Today's Birthdays 7/1
Today's Birthdays 7/1
Today's Birthdays 7/1#0
Posted: 7/1/06 at 12:15am
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 [wonderful!] 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 - July 1, 1981 American motion-picture director – FUNNY GIRL; BEN HUR; ROMAN HOLIDAY; WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Olivia de Havilland 07/01/1916 performer - 1951 ROMEO & JULIET (Douglas Watson, Jack Hawkins, Fred Vogel); CANDIDA; A GIFT OF TIME (Henry Fonda, Joseph Campanella, Marian Seldes) & 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); film's Strangers on a Train; Rope
Leslie Caron 07/01/1931 performer; Michael Laughlin (1 January 1969 - 1980) (divorced), Peter Hall (6 August 1956 - 5 February 1965) (divorced) 2 children, Geordie Hormel (23 September 1951 - March 1954) (divorced), Paul Magwood (? - present) – tv's & film's Am American in Paris; Chocolat; Lili; Father Goose; QB VII; Falcon Crest; 2001 Murder on the Orient Express; forever GIGI
Jean Marsh 07/01/1934 performer; wife of Jon Pertwee (4/2/55 - 1960) divorced - Much Ado About Nothing (John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Hurd Hatfield, Nancy Marchand, Betsy Von Furstenberg); WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANY WAY? tv's 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; film's OUT OF AFRICA; TOOTSIE; THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY; THE WAY WE WERE; Cold Mountain; The Fabulous Baker Boys; Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret; Sabrina
Jamie Farr (Jameel Joseph Farah) 07/01/1934 performer - 1992 Guys & Dolls [replacement]; tv's & film's Blackboard Jungle; Kismet; Who's Minding the Mint?; The Cannonball Run; M*A*S*H [forever Sgt. Maxwell Q. Klinger]; Port Charles; A Month of Sundays
Twyla Tharp 07/01/1941 producer, choreographer, director; mother of Jesse Huot - PUSH COMES TO SHOVE; SINGING IN THE RAIN; MOVIN' OUT; The Times They Are A-Changin'
Genevieve Bujold 07/01/1941 performer – Coma, ANNE OF A THOUSAND DAYS (exquisitely beautiful in this movie)
Karen Black (Karen Blanche Ziegler) 07/01/1942 performer; Karen Black entered Northwestern University at 15 and left two years later. She studied under Lee Strasberg in New York. - TAKE HER SHE'S MINE; THE PLAYROOM; Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; film 5 EASY PIECES; GREAT GATSBY; Easy Rider
Mike Burstyn 07/01/1945 performer; Son of Pesach Burstein & Lillian Lux - Ain't Broadway Grand; Barnum [replacement; The Megilla of Itzik Manger
Terrence Mann 07/01/1951 performer; husband of Charlotte d'Amboise; he spent a couple of years performing at the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; he served as Artistic Director for The North Carolina Theatre, based in Raleigh. Terry is currently working on a rock musical version of William Shakespeare's classic, "Romeo & Juliet". He has served as Director of "The Lost Colony" - Cats, Les Miz, Scarlet Pimpernel; Lennon
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- August 31, 1997 Princess of Wales “…a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
Shows which opened on July 01:
1930 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1930] featured Jack Benny's Broadway debut, Patsy Kelly
1931 Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 with 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.
(sources, IBDB, IMDB, NYT, On This Day, playbill.com & 440.com’s Those Were The Days)
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