Today's Birthdays 7/1

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 11:33am

Charles Laughton 07/01/1899 Producer, Writer, Director, Performer, Husband of Elsa Lanchester - DON JUAN IN HELL; 3 FOR TONIGHT; MAJOR BARBARA & film's THE CANTERBURY GHOST, for me the most poignant HUNCHBACK, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY; WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, LES MIZ, CAPTAIN KIDD; THE MAN ON THE EIFFEL TOWER

William Wyler 7/1/1902 American motion-picture director – FUNNY GIRL; BEN HUR; ROMAN HOLIDAY; WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Olivia de Havilland 07/01/1916 performer - ROMEO & JULIET; CANDIDA; A GIFT OF TIME & film's Melanie in GONE WITH THE WIND & my favS. CAPTAIN BLOOD, HOLD BACK THE DAWN, TO EACH HIS OWN, THE HEIRESS & the incredible MY COUSIN RACHEL (IMHO she & Burton was great in this film!)

Ralph Young 07/01/1923 performer - (Moose Charlap's) WHOOP-UP

Constance Ford 07/01/1923 performer - orig DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Sylvia Gassell 07/01/1923 performer - THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO (w/Shirley Booth)

Farley Granger 07/01/1925 performer – FIRST IMPRESSIONS (Polly Bergen, Hermione Gingold, Bill Carter, Phyllis Newman

Genevieve Bujold 07/01/1931 performer – ANNE OF A THOUSAND DAYS (exquisitely beautiful in this movie)

Leslie Caron 07/01/1931 performer – forever GIGI

Jean Marsh 07/01/1934 performer - WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANY WAY? & on tv forever Rose in UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS (co-created w/Eileen Atkins), THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN, FRENZY

Sydney Pollack 07/01/1934 performer, director – THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH & on film OUT OF AFRICA; TOOTSIE; THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY; THE WAY WE WERE

Twyla Tharp 07/01/1941 producer, choreographer, director - PUSH COMES TO SHOVE; SINGING IN THE RAIN; MOVIN' OUT

Karen Black 07/01/1942 performer - TAKE HER SHE'S MINE; THE PLAYROOM & on film 5 EASY PIECES; GREAT GATSBY

Mike Burstyn 07/01/1945 performer - THE MEGILLA OF ITZIK MANGER

Terrence Mann 07/01/1951 performer - CATS, LES MIZ, SCARLET PIMPERNEL

Dan Aykroyd 07/01/1952 performer-comedian (''Saturday Night Live'') – “Who ya gonna call?” GHOST BUSTERS & 1/2 of the BLUES BROTHERS

Princess Diana 07/01/1961 “…a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

Andre Braugher 07/01/1962 - Actor


Shows which opened on July 01:

Earl Carroll's Vanities [1930] 07/01/1930 – Jack Benny's Broadway debut, Patsy Kelly

Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 07/01/1931 - Ruth Etting

ON THIS DATE IN:

1997 Actor Robert Mitchum died at age 79.

1998 - Barbra Streisand marries James Brolin at her Malibu home.

2000 Vermont's civil unions law into effect, granting gay couples most of the rights, benefits and responsibilities of marriage.

2000 Actor Walter Matthau died at age 79.

Milla Updated On: 6/30/04 at 11:33 AM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 11:40am

Messages to several birthday celebrants::

Terrance Mann :: may he continue to have a long career playing enchanted, hairy ############# who dedicate their existance to persuing ex-convicts while stillmanaging to attend balls held in Junkyards and auditioning for Broadway shows.

Twyla Tharp :: may she continue to wonderfully choreograph ballets while still finind time to groom her mullet, ride her hog, wash her mac track in the parking lot of run down truckstops all the while perfecting a perfect sense of masculinity and how to not smile when recieving the greatest honor in American theatre.

[ShineOn]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 11:28pm

Aww... Emily's birthday was on Sunday (6/29). She didn't get mentioned here or at All That Chat. Where's the Emily love, folks? LOL.

My little Stephie's birthday was Monday. Granted, she's not on Broadway... but everyone should say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to her anyway, because she doth rocketh.