Today's Birthdays 5/25

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Posted: 5/24/07 at 11:15pm

Bill Robinson 05/25/1878 [Richmond, VA] - Nov 25, 1949 performer; Godfather of Rosetta LeNoire - Blackbirds of 1928 (Eloise Uggams [Leslie Uggams' aunt], Elizabeth Welch); Brown Buddies; The Hot Mikado; All in Fun; Memphis Bound!; film's Dixiana; King For A Day; Little Colonel; The Big Broadcast of 1936; The Littlest Rebel; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Stormy Weather

Bennett Cerf 5/25/1898 - 8/27/1971 American publisher, businessman and founder of Random House Publishers; tv's What's My Line [loved this show w/him on it!]; wrote 1 of my fav reads: At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf (he knew EVERYONE!)

Hal David 05/25/1921 lyricist; Brother of Mack David - Promises, Promises; André DeShield's Haarlem Nocturne; The Look of Love

Jeanne Crain 5/25/1925 -12/14/03 performer - film's Pinky, State Fair; People Will Talk; Cheaper By The Dozen; A Letter to 3 Wives; Leaver Her To Heaven

Robert Ludlum 5/25/1927 - 3/12/2001 writer, performer - The Strong Are Lonely (adapted by Eva Le Gallienne; Incidental music by Lehman Engel); 1956 Saint Joan (Tom Clancy, Peter Faulk, Janet Dowd, Siobhán McKenna, Dick Moore, Lee Richardson); tv's & film's The Rhinemann Exchange; The Bourne Identity [tv & film]; The Osterman Weekend; The Holcroft Covenant; The Apocalypse Watch; The Bourne Supremacy

Beverly Sills 5/25/1929 1 source says 5/25 another says 5/29, performer; 1 of the great colouraturas; former gen dir of NYCO - Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflute; The Siege of Corinth; Thais; famous for the 3 Queens in operas: Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereaux, Anna Bolena; tv's Sills and Burnett at the Met, with Carol Burnett

Sir Ian McKellen 05/25/1939 performer - The Promise (Eileen Atkins, Ian McShane)[wish I'd seen this!]; Amadeus; 1984 Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare; Wild Honey; Ian McKellen: A Knight Out at the Lyceum; 2001 Dance of Death (Helen Mirren); film's Lord of the Ring series; Richard III; X-Men; Gods and Monsters

Dixie Carter 05/25/1939 performer; Wife of Hal Holbrook (1984 - present) - Sextet; 1976 Pal Joey; Master Class [replacement]; Thoroughly Modern Millie [replacement]; tv's Designing Women

Leslie Uggams 05/25/1943 performer; Niece of Eloise C. Uggams - 2005 On Golden Pond; Hallelujah, Baby!; Her 1st Roman (Richard Kiley); Blues in the Night (Debbie Shapiro); Jerry's Girls; King Hedley II; Thoroughly Modern Millie [replacement]; tv's All My Children; The Leslie Uggams Show; Beulah

Karen Valentine 05/25/1947 performer; Karen appeared in stock productions like "The Moon Is Blue" (1972), "Born Yesterday" (1973), "Bus Stop" (1975) and "Two for the Seesaw" (1979). As she matured, she tackled more promising theater parts in "Romantic Comedy" (198, "Social Security" (1989), "Breaking Legs" (1992) and "Steel Magnolias" (2003). - Romantic Comedy [replacement]; tv's Room 222 (Michael Constantine)

Anne Heche 05/25/1969 performer; Coleman 'Coley' Laffoon (1 September 2001 - present) 1 child; Partner of Ellen DeGeneres. [1997 - 2000]; Had a 2 year relationship with Steve Martin. - Proof [replacement]; 2004 Twentieth Century (Alec Baldwin, Julie Halston, Tom Aldredge); tv's & film's Another World; The Adventures of Huck Finn; Donnie Brasco; Six Days Seven Nights; Ally McBeal; Everwood

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Seeds in the Wind 05/25/1948 - Sidney Lumet

A Call on Kuprin 05/25/1961 - Dabney Coleman

The Subject Was Roses 05/25/1964 - Martin Sheen in Frank Gilroy's play about a soldier who returns home to his battling parents (starring Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen), which will go on to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award as Best Play.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1895 Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.

On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

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

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Posted: 5/25/07 at 11:47am

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