Today's Birthdays 3/7

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Today's Birthdays 3/7#1

Posted: 3/7/08 at 11:25pm

Maurice Ravel 3/7/1875 - 12/28/1937 French composer was born in Cibourne, France, (I'm an alumna of the Ravel Academy in Cibourne which is near Biarritz). Bolero; Enfant et les Sortileges; & my ultimate fav Ravel: Shéhérazade - 1st heard it in Biarritz when Jessie Norman sang it with pianist Baldwin Dalton...1 of the magical musical evenings of my life. La Valse; Bolero

Anna Magnani 3/7/1908 - 9/26/1973 Italian actress, what a woman! what an actress! - film's The Rose Tattoo, The Miracle, The Fugitive Kind, Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

James Broderick 03/07/1927 - 11/1/1982 actor, Matthew's pop - Maggie (Betty Paul, Kathryn Lee, James E. McCracken, Odette Myrtil [as in ODETTE'S in Pa.], Anita Ellis was Betty Paul's u/s); Johnnie No-Trump; 1969 The Time of Your Life; The Time of Your Life (Sandy Dennis, Paul B. Price); tv's & film's Alice’s Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon & 1 of my fav tv series "Family"

John Heard 03/07/1945 performer - Warp (André De Shields); 1975 Hamlet; Total Abandon (Richard Dreyfuss); 1983 The Glass Menagerie; film's The Pelican Brief, Radio Flyer, Home Alone series, Rambling Rose, The Milagro Beanfield War, Big, Beaches, First Love, Between the Lines, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Lewis J. Stadlen 03/07/1947 performer, Husband of Mary MacLeod - Minnie's Boys; The Sunshine Boys; 1974 Candide (Mark Baker, Maureen Brennan); Laughter on the 23rd Floor; 1996 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; 45 Seconds From Broadway

Donna Murphy 03/07/1958 performer, Wife of Shawn Elliott - The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Human Comedy; Passion [I know I may be in the minority, but I LOVED this show! saw is 2X's.]; 1996 The King and I; 2003 Wonderful Town; Lovemusik

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1939 Awake and Sing! - Sandy Meisner, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Julia Adler

1985 Requiem for a Heavyweight with John Lithgow, George Segal, Maria Tucci

2002 The Crucible with Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Brian Murray

ON THIS DAY IN:

1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone. It was an invention, incidentally, that almost bankrupted his company in the beginning.

1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.

1936 Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

1955 - Peter Pan, with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard, was presented as a television special for the first time. Bring it baaaaack to TV!

1955 - Comedienne Phyllis Diller made her debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, CA, leading to a stage, club and television career that spanned more than three decades.

1965 a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.

1999 Movie director Stanley Kubrick died at age 70.

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

Milla