Today's Birthdays 7/28 David Brown, Georgia Engel, Michael Hayden

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Posted: 7/28/03 at 10:42am

Beatrix (Helen) Potter 07/28/1866 writer - PETER RABBIT books

Richard "Skeets" Gallagher 07/28/1891 performer - LUCKY (Ruby Keeler)

Joe E. Brown 07/28/1892 performer - JIM JAM JEMS (Frank Fay, Ned Sparks); film's SHOW BOAT; SOME LIKE IT HOT

Rudy Vallee 07/28/1901 performer, band leader, the 1st person to ever receive a singing telegram (it was his 32nd birthday) - GEO WHITE SCANDALS 1931 (Ray Bolger, Ethel Merman) & 1935 (Bert Lahr); HOW TO SUCCEES IN BIZ

Brenda De Banzie 07/28/1915 performer - SPEAKING OF MURDER (Lorne Greene, Estelle Winwood); THE ENTERTAINER (Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Peter Donat)

David Brown 07/28/1916 producer - A FEW GOOD MEN; TRU; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS; film's JAWS; STING; CHOCOLAT

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 07/28/1929 1st Lady - truly grace under fire. IMHO the most philanthropic 1st Lady & supporter of the arts. "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot. . . There'll never be another Camelot again."

Darryl Hickman 07/28/1931 performer - orig. HOW TO SUCCEED IN BIZ (replacement); films LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN; TEA & SYMPATHY; TINGLER; tv's THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS

Jacques d'Amboise 07/28/1934 performer father of Charlotte & Christopher, partner to Suzanne Farrell at NYC Ballet - SHINBONE ALLEY (Eddie Bracken, Eartha Kitt, Reri Grist (faaabulous MOZARTEAN SOP. @ the Met Opera & orig. West Side Story))

Philip Proctor 07/28/1940 performer - A TIME FOR SINGING (George Hearn, Tessie O'Shea)

Georgia Engel 07/28/1948 performer - 2002 BOYS FR SYRACUSE; tv's MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW; EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND

Robert Lambert 07/28/1960 performer - 1989 GYPSY

Michael Hayden 07/28/1963 performer - JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG; ENCHANTED APRIL

ON THIS DAY:

1750 Composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany.

1794 Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.

1939 - Judy Garland sang one of the most famous songs of the century with the Victor Young Orchestra. The tune became her signature song and will forever be associated with the singer-actress. Garland recorded Over the Rainbow for Decca Records. It was the musical highlight of the film, The Wizard of Oz.

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

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