Today's Birthdays 5/5 - Happy Cinco di Mayo
Today's Birthdays 5/5 - Happy Cinco di Mayo
#0Today's Birthdays 5/5 - Happy Cinco di Mayo
Posted: 5/4/06 at 11:01pm
Nellie Bly May 5, c. 1867 - 1/27/1922 the American newspaper writer who challenged herself in an around-the-world race; courageous journalist, writing about taboo subjects of her time: divorce, poverty, capital punishment, insanity; women’s rights advocate
Tyrone Power, Jr. 05/05/1914 - Nov 15, 1958 performer; w/o a doubt, 1 of the most beautiful men EVER, grandson of Harold Power, great-grandson of Tyrone Power, husband of Annabella (April 23 ,1939 - January 26, 194 divorced, Linda Christian (1949 - 1956) divorced, 2 daughters - Romina and Taryn, son of Tyrone Power, Sr. - Flowers of the Forest [replacement]; 1935 Romeo and Juliet (Katharine Cornell, Maurice Evans, Ralph Richardson); 1936 Saint Joan (George Coulouris); John Brown's Body (Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey); The Dark Is Light Enough (Christopher Plummer, Katharine Cornell, Sydney Pollack); Back to Methuselah (Arthur Treacher); film's Tom Brown of Culver, Blood and Sand, This Above All, The Eddie Duchin Story, The Long Gray Line, Witness for the Prosecution & my fav The Mark of Zorro
Alice Faye 5/5/1915 - 5/9/1998 performer, wife of Phil Harris - George White's Scandals; 1974 Good News (Stubby Kaye, Gene Nelson, Jimmy Brennon, Janna Robbins); film's In Old Chicago, Lillian Russell, Rose of Washington Square, Tin Pan Alley, State Fair; Alexander's Ragtime Band
Charles Chaplin Jr. 05/05/1925 - Mar 20, 1968 performer; brother of Sydney Chaplin, half-brother of Geraldine Chaplin, son of Lita Grey & Charles Chaplin - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (Fredric March)
Ann B. Davis 05/05/1926 performer - Crazy For You; tv's & film's 2 time Emmy Award-winning actress: The Bob Cummings Show [1957, 1958-59]; The Brady Bunch, Lover Come Back, A Very Brady Christmas
Pat Carroll 05/05/1927 - performer - Catch a Star (David Burns); Dancing in the End Zone (Laurence Luckinbill); 1992 The Show Off (Boyd Gaines); 1998 Electra (Zoë Wanamaker, Claire Bloom, Michael Cumpsty); tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Caesar’s Hour [1956], The Ted Knight Show, With Six You Get Eggroll, Brothers O’Toole; & The Danny Thomas Show
Michael Palin 05/05/1943 performer, writer, composer - Spamalot [Based on the screenplay "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" by Michael Palin] (Hank Azaria, Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, Christian Borle, Michael McGrath, Sara Ramirez, Christian Sieber); tv's & film's Around the World in 80 Days; Twice a Fortnight; Do Not Adjust Your Set; Monty Python tv & film series; And Now for Something Completely Different; Jabberwocky; Life of Brian; The Meaning of Life; A Private Function (Maggie Smith)[my fav Palin film]; Brazil; A Fish Called Wanda
Roger Rees 05/05/1944 - London Assurance; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; The Red Shoes [replaced in previews]; Indiscretions (Eileen Atkins, Jude Law, Kathleen Turner, Cynthia Nixon); 1996 The Rehearsal (Frances Conroy); 2000 Uncle Vanya (Derek Jacobi, Laura Linney, Brian Murray, Rita Gam); film's M.A.N.T.I.S., Cheers, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Charles & Diana: A Palace Divided, If Looks Could Kill, Mountains of the Moon, Star 80, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; 2006 The Pink Panther
Louisa Flaningam 05/05/1945 performer - The Magic Show [replacement]; 1979 The Most Happy Fella (Giogio Tozzi); Play Me a Country Song (Karen Mason [Bway debut]); 1992 Guys and Dolls [replacement]; tv's & film's 1980 The Most Happy Fella; The Clairvoyant
Michael Feingold 05/05/1945 theatre critic, author Grove New American Theater, translator 1989 3 Penny Opera (Maureen McGovern, Sting, Georgia Brown, Alvin Epstein, Larry Marshall, Josh Mostel, Anne Kerry Ford, Fiddle Viracola, Kim Criswell), adapted book & lyrics for Weil's & Brecht's 1977 Happy End (Christopher Lloyd, Bob Gunton, Meryl Streep)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1952 Of Thee I Sing with Jack Carson, Paul Hartman, Lenore Lonergan, James McCracken, Donald Foster & Howard Freeman
1955 - The musical, Damn Yankees, opened in New York City. Adapted from Douglass Wallop's book, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, by Wallop and George Abbott, this musical will score 1,019 performances at Broadway's 46th Street Theatre. Songs are provided by Richard Adler and Jerry Rose. Bob Fosse choreographs. The show at the 42nd Street Theatre mixed both baseball and ballet. It is an adaptation of the book, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. Gwen Verdon starred in the role of Lola. Whatever Lola wants Lola gets including the Tony for Best Actress in a musical for her performance.
1958 Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne begin their last Broadway performance together in The Visit. Adapted from Friedrich Duerrenmatt's drama, The Visit of the Old Lady by Maurice Valency, this drama will run nearly six months at the newly renamed Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
1959 The World of Paul Slickey is John Osborne's first attempt at a musical. It concerns a destructive gossip columnist played by Dennis Lotis. Osborne stages and Christopher Whelan provides the score. The grapevine withers after 47 performances.
1966 Muriel Spark's novel about a Scottish school mistress and her charges comes to life as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Jay Presson Allen's adaptation stars Vanessa Redgrave and will run for 588 performances at Wyndham's Theater in London.
1974 Terrence McNally's Bad Habits, about some very dysfunctional people opens at Broadway Booth's Theatre after a run at the Astor Theatre. F. Murray Abraham leads the cast of actors that play in both one-act comedies, Ravenswood and Dunelawn, that comprise the production.
1983 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial with John Rubinstein, Michael Moriarty, Jace Alexander & William Atherton
1994 Sally Marr...and her escorts with Joan Rivers, Jonathan Brody, Valerie Wright
ON THIS DAY IN:
1494 During his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus first sighted Jamaica. And a new vacation industry was born.
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1862 Cinco de Mayo, is the day to celebrate the anniversary of the 1862 Battle of Puebla. General Ignacio Zaragoza’s troops were outnumbered three to one as they battled the invading French army. They may have been outnumbered but they had the will to win. The Mexican forces defeated Napoleon III’s army and Puebla stood.
1891 - New York City was the site of the dedication of a building called the Music Hall. It was quite a celebration. A festival was held for five days, featuring guest conductor Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. The structure is not called the Music Hall anymore. It’s called Carnegie Hall, named in honor of Andrew Carnegie.
1893 Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression. The worst economic crisis in U.S. history (to that time) happened on this day. Stock prices plummeted, major railroads went into receivership, 15,000 businesses went bankrupt and 15 to 20 percent of the work force was unemployed. Within seven months, over 600 banks had closed.
1945 In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.
On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1994 Two-time Tony-winning director-choreographer Joe Layton who lent his talents to such productions as Once Upon a Mattress, The Sound of Music, No Strings, George M!, and Barnum, died today. Born Joseph Licthman, he also broke into films and television, choreographing "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "For the Boys" as well as the television special "My Name is Barbra."
2002 George Sidney, who directed film versions of some major Broadway musicals, dies at age 85. His movies included Show Boat, Kiss Me, Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Ziegfeld Follies, Pal Joey, Bye Bye Birdie, Half a Sixpence and Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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