Today's Birthdays 5/14

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Posted: 5/13/04 at 10:26pm

Julian Eltinge 05/14/1881 - Mar 7, 1941 American vaudeville star and famous female impersonator - Cousin Lucy

Otto Klemperer 5/14/1885 - 7/6/1973 1 of the all-time great conductors, Werner's father

Billie Dove 5/15/1900 12/31/1997 performer - film's All the Brothers were Valiant, 1926 The Black Pirate, A Notorious Affair (Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone)

Alvin Epstein 05/14/1925 dir, performer - orig Waiting for Godot; No Strings; A Kurt Weill Cabaret; 1989 3 Penny Opera; [Also: Orson Welles' "King Lear" (City Center)]

Patrice Munsel 5/15/1925 performer, soprano: Metropolitan Opera diva [at age 17]; actress: The Great Waltz, Melba; radio performer: The Great Sopranos - Voices of Firestone Classic Performances; radio host: The Patrice Munsel Show

Siân Phillips 05/14/1933 performer - Wife of Peter O'Toole (1959 - 1979) divorced - Marlene

Bobby Darin 5/15/1936 - 12/20/1973 Sandra Dee's ex -inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; actor: Captain Newman, M.D., If a Man Answers, Come September

Herb Foster 05/14/1936 performer - 1969 King Henry V (Len Cariou, Robert Foxworth, Roberta Maxwell); orig Noises Off; Lettice and Lovage; Getting Away With Murder (Christine Ebersole, Terrence Mann, John Rubinstein, Josh Mostel)

George Lucas 5/14/1944 film producer, director: Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti

Robert Zemeckis 5/14/1952 - Academy Award-winning director: Forrest Gump [1994]; Death Becomes Her, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone, Used Cars, I Wanna Hold Your Hand; script writer [w/Bob Gale]: 1941; executive producer: Tales from the Crypt

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1951 Flahooley Barbara Cook

1957 - The musical, New Girl in Town, opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. Thelma Ritter and Gwen Verdon starred in the Broadway adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie. New Girl in Town had a run of 431 performances.

1978 Directed by Stephen Schwartz; Patti LuPone, Joe Mantagne, Lynne Thigpen

1980 Musical Chairs - Lee Meredith

ON THIS DAY IN:

1643 Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1948, British rule in Palestine came to an end, and the independent state of Israel was proclaimed at 12:01 the following day.

1987 Actress Rita Hayworth died in New York at age 68.

1998 Singer Frank Sinatra died at age 82 after a heart attack.

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

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