Today's Birthdays 5/14

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:01pm

Julian Eltinge 05/14/1881 - Mar 7, 1941 American vaudeville star and famous female impersonator; performer, lyricist; Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre [named for Eltinge] now AMC Empire 25 Theatre - Cohan and Harris Minstrels [1908]; Cousin Lucy; Saw pics of Eltinge at the NYLPA & think he was quite "beautiful" in his early years. Still think that his life would make good fodder for a musical.

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

Billie Dove 5/14/1900 - 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 5/14/1925 performer, soprano: Metropolitan Opera diva [at age 17]; actress: The Great Waltz, Melba; A Musical Jubilee; radio performer: The Great Sopranos - tv's & film's Voices of Firestone Classic Performances; radio host: The Patrice Munsel Show; The Wild Wild West; Melba

Siân Phillips 05/14/1933 performer - Wife of Peter O'Toole (1959 - 1979) divorced - Marlene; An Inspector Calls [replacement]; tv's I, Claudius

Bobby Darin 5/14/1936 - 12/20/1973 Sandra Dee's ex -inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; performer, composer, source mat'l - film's Captain Newman, M.D., If a Man Answers, Come September; Beyond The Sea

Herb Foster 05/14/1936 performer - 2007 Cymbeline; 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); 2004 The Rivals

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

Francesca Annis 05/14/1944 Partner of Ralph Fiennes (1995 - 2006 [wha' happened?]), a timeless beauty - 1969 Hamlet as Ophelia (Anjelica Huston, Nicol Williamson, Constance Cummings) and 1995 Hamlet as Gertrude(Ralph Fiennes, Tara Fitzgerald); tv's & film's one of my all-time faves Reckless (with the ah-dorable [in this series] Robson Green); Dune; 1967 Great Expectations; Sir Francis Drake
... aka The Adventures of Sir Francis Drake [also adored this series]; Cleopatra (Taylor & Burton)

Mark Blum 05/14/1950 performer - The Merchant (Roberta Maxwell, Marian Seldes); Lost in Yonkers; My Thing Of Love; 2000 Gore Vidal's The Best Man; 2001 A Thousand Clowns; Twelve Angry Men

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

Carlos Lopez 05/14/1963 performer - Replacements for orig A Chorus Line, 1999 Annie Get Your Gun, and Grand Hotel; 1992 Guys and Dolls; 1994 Grease; 2002 Man of La Mancha

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1951 Flahooley Barbara Cook, Yma Sumac, Louis Nye

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.

1969 - My Daughter, Your Son with Robert Alda, Dody Goodman, Vivian Vance, Lee Lawson, Bill McCutcheon & Don Scardino

1978 Working - Directed by Stephen Schwartz; Patti LuPone, Joe Mantagne, Lynne Thigpen, Matthew McGrath

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

Milla

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:04am

Happy Birthday all especially Bobby Darin.