Today's Birthdays 8/28

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Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:45pm

Goethe 08/28/1749 - Mar 22, 1832 writer, source material - FAUST (Gale Sondergaard); WERTHER; Damn Yankees

Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy 08/28/1828 - 11/20/1910, Count Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich [Birthname] Source Material, Writer; Count Leo Nikolavitch Tolstoy was born on the ancestral estate of his family, Yasnaya Polyana, in Central Russia, 150 miles south of Moscow, according to the Russian calendar & Sept.10, according to the Gregorian calendar. His father was Count Nikolai Ilyvitch Tolstoy, who was the companion and friend of Czar Peter the Great. Tolstoy is said to have sketched his father's protrait in the character of Peter Rostoff in "War and Peace." - ANNA KARENNINA (play & musical); STRYDER; novel WAR & PEACE; film WAR & PEACE

Charles Boyer 08/28/1897 - Aug 26, 1978 committed suicide 2 days after wife's death - RED GLOVES; orig. DON JUAN IN HELL (Cedric Hardwick, Charles Laughton, Agnes Moorehead); film's Around the World in 80 Days, Barefoot in the Park, Casino Royale, The Mad Woman of Chaillot, Algiers

Sam Levene 08/28/1905 - Dec 28, 1980 Director, Performer - origs DINNER AT 8; ROOM SERVICE; GUYS & DOLLS; LET IT RIDE; CAFE CROWN (Ken Richards); THE SUNSHINE BOYS; GOLDEN BOY; THE BIG STREET; THE MAD MISS MANTON; THE KILLERS; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS; SHOPWORN ANGEL; 2 THIN MAN movies

Nancy Kulp 08/28/1921 - 3/3/1991 MORNING'S AT 7 replacement; tv's & film's The Beverly Hillbillies, The Bob Cummings Show, The Brian Keith Show, The Three Faces of Eve

Peggy Ryan (Margaret O'Rene Ryan [Birthname], Margaret Ryan) 08/28/1924 - Oct 30, 2004 performer; Ryan's parents were vaudeville dancers "The Merry Dancing Ryans" and by age two, she was selling her heart out on stage. Ryan and partner Donald O'Connor were Universal's answer to Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, paired up in many a lowbudget WWII-era movie musical. - Meet the People (Jack Albertson, Jack Gilford); Count Me In (Jean Arthur, Gower Champion)

Ben Gazzara (Biagio Anthony Gazzara) 08/28/1930 performer; husband of Janice Rule (1961 - 1979) divorced - orig CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF; A HATFUL OF RAIN; 1975 HUGHIE/DUET; SHIMADA (Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons, Mako); tv's & film's ANATOMY OF A MURDER; Run for Your Life, Arrest and Trial, The Bridge at Remagen, QB VII, Voyage of the Damned, Bloodline; QBVII

Elizabeth Seal 08/28/1933 performer; wife of Michael Ward (? - present),Zack Matalon (divorced) - orig IRMA LA DOUCE (Keith Michell, Elliott Gould); films: Radio Cab Murder, Cone of Silence, Vampire Circus

Alice Playten 08/28/1947 performer - origs OLIVER; HELLO, DOLLY!; HENRY, SWEET HENRY (Louise Lasser, Pia Zadora, Don Ameche); SEUSSICAL; Caroline, or Change

Jennifer Coolidge 08/28/1963 performer - (2001) The Women; film's American Pie; Legally Blonde

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1850 - Wagner’s opera, Lohengrin, was performed for the first time.

1922 George White's Scandals with W.C. Fields

1939 George White's Scandals with Ann Miller, The 3 Stooges

ON THIS DATE:

1938 Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy

1951 Robert Walker actor/writer, dies at 32

1963 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in the shadows of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Some 250,000 people witnessed one of the most stirring speeches of the century.

1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

1983 Jan Clayton actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66

1985 Ruth Gordon actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88

1987 John Huston US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81

1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade

1996 The 15-year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.

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

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