Today's Birthdays 8/1

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 7:00pm

Claudius 8/1/10 BC - 10/13/AD 54 Roman emperor; source mat'l - book & tv's I CLAUDIUS (by (Robert Graves)

Eva Tanguay 08/01/1878 - Jan 11, 1947 performer – THE OFFICE BOY (Sidney Toler); ZIEGFELD FOLLIES 1909

Henry Jones 08/01/1912 - May 17, 1999 performer – 1940 HAMLET (Maurice Evans, Katherine Locke, Rhys Williams); HOW I WONDER (Raymond Massey, Everett Sloan); THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED (Paul Muni, Carol Stone, Jo Van Patten); ADVISE & CONSENT (Ed Begley, Richard Kiley, Kevin McCarthy, Chester Morris); The Bad Seed (Eileen Heckart, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack)

Jerome Moross 08/01/1913 - Jul 27, 1983 composer, orchestrator – THE GOLDEN APPLE (Kay Ballard, Portia Nelson, Santo Anselmo, Jerry Stiller, Larry Chelsi, Dorothy Etheridge)

Arthur Hill 08/01/1922 performer – HAPPY DAYS (Valodia Vestoff, prod’d by Chas. Dillingham); THE MATCHMAKER (Shirley Booth); ALL THE WAY HOME (Lillian Gish, Thomas Chalmers, Colleen Dewhurst); orig WHO’S AFRAID OF VA WOOLF (AH won the Tony); SOMETHING MORE (Barbara Cook, Hal Linden, Joan Copeland, Ronny Graham); film’s Harper, The Andromeda Strain; tv’s Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

Michael Stewart 08/01/1929 - Sep 20, 1987 writer, lyricist; Brother of Francine Pascal – BYE BYE BIRDIE; CARNIVAL! (w/my beloved Anna Marie Alberghetti & Jerry Orbach!, Anita Gillette, Kaye Ballard, James Mitchell); HELLO DOLLY!; THOSE THAT PLAY THE CLOWNS (Alfred Drake); BARNUM; BRING BACK BIRDIE; 42ND STREET

Carol Teitel 08/01/1929 performer – orig THE ENTERTAINER; 1967 THE PERSECUTION & ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE (Dennis Patrick, Wm. Roerick, Abe Vigoda, Christine Norden); THE STITCH IN TIME (never opened, Amanda Plummer, Polly Draper, Richard Stack)

Geoffrey Holder 08/01/1930 choreographer, performer, designer, director husband of Carmen De Lavellade – HOUSE OF FLOWERS; 1957 all black cast of WAITING FOR GODOT (Rex Ingram, Mantan Moreland); THE WIZ; film’s LIVE & LET DIE; DR. DOLITTLE

Julie Bovasso 08/01/1930 - Sep 14, 1991 producer, director, writer, performer – Monique (Denholm Elliott); MINOR MIRACLE (Dennis King, Lee Tracy); Gloria and Esperanza; Boom Boom Room [replaced in previews]

Lionel Bart (Lionel Begleiter) 8/01/1930 - Apr 3, 1999 writer, lyricist, composer – OLIVER; LA STRADA (Bernadette Peters, Larry Kert)

Dom DeLuise 08/01/1933 performer – THE STUDENT GYPSY (Eileen Brennan, Rosemary McNamara, Donald Babcock); tv's & film’s Burk's Law; Haunted Honeymoon; The Dom DeLuise Show; The Glass Bottom Boat; BLAZING SADDLES; SILENT MOVIE; 12 Chairs; Baby Geniuses

Giancarlo Giannini 08/01/1942 performer – film's SWEPT AWAY…BY AN UNUSUAL DESTINY IN THE BLUE SEA OF AUGUST; 7 SISTERS

Sam Mendes 08/01/1965 director, producer; husband of Kate Winslet (2003 - present) – CABARET; ELECTRA; THE BLUE ROOM; TAKE ME OUT; 2003 GYPSY

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1993 In the Summer House with Dianne Wiest, Liev Schreiber

1997 Scott Wise, a Tony winner for Jerome Robbins Broadway, heads a cast that includes Marla Schaffel and Patrick Wilson in Lucky in the Rain, opening tonight at Goodspeed Opera House. The show's music and lyrics are taken from the songbook of the late Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson. Sherman Yellen wrote the book for the musical about the romantic entanglements of two American journalists living in 1920s Paris.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1944 - 13-year-old Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary; a diary she had kept for two years while hiding with her family to escape Nazi deportation to a concentration camp. Three days later the Grune Polizei raided the secret annex in Amsterdam, Holland, where the Jewish family was in hiding. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.

1981 Paddy Chayefsky dies at age 58. Born in New York and starting as a writer for television dramas, Chayefsky would pen such Broadway plays as Middle of the Night and The Tenth Man. Other notable Chayefsky works are screenplays for the films "Marty" and "Network."

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

Milla
Updated On: 7/31/05 at 07:00 PM

[wildcat]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 9:09pm

Henry Jones! Don't forget THE BAD SEED!

"You hit him with those shoes..."




Love Lionel Bart and Jerome Moross.

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 9:21pm

Thanks for the update wc. Just updated Henry Jones.

Milla
Updated On: 7/31/05 at 09:21 PM

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 11:06am

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