Today's Birthdays 6/16 - early bird special

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 6:50pm

Bobby Clark 06/16/1888 - 2/12/1960 performer, writer, dir. - Strike Up the Band; Walk A Little Faster; Mexican Hayride; Michael Todd's Peep Show; best known for his drawn-on eyeglasses and slapstick comedy style, often in tandem with sidekick Paul McCullough. Clark's resume includes Strike Up the Band, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Star and Garter, Mexican Hayride and Michael Todd's Peep Show. He was played by Gerry Vichi in the musical Ain't Broadway Grand.

Stan Laurel 06/16/1890 - 2/23/1965 American comic movie actor. His father was an actor and theatre manager. He made his stage debut at the age of 16 at Pickard's Museum, Glasgow. He traveled with Fred Karno's vaudeville company to the United States in 1910 and again in 1913. While with that company he was Charles Chaplin's understudy, and he performed imitations of Chaplin. - film's Forty-five Minutes from Hollywood; From Soup to Nuts; Pardon Us; The Bullfighters; The Bohemian Girl; Babes in Toyland (Felix Knight, Marie Wilson, Charlotte Henry)

Helen Traubel 6/16/1899 - July 28, 1972 opera singer, performer - Pipe Dream; St. Louis Symphony, New York Metropolitan Opera [“The Met’s premier Wagnerian soprano.”]; film's Deep in My Heart, The Ladies’ Man, Gunn

Ona Munson 06/16/1906 - Feb 11, 1955 wife of Eddie Buzzell; committed suicide; performer - George White's Scandals [1919]; Hold Everything; 1935 Ghosts (starred & dir. by Mme. Alla Nazimova)

Jack Albertson 6/16/1907 - 11/25/1981 performer - Meet the People; orig Sunshine Boys; tv's & film's Academy Award-winning actor [1968]; Tony Award-winner [1965]: The Subject was Roses; Emmy Awards: Cher [1974-75], Chico & The Man [1975-76], Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Ilona Massey 6/16/1910 - 8/20/1974 Hungarian movie & stage performer and singer - Ziegfeld Follies of 1943; tv's & film's Rosalie; Balalaika; Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man; Northwest Outpost; Jet Over the Atlantic; The Ilona Massey Show

Eileen Atkins 06/16/1934 performer - The Killing of Sister George; Retreat From Moscow; tv's & film's Equus; A Room of One's Own; Cold Mountain; Talking Heads 2; Gosford Park

Erich Segal 06/16/1937 writer - I'm Solomon [aka "Solomon, Solomon" & then "In Someone Else's Shoes". I have 1 of the shoes)] (Dick Shawn, Ken Richards, Nikolas Dante, Salome Jens, Karen Morrow)

Jonathan Brody 06/16/1963 performer - Me and My Girl; Sally Marr...and her escorts (Joan Rivers); Titanic

Danny Burstein 06/16/1964 performer, husband of Rebecca Luker - 1992 A Little Hotel on the Side; 1995 Company; A Class Act

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1976 Dirty Linen / New-Found-Land , an evening of two one-act plays by Tom Stoppard, opens at London's Arts Theatre following an engagement at the Almost Free Theatre. There will be 1,667 performances. A five-month-long Broadway run will be launched on January 11, 1977 at the John Golden Theater.

1998 The Argentinean performance piece, De La Guarda, christens New York City's new Daryl Roth Theatre in Union Square. The space that was once a bank is now home to the show in which audiences stand while they watch the performers suspended above by rope and cable. The performance with music, but no words, takes place entirely in the air.

2000 Blythe Danner, Charlotte D'Amboise, Terrence Mann and Bill Irwin head the cast of Massachusetts' Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30. Six of the original ten one-acts which made up Coward's play are divided into two programs, which are performed in repertory by different casts.

ON THIS DAY IN:

On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid.

Gale Storm (Margie Albright) and Charles Farrell (Vernon Albright) starred in My Little Margie which debuted on CBS-TV on this day in 1952.

1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris.

1967 English actor Reginald Denny (b. 1891) dies in Richmond, England. Besides being a television and film actor, Denny also appeared on Broadway when he succeeded Robert Coote as Colonel Pickering in the original Broadway run of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady.

1980 - The movie The Blues Brothers opened in Chicago, IL. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, formerly of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, starred. The pair played Jake and Elwood Blues. James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin performed. Cab Calloway also appeared with a rendition of his classic Minnie the Moocher.

1987 A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.

1992 Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair. (He was later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.)

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

Milla

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Posted: 6/15/05 at 7:11pm

you're jumping the gun.

[wildcat]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 9:10pm

All these people were born prematurely.

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 10:51pm

That's why it's called the "early bird special".

Milla

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:00am

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