Today's Birthdays 9/25
Today's Birthdays 9/25
#0Today's Birthdays 9/25
Posted: 9/25/06 at 12:11am
Jean-Philippe Rameau 9/25/1683 - 9/12/1764 composer, philosopher
Rev. Anderson Hatfield 9/25/1835 - 3/6/1920 source mat'l - tv's A&E Biography: Hatfields & the McCoys - An American Feud
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 - Requiem for a Nun (Zachary Scott, Ruth Ford); movie scripts: The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not
Dmitri Shostakovich 9/25/1906 - 8/9/1975 composer - Khovanshchina; film's Bronenosets Potyomkin
Martha Schlamme - 9/25/1923 - 10/6/1985 performer, I studied with her, she was a patient & imaginative teacher. - orig Fiddler on the Roof [replacement]; tv's Playing for Time (Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander); Solitaire / Double Solitaire (John Cromwell); A Kurt Weill Cabaret (Alvin Epstein)
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; producer; Her father, Lou Walters, owned Latin Quarter nightclubs in New York, Boston, and Florida; wife of Merv Adelson (10 May 1986 - August 1992) (divorced), Lee Guber (8 December 1963 - December 1976) (divorced) 1 child, Robert Henry Katz (? - ?) (annulled less than 1 year later), Merv Adelson (10 May 1986 - August 1992) (divorced), Lee Guber (8 December 1963 - December 1976) (divorced) 1 child, Robert Henry Katz (? - ?) (annulled less than 1 year later) - Today Show; The View
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 son of Kirk & Diana Douglas; 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
Mimi Kennedy 09/25/1949 performer - orig Grease; tv's & film's 3 Girls 3 (Debbie Allen); Homefront; Death Becomes Her
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 - Oct 10, 2004 performer, Husband of Dana Reeve (April 1992 - 2004) his death; lived in my neighborhood, used to ride the same subway, a regular guy; 1 of the reasons I went to Juilliard - 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
Michael McGrath 9/25/1957 performer; Husband of Toni diBuono - My Favorite Year; The Goodbye Girl; Swinging on a Star; 1998 Little Me; 2003 Wonderful Town; Spamalot [hysterically funny]; tv's & film's The Martin Short Show; The Interpreter
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:
1976 Porgy and Bess - Clamma Dale, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Esther Hinds, Denice Woods, Myra Merritt, Barbara Buck
1977 Tartuffe - Tammy Grimes, Victor Garber, Stefan Gierasch, John Wood, Patricia Elliott, Mildred Dunnock
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.
1984 Quilters - 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, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
#3re: Today's Birthdays 9/25
Posted: 9/25/06 at 5:51pm
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have the same birthday?
I did not know that, but Happy Birthday!
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