Today's Birthdays 8/25 - Ruby Keeler, Leonard Bernstein, Sean Connery

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Today's Birthdays 8/25 - Ruby Keeler, Leonard Bernstein, Sean Connery#0

Posted: 8/24/03 at 5:50pm

Walter Burke 08/25/1908 - Aug 4, 1984 performer - orig. BILLY BUDD (Dennis King, Lee Marvin, Jeff Morrow); 1956 MAJOR BARBARA (Glynis Johns, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Eli Wallach, John Astin. HOLY MOLY! WHAT A CAST!)

Philip Coolidge 08/25/1908 - May 23, 1967 performer - origs OUR TOWN (Martha Scott); THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS (Tom Ewell, by Thornton Wilder based on comedy by Johan Nestroy); KISMET; A VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET (Cyril Ritchard); RHINOCEROS (Jean Stapleton, Zero Mostel, Morris Carnovsky, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson); CRUCIBLE (Arthur Kennedy, E.G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight); 1964 HAMLET (Richard Burton, John Cullum, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, John Gielgud, Linda Marsh, Eileen Herlie)

Michael Rennie 8/25/1909 - 6/10/1971 performer - THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL; PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER

Ruby Keeler 08/25/1910 - Feb 28, 1993 performer, wife of Al Jolson - BYE, BYE, BONNIE (William Frawley); 1973 NO, NO, NANETTE (Helen Gallagher, Jack Gilford, Patsy Kelly, Loni Zoe Ackerman, Mercedes Ellington, Bobby Van); film's 42ND STREET

Don DeFore 08/25/1913 - Dec 22, 1993 PERFORMER - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? (Hugh Martin); THE MALE ANIMAL (Gene Tierney); tv's "Mr. B," in Shirley Boothe's sitcom "Hazel."

Bob Crosby 08/25/1913 - Mar 9, 1993 Composer, Lyricist, Bing Crosby's brother - DANCIN'; FOSSE

Van Johnson 08/25/1916 performer - NEW FACES OF 1936 (Imogen Coca); TOO MANY GIRLS (Desi Arnaz, Eddie Bracken); MATING DANCE (Paul Sorvino); film's IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME

Mel Ferrer 08/25/1917 Director, Performer, Audrey Hepburn's ex - CUE FOR PASSION (Bert Conway, George Coulouris, Gale Sondergaard); STRANGE FRUIT (Vera Allen); 1946 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Jose Ferrer, Frances Reid); ONDINE (Audrey Hepburn, Marian Seldes, Ann Meecham) film's WAR & PEACE; THE SUN ALSO RISES; tv's FALCON CREST

Leonard Bernstein 08/25/1918 - Oct 14, 1990 Lyricist, Composer, Writer, Orchestrator, Performer - ON THE TOWN; PETER PAN; WONDERFUL TOWN; ALL IN 1; THE 1ST BORN (Katharin Cornelle, Anthony Quayle, Mildred Natwick, Kathleen Widdoes); CANDIDE; WEST SIDE STORY; 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE.; BARBARA COOK, A CONCERT FOR THE THEATER. film's ON THE TOWN; WEST SIDE STORY; tv's YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS introduced classical music to the masses, so sorry there's nothing like it now; I will never forget when he came to conduct the student orchestra at Juilliard. We were hanging from the rafters to see & hear this, an incredible experience.

Richard Greene 8/25/1918 - 6/1/1985 performer - Island of the Lost, The Castle of Fu Manchu, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Stanley and Livingstone; tv's title-role star of the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which was syndicated world-wide. Loved this series!

Sean Connery 08/25/1930 producer, performer - ART (prod'd); film's BOND, JAMES BOND; THE UNTOUCHABLES; THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

Page Johnson 08/25/1930 performer - 1951 ROMEO & JULIET (Olivia de Havilland); CAMINO REALE (Eli Wallach, Hurd Hatfield, Jo Van Fleet, Martin Balsam); THE LOVERS (Joanne Woodward, Pernell Roberts, Robert Lansing)

Graham Jarvis 08/25/1930 - Apr 16, 2003 performer - 1959 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (John Gielgud, Margaret Leightson, Hurd Hatfield); orig BEST MAN; 1965 TARTUFFE (John Phillip Law, Tony Lo Bianco, Laurence Luckinbill, Roy Scheider, Sada Thompson, Michael O'Sullivan, Larry Gates, Salome Jens)

Tom Skerritt 8/25/1933 Emmy Award-winning performer: Picket Fences [1992-93]; Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It, M*A*S*H, The Turning Point, Top Gun, Alien

David Canary 08/25/1938 performer - THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD; GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING (Frances Sternhagen, Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Frizell); CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL (Geraldine Page); tv's Chandler on ALL MY CHILDREN

Anthony Heald 08/25/1944 performer - MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Dana Ivy, Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio, Christopher Reeve, Louis Zorich); 1987 ANYTHING GOES; A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS (Brian Murray); LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!

Ernest Abuba 08/25/1947 performer - orig PACIFIC OVERTURES; LOOSE ENDS (Kevin Kline, Steve Vinovich); ZOYA'S APARTMENT (Robert LuPone, Bronson Pinchot); SHIMADA (Ellen Burstyne, Ben Gazzara, Estelle Parsons,

John Savage 08/25/1949 performer - ARI (Constance Towers, David Cryer); AMERICAN BUFFALO (Robert Duvalle, Kenneth McMillan); film's THE DEER HUNTER

Tim Burton 8/25/1958 director - Planet of the Apes [2001], Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow

Blair Underwood 8/25/1964 - performer - L.A. Law

Joanne Whalley 8/25/1964 performer - The Singing Detective, Dance with a Stranger, What the Butler Saw

Shows which opened on August 25:

1967 Paul Muni dies today, age 72 or thereabouts. After starting out as a young man in Yiddish Theatre, Muni got his big break playing a Jewish lawyer in 1931's Counselor-at-Law. His greatest stage triumph was in the Lawrence and Lee evolutionary court drama, Inherit the Wind. Muni, also a celebrated film actor, is remembered for such movies as "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang," "The Good Earth," and "The Story of Louis Pasteur." He was the recipient of two Academy Awards.

1980 Tonight is a Broadway-sized mix of tragedy and triumph as the Great White Way's new musical smash, 42nd Street, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre. 42nd Street, based on the 1930s Busby Berkeley film musical of the same name, stars Jerry Orbach, Tammy Grimes, Wanda Richart and Lee Roy Reams. At the curtain call of the opening night performance producer David Merrick announces that the musical's director choreographer, Gower Champion, died that afternoon. Among Champion's finest musical credits were the original Broadway productions of Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!, and Sugar. At the time of his death, Champion was in a relationship with Richert, the much-younger newcomer who received a Tony nomination for her performance in 42nd Street.

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

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