Today's Birthdays 5/20
Today's Birthdays 5/20
#0Today's Birthdays 5/20
Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:31pm
Dolley Madison 5/20/1768 - 7/12/1849 American wife of President James Madison
Honore de Balzac 5/20/1799 - 8/18/1850 source mat'l; French short-story writer & novelist: The Human Comedy, Droll Stories, The Chouans - The Honor of the Family; Heartaches of a Pussycat
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; wife of John Gavin (1974 - present) - Anya (Lillian Gish, Michael Kermoyan, Irra Petina); The Engagement Baby (Barry Nelson); Ari (Donald Cryer); 1977 The King and I; The Speed of Darkness; tv's & film's Naked Kiss, On Wings of Eagles; Sergeant Rutledge; Love Is A Many Splendored Thing; Capitol; 2000 Malibu Road; The Next Karate Kid; The Young and the Restless; The Relic
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
1990 The fateful four in Forever Plaid harmonize their way to Off Broadway's Steve McGraw's Supper Club (years later renamed the Triad Theatre), where the show opens tonight. Stan Chandler, David Engel, Jason Graae and Guy Stroman comprise the cast of Stuart Ross' musical about a quartet who get to perform their last show they never made it to.
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.
2001 Seussical, the Broadway musical based on the stories of Dr. Seuss, closes after a tumultuous seven-month run.
2001 The Producers wins most of the top musical prizes in the Drama Desk Awards, setting the stage for its record-breaking Tony Award win a few weeks later.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 5/20/05 at 11:31 PM
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