Today's Birthdays 9/25

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Posted: 9/25/04 at 6:11pm

William Faulkner 9/25/1897 - 7/6/1962 American Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer (1949) The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, Sanctuary, The Bear, Soldiers’ Pay, The Reivers; movie scripts: The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not

Aldo Ray 9/25/1926 - 3/27/1991 performer - film's Battle Cry, God’s Little Acre, Miss Sadie Thompson, The Naked and the Dead, Nightstalker, my fav MY 3 ANGELS

Barbara Walters 9/25/1931 - TV journalist

Juliet Prowse 09/25/1936 Bombay, Maharashtra, INDIA - d. Sep 14, 1996 performer - EDDIE FISHER AT THE WINTER GARDEN; tv's/film's Can-Can, G.I. Blues, Mona McCluskey; L’Eggs commercials

Michael Douglas 9/25/1944 Kirk's baby boy, Academy Award-winning performer; married to Catherine Zeta-Jones [see her birthday below] - film's/tv's Wall Street [1987]; Disclosure, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, A Chorus Line, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, The Streets of San Francisco

Mark Hamill 09/25/1951 performer - Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks; HARRIGAN 'N HART [Book by Michael Stewart; Music by Max Showalter; Lyrics by Peter Walker; Featuring songs of the period by Edward Harrigan and David Braham; Musical Director: Peter Howard] (Christine Ebersole ); THE NERD [Directed by Charles Nelson Reilly.] (Peter Riegert); tv's/film's "Luke Skywalker" from the "Star Wars" movies; GENERAL HOSPITAL

Christopher Reeve 09/25/1952 performer - A MATTER OF GRAVITY (Kate Hepburn); 5TH OF JULY (Jeff Daniels, Swoosie Kurtz); THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Dana Ivey, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Louis Zorich); film's SUPERMAN series; SOMEWHERE IN TIME

Aida Turturro 09/25/1962 Cousin of John Turturro, performer - 1992 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE; tv's THE SOPRANOS

Tate Donovan 09/25/1963 performer - 1994 PICNIC; AMY'S VIEW (Judy Dench, Samantha Bond)

Catherine Zeta-Jones 9/25/1969 - performer; Mrs. Michael Douglas - The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Entrapment

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Porgy and Bess 09/25/1976 - Clamma Dale, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Esther Hinds, Denice Woods, Myra Merritt, Barbara Buck

Tartuffe 09/25/1977 - Tammy Grimes, Victor Garber, Stefan Gierasch, John Wood, Patricia Elliott, Mildred Dunnock

09/25/1979 - The third musical resulting from the collaboration of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber lit up the Great White Way. Evita opened on Broadway to rave reviews.

Quilters 09/25/1984 - Lynn Lobban

ON THIS DATE IN:

On Sept. 25, 1957, with 300 United States Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, days after unruly white crowds had forced them to withdraw.

1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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

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