Today's Birthdays - 7/13 - Happy Friday the 13th

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:49pm

Sidney Blackmer 07/13/1895 - Oct 16, 1973 performer – origs COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA (w/Shirley Booth, John Randolph), SWEET BIRTH OF YOUTH (Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn), A CASE OF LIBEL (Van Heflin, M’el Dowd)

Eric Portman 07/13/1903 - 12/7/1969 performer – origs: PASSAGE TO INDIA (Gladys Cooper, Donald Moffat); A Touch of the Poet; Separate Tables; tv's & film's 1937 The Prince and the Pauper [my fav version] (Errol Flynn, Claude Raines, Billy Mauch, Bobby Mauch, Alan Hale, Montagu Love); 1938 The Constant Nymph; 49th Parallel; 1 of Our Aircraft is Missing (Peter Ustinov); The Good Companions; Shirley Temple's Storybook; The Bedford Incident (Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox); Deadfall (Michael Caine)

Ernest Gold 07/13/1921 - Mar 17, 1999 composer & ex-hubby of Marni Nixon – I’M SOLOMON (Dick Shawn, Karen Morrow, Ken Richards); tv's & film's Fury (Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond); The Count of Monte Cristo (George Dolenz, Nick Cravat, Faith Domergue); Wagon Train; M Squad (Lee Marvin); The Screaming Skull; The Defiant Ones; On the Beach; Inherit the Wind; Exodus; A Child Is Waiting; Ship of Fools; Hawaii Five-O; Fun with Dick and Jane; It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Despo 07/13/1922 - Feb 18, 2004 performer – A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Len Cariou, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Beth Fowler); ILLYA DARLING (Melina Mercouri, Orson Bean, Hal Lindon, Loukas Skipitaris)

Sudie Bond 07/13/1928 - Nov 10, 1984 performer – WALTZ OF THE TOREADORES; COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME

David Storey 07/13/1933 writer – CHANGING ROOM (Geo. Hearn, John Lithgow); tv's This Sporting Life; In Celebration (Brian Cox, Alan Bates)

Patrick Stewart 07/13/1940 writer, dir, performer – 2003 The Caretaker; A Christmas Carol; 1970 MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (dir. Peter Brook); tv’s Star Trek’s Capt. Picard, film’s X MEN

Robert Forster 07/13/1941 performer – 1973 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Rosemary Harris, Philip Bosco, Patricia Connolly, James Farentino); tv's & film's Reflections in a Golden Eye; Pieces of Dreams (Lauren Hutton, Will Geer); Banyon; Adventures of William Tell; American Yakuza; Me, Myself & Irene; Huff; Numb3rs

Harrison Ford 07/13/1942 performer; His divorce from Melissa Mathison turned out to be the most expensive in the history of Hollywood; Was offered the part of Mike Stivic on "All in the Family" (1971), but turned it down, citing the bigotry of Archie Bunker was too offensive; Honored for his work with the environment, Ford was asked to name a new breed of butterfly. He named it after his daughter, Georgia; Has a species of Central American ant (Peidole harrisonfordi) and spider (Calponia Harrisonfordi) named after him in honor of his conservation work. - While in college Ford appeared as Mac the Knife in the musical play, "The Threepenny Opera"; film's Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Sabrina; American Graffiti. Will he ever take a chance & appear on Broadway?

Danny Lockin 07/13/1943 - Aug 21, 1977 performer – 1964 WEST SIDE STORY (Julia Megenis, Jay Norman, Don McKay); Hello Dolly [replacement]

Didi Conn 07/13/1951 performer & wife of David Shire – GREEN BIRD; GOOD NIGHT GRACIE (the voice of Gracie Allen)

Sean Grant 07/13/1966 performer – STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Jane Krakowski, Andrea McArdle); GOODBYE GIRL

ON THIS DAY IN:

1925 - Reporters covering the Broadway beat were most impressed by Will Rogers, an Oklahoma cowboy, who had been standing in for W.C. Fields on a temporary basis in the Ziegfeld Follies.

1977 A massive power failure blacks out New York City around 9:30 PM, halting the second acts of many Broadway shows. Power will be restored the following morning, neighborhood by neighborhood, but that will not be enough to save the July 14 evening attendance numbers from decreasing so sharply, many brokers will sell tickets for that night at face value. Where were you when the lights went out? All during Son of Sam...

1992 - An appeals court in New York ruled that Jett Williams, the secret daughter of Hank Williams Senior, was entitled to share the royalties from his songs. In 1984, Jett had hired investigator Keith Adkinson, who found that Jett had been deliberately defrauded out of her father’s estate and his copyright royalties. Adkinson sued on her behalf. On October 26, 1987 the Alabama Circuit Court ruled that Hank Williams was Jett’s father. On July 5, 1989 the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Jett had been defrauded, and awarded her half of her father’s estate. And on July 13, 1992 the federal court in New York awarded Jett her proportionate share of her father's copyright renewal royalties.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, playbill.com & 440.com’s Those Were The Days)

Milla

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:08pm

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[Jimmy_B]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:26pm

IT'S ALSO MY 21ST BIRTHDAY! LOL

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 3:46pm

Woo! Hoo! Make it magical!

Milla