Today's Birthdays 8/31 - Sandy Meisner, Alan Jay Lerner, Debbie (excuse me) Deborah Gibson

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Posted: 8/31/03 at 11:27pm

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; 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 - 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
Husband of Nancy Olson (1951 - 1957) divorced
Husband of Liz Robertson (1981 - 1986) his death
Husband of Sandra Payne (1974 - 1976) divorced
Husband of Nina Bushkin (1977 - ?) divorced
Husband of Ruth Boyd (1940 - 1947)
Husband of Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo (1957 - 1965) divorced
Husband of 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)

John Hickok 08/31/1957 performer - OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD (Cherry Jones, Sam Tsoutsouvas); PARADE (Carolee Carmello, Brent Carver, Jessica Molaskey); AIDA

Susannah Blinkoff 08/31/1964 performer - BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC (Dee Hoty, Nancy LaMott)

Stacey Lynn Brass 08/31/1968 performer - Annie (replacement); 1990 FIDDLER

Deborah Gibson 08/31/1970 performer - replacements in LES MIZ; BEAUTY & THE BEAST; GREASE; CABARET

ON THIS DAY IN:

1888 Mary Ann Nicholls was found murdered in London's East End. She is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.

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.

1940 - Actor Lawrence Olivier and actress Vivian Leigh were married.

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

Milla
Do Re Milla Updated On: 8/27/04 at 11:27 PM

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Posted: 9/2/03 at 12:34am

Alan Jay Lerner had EIGHT wives??? Am I reading that correctly?