Today's Birthdays 7/26
Today's Birthdays 7/26
#1Today's Birthdays 7/26
Posted: 7/25/07 at 8:59pm
George Bernard Shaw 07/26/1856 - 11/2/1950 Writer, Source Material, Director – MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION; PYGMALIAN; CAESAR & CLEOPATRA; MAJOR BARBARA; THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER; SAINT JOAN; HEARTBREAK HOUSE; YOU NEVER CAN TELL; My Fair Lady
Aldous Huxley 07/26/1894 - Nov 22, 1963 source material, writer – THE GIOCONDA SMILE; THE DEVILS; books BRAVE NEW WORLD
Gracie Allen 07/26/1895 - 8/27/1964 (NYT says 1905; Those Were The Days says 1906) - Aug 27, 1964 George Burns’ wife, Vaudeville, radio, television and stage actress, source material – GOODNIGHT GRACIE
Herbert Fields 07/26/1897 - Mar 24, 1958 writer, dir., performer, son of Lew Fields, brother of Joseph & Dorothy – HIT THE DECK; 50 MILLION FRENCHMEN; DU BARRY WAS A LADY; PANAMA HATTI; UP IN CENTRAL PARK; KISS ME KATE; BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA; RED HEAD; I HAD A BALL
Vivian Vance 07/26/1909 - 8/17/1979 performer – ANYTHING GOES; RED, HOT & BLUE; SKYLARK (Gertrude Lawrence); MY DAUGHTER, YOUR SON (Dody Goodman, Robert Alda); tv’s Emmy Award-winning actress: I Love Lucy [1953]; The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Lucy in Connecticut, The Lucy Show
Paula Bauersmith 07/26/1909 - 8/6/1987 performer – origs LET FREEDOM RING (Will Geer, Tom Ewell); SAIL AWAY; BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [never officially opened]; 1950 20th CENTURY (Jose Ferrer, Gloria Swanson, Werner Klemperer); tv's The Crucible
Marjorie Lord [Marjorie Wollenberg] 07/26/1918 performer; mother of Anne Archer - origs: The Old Maid [replacement]; Signature (Anne Jackson); Little Brown Jug (Percy Kilbride); The Girl in the Freudian Slip (Russell Nype, Alan Young; standbys: Bernadette Peters, Julie Wilson); tv's & film's The Danny Thomas Show (I loved this show); Sweet Surrender, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, Riding High, Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Virginia Gilmore 07/26/1919 - Mar 28, 1986 performer, Yul Brynner’s ex – CRITIC’S CHOICE (Henry Fonda)
Jacqueline Babbin 07/26/1921 - Oct 6, 2001 producer – RING AROUND THE BATHTUB (Eliz Ashley, Carol Kane, Richard Mulligan)
Jean Shepherd 07/26/1921 - Oct 16, 1999 writer, husband of Lois Nettleton (1961 - 1967) divorced – NEW FACES OF ‘62
Blake Edwards 07/26/1922 producer, dir.; husband of Julie Andrews (1969 - present) – VICTOR/VICTORIA; tv's & film’s PINK PANTHER; 10; VICTOR/VICTORIA; BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY; DAYS OF WINE & ROSES; PETER GUNN
Jason Robards Jr. 07/26/1922 - 12/26/2000 performer Obie Award Winner son of actor Jason Robards Sr., Lauren Bacall’s ex, father of Jake & Sam – DISENCHANTED; 1000 CLOWNS; TOYS IN THE ATTIC; COUNTRY GIRL; ICEMAN COMETH; NO MAN’S LAND; film’s PHILADELPHIA; ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN; ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE
Stanley Kubrick 07/26/1928 - 3/7/1999 director - film's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; SPARTACUS; DR. STRANGELOVE; THE SHINING; A CLOCKWORKORANGE; LOLITA; PATHS OF GLORY
Barbara Jefford 07/26/1930 performer – TIGER AT THE GATES (Michael Redgrave, written by Jean Giraudoux); 1959 12th NIGHT (Joss Ackland, Judi Dench); tv's & film's Midsomer Murders; The Saint; Campion; Lust for a Vampire; The Shoes of the Fisherman; A Midsummer Night's Dream (Diana Rigg, Helen Mirren, Ian Richardson, David Warner, Nicholas Selby, Derek Godfrey); Ulysses
Darlene Love 07/26/1941 performer – origs. LEADER OF THE PACK; CARRIE; replacement in Hairspray; Grease
Santo Loquasto 07/26/1944 designer – BOOM BOOM ROOM; DOLL’S HOUSE (Liv Ullman, Sam Waterston, Judith Light); MISS MARGARIDA’S WAY; KING OF HEARTS; SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN; RAGTIME; 1995 MONTH IN THE COUNTRY; 2003 LONG DAY’S JOURNEY; 3 Days of Rain; Shining City; The Times They Are A-Changin'
Helen Mirren 07/26/1945 (Ilyena Lydia Mironoff, decended fr Russian nobility) performer; Her grandfather was a Tsarist (White Russian) aristocrat who was in London negotiating an arms deal for the Russo-Japanese war when the 1917 Russian Revolution stranded him there. His wife and son (Helen's father) joined him in London; Her great-great-great-great-grandfather was field-marshal Kamensky, one of the Russian heroes of the Napoleonic wars; has been described as “the ultimate thinking man's sex symbol”; made a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, June 2003. – 1995 MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (F. Murray Abraham, Ron Rifkin); DANCE OF DEATH (Ian McKellen); tv’s & film's Prime Suspect I-VII series, The Hawk, White Knights; Gosford Park; The Madness of King George; Pascali's Island (Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance); The Queen; Elizabeth I; The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Kevin Spacey (Kevin Spacey Fowler) 07/26/1959 performer; Juilliard Alum – GHOSTS (Liv Ullman); LONG DAYS JOURNEY; LOST IN YONKERS; ICEMAN COMETH; tv's & film's American Beauty; The Usual Suspects; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, L.A. Confidential; A Time To Kill; Superman Returns; 2009 Superman: The Man of Steel
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1955 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company presents King Lear. Sir John Gielgud, Helen Cherry and Claire Bloom star in this latest production of the Shakespearean tragedy.
1999 Andrea Martin is The Cat in the Hat in the workshop of the new Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical, The Seussical (later known as Seussical the Musical, and then just Seussical ) in Toronto. Director Frank Galati helms a cast that includes Kevin Chamberlin, Jason Fuchs, Janine LaManna, David Lowenstein, Michelle Pawk, and others. The musical based on the work of late children's author Dr. Seuss (real name: Theodore Geisel) will open at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre Nov. 30, 2000.
ON THIS DAY IN:
On this day in 1775, a postal system was established by the 2nd Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General was the same gentleman who graces the U.S. $100 bill and who flew a kite with a key attached in a thunderstorm -- Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Franklin was paid $1,000 a year for his job as Postmaster General.
1908 Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order creating an investigative agency that was a forerunner of the FBI. Presidential Cabinet Secretary. The youngest grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother, and Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore. [When I studied at Peabody in Balto., my apt. on Mt. Vernon Place was in Elizabeth Patterson's home.] He met Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard Law School. After he became President, Roosevelt appointed him United States Attorney General. In that capacity, C.J. Bonaparte founded the FBI and broke up the American Tobacco Trust. He was known as "Charlie the Crook Chaser."
1952 Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, playbill.com)
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