Ed said she’s “...America’s teenager who wasn’t protesting or playing a guitar.” She only appeared once. Her sister appeared many times. Roslyn Kind is the sister of Barbra Streisand.

1979 Alice Delysia, once a major star of London's West End, dies today. Among the many revues she starred in was On With the Dance , with a book and lyrics by Noel Coward. She was 90 years old.

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

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