Today's Birthdays 7/14

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 10:59pm

Gustav Klimt 7/14/1862 - 2/6/1918 Austrian painter - My favs: Salome & The Kiss

Donald Meek 07/14/1878 - Nov 18, 1946 performer – very funny character actor, OH PROMISE ME (Frazer Coulter, Lee Tracey); films MURDER AT THE VANITIES; TOP HAT; STAGE COACH; THE THIN MAN GOES HOME

Ted Koehler 07/14/1894 - Jan 17, 1973 composer, lyricist – EARL CARROLL VANITIES; AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’

George Tobias 07/14/1901 - Feb 27, 1980 performer – orig. YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (Mitzi Hajos); SILK STOCKINGS (also film version)

Isaac Bashevis Singer 07/14/1904 - Jul 24, 1991 writer - YENTLE (Tovah Feldshuh); tv's & film's Yentle, The Cafeteria; How Do You Spell God?

Annabella 07/14/1904 - Sep 18, 1996 performer, wife of Jean Murat (1931 - 1938 divorced, Tyrone Power, Jr. (4/23/39 - 1/26/48 divorced - orig. NO EXIT; film's 13 Rue Madeleine

Gloria Stuart 07/14/1910 performer (hollywood.com lists her bd as 7/4) - tv's & films Land of Plenty; General Hospital; Murder, She Wrote; INVISIBLE MAN; ROMAN SCANDALS; GOLDDIGGERS OF 1935; MY FAVORITE YEAR; TITANIC; Land of Plenty

Miriam Battista 07/14/1912 - 12/25/1980 Wife of Russell Maloney, performer, book, lyricist - Fools Rush In (Leonard Silliman); SLEEPY HOLLOW (Jo Sullivan)

Jerome Lawrence 07/14/1915 - 2/29/2004 writer, lyricist, source mat'l - INHERIT THE WIND; SHANGRI-LA; AUNTIE MAME; MAME; DEAR WORLD; 1ST MON. IN OCT. (Jane Alexander, Henry Fonda, Larry Gates, Maurice Copeland)

Ingmar Bergman 07/14/1918 writer, source mat'l - A Little Night Music; film's Oscar for THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY; A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC; films WILD STRAWBERRIES, 7TH SEAL; CRIES & WHISPERS; FANNY & ALEXANDER; SCENES FR A MARRIAGE; MAGIC FLUTE

Arthur Laurents 07/14/1918 dir, writer; Godfather of Adam Guettel - Gypsy; THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO (Shirley Booth, Geraldine Brooks, Donald Murphy); GYPSY; INVITATION TO A MARCH (Celeste Holm, Jane Fonda, Eileen Heckart, James MacArthur); WEST SIDE STORY; I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE (Lillian Roth, Elliot Gould, Shere North, Barbara Streisand); ANYONE CAN WHISTLE; orig La Cage aux Folles; MAD WOMAN OF CENTRAL PARK WEST; NICK & NORA; films SUMMERTIME; TURNING POINT; The Way We Were; The Turning Point [PERFECT FOR A MUSICAL!!!]; Bonjour tristesse; Gypsy; Summertime; Rope; The Snake Pit; Anna Lucasta; Caught

Scott Merrill 07/14/1922 - 6/28/2001 performer - Macheath in THE, 3 PENNY OPERA; 1943 LADY IN THE DARK (Gertrude Lawrence); DANCE ME A SONG (Bob Fosse, Wally Cox, Joan McCracken, Donald Saddler, Jimmy Kirkwood)

Pierre Olaf 07/14/1928 - 9/13/1995 performer - LA PLUME DE MA TANTE; CARNIVAL

Nancy Olson 07/14/1928 performer, wife of Alan W. Livingston, Alan Jay Lerner (1951 - 1957) divorced - TUNNEL OF LOVE (Tom Ewell, Darren McGavin); SEND ME NO FLOWERS (David Wayne, Peter Turgeon); tv's & film's Disneyland; Airport 1975; SUNSET BLVD; So Big; Pollyanna [Loved Halley Mills in this!]

Polly Bergen (Nellie Paulina Burgin) 07/14/1930 performer - JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON'S ALMANAC; FIRST IMPRESSIONS (Farley Granger, Phyllis Newman); 2001 FOLLIES; Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks; film's Doris Day remake of MY FAVORITE WIFE called MOVE OVER DARLING; tv's WINDS OF WAR; Commander in Chief; Kisses for My President; Move Over, Darling; Cape Fear

Robert Stephens 07/14/1931 - 12/12/1995 performer, father of Chris Larkin, Toby Stephens, husband of Maggie Smith (1967 - 1974?) - EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON; film's PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODY

Stan Shaw 07/14/1952 performer - VIA GALACTICA (Mark Baker, Raul Julia, music-Gald MacDermot, dir-Peter Hall); tv's & film's Murder, She Wrote; Fried Green Tomatoes; Harlem Nights; Red River; The Great Santini; Roots; Rocky; Snake Eyes

Scott Rudin 07/14/1958 Prod, Casting, Prod Crew; Was the inspiration for Buddy Ackerman in "Swimming With Sharks." - WORKING (Patty LuPone, Joe Mantegna, Lynn Thigpen); PASSION; STAGES (Jack Warden, Philip Bosco); 1996 FORUM; Caroline, or Change; 2005 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Doubt; Mark Twain Tonight!; Well; The History Boys; Shining City; Faith Healer; The Vertical Hour; The Year of Magical Thinking; Deuce; tv's & film's I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can; Regarding Henry; Little Man Tate; The Firm; Searching for Bobby Fischer; Sabrina; The 1st Wives Club; South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; Zoolander; The Royal Tenenbaums; I Heart Huckabees; The Truman Show

The Circle Repertory Company 07/14/1969 - closed. Oct 4, 1996; Primary Org Mbrs: Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason, Tanya Berezin, Rob Thirkield - Knock Knock; Gemini; Talley's Folly; 5th of July; Angels Fall; As Is; The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940; Burn This; Prelude to a Kiss; Redwood Curtain; Master Class

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1947 James Stewart returns to his Broadway roots today as he temporarily replaces Frank Fay in Harvey. Fay, playing the role of Elwood P. Dowd since the play opened, has left the Broadway company to do the show out of town. Before and after performances, two policemen must be stationed outside the theatre in order to control crowds longing to see the Hollywood star of such films as "The Philadelphia Story" and "It's A Wonderful Life."

1996 A Thousand Clowns with Judd Hirsch and David Margulies

ON THIS DAY TODAY:

1789 - This was the day the French Revolution began -- at the fall of the Bastille. It is still celebrated in many countries throughout the world and is a public holiday in France; generally called Bastille Day or Fete National.

1881 The outlaw known as Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

1933 All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.

2003 Mike Salinas, a theatre reporter who founded TheatreWeek magazine in 1988 and covered the stage for various publications, dies of an apparent heart ailment at age 46.

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

Milla