Today's Birthdays 6/19

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Posted: 6/18/04 at 11:33pm

Dame May Whitty 06/19/1865 - ?/?/1948 performer - Night Must Fall; 1940 Romeo & Juliet; Therese [based on Therese Raquin](Victor Jory, Eva Le Gallienne, Averell Harris); film's Night Must Fall; The Lady Vanishes; Suspicion; Mrs. Miniver

Charles Coburn 06/19/1877 - Aug 30, 1961 performer; Grandfather of James Coburn - The Imaginary Invalid; Troilus and Cressida (Leo G. Carroll); Falstaff; film's The More the Merrier (Jean Arthur, Joel McCrey); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Knickerbocker Holiday; In Name Only; & my fav The Lady Eve

Averell Harris 06/19/1881 - Sep 25, 1966 performer - origs Key Largo; Pal Joey; Therese

Wallis Warfield Windsor 6/19/1896 - 4/24/1986 American who married the Duke of Windsor

Moe Howard 06/19/1897 - 5/4/75 performer; one of the original Three Stooges - A Night in Venice; Geo White's Scandals (1939); film's Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Mildred Natwick 6/19/1905 - 10/25/1994 performer - orig Blithe Spirit; The Grass Harp; The Waltz of the Toreadors; Barefoot in the Park; 1969 Our Town; 70, Girls, 70; film's Dangerous Liaisons, Barefoot in the Park, The Snoop Sisters, Tammy and the Bachelor

Louis Jourdan 06/19/1919 performer - The Immoralist; Tonight in Samarkand; On A Clear Day [replaced by John Cullum in Boston]; 13 Rue de l'Amour; tv's & film's Gigi, Three Coins in the Fountain, The VIPs, Columbo: Murder Under Glass, Octo****

Nancy Marchand 06/19/1928 - 6/18/2000 performer - Miss Isobel (Shirley Booth, John Randolph); After the Rain; 40 Carats; 1975 The Glass Menagerie; 1980 Morning's at Seven; White Liars & Black Comedy (Peter MacNicol, Kate Mulgrew, Brian Murray); tv's & film's The Sopranos, Lou Grant, Brain Donors, The Naked Gun, North and South Book 2

Gena Rowlands 06/19/1930 performer; wife of John Cassavetes (1954-1989) (his death) - Middle of the Night; film's A Woman Under The Influence; Another Woman; Gloria; Opening Night

Phylicia Rashad 06/19/1948 Tony Award-winning actress: A Raisin in the Sun; TV: The Cosby Show, One Life to Live, Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man; dancer Debbie Allen’s sister; married to football announcer Ahmad Rashad

Kathleen Turner 06/19/1954 performer - 1990 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Indiscretions (Eileen Atkins, Jude Law, Roger Rees, Cynthia Nixon); The Graduate; tv's & film's Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Serial Mom, Naked in New York, House of Cards, Accidental Tourist, The War of the Roses, The Doctors The Virgin Suicides; voice of Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Oh, Brother! 06/19/1945

1978 Carol Hall's The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, starring Carlin Glynn, opens on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre. The musical directed by Peter Masterson and Tommy Tune will garner seven Tony nominations and win two; for Glynn and co-star Henderson Forsythe.

Forever Tango 06/19/1997 - I love watching Tango!

ON THIS DAY IN:

1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y. They had been convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

1952 - CBS-TV debuted one of television’s most popular hits, I’ve Got a Secret. Garry Moore was the first host, from 1952 to 1964. Steve Allen was next (1964 to 1967) and moderated a syndicated version in the 1972-1973 season. Bill Cullen hosted the attempted comeback of the show in 1976. Panelists included Allen’s wife, Jayne Meadows; Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan, Betsy Palmer, Faye Emerson, Melville Cooper and Orson Bean.

On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

1965 Actor Sydney Chaplin leaves the Broadway production of Funny Girl after settling with the producers. Despite rumors that Chaplin has left the show because of some friction between himself and co-star Barbra Streisand, the official reason given for his early departure is that Chaplin has had disagreements with the show's producer, Ray Stark.

1966 Stage and film actor Ed Wynn is dead at 80. After starting out with a career in Vaudville on the Orpheum-Keith Albee vaudeville circuit, Wynn became a staple on Broadway (The Diary of Anne Frank) and in Hollywood ("Mary Poppins," among many other Disney films). Wynn also received much acclaim when he recreated his performance for the film version of "Anne Frank."

1978 Whether you’re a cat lover or not has nothing to do with whether you chuckle at the antics of the famous, fat, lazy, lasagna-eating, snide cat named Garfield. Garfield came into the world on this day in 1978 by way of the talented pen of cartoonist Jim Davis. Readers of 41 newspapers throughout the United States were the lucky first-time readers of the Garfield strip. There are now over 220 million folks who read Garfield every day in over 2500 newspapers worldwide.

1987 Steel Magnolias, Robert Harling's smalltown drama transfers from Off-Broadway's WPA Theatre to Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre where it will play 817 performances. The play features Kate Wilkinson under the direction of Pamela Berlin.

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

Milla Updated On: 6/19/04 at 11:33 PM