Today's Birthdays 7/30
Today's Birthdays 7/30
#0Today's Birthdays 7/30
Posted: 7/30/06 at 5:33pm
Emily Bronte 07/30/1818 - Dec 19, 1848 author, source material - 1939 WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Edith Barret [Vincent Price’s ex], Francis Compton, Peggy Converse, Sherling Oliver); film's Wuthering Heights (Olivier, Oberon)
Richard Johnson 07/30/1927 writer, performer – The Complaisant Lover (Sandi Dennis, Michael Redgrave, Gene Wilder, Googie Withers); THE GOLDEN AGE (Douglas Campbell, prod’d & press rep’d by Arthur Cantor)
Ben Piazza 07/30/1934 - Sep 7, 1991 performer – orig. ON THE TOWN; replacement WHO’S AFRAID OF VA. WOOLF; SONG OF THE GRASSHOPPER (Alfred Drake, Diana Davila, Michael Enserro); KRAPPS LAST TAPE/ZOO STORY; tv's & film's The Hanging Tree, The Bad News Bears, The Blues Brothers, Dynasty, Dallas, The Winds of War, Guilty by Suspicion
Peter Bogdanovich 07/30/1939 director, writer – some of my fav film’s WHAT’S UP DOC? PAPER MOON; LAST PICTURE SHOW
Michael Dantuono 07/30/1942 performer – 1981 CAN CAN, 1983 ZORBA (Anthony Quinn, Rob Marshall, Lila Kedrova, Debbie Shapiro); 42ND ST. [replacement in orig & 2001]
William Atherton 07/30/1947 performer – THE AMERICAN CLOCK (Joan Copeland, John Randolph; 1983 CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTAL (Michael Moriarty, John Rubinstein); tv's & film's Murder, She Wrote; Die Hard; The Day of the Locust; Into the Sun
Glynis Bell 07/30/1947 performer - 1975 EDWARD II (Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Peter Dvorsky); 1999 Amadeus; Law & Order; Loving
Ilene Kristen 07/30/1952 performer – origs. GREASE; MAYOR (Lenny Wolpe, Nancy Giles); tv's & film's 1 Life to Live; Ryan's Hope; The Signs of the Cross
Ken Olin 07/30/1954 performer, dir.; Husband of Patricia Wettig (1982 - present) – TAXI TALES; tv's Alias; thirtysomething; Hill St. Blues; Falcon Crest
Delta Burke 07/30/1956 performer, Miss Florida; wife of Gerald McRaney (1989 - present) – 2005 Steel Magnolias; Thoroughly Modern Millie [replacement]; tv's & film's DESIGNING WOMEN, Chisolm; Popular; 2002 Hansel & Gretel
Daniel McDonald 07/30/1960 performer – origs. STEEL PIER; HIGH SOCIETY; Mamma Mia [replacement]; tv's & film's Where the Boys Are '84; The Ice Storm; Law & Order
Laurence Fishburne 07/30/1961 Tony Award-winning performer– 2 TRAINS RUNNING (Roscoe Lee Brown); 1999 LION IN WINTER; tv's & film’s APOCALYPSE NOW, BAD COMPANY; Assault on Precinct 13; Mission: Impossible III; The Matrix; Miss Evers' Boys
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1985 Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class transfers from Off-Off-Broadway to open tonight at Off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre. The play starring Bradley Whitford and Kathy Bates runs 267 performances, outlasting its OB predecessor by 205 shows. It will end its run Feb. 16 of the following year.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1729 The city of Baltimore was founded. Good morning, Baltimore!
1952 The popular radio soap opera, The Guiding Light, was seen for the first time on CBS television.
1983 Broadway lyricist Howard Dietz dies today at age 87. With composer Howard Schwartz, Dietz wrote the score for The Band Wagon. Other songs by the duo include "Dancing in the Dark," "You and the Night and the Music" and "That's Entertainment!".
1986 The producers of the Broadway production of The Little Prince are awarded $1 million in the New York State Supreme Court today, as result of a suit they filed against the Nederlander Organization. The jury has decided that the Organization acted unreasonably when they posted their own closing notice outside the Alvin Theatre, although the producers of the show had never made any decision to close.
1996 Actress Claudette Colbert died at age 92. She starred in some of my fav film’s: the brilliant Preston Sturgis’ PALM BEACH STORY; IT HAPPENED 1 NIGHT; TOVARCH; MIDNIGHT; SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. for me, “The Queen of Screwball Comedy”
1998 "Buffalo Bob" Smith, the cowboy-suited host of "The Howdy Doody Show," died at age 80.
2002 Director & writer Phillip Oesterman dies today of a heart attack at age 64. He had a long collaboration with Tommy Tune on projects including The Will Rogers Follies, My One and Only, The Grand Hotel and Tommy Tune Tonite! At the time of his death, Oesterman was serving as co-librettist and director of the Broadway-bound musical, Urban Cowboy. Lonny Price would later take over as director.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, reelclassics.com)
Milla
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