Today's Birthdays 8/19
Today's Birthdays 8/19
#0Today's Birthdays 8/19
Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:17pm
Jeanne Becu du Barry 8/19/1743 - 12/8/1793 French mistress of Louis XV, source mat'l - Du Barry Was a Lady
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel 8/19/1883 - 1/10/1971 French fashion designer source material - COCO
Kenneth MacKenna 08/19/1899 - Jan 15, 1962 Producer, Director, Performer, Kay Francis's ex - orig play MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Peggy Bancroft); 1935 OTHELLO (Gladys Cooper)
Colleen Moore 8/19/1900 - 1/25/1988 performer - film's 1918 Little Orphant Annie; Twinkletoes; Ella Cinders; Lilac Time; I always picture her w/the Scarlett Letter "A" on her chest. Wonderful film. She authored three disparate books: her autobiography, a book about her collection of miniatures, and a book on investments, How Women Can Make Money in the Stock Market.
Ogden Nash 08/19/1902- May 19, 1971 writer, lyricist; the undisputed American master of light verse, wrote quite frequently for The New Yorker. He also had several of his pun-filled poems published. These collections include The Bad Parent’s Garden of Verse, which he wrote in 1936 and the popular 1957 collection titled, You Can’t Get There from Here. One of his most well-known couplets from Reflections on Ice-Breaking reads: “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” - Hey Nonny Nonny! (Ruth Gordon, Frank Morgan); ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (John Boles, Mary Martin, Paula Laurence); 2'S COMPANY (Bette Davis, Maria Karnilova, Tina Louise); A KURT WEILL CABARET (Alvin Epstein, Martha Schlamme [I studied with Martha, what a teacher, what a performer!]; NASH @ 9 (E.G. Marshall, Va. Vestoff, Steve Ellmore, dir. Martin Charnin)
Claude Dauphin 08/19/1903 performer - orig. NO EXIT (Annabella); film's Les Miserables, The Madwoman of Chaillot, IS PARIS BURNING; THE VISIT
Barry Kelley 08/19/1908 - Jun 5, 1991 performer - 1936 HAMLET (John Gielgud, Judith Anderson); orig OKLAHOMA; LOCO (Jean Parker, Elaine Stritch)
Ring Lardner Jr. (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.) 8/19/1915 - Oct 31, 2000 - FILM'S Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Woman of the Year [1942], MASH [1970]; A Star Is Born [1937], Brotherhood of Man, The Cincinnati Kid, Semi-Tough
Gene (Eugene Wesley) Roddenberry 8/19/1921 - 10/24/1991 - creator, producer: Star Trek; writer: Have Gun Will Travel
Debra Paget 8/19/1933 performer - film's Tales of Terror, The Ten Commandments, Omar Khayyam, Love Me Tender, Prince Valiant
Diana Muldaur 8/19/1938 performer - Seidman and Son (Vincent Gardenia, Sam Levene); Poor Bitos (Donald Pleasence, Nancy Reardon); A Very Rich Woman [Written by Ruth Gordon, Dir. Garson Kanin](Ruth Gordon, Katharine Houghton, Carrie Nye, Dick Van Patten); tv's & film's A Year in the Life, The Tony Randall Show, The Survivors, Star Trek: The Next Generation, McCloud, L.A. Law, Born Free
Jill St. John 8/19/1940 performer - film's Tony Rome; Diamonds are Forever, Come Blow Your Horn, The Oscar; The Lost World; ; tv's Burke’s Law; Batman; Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
William (Jefferson) Clinton 8/19/1946 42nd U.S. President; married to Senator Hillary Rodham [one daughter: Chelsea]
Tipper (Mary) Gore 8/19/1948 - author: Raising PG Kids in an X-rated Society; wife of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
Jonathan Frakes 8/19/1952 performer - Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?; director: Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Klingon, Star Trek: Insurrection, Total Recall 2
Peter Gallagher 08/19/1956 performer, Husband of Paula Harwood (1983 - present) - A DOLL'S LIFE (George Hearn); THE REAL THING (Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Cynthia Nixon); 2002 FUNNY GIRL Benefit; film's SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE; WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING; AMERICAN BEAUTY
Adam Arkin 08/19/1957 performer, Brother of Matthew & Anthony Arkin, son of Alan Arkin - Brooklyn Boy; I HATE HAMLET (Nicol Williamson, Celeste Holm), tv's & film's The Doctor, Heat Wave, Necessary Parties, Fourth Wise Man, Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, A Year in the Life, Teachers Only, Busting Loose, Big Wave Dave’s
John Stamos (John Stamotopoulos) 08/19/1963 performer; husband of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (19 September 1998 - 1 March 2005) (divorced) - replacements in revivals HOW TO SUCCEED; CABARET; NINE; tv's & film's General Hospital, Full House, You Again?, Born to Ride, The Disappearance of Christina, Never Too Young to Die
Kyra Sedgwick 08/19/1965 wife of Kevin Bacon (1988 - present) - 1988 AH! WILDERNESS!; 1998 12TH NIGHT (Helen Hunt, Paul Rudd 2); tv's & film's Phenomenon; Something to Talk About, Murder in the First, Family Pictures, Born on the Fourth of July, Kansas, Tai-pan, War & Love, The Closer
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1918 - Sgt. Irving Berlin’s musical about army life in World War I opened at the Century Theatre in New York City. Yip Yip Yaphank included songs, such as Mandy and Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.
1999 The story of The Cavalla Kings hits the scene as Kat and the Kings opens tonight. The musical tells the story of a talented but "non-white" young band that couldn't compete with apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa. David Kramer directs and musically stages the production that plays at the Cort Theatre on Broadway for 157 performances.
2004 Frank Wildhorn, composer of Jekyll & Hyde, returns to the gothic world for his musical version of Dracula: The Musical, in which Tom Hewitt will fly eerily about the stage of Broadway's Belasco Theatre in pursuit of leading lady Melissa Errico for 157 performances.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1977 Comedian Groucho Marx died at age 86.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, movies.yahoo.com)
Milla
Updated On: 8/19/05 at 10:17 PM
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