Today's Birthdays 8/16

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 9:37pm

Al Hibbler 08/16/1915 - Apr 24, 2001 Composer, Lyricist - SOPHISTICATED LADIES

William Alfred 08/16/1922 - May 22, 1999 Writer, Lyricist, Source Material, Press - THE GAZEBO (didn't see this, but love the movie w/Glenn Ford); CRY FOR US ALL (Elaine Cancilla, Joan Diener, Helen Gallagher, Tommy Rall, Jack Trussel, Robert Weede); THE CURSE OF THE ACHING HEART (Faye Dunnaway, Francine Beers)

Fess Parker - 08/16/1925 performer; Discovered by Adolphe Menjou who was a guest artist at the University of Texas while Fess was a student. Menjou helped him with formal introductions when he first got to Hollywood. - tv's DANIEL BOONE, DAVEY CROCKETT; Merman on Broadway; Old Yeller; Them!

Anne Blyth - 08/16/1928 performer, started out as an operatic soprano - WATCH ON THE RHINE (Paul Lukas, George Coulouris, Lucile Watson); film's The Merry Monahans, The Helen Morgan Story, Rose Marie, Kismet, The Student Prince, The Great Caruso, The Buster Keaton Story; MILDRED PIERCE

Robert Culp 08/16/1930 performer - A CLEARING IN THE WOODS (Pernell Roberts, Kim Stanley); tv's & film's I SPY; BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE; The Pelican Brief, The Greatest American Hero

Betsy Von Furstenberg 08/16/1931 performer - DEAR BARBARIANS (Cloris Leachman); THE CHALK GARDEN; THE GINGERBREAD LADY (Maureen Stapleton); ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR [replacement] (Larry Blyden, Richard Kiley, Tony Roberts)

Julie Newmar 08/16/1935 performer - SILK STOCKINGS; LI'L ABNER; THE MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND (Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Edmond Ryan); THERE ONCE WAS A RUSSIAN (Walter Matthau, Michael Lewis [son of Sinclair Lewis & Dorothy Thompson]); tv's & film's Batman, My Living Doll, Deep Space, Li’L Abner, MacKenna’s Gold, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; My Living Doll (Bob Cummings)

Anita Gillette 08/16/1936 performer - CARNIVAL; ALL AMERICAN (Ray Bolger, Fritz Weaver); KELLY; DON'T DRINK THE WATER; CHAPTER 2 (Judd Hirsch); JIMMY (Julie Wilson, Frank Gorshin, Tony Stevens); tv's & film's Quincy, Moonstruck, Marathon, Boys on the Side

Carole Shelley 08/16/1939 performer - orig THE ODD COUPLE; THE ASTRAKHAN COAT (JAMES COCO, Brian Bedford, Roddy McDowell); THE NORMAN CONQUESTS [series of 3 plays] (Richard Benjamin, Estelle Parsons, Ken Howard, Barry Nelson, Paula Prentiss); THE ELEPHANT MAN; NOISES OFF; LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO; Cabaret revival; Wicked

Bruce Beresford 8/16/1940 in Sydney, directed the Australian film classics DON'S PARTY, BREAKER MORANT (Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson), the BARRY McKENZIE films (Barry Humphries) and PUBERTY BLUES. US credits include the Oscar winning DRIVING MISS DAISY.

Paul Hecht 08/16/1941 performer - ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Brian Murray, Noel Craig); NIGHT & DAY (Maggie Smith, Clarens Williams III); THE INVENTION OF LOVE

Bob Balaban 08/16/1945 performer - PLAZA SUITE; SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (Ted Knight, Alice Drummond)

Lesley Ann Warren 08/16/1946 performer - 110 IN THE SHADE (Inga Swensen, Robert Horton, Gretchen Cryer); DRAT! THE CAT! (Charles Durning, Elliott Gould, Ron Pare); DREAM; tv's CINDERELLA; film's VICTOR/VICTORIA

Dee Hoty 08/16/1952 performer - CITY OF ANGELS (Gregg Edelman, James Naughton, Rene Auberjenois, Randy Graff, Carolee Carmello, Rachel York); BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC; FOOTLOOSE; Mamma Mia [replacement]

Jeff Perry 08/16/1955 performer - producer - orig. GRAPES OF WRATH

Angela Bassett 08/16/1958 performer - JOE TURNER'S COME & GONE; film's WAITING TO EXHALE; WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT

Madonna 08/16/1958 performer, Sean Penn's ex - SPEED THE PLOUGH; film's DICK TRACEY

Laura Innes 08/16/1959 performer - 2 SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS (Brian Bedford, Katie Finneran, Victor Garber, Judy Kuhn, Eric Stoltz); tv's ER

Timothy Hutton 08/16/1960 performer Debra Winger's ex, Jim Hutton's boy - orig. PRELUDE TO A KISS; tv's & film's NERO WOLFE mystery series; ORDINARY PEOPLE; Kinsey; Everybody's All-American

Very Happy Birthday to dbg!

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Maytime 08/16/1917 Peggy Wood

1927 Al Jolson toplines the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The Irving Berlin score introduces the song "Shaking the Blues Away,"

ON THIS DAY IN:

1896 - There’s gold in them thar hills! This is the day that Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie and George Carmack found gold in Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River -- leading to the famous Klondike Gold Rush.

On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.

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

Milla


Updated On: 8/16/05 at 09:37 PM

[wildcat]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 3:31am

Bruce Beresford 8/16/1940 in Sydney, directed the Australian film classics DON'S PARTY, BREAKER MORANT (Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson), the BARRY McKENZIE films (Barry Humphries) and PUBERTY BLUES. US credits include the Oscar winning DRIVING MISS DAISY.

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 9:49am

Thanks for that wc. Beresford's now on the list. He knocked my socks off with Breaker Morant. In addition to excellent direction & plot I can't remember seeing a film that had terrific actors who, every man of them, were drop dead gorgeous!

Milla