Today's Birthdays 7/23

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Posted: 7/23/08 at 4:58pm

Montague Glass 07/23/1877 - Feb 3, 1934 writer – POTASH & PERLMUTTER, DETECTIVES (the rest of the POTASH series)

Arthur Treacher 07/23/1894 - Dec 14, 1975 performer, restauranteur – 1931 SCHOOL- FOR SCANDAL (Ethel Barrymore, her son John Drew Colt); 1949 ANTONY & CLEOPATRA (Lilli Palmer, Cedric Hardwick, Robert Earl Jones [James Earl Jones’ pop]; Panama Hattie; 1 of my fav Eliz. Taylor movies NATIONAL VELVET

Hank Worden 07/23/1901 - Dec 6, 1992 performer – orig. GREEN GROW THE LILACS (Lee Strasberg, Franchot Tone)

Helen Martin 07/23/1909 - Mar 25, 2000 performer – NATIVE SON (Ray Collins, [Perry Mason’s Lt. Arthur Tragg], Everett Sloane [wonderful actor], prod’d by Orsen Wells & John Houseman); PURLIE VICTORIOUS; PURLIE (Debbie Allen); Raisin

Michael Wilding 07/23/1912 - Jul 8, 1979 performer, husband of Elizabeth Taylor (February 21, 1952 - January 30, 1957) divorced, Margaret Leighton (1964 - January 14, 1976) her death – MARY, MARY (replacement); film’s Waterloo, The World of Suzie Wong, The Glass Slipper, Under Capricorn, The Courtney Affair

Coral Browne 07/23/1913 - May 21, 1991 performer, wife of Vincent Price (1974 - 1991) her death – 1956 MACBETH (Jeremy Brett, Jack Gwillim, Paul Rogers); orig. THE REHEARSAL (Keith Michell); film’s THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE

Vincent Sardi, Jr. 07/23/1915 - 1/5/2007 restaurateur: Sardi’s Restaurant - The Master of the Inn

Gloria DeHaven 07/23/1925 performer – 7TH HEAVEN (Ricardo Montalbon, Bea Arthur, Chita Rivera) films THE GIRL RUSH (I love singing AN OCCASIONAL MAN attributed to GDH in this movie); SUMMER STOCK

Larry Shue 07/23/1946 - 9/1985 writer – THE NERD (Mark Hamil, Pamels Blair, Peter Riegert)

Woody Harrelson 07/23/1961 performer; Husband of Nancy Simon (1985 - 1986) divorced – BILOXI BLUES; 1999 RAINMAKER (Jayne Atkinson as Lizzi); tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Cheers [1988-89]; White Men Can’t Jump, Natural Born Killers, Indecent Proposal, The Cowboy Way; Will & Grace

Eriq La Salle 07/23/1962 performer – DEATH & THE KING’S HORSEMEN (Vanessa Williams); tv’s & film's World, Coming to America, Under Suspicion, Color of Night

Philip Seymour Hoffman 07/23/1967 performer – TRUE WEST [so sorry I missed this]; LONG DAYS JOURNEY; tv's & film’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Scent of a Woman, The Getaway, Twister, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, Patch Adams, Magnolia, State and Main, Almost Famous; Empire Falls, Capote, MI III; Before the Devil Knows You're Dead; The Savages; Charlie Wilson's War

Stephanie March 07/23/1975 performer – DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Brian Dennehy); tv's & film's 30 Rock; LAW & ORDER - SVU; Mr. & Mrs. Smith

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DAY:

1750 Love for Love

On this day in:

1938 Helen Hayes is named the stage's greatest performer when the New York Sun prints its list of great performers today. Compiled after polling 150 notable people, mostly in the theatre industry, the runner-up is Katherine Cornell. The pair of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine is third and others on the list include John Barrymore, Maude Adams and John Gielgud.

1962 Comic actor Victor Moore dies today at age 86. Moore clowned around opposite straight man William Gaxton in seven original Broadway musicals, including Anything Goes, Of Thee I Sing, and Louisiana Purchase. As a dramatic actor, Moore appeared in a revival of On Borrowed Time and in the Hollywood film "Swing Time."

1984 - From the Oh, THOSE Pictures File: Miss America, Vanessa Williams, turned in her crown. It had been discovered that she had posed nude for Penthouse magazine. Williams, the first black Miss America, relinquished her title to Suzette Charles, the pageant’s runner-up.

2002 Clark Gesner, the composer of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, one of the most simple-hearted and frequently-produced musicals in the history of the American theatre, dies at 64. He is visiting the Princeton Club in Manhattan when he suffers a fatal heart attack.

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

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