Today's Birthdays 8/24

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Posted: 8/24/08 at 7:36pm

Preston Foster 8/24/1900 - 7/14/1970 performer - Seven; Adam Had 2 Sons (Paul Kelly); film's The Time Travelers, The Marshal’s Daughter, My Friend Flicka, Dr. X, Annie Oakley, Waterfront

Durward Kirby 08/24/1912 - Mar 15, 2000 performer - ME & THEE (Barbara Britton, Charles Braswell); TV announcer: The Garry Moore Show, The Perry Como Show, Auction-Aire; TV host: Candid Camera

Joan Chandler 08/24/1923 - May 11, 1979 performer - origs. WHERE'S CHARLEY? (Ray Bolger, Eleanor Parker, Cornell MacNeil); MY 3 ANGELS (Walter Slezak, Darren McGavin, Carmen Matthews, Will Kuluva, Eric Fleming)

Hal Hackett 08/24/1924 - Dec 4, 1967 performer, stage mgr. - origs LEND AN EAR (Carol Channing, Yvonne Adair); KISMET (Alfred Drake, Joan Diener, Richard Kiley, Doretta Morrow, Neile Adams (Steve McQueen's ex))

Philip Langner 08/24/1926 Producer, Press, Production Crew - State Fair; DARLING OF THE DAY (Patricia Routledge, Vincent Price, Brenda Forbes); orig GOLDA (Anne Bancroft); film's Judgment at Nuremberg; A Child Is Waiting; The Pawnbroker; Slaves; Born to Win

Tom Hatcher 08/24/1933 performer - INVITATION TO THE MARCH (Jane Fonda, Celeste Holm, Eileen Heckart, James MacArthur); A Clearing in the Woods (Kim Stanley, Robert Culp, Joan Lorring)

Stephen Fry 08/24/1957 writer, performer - ME & MY GIRL (Robert Lindsey, Maryanne Plunkett); tv's & film's JEEVES; WILDE; V for Vendetta; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Blackadder series

Steve Guttenberg 08/24/1958 performer; studied w/Herbert Berghof & w/the improv group The Groundlings; spent a week volunteering at the Houston Astrodome after Hurricane Katrina hit. - PRELUDE TO A KISS [replacement]; The Boys Next Door (London); tv's & film's BEDROOM WINDOW; COCOON; 3 MEN & A BABY; BOYS FR BRAZIL; Veronica Mars; Making Change

Jessica Boevers 08/24/1974 performer; Wife of Matt Bogart (07/03/2006-) - In My Life; replacement in LES MIZ & Rent; 1996 FORUM; 2002 Oklahoma!; Sondheim's The Wise Guys; tv's & film's Another World; Airborne

Drew Sarich 8/24/1975 performer - NYC: Lestat, Jacques Brel...revival (replacement); International: Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Who's Tommy, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Liza Minnelli tour

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1925 The Enchanted April

1986 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby opened with Michael Siberry

ON THIS DAY IN:

0079 Mt. Vesuvius explodes at noon, a bad day for the residents of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. An estimated 20,000 people died. Vesuvius is still an active volcano, source material.

1814 British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.

1891 - Thomas Edison applied for a movie camera patent. The most important element in making a movie ... the film ... was patented six years later

1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of rock musician John Lennon.

1985 Morrie Ryskind died in his home in Washington, DC. The playwright who collaborated with George Kaufman, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin on three musicals, Strike Up the Band, Let 'Em Eat Cake and Of Thee I Sing. The latter garnered Ryskind and cohorts the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was 89 years old at the time of his death.

1988 Stage and film actor Leonard Frey, who appeared in the original production of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band, dies today of AIDS. Frey also appeared as Mendel, the Rabbi's son, in the original 1964 production of Fiddler on the Roof, and received an Oscar nomination for his performance as Motel, the tailor, in the 1971 film version.

2007 A judge in Inverness, Fla., sentenced John Evander Couey to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive.

2007 James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi.

2007 The NFL indefinitely suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick without pay for his involvement in dogfighting.

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

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