Today's Birthdays 6/27
Today's Birthdays 6/27
Today's Birthdays 6/27#0
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:00pm
Charles Stewart Parnell 6/27/1846 - 10/6/1891 Irish nationalist member of British Parliament (1875-91); source mat'l - Parnell
Helen Keller 6/27/1880 - 6/1/1968 Contracted scarlet fever which led to her total visual and hearing impairment at a very young age; Learned German, Latin, Greek, and French before she graduated from Radcliffe College; Graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, becoming the first deaf/blind person ever to graduate from a U.S. college; Sullivan was her companion until her death in 1936; American blind and deaf author and educator; source mat'l - The Miracle Worker
Antoinette Perry 06/27/1888 - Jun 28, 1946 Producer, Director, Performer; Helped found the American Theatre Wing. In gratitude, the Wing will name its annual theatre awards after her, now known by their nickname, The Tony Awards - 1927 Electra; Strictly Dishonorable [by Preston Sturges]; Red Harvest; Kiss the Boys Good-bye (Sheldon Leonard, Benay Venuta); orig Harvey
Audrey Christie 06/27/1911 - Dec 20, 1989 performer - orig The Women; I Married An Angel (Vera Zorna, Walter Slezak, Dennis King, Vivienne Segal); Banjo Eyes; Without Love; orig The Voice of the Turtle; Nature's Way (Orson Bean, Bea Arthur); orig Mame (replacement)
Ray McDonald 06/27/1920 - Feb 20, 1959 performer; brother of Grace McDonald; Musical comedy dancer died of an overdose in the Hotel Prescott in NYC. - Babes in Arms; Crazy With the Heat; Winged Victory; Park Avenue (David Wayne)
Bob Keeshan 6/27/1927 - 1/23/2004 performer - children’s TV host: “Hey kids ... what time is it? It’s Howdy Doody time!” The year was 1947 and the peanut gallery surrounded Buffalo Bob Smith, Phineus T. Bluster, Indian Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring, Judy, Flubadub and a clown who didn’t talk named, Clarabell. The clown could make noise with a horn, like Harpo Marx, and could spray seltzer water. But that was it. Clarabell was Bob Keeshan in disguise; Captain Kangaroo Clown Hall of Famer
Anna Moffo 6/27/1934 opera singer: Metropolitan Opera [1959-1969]; lordy her Madama Butterfly is a gorgeous recording!; various & sundry Italian "art" films; Recommended summer reading "The Divas" by Met Opera Star Robert Merrill. She's portrayed as 1 of 3 opera divas vying to host Monday Night at the Opera, a tv show hoping to successfully compete with Monday Night Football! The character loosely based on Anna is the diva who makes soft porn in Italy.
Shirley Anne Field 6/27/1938 brought up in an orphanage after their mother was unable to care for them; She was then chosen by Laurence Olivier and director Tony Richardson for a featured role in The Entertainer (1960) which really made her name; performer - film's The Entertainer, orig Alfi; Shag: The Movie, Getting It Right, Two by Forsyth, My Beautiful Laundrette, House of the Living Dead, & 1 of my top 10 movies "Hear My Song"!
Isabelle Adjani 6/27/1955 performer - film's Queen Margot, Diabolique, Camille Claudel, Ishtar, Subway, The Tenant, The Slap; absolutely mesmerizing in "The Story of Adele H" about Victor Hugo's unbalanced daughter whose obsession might easily make Fosca's obsession in Sondheim's Passion look like a mild preoccupation.
Michael Ball 06/27/1962 performer - Aspects of Love
Tobey Maguire 6/27/1975 performer- film's Great Scott, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Cider House Rules, Spider-Man Series & 1 of my fav movies"Sea Biscuit";
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
Ten Little Indians 06/27/1944 - Neil Fitzgerald
1970 Tom Eyen's The Dirtiest Show in Town comes to Off-Broadway at the Astor Palace Theatre. Bare flesh and simulated sex run rampant in the show that plays 509 performances.
Pal Joey 06/27/1976 - Dixie Carter, Joan Copeland, Marilou Henner, Christopher Chadman
Play Me a Country Song 06/27/1982 - Karen Mason's debut
1993 Americans discover a benign Indian elephant God in Terrence McNally's play, A Perfect Ganesh, opening today at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Among the cast of discoverers are Zoe Caldwell, Frances Sternhagen and Fisher Stevens.
1994 Former Miss America Vanessa Williams makes her Broadway debut today when she replaces Tony Award winner Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman. With weekly box office attendance floating around the 70 percent mark, Williams' entrance will bring a much-needed boost to the show's box office business. By August, the Kander and Ebb musical will find itself playing to standing room audiences on many nights.
1999 Al Pacino reprises his Broadway role in Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. He directs the production and stars in it, as he did in 1996 at the Circle in the Square. As he did in the Broadway production, Paul Benedict plays opposite Pacino.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1893 The New York stock market crashed.
1942 The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
1969 Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
1973 Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
2001 Actor Jack Lemmon died at age 76.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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