Today's Birthdays 8/22 - Dorothy Parker, Valarie Harper, Ray Bradbury

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Posted: 8/22/03 at 9:05pm

Claude Debussy 8/22/1862 - 3/25/1918 - French composer: Clair de Lune [featured in FRANKIE & JOHNNY], Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, La Mer, Nocturnes, String Quartet in G minor; For me, his most gorgeous songs are "C'est l'extase langoureuse" (tr. "It is langorous ecstasy") fr the "Ariettes Oubliées", poetry by Paul Verlaine, and "La Cheveleur" (tr." The Tresses") fr. "Chansons de Bilitis" poetry by Pierre Louys. If you never listen to 2 other French songs in your life, please ck out the poems & listen to these 2. Without a doubt, 1 of the all-time greatest composers.

Forrest Huff 08/22/1876 performer - this fellow was in 2 orig. Sigmund Romberg shows that are featured in the Romberg bio pic starring Jose Ferrer & Helen Traubel that I loooove. They are: SINBAD & BOMBO (w/Al Jolson)

Dorothy Parker 08/22/1893 - Jun 7, 1967 Lyricist, Composer, Source Material, Writer, Performer; author: News Item: Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses; Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, Death and Taxes, Here Lies; New Yorker columnist - CANDIDE (Barbara Cook, Ira Petina); AFTER SUCH PLEASURES (Shirley Boothe); THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR (Walter Matthau, Vera Allen, Edna Best)

Francine Larrimore 08/22/1898 - Mar 7, 1975 performer - SPRING SONG (Garsin Kanin!, Morris Strassberg)

Mary Hay 08/22/1901 - Jun 4, 1957 wife of Richard Barthelmess - SUNNY (Marilynn Miller, Clifton Webb); SALLY (Marilynn Miller)

Philip G. Epstein 08/22/1909 - Feb 7, 1952 twin of Julius J. Epstein, writer - CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY

Julius J. Epstein 08/22/1909 - Dec 30, 2000 twin of Philip G. Epstein, writer - CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY; BUT SERIOUSLY (Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Poston, Dick Van Patten)

Joe Marr 08/22/1916 - Apr 1998 performer - orig THE ICE MAN COMETH (James Barton, Jeanne Cagney (Jimmy's sis)); MR. ROBERTS (Henry Fonda, David Wayne)

Ray Bradbury 8/22/1920 writer, source material - Fahrenheit 451, The Toynbee Convector, Martian Chronicles

Theoni V. Aldredge 08/22/1932 designer, wife of Tom Aldredge - SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (Geraldine Page, Paul Newman); THE BEST MAN (Melvyn Douglas, Lee Tracy, Frank Lovejoy, Leora Dana); MARY, MARY (Barbara Bel Geddes, Betsy Von Furstenberg, Michael Rennie, Barry Nelson); I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE; ANYONE CAN WHISTLE; ILYA DARLING (Hal Linden, Melena Mercouri, Loukas Skipitaris); 2 GENTLEMEN FR VERONA; DANCE OF DEATH (Zoe Caldwell!, Robert Shaw!) [WHAT A SHOW THIS MUST HAVE BEEN!!]; BARNUM; orig 42ND ST.; 2000 BEST MAN; 2001 FOLLIES

Diana Sands 08/22/1934 - Sep 21, 1973 performer - A RAISIN IN THE SUN; BLUES FOR MR. CHARLIE (Joe Don Baker, David Baldwin, Pat Hingle, Rip Torn); THE OWL & THE PUSSYCAT (Alan Alda); TIGER AT THE GATES (Philip Bosco, Bruce Davison, M'el Dowd); WE BOMBED IN NEW HAVEN (Jason Robards, Ron Liebman); THE GINGHAM DOG (George Grizzard, Karen Grassle)

Valerie Harper 08/22/1940 performer - TAKE ME ALONG; SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING (Sidney Chaplin, Orson Bean, Carol Lawrence, Michael Bennett); OVID'S METAMORPHOSES (Lewis Arquette, Paula Kelly, Dick Libertini); TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE; Emmy Award-winning actress: Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show; City, Valerie

ON THIS DAY IN:

1989 A.R. Gurney's play, LOVE LETTERS, opens today at the Promenade Theatre off Broadway. A series of love letters between one Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and one Melissa Gardner from the time of their childhood up to her death, the play transfers to the Edison Theatre on Broadway. This first week, John Rubinstein is Andrew and Stockard Channing is Melissa. Other pairings are George Segal & Dana Ivey, Treat Williams & Kate Nelligan, Timothy Hutton & Elizabeth McGovern, & Jason Robards & Elaine Stritch.

1989 PRIVATES ON PARADE opens: A British Military Entertainment troupe circa the late 1940s parks into the Roundabout Theatre for a 64-performance. The cast includes Jim Dale, Donna Murphy and a female impersonator.

1991 Actress Colleen Dewhurst dies today of cancer at age of 67. The thespian of stage & screen starred in such productions as Great Day in the Morning, The Ballad of the Sad Café, More Stately Mansions, All Over, Mourning Becomes Electra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All the Way Home and A Moon for the Misbegotten, winning Tony Awards for the latter two.

1994 The first day of business at Playbill On-Line, it will "go live" Nov. 22, 1994.

1996 Al Pacino directs himself in Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

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

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Do Re Milla Updated On: 8/22/03 at 09:05 PM