Today's Birthdays 6/13

[do_re_milla]

Today's Birthdays 6/13#0

Posted: 6/12/05 at 9:23pm

Elizabeth Schumann 6/13/1885 - 4/23/1952 German-born American soprano

Basil Rathbone 06/13/1892 7/21/1967 performer - 1927 Julius Cesar (Pedro De Cordoba, Tyrone Power, Sr.); 1934 Romeo and Juliet (Katharine Cornell, Orson Welles); The Heiress; 1953 Sherlock Holmes; Hide and Seek (Geradine Fitzgerald); film's The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Last Hurrah, The Hound of the Baskervilles, House of Fear, David Copperfield, Last Days of Pompeii, Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, The Comedy of Terrors

Mary Wickes 06/13/1910 - 10/22/1995 performer - origs Stage Door; The Man Who Came to Dinner; Park Avenue; 1979 Oklahoma! (Christine Andreas, Martin Vidnovic, Christine Ebersole, Harry Groener, Jessica Molaskey); film's Little Women, Sister Act, Postcards from the Edge, How to Murder Your Wife

Ben Johnson 6/13/1918 - 4/8/1996 performer, wonderful character actor - fim's Angels in the Outfield, The Getaway, The Last Picture Show, One-Eyed Jacks, Red Dawn, Shane

Paul Lynde 06/13/1926 - 1/10/1982 writer, dir., performer - Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952; Bye Bye Birdie; New Faces of 1962; tv's & film's The Paul Lynde Show, Hollywood Squares, Love American Style, Temperatures Rising, Bewitched, The Red Buttons Show; cartoon voice: Claude Pertwee

Christo (Christo Javacheff) 6/13/1935 Bulgarian artist: Valley Curtain, Running Fence, The Umbrellas, The Gates

Malcolm McDowell 6/13/1943 performer - tv's & film's A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man, Blue Thunder, Caligula, Gulag, Look Back in Anger, Fantasy Island [1998]

Richard Thomas 06/13/1951 performer - Democracy (James Naughton, Michael Cumpsty, John Dossett, Robert Prosky);The Playroom (Karen Black); Everything in the Garden (Barbara Bel Geddes, Barry Nelson); Stendhal Syndrome; tv's Emmy Award-winning actor: The Waltons [1973]; Roots: The Next Generation, All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Belinda

Jonathan Hogan 06/13/1951 performer, composer - Comedians; 5th of July; 1983 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Michael Moriarty, John Rubenstein); As Is; Burn This; 1991 The Homecoming
(Lindsay Crouse)

Tim Allen 6/13/1953 performer - tv's & film's Home Improvement, Showtime Comedy Club All-Stars II, The Santa Clause, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Galaxy Quest

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Shangri-La 06/13/1956 - Jack Cassidy, Alice Ghostley, Carol Lawrence

The Billy Barnes People 06/13/1961 - Jo Anne Worley

1963 Stage actor Howard DaSilva finds himself at the other end of the spectrum: as director of a Lewis John Carlino double bill. Shelley Winters and Jack Warden star in the two one acts, Snowangel and Epiphany. The production will run 22 weeks.

1966 Audiences can't help but laugh as The Kitchen opens at the 81st Street Theater in New York. The raucous comedy, set in the kitchen of a popular restaurant at dinner time, featured Rip Torn, Constance Clarke, and Sylvia Miles. After opening night, dinner will continue to be prepared on stage for 136 more performances.

1979 The Madwoman of Central Park West - Phyllis Newman

1990 Actor Charles Grodin knows the Price of Fame as his show opens Off-Broadway. The Roundabout Theatre Company production features Grodin, Lizbeth MacKay, Jace Alexander, Joseph R. Sicari and Michael Ingram under the direction of Gloria Muzio.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.

On this day in 1966, the Miranda Decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision regarded the rights of individuals to remain silent because “...anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law.” It held that the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States “required warnings before valid statements could be taken by police.”

1971 - Singer Francis Albert Sinatra made an attempt to retire from show business following a performance this night at the Music Center in Los Angeles, CA. ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ got a bit restless in retirement, however, and was back in Sinatra - The Main Event at Madison Square Garden in November 1973.

1986 Benny Goodman, the clarinet-playing 'King of Swing,' died at age 77.

1987 Actress Geraldine Page dies of a heart attack at the age of 62. The stage star of Sweet Bird of Youth and Agnes of God was performing in a revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit at the time of her death. As a screen actress she was honored with seven Academy Award nominations before finally winning Best Actress for her turn in "The Trip to Bountiful." She also earned two Emmy Awards for roles in TV movies and, though nominated thrice for Tony Awards, was never awarded one.

1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

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

Milla

Updated On: 6/13/05 at 09:23 PM

[do_re_milla]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#1

Posted: 6/13/05 at 10:12am

bump

[nmartin]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#2

Posted: 6/13/05 at 10:32am

Is King Ludwig II the same as Mad Ludwig? I'm serious.

[wildcat]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#3

Posted: 6/13/05 at 10:38am

Yes. The Madwoman of Central Park opened the same day the Mad King of Bavaria folded.

[Jimmyojimmy]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#4

Posted: 6/13/05 at 10:40am

Today is also Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's 19th Birthday (I remember because its on the same day as my cousin's who is 15 today)

[nmartin]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#5

Posted: 6/13/05 at 10:48am

Thanks, Wildcat. I guess I could have looked it up, but there are so many people on this site who know things.

[wildcat]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#6

Posted: 6/13/05 at 11:22am

If you wanna know about mad kings, just ask a pack of mad queens...

[nmartin]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#7

Posted: 6/13/05 at 11:24am

Wildcat, I know far too many Miss Havishams as it is. Rotting wedding cakes and such.
I myself have been left standing on the dock with a suitcase in my hand and a big gardenia tacked on to my collar. Talk about your mad queens!
Updated On: 6/13/05 at 11:24 AM

[wildcat]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#8

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:09pm

Speaking of Paul Lynde...

(not you, nm. I, too, have a faded gardenia pressed between the pages of a book. Although I think the book is "The Front Runner")

[nmartin]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#9

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:29pm

The Front Runner LOL I haven't thought about that book in years and years. When I was in junior high a friend of mine and I used to keep a copy hidden from our respective parents. We would get it out secretly and read it aloud to each other. Talk about oral interpretation.

[wildcat]

re: Today's Birthdays 6/13#10

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:33pm

I'll bet a few of us here have wept for Billy Sive...