Today's Birthdays 4/28
Today's Birthdays 4/28
#0Today's Birthdays 4/28
Posted: 4/27/05 at 10:56pm
Sidney Toler 04/28/1874 - 2/12/1947 Writer, Director, Performer, Husband of Viva Tattersall (1943 - 1947) his death - Some One in the House (Lynne Fontanne [pre-Lunt]); Poldekin (George Arliss, Edward G. Robinson); The '49ers (Roland Young); The Dove (Judith Anderson); Laugh, Clown, Laugh! (Lionel Barrymore); It's a Wise Child (Humphrey Bogart); Ritzy (Miriam Hopkins); film's Blonde Venus; Our Relations; Charlie Chan series
Lionel Barrymore 04/28/1878 - 11/15/1954 brother of Ethel & John Barrymore; husband of Irene Fenwick (1923 - 1936) her death, Doris Rankin (1904 - 1923) divorced; performer - The Second in Command (John Drew); The Other Girl (Elsie DeWolfe); The Copperhead; Pantaloon / Alice Sit-by-the-Fire (John & Ethel Barrymore); Peter Ibbetson (John Barrymore, Barbara Allen); 1921 Macbeth (Julia Arthur); film's Grand Hotel; Duel in the Sun; Camille; Captains Courageous; Dr. Kildaire films; Test Pilots; Saratoga; Dinner at Eight; The Little Colonel; It's A Wonderful Life; Treasure Island; On Borrowed Time; Key Largo; Rasputin
Robert Anderson 04/28/1917 Producer, Writer - origs: Dance Me A Song (Bob Fosse, Joan McCracken, Donald Saddler, Wally Cox, James Kirkwood); Tea and Sympathy; Sabrina Fair (Joseph Cotten, Margaret Sullavan, Scott McKay); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running; I Never Sang for My Father (Lillian Gish, Hal Holbrook, Teresa Wright); Solitaire / Double Solitaire (the wonderful Martha Schlamme)
Harper Lee 4/28/1926 writer, source mat'l, descendent from Robert E. Lee - film's To Kill a Mockingbird
Carolyn Jones 4/28/1929 - 8/3/1983 performer - The Homecoming [replacement]; tv's & film's King Creole, 7 Yr Itch; The Adams Family; The Tender Trap; A Hole in the Head
Emily Yancy 04/28/1939 performer - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; 1977 Man of La Mancha; tv's & film's Even Stevens; Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Bruno Kirby 04/28/1949 performer - Lost in Yonkers [replacement]; film's City Slickers; Donnie Brasco
Mary McDonnell 04/28/1952 performer - Ziegfeld Follies of 1943; 3 To Make Ready (Ray Bolger, Arthur Godfrey, Gordon MacRae); Execution of Justice (Stanley Tucci, Wesley Snipes); 1996 Summer and Smoke (Harry Hamlin, Roberta Maxwell); film's Dances With Wolves
John Pankow 04/28/1954 performer - Twelve Angry Men; 1985 The Iceman Cometh (Jason Robards, Barnard Hughes, Donald Moffat); Serious Money (Alec Baldwin, Gregory Jbara, Kate Nelligan); tv's & film's The Doctors; To Live & Die in LA; The Secret of My Success; Talk Radio; A Stranger Among Us; Mad About You; Life As A House
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1900 Cho-Cho San and her passionate and tragic love illuminate David Belasco's adaptation of John Luther Long's story, Madame Butterfly. It is oddly paired on a double bill at The Duke of York's Theatre in London, with a comedy by Jerome K. Jerome, Miss Hobbs. Puccini will later use the Belasco play as the basis for his opera.
1976 As a woman who rarely left her home but had an intricate imagination, Julie Harris is Emily Dickinson. Playwright William Luce calls the poet The Belle of Amherst. This one-woman show will inhabit the Longacre Theatre on Broadway for 15 weeks and become one of Harris' signature roles.
1988 Rook to downstage-right. The Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice musical Chess, about the cold war, opens at the Imperial Theatre. Trevor Nunn directs a cast that includes Judy Kuhn, David Carroll and Harry Goz.
1997 When a doctor really doesn't feel like himself it could turn chilling -- or into a musical. Opening tonight is Jekyll & Hyde, with book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and music by Frank Wildhorn. Robert Cuccioli stars with Linda Eder and Christiane Noll. This adaptation of the novella of Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," will run at the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway.
2002 Private Lives with Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman. Loved, but loved this production.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1789 The crew of the British ship Bounty mutineed, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.
On April 28, 1947, Explorer Thor Heyerdahl set sail on a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.
1957 - One of TV’s most respected personalities was seen for the first time coast to coast. Mike Wallace was the host of The Mike Wallace Interview, a Sunday night program that featured the grilling of greats, including Gloria Swanson, Steve Allen and stripper, Lili St. Cyr.
1959 - The TV program, Hallmark Hall of Fame, featured one of the best TV dramas on the air, according to critics. Eugene O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness starred a who’s who of American performers including Lloyd Nolan, Helen Hayes, Burgess Meredith and Betty Field.
1990 A Chorus Line ends its extraordinary run after 6,137 performances. Cats would eventually prowl onward, but back then, this Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante musical was the longest-running show in Broadway history. I think I'm the only adult in NYC that didn't see this show.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, Reelclassics.com, imdb)
Milla
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