Today's Birthdays 4/18 (Belated Happy Birthday to Merle Louise whose BD was 4/15!)
Today's Birthdays 4/18 (Belated Happy Birthday to Merle Louise whose BD was 4/15!)
#1Today's Birthdays 4/18 (Belated Happy Birthday to Merle Louise whose BD was 4/15!)
Posted: 4/17/07 at 6:46pm
Lucrezia Borgia 4/18/1480 - 6/24/1519 Italian Renaissance noblewoman of the Borgia family
Clarence Darrow 4/18/1857 - 3/13/1938 American defense lawyer; represented Eugene V. Debs and John T. Scopes
Leopold Stokowski 4/18/1882 - 9/13/1977 English-born American conductor; husband of Gloria Vanderbilt [divorced]
Barbara Hale 4/18/1921 performer - tv's & film's Perry Mason, The Oklahoman, The Defense Never Rests, Airport
Hayley Mills 4/18/1946 performer; daughter of Mary Hayley Bell & John Mills, partner of Leigh Lawson (? - ?); son Jason, sister of Juliet Mills, wife of Roy Boulting (1971 - 1977) divorced - I forgot the name of the off-broadway show she did; film's The Parent Trap, The Moon Spinners, Pollyanna; singer: Let’s Get Together
Dorothy Lyman 04/18/1947 performer; Wife of John Tillinger (1972 - 1977) divorced - Dancing in the End Zone (Pat Carroll, Laurence Luckinbill); tv's & film's Blow; Law & Order SVU; Life Goes On; Mama's Family; Another World; 1 Life to Live; The 300 Year Weekend
Eric Roberts 4/18/1956 performer; brother of actress Julia Roberts - Burn This [replacement]; film's Doctor Who, The Hard Truth, Fugitive Among Us, A Family Matter, Descending Angel, To Heal a Nation, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Coca-Cola Kid, Star 80, Raggedy Man, King of the Gypsies
Gavin Creel 4/18/1976 performer, composer - o/b Bat Boy; Bounce (Chicago); 2004 La Cage aux Folles; Thoroughly Modern Millie; tv's Eloise At The Plaza (Julie Andrews, Debra Monk, Sofia Vassilieva, Christine Baranski, Stephani Mills; Eloise At Christmastime (Julie Andrews, Debra Monk, Sofia Vassilieva)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1927 Mr. Pim Passes By
1927 The Jazz Singer - Sam Jaffe, George Jessel, Edward Arnold
1946 Betty Garrett and Jules Munshin are among the cast of Call Me Mister. This revue satirizes subjects from Army red tape to southern racial prejudice. Harold Rome provides music and lyrics.
1972 Brock Peters plays Stephen Kumalo in Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars. Gene Frankel stages the five-week run at New York's Imperial Theatre.
1977 Millicent Martin, Julie N. McKenzie, David Kernan and Ned Sherrin comprise the cast of Side by Side by Sondheim. The musical revue spotlighting the composer-lyricist's top Broadway moments opens on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. The production will play 384 performances.
1994 The day that Disney came to Broadway: the full-scale live version of their animated film, Beauty and the Beast, opens at the Palace Theatre. Susan Egan and Terrence Mann embody the title roles and Tom Bosley costars Belle's father. The production will move to another Broadway venue, the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, on Nov. 12, 1999 to make room for Disney's third Broadway venture, Aida.
2002 A stage adaptation of the film musical Thoroughly Modern Millie opens on Broadway with a largely new score by Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan. It goes on to win six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Actress in a Musical for its star, Sutton Foster. Gavin Creen was nominated for Broadway's 2002 Tony Award as Best Actor; BTW, Millie opend on Gavin's 26th birthday.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1775 Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
On April 18, 1906, at 5:13 a.m., a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires. About 700 people died.
1923 The first game was played at Yankee Stadium in New York City, with the Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1955 Physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, N.J.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1957 - Comedian Johnny Carson turned briefly to TV acting in a role on the Playhouse 90 production of Three Men on a Horse on CBS-TV. Carson, of Who Do You Trust? fame, was five years from becoming the host of The Tonight Show.
1964 Author and playwright Ben Hecht, 70, died today in New York. He started his career as a journalist. Of his collaborations with Charles MacArthur The Front Page, Jumbo,and Twentieth Century are the best known.
1966 - Bob Hope did it again after six years! He both hosted and received an award at the 38th Annual Academy Awards celebration at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles. This time he received a gold medal, the Honorary Award for unique and distinguished service to the film industry and the Academy. Other award recipients included Shelley Winters for her Best Supporting Actress role in A Patch of Blue; Martin Balsam, Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Thousand Clowns. The Best Actor Oscar went to Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou); and Julie Christie picked up the Best Actress Oscar (Darling). The Oscar for the Best Music/Song from a 1965 movie was The Shadow of Your Smile from The Sandpiper (Johnny Mandel-music, Paul Francis Webster-lyrics). It’s a good thing that the Oscars were being broadcast in color this night (the first time) because the Best Director and Best Picture winner was The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, producer and director). We don’t think the hills wouldn’t look very alive in black and white.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
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#2re: Today's Birthdays 4/18 (Belated Happy Birthday to Merle Louise whose BD was 4/15!)
Posted: 4/17/07 at 7:13pm
I noticed one very important person's birthday missing from that list.....
Mine. 
and Melissa Joan Hart. Yes, I know that...
Yay for Creel!
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Posted: 4/18/07 at 11:06ambump
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