Today's Birthdays 5/22
Today's Birthdays 5/22
#0Today's Birthdays 5/22
Posted: 5/21/06 at 10:54pm
Richard Wagner 05/22/1813 - 2/13/1883 composer - The Ring Cycle; Tristan und Isolde; Lohengren; Parsifal
Mary Cassatt 5/22/1844 - 6/14/1926 American Impressionist painter and printmaker - The Bath
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 05/22/1859 - 7/7/1930 physician, writer, source mat'l - Waterloo; Sherlock Holmes 1899 (William Gillette), 1974 (John Wood) [my 1st Broadway Show!); Brigadier Gerard; The Fires of Fate; The Speckled Band; Baker Street; The Crucifer of Blood (Paxton Whitehead, Glenn Close, Nicolas Surovy)
Mme. Alla Nazimova 05/22/1879 - Jul 13, 1945 performer, dir., student of Konstatin Stanislavsky; godmother of actress and first lady Nancy Davis Reagan; she was a breast-cancer survivor; wife of Charles Bryant (1912 - 1925) divorced - 1906 Hedda Gabler; 1907 A Doll's House (Warner Oland); The Marionettes (Franklin Pangborn); orig The Wild Duck (Lionel Atwill); orig A Month in the Country; 1931 Mourning Becomes Electra (Alice Brady); orig The Good Earth (Claude Raines, Sydney Greenstreet); Doctor Monica (Gale Sondergaard); 1935 Ghosts (Ona Munson); 1939 The Mother (Montgomery Clift); film's The Red Lantern (1919); Camille (1921)(Rudolph Valentino); Salome (1923); Escape (1940)
Sir Laurence Olivier 05/22/1907 - Jul 11, 1989 7/11/1989 Producer, Composer, Director, Designer, Performer, husband of Jill Esmond (1930 - 1940) divorced, Vivien Leigh (1940 - 1960) divorced, Joan Plowright (1960 - 1989) his death - Private Lives (Noël Coward, Noel Coward, Jill Esmond, Gertrude Lawrence); The Green Bay Tree (Leo G. Carroll); No Time for Comedy (Katharin Cornell); 1940 Romeo and Juliet (Vivien Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Dame May Whitty, Cornel Wilde); 1946 King Henry IV, Part I&II (Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson, George Rose); 1946 Uncle Vanya; Daphne Laureola (Dame Edith Evans); 1952 Caesar and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh, Donald Pleasance); 1951 Antony and Cleopatra (Edmund Purdom); 1952 Venus Observed(Rex Harrison, Lili Palmer, Hurd Hatfield, John Williams); The Entertainer (Joan Plowright); The Tumbler (Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Donald Moffat, Martha Scott); Becket (Kit Culkin [Macaulay's pop], Marie Powers, Anthony Quinn, Louis Zorich);tv's & film's Academy Award-winning actor: Hamlet [1948]; War Requiem, The Boys from Brazil, Brideshead Revisited, Carrie, The Jazz Singer, Peter the Great, Richard III, Spartacus, The Merchant of Venice, Marathon Man, Khartoum; Emmy Award-winning actor: The Moon and Sixpence [1960], A Long Day’s Journey into Night [1973], Love Among the Ruins [1975], Brideshead Revisited, King Lear [1984]
Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Varenagh Aznavurjian] 05/22/1924 Composer, Lyricist, Writer, Performer - The World of Charles Aznavour; film's Edith & Marcel, The Tin Drum, Twist, Ten Little Indians, Candy, Shoot the Piano Player
Michael Constantine [Constantine Joanides] 5/22/1927 - performer - orig Inherit the Wind; Compulsion (Dean Stockwell, Roddy McDowall, Roger De Koven, Suzanne Pleshette); orig Miracle Worker; The Egg (Dick Shawn); orig Arturo Ui; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Room 222 [1969-70]; Sirota’s Court, Hey Landlord, The Hustler; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; The Hustler; If it's Tueday, This Must be Belgium; Don't Drink the Water
Harvey Milk 05/22/1930 - Nov 27, 1978 Producer, Production Crew; His murder by Dan White in San Francisco was the basis for Emily Mann's play "Execution of Justice." - Lenny; orig Jesus Christ Superstar; Inner City
Susan Strasberg 05/22/1938 - 1/21/1999 performer, Daughter of Lee Strasberg - The Diary of Anne Frank (Joseph Schildkraut, Jack Gilford, Lou Jacobi); Time Remembered (Helen Hayes, Richard Burton; 1958 The Shadow of a Gunman (Bruce Dern); The Lady of the Camellias (Jan Miner); film's The Marriage, Toma, Picnic, Rollercoaster, Delta Force
Richard Benjamin 05/22/1938 performer, director, husband of Paula Prentiss (1961 - present) - The Star-Spangled Girl (Anthony Perkins, Connie Stevens); The Norman Conquests 1, 2 & 3 (Ken Howard, Barry Nelson, Estelle Parsons, Paula Prentiss, Carole Shelley); film's Goodbye Columbus, Diary of a Mad Housewife, He and She, Portnoy’s Complaint, Love at First Bite, The Sunshine Boys, Westworld; director: The Money Pit, Little Nikita, Made in America, Milk Money
Frank Converse 05/22/1938 performer, Husband of Maureen Anderman - First One Asleep, Whistle (Salome Jens, Louise Shaffer); 1980 The Philadelphia Story (Blythe Danner, Cynthia Nixon, Mary Louise Wilson); Brothers (Caroll O'Connor); 1988 A Streetcar Named Desire (Blythe Danner, Aiden Quinn, Frances McDormand); 2002 Our Town (Jayne Atkinson, Paul Newman, Jane Curtin); tv's & film's Brother Future, Tales of the Unexpected, Home at Last, Cruise into Terror, N.Y.P.D., Movin’ On, The Family Tree, Coronet Blue, Dolphin Cove
Paul Winfield 05/22/1941 - Mar 7, 2004 performer - Checkmates (Denzel Washington, Ruby Dee); film's Tyson, Breathing Lessons, Carbon Copy, Cliffhanger, Dennis the Menace, Presumed Innocent, Sounder, The Terminator, Star Trek 2
Barbara Parkins 5/22/1942 performer - tv's & film's Peyton Place, Captains and the Kings, Valley of the Dolls, Calendar Girl Murders, The Deadly Trap
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
Salome 05/22/1922 - Alma Kruger
Mandingo 05/22/1961 - Brooke Hayward, Dennis Hopper, Franchot Tone
1967 - What was to become the Public Broadcasting System’s longest-running children’s program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, debuted on this day.
1994 Youth has gone awry in Eric Bogosian's subUrbia at Lincoln Center Theater Off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre. The play, set at a suburban 7-Eleven, stars Tim Guinee, Steve Zahn, Josh Hamilton, Wendy Hoopes and Martha Plimpton. It will later be adapted into the 1996 film.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1967 American poet and playwright Langston Hughes died in New York City. He wrote two full-length plays, Mulatto, which was turned into a musical titled "The Barrier" in 1950, and Troubled Island. His autobiography, "The Big Sea" was published in 1940. He was 65 years old.
1967 - The final To Tell the Truth program was seen on CBS-TV. It had been on the air for over 10 years. The show began syndication sometime later, in a slightly different format.
1992 Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time after nearly 30 years in the job, and late night has not been the same since.
2002 A mostly white jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls.
2002 The remains of Chandra Levy, the federal intern who had disappeared more than a year earlier, were found in a Washington park. Case still unsolved.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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