Today's Birthdays 9/9

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Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:06pm

Max Reinhardt 09/09/1873 - Oct 30, 1943 Producer, Writer, Director - THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS (Jane Cowl, Percy Waram); The Eternal Road, Sumurun and A Midsummer Night's Dream, the latter of which was one of the earlies Shakespeare productions to be made into a sound film.

S.N. Behrman Sep 9, 1893 - Sep 9, 1973 Popular and prolific playwright and producer; among his plays were Amphitryon '38, Jacobowsky and the Colonel, No Time for Comedy and the book to the musical Fanny. As a principal in The Playwrights Company, he co-produced many works by his fellow authors from 1938 to 1963.

Billy Rose 09/09/1899 - Feb 10, 1966 Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Director, Theatre Owner, Operator
Husband of Doris Vidor (1964 - ?) divorced, Fanny Brice (1929 - 193 divorced, Joyce Mathews (1956 - ?) divorced and (1965 - 1966) his death, Eleanor Holm (1939 - 1954) divorced; songwriter: Me and My Shadow, That Old Gang of Mine, It’s Only a Paper Moon, Without a Song, Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight, More than You Know, Barney Google - PADLOCKS OF 1927 (Texas Guinan, Lillian Roth); CARMEN JONES; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES; AN EVENING WITH MAURICE CHEVALIER

Allen Jenkins 09/09/1900 - Jul 20, 1974 performer - FRONT PAGE (Eduardo Ciannelli, Lee Tracy, Osgood Perkins); WONDER BOY (Gregory Ratoff, Sam Levene)

Joseph E. Levine 09/09/1905 - 7/31/1987 producer - HUGHIE (Jason Robards); KELLY (Anita Gillette, Wilfred Brambell); film's The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter

John Drew Colt 09/09/1913 - June 6 1975 performer, Ethel Barreymore' son - HI TOR (Peggy Ashcroft, Burgess Meredith, Hume Cronyn); THE LIFE WIRE (Peggy Cass, Jack Gilford, Pat Harrington, written & dir Garson Kanin, prod. Mike Todd)

Jane Greer 9/9/1924 - 8/24/2001 performer; Rudy Vallee was her first husband - film's Immediate Family, Just Between Friends, Against All Odds, Man of a Thousand Faces, Clown, Prisoner of Zenda, Out of the Past, Dick Tracy Detective

Cliff Robertson 09/09/1925 performerm husband of Dina Merrill (1966 - 1986) divorced, Cynthia Stone Lemmon (1957 - 1959) divorced - origs LATE LOVE (Elizabeth Montgomery, Arlene Francis, Lucille Watson, Frank Albertson); ORPHEUS DESCENDING; tv & film's Academy Award-winning actor: Charly [1968]; PT 109, Days of Wine and Roses, The Devil’s Brigade, Midway, Gidget, Picnic, Three Days of the Condor, Brainstorm, Falcon Crest; Spider-Man 1 & 2

Sylvia Miles 09/09/1932 performer; wife of Gerald Price (1952 - 195 divorced, Ted Brown (divorced), William Miles (divorced) - THE RIOT ACT (Linda Lavin, Mark Dawson); THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (Richard Chamberlin, Dorothy McGuire); film's Midnight Cowboy, Crossing Delancey

Topol 09/09/1935 performer, producer - IPI-TOMBI; FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (replacement); tv's & film's War and Remembrance; For Your Eyes Only; The Winds of War; Flash Gordon

Jeffrey Alan Chandler 09/09/1944 - 12/19/2001 performer - THE DRESSER (Tim Courtnay); WHODUNNIT (John Glover); tv's & film's Cop Rock; La Bamba; Iron Will

Michael Keaton (Douglas) 9/9/1951 performer - tv's & film's Batman, Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom, Dream Team, Much Ado about Nothing, Report to Murphy; Herbie: Fully Loaded; Much Ado About Nothing; Working Stiffs

Tom Wopat 09/09/1951 performer - replacements I LOVE MY WIFE; CITY OF ANGELS; GUYS & DOLLS; ANNIE GET YOUR GUN; 42ND ST; tv's Cybill, The Dukes of Hazzard; All My Children

Angela Cartwright 9/9/1952 performer - tv's & films' THE SOUND OF MUSIC; Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space

Edward Hibbert 09/09/1955 performer - 1982 ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Kate Burton, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Wilson); MARLENE (Sian Phillips); tv's Fantasy Island; The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

Hugh Grant 9/9/1960 performer - film's Sense and Sensibility, Nine Months, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Remains of the Day, Impromptu, The Dawning, Maurice, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes; Bridget Jones 1 & 2

Rod McLachlan 09/09/1960 performer - DEATH & THE KING'S HORSEMEN (Vanessa Williams); ST. JOAN (Maryann Plunkett); tv's & film's Our Town (Spalding Gray, Roberta Maxwell, Eric Stoltz); The Kid

Adam Sandler 9/9/1966 performer - tv's & film's The Cosby Show, Saturday Night Live [opera man]; actor: Happy Gilmore, Airheads, Coneheads, Going Overboard, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy; Spanglish; The Longest Yard

and my sister Lana!

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1935 Waiting For Lefty with Elia Kazan, Sandy Meisner, Luther Adler, Ruth Nelson

1975 THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH with Elizabeth Ashley, Alfred Drake, Martha Scott

ON THIS DATE:

1947 Bowing to pressure from HUAC, the Actor's Equity council reiterates its stand against communism today.

1970 At today's matinee, Hello, Dolly! surpasses My Fair Lady as the longest-running Broadway musical in history. The celebration was at Sardi's after the show.

1973 Playwright S. N. Behrman died today, age 80. He was the author of many plays, including The Second Man, No Time for Comedy, and Fanny.

1980 Just nine days before his 79th birthday, director-producer Harold Clurman dies today. Shows he helmed include Awake and Sing!, Member of the Wedding, Tiger at the Gates, Waltz of the Toreadors and Bus Stop. Clurman was also a drama critic for the New Republic and The Nation.

1997 Actor Burgess Meredith died in Malibu, Calif., at age 89.

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

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Posted: 9/9/05 at 4:06pm

It's also Tyler Maynard's (Altar Boyz, Miracle Brothers) birthday today.