Today's Birthdays 8/3

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Posted: 8/3/04 at 10:12am

John T. Scopes 08/03/1900 - ? - high school teacher: subject of famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial: convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee school

Dolores del Rio 08/03/1905 - 4/11/1983 performer - film's FLYING DOWN TO RIO; FLAMING STAR

Milton Drake 08/03/1916 composer - BLUES IN THE NIGHT (Leslie Uggams, Debbie Shapiro, asst. stg mgr Dave Brunetti)

A. Larry Haines 08/03/1918 performer - PROMISES, PROMISES (Jerry Orbach, Jill O'Hara, Graciela Daniele, Ken Howard, Donna McKechnie); 1000 CLOWNS

Nathaniel Frey 08/03/1918 - Nov 7, 1970 performer - orig. WONDERFUL TOWN; 1954 ON YOUR TOES (Bobby Van, Vera Zorina); Goldilocks; FIORELLO; She Loves Me; The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N

P.D. James 08/03/1920 mystery novelist - 1ST novel was COVER HER FACE published in 1962, featured Scotland Yard man Adam Dalgliesh; subsequent novels: DEVICES & DESIRES; BLACK TOWER. 2D series featured Cordelia Gray in UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN

Maria Karnilova 08/03/1920 - Apr 20, 2001 performer; Wife of George S. Irving (1948 - 2001) her death - 2's COMPANY; JEROME ROBBINS BALLET 1958; GIGI (Alfred Drake, Agnes Morehead, Karin Wolf); GOD'S FAVORITE (Vincent Gardenia, Charles Nelson Reilly)

Richard Adler 08/03/1921 composer - PAJAMA GAME; DAMN YANKEES

Jean Hagen 08/03/1923 - Aug 29, 1977 performer; Wife of Tom Seidel (1947 - 1965) divorced; - ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST (Paul Ford, Patricia Neal); GHOSTS (Herbert Berghof, Eva La Gallienne); film's played Lina Lamont in the film "Singin' In The Rain"

Leon Uris 08/03/1924 - Jun 21, 2003 writer, lyricist, source material - ARI (David Cryer, Constance Towers, John Savage(!)); novels EXODUS, MILA 18; screenplay GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL

Tony Bennett 08/03/1926 performer - JULE'S FRIENDS AT THE PALACE [AMDA Benefit](Dolores Gray, Carol Channing, Liza Minelli, Marvin Hamlisch); TONY & LENA SING (Lena Horne); TONY BENNETT IN CONCERT - 1 of my all time fav singers

Bethel Leslie 08/03/1929 - Nov 28, 1999 performer - GOODBYE MY FANCY (Madeline Carroll, Shirley Booth, Conrad Nagel, Sam Wannamaker); THE TIME OF THE CUKOO (Shirley Booth); BUT SERIOUSLY (Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Poston, Dick Van Patten)

Jimmie Komack 08/03/1930 - Dec 24, 1997 performer - LEONARD SILLIMAN'S NEW FACES OF 1952; orig DAMN YANKEES; Sixth Finger in a Five Finger Glove (Salome Jens, Frank Camponella, Conrad Bain)

Edward Petherbridge 08/03/1936 performer - orig Nicholas Nicklby; 1985 STRANGE INTERLUDE (Glenda Jackson, Brian Cox)

Martin Sheen 08/03/1940 performer; father of Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Renée Estevez and Ramon Estevez; Was arrested over 70 times mainly for liberal protests. - NEVER LIVE OVER A PRETZLE FACTORY (Sally Ackerman); THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES (Jack Albertson, Irene Dailey); 1975 DEATH OF A SALESMAN; 1991 CRUCIBLE (Martha Scott, Fritz Weaver, Michael York); tv's WEST WING; film's APOCOLYPSE NOW; Wall Street; Ghandi; Badlands. Has played American Presidents four times; Jed Bartlett on TV series The West Wing, in the TV movie Medusa's Child, as John F Kennedy in the mini series Kennedy and as the "future" president (in a premonition) Greg Stilson in The Dead Zone. His admiration for the Rev. Fulton J. Sheen prompted him to adopt the bishop's name for his acting career.

John Landis 08/03/1950 director - film's BLUES BROTHERS

Jay North 08/03/1952 performer - tv's DENNIS THE MENACE

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

The Two Mrs. Carrolls 08/03/1943 - Victor Jory, Vera Allen, Elizabeth Bergner, Irene Worth

Stop the World - I Want to Get Off 08/03/1978 - Sammy Davis, Jr., Wendy Edmead

ON THIS DAY IN:

1966 - Comedian Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose this day.

1977 Alfred Lunt dies today at the age of 84. Lunt, one the most celebrated stage actors of his time, was best known for his many performances opposite wife and stage partner Lynn Fontanne. Together they appeared in productions of such plays as Pygmalion, The Visit, Design for Living and I Know My Love. A theatre saluting the memory of the legendary pair stands on 46th Street and Broadway in New York City.

1998 For the first time since a Times Square construction accident shut down business July 21, the Off-Broadway musical Smoke On The Mountain performed. The production, first produced OB in 1990 at the Lamb's Theatre, returns to its home, this time on the upstairs mainstage. Connie Ray and Alan Bailey's musical starring Robert Olsen tells of a humble, religious family who make music for local church groups and socials.

2002 Avenue Q is presented as one of three in-development musicals at Eugene O’Neill Theater Center's Music Theater Conference in Connecticut. Within a year it will get an Off-Broadway production that will lead to a Broadway transfer.

(sources: IBDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com; imdb)

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