Today's Birthdays 9/5
Today's Birthdays 9/5
#0Today's Birthdays 9/5
Posted: 9/4/05 at 8:04pm
Morris Carnovsky 09/05/1897 - Sep 1, 1992 performer, of New York’s Group Theater - THE BROTHERS KARAMOZOV (Lynn Fontanne, Edward G. Robinson, Alfred Lunt); PARADISE LOST (Luther & Stella Adler; Elia Kazan); GOLDEN BOY (Lee J. Cobb, Bert Conway, Frances Farmer, Robert Lewis); CAFE CROWN (Sam Jaffe, Mitzi Haios); NUDE WITH VIOLIN (Noel Coward); A FAMILY AFFAIR (Shelley Berman, Eileen Heckart, Rita Gardner, Larry Kert, Lynne Charnay, Linda Lavin)
Florence Eldridge 09/05/1901 - Aug 1, 1988 married to Fredric March, performer - origs AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (Morri Carnovsky, Rod Steiger); THE AUTUMN GARDEN (Fredric March, Jane Wyatt, James Lipton (yes, that James Lipton)); LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT; film's INHERIT THE WIND
Darryl F. (Francis) Zanuck 9/5/1902 - 12/22/1979 producer; cofounder of 20th Century Studios - film's The Jazz Singer, The Grapes of Wrath, Forever Amber, The Snake Pit
Charles Fredericks 09/05/1918 - May 14, 1970 performer - 1946 SHOW BOAT (Jan Clayton, Max Showalter); MUSIC IN MY HEART (Jack Cassidy, Jan Murray, Vivienne Segal)
Joaquin Romaguera 09/05/1932 performer - SWEENEY TODD (Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Sara Rice)
Carol Lawrence 09/05/1934 performer - SHANGRI-LA (Alice Ghostly, Haold Lang); SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING (Sidney Chaplin, Orson Bean, Phyliss Newman, Valarie Harper); tv's GENERAL HOSPITAL
William Devane 09/05/1940 Director, Performer - THE WATERING PLACE (Shirley Knight); THE CHINESE (Louise Lasser); G.R. POINT (Michael Moriarty); tv's & film's Knot's Landing; 24; The Missiles of October; Family Plot; Yanks; Space Cowboys
Raquel Welch 09/05/1940 performer; Turned down the lead in Barbarella (196
- which eventually went to Jane Fonda; Had a notorious backstage feud with the indomitable Mae West on the set of Myra Breckinridge (1970) - replacements: WOMAN OF THE YR; VICTOR/VICTORIA; tv's & film's Myra Breckenridge, Fantastic Voyage; Legally Blonde; CPW; 100 Rifles; Bandolero; Fantastic Voyage; One Million Years B.C.
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1996 SUMMER & SMOKE - Harry Hamlin
ON THIS DAY IN:
1981 Actress Barbara Loden dies today of cancer at age 48. After making her Broadway debut in 1957's Compulsion she appeared in Look After Lulu and After the Fall, for which she won a Tony Award. Loden also was a film actress, acting in Elia Kazan's "Wild River" and "Splendor in the Grass." Eventually she married her director Kazan and took on directing the drama "Wanda," a film she also wrote and edited.
1997 - Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) died of a heart attack at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta, India. The Albanian nun had celebrated her 87th birthday just nine days earlier. The recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa gave hope to millions, caring for, helping and listening to the poor and downtrodden.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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