Today's Birthdays 7/17

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 11:28pm

Lily Cahill 07/17/1885 - Jul 20, 1955 performer – CHRYSALIS (Humphrey Bogart, Elisha Cook, Margaret Sullivan, Elia Kazan, Osgood Perkins [Anthony’s pop], Kathleen Comegys)

James Cagney 07/17/1899 - Mar 30, 1986 performer, bro of Jeanne Cagney, 1 of the bad boys you love to love – WOMEN GO ON FOREVER (Mary Boland, Osgood Perkins, Constance McKay); PENNY ARCADE (Joan Blondell); my fav films: YANKEE DOODLE DANDY; FOOTLIGHT PARADE; WHITE HEAT ("Top o' the world, Ma!"); LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME; BLOND CRAZY, EA. DAWN I DIE; BRIDE CAME C.O.D.; MAN OF 1,000 FACES. following is excerpted fr his NYT Obit.

"The actor was self-taught and a keen observer who varied his roles with mannerisms and eccentricities of men he had known. He did all his own, sometimes brutal, fight scenes, learned judo and occasionally used Yiddish humor he had learned in his youth."

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"He dismissed Method acting with disdain. 'You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them,' he said. 'I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.'" [sounds very MEISNER-ESQ in his beliefs]

"Lauding the 'idiosyncratic verve that marks almost any Cagney film,' Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote in 1973 that Mr. Cagney was 'one of the most intelligent and graceful actors ever to be disguised as a Hollywood star.'"

Barbara O'Neil 07/17/1910 - Sep 3, 1980 performer, Josh Logan’s exwife – PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Jennifer Jones, Eric Fleming, Cathleen Nesbitt, dir. Jose Quintero)

Art Linkletter 7/17/1912, producer, TV host: House Party, Kids Say the Darnedest Things (ahhhh, my babyhood)

Eleanor Steber 7/17/1916 - 10/3/1990 soprano: internationally acclaimed Metropolitan Opera diva, appeared in 50 different leading operatic roles, heard in more premiers at the Met than any other artist; taught at Juilliard. IMHO a phenomenal musician. Just take a listen to her VANESSA (by Barber), anything by Mozart or Strauss, or Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Ete. For me, listenting to her voice was like taking a bath in sumptuous, warm oils. She was a wonderful dramatic vocal coach.

Lillian Hayman 07/17/1922 - Oct 25, 1994 performer – KWAMINA (Sally Ann Howes, Rex Ingram, Robert Guillaume); 70 Girls 70; Dr. Jazz (Bobby Van, Peggy Pope)

Mimi Hines 07/17/1933 performer, wife of Phil Ford 1954-1972 (Divorce); Half of the vaudeville team "Ford and Hines" (Phil Ford and Mimi Hines) – replacements in FUNNY GIRL & Grease

Donald Sutherland 07/17/1934 performer – LOLITA (Ian Richardson); films MASH

Diahann Carroll 07/17/1935 performer; Wife of Vic Damone (1987 - 1996) divorced – HOUSE OF FLOWERS; NO STRINGS; film's CARMEN JONES; PORGEY & BESS; tv's JULIA, Dynasty

Lucie Arnaz 07/17/1951 performer daughter of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz; wife of Phil Vandervoort (1971-1977) (divorced), Laurence Luckinbill (1980 - present) – THEY’RE PLAYING
OUR SONG; Lost in Yonkers [replacement]

Alex Winter 07/17/1965 performer; - 1977 The King and I [replacement]; 1979 Peter Pan - film's Ted from "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

The American Way 07/17/1939 - Frederic March

Oedipus Rex 07/17/1984 - A production by Greek National Theatre

ON THIS DAY IN:

1821 Spain ceded Florida to the United States. Word has it tourists flooded Florida the next day.

1917 With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor.

1938 Aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from New York, saying he was headed for California. He ended up in Ireland, earning the nickname :Wrong Way Corrigan."

1955 Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.

1997 Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 five-and-dime stores, laying off 9,200 employees. & NYC hasn't been the same since.

1998 Nicholas II, the last of the Romanov czars, was buried in Russia - 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

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

Milla

[wildcat]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 10:26am

I hope I look like Diahann Carroll when I'M 70!





(even though I'm six feet tall...and white...and male....)

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 10:29am

Happy Birthday Disneyland!!

~Jessica

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 5:00pm

bump

[broadwaybaby77]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 6:43pm

it's harrison chad's birthday, too.

i think he's thirteen this year.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 7:11pm

Happy Birthday Disneyland!