Today's Birthdays 4/19
Today's Birthdays 4/19
#0Today's Birthdays 4/19
Posted: 4/18/05 at 10:54pm
Vivienne Segal 04/19/1897 - Dec 29, 1992 performer - Ziegfeld Follies of 1924; Will Rogers; I Married an Angel (Vera Zorina, Dennis King, Walter Slezak); orig Pal Joey (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donan, June Havoc)
Eliot Ness 4/19/1903 - 5/16/1957 American crime fighter; headed the "Untouchables" in Chicago; source mat'l
Frank Fontaine 4/19/1920 - 8/4/1978 performer - comedian, actor, singer: tv's & film's Crazy Guggenheim on The Jackie Gleason Show; Call Me Mister; The Model and the Marriage Broker; The Godmothers
Hugh O’Brian 4/19/1930 - performer - tv's & film's In Harm’s Way, Little Big Horn, There’s No Business like Show Business, Twins, Broken Lance, Ten Little Indians, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Jayne Mansfield 04/19/1933 - Jun 29, 1967 performer - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter; film's Pete Kelly’s Blues, It Takes a Thief, The Girl Can’t Help It; killed in car crash near New Orleans LA; mother of Mariska Hargitay
Dick Sargent 4/19/1933 - July 8, 1994 performer - tv's & film's Bewitched, That Touch of Mink, Body Count, Fantasy Island
Dudley Moore 04/19/1935 - Mar 27, 2002 performer - Beyond the Fringe (Jonathan Miller); Good Evening (Peter Cook); film's Arthur, Arthur 2, 10, Crazy People, Parallel Lives, Bedazzled, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Elinor Donahue 4/19/1937 performer - tv's & film's Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, Get a Life, Pretty Woman; Star Trek
Tim Curry 04/19/1946 performer - Spamalot; The Rocky Horror Show; Amadeus; Travesties; tv's & film's Muppet Treasure Island, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Oscar, Stephen King’s It, The Hunt for Red October, Oliver Twist, Annie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, My Favorite Year, Amadeus, Hair, Wiseguy, The Legend of Prince Valiant, voice of King Chicken in cartoon: Duckman
Betsy Joslyn 04/19/1954 performer; Wife of George Hearn (1979 - 1984) divorced - orig Sweeney Todd; orig A Doll's Life; The Goodbye Girl; High Society
Ashley Judd 04/19/1968 performer - 1994 Picnic; 2003 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; film's De-Lovely; Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood; Frida; Twisted; Smoke; Time to Kill
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1951 Edith Evans, Sybil Thorndike, and Wendy Hiller are residents at a country hotel in N.C.Hunter's Waters of the Moon. They won't be checking out till they register 835 performances at London's Haymarket. Frith Banbury stages.
1955 Leonard Bernstein's short opera, Trouble in Tahiti, dance routines by Paul Draper, and a staging of Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton are All in One. Maureen Stapleton and Myron McCormick appear in the Williams play. The evening runs six weeks at New York's Playhouse Theatre.
1956 Broadway starts Waiting for Godot, it's impatient though, and this production lasts just 59 performances at the Golden Theatre. E.G.Marshall and Bert Lahr are Didi and Gogo. Herbert Berghof directs.
1972 If only people listened when you say Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope! Micki Grant stars in and supplies the music and lyrics for this musical exploring the trials, and celebrating the pride, of African-American life. It will run 1,065 performances at the Edison Theatre in New York.
1979 Bernard Pomerance's tale of the grossly disfigured John Merrick, better known as The Elephant Man, opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. Philip Anglim stars as the stricken man (sans makeup) while Carole Shelley and Kevin Conway co-star. The play wins the Tony Award for Best Play.
1999 Martin McDonagh, whose The Beauty Queen of Leenane ended its yearlong Broadway run just weeks ago, now has another play, The Lonesome West, starting previews at the Lyceum Theatre tonight. The play is part of McDonagh's "Leenane" trilogy (the third being A Skull in Connemara) and opens on Broadway April 27.
2001 It's ker-ching time for Hitler -- and Mel Brooks and all of Broadway. Legendary opening night of The Producers at the St. James Theatre, as ticket buyers form lines down 44th Street to see Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the musical adaptation of the 1968 Brooks film. Wildly positive reviews the next morning prompt producers to raise the top ticket price to $100.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur spoke before Congress. The highlight of this memorable address was General MacArthur stating, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco on this day. The beloved U.S. actress from Philadelphia married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a storybook wedding. More than 1,500 radio, TV, newspaper and magazine reporters were on hand for the event in Monaco, as were most of the citizens of the tiny country.
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, and injuring 500. Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to death.
2003 Cholly Atkins, a Broadway tap dancer and choreographer whose collaborations with Charles "Honi" Coles were the stuff of showbiz legend, dies in Las Vegas at the age of 89.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
#1re: Today's Birthdays 4/19
Posted: 4/18/05 at 11:01pm
And of course, the most important, EMCEE!
(and my mom~!)
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