Today's Birthdays 7/22
Today's Birthdays 7/22
#0Today's Birthdays 7/22
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:09pm
Emma Lazarus 7/22/1849 - 11/19/1887 American poet and essayist best known for her words inscribed at the Statue of Liberty
Beatrice Maude 07/22/1892 - Oct 14, 1984 performer – origs. THE BUCCANEER (Estelle Winwood); DODSWORTH (Walter Huston, Fay Bainter)
Stephen Vincent Benet 7/22/1898 - 3/13/1943 brother of William & Laura, American poet, source mat'l, novelist and short story & screen writer; Pulitzer for John Brown's Body, 2nd Pulitzer awarded posthumously for Western Star (completed by his brother William) - film & play The Devil and Daniel Webster [play: Book by Stephen Vincent Benet and Douglas Moore; Musical Director: Fritz Reiner and Lee Pattison; Staged by John Houseman]
Margaret Whiting 07/22/1924 performer; Daughter of Richard A. Whiting, wife of Jack Wrangler – DREAM (Lesley Ann Warren, John Pizzarelli, Brooks Ashmanskas, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Nancy Lemenager, Jessica Molaskey)
Orson Bean 07/22/1928 performer – John Murray Anderson's Almanac (Monique Van Vooren, Kay Medford, Tina Louise, Larry Kert, Hermione Gingold, Billy DeWolfe, Polly Bergen, Harry Belafonte); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter; Subways Are for Sleeping; Ilya Darling; tv’s Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; game show panelist: To Tell the Truth, I’ve Got a Secret, Keep Talking; author: 25 Ways to Cook a Mouse
Vivien Merchant 07/22/1929 - Oct 3, 1982 aka Ada Thompson, wife of Harold Pinter, performer – THE HOMECOMING
Oscar de la Renta 07/22/1932 costume designer – SWINGING ON A STAR; SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE
Louise Fletcher 7/22/1934 performer - film's High School High, Two Moon Junction series, Nightmare on the 13th Floor, Final Notice, Flowers in the Attic, Invaders from Mars, A Summer to Remember, Natural Enemies, Lady in Red, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Grover Dale 07/22/1935 choreo, dir, performer, Anita Morris’ hubby, partner to Anthony Perkins – orig LI’L ABNER; WEST SIDE STORY; GREENWILLOW; SAIL AWAY; 1/2 A SIXPENCE; SESAW; RACHEL LILLY ROSENBLOOM & DON’T YOU FORGET IT; MAIL; JEROME ROBBINS’ BWAY
Jack Ryland 07/22/1935 performer – revival 1968 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Blythe Danner, Philip Bosco, Nancy Marchand); orig. BOOM BOOM ROOM
Terence Stamp 07/22/1939 performer – ALFIE; films FAR FR THE MADDING CROWD (oh those blue eyes!); BILLY BUD; WALL STREET; Superman: The Movie
Danny Glover 07/22/1946 performer – MASTER HAROLD & THE BOYS; film's Lethal Weapon series, Silverado, Escape from Alcatraz, Chiefs, The Color Purple, Angels in the Outfield, Places in the Heart
Alan Menken 07/22/1949 composer – BEAUTY & THE BEAST; Little Shop of Horrors; film's Little Mermaid; Aladin
Willem Dafoe 7/22/1955 performer - film's Platoon, Mississippi Burning, Clear and Present Danger, New York Nights
John Leguizamo 07/22/1964 performer, comedian, writer – MAMBO MOUTH; SPIC-O-RAMA; SEXAHOLICS; film’s TO The Fan, To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Super Mario Bros., Carlito’s Way, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Casualties of War
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1912 The Shubert Brothers present the first of their annual Passing Show installments tonight. Passing Show of 1912 features Charlotte Greenwood, Trixie Friganza, and Eugene and Willie Howard. There will be 136 performances and new editions of the revue every year for the next eleven years.
1935 - The Pirates of Penzance - Alfred Drake was in the ensemble
1999 Actress Marian Seldes follows up her Tony-nominated turn in Ring Round the Moon with the Irish Repertory Theatre's staging of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar. The story of the 40-year romance between playwright George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who originated the role of Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's Pygmalion, was adapted from the couples' long correspondence. Irish actor Donal Donnelly stars opposite Seldes under the direction of Charlotte Moore.
1999 Broadway performers Karen Ziemba (Chicago) and Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Rent) star in a new musical by Robert and Willie Reale, Quark Victory staged at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. The sci-fi camp comedy follows Samantha Fitzwater (played by A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum actress Jessica Boevers) as she journeys into an atom, meeting electrons, neutrons, muons and gluons along the way. Jonathan Bernstein directs.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1933 - Caterina Jarboro became the first black prima donna of an opera company. The singer performed Aida with the Chicago Opera Company at the Hippodrome in New York City.
On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
1965 - Till Death Us Do Part debuted on England’s BBC-TV. The show was so popular that it became a TV series in Great Britain and was the forerunner of the 1971-92 CBS-TV hit, All in the Family, starring Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton.
2002 Leo McKern, the rubbery-face character actor who won fans for playing the TV role of the tobacco-loving, blustery barrister, "Rumpole of the Bailey," dies in Bath, England, of natural causes. The Sydney, Australia native was 82, and had a career on the London stage in Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen roles prior to success on film, including Help! with the Beatles.
2003 Roundabout Theatre Company closes a deal to buy Studio 54 as its headquarters for musical revivals on Broadway. The nearly $25 million deal is completed today with the sale of more than $17 million in bonds added to a $6.75 million grant from New York City. It's full-circle for the legendary former discotheque, which began life in the 1927 as a Broadway theatre, the Gallo Opera House.
(sources: IBDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, playbill.com)
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