Today's Birthdays 8/20
Today's Birthdays 8/20
#0Today's Birthdays 8/20
Posted: 8/19/05 at 9:32pm
Frazer Coulter 08/20/1848 - Jan 26, 1937 performer - 1924 SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (prod'd by THE PLAYERS CLUB!); 1926 KING HENRY IV PART 1 (John Drew, Otis Skinner); 1927 JULIUS CAESAR (Tyrone Power Sr., Basil Rathbone, Pedro De Cordoba); orig. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Katharine Cornell)
Actress Julia Sanderson 8/20/1884 - 1/27/1975; daughter of Albert Sanderson - one of musical theatre's leading ladies during the first decades of the 20th century, is born today as Julia Sackett. Shows in which she starred included The Arcadians (1910), Rambler Rose (1917), and No, No, Nanette (1925). Although she lived until 1975, Sanderson would leave showbiz hustle and bustle by the 1930's; film's Two Daughters of Eve (Lillian Gish, D.W. Griffith, Mae Marsh); The Runaway
Faire Binney 08/20/1898 - Apr 6, 1972 performer - origs YOU CAN'T TAKE IT W/YOU (Mitzi Hajos); THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (Monty Woolley)
Jacqueline Susann 08/20/1918 - Sep 21, 1974 writer, performer - replacement in orig. THE WOMEN; orig. BANJO EYES (Eddie Cantor, Sally DeMarco, Adele Jergens, Virginia Mayo); LOVELY ME (Mischa Auer, the wonderful Arthur Siegel); THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS; THE LOVE MACHINE
Richard Ryder 08/20/1942 - Oct 27, 1995 performer - VIA GALACTICA (Mark Baker, Damon Evans); RAGGEDY ANN (Scott Schafer)
Al Roker 08/20/1954 performer, NBC TODAY SHOW Weatherman - THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE' tv's & film's Another World; Wholey Moses
Joan Allen 08/20/1956 performer; wife of Peter Friedman (divorced 2000) - Allen will have several great successes on the Broadway stage, winning the Tony Award for her performance in Burn This and another nomination for her performance of the title role in Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles. In filmdom, Allen will receive Academy Award nominations as best supporting actress for 1995's "Nixon" and 1996's "The Crucible." Other film credits include "Searching for Bobby Fisher, Face/Off, and Peggy Sue Got Married. - BURN THIS (John Malkovich; THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (Boyd Gaines); tv's & film's SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER; ALL MY SONS; The Upside of Anger
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1885 Broadway premiere of the hit London operetta The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre.
1934 Dodsworth with Nick Adams, Fay Bainter, Walter Huston, Georgette Spelvin
1980 Marcel Proust Remembered
1987 Sherlock's Last Case with Frank Langella, Jennie Ventriss, Donal Donnelly, Morris Yabonsky
1998 Returning to Off-Broadway, where she originated the role of Li'l Bit in Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive in 1997, film and stage actress Mary Louise Parker stars in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors. The comedy thriller opens tonight at OB's Variety Arts Theatre. The actress will go on to originate the role of Catherine in the David Auburn's Proof at Manhattan Theatre Club and win the Tony Award for Best Actress when it transfers to Broadway.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1977 The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 8/19/05 at 09:32 PM
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