Today's Birthdays 9/11

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Posted: 9/10/04 at 11:34am

O. Henry 09/11/1862 - Jun 5, 1910 author, source material - ALLIAS JIMMY VALENTINE; RESERVED OF DESTINY; fav short stories GIFT OF THE MAGI & RANSOM OF RED CHIEF

D. H. Lawrence 09/11/1885 - Mar 2, 1930 author, source material - YOU TOUCHED ME (Montgomery Clift, Edmund Gwenn); books LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER

Anne Seymour 09/11/1909 performer - SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO (Mary Fickett, Ralph Bellamy, Vincent Dowling); film's Mirage, All the King’s Men

Henderson Forsythe 09/11/1917 Director, Performer - origs MISS LONELYHEARTS (Anne Meara, Ruth Warrick, Pippa Scott, Fritz Weaver, William Hickey); WHO'S AFRAID OF VA WOLFE?; A DELICATE BALANCE; BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TX (Carlyn Glynn); SOME AMERICANS ABROAD (Nathan Lane & Kate Burton in the same show!?)

Alan Bergman 09/11/1925 Lyricist, Performer & Cabaret Performer, Marilyn Bergman's hubby - GIDEON (AB performed in this show! Douglas Campbell, Fredric March, u/s George Segal); SOMETHING MORE (Barbara Cook, Arthur Hill, Hal Linden, Joan Copeland); BALLROOM (Dorothy Loudon, Vincent Gardinia, Svetlana McLee Grody); 1st time I met this darling man was at THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM when he did his cabaret show in the early 90's. I sat next to Shirley Maclaine & across fr Marilyn Bergman (who was glowing). Alan sang their (IMHO) beautiful lyrics, including 1 that he wrote as an engagement present because he told us they were so poor he barely had 2 nickles to rub together. The song was "That Face". An enchanting evening for me.

Carol Grace 09/11/1925 - Jul 27, 2003 Wife of William Saroyan (1943 - 1949) divorced; (1951 - 1952) divorced, Wife of Walter Matthau (1959 - 2000) his death, performer - WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER (Orson Bean, Walter Matthau, Jayne Mansfield, Tina Louise); THE SQUARE ROOT OF WONDERFUL (Ann Baxter); THE COLD WIND & THE WARM (Suzanne Pleshette, Sandy Meisner, Eli Wallach, Maureen Stapleton, Vincent Gardinia, Morris Carnovsky); THERE ONCE WAS A RUSSIAN (Julie Newmar, Walter Matthau)

Lee Richardson 09/11/1926 - Oct 2, 1999 performer - 1956 SAINT JOAN (Peter Falk, Janet Dowd, Siobhán McKenna); LORD PENGO (Charles Boyer, Brian Bedford, Agnes Moorehead); THE HOUSE OF ATREUS [AGAMEMNON, CHLOEPHORI, EUMENIDES] (Roberta Maxwell, Michael Moriarty, Len Cariou); 1970 OTHELLO (Lizbeth MacKay, Roberta Maxwell, Moses Gunn); GETTING MARRIED (Victoria Tennant, Walter Bobbie, Elizabeth Franz)

Brian (Russell) De Palma 9/11/1940 director - Carrie, The Untouchables, Bonfire of the Vanities, Body Double, Scarface, Wise Guys

Amy Madigan 09/11/1950 performer - 1992 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, James Gandolfini, Susan Anton); film's Field of Dreams, Places in the Heart

Kristy McNichol 9/11/1962 performer - Emmy Award-winning actress: Family [1976-77, 1978-79]; Empty Nest, The Summer of My German Soldier

Adriane Lenox 09/11/1965 performer - THE GERSHWINS' FASCINATIN' RHYTHM (Darius de Haas, Patrick Wilson); 1999 KISS ME KATE

Harry Connick, Jr. 09/11/1967 Lyricist, Arranger, Composer, Orchestrator, Director, Performer - AN EVENING WITH HARRY CONNICK, JR.; THOU SHALT NOT

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Carousel 09/11/1957 - Barbara Cook, Howard Keel, Kay Medford, Victor Moore, Bambi Linn

ON THIS DATE IN:

1940 After missing him for a decade, the Broadway stage once again sees Al Jolson. He co-stars with Martha Raye in Hang on to Your Hats at the Shubert Theater.

1959 The now infamous statue of song and dance man George M. Cohan is unveiled in Times Square, opposite the Palace Theater.

1970 - “Would you believe?” The last of the Get Smart series on CBS-TV was aired. The show, featuring dimwitted, secret agent Maxwell Smart, played by Don Adams, and his sidekick, Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), aired on NBC in 1965 before moving to CBS. Incidentally, Max’s shoe phone was worn on his right foot...

1994 Broadway's original Blanche Dubois, actress Jessica Tandy, dies tonight at the age of 85. A legend of both stage and screen, she won three Tony Awards for her portrayals in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game and Foxfire. She also garnered an Academy Award for her role in "Driving Miss Daisy." Her husband and longtime co-star, Hume Cronyn, shared a Tony Lifetime Achievement Award with her earlier in the year.

2001 On a gorgeous Tuesday morning, terrorists fly two commercial airliners into New York City's World Trade Center "Twin Towers," and a third into the Pentagon in Washington DC, causing mass death, destruction and chaos in both cities. All Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical performances are cancelled for the next two days. Theatrical performances are also cancelled around the U.S.

2002 On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks, many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows cancel or reschedule performances, leaving their theatres dark for the day.

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

Milla Updated On: 9/10/04 at 11:34 AM