Today's Birthdays 8/15

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 1:48pm

I am posting early as I may not have access to my computer over the weekend.

Napoleon 8/15/1769 - 5/5/1821 source material - was born on the island of Corsica, French general, First Consul and Emperor

Sir Walter Scott 8/15/1771 - 9/21/1832 Scottish novelist, poet, historian and biographer; fav poem THE LADY OF THE LAKE, IVANHOE

Ethel Barrymore 08/15/1879 - Jun 18, 1959 Daughter of Maurice Barrymore & Georgiana Drew, Mother of Ethel Barrymore Colt & John Drew Colt, Sister of John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, ex-wife of Russell Griswold Colt - 1905 DOLL'S HOUSE; 1922 ROMEO & JULIET (as Juliet); 1925 HAMLET (as Ophelia); fav. film THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER (Loretta Young, Joseph Cotton, Charles Bickford); Academy Award-winning actress: None But the Lonely Heart [1944]; Pinky

Ted Snyder 08/15/1881 - Jul 16, 1965 Composer, Lyricist, Performer - Up and Down Broadway (Irving Berlin, Eddie Foy); Fashions of 1924; FOSSE

Edna Ferber 08/15/1887 - Apr 16, 1968 Source Material, Writer - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: So Big [1925]; Show Boat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk, Ice Palace, Giant, Dawn O’Hara; playwright [w/George Kaufman]: The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door, The Land is Bright, Bravo

T.E. Lawrence 08/15/1888 - 5/1935 the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales

Signe Hasso 08/15/1911 - Jun 7, 2002 performer - THE APPLE CART (Jack Livesey [bro. of Roger]); fav film's HEAVEN CAN WAIT; JOURNEY FOR MARGARET; 7TH CROSS

Wendy Hiller 08/15/1912 performer - May 14, 2003 THE HEIRESS (Basil Rathbone); MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (Cyril Cusak, Franchot Tone); ASPERN PAPERS (Maurice Evans); film's Academy Award-winning actress: Separate Tables [1958]; A Man for All Seasons, Making Love, Murder on the Orient Express, Pygmalion, The Elephant Man, Toys in the Attic, David Copperfield. fav film: I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING

Ring Lardner, Jr. 08/15/1915 - Oct 31, 2000 son of Ring Lardner, Writer, Source Material, Member of Blacklisted 'Hollywood Ten' - FOXY; WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Huntz Hall 08/15/1919 - Jan 30, 1999 performer - DEAD END; film's DEAD END KIDS

Rose Marie 08/15/1923 - comedienne, actress: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hollywood Squares

Oscar Peterson 08/15/1925 - 1 of the greatest jazz pianist: jazz trios, solos, played with all jazz greats, composer; biography: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing

Janice Rule 08/15/1931 performer, Ben Gazzara's ex - origs GREAT TO BE ALIVE (Vivienne Segal, David Nillo); orig PICNIC (Paul Newman (debut), Kim Stanley, Eileen Heckart, Ralph Mekker); THE NIGHT CIRCUS (Ben Gazzara, Arthur Storch); HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (Cyril Ritchard, Lainie Kazan, John Napier, Bruce Yarnell)

Abby Dalton 08/15/1932 performer - tv's THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW; FALCON CREST

Jim Dale 08/15/1935 Writer, Composer, Performer - SCAPINO (Tina Ustinov); BARNUM; 1985 JOE EGG; 1997 Candide; Address Unknown

Jill Haworth 08/15/1945 performer - orig CABARET (as Sally Bowles)

Zeljko Ivanek 08/15/1957 performer - THE SURVIVOR (Lonny Price); LOOT (Zoe Wannamaker, Alec Baldwin (debut))

Michael Berresse 08/15/1964 performer - 1990 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF; 1994 DAMN YANKEES; 1996 CHICAGO

Debra Messing 08/15/1968 performer - Will & Grace, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Ned and Stacey

Ben Affleck 8/15/1972 performer - Dazed & Confused, Chasing Amy, Shakespeare in Love, Pearl Harbor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Glory Daze, Good Will Hunting, Gigli, Jersey Girl

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Ain't Misbehavin' 08/15/1988 Nell Carter, Andre De Shields, Charlaine Woodard

Hairspray 08/15/2002 John Water's uncredited TV Announcer, Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Dick Latessa, Jackie Hoffman

On this date in:

1057 Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan.

1935 Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.

1939 The MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz" premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened on this day. Two dozen bands came to play on a wooden stage in the middle of a pasture. It was a happening unlike any other before it ... and, probably like none after. 450,000 people formed a love-in for three days and nights. Jimi Hendrix was there, Joan Baez, and Arlo Guthrie, too. Country Joe and the Fish, Santana, Crosby, Stills and Nash. Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, and so many more. There were hippies, and bikers, Viet Nam war vets, and high school kids ... college kids and college grads, longhaired and short, young and old ... and the world watched and joined in through the magic of the media.

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

Milla Updated On: 8/13/04 at 01:48 PM