Today's Birthdays 8/31
Today's Birthdays 8/31
#0Today's Birthdays 8/31
Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:12pm
Fredric March 08/31/1897 - Apr 14, 1975 Husband of Florence Eldridge (1927 - 1975) his death, performer - A BELL FOR ADANO; THE AMERICAN WAY (Florence Eldridge, Dickie Van Patten); orig LONG DAYS'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT; film's Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde; my fav film THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Lynn Riggs 08/31/1899 - Jun 30, 1954 Source Material, Writer - GREEN GROW THE LILACS (Lee Strasberg, Franchot Tone); OKLAHOMA; film's OKLAHOMA
Arthur Godfrey 08/31/1903 - Mar 16, 1983 performer - 3 TO MAKE READY (Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Bibi Osterwald)
Sanford Meisner 08/31/1905 - Feb 2, 1997 performer, director - THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED; WAITING FOR LEFTY (Elia Kazan); AWAKE & SING (Luther Adler, Stella Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Jules (John) Garfield, dir. Harold Clurman, by Clifford Odets); JOHNNY JOHNSON; 1947 CRIME & PUNISHMENT (John Gielgud, Lillian Gish, Marian Seldes, Vladimir Sokoloff); film's THE STORY ON PAGE 1; TENDER IS THE NIGHT
Dore Schary 08/31/1905 - Jul 6, 1980 Producer, Writer, Director - SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO (Ralph Bellamy, Mary Fickett, James Earl Jones); THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (Tammy Grimes, Harve Presnell)
William Saroyan 08/31/1908 - May 18, 1981 Producer, Source Material, Writer, Director; First American to win both Drama Critics Circle and Pulitzer Prize (1939); Husband of Carol Grace (1943 - 1949) divorced; (1951 - 1952) divorced - THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (Celeste Holm, Gene Kelly); THE HUMAN COMEDY (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Rex Smith)
Ramon Vinay 08/31/1912 - Jan 4, 1996 Chilean Operatic tenor (started out a bariton & later returned to that repertoire) as well a b'way performer - STREETS OF PARIS (Bud Abbot, Lou Costello, Buddy Clark, Carmen Miranda, Gower Champion, Yvonne Bouvier); considered to be 1 of opera's great Don Jose's & Otello's
Richard Basehart 08/31/1914 - Sep 17, 1984 performer - THE HASTY HEART (John Lund); my fav. film LA STRADA & BEING THERE; tv's VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Alan Jay Lerner 08/31/1918 - Jun 14, 1986 son of the founder of Lerner stores, Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Director, Creative Consultant
Husband of Marion Bell (1947 - 1949) divorced, Nancy Olson (1951 - 1957) divorced, Liz Robertson (1981 - 1986) his death, Sandra Payne (1974 - 1976) divorced, Nina Bushkin (1977 - ?) divorced, Ruth Boyd (1940 - 1947), Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo (1957 - 1965) divorced, Karen Gunderson (1966 - 1974) divorced -
BRIGADOON, MY FAIR LADY, CARMELINA (Georgia Brown, Cesare Siepi); CAMELOT; film's GIGI
Buddy Hackett 08/31/1924 - Jun 30, 2003 performer - LUNATICS & LOVERS; I HAD A BALL (Karen Morrow, Richard Kiley); fav films THE LOVE BUG; IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD; THE MUSIC MAN
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); film's American Gigolo; An Officer & A Gentleman; Runaway Bride; Pretty Woman; Shall We Dance; Unfaithful; Chicago
John Hickok 08/31/1957 performer - Little Women; OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD (Cherry Jones, Sam Tsoutsouvas); PARADE (Carolee Carmello, Brent Carver, Jessica Molaskey); AIDA; tv's Law & Order
Deborah Gibson 08/31/1970 performer - replacements in LES MIZ; BEAUTY & THE BEAST; GREASE; CABARET; tv's & film's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend; Maggie Bloom
Sara Ramirez 8/31/1976 performer; Juilliard alumna - Spamalot; A Class Act; Capeman; The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm (Darius de Haas, Patrick Wilson, Michael Berresse, Adriane Lenox); tv's & film's You've Got Mail; As the World Turns; Baseball Wives; Spiderman; Grey's Anatomy
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1897 John Drew and Billie Burke (in her Broadway debut) are the stars of the new play, My Wife, opening tonight at the Empire Theatre. There will be 129 performances.
1998 Boys' Life, the play that gave playwright Howard Korder a name in the field when it was produced in 1988 at Lincoln Center, now receives a tenth anniversary revival production at Off-Broadway's Judith Anderson Theatre. The drama, which was nominated for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, examines three friends on the verge of adulthood as they maneuver their way through the sexual mores of 1980s America.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1422 Henry V King of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19), dies at 34
1535 Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
1885 Dubose Heyward US writer (Porgy-Mamba's daughters), dies
1887 Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope (produces moving pictures)
1888 Mary Ann Nicholls was found murdered in London's East End. She is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.
1997 - Diana, Britain’s Princess of Wales, was killed in an early-morning car crash in Paris, France. Also killed was her millionaire companion, Harrods department store heir, Dodi Fayed. The couple was being chased by aggressive paparazzie (photographers) on motorcycles at the time of the crash.
2002 Jazz musician and bandleader Lionel Hampton died in New York City at age 94.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, electricscotland.com)
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