Today's Birthdays 7/6 - The Very Late Edition

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Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:31pm

George Meader 07/06/1888 - Dec 17, 1963 performer - CAT AND THE FIDDLE (Eddie Foy Jr., Georges Metaxa); IDIOT'S DELIGHT (Lunt & Fontanne, Sidney Greenstreet); AMPHYTRYON 38 (Lunt & Fontanne, Sidney Greenstreet)

Frida Kahlo 07/06/1907 - 7/13/1954 painter, source material - film's Frida

Dorothy Kirsten 7/6/1910 - 11/18/1992 wonderful opera singer - protegee of opera singer & movie star Grace Moore; I'll never forget when, after she retired, someone dropped out of singing Butterfly & she stepped in & did a beautful job, film's THE GREAT CARUSO w/Mario Lanza

LaVerne Andrews 07/06/1915 - May 8, 1967 singer: contralto in The Andrews Sisters

Sebastian Cabot 07/06/1919 - Aug 22, 1977 performer - revival LOVE FOR LOVE; film's & tv's Mr. Giles French on FAMILY AFFAIR; Family Jewels, Johnny Tremain & the Sons of Liberty, The Time Machine, Twice-Told Tales, Omar Khayyam, Romeo and Juliet, Westward-Ho, the Wagons

Nancy Davis 07/06/1921 performer, Mrs. Ronald Regan - LUTE SONG; film's Hellcats of the Navy, East Side, West Side

Margaret Phillips 07/06/1923 - Sep 9, 1984 performer - ANOTHER PART OF THE FORREST (Jean Hagen, Patricia Neal); SUMMER & SMOKE (Anne Jackson); BLACK COMEDY/WHITE LIES (debuts of Michael Crawford & Lynn Redgrave)

Merv Griffin 07/06/1925 - 8/12/07 performer, talk show host, game show developer - revival of FINNIAN'S RAINBOW; tv's & film's So This Is Love (Kathryn Grayson, Rosemary DeCamp, Marie Windsor); Three Sailors and a Girl; Phantom of the Rue Morgue; The Merv Griffin Show; Jeopardy

William Whitman 07/06/1925 performer - 1955 Six Characters in Search of an Author (Natalie Schafer); JANE (based on shortshory by S. Maugham; w/Edna Best, Basil Rathbone); tv's Studio One's The Apple Tree

Susan Johnson 07/06/1927 - Feb 24, 2003 performer; wife of Robert Pastene (divorced) - BUTTRIO SQUARE; MOST HAPPY FELLA (Richard Torigi, Robert Weede, Art Lund, Jo Sullivan, Zena Bethune, Shorty Long); OH CAPTAIN! (Tony Randall, Alexandra Danilova); WHOOP-UP; DONNYBROOK! (Eddie Foy, Art Lund, Philip Bosco, Joan Fagan)

Janet Leigh 07/06/1927 - 10/3/2004 performer, discovered by Norma Shearer; Jamie Lee Curtis’ mother - MURDER AMONG FRIENDS (Jack Cassidy); & Hitchcock's PSYCHO, TOUCH OF EVIL; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; Bye, Bye, Birdie, Houdini, Pete Kelly’s Blues, That Forsyte Woman

Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup) 07/06/1935 14th Dalai Lama: Nobel Peace Prize winner: Tibetan spiritual leader, source material

Walter McGinn 07/06/1936 - 3/31/1977 performer - HERE'S WHERE I BELONG (prod'd by Mitch Miller; James Coco, Graciela Daniele, Ken Kercheval, Heather MacRay); THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON (Charles Durning, Richard Dysart, Paul Sorvino)

Ned Beatty 07/06/1937 performer - 2003 revival of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF; tv's & film's Sweet Land, Deliverance, Homicide, Hear My Song, Friendly Fire, The Guyana Tragedy, Superman, Rudy, The Toy, The Silver Streak, Radioland Murders, Network, Gray Lady Down & 1 of my all time fav films HEAR MY SONG

Claude-Michel Schönberg 7/6/1944 Composer, Writer, Lyricist - Les Misérables; Miss Saigon; The Pirate Queen

George W. (Walker) Bush 7/6/1946 - 43rd President of the United States [2000- ]; married to Laura Welch Bush [twin daughters: Barbara and Jenna]; governor of Texas [1995-2000]; managing partner of Texas Rangers baseball club; son of 41st U.S. President [1989-1993] George [Herbert Walker] Bush; source mat'l - Farenheit 9/11

Paul Guilfoyle 07/06/1955 performer - 1977 The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (Al Pacino); 1979 King Richard III (Al Pacino); Search and Destroy (Griffin Dunne)

Allyce Beasley 7/6/1954 performer - tv's & film's forever Agnes DiPesto in Moonlighting; No Ordinary Hero; Legally Blonde

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1920 Buzzin' Around - for you buzzie!

1939 Yokel Boy featuring Buddy Ebsen's debut

ON THIS DAY IN:

1483 England's King Richard III was crowned.

1535 Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason. Source for "A Man For All Seasons."

1912 - Jim Thorpe gained fame as the world’s greatest athlete when the Olympic Games opened in Stockholm, Sweden. Thorpe, a full-blooded Indian, was known as Bright Path, his given Indian name. When the King of Sweden called Thorpe “the greatest athlete in the world,” Thorpe replied by saying, “Thanks, King.”

1957 John Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church in Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon's band, the Quarrymen.

1972 Actor Brandon de Wilde (30) dies today in Lakewood, Ca. At 7 yrs. old, he won the Donaldson Award for his performance in Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, the youngest actor ever to receive that honor.

1998 Singing cowboy star Roy Rogers died at age 86.

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

Milla