Today's Birthdays 8/19 - Peter Gallagher, John Stamos, Adam Arkin

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Posted: 8/19/03 at 9:46pm

UNOFFICIAL STAR TREK DAY:

Gene (Eugene Wesley) Roddenberry 8/19/1921 - 10/24/1991 - creator, producer: Star Trek; writer: Have Gun Will Travel

Diana Muldaur 8/19/1938 performer - A Year in the Life, The Tony Randall Show, The Survivors, Star Trek: The Next Generation, McCloud, L.A. Law, Born Free

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

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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 Frencis's ex - orig play MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Peggy Bancroft); 1935 OTHELLO (Gladys Cooper)

Ogden Nash 08/19/1902- May 19, 1971 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.” - ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (John Boles, Mary Martin, Paula Laurence); 2'S COMPANY (Bette Davis' oy vey); 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 - WOW, wish there was a film of this 1!); orig OKLAHOMA; LOCO (Jean Parker, Elaine Stritch)

Debra Paget (Griffin) 8/19/1933 performer - film's Tales of Terror, The Ten Commandments, Omar Khayyam, Love Me Tender, Prince Valiant

Jill St. John 8/19/1940 performer - film's Diamonds are Forever, Come Blow Your Horn, The Oscar; tv's Burke’s Law

Peter Gallagher 08/19/1956 performer - A DOLL'S LIFE (George Hearn); THE REAL THING (Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Cynthia Nixon [who played this show & HURLYBURLY simultaneously]); 2002 FUNNY GIRL Benefit; film's SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE; WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING; AMERICAN BEAUTY

Adam Arkin 08/19/1957 performer, son of Alan Arkin - I HATE HAMLET (Nicol Williamson, Celeste Holm), tv's CHICAGO HOPE

John Stamos 08/19/1963 performer - replacements in HOW TO SUCCEED; CABARET; NINE; tv's GENERAL HOSPITAL (adorable as the bad boy)

Kyra Sedgwick 08/19/1965 Kevin Bacon's Mrs. - 1988 AH! WILDERNESS!; 1998 12TH NIGHT (Helen Hunt, Paul Rudd); film's Phenomenon

ON THIS DAY IN:

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.

1977 Comedian Groucho Marx died at age 86.

(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days)

Milla
Do Re Milla Updated On: 8/19/04 at 09:46 PM