Today's Birthdays 5/6
Today's Birthdays 5/6
#0Today's Birthdays 5/6
Posted: 5/6/06 at 1:09pm
Maximilian Robespierre 5/6/1758 - 7/28/1794 French revolutionary; executed [guillotine]; source mat'l
Sigmund Freud 5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 psychiatrist, originated psychoanalysis; source mat'l
Rudolph Valentino 5/6/1895 - Aug 23, 1926 performer - film's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Blood and Sand; The Eagle; and his most famous, Sheik
(Bernard) Toots Shor 5/6/1903 - 1/23/1977 restaurateur, barkeep; oh, the stories he could'a told!
Stewart Granger 05/06/1913 - Aug 16, 1993 performer - 1989 The Circle (Rex Harrison, Glynis Johns, Roma Downey); film's Scaramouche; North to Alaska; King Solomon's Mines; Prisoner of Zenda
Orson Welles 05/06/1915 - Oct 10, 1985 Producer, Writer, Director, Designer, Performer, Other - 1934 Romeo and Juliet; The Shoemakers' Holiday (Vincent Price, Joseph Cotton); The Cradle Will Rock; Danton's Death; (Arlene Francis, Mary Wickes); Native Son (Canada Lee, Everett Sloane); Around the World (Arthur Margetson, Jack Cassidy, Larry Laurence, Mary Healy, Victoria Cordova); Moby Dick (Rod Steiger); film's War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, The Mercury Radio Theatre of the Air, The Long Hot Summer, A Man for All Seasons, MacBeth, Moby Dick, Casino Royale, Catch-22
Frank Bouley 05/06/1928 performer, stage mgr; husband of Joan Bowman (February 21, 1955 - present); 3 children; Other credits: "Lolita, My Love" (1971, Boston); "To Broadway with Love" (1964, World's Fair) - origs: Peter Pan [replacement]; Damn Yankees (Stephen Douglass, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston); Camelot; Hot Spot (Conrad Bain, Joseph Campanella, Carmen De Lavallade, Judy Holliday, George Furth, Mary Louise Wilson); The Passion of Josef D. (Luther Adler, Peter Falk, Alvin Epstein); Baker Street (Fritz Weaver, Martin Gabel, Inga Swenson); The Yearling (David Wayne, Steve Sanders, Dolores Wilson, Steve Sanders); Cabaret; Mack & Mabel (Bernadette Peters, Robert Preston, Lisa Kirk, Rita Rudner); Carmelina; 1981 My Fair Lady (Nancy Ringham, Rex Harrison, Milo O'Shea)
Richard Cox 05/06/1948 performer - 1972 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (Zohra Lampert, Frances Sternhagen, Hal Linden); 1972 Captain Brassbound's Conversion (Ingrid Bergman, Pernell Roberts); Platinum (Alexis Smith); Blood Brothers [replacement]; The Apple Doesn't Fall...)
Michael O'Hare 05/06/1952 performer - Players; 1978 Man and Superman; A Few Good Men [replacement]; 1991 The Crucible
Roma Downey 05/06/1960 performer - 1989 The Circle (Rex Harrison, Glynis Johns, Stewart Granger); tv's Touched By An Angel; Knot's Landing
George Clooney 5/6/1961 performer; son of broadcast journalist Nick Clooney; nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney - tv's & film's The Facts of Life, E/R, Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Roseanne, Sunset Beat, Red Surf, Sisters, Baby Talk, Bodies of Evidence, ER, From Dusk Till Dawn, Batman & Robin, The Peacemaker, The Thin Red Line, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Perfect Storm; Golden Girls; Ocean's Eleven, Twelve
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1922 J.M.Barrie's Dear Brutus plays 258 performances in a revival at Wyndham's Theatre in London. Gerald DuMaurier produces.
1970 Elinor Jones adapts "Earthly Paradise," an anthology of memoirs of Collette. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt provide the songs and Zoe Caldwell is the French lady of letters for 101 performances. 1 of my fav songs comes fr this show: "The Room Is Filled With You"
1990 Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' musical Once on this Island, based upon the novel "My Love, My Love" by Rosa Guy, opens Off-Broadway tonight. The show will transfer to the Booth Theatre on Broadway Oct 18, 1990 and run 469 performances.
1999 Peter Parnell adapts the John Irving novel into Cider House Rules: Here at St. Clouds, the first part of the two-part play which opens at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre. Tom Hulce and Jane Jones co-direct the cast that includes Colm Meaney, Ross Gibby and Josh Hamilton.
2003 Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Dennehy star in a Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night that will go on to win Tony Awards as Best Revival and Best Actress in a Play (Redgrave).
ON THIS DAY IN:
1889 The Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
1915 - Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run. He was playing for the Boston Red Sox at the time. ‘The Sultan of Swat’ went on to smash 714 round-trippers before he retired, as a New York Yankee, in 1935.
1935 The Works Progress Administration began operating. We could use it again today.
1963 Actor-director Montey Woolley dies today in Albany, New York. His most memorable performance was portraying Sheridan Whiteside -- The Man Who Came To Dinner. He was 74 years old.
1992 Actress Marlene Dietrich died in Paris at age 90. I went to the auction house in NYC that allowed the public to see her posessions before they were auctioned-off. I wish I could have afforded to buy something...a bobby pin...
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
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