Today's Birthdays 8/12

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/11/07 at 10:11pm

Cecil B. De Mille 08/12/1881 - Jan 21, 1959 Producer, Writer, Director, Performer, Agnes De Mille's uncle, William B. De Mille's brother - HAMLET (Pedro de Cordoba; can you imaginge CB playing in HAMLET!); THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA (written by his bro; prod'd by D. Belasco; Mary Pickford's B'way debut); SPEED (Sidney Greenstreet); film's SIGN OF THE CROSS; REAP THE WILD WIND; CLEOPATRA; 10 COMMANDMENTS

Alfred Lunt 08/12/1892 - Aug 3, 1977 Producer, Director, Performer - Lynn Fontanne in all shows: TAMING OF THE SHREW (Cameron Mitchell); origs. ELIZABETH THE QUEEN; IDIOT'S DELIGHT; DESIGN FOR LIVING (Noel Coward); AMPHITRYON 38; THE PIRATE (Estelle Winwood, Eloise Uggams [Leslie Uggams' aunt], Juanita Hall); THE VISIT (Vincent Gardenia, John Randolph); film's THE GUARDSMAN

Oscar Homolka 08/12/1898 - Jan 27, 1978 performer - origs I REMEMBER MAMA (Marlon Brando's debut, Mady Christians); RASHOMON (Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Akim Tamiroff; film's I REMEMBER MAMA; Ball of Fire; Sabotage; War & Peace; Funeral in Berlin

Alexis 8/12/1904 - 7/16/1918 Russian son of Tsar Nicholas ll; killed by the Bolsheviks

Vivian Tobin 08/12/1904 - 8/6/2002 sister to Genevieve & George Tobin - THE PERFECT ALIBI (Leo G. Caroll, Carson Davenport); film's The Sign of the Cross (Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton); The World Accuses (Dickie Moore); Bordertown (Bette Davis, Paul Muni, Margaret Lindsey)

Jane Wyatt 08/12/1911 - Oct 20, 2006 performer - FATAL ALIBI (Charles Laughton); CONQUEST (Judith Anderson); NIGHT MUSIC (Elia Kazan, Sandy Meisner, Florence Odets); THE AUTUMN GARDEN (Fredric March, James Lipton); Lost Horizons; tv's & film's STAR TREK (Spock's Mom); Emmy Award-winning actress: Father Knows Best [1957, 1958-59, 1959-60]; Gentleman’s Agreement, Lost Horizon, Amityville 4

Cantinflas 8/12/1911 - 4/20/1993 Mexican clown, acrobat, musician and satirist. A small man with big ears, a distinctive mustache, pants that never stayed up, and a jaunty little cap cocked upon his eternally mussed hair, comic actor Cantinflas is beloved throughout the Spanish-speaking world and considered the Mexican Charlie Chaplin -- Chaplin himself hailed Cantinflas "the world's greatest comedian." Like Chaplin, Cantinflas' frenetic brand of slapstick was as balletic as it was athletic, leading others to compare him to Buster Keaton. His ability to combine humor with pathos was also decidedly Chaplin-esque, while his portrayal of the cocky, optimistic, but naïve little guy evoked Harold Lloyd. Following retirement in late '60s, Cantinflas devoted his life to helping children through charity and humanitarian organizations. - film's Around The World In Eighty Days; Pepe

Michael Kidd (Milton Greenwald) 08/12/1919 Producer, Choreographer, Director, Performer; husband of Mary Heater (divorced), helah Hackett (1969 - present) - origs. HOLD IT (Red Buttons); ARMS & THE GIRL (Nanette Fabray, Georges Guetary, Pearl Bailey); GUYS & DOLLS; CAN-CAN; SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING; BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS (Robert Preston, Susan Watson) SKYSCRAPER (Julie Harris, Charles Nelson Reilley, Peter Marshall, Paul Sorvino); BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Richard Chamberlin, Mary Tyler Moore, Sally Kellerman, Art Lund, Larry Kert); THE ROTHSCHILDS (Hal Linden, Jill Clayburgh, Robby Benson, Chris Sarandon); CYRANO (Leigh Beery, Tova Feldshuh, Christopher Plummer; contains 1 of my fav songs YOU HAVE MADE ME LOVE); 1980 MUSIC MAN (Dick Van Dyke, Meg Bussert, Christian Slater(!)); THE GOODBYE GIRL (Bernadette Peters, Martin Short, Rick Crom, Scott Wise, Carol Woods); film's IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER; 7 Brides for 7 Brothers; The Band Wagon; Guys & Dolls; Li'l Abner

John Derek 8/12/1926 - 5/22/1998 performer, dir.; Ursula Andress' & Linda Evan's ex, married to Bo Derek - tv's & film's gorgeous in 10 COMMANDMENTS & EXODUS; Knock on Any Door; All the King’s Men, Prince of Players, Ambush at Tomahawk Gap; Bolero; Frontier Circus; Prince of Players (Derek played John Wilkes Booth; Richard Burton [as Edwin Booth], Raymond Massey [as Junius Brutus Booth], Eva LeGallienne, Maggie McNamara, Charles Bickford; writing credits: Moss Hart & Eleanor Ruggles [Just saw a snippet of Burton's Hamlet in the film. Would positively loooove to see the film complete.])

William Goldman 08/12/1931 lyricist, writer; brother of James Goldman, husband of Ilene Jones (circa 1964 - 1991) divorced - A FAMILY AFFAIR (Shelly Berman, Eileen Heckert, Rita Gardner, Larry Kert, Bibi Osterwald, Lynne Charnay, Gino Conforti, Linda Lavin (bway debut); there's a song in this show that Kander lifted the music & turned it into ARTHUR IN THE AFTERNOON w/Fred Ebb, but I can't remember the orig title); film's screen writer: Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Chaplin

Michael Hawkins 08/12/1935 father of Christian Slater, husband of Mary Jo Slater (? - 1976) divorced; performer - 1974 Sherlock Holmes [replacement]

George Hamilton 08/12/1939 performer - 1996 CHICAGO (replacement); film's WHERE THE BOYS ARE; Love at 1st Bite; Zorro, the Gay Blade

Dana Ivey 08/12/1942 performer; Daughter of Mary Nell Santacroce - 1981 MACBETH (Philip Anglim, Maureen Anderman); origs. SUNDAY IN THE PARK W/GEORGE; LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO; 2003 JOE EGG; 2003 Henry IV; Butley

Bruce Moore 08/12/1951 performer - 1989 GYPSY; 1993 MY FAIR LADY

Maureen Moore 08/12/1951 performer - 1974 GYPSY; 2003 GYPSY [standby/replacement]; SONG & DANCE (Greg Burge, Bernadette Peters, Christopher & Charlotte d'Amboise); origs JEROME ROBBINS BROADWAY; FALSETTOS; SUNSET BLVD; Grey Gardens [standby]

Peter Krause 08/12/1965 performer - 2004 After The Fall (Carla Gugino, Mark Nelson); tv's 6' Under

Rebecca Gayheart 08/12/1972 performer; wife of Eric Dane (29 October 2004 - present) - Steel Magnolias (Delta Burke, Christine Ebersole, Lily Rabe, Frances Sternhagen); tv's & film's Vanished; Dead Like Me; Wasteland; Beverly Hills, 90210; Loving; Somebody Is Waiting; Urban Legend; Jawbreaker; Pipe Dream

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1999 Voices in the Dark with Judith Ivey

ON THIS DAY IN:

1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine. Thank goodness. Just imagine if all those costumes were still being sewn by hand!

1877 - Thomas A. Edison finished figuring out his first phonograph. Edison handed the model of his invention to John Kreusi with instructions on how to build it. Kreusi, a confident man, bet the inventor $2 and said that there was no way that the machine would ever work. He lost the bet.

1972 The last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.

1982 Nebraska-born actor Henry Fonda dies today at 77. Fonda graced both the stage and the screen garnering a Tony Award in 1948 for his portrayal of Mister Roberts in the play of that name. He also starred on Broadway in Two for the Seesaw and First Monday in October.

1998 Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.

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

Milla

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 7:36pm

And mine. :) Hah.

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 8:50pm

Woo! Hoo! Happy Birthday! Make it magical!

Milla