Today's Birthdays 6/12

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Posted: 6/12/07 at 3:42pm

Uta Hagen 06/12/1919 - 1/14/04 performer; wife of José Ferrer (1938 - 1948 divorced, Herbert Berghof (1957 - 1990) his death - 1943 Othello (Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer); Key Largo (Paul Muni, Karl Malden); orig A Streetcar Named Desire [replaced Jessica Tandy[; Tony Award-winning actress: The Country Girl [1950], Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1963]; films: The Boys from Brazil, Reversal of Fortune

Anne Frank 6/12/1929 - 3/?/1945 German Jewish girl killed in Holocaust; famous diarist, source mat'l; The Diary of Anne Frank

Lorraine Serabian 06/12/1945 - origs Zorba & Carmelina; 1994 The Flowering Peach; tv's 1998 Tale of Cinderella (Christianne Tisdale)

Timothy Busfield 06/12/1957 performer; He is married to Jenny Merwin, sister of Melissa Merwin who is married to Joshua Malina. Both Malina and Busfield have starred in "The West Wing" (1999). - Brighton Beach Memoirs; A Few Good Men [replacement]; tv's & film's Thirtysomething, Byrds of Paradise, Little Big League, Field of Dreams, Revenge of the Nerds, Sneakers, The West Wing; Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Camilla Scott 06/12/1962 performer - 1989 Shenandoah (John Cullum, Thomas Cavanagh); tv's & film's Three Men and a Baby; Due South (Paul Gross, Callum Keith Rennie)

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 - Marion Davies, Fanny Brice, Ina Claire, William C. Fields

Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 - Eddie Cantor

1961 American ideals and and practices are put on trial as The Red Eye of Love opens at New York's Living Theatre. The satire by Arnold Weinstein will last 169 performances.

1981 Wally's Cafe - James Coco, Rita Moreno, Sally Struthers [debut]

1998 The Jello Is Always Red, a musical revue of his songs and sketches by Clark Gesner, who created You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, plays Off Broadway at the York Theatre Company. James Morgan directs the production starring Celia Gentry, Neal Young and Gesner himself.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1963 Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.

1963 - Elizabeth Taylor starred in the $40,000,000 film epic, Cleopatra. The movie certainly gave ticket buyers their money’s worth. It lasted for four hours, three minutes. Cleopatra opened at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on this day. Richard Burton starred as Marc Antony, Rex Harrison played Julius Caesar, Hume Cronyn played Sosigines, Carroll O’Connor was Casa and Roddy McDowell appeared as Octavian. We were at a loss, however, to find the name of the asp that bit Cleopatra. We do know where she was bitten -- just not what happened to the little snake. Sorry.

1967 The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

1970 Parliamentary history is made as Sir Laurence Olivier becomes the first actor to be seated in Britain's House of Lords when he is named a life peer. At the time, he is playing Shylock in a National Theatre production of The Merchant of Venice.

1994 - The gruesomely-murdered bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were discovered outside Nicole’s Brentwood, California condominium. Within days, actor/football legend O.J. Simpson was charged by police. He was acquitted in criminal court [1995], but found liable for the deaths in a civil suit [1997].

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

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