Today's Birthdays 7/16 - The Late Edition
Today's Birthdays 7/16 - The Late Edition
#0Today's Birthdays 7/16 - The Late Edition
Posted: 7/17/06 at 1:51am
Sir Joshua Reynolds 7/16/1723 - Feb 23, 1792 artist - The Age of Innocence, Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, The Infant Hercules, The Strawberry Girl, Garrick Between Comedy and Tragedy; portrait painter: Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Lawrence Stern, Oliver Goldsmith; 1st president of the Royal Academy
Blossom Seeley 07/16/1891 - 4/17/1974 performer - GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES [1928]; Betty Hutton's Paramount Film, SOMEBODY LOVES ME is based on the lives of Blossom Seeley & her husband Benny Fields.
Florence Fair 07/16/1899 - Jan 5, 1969 performer - origs A PLACE IN THE SUN, BOYS FR SYRACUSE (Eddie Albert, Burl Ives), & A Delicate Story
Barbara Stanwyck 07/16/1907 - 1/20/1990 aka Bklyn's own, Ruby Stevens, Missy to her friends; wife of Robert Taylor (1939 - 1951) divorced, Frank Fay (1928 - 1935) divorced - BURLESQUE (Oscar Levant); my fav film's BALL OF FIRE; LADIES OF LEISURE; BABY FACE; BITTER TEA OF GEN. YEN; BRIDE WALKS OUT; STELLA DALLAS; MAD MISS MANTON; GOLDEN BOY; LADY EVE; MEET JOHN DOE; DOUBLE INDEMNITY; XMAS IN CT; CRY WOLF; STRANGE LOVES OF MARTHA IVERS; NO MAN OF HER OWN; FILE ON THELMA TODD; CLASH BY NIGHT; WITNESS TO A MURDER; SORRY WRONG NUMBER (I think this is the 1 where BS is stuck in bed, right?); tv's BS Show & BIG VALLEY; THORN BIRDS (how evil can you get?)
Ginger Rogers 07/16/1911 - 4/25/1995 performer - GIRL CRAZY (Ethel Merman); 1964 Hello, Dolly! [replacement]; my fav films ROXIE HART; MAJOR & THE MINOR; Star of Midnight; any Fred & Ginger movie; STAGE DOOR.
Barnard Hughes 07/16/1915 - 7/11/2006 husband of Helen Stenborg (1950 - present), performer - 1964 HAMLET (Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake; John Cullum; John Gielgood; Geo. Rose, Chrish Culkin (McCauley's pop)); HOW NOW DOW JONES; DA; 1999 WAITING IN THE WINGS; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Lou Grant [1977]; Prelude to a Kiss, The Guiding Light, Sisters, Doc
Robert Emhardt 07/16/1916 - Dec 29, 1994 performer - The Pirate (Lunt & Fontanne, Juanita Hall, Estelle Winwood, Clarence Derwent); 1948 HEDDA GABLER (Eva La Gallienne [star & translator], Herbert Berghof, Efram Zimbalest, Jr.); 7 Year Itch
William Woodson 07/16/1917 performer - 1943 OTHELLO (Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, Jose Ferrer); 1946 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Jose Ferrer, Frances Reid, Paula Laurence); orig MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (Cyril Cusak, Wendy Hiller, Franchot Tone)
Barbara Matera 07/16/1929 - 9/11/2001 designer/prod. crew - orig. I DO! I DO!; HOW NOW DOW JONES; 1969 PRIVATE LIVES (Tammy Grimes, Bryan Bedford)
Corin Redgrave 07/16/1939 performer, son of Michael, bro of Vanessa & Lynn, uncle of Natasha; Any word on how he's recouperating fr his stroke? - looooooved NOT ABOUT NIGHTENGALES; film's Persuasion, Four Weddings and a Funeral, In the Name of the Father, Excalibur, Between Wars, The Charge of the Light Brigade, A Man for All Seasons
Phoebe Cates 07/16/1963 performer, daughter of Joseph, niece of Gilbert, married to Kevin Kline (Lucky gal! I used to seen them w/2 of their kids shopping in the Food Emporium on B'way & 69th.) - 10TH MAN (Ron Rifkin, Jack Weston); film's Gremlins, Drop Dead Fred, Princess Caraboo, Bright Lights, Big City, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Will Ferrell 7/16/1968 performer - tv's & film's Saturday Night Live, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Suburbans, The Ladies Man, The Andy Dick Show, The Ladies Man, Zoolander, Elf, Anchorman, Bewitched
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1924 Broadway premiere of George Dibdin-Pitt's Sweeney Todd, one of numerous adaptations of the penny-dreadful tale of murder and cannibalism that would later be adapted as a musical of the same title. Robert Vivian stars as Sweeney; Raffaella Ottiano as Mrs. Lovett. It runs 67 performances.
1956 London's Old Vic presents its Shaw Festival, starting today with the Bristol Old Vic production of Major Barbara. In the cast are Peter O'Toole and Moira Shearer. The Birmingham Repertory Company production of Caesar and Cleopatra will follow Major Barbara on July 30.
1979 Tom Stoppard's revisions of two Shakespearian tragedies are presented as a double bill tonight at the Collegiate Theatre in London. Entitled Dogg's Hamle/Cahoot's Macbeth, the evening of one acts features Ruth Hunt, Stephen D. Newman and Alan Thompson in the British-American Repertory Theatre production. The show opens in New York on October 3 at the 22 Steps Theatre and will soon embark on a tour.
1986 Robert DeNiro and Ralph Macchio star in Reinaldo Povod's Cuba and his Teddy Bear, opening at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. The play tells of a macho drug dealer and his struggle to keep his son out of the business. Bill Hart directs the production which transferred from Off-Broadway's Public Theatre. It will play 53 performances.
1996 Tom Ziegler's Grace & Glorie opens at Off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theatre. Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnaz play an educated hospice volunteer and an elderly terminally-ill cancer patient. Gloria Muzio directs the production, which plays 134 performances and will close Nov. 10.
1998 Twelfth Night with Helen Hunt, Philip Bosco, Brian Murray, Paul Rudd, Kyra Sedgwick
2001 British playwright Harold Pinter stars in his own One for the Road as part of a Pinter festival at New York's Lincoln Center.
ON THIS DATE IN:
1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, D.C., was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
1918, Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his empress and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks.
1945 - Fat Boy, the experimental, plutonium bomb, exploded at 5:30 a.m. in the first U.S. test of an atomic bomb. The mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 41,000 feet above the New Mexico desert at Alamogordo Air Base. All life in a one-mile radius ceased to exist.
1979 Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
1981 - Singer Harry Chapin died in a car crash in New York. Chapin, a folk-rock balladeer, was 38. His hit songs included Taxi, W-O-L-D and the million seller, Cat’s in the Cradle. He was a champion of the hungry and homeless and organized a massive effort to provide food for the needy. This was his legacy to the world; his work continues by other performers.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts), killing him, his wife and his sister-in-law. The three had been en route to a Kennedy family wedding. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that Kennedy suffered from spatial disorientation, brought on by a loss of balance in the inner ear. Kennedy’s problems were exacerbated by the hazy night sky and his inability to see the horizon. The NTSB also said investigators did not find any mechanical problems with Kennedy’s plane, a single-engine Piper Saratoga II.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, gingerrogers.com, playbill.com)
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