Today's Birthdays 9/3 - Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Kitty Carlisle Hart

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Posted: 9/3/03 at 11:01pm

Kitty Carlisle Hart 09/03/1910 performer, Wife of Moss Hart (1946 - 1961) his death - CHAMPAGNE SEC (Peggy Wood, John Barclay, dir. Monty Woolley); THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA (Georgio Tozzi); film's A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Alan (Walbridge) Ladd 9/3/1913 - 1/29/1964 performer - The Carpetbaggers, Citizen Kane, Shane, Star Spangled Rhythm, This Gun for Hire; actress Cheryl Ladd’s father-in-law [she married Alan's son David]

Anne Jackson 09/03/1926 performer, wife of Eli Wallach (1948 - present) - 1946 HENRY VIII (Victory Jory(!), Eva Le Gallienne, Eli Wallach, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.); orig SUMMER & SMOKE (Ray Walston); LOVE ME LONG (Shirley Booth); 1989 CAFE CROWN (Walter Bobbie, Eli Wallach); film's Lovers and Other Strangers

Laurinda Barrett 09/03/1931 performer - I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (Lillian Gish, Hal Holbrook, Teresa Wright)

Eileen Brennan 09/03/1935 performer - THE STUDENT GYPSY (Don DeLuise); HELLO, DOLLY! (Carol Channing, Jo Anne Worley [Carol Channing's u/s], Charles Nelson Reilly) Emmy Award-winning actress: Private Benjamin [1980-81]; A New Kind of Family, Off the Rack, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Last Picture Show, Stella, The Sting

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Sweet Adeline 09/03/1929 w/Helen Morgan, Gene Raymond, Charles Butterworth

ON THIS DAY IN:

1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.

1967 - After 17 years, What’s My Line aired for the final time on CBS-TV. The host of the show was John Daly. Panelists on the first show were: Dorothy Kilgallen, Louis Untermeyer, Dr. Richard Hoffman and New Jersey Governor Harold Hoffman. Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf joined the show a short time later. Kilgallen, Cerf and Francis were the continuing regulars for fifteen years. Fred Allen, Hal Block and Steve Allen served as panelists for short stints at different times.

1991 Movie director Frank Capra died at age 94.

2002 Ted Ross, the big-voiced actor who won a Tony Award for playing The Cowardly Lion in the Broadway musical, The Wiz, a performance he later recreated in the film, dies today at age 68.

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

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Do Re Milla Updated On: 9/3/03 at 11:01 PM