Today's Birthdays 8/29 - Richard Geer, Ingrid Bergman, Elliot Gould

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 8/29/03 at 10:00pm

Ann Brody 08/29/1884 - performer - HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME (Jules Garfield [aka John Garfield], Sheldon Leonard, Cornel Wild)

Michael Chekhov 08/29/1891 - Sep 30, 1955 Producer, Director, Designer, Performer - 1941 TWELFTH NIGHT (Yul Brenner, Hurd Hatfield, Beatrice Straight, Mary Lou Taylor)

Preston Sturges 08/29/1898 - Aug 6, 1959 Producer, Writer, Director, Performer - HOTBED [Directed by Brock Pemberton & Antoinette Perry]; STRICTLY DISHONORABLE (Tullio Carminati); RECAPTURE (Melvyn Douglas, Glenda Farrell(!)); MAKE A WISH (Nanette Fabray, Helen Gallagher); CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS (Delores Gray)

George Macready 08/29/1908 - Jul 2, 1973 performer - 1934 ROMEO & JULIET (Orson Wells, Katharine Cornell, Brian Aherne, Edith Evans, Basil Rathbone); orig VICTORIA REGINA (Helen Hayes, Vincent Price); SAVE ME THE WALTZ (Jane Wyatt); WALTZ OF THE TORREADORS (Melvyn Douglas, Betty Field)

Barry Sullivan 08/29/1912 - Jun 6, 1994 performer - I WANT A POLICEMAN (Estelle Winwood); MR. BIG (Robert Whitehead, Hume Cronyn); film's THE BAD & THE BEAUTIFUL

Willard Waterman 08/29/1914 - Feb 2, 1995 - 1983 MAME (Angela Lansbury, Ann Francine)

Ingrid Bergman 08/29/1915 - Aug 29, 1982 performer - LILLION (Burgess Meredith, Elia Kazan); JOAN OF LORRAINE (Sam Wanamaker); MORE STATELY MANSIONS (Colleen Dewhurst); 1975 THE CONSTANT WIFE (Jack Gwillim); film's Academy Award-winning actress: Gaslight [1944], Anastasia [1966], Murder on the Orient Express [1974]; Casablanca; Emmy Award-winner: The Turn of the Screw [1959-60]

Sono Osato 08/29/1919 performer - origs 1 TOUCH OF VENUS; ON THE TOWN; PEER GYNT (John Garfield, Karl Malden, John Randolph)

Charles White 08/29/1920 performer - COMES A DAY (Judith Anderson, Larry Hagman, Irene Ryan, George C. Scott); KINGDOMS (Armand Assante, Roy Dotrice, Thomas Barbour, Maria Tucci)

John Kane 08/29/1920 performer - 1971 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Ben Kingsley, Patrick Stewart, Frances de la Tour) 1996 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Lindsay Duncan)

Sir Richard Attenborough 8/29/1923 performer Jurassic Park, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape; director: Chaplin, Ghandi, A Bridge Too Far

Dick O'Neill 08/29/1928 performer - SKYSCRAPER (Julie Harris, Peter L. Marshall); PROMISES, PROMISES (Jerry Orbach, Jill O'Hara, Graciela Daniele, Ken Howard, Baayork Lee)

Charles Gray 08/29/1928 - Mar 7, 2000 performer - RICHARD II (Claire Bloom, John Neville); KEAN (Alfred Drake)

Ruby Holbrook 08/29/1930 performer - DA (Barnard Hughes); MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940

Patricia Conolly 08/29/1933 performer - 1968 THE MISANTHROPE (Brian Bedford); 1968 THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Nancy Walker, Richard Easton, Uta Hagen, Donald Moffat, WE COMRADS 3 (Helen Hayes, Rosemary Harris, Sydney Walker); ENCHANTED APRIL (Jayne Atkinson)

Elliott Gould 08/29/1938 performer - RUMPLE (Gretchen Wyler, Eddie Foy, Jr.); SAY DARLING; IRMA LA DOUCE; LITTLE MURDERS (Barbara Cook); film's M*A*S*H, The Long Good-Bye, The Night They Raided Minsky’s

Scott Allen 08/29/1948 Performer, Stage Manager - A CHORUS LINE; KING OF HEARTS

Richard Gere 08/29/1949 performer - SOON (Peter Allen, Barry Bostwick, Nell Carter); HABEAS CORPUS (June Havoc, Celeste Holm, Jean Marsh, Rachel Roberts); BENT (David Dukes, Michael Gross)

Don Schlitz 08/29/1952 Composer - ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (Jane Connell, Linda Purl)

Dina Spybey 08/29/1966 performer - 1999 ICEMAN COMETH (Robert Sean Leonard, Tony Danza, Kate Finneran, Kevin Spacey)

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

Milla
Do Re Milla Updated On: 8/29/03 at 10:00 PM

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Posted: 8/29/03 at 10:06pm

Thanks Milla, once again! You always keep us informed of birthdays in the entertainment industry!