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Posted: 9/27/05 at 12:05am
Cosimo de Medici 9/27/1389 - 8/1/1464 Florentine ruler, source material
Joseph McCarthy 09/27/1885 - Dec 18, 1943 Producer, Lyricist, Composer, Performer - WHITE HORSE INN (Kitty Carlisle Hart, Wm. Gaxton, Alfred Drake); 1973 IRENE (Debbie Reynolds, Ruth Warrick, Patsy Kelly, Monte Markham, Carrie Fisher)
Vincent Youmans 09/27/1898 - Apr 5, 1946 Great-uncle of William Youmans, Producer, Composer, my fav VY song is "More Than You Know" - orig & 1971 NO, NO NANETTE; HIT THE DECK; THROUGH THE YEARS (his daughter told me the title song was his favorite); SALLY MARR & HER ESCORTS (Joan Rivers)
Eve March 09/27/1910 - Sep 19, 1974 performer - COCO (Kate Hepburn); film's HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
William Conrad 9/27/1920 - 2/11/1994 performer - tv's & film's Cannon, Jake and the Fatman, Sorry, Wrong Number, Killers, Naked Jungle; TV narrator: The Bullwinkle Show; radio: Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke
Jayne Meadows 09/27/1920 Wu-ch'ang, China, Sister of Audrey Meadows, also perf'd under the name "Jayne Cotter", wife of Steve Allen (7/31/1954 - 10/30/2000) his death, performer - MANY HAPPY RETURNS (Mary Astor); KISS THEM FOR ME (Judy Holliday, Paul Ford, Richard Widmark); THE GAZEBO; 1978 ONCE IN A LIFETIME; tv's & film's CITY SLICKERS, MEDICAL CENTER
Stephen Douglass 09/27/1921 performer - origs MAKE A WISH (Nanette Fabrey, Helen Gallagher); THE GOLDEN APPLE; DAMN YANKEES; RUMPLE (Elliott Gould, Gretchen Wyler, Eddie Foy, Jr.); 110 IN THE SHADE (Inga Swenson, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Horton)
Arthur Penn 9/27/1922 director - orig & 2004 Sly Fox; 2002 Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates, Frank Langella); orig Wait Until Dark; An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May; The Miracle Worker; 2 for the Seesaw; tv's& film's Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, Night Moves; The Philco Television Playhouse; Goodyear Television Playhouse; Playwrights '56; 100 Centre Street
Mary McCarty 09/27/1923 - Apr 30, 1980 performer - origs SLEEPY HOLLOW (Jo Sullivan); MISS LIBERTY (Eddie Albert, Dody Goodman, Herbert Berghof, Tommy Rall); A RAINY DAY IN NEWARK (Gene Hackman, Dody Goodman, Zachary Scott, Rex Everhart, Tom Ahearne); FOLLIES; CHICAGO; 1977 ANNA CHRISTIE (Liv Ullman, John Lithgow)
Sada Thompson 09/27/1929 performer - origs JUNO; TARTUFFE (Roy R. Scheider, Laurence Luckinbill, Tony Lo Bianco, John Phillip Law, Salome Jens, Hal Holbrook, Larry Gates, Joyce Ebert, Michael O'Sullivan)[was this WONDERFUL?]; JOHNNY NO TRUMP (Bernadette Peters, Pat Hingle); SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY (Eli Wallach, Ron Holgate, Walter Able, Jan Miner, Michael Vale); ANY GIVEN DAY (Victor Slezak [Erika's bro], Andrea Marcovicci (cabaret performer), Peter Frechette, Lisa Eichhorn); tv's FAMILY [won Emmy]
Kathleen Nolan 09/27/1933 performer - orig PETER PAN (Mary Martin, Cyril Ritchard, Sondra Lee, Sally Brophy); LOVE IN E FLAT; tv's THE REAL McCOYS
Claude Jarman Jr. 9/27/1934 performer -tv's & film's Centennial; The Sun Comes Up; The Yearling (1 the most beautifully poignant movies ever!)
Delores Taylor 9/27/1939 performer performer, writer, producer; wife of Tom Laughlin (1956 - present) 1 child, Teresa - film's the cult movies The Trial of Billy Jack, Billy Jack
Meat Loaf 09/27/1951 performer - origs THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Tim Curry); ROCKABY HAMLET (Larry Marshall, Beverly D'Angelo, Pat Gorman, dance arr'mts by Doug Katsaros [BMI Musical Theater Work Shop], prod'd Marty Richards, dir/chor Gower Champion)
Shaun Cassidy 09/27/1958 Brother of Ryan Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy, Half-brother of David Cassidy, Son of Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones, performer BLOOD BROTHERS [replacement](I loved this show!); tv's & film's The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Breaking Away, General Hospital
SHOWS THAT OPENED THIS DAY:
1935 Othello with Gladys Cooper
1966 Dinner at Eight with Arlene Francis, June Havoc, Walter Pidgeon, Pamela Tiffin
1977 Miss Margarida's Way with Estelle Parsons, Colin Garrey
1983 Edmund Kean with Ben Kingsley
ON THIS DAY IN:
1954 - The Tonight show debuted on NBC-TV. Steve Allen hosted the late-night program which began as a local New York show on WNBT-TV in June 1953. Tonight became a launching pad for Steve and hundreds of guests, including Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. Skitch Henderson and orchestra provided the music. Ernie Kovacs was the host from 1956-1957.
1970 - “Round and round and round it goes and where it stops, nobody knows.” Ted Mack said, “Good night from Geritol” for the last time. After 22 years on television, the curtain closed on The Original Amateur Hour on CBS. The show had been on ABC, NBC, CBS and originated on the Dumont Television Network.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Joseph McCarthy 09/27/1885 - Dec 18, 1943 Producer, Lyricist, Composer, Performer - WHITE HORSE INN (Kitty Carlisle Hart, Wm. Gaxton, Alfred Drake); 1973 IRENE (Debbie Reynolds, Ruth Warrick, Patsy Kelly, Monte Markham, Carrie Fisher)
Vincent Youmans 09/27/1898 - Apr 5, 1946 Great-uncle of William Youmans, Producer, Composer, my fav VY song is "More Than You Know" - orig & 1971 NO, NO NANETTE; HIT THE DECK; THROUGH THE YEARS (his daughter told me the title song was his favorite); SALLY MARR & HER ESCORTS (Joan Rivers)
Eve March 09/27/1910 - Sep 19, 1974 performer - COCO (Kate Hepburn); film's HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
William Conrad 9/27/1920 - 2/11/1994 performer - tv's & film's Cannon, Jake and the Fatman, Sorry, Wrong Number, Killers, Naked Jungle; TV narrator: The Bullwinkle Show; radio: Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke
Jayne Meadows 09/27/1920 Wu-ch'ang, China, Sister of Audrey Meadows, also perf'd under the name "Jayne Cotter", wife of Steve Allen (7/31/1954 - 10/30/2000) his death, performer - MANY HAPPY RETURNS (Mary Astor); KISS THEM FOR ME (Judy Holliday, Paul Ford, Richard Widmark); THE GAZEBO; 1978 ONCE IN A LIFETIME; tv's & film's CITY SLICKERS, MEDICAL CENTER
Stephen Douglass 09/27/1921 performer - origs MAKE A WISH (Nanette Fabrey, Helen Gallagher); THE GOLDEN APPLE; DAMN YANKEES; RUMPLE (Elliott Gould, Gretchen Wyler, Eddie Foy, Jr.); 110 IN THE SHADE (Inga Swenson, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Horton)
Arthur Penn 9/27/1922 director - orig & 2004 Sly Fox; 2002 Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates, Frank Langella); orig Wait Until Dark; An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May; The Miracle Worker; 2 for the Seesaw; tv's& film's Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, Night Moves; The Philco Television Playhouse; Goodyear Television Playhouse; Playwrights '56; 100 Centre Street
Mary McCarty 09/27/1923 - Apr 30, 1980 performer - origs SLEEPY HOLLOW (Jo Sullivan); MISS LIBERTY (Eddie Albert, Dody Goodman, Herbert Berghof, Tommy Rall); A RAINY DAY IN NEWARK (Gene Hackman, Dody Goodman, Zachary Scott, Rex Everhart, Tom Ahearne); FOLLIES; CHICAGO; 1977 ANNA CHRISTIE (Liv Ullman, John Lithgow)
Sada Thompson 09/27/1929 performer - origs JUNO; TARTUFFE (Roy R. Scheider, Laurence Luckinbill, Tony Lo Bianco, John Phillip Law, Salome Jens, Hal Holbrook, Larry Gates, Joyce Ebert, Michael O'Sullivan)[was this WONDERFUL?]; JOHNNY NO TRUMP (Bernadette Peters, Pat Hingle); SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY (Eli Wallach, Ron Holgate, Walter Able, Jan Miner, Michael Vale); ANY GIVEN DAY (Victor Slezak [Erika's bro], Andrea Marcovicci (cabaret performer), Peter Frechette, Lisa Eichhorn); tv's FAMILY [won Emmy]
Kathleen Nolan 09/27/1933 performer - orig PETER PAN (Mary Martin, Cyril Ritchard, Sondra Lee, Sally Brophy); LOVE IN E FLAT; tv's THE REAL McCOYS
Claude Jarman Jr. 9/27/1934 performer -tv's & film's Centennial; The Sun Comes Up; The Yearling (1 the most beautifully poignant movies ever!)
Delores Taylor 9/27/1939 performer performer, writer, producer; wife of Tom Laughlin (1956 - present) 1 child, Teresa - film's the cult movies The Trial of Billy Jack, Billy Jack
Meat Loaf 09/27/1951 performer - origs THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Tim Curry); ROCKABY HAMLET (Larry Marshall, Beverly D'Angelo, Pat Gorman, dance arr'mts by Doug Katsaros [BMI Musical Theater Work Shop], prod'd Marty Richards, dir/chor Gower Champion)
Shaun Cassidy 09/27/1958 Brother of Ryan Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy, Half-brother of David Cassidy, Son of Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones, performer BLOOD BROTHERS [replacement](I loved this show!); tv's & film's The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Breaking Away, General Hospital
SHOWS THAT OPENED THIS DAY:
1935 Othello with Gladys Cooper
1966 Dinner at Eight with Arlene Francis, June Havoc, Walter Pidgeon, Pamela Tiffin
1977 Miss Margarida's Way with Estelle Parsons, Colin Garrey
1983 Edmund Kean with Ben Kingsley
ON THIS DAY IN:
1954 - The Tonight show debuted on NBC-TV. Steve Allen hosted the late-night program which began as a local New York show on WNBT-TV in June 1953. Tonight became a launching pad for Steve and hundreds of guests, including Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. Skitch Henderson and orchestra provided the music. Ernie Kovacs was the host from 1956-1957.
1970 - “Round and round and round it goes and where it stops, nobody knows.” Ted Mack said, “Good night from Geritol” for the last time. After 22 years on television, the curtain closed on The Original Amateur Hour on CBS. The show had been on ABC, NBC, CBS and originated on the Dumont Television Network.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
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