Today's Birthdays 7/14 - Happy Bastille Day

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 11:47am

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 [any relation to Scott?], 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)

Gloria Stuart 07/14/1903 performer (hollywood.com lists her bd as 7/4) - films INVISIBLE MAN; ROMAN SCANDALS; GOLDDIGGERS OF 1935; MY FAVORITE YEAR; TITANIC. Anyone read her autobio?

Isaac Bashevis Singer 07/14/1904 Jul 24, 1991 writer - YENTLE (Tovah Feldshuh)

Annabella 07/14/1904 - Sep 18, 1996 performer, wife of Jean Murat (1931 - 193 divorced, Tyrone Power, Jr. (4/23/39 - 1/26/4 divorced - orig. NO EXIT; film's 13 Rue Madeleine

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 - 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; MAD WOMAN OF CENTRAL PARK WEST; NICK & NORA; films SUMMERTIME; TURNING POINT

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); film SUNSET BLVD

Polly Bergen 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

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)

Scott Rudin 07/14/1958 Prod, Casting, Prod Crew - WORKING (Patty LuPone, Joe Mantegna, Lynn Thigpen); PASSION; STAGES (Jack Warden, Philip Bosco); 1996 FORUM; Caroline, or Change

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."

The Circle Repertory Company 07/14/1969 - Late Lamented - MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940; 5TH OF JULY; GEMINI; AS IS; MASTER CLASS

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, NYT On This Day, playbill.com & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, hollywood.com)

Milla