Today's Birthdays 6/28
Today's Birthdays 6/28
#1Today's Birthdays 6/28
Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:55am
England's King Henry VIII 6/28/1491 - 1/28/1547 King of England [1509-1547]; watched the wonderful film A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS this wkend on tv. The final scroll mentioned that Henry died of VD. Henry’s six wives: Catherine of Aragon [divorced], Anne Boleyn [beheaded], Jane Seymour [died], Anne of Cleaves [divorced], Catherine Howard [beheaded], Catherine Parr [survived].
Peter Paul Rubens 6/28/1577 - 5/30/1640 Flemish Baroque painter: Elevation of the Cross, Coronation of Marie de Medicis
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 6/28/1712 - 7/2/1778 French composer, philosopher, writer and political theorist; 1 of the great minds
Otis Skinner 06/28/1858 - 1/4/1942 Producer, Writer, Director, Performer; father of Cornelia Otis Skinner - The Taming of the Shrew; orig play Kismet; Blood and Sand; Sancho Panza; King Henry IV Part I; 1928 The Merry Wives of Windsor; Troilus and Cressida (Leo G. Carroll) [prod'd by The Players Club]
Luigi Pirandello 06/28/1867 - 2/10/1936 writer; Partner of Marta Abba - Six Characters in Search of an Author; As You Desire Me; The Rules of the Game (Glenn Close, David Dukes, Charles Kimbrough, John McMartin)
Max Gordon 06/28/1892 - Nov 2, 1978 producer - The Jazz Singer; The Band Wagon; The Cat and the Fiddle; Flying Colors; Roberta; Didsworth; The Great Waltz; Jubilee; Pride & Prejudice; The Women (Ilke Chase, Doris Day, Marjorie Main); 1937 Othello (Brian Aherne, Lloyd Bridges, Walter Huston); Very Warm for May; The Firebrand of Florence (Lotte Lenya); Born Yesterday; The Solid Gold Cadillac
Odette Myrtil 06/28/1898 - Nov 18, 1978 performer; opened Odette's in New Hope, PA which sadly closed due to the fact that the property kept getting flooded when there were heavy downpours. - Countess Maritza; The Cat & The Fiddle; orig South Pacific [replacement]; Maggie (Betty Paul, James E. McCracken [wagnarian tenor!], Kathryn Lee); Saratoga (Carol Lawrence, Howard Keel)
Richard Rodgers 6/28/1902 - 12/30/1979 American composer of Broadway musicals; father of Mary Rodgers, grandfather of Adam Guettel & Kim Beaty - A Connecticut Yankee; Jumbo; On Your Toes; I Married an Angel; The Boys From Syracuse; Too Many Girls; Pal Joey; Oklahoma; A Connecticut Yankee; South Pacific; The King & I; Flower Drum Song; The Sound of Music; Rex; film's Academy Award-winning composer: It Might as Well be Spring [1945]; half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Carousel, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening
Mel Brooks 06/28/1926 writer, composer, producer, performer; husband of Anne Bancroft (1964 - 2005 her death), Florence Baum (1951 - 1961) divorced - Young Frankenstein; Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952; Shinbone Alley; All American; The Producers; wrote for TV's "Your Show of Shows" tv's & film's director, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers; comedy writer: Your Show of Shows, Get Smart
Pat (Noriyuki) Morita 6/28/1932 - 11/24/05 performer - tv's & film's Happy Days, Karate Kid, Babes in Toyland, Thoroughly Modern Millie; Ohara
John Byner 06/28/1938 performer - 2004 The Frogs; tv's & film's Soap; Transylvania 6-5000; Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; Maude; Ant and the Aardvark; The Big Time
Gilda Radner 06/28/1946 - May 20, 1989 performer - wife of Gene Wilder (1982 - 1989) her death - Gilda Radner - Live From New York; Lunch Hour (I'm trying to picture Sam Waterston in this); tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live [1977-78]; Haunted Honeymoon [w/husband Gene Wilder]
Bruce Davison 06/28/1946 performer - 1968 Tiger at the Gates; orig The Elephant Man [replacement]; The Glass Menagerie (Jessica Tandy, John Heard, Amanda Plummer). He blew my mind in the ob show "How I Learned to Drive"; tv's & film's Widow’s Kiss, It’s My Party, Six Degrees of Separation, Longtime Companion, The Ladies Club, The Gathering, Mother, Jugs and Speed, Mame, Ulzana’s Raid, Last Summer, Hunter, Harry and the Hendersons, Close to Home
Kathy Bates 06/28/1948 performer; wife of Tony Campisi (1991-1997) divorced - Goodbye Fidel; Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; 'Night Mother; Frankie & Johnny In The Claire De Lune; film's Academy Award-winning actress: Misery [1990]; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss; Six Feet Under
Alice Krige 6/28/1954 performer - film's Star Trek: First Contact, Joseph, Sharpe’s Honour, Sleepwalkers, Barfly, Chariots of Fire, A Tale of Two Cities, In the Company of Spies, Lonely Hearts
Jessica Hecht 06/28/1965 performer - The Last Night of Ballyhoo; 2004 After the Fall; 2005 Julius Caesar; tv's & film's Friends; At Last
John Cusack 6/28/1966 performer - film's Money for Nothing, The Player, True Colors, Bullets over Broadway, The Grifters, Say Anything; Cradle Will Rock' Serendipity; Runaway Jury; Must Love Dogs
Mary Stuart Masterson 06/28/1966 performer; daughter of Peter Masterson & Carlin Glynn - 1982 Alice in Wonderland; 2003 Nine; film's Kate Brasher, Heaven’s Prisoners, Radioland Murders, Funny About Love, Benny & Joon, Fried Green Tomatoes, Heaven Help Us, Law & Order
Danielle Brisebois 06/28/1969 performer - orig Annie; tv's & film's All in the Family, Knots Landing, Annie, Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Aileen Quinn 06/28/1971 performer;After graduation from Drew, Aileen once again took to the stage and in 1994 she played Bette in ‘Oliver!’ at the famous Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. And at the end of 1995 she went out on tour in ‘Fiddler On The Roof’. In 1997 Aileen was in two off-Broadway shows, ‘Dreamstuff’ and ‘Yiddle With a Fiddle’. - orig Annie [replacement]; 1998 Peter Pan
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1987 Dreamgirls in which Lillias White tried Effie Melody White on for size
1990 William Finn follows up his In Trousers and March of the Falsettos with the final of the "Marvin Trilogy," Falsettoland. This all-sung musical starring Michael Rupert, Chip Zien, and Faith Prince throws AIDS into the mix of the already complex issue of sexual identity. The production, which opens tonight at Playwrights Horizons, will later transfer to the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
1999 27 years after it premiered Off-Broadway at the Truck and Warehouse Theatre, Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings will see the New York stage again when Worth Street Theater Company stages the lyrical drama. Based on an earlier Williams one-act, Confessional, from 1969, the play is set in a bar in a Southern California coastal town.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1914 Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event triggered World War I.
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
1946 Actress Antoinette Perry dies today at age 58. An actress during her lifetime, Perry's name will become immortalized when the Theatre Wing's Antoinette Perry Awards for excellence on Broadway, known more commonly as the Tonys, are founded in her memory.
1950 North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1976 - Women entered the Air Force Academy for the first time on this day. President Gerald R. Ford had actually opened the door by signed legislation [Oct 7, 1975] allowing women to enter the nation’s military academies. The first Air Force Academy class with women graduated in May 1980.
1992 - A very strong earthquake shook the high desert of Southern California at 4:57 a.m. The M7.3 earthquake was centered on the eastern side of the San Bernardino Mountains near the town of Landers. The quake was the largest to strike California since the Kern County M7.7 earthquake in 1952. Vigorous rocking and rolling was felt 100 miles away in L.A. and the quake was felt as far away as Central California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Property damage: $56 million, including collapsed buildings, ruptured utility lines and widespread nonstructural damage. Human toll: One killed, 25 seriously injured, 372 treated for some sort of earthquake-related injuries, millions awakened with nightmares for weeks.
1996 - The Citadel, which had fought to keep one woman from enrolling as a cadet in its all-male military academy in 1993, abruptly ended its opposition to enrolling qualified female cadets. The change of policy happened after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a similar all-male policy at the Virginia Military Institute was unconstitutional. The court said the school could not refuse to accept women while receiving federal or state tax dollars. Had the Citadel decided to retain its 153-year-old men-only policy, it would have lost public tax dollars. As usual, money talked.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 6/27/08 at 10:55 AM
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