Edgar Allen Poe 1/19/1809 - 10/7/1849 American
writer/poet The Raven; author of suspense tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue,
The Fall of the House of Usher, source material -The System of Dr. Tarr (Lowell
Sherman)
Paul Cezanne 1/19/1839 - 10/22/1906 French Post-Impressionist
painter
Alexander Woollcott 01/19/1887 - Jan 23, 1943 Writer, Director,
Performer, godfather of Sheridan Morley, Theatre critic for NY Times.
Inspiration for the role of "Sheridan Whiteside" in "The Man Who Came to
Dinner." - The Channel Road; Brief Moment; The Dark Tower; Wine of
Choice
John Raitt 01/19/1917 - Feb 20, 2005 performer, Bonnie Raitt's pop
- origs Carousel; Magdalena; Three Wishes for Jamie (Anne Jeffreys, Jeff Morrow,
Charlotte Rae, Bert Wheeler); Carnival in Flanders; The Pajama Game; A Joyful
Noise; A Musical Jubilee; tv's & film's The Pajama Game, The Chevy Show, The
Buick Circus Hour; Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There [The
night I saw this film, when he perf'd the soliloquy fr Carousel, the audience
went wild]
Guy Madison 1/19/1922 - 2/6/1996 performer, 1st wife Gail
Russell - tv's & film's Zorro, Drums in the Deep South, Special Forces, Hell
Commandos, Till the End of Time, Wild Bill Hickock
Jean Stapleton [Jeanne
Murray] 01/19/1923 performer - origs In the Summer House; Damn Yankees; Bells
Are Ringing; Juno; Rhinoceros; Funny Girl; 1986 Arsenic and Old Lace; Emmy
Award-winning actress: All in the Family [1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1977-1978];
Bells are Ringing, Cinderella, Damn Yankees, Klute
Fritz Weaver
01/19/1926 performer; I'll never forget running into him @ a tiny restaurant
that had the best fallahfals in NYC called Bennie's on Amsterdam & 75th and
talking w/him about Baker Street. What a thrill! - The Chalk Garden; All
American; Baker Street; Angels Fall (Barnard Hughes); 1991 The Crucible; tv's
& films Holocaust, Marathon Man, Black Sunday; OB's Brief Encounter; The
Voysey Inheritance
Michael Crawford, Dame Edith Shorthouse [Pseudonym],
Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith [Birthname] 01/19/1942 performer - Black Comedy /
White Lies (Geraldine Page, Lynn Redgrave's debut); The Phantom of the Opera;
Dance of the Vampires; film's Condorman, Hello, Dolly!, A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum, The Knack
Dolly Parton 1/19/1946 - performer,
composer - Nine to Five; film's 9-to-5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,
Steel Magnolias; owns Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee
Desi Arnaz
Jr. 1/19/1953 performer, son of Lucy & Desi, brother of Lucie Arnaz,
brother-in-law of Laurence Luckinbill, married to Amy Arnaz (1989 - present) 1
child, Linda Purl (13 January 1979 - 1981) (divorced); Brother-in-law of
Laurence Luckinbill. - Dino, Desi and Billy: Through Spray Colored Glasses;
Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV this day, as
Lucy Ricardo of I Love Lucy gave birth to a baby boy -- just as she actually did
in real life -- following the script to the letter! The audience for the program
was greater than that watching the inauguration of President Dwight D.
Eisenhower the following day. - tv's & film's The Mambo Kings; Automan; A
Wedding; Red Sky at Morning
William Ragsdale 01/19/1961 performer -
Biloxi Blues; Getting Away With Murder (Christine Ebersole, Terrence Mann, John
Rubinstein, Josh Mostel)
Scott Schwartz 01/19/1974 son of Stephen
Schwartz, director - SS co-directed Jane Eyre (James Barbour, Marla Schaffel,
Mary Stout); Golda's Balcony
Tracy Shayne 1/19/? performer, wife of Hugh
Panaro (divorced) - replacement in: A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, Phantom,
Chicago
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1853 Verdi's opera "Il
Trovatore" premiered in Rome.
1956 Tyrone Guthrie directs Anthony Quayle
in Christopher Marlowe's 16th century epic Tamburlaine at the Winter Garden
Theatre. It runs only 20 performances, but gives one thing to posterity: it's
the Broadway debut of William Shatner, later Captain Kirk on TV's "Star
Trek."
1966 The Wayward Stork with Bob Cummings, Art Lund, Rosalind Cash,
Lois Nettleton & Arlene Golonka
1971 - Ruby Keeler made her comeback
in the play, No, No Nanette, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York
City. Keeler played the role of Sue Smith in the revival of the 1925 hit
musical. The show played on for 861 performances.
1978 - Paul Robeson
with James Earl Jones and Burt Wallace
1984 Ian McKellen: Acting
Shakespeare
ON THIS DAY IN:
1966 Indira Gandhi was elected prime
minister of India.
2001 In a deal sparing himself possible indictment,
President Clinton acknowledged for the first time making false statements under
oath about Monica Lewinsky; he also surrendered his law license for five
years.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The
Days, Playbill.com, geocities.com/tracyshayne1)
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