Today's Birthdays 8/13 - Annie Oakley, Alfred Hitchcock Alma Cuervo

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/13/03 at 5:53pm

Annie Oakley 8/13/1860 - 11/3/1926 performer, source material, American markswoman - starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show; ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Mary Duncan 08/13/1895 - May 9, 1993 performer - orig. SHANGHAI GESTURE; film's MORNING GLORY (Kate Hepburn)

Bert Lahr 08/13/1895 Dec 4, 1967 performer - LIFE BEGINS AT 8:40; DUBARRY WAS A LADY; 2 ON THE AISLE (Dolores Grey, Margery Beddow, Dorothy Etheridge); WAITING FOR GODOT (E.G. Marshall, Kurt Kasznar, Alvin Epstein); FOXY (Larry Blyden, John Davidson, ; film “The Wizard of Oz.” also ROSE MARIE; THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S

Alfred Hitchcock 08/13/1899 - Apr 29, 1980 director - my favs REBECCA; MR. & MRS. SMITH; Have to stop. As I was listing them, I realized that they're all FAVS!

Buddy Rogers 08/13/1904 - Apr 21, 1999 performer, Mary Pickford's hubby - HOT-CHA! (Bert Lahr, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Powell(!)); LAFFING ROOM ONLY (Betty Garrett, Dolores (aka Dody) Goodman; Marianne Oliphant); film's MEXICAN SPITFIRE

Barbara Bennett 08/13/1906 - Aug 8, 1958 performer, daughter of Richard Bennett, sis of Constant & Joan Bennett - THE STORK

Gene Raymond 08/13/1908 - May 2, 1998 performer, married to Jeanette MacDonald - - 1928 SHERLOCK HOLMES (Ed Begley); film's ZOO IN BUDAPEST, Hit the Deck, Flying Down to Rio; host: TV’s Reader’s Digest, Hollywood Summer Theatre, Fireside Theatre

John Beal 08/13/1909 - Apr 26, 1997 Director, Performer - origs. LEONARD SILLIMAN'S NEW FACES OF '52 (Alice Ghostley, Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt, Carole Lawrence, Paul Lynde) In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Philip Bosco, Sandor Szabo); THE CHANGING ROOM [standby](George Hearn, John Lithgow); 1993 3 MEN ON A HORSE (Julie Hagerty, Jack Klugman, Nora Mae Lyng, Tony Randal, Jerry Stiller,

Kurt Kasznar 08/13/1913 - Aug 6, 1979 Producer, Writer, Director, Performer - origs. LOOK AFTER LULU (Tammy Grimes, Roddy McDowell, Jack Gilford, Philipa Bevens); SOUND OF MUSIC; BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (Elizabeth Ashley, Robert Redford, Mildred Natwick)

Claudia McNeil 08/13/1917 - Nov 25, 1993 performer - RAISEN IN THE SUN; WINESBURG, OHIO (Dorothy McGuire, Leon Ames, James Whitmore)

George Shearing 08/13/1919 brilliant jazz pianist

Pat Harrington 08/13/1929 performer - HAPPINESS IS JUST A LITTLE THING CALLED A ROLLS ROYCE (Hildy Brooks)

Alma Cuervo 08/13/1951 performer - origs. IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL (Harry Groener, Maureen Silliman, u/s Scott Bakula); QUILTERS (Lynn Lobban); A MONTH OF SUNDAYS [u.s] (Jason Robards, Lynn Thigpen, Patricia Elliott); GHETTO (George Hearne, Helen Schneider, Donal Donnelly); TITANIC

Herb Ritts 08/13/1952 - Dec 26, 2002 photographer - orig LOLITA (Donald Sutherland, Blanche Baker, Ian Richardson, Shirley Stoller (wonderful actress, good gal!)

Shows which opened on August 13:

The Real Inspector Hound and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
- The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
- The Real Inspector Hound 08/13/1992
Patricia Conolly, J. Smith-Cameron, Jane Summerhays


ON THIS DAY IN:

1934 - Cartoonist Al Capp began his famous comic strip, Li’l Abner. In those early days, the cartoon strip was carried in eight newspapers. Eventually, it would be in more than 500, and would be the basis for a Broadway play and a Hollywood movie, too.

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

Milla
Do Re Milla Updated On: 8/13/03 at 05:53 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/13/03 at 8:42pm

Today is Annie Oakley's birthday! Who'd have guessed?

[Joshbstn]

Posted: 8/14/03 at 11:03am

It was my birthday too!!!!


And Fidel Castro's