George Frideric Handel 02/23/1685 - Apr 14, 1759
composer, Messiah - Nureyev and Friends; All in One
Victor Fleming
2/23/1883 - 1/6/1949 American motion-picture director; my fav film's A Guy Named
Joe; 1929 The Virginian; Red Dust; Bombshell; 1934 Treasure Island; Reckless;
The Good Earth; Captains Courageous; The Great Waltz; The Wizard of Oz; Gone
With The Wind; 1941 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
William L. Shirer 2/23/1904
- 12/28/1993 source mat'l, journalist, author: The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich, Ghandi: A Memoir
Shelley Berman 02/23/1926 [another source lists
his bd as 2/2/26]- The Girls Against the Boys (Bert Lahr, Nancy Walker, Dick
VanDyke, Martin Charnin); A Family Affair; Insideoutsideandallaround with
Shelley Berman; tv's The Ed Sullivan Show; What's My Line; Divorce American
Style; LA Law; Curb Your Enthusiasam; That's Life; Forever Fernwood; The
Holiday; Boston Legal
Peter Fonda 02/23/1939 - Bridget's dad; brother of
Jane Fonda, son of Henry Fonda; Turned down the role of Oliver in "Love Story",
despite being offered 10% of the gross. - Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (Darren
McGavin, John McMartin, Peg Murray); tv's & film's Futureworld, The Wild
Angel’s, Love and a .45; Supernova
Joop Van Den Ende 02/23/1942 Producer
- Cyrano The Musical; 1996 Once Upon a Mattress; 2001 42nd Street; 2002 Into the
Woods; tv's & film's a bunch of them in Holland
Jada Rowland
02/23/1943 performer - origs That Lady; The House of Bernarda Alba; Sunday
Breakfast (Cloris Leachman); The Cold Wind and the Warm; tv's The Secret Storm;
As the World Turns; The Doctors; The Hamptons
Patricia Richardson
02/23/1951 performer; BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University - Wife of
Raymond Baker (June 20, 1982 - August 1995) divorced - 1974 Gypsy; Loose Ends
(Kevin Kline); OB The Wake of Jamie Foster; The Miss Firecracker Contest; Cruise
Controle; Fables for Friends; tv's Home Improvement; Ulee's Gold; Strong
Medicine; Candy Paint; The West Wing
Sophie Hayden 02/23/1954 performer
- King of Schnorrers; Barnum; The Comedy of Errors; The Show Off (Pat Carroll,
Laura Esterman, Boyd Gaines)
Paul Anthony Stewart 2/23/1970 performer -
Cyrano - The Musical; 2004 Fiddler on the Roof [replacement]; tv's & film's
Loving; The Inheritence; Somewhere in the City; Guiding Light
Robert
Lopez 02/23/1975 Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Designer - Avenue Q; tv's &
film's Scrubs - My Musical; The Wonder Pets; Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay
Couple in All the World; Johnny & the Sprites; Trekkies
SHOWS THAT
OPENED ON THIS DATE:
Tonight at 8:30 - Gertrude Lawrence
- Fumed
Oak; - Hands Across the Sea; - Shadow Play 02/23/1948
1960 The Dublin
Gate Theatre will hear Chimes at Midnight. Orson Welles directs his adaptation
of Shakespeare and Holinshead.
1966 Sybil Thorndike and Athene Seyler
are the poisoning sisters in Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace. The
production is revived at London's Vaudeville Theatre.
1995 Uncle Vanya
with Werner Klemperer, Elizabeth Franz, Amanda Donohoe and Tom Courtenay
2006 The Pajama Game
ON THIS DAY IN:
1939 - The 11th
Academy Awards were celebrated at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles (for the
flicks of 193 . Oscars were doled out for You Can’t Take It with You for Best
Picture and Best Director (Frank Capra). Capra, who took home his third
Best-Director prize, had won for 1934’s It Happened One Night and 1936’s Mr.
Deeds Goes to Town. The Best Actor award was claimed for the second year in a
row (Captains Courageous) by Spencer Tracy for Boys Town. Best Actress and Best
Supporting Actress awards were presented to Bette Davis and Fay Bainter,
respectively, for their performances in Jezebel; while Walter Brennan took home
the prized statuette for Best Supporting Actor in Kentucky. These were Davis’
and Brennan’s second Academy Awards; the first for Davis was awarded three years
earlier for Dangerous, and Brennan received his first Oscar two years before for
Come and Get It. Walt Disney won an honorary Oscar for the film, Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs. Mr. Disney actually received one Oscar statuette and seven
miniature ones for his work “.
1942 The first shelling of the U.S.
mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil
refinery in Ellwood, Calif.
1965 Comedian Stan Laurel died at age 74.
2004 The Army canceled its Comanche helicopter program after sinking
$6.9 billion into it over 21 years.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS
DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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