Today's Birthdays 7/31
Today's Birthdays 7/31
#1Today's Birthdays 7/31
Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:54am
Donald Foster 07/31/1889 - Dec 23, 1969 performer – DEAD END (Dan Duryea, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Sidney Lumet); MY SISTER EILEEN (Shirley Booth); THE PONDER HEART (David Wayne, Will Geer, Una Merkel, Juanita Hall)
Salem Ludwig 07/31/1915 - Apr 1, 2007 performer – PARK YOU CAR IN HARVARD YARD ([understudy], Judith Ivy, Jason Robards, dir. Zoe Caldwell); A MONTH OF SUNDAYS (Jason Robards, Lynn Thigpen); orig TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (Lillian Gish, Gene Lyons, Eva Marie Saint, Jo Van Fleet); tv's & film's Never Love a Stranger (Steve McQueen, John Drew Barrymore); The Defenders; I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!; Heartburn; The Object of My Affection; Riverside; Life on the Ledge
Primo Levi 7/31/1919 – 4/11/1987 Survivor of the concentration camp Auschwitz; writer; source mat’l; wrote If This Is A Man – Primo; film’s Primo both starring Anthony Sher
Peter Nichols 07/31/1927 writer, source material – A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG (orig. Albert Finney, Elizabeth Hubbard); Georgy (Tony Stevens); The National Health (Rita Moreno, Paul Rudd I); 1983 Passion (Frank Langella); tv's & film's Inspector Morse; Privates on Parade; Georgy Girl; Forget-Me-Not-Lane
Don Murray 07/31/1929 Husband of Hope Lange (1956 - 1961) divorced - orig The Rose Tattoo; The Hot Corner (Sam Levene); Smith (Nicholas Dante); Same Time, Next Year [replacement]; The Norman Conquests [replacement]; tv's & film's Bus Stop, Knots Landing, The Outcasts, Baby the Rain Must Fall, Peggy Sue Got Married, Advice and Consent
Sab Shimono 07/31/1943 performer – orig & 1983 MAME; RIDE THE WINDS (Chip Zien); 2004 Pacific Overtures; tv's & film's Loving; Midway; Tales of the Gold Monkey; Remington Steele; The Shadow; Southland Tales; Avatar: The Last Airbender
Geraldine Chaplin 07/31/1944 performer daughter of Charlie & Oona O’Neill Chaplin, granddaughter of Eugene O’Neill, ½ sister of Sidney & Charles Chaplin, Jr. – 1967 LITTLE FOXES [replacement]; film’s DR. ZHIVAGO; NASHVILLE; Cousine Bette; Marple: Sleeping Murder
Vernel Bagneris 07/31/1949 writer, director, performer – THE LIFE (Lilias White, Sam Harris, Tracey Nicole Chapman); 1 MO TIME; tv's & film's Crypt of Dark Secrets; Down by Law; A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz; Proud
Dan Moran 07/31/1953 performer – 1995 A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (Helen Mirren); 2002 THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK (Chris O’Donnell, Sam Robards); 2005 Julius Caesar; tv's & film's Law & Order; 2000 Hamlet (Campbell Scott, Blair Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne)
Wesley Snipes 07/31/1962 performer – THE BOYS OF WINTER (Matt Dillon, Ving Rhames [understudy, Rob Morrow]); EXECUTION OF JUSTICE (Stanley Tucci [understudy Snipes]); tv's & film's H.E.L.P.; Demolition Man, Rising Sun, Major League, Sugar Hill, White Men Can’t Jump, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, One Night Stand, U.S. Marshals
Adam Pelty 07/31/1967 choreographer, performer – CYRANO – THE MUSICAL; TITANIC; STEEL PIER; SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Ben Chaplin 07/31/1970 performer - The Retreat From Moscow (Eileen Atkins, John Lithgow); tv's & film's 1997 Washington Square; The Truth About Cats & Dogs; Stage Beauty; The New World; Game-On
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1967 Judy Garland "At Home at the Palace"
1985 A revised version of the musical revue What's a Nice Country Like You...Doing in a State Like This? runs at Off-Broadway's Actors' Playhouse. Missy Baldino, Jane Brucker, Steve Mulch, Hugh Panaro, Rob Resnick sing music by Cary Hoffman (the fellow who sings Sintra's rep at The Carnegie) and lyrics by Ira Gasman
2003 Avenue Q by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx, book by Gary Adler with Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Ann Harada, John Tartaglia
ON THIS DATE IN
1777 The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.
1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, White Shadows on the South Seas. Leo’s dialogue was more extensive than the film’s, whose only spoken word was, “Hello.” BTW: The MGM lion logo was created in 1916 for the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation by advertising executive Howard Dietz (as in Dietz & Schwartz). The logo was based on the Columbia University fight song Roar, Lion, Roar.
1969 Talk about a writer's revenge! Josef Bush, who has adapted De Sade Illustrated at Off-Broadway's Bouwerie Theatre, wreaks havoc on the set, spreading white paint all over it. His reason: a nude scene he doesn't approve of has been added.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, tvacres.com)
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