Today's Birthdays 5/15

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 11:24pm

Michael Balfe 05/15/1808 - 10/20/1870 composert - The Bohemian Girl [1 of my fav songs is "I Dreamt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls". I'll never forget seeing Joan Sutherland singing this on tv.]

Lyman Frank Baum 5/15/1856 - 5/6/1919 newspaperman, writer; wrote "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" series; He also adapted the story into a musical play

Arthur Schnitzler 05/15/1862 - Oct 21, 1931 Source Material, Writer - The Affairs of Anatol; Anatol (Miriam Hopkins); Romance/Romance (Scott Bakula); The Blue Room (Iain Glen, Nicole Kidman)[I wish I'd seen this]

Katherine Porter 5/15/1890 - 9/18/1980 source mat'l Pulitzer Prize-winning writer: Collected Short Stories 1965]; Ship of Fools

Joseph Cotten 05/15/1905 [in Petersburg, Va!] - 2/6/1994 - Jezebel (Miriam Hopkins); 1937 Julius Caesar (Orsen Wells, Joseph Holland, Norman Lloyd, George Coulouris, Grover Burgess); The Philadelphia Story (Kate the Great); Sabrina Fair (Margaret Sullavan, Russell Collins, Scott McKay); Once More, With Feeling (Arlene Francis, Walter Matthau); Calculated Risk (Patricia Medina [debut]); film's Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Duel in the Sun, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Tora Tora Tora, The Philadelphia Story, Once More with Feeling

James Mason 5/15/1909 - 7/27/1984 English stage and screen actor - Bathsheba (Gloria Swanson, Hildy Parks); Faith Healer; film's A Star is Born, Georgy Girl, The Verdict, The Boys from Brazil, Charade, The Desert Fox, Island in the Sun, Jesus of Nazareth, North by Northwest, Lolita

Constance Cummings 05/15/1910 - Nov 23, 2005 Wife of Benn W. Levy (July 3, 1933 - 1973) his death; 2 children, performer - This Man's Town (Pat O'Brien); Young Madame Conti (William Dewhurst); The Rape of the Belt (Peggy Wood); 1969 Hamlet (Francesca Annis, Anjelica Huston, Roger Livesey, Nicol Williamson); Wings (James Tolkan); film's Blithe Spirit, Busman’s Honeymoon

Isabelle Stevenson 05/15/1913 - Dec 28, 2003, President of the American Theatre Wing (1966 - 199; then Chairman of the Board (1998 - 2003). Made her Broadway debut in Earl Carroll's "Vanities."

Anthony Shaffer 05/15/1926 - Nov 6, 2001; twin to Peter, Husband of Diane Cilento (1985 - 2001) his death; writer - Sleuth (Anthony Quayle); Whodunnit (Fred Gwynne, Hermione Baddeley)

Peter Shaffer 05/15/1926 writer; twin to Anthony - Five Finger Exercise; The Private Ear and The Public Eye; The Royal Hunt of the Sun; Black Comedy / White Lies; Equus; Amadeus; Lettice & Lovage

Anna Maria Alberghetti 05/15/1936 performer, wife of director/producer, Claudio Guzman 1964-1974, 2 daughters; sister of Carla Alberghetti, who was her replacement in Carnival; Carnegie Hall Debut at the age of 13 - Carnival (Jerry Orbach); film's The Medium (Lauritz Melchior); Here Comes the Groom; Cinderfella; The Whole Shebang (Stanley Tucci); 10,000 Bedrooms; Friends & Family

Paul Zindel 5/15/1936 - 3/27/2003 writer - The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; Zindel also wrote novels: "The Pigman," "My Darling, My Hamburger," "I Never Loved Your Mind," "Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball," "Confessions of a Teenage Baboon," "The Undertaker's Gone Bananas." Husband of Bonnie Hildebrand (novelist) (1973 - 199 divorced; - And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little; The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild; Ladies at the Alamo

Lainie Kazan 05/15/1940 performer - The Happiest Girl in the World; Bravo Giovanni; Funny Girl; My Favorite Year 1994 The Government Inspector; tv's & film's The Nanny; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Beaches; My Favorite Year

Paul Rudd 05/15/1940 performer - 1968 King Lear; A Cry of Players (Frank Langella, René Auberjonois, Anne Bancroft); In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Herbert Berghof); Ah, Wilderness!(Geraldine Fitzgerald); 1975 The Glass Menagerie; Streamers; 1977 Romeo and Juliet; Bosoms and Neglect (Kate Reid); tv's Beacon Hill

Cleavant Derricks 05/15/1953 performer - 1977 Hair; But Never Jam Today (Reginald Vel Johnson, Lynne Thigpen); Dreamgirls; Big Deal (Wayne Cilento, Cady Huffman, Larry Marshall, Stephanie Pope); Brooklyn

John Blyth Barrymore III 5/15/1954 grandson of the original the original John Blyth Barrymore - tv's & film's Hybrid; Ted & Venus; Kung Fu; Me & Benjy

Jason Graae 05/15/1958 performer - Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?; Stardust; A Grand Night for Singing; origs Forbidden Hollywood & Forever Plaid; tv's film's Six Feet Under; On Edge (Jason Alexander); Geppetto; Rude Awakening; Frasier

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1928 Anna - Judith Anderson

1931 Sideshow - Margaret Sullivan

1933 Candide - Jose Limon

1990 The Cemetery Club - Eileen Heckart

1994 Sunday in the Park with George - Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Nancy Opel, Howard McGillin, Charles Kimbrough, Dana Ivey

ON THIS DAY IN:

1886 Poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst, Mass.

1971 British director Sir (William) Tyrone Guthrie dies today at the age of 70. The man who made his professional debut as an actor at the Oxford Playhouse would later be known for his pioneering direction of Shakespearean productions, especially those for the Old Vic-Sadler's Wells Company. He was named the first director of Canada's Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford and then became director of the Minnesota (Tyrone Guthrie) Theatre Company, which he helped found in Minneapolis.

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

Milla
Updated On: 5/14/06 at 11:24 PM

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Posted: 5/15/06 at 10:44am

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[Shay Jericho]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 12:47pm

And it's my birthday too!

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Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:33pm

Woo Hoo! Happy Birthday. Make it magical!

Milla