Today's Birthdays 5/24

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Posted: 5/23/04 at 11:44pm

Queen Victoria 5/24/1819 - 1/22/1901 English queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901, Britain's longest reigning monarch, source mat'l.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero 05/24/1855 - Nov 23, 1934 Source Material, Writer - The Second Mrs. Tanqueray; Trelawny of the "Wells" [1975 Mary Beth Hurt, John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, Meryl Streep]; The Enchanted Cottage (Katharine Cornell)

Elsa Maxwell 05/24/1881 - 11/1/1963 performer, gossip columnist, writer - De Luxe (Tom Ewell, Melvyn Douglas); Who's Who (Imogene Coca); film's Our Betters, Elsa Maxwell’s Hotel for Women, The Lady and the Lug

Lilli Palmer 05/24/1914 - 1/27/1986 performer; Wife of Rex Harrison (1943 - 1957) divorced - My Name Is Aquilon (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Arlene Francis); 1949 Caesar and Cleopatra (Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Earl Jones); Bell Book & Candel (Rex Harrison); Venus Observed; The Love of 4 Colonels; film's Chamber of Horrors, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Boys from Brazil

Siobhan McKenna 5/24/1923 - 11/16/1986 performer - The Chalk Garden (Gladys Cooper, Marian Seldes, Betsy Von Furstenberg, Fritz Weaver); The Rope Dancers (Art Carney, Joan Blondell); Here Are Ladies; A Meeting By The River (Simon Ward)

Alfred Molina 05/24/1953 performer - Art; 2004 The Fiddler on the Roof; tv's & film's Dead Man, Letter to Brezhnev, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ladies Man, Chocolat, Murder on the Orient Express [TV: 2001], another romantic fav. Ladyhawke

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1929 Uncle Vanya 05/24/1929 - Franchot Tone

1953 - A previously unknown actor, Rod Steiger, starred in Marty on the Goodyear Playhouse. Paddy Chayefsky wrote the original TV play and then adapted it for the Oscar-winning film.

Mame 05/24/1966 - Angela Lansbury, Jane Connell, Bea Arthur

The Wiz 05/24/1984 - Stephanie Mills

ON THIS DAY IN:

1830 The first passenger railroad in the United States began service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, Md.

1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, officially opened. At the time, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge. It is held together with 5,296 bound-steel cables. The Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling, took 14 years to build. The span is 1,595 feet long, cost $16 million to construct and no, it’s not for sale!

1987 Hermioned Gingold dies

1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

1995 ''Hollywood Madam'' Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call girl ring that catered to the rich and famous.

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

Milla Updated On: 5/23/04 at 11:44 PM