Today's Birthdays 5/20

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Posted: 5/20/04 at 4:12pm

Dolley Madison 5/20/1768 - 7/12/1849 American wife of President James Madison

Honore de Balzac 5/20/1799 - 8/18/1850 French novelist and short-story writer

James Stewart 05/20/1908 - Jul 2, 1997 performer, my very favorite "everyman" - Carry Nation; Goodbye Again; Spring in Autumn; Divided By Three (Judith Anderson); orig Harvey [replacement]; 1970 Harvey (Helen Hayes, Jesse White, Peggy Pope [Just saw Peggy Tues., she's doing great!]); tv's Academy Award-winning actor: Philadelphia Story [1940]; The Glenn Miller Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Rear Window, Anatomy of a Murder, Bell, Book and Candle, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Vertigo, The Man from Laramie

‘Lonesome’ George Gobel 05/20/1919 - Feb 24, 1991 performer - Let It Ride (Sally Kirk, Sam Levene)[I love the song "His Own Little Island" so much, I'm doing it in my show]; Emmy Award winning personality [1954], comedian: “Well I’ll be a dirty bird.”: The George Gobel Show, The Eddie Fisher Show, Hollywood Squares; actor: Better Late than Never, The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins, Harper Valley P.T.A.

Constance Towers 05/20/1933 performer - Anya (Lillian Gish, Michael Kermoyan, Irra Petina); The Engagement Baby (Barry Nelson); Ari (Donald Cryer); 1977 The King and I; The Speed of Darkness; film's Naked Kiss, On Wings of Eagles

Cher 05/20/1946 - performer, Sonny Bono's ex - Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; film's Academy Award-winning actress: Moonstruck [1987]; The Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask

Judy Kuhn 05/20/1958 performer - Don't Step on My Olive Branch; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Rags (Teresa Stratas, Larry Kert, Dick Latessa, Lonny Price, Terrence Mann); Les Misérables; Chess; Two Shakespearean Actors; 1993 She Loves Me

Bronson Pinchot 05/20/1959 performer - Zoya's Apartment; Putting It Together; 2004 Sly Fox; tv's & film's Courage Under Fire, Beverly Hills Cop series, The Flamingo Kid, Risky Business, Perfect Strangers, Sara, Stephen King’s The Langoliers

Tony Goldwyn 05/20/1960 performer - Holiday; film's The Boys Next Door, Truman, Pocahontas: The Legend, Nixon, The Pelican Brief, Ghost, Gaby: A True Story

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1946 - The Critic - Laurence Olivier, Margaret Leighton, George Rose

1946 - Oedipus Rex - Laurence Olivier, Margaret Leighton, George Rose

1968 The Only Game in Town - Tammy Grimes, Barry Nelson, Leo Genn

ON THIS DAY IN:

1506 Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain.

1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

1989 Comedian Gilda Radner died of cancer at age 42.

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

Milla Updated On: 5/20/04 at 04:12 PM