Today's Birthdays 9/4

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Posted: 9/4/08 at 5:27pm

Darius Milhaud 09/04/1892 - Jun 22, 1974 composer, member of “Les Six”, music influenced by rhythms of American jazz & popular Brazilian music - ZIZI (Zizi Jeanmaire, dir'd by her hubby Roland Petit); film's The Beloved Vagabond (Maurice Chevalier, Betty Stockfeld, Margaret Lockwood); The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine, Frances Dee)

Paul Osborn 09/04/1901 - May 12, 1988 Writer, Director - ON BORROWED TIME (Frank Conroy); MORNING'S AT 7 (Dorothy Gish); A BELL FOR ADONO; 1953 ON BORROWED TIME (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Leo G. Carroll, Kay Hammond); THE WORLD OF SUZI WONG (France Nuyen, William Shatner(!)); 1980 MORNING'S AT 7 (Nancy Marchand, Maureen O'Sullivan, Teresa Wright, Gary Merrill); 1991 ON BORROWED TIME (Nathan Lane, Geo. C. Scott, Teresa Wright)

Mary Renault 9/4/1905 - 12/13/1983 English-born South African novelist - The King Must Die; The Mask of Apollo; The Bull from the Sea; Fire from Heaven; The Persian Boy; The Charioteer

Edward Dmytryk 9/4/1908 - 7/1/1999 film director; 1 of the "Hollywood 10" autobio "It's a Hell of a Life but Not a Bad Living," married to actress Jean Porter; sometimes credited as Moe Miller - WOW - Look at some of his films! enjoyed them all, never put it together that they were all dir'd by the same man: MILLION DOLLAR LEGS; THE FALCON STRIKES BACK; TENDER COMRADE; MURDER, MY SWEET (aka FAREWELL, MY LOVELY); BACK TO BATAAN; CROSSFIRE; THE JUGGLER; THE CAINE MUTINY; BROKEN LANCE; SOLDIER OF FORTUNE; THE LEFT HAND OF GOD; THE MOUNTAIN; RAINTREE COUNTY; THE YOUNG LIONS; 1958 THE BLUE ANGEL; WARLOCK; WALK ON THE WILD SIDE; THE CARPETBAGGERS; ALVAREZ KELLY

Richard Wright 09/04/1908 - Nov 28, 1960 Source Material, Writer whose books "Native Son" and "Black Boy" exposed the harsh effects of American racism - NATIVE SON (Ray Collins [Lt. Trag on "Perry Mason"], Everett Sloane); THE LONG DREAM (Stanley Greene, Clarence Williams III, Arthur Storch)

Howard Morris 9/4/1919 - 5/21/05 performer - 1945 Hamlet (Maurice Evans, Frances Reid, Charles Goff); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; 1960 Finian's Rainbow; tv's & film's Boys Night Out, Splash, High Anxiety, The Nutty Professor; Don't Drink the Water; Your Show of Shows, Caesar’s Hour, Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo; director: With Six You Get Egg Roll

Gar Moore 09/04/1920 - 11/3/1985 Nancy Walker's ex, performer - MEXICAN HAYRIDE (Bobby Clark, June Havoc); film’s PAISAN, THE UNDERWORLD STORY

Dick York 09/04/1928 - Feb 20, 1992 performer - orig. TEA & SYMPATHY (Deborah Kerr, Leif Erickson; casting Karl Malden, dir Elia Kazan); NIGHT OF THE AUK (Christopher Plummer, Claude Raines(!); Wendell Corey); tv & film's Bewitched, Going My Way, Inherit the Wind, My Sister Eileen, Tea & Sympathy, Bus Stop

Mitzi Gaynor 9/4/1931 - performer – film’s SOUTH PACIFIC; THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS; Les Girls

Richard Castellano 09/04/1933 - Dec 10, 1988 performer - LOVERS & OTHER STRANGERS (Zohra Lampert, Renee Taylor, Mary Louise Wilson); film's LOVERS & OTHER STRANGERS (Bea Arthur, Gig Young, Anne Jackson); THE GODFATHER

Leonard Frey 09/04/1938 - Aug 24, 1988 performer; studied w/Sandy Meisner - Little Mary Sunshine; orig FIDDLER; 1969 THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (Marcia Lewis); 1970 BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK (Michon Peacock, the wonderful Susan Watson); 1972 12TH NIGHT (Blythe Danner, René Auberjonois, Moses Gunn, Martha Henry); National Health; film's THE BOYS IN THE BAND; Fiddler on the Roof

Judith Ivey 09/04/1951 performer - PIAF (Zoe Wannamaker, Jane Lapotaire, Jean Smart(!), STEAMING; HURLYBURLY (Wm. Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon, Jerry Stiller, Ron Silver, Sigourney Weaver; 1987 BLITHE SPIRIT (Richard Chamberlin, Geraldine Page); PRECIOUS SONS (Ed Harris); PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD (Jason Robards, dir. Zoe Caldwell); 2001 FOLLIES; tv's & film's What Alice Found; Washington Square; DESIGNING WOMEN; What the Deaf Man Heard; Mystery, Alaska

Fred Alley 09/04/1962 - May 1, 2001 Bk & Lyrics - THE SPITFIRE GRILL

René Pape 9/4/1964 bass/bariton; one word: woof! beautiful voice, too! - tv's Die Zauberflote; The Marriage of Figaro

Beyoncé Knowles 9/4/1981 performer - tv's & film's Dreamgirls; Pink Panther; Austin Powers in Goldmember; Carmen: A Hip Hopera

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1946 THE FRONT PAGE with Arnold Moss, Lew Parker, Ray Walston, George Lyons & Olive Deering

1958 Jerome Robbins' Ballet: U.S.A.
- The Concert
- Afternoon of a Faun
- 3 x 3
- New York Export: Opus Jazz

ON THIS DATE:

1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers and nothing has been the same since.

1882 - Thomas Edison displayed the 1st practical electrical lighting system. The Pearl St. electric power station, Edison's steam powered plant, began operating and successfully turned on the lights in a 1 square mile area of NYC. - My Question: When was its 1st blackout?

1957 - Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

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

Milla