Today's Birthdays 8/10 - Antonio Banderas, Eddie Fisher

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Posted: 8/10/03 at 10:57pm

Jack Haley 08/10/1898 performer - HIGHER & HIGHER; film's THE WIZARD of OZ; ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND

Norma Shearer 08/10/1902 performer, Mrs. Irving Thalberg, ck her out in the book COMPLICATED WOMEN - film's THE WOMEN; PRIVATE LIVES

Jerome Chodorov 08/10/1911 Writer, Source Material, Director, blacklisted during McCarthyism - WONDERFUL TOWN; THE GAZEBO (Jayne Meadows, Walter Slezak); ANNIVERSARY WALTZ (Macdonald Carey, Kitty Carlisle (Hart), Warren Berlinger); I HAD A BALL; A TALENT FOR MURDER (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Claudette Colbert, Barton Heyman

Noah Beery, Jr - 08/10/1913 - tv's Rocky on THE ROCKFORD FILES; CIRCUS BOY (ABC/NBC Circus Adventure, you know I'd love it!)

Rhonda Fleming 08/10/1923 performer - 1973 THE WOMEN; film's STAGE DOOR; operates cancer clinic for women

Joseph Cates 08/10/1924 performer - SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY (Betty Garret, Joyce Van Patten); HER 1ST ROMAN (Leslie Uggams, Richard Kiley, Gerry Burkhardt)

Eddie Fisher 08/10/1928 Debbie Reynolds' & Liz Taylor's ex, producer, performer - EDDIE FISHER AT THE WINTER GARDEN; film's BUTTERFIELD 8

Daniel Hugh Kelly 08/10/1954 performer - 1989 BORN YESTERDAY (Madeline Kahn, Ed Asner); 1990 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Alan Muraoka 08/10/1958 designer, performer - MAIL (Mary Bond Davis, Michele Pawk, Brian (Stokes)Mitchell); SHOGUN, THE MUSICAL; MY FAVORITE YEAR

Antonio Banderas 08/10/1960 performer, Melanie Griffith's hubby - 2003 NINE; MASK OF ZORRO; PHILADELPHIA

Shows which opened on August 10:

Me and My Girl 08/10/1986 1986 The British invasion that started with Evita continues tonight as Me and My Girl "Lambeth Walk"s into the new Marquis Theatre in the Marriot Marquis Hotel on Broadway. Featured in this Mike Ockrent-directed reworking of the 1937 Noel Gay-Arthur Rose-Douglas Furber musical are Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, George S. Irving, and Jane Connell. Me and My Girl will win Tony Awards for its two leading players (Lindsay and Plunkett), but will lose the Best Musical award to another British import, Les Miserables. There will be 1,420 performances on Broadway.


IN THIS DAY IN:

1920 Actor James O'Neill, father of playwright Eugene, dies today. The elder O'Neill is best known for his lengthy stay with the touring production, The Count of Monte Cristo.

1942 When Paul Robeson opens as the title role in Othello tonight at the Brattle Hall Summer Theatre in Massachusetts, he becomes the first African-American actor to play the Moor in the United States. His performance receives rave reviews.

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

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