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Posted: 9/7/05 at 9:13pm
Richard the Lionheart 9/8/1157 - 4/6/1199 Coeur de Lion: Richard I: King of England [1189-1199]
Antonin Dvorak 9/8/1841 - 5/1/1904 composer: Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies, St. Ludmila Oratorio, RUSALKA
Howard Dietz 09/08/1896 - Jul 30, 1983 Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Director - THE LITTLE SHOW (Fred Allen, Bettina Hall, Libby Holman, Clifton Webb); THE BAND WAGON (Fred & Adele Astaire, Helen Broderick, Frank Morgan); FLYING COLORS (Imogen Coca, Buddy & Velma Ebsen, Clifton Webb); AT HOME ABROAD (Vera Allen Eddie Foy, Jr., John Payne, Eleanor Powell, Ethel Waters); THE SHOW IS ON [1936] (Bea Lillie, Vera Ellen, Reginald Gardiner, Bert Lahr, bk, scenic design, dir. Vincent Minelli); BETWEEN THE DEVIL (Evelyn Laye, Jack Buchanan, Vilma Ebsen); KEEP OFF THE GRASS (Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante, Jane Froman, Jackie Gleason, Virginia O'Brien, Jerry Robbins); JACKPOT (Betty Garrett, Nanette Fabray); SADIE THOMPSON (Ethel Merman [replaced in previews], June Havoc); THE GAY LIFE (Barbara Cook, Luce Ennis); INSIDE USA (Jack Haley, Bea Lillie, Thelma Carpenter, Jack Cassidy, Carl Reiner); film's Bandwagon; PR exec for MGM, Leo The Lion (MGM's mascot) was his idea
Sir Harry Secombe 09/08/1921 - Apr 11, 2001 performer - PICKWICK (Elizabeth (Betsy) Parrish, Charlotte Rae)
Sid Caesar 09/08/1922 performer, discovered by Vernon Duke when they were in the Coast Guard & VD cast SC in TARS & SPARS & SC's best man; Sid Caesar is aces w/me. Margery Beddow was in LITTLE ME w/Sid. 2 yrs ago, he gave a talk at a synagogue here in NYC. Margie went to him after the talk & he recognized her right away & greated her w/great warmth. & then there's the fact that when Imogene Coca was diagnosed w/Alzheimer's & became a resident at The Actors' Fund Home, he was very generous w/The ACtors' Fun. - MAKE MINE MANHATTAN (Max Showalter, sweet guy, met him at the O'Neill Center the summer I was there); LITTLE ME (Margery Beddow, Gretchin Cryer, Swen Swenson); 4 ON A GARDEN (Carol Channing, Tommy Lee Jones); SID CAESAR & CO.; tv's Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Your Show of Shows [1951]
Peter Sellers 9/8/1925 - 7/24/1980 performer - film's Pink Panther series, What’s New Pussycat, The Mouse that Roared, The World of Henry Orient, Casino Royale, Dr. Strangelove, Being There
Bob Leslie 09/08/1926 - Feb 4, 1991 performer - MR WONDERFUL (Sammy Davis, Sr., Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Carter, Chita Rivera)
Patsy Cline - 9/8/1932 - 3/5/1963 grew up in Winchester, VA not far from where I'm from, performer, got her break on Arthur Godfrey - Country Music Hall of Famer: Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Walkin’ After Midnight, She’s Got You; killed in plane crash
Alan Feinstein 09/08/1941 performer - 1973 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Lois Nettleton, John Newton); 1983 A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (Tony Lo Bianco); tv's & film's The Runaways, Berrenger’s, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of Night, Love of Life, LAW & ORDER
Christopher Connelly 9/8/1941 - 12/7/1988 - performer - tv's & film's PEYTON PLACE, PAPER MOON, The Messenger, Mines of Kilimanjaro, Benji, The Martian Chronicles: Part 3
Julie Kurnitz 09/08/1942 - Jul 15, 2004 performer - orig Gorey Stories; Minnie's Boys
David Arquette 9/8/1971 performer - tv's & film's The Outsiders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dream with the Fishes, Scream 2, Scream 3, 3000 Miles to Graceland
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1933 Murder at the Vanities with Bela Lugosi, Bob Cummings
Carnival in Flanders 09/08/1953 - Dolores Gray, John Raitt, Lee Barry
1994 Philadelphia, Here I Come! w/Robert Sean Leonard, Milo O'Shea
1999 Off-Broadway's Century Theatre becomes The Exact Center of the Universe as Joan Vail Thorne's comedy moves to a commercial run tonight. The Southern-fried family comedy features Frances Sternhagen as a matron unsettled by her son's romance. John Tillinger directs the star and a cast that also features Reed Birney, Marge Redmond, Tracy Thorne and Sloane Shelton in the show, which runs 142 performances.
ON THIS DATE:
1664 The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York
1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance to the US of A was written by a former Baptist preacher, Francis Bellamy. It only took Mr. Bellamy three hours to write the original 23 words in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovering America.
1935 Sen. Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded; he died two days later.
1945 Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America, the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
1966 The TV series "Star Trek" premiered on NBC. Stardate: 1513.1 the 1st episode was "The Man Trap"
1977 Zero Mostel, star of stage and screen, dies today. His most notable work includes leading the original Broadway casts of Fiddler On The Roof and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum and starring in Mel Brooks' film, "The Producers."
2000 The head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs apologized for the federal agency's "legacy of racism and inhumanity" that included massacres, forced relocations of tribes and attempts to wipe out Indian cultures.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Antonin Dvorak 9/8/1841 - 5/1/1904 composer: Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies, St. Ludmila Oratorio, RUSALKA
Howard Dietz 09/08/1896 - Jul 30, 1983 Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Director - THE LITTLE SHOW (Fred Allen, Bettina Hall, Libby Holman, Clifton Webb); THE BAND WAGON (Fred & Adele Astaire, Helen Broderick, Frank Morgan); FLYING COLORS (Imogen Coca, Buddy & Velma Ebsen, Clifton Webb); AT HOME ABROAD (Vera Allen Eddie Foy, Jr., John Payne, Eleanor Powell, Ethel Waters); THE SHOW IS ON [1936] (Bea Lillie, Vera Ellen, Reginald Gardiner, Bert Lahr, bk, scenic design, dir. Vincent Minelli); BETWEEN THE DEVIL (Evelyn Laye, Jack Buchanan, Vilma Ebsen); KEEP OFF THE GRASS (Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante, Jane Froman, Jackie Gleason, Virginia O'Brien, Jerry Robbins); JACKPOT (Betty Garrett, Nanette Fabray); SADIE THOMPSON (Ethel Merman [replaced in previews], June Havoc); THE GAY LIFE (Barbara Cook, Luce Ennis); INSIDE USA (Jack Haley, Bea Lillie, Thelma Carpenter, Jack Cassidy, Carl Reiner); film's Bandwagon; PR exec for MGM, Leo The Lion (MGM's mascot) was his idea
Sir Harry Secombe 09/08/1921 - Apr 11, 2001 performer - PICKWICK (Elizabeth (Betsy) Parrish, Charlotte Rae)
Sid Caesar 09/08/1922 performer, discovered by Vernon Duke when they were in the Coast Guard & VD cast SC in TARS & SPARS & SC's best man; Sid Caesar is aces w/me. Margery Beddow was in LITTLE ME w/Sid. 2 yrs ago, he gave a talk at a synagogue here in NYC. Margie went to him after the talk & he recognized her right away & greated her w/great warmth. & then there's the fact that when Imogene Coca was diagnosed w/Alzheimer's & became a resident at The Actors' Fund Home, he was very generous w/The ACtors' Fun. - MAKE MINE MANHATTAN (Max Showalter, sweet guy, met him at the O'Neill Center the summer I was there); LITTLE ME (Margery Beddow, Gretchin Cryer, Swen Swenson); 4 ON A GARDEN (Carol Channing, Tommy Lee Jones); SID CAESAR & CO.; tv's Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Your Show of Shows [1951]
Peter Sellers 9/8/1925 - 7/24/1980 performer - film's Pink Panther series, What’s New Pussycat, The Mouse that Roared, The World of Henry Orient, Casino Royale, Dr. Strangelove, Being There
Bob Leslie 09/08/1926 - Feb 4, 1991 performer - MR WONDERFUL (Sammy Davis, Sr., Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Carter, Chita Rivera)
Patsy Cline - 9/8/1932 - 3/5/1963 grew up in Winchester, VA not far from where I'm from, performer, got her break on Arthur Godfrey - Country Music Hall of Famer: Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Walkin’ After Midnight, She’s Got You; killed in plane crash
Alan Feinstein 09/08/1941 performer - 1973 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Lois Nettleton, John Newton); 1983 A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (Tony Lo Bianco); tv's & film's The Runaways, Berrenger’s, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of Night, Love of Life, LAW & ORDER
Christopher Connelly 9/8/1941 - 12/7/1988 - performer - tv's & film's PEYTON PLACE, PAPER MOON, The Messenger, Mines of Kilimanjaro, Benji, The Martian Chronicles: Part 3
Julie Kurnitz 09/08/1942 - Jul 15, 2004 performer - orig Gorey Stories; Minnie's Boys
David Arquette 9/8/1971 performer - tv's & film's The Outsiders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dream with the Fishes, Scream 2, Scream 3, 3000 Miles to Graceland
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1933 Murder at the Vanities with Bela Lugosi, Bob Cummings
Carnival in Flanders 09/08/1953 - Dolores Gray, John Raitt, Lee Barry
1994 Philadelphia, Here I Come! w/Robert Sean Leonard, Milo O'Shea
1999 Off-Broadway's Century Theatre becomes The Exact Center of the Universe as Joan Vail Thorne's comedy moves to a commercial run tonight. The Southern-fried family comedy features Frances Sternhagen as a matron unsettled by her son's romance. John Tillinger directs the star and a cast that also features Reed Birney, Marge Redmond, Tracy Thorne and Sloane Shelton in the show, which runs 142 performances.
ON THIS DATE:
1664 The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York
1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance to the US of A was written by a former Baptist preacher, Francis Bellamy. It only took Mr. Bellamy three hours to write the original 23 words in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovering America.
1935 Sen. Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded; he died two days later.
1945 Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America, the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
1966 The TV series "Star Trek" premiered on NBC. Stardate: 1513.1 the 1st episode was "The Man Trap"
1977 Zero Mostel, star of stage and screen, dies today. His most notable work includes leading the original Broadway casts of Fiddler On The Roof and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum and starring in Mel Brooks' film, "The Producers."
2000 The head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs apologized for the federal agency's "legacy of racism and inhumanity" that included massacres, forced relocations of tribes and attempts to wipe out Indian cultures.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
