Today's Birthdays 8/17
Today's Birthdays 8/17
#0Today's Birthdays 8/17
Posted: 8/17/05 at 9:32am
Davy Crockett 8/17/1786 - 3/6/1836 frontiersman, soldier, defender of the Alamo; killed at the Alamo
Samuel Goldwyn 8/17/1882 - 1/31/1974 movie pioneer: the ‘G’ of MGM; Academy Award-winning producer: The Best Years of Our Lives [1946]; All Quiet on the Western Front
Monty (Edgar Montillion) Woolley 8/17/1888 - 5/6/1963 performer - As Young as You Feel, Since You Went Away, The Man Who Came to Dinner
Mae West 08/17/1893 - Nov 22, 1980 - 11/22/1980 performer, writer, dir. - VERA VIOLETTA (Al Jolson); SOMETIME (Ed Wynn); SEX; DIAMOND LIL (Ernest Anderson); CATHERINE WAS GREAT (Gene Barry); fav film's SHE DONE HIM WRONG; I'M NO ANGEL
Lili Valenty 08/17/1900 - Mar 11, 1987 performer - NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP (Fredric March, Charles Chaplin, Jr., dir. Hume Cronyn); ANASTASIA (Vivica Lindfors, Hurd Hatfield)
Richard Aldrich 08/17/1902 - Mar 31, 1986 producer, mgr, Gertrude Lawrence's hubby - 3 CORNERED MOON (Brian Donleavy, Ruth Gordon; 1939 IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Clifton Webb, Estelle Winwood, Florence McGee, Helen Trenholme)
Mort Marshall 08/17/1918 - Feb 1, 1979 Performer, Stage Manager - origs SMALL WONDER (Jack Cassidy, Tommy Rall, Joan Diener, Tom Ewell); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Alice Pearce); MEN OF DISTINCTION (Robert Preston, Orson Bean); LITTLE ME; MINNIE'S BOYS (Shelley Winters, Robert LuPone); SMITH (Don Murray)
Ralph Roberts 08/17/1918 performer, musician - THE KINGDOM OF GOD (Ethyl Barrymore);MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT (John Carradine, Estelle Winwood, Martita Hunt); WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (Una O'Connor); THE LARK (Julie Harris, Boris Karloff; Christopher Plummer, Theodore Bikel); MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANY MORE (Tallulah Bankhead, Tab Hunter, Marianne Seldes); 1983 MEDEA (Zoe Caldwell, Judith Anderson)
Maureen O’Hara 8/17/1920 - performer - film's all favs: Miracle on 34th Street, How Green was My Valley, The Quiet Man, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, PARENT TRAP
Ken Leroy 08/17/1927 performer - origs MORNING STAR; CANDLE LIGHT (Leslie Howard, Gertrude Lawrence, Regenal Owen); ANNE OF ENGLAND (Flore Robeson); CAROUSEL; CALL ME MADAM; WEST SIDE STORY; I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE
Sidney Michaels 08/17/1927 Writer, Lyricist - Tchin-Tchin (Margaret Leighton, Anthony Quinn, Charles Grodin, u/s Nancy Marchand); DYLAN (Alec Guiness); BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS (Robert Preston, Susan Watson); GOODTIME CHARLEY (Joel Greay, Ann Reinking, Louis Zorich, Pat Swayze); TRICKS OF THE TRADE (George C. Scott, Trish Van DeVere)
Glenn Corbett 8/17/1930 - 1/16/1993 performer - tv's & film's Shadow Force, The Stranger, All the Young Men, Shenandoah, The Violent Years, Route 66, The Road West, It’s a Man’s World, Dallas, The Lieutenant
Judd Jones (John David Jones) 8/17/1931 performer - Tambourines to Glory (Louis Gossett, Micki Grant, Robert Guillaume, Joseph Attles); The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Chris Plummer, George Rose); Noël Coward's Sweet Potato (George Grizzard, Dorothy Loudon, Robert LuPone, Carole Shelley, Arthur Mitchell); My One And Only [replacement]
Robert De Niro 08/17/1943 performer, director - ONWARD VICTORIA (Jill Eikenberry, Michael Zaslow); CUBA & HIS TEDDY BEAR (Ralph Macchio); tv's & film's Search for Tomorrow; Academy Award-winning actor: Raging Bull [1980], The Godfather II [1974]; Brazil, The Deer Hunter, The Untouchables, Taxi Driver, Awakenings, Cape Fear; director: Bronx Tale; Meet the Fockers
Robert Joy 08/17/1951 performer - Shimada (Mako, Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons); The Nerd (Peter Riegert, Mark Hamill); HAY FEVER (Rosemary Harris, Campbell Scott, Charles Kimbrough)
Sean Penn 08/17/1960 performer, son of Leo Penn, husband of Robin Wright (1996 - present), Madonna (August 16, 1985 - January 10, 1989) divorced, performer - HEARTLAND; SLAB BOYS (Kevin Bacon, Val Kilmer); film's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, We’re No Angels, Carlito’s Way, Colors, Dead Man Walking, Academy Award [2003] Mystic River
David Conrad 08/17/1967 performer - 1988 THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Blythe Danner, Edward Hermann)
Shows which opened on August 17:
1955 A stellar Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth stars George Abbott and Helen Hayes as Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, and Mary Martin as Sabina.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1903 - The first Pulitzer Prize was awarded, as Joseph Pulitzer made a million-dollar donation to Columbia University. This provided the funding for the Pulitzer Prize awards to be made in Joseph Pulitzer’s name.
1918 - The famous race horse, Man o’ War, was sold at auction for $5,000. Samuel Riddle became the thoroughbred’s new owner.
1939 Theatre goers first saw the magical The Wizard of Oz in a gala premiere on this night. The first movie to use the combination of black and white and color film starred Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale; Bert Lahr as both the Cowardly Lion and Zeke; Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow and Hunk; and Jack Haley as both the Tin Woodsman and Hickory. Originally, Buddy Ebsen was in the role of the Tin Man; but he became ill and had to leave the production before its completion.
1983 Ira Gershwin, the lyricist brother of composer George Gershwin, dies today at the age of 87. Among his collaborations with George were Funny Face and Porgy and Bess. Following George's death in 1937, Ira collaborated with Kurt Weill on Lady in the Dark and Harold Arlen on A Star Is Born. Gershwin published his "Lyrics on Several Occasions," featuring many of his lyrics as well as annotations and anecdotes, in 1959.
1987 Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at a Berlin hospital near Spandau Prison at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord.
(sources: IBDB, 440.com’s Those Were The Days)
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