Today's Birthdays 9/13
Today's Birthdays 9/13
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Posted: 9/12/06 at 10:48pm
Alma Kruger 09/13/1871 - Apr 5, 1960 performer - John Brown (George Abbott as John Brown); 1932 Electra (Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Blanche Yurka); 1930 Romeo & Juliet (Howard Da Silva, Eva Le Gallienne, Robert Lewis, Burgess Meredith); Daisy Mayme
Jesse L. Lasky 09/13/1880 - Jan 13, 1958 Producer, Theatre Owner/Operator - Lasky did many interesting things before joining the film industry. He started out as a reporter then made failed plans to join the Alaska Gold Rush. Lasky, a talented musician, then went to work as a bandleader in Hawaii. Upon his return to the States, he and his sister Blanche formed a team and played coronet in vaudeville; this lead to his becoming a promoter of vaudeville. His Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company which later merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, eventually became Paramount
Leland Hayward 09/13/1902 - Mar 18, 1971 Producer; father of Brooke Hayward, husband of Pamela Churchill Digby (1960 - 1971) his death, Lola Gibbs (divorced),Nancy "Slim" Hawks (divorced), Margaret Sullavan (1935 - 194 divorced - origs STATE OF THE UNION (Ruthy Hussey, Ralph Bellamy. LOVED the movie w/Hepburn & Tracey!); SOUTH PACIFIC; CALL ME MADAM; POINT OF NO RETURN (Henry Fonda, Frances Bavier); GYPSY; SOUND OF MUSIC; THE PRESCOTT PROPOPOSALS (Katharine Cornell, Lorne Greene, Robert Culp, John Drew Devereaux); GOODBYE CHARLIE (Lauren Bacall, Syndey Chaplin); A SHOT IN THE DARK (Julie Harris, Gene Saks, William Shatner, Walter Matthau); THE TRIAL OF THE CANTONSVILLE 9 (Michael Moriarty, Biff McGuire, Sam Waterston, James Woods)
Claudette Colbert 09/13/1903 - Jul 30, 1996 performer, Olympic-calibre skier - THE MARRIAGE GO ROUND (Charles Boyer, Julie Newmar); THE IRREGULAR VERB TO LOVE (Cyril Ritchard, William Kinsolving); THE KINGFISHER (Rex Harrison, George Rose); A TALENT FOR MURDER (Jean-Pierre Aumont); 1985 AREN'T WE ALL (Rex Harrison, Jeremy Brett, Lynn Redgrave, George Rose); my fav film's IT HAPPENED 1 NIGHT; THE EGG & I; TOVARICH; MIDNIGHT; DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK; SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Mae Questel 09/13/1908 - Jan 4, 1998 New York performer, Also the Voice of Betty Boop, Olive Oyl, Little Audrey, Little Lulu, Casper the Friendly Ghost - A MAJORITY OF ONE (Cedric Hardwicke, Ina Balin); BAJOUR (Herschel Bernardi, Nancy Dussault, Chita Rivera, Michael Bennett, Paul Sorvino)
Herbert Berghof 09/13/1909 - Nov 5, 1990 Writer, Director, Performer, Husband of Uta Hagen (1957 - 1990) his death - origs THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK; HEDDA GABLER (Efrem Zimbalest, Jr., Eva La Gallienne); WAITING FOR GODOT; THE ANDERSONVILLE TRIAL (Robert Dekker, Geo. C. Scott; Robert Downey
Reta Shaw 09/13/1912 - Jan 8, 1982 performer - origs IT TAKES 2 (John Forsythe, Martha Scott, Vivian Vance); PICNIC; PAJAMA GAME (Janice Page, Eddie Foy, Jr., John Raitt, Peter Gennaro, Carmen Alvarez, Shirley Maclaine)
Ronald Dahl 9/13/1916 - 11/23/1990 writer, source material - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; screen play: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Mel Torme 9/13/1925 - 6/5/1999 performer, songwriter - The Christmas Song
Barbara Bain 9/13/1931 performer - Emmy Award-winning actress: Mission Impossible [1966-67, 1967-68]
Eileen Fulton [Margaret Elizabeth McLarty] 9/13/1933 - performer, sings in Cabaret Clubs; Graduated from Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina with a degree in Music, married Rick McMorrow (1989 - 1989) (divorced), Danny Fortunato (1971 - 1980) (divorced), Bill Cochrane (1957 - ?) (divorced) - replacement in orig Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; tv's & fim's "As the World Turns", Girl of the Night (Kay Medford, Anne Frances, Julius Monk)
Fred Silverman 9/13/1937 TV executive: NBC head; ABC Program Chief; producer: Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, Thicke of the Night, Diagnosis Murder
Jacqueline Bisset 9/13/1944 performer -tv's & film's Ally McBeal; Dangerous Beauty; The Deep, Airport, Bullitt, Wild Orchid, Murder on the Orient Express
Nell Carter 09/13/1948 - Jan 23, 2003 performer - SOON (Peter Allen, Barry Bostwick, Pendleton Brown, Richard Gere); AIN'T MISBEHAVIN (Charlain Woodard, Andre DeShields); tv's GIMME A BREAK
Christine Estabrook 09/13/1952 performer - 1977 THE CHERRY ORCHARD; THE SISTERS ROSENZWEIG (Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Robert Kline); tv's & film's Desperate Housewives; Spider- Man 2; Sea of Love; The Bell Jar;
David Shiner 09/13/1953 Writer, Director, Performer - FOOL MOON; SEUSSICAL; tv's & film's At the Movies I & II; Lorenzo's Oil; Nouvelle expérience
Jean Smart 09/13/1959 - PIAF (Jane Lapotaire, Zoe Wannamaker, Judith Ivey); 2000 THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER; tv's & film's Center of the Universe; I Heart Huckabees; DESIGNING WOMEN; 24; The District; Frasier
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DAY:
1929 Porgy Revival with Frank Wilson, Rose MacClendon & Edna Thomas
1943 Porgy and Bess Revival
1973 The Waltz of the Toreadors - Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Ben Masters
ON THIS DAY IN:
1983 Today marks Yul Brynner's 4,000th performance of the title role in The King and I. The production was playing at the Pantages Theater in LA. Brynner also did the film version of the musical.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, MSN Entertainment)
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