Today's Birthdays 8/30 - Elizabeth Ashley, Fred MacMurray, Cameron Diaz

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Posted: 8/30/03 at 10:00pm

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 8/30/1797 - 2/1/1851 author Frankenstein

Raymond Massey 08/30/1896 - 7/29/1983 performer - 1931 HAMLET (RM's Hamlet to Celiea Johnson's Ophelia); ETHAN FROME (Ruth Gordon); ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (John Payne, Muriel Kirkland); PYGMALIAN (Gertrude Lawrence); THE FATHER (Grace Kelly); JOHN BROWN'S BODY (Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson,); J.B. (Christopher Plummer, Bert Conway, Pat Hingle) film's & tv's The President’s Plane is Missing, McKenna’s Gold, How the West was Won, The Great Impostor, Battle Cry , The Naked and the Dead, East of Eden, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Dr. Kildare

Shirley Booth 08/30/1898 - 10/16/1992 performer - origs 3 MEN ON A HORSE; PHILADELPHIA STORY (Katharine Hepburn, Vera Allen, Joseph Cotton, Van Heflin, Lenore Lonergan); MY SISTER EILEEN (Jo Ann Sayers); COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA (Sidney Blackmer); A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN; THE TIME OF THE COOKOO; BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA; THE DESK SET (Louis Gossett, Doris Roberts, Joyce Van Patten); JUNO (Melvyn Douglas, Sada Thompson); MISS ISOBEL (Nancy Marchand, Kathleen McGuire, Robert Duke); HAYFEVER (Sudi Bond, Carole Shelley, Sam Waterston); A SECOND STRING (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nina Foch, Cathleen Nesbit, Carrie Nye); LOOK TO THE LILLIES (Carmen Alvarez, Maria Di Dia, Taina Elg, Academy Award-winning actress: Come Back Little Sheba [1952]; Hot Spell, The Matchmaker; Emmy Award-winner [1962]: Hazel ; A Touch of Grace

Joan Blondell 08/30/1906 1906 - 12/25/1979 ex of Michael Todd & Dick Powell, performer - origs THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN (Ann Harding(!); Robert Cummings); MAGGIE THE MAGNIFICENT (James Cagney); PENNY ARCADE (James Cagney); THE ROPE DANCERS (Art Carney, Theodore Bikel, Siobhán McKenna); film's The Champ, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Public Enemy

Fred MacMurray 08/30/1908 1908 - 11/5/1991 performer - 3'S A CROWD (Fred Allen, Libby Holman, Alan Jones, Clifton Webb, Tamara Geva); ROBERTA (Fay Templeton, Tamara, Bob Hope, Alan Jones, George Murphy, Lyda Roberti); tv's & film's My Three Sons, The Caine Mutiny, Egg and I, Above Suspicion, The Apartment, The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber; NO TIME FOR LOVE; DOUBLE INDEMNITY

David Clarke 08/30/1908 Performer, Stage Manager - origs THE CRADLE WILL ROCK; A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE; THE VISIT; ORPHEUS DESCENDING (Cliff Robertson, Maureen Stapleton); OF MICE & MEN (James Earl Jones)

Allan Davis 08/30/1913 - Jan 10, 2001 Writer, Director, Performer - KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY (Karen Black, Patrick Magee, Maureen O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Parrish [standby])

Regina Resnik 8/30/1922 operatic mezzo-soprano: well-known for her performances at the Met, Covent Gardent & Vienna State Opera in roles from operas including: Carmen, Don Carlo, Falstaff, Aida, Queen of Spades, Elektra; she has recorded Carmen, Fledermaus, Tristan & Isolde, Ballo in Maschera, Elektra, Falstaff, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Berlioz, Romeo et Juliette, The Medium of Menotti and Verdi's Falstaff, Herodias in Salome and Rosalinda in Fledermaus.

William Duell 08/30/1923 performer - 1954 3 PENNY OPERA (Bea Arthur, Lotte Lenya, Charlotte Rae, Jo Sullivan, John Astin); THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (Susan Dunfee, Colleen Dewhurst, Wm. Prince, Lou Antonio); orig & 2000 1776

Tom Lacy 08/30/1933 performer - ENEMIES (Barbara Cook, Philip Bosco, Nancy Marchand, Frances Sternhagen)

Ellen Madison 08/30/1934 - Sep 14, 1987 Producer, Performer - TIME REMEMBERED (Richard Burton, Helen Hayes, Susan Strasberg - Did this play/casting work?); MILK & HONEY (Robert Weede)

John Phillips 08/30/1935 - 3/18/2001 writer, lyricist, composer, source material, actress MacKenzie Phillips’ father - MAN IN THE MOON (Monique Van Vooren); DREAM A LITTLE DREAM; singer: group: The Mamas & The Papas

Elizabeth Ashley 08/30/1939 1939 James Farentino's & George Peppard's ex, performer - DAPHNE LAUREOLA (Edith Evans); RING AROUND THE BATH TUB (Carol Kane, Richard Mulligan); TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE (Art Carney); 1974 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Keir Dulae, Fred Gwynne, Kate Reid); THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Martha Scott, Alfred Drake, Barry Livingston); CEASAR & CLEOPATRA (Rex Harrison, Fiddle Viracola); HIDE & SEEK (Peter Ackroyd, Michael Ayr, Christine Baranski); AGNES OF GOD (Geraldine Page, Amanda Plummer); GARDEN DISTRICT: SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Victor Slezak(brother to Erika Slezak), Peggy Cosgrave, Jordan Baker); THE BEST MAN (Spalding Gray, Christine Ebersole, Charles Durning, Chris Noth, Jonathan Hadary); ENCHANTED APRIL (Jayne Atkinson); tv's & film's The Carpetbaggers, Ship of Fools, Stagecoach, Evening Shade

Timothy Bottoms 8/31/1951 performer - film's Last Picture Show, The Paper Chase

David Paymer 08/30/1954 performer - orig. GREASE (replacement); tv's & film's THE IN-LAWS; Nixon, Get Shorty, City Slickers series, Mr. Saturday Night, Crazy People, No Way Out, The Commish

Cameron Diaz 8/30/1972 - performer, model - film's The Mask, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, There’s Something About Mary, Charlie’s Angels

ON THIS DAY:

1940 Superstar performers Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier are married today. Leigh, an Academy Award winner for the previous year's "Gone With the Wind" and Olivier, a celebrated Broadway star and director, will team up professionally on several occasions. Among their work together will be a production of Anthony and Cleopatra and the London production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In the latter, Leigh will star as Blanche DuBois, and Olivier directs his wife in the role she will soon immortalize on film.

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

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