Jean B. Poquelin aka Moliere 1/15/1622 - 2/17/1673
French playwright, he will collapse during a performance of his own The
Imaginary Invalid and later die - The Affected Young Ladies, The School for
Wives, Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Misanthrope, The Miser, The Learned Ladies,
Scapin
Ivor Novello 01/15/1893 - Mar 6, 1951 composer, writer,
performer, source mat'l - Charlot Revue (Gertrude Lawrence, Bea Lillie, Jack
Buchannan; Symphony in Two Flats; The Truth Game (Billie Burke); A Party (Brenda
Forbes); Fresh Fields; Glamorous Night (Mary Ellis); Careless Rapture; Crest of
the Wave; The Dancing Years; Arc de Triomphe; Perchance To Dream; King's
Rhapsody; film's The Bohemian Girl (Glady Cooper); The Constant Nymph; The Man
Without Desire; The White Rose (Mae Marsh); Bonnie Prince Charlie; The Rat; The
Triumph of the Rat; The Return of the Rat; The Lodger (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock);
The Truth Game aka But the Flesh Is Weak; Tarzan the Ape Man (Johnny Weismuller,
Maureen O'Sullivan, screenplay by Novello); Mata Hari (Greta Garbo, screenplay
by Novello); Sleeping Car; I Lived With You; Gosford Park
Gene Krupa
1/15/1909 - 10/16/1973 composer - Perfectly Frank (Jo Sullivan, Wayne Cilento);
films: Some Like it Hot, Ball of Fire, The Gene Krupa Story
Cy Feuer
01/15/1911 - May 17, 2006 Husband of Posy Feuer (1919 - 2005); Musical Director,
Producer, Writer, Director, Theatre Owner/Operator producer in partnership with
Ernest H. Martin, will produce Broadway classics Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, The
Boy Friend, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Little Me, as
well as The Goodbye People (Milton Berle, Tony LoBianco, Brenda Vaccaro); film's
Shine On, Harvest Moon (Roy Rogers); In Old Caliente (Roy Rogers, Gaby Hayes,
Katherine DeMille); Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd, Jennifer Jones); Guys and
Dolls; Where's Charley; Cabaret; Piaf; A Chorus Line
Lloyd Bridges
01/15/1913 - 3/10/1998 performer, father of Beau & Jeff - Suzanna and the
Elders (Morris Carnovsky); Dead Pidgeon ( tv's & film's Sea Hunt, Roots,
High Noon, Airplane!, Airplane 2, The Grace Kelly Story, The Rainmaker, The
Great Wallendas, Joe Versus the Volcano; Jeff & Beau’s dad
Thelma
Carpenter 01/15/1922- May 14, 1997 performer – Inside USA (Bea Lilly, Jack
Haley, Jack Cassidy, Carl Reiner, Lewis Nye); Ankles Aweigh (Herb Fields)
Martin Luther King 1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968 American minister and civil
rights leader, source mat’l - I Have a Dream (Billy Dee Williams)
Margaret O’Brien 1/15/1937 performer; In 1959 Ms. O'Brien starred in a
national stage tour of "The Young And The Beautiful" by author Sally Benson
(creator of the book that became O'Brien's most famous film, "Meet Me In St.
Louis.") Co-starring opposite O'Brien in the stageplay of "The Young And The
Beautiful" was Dirk Summers, who later became an award winning writer and
director in films and television; tv’s & film’s Meet Me in St. Louis, Little
Women [1949], The Secret Garden [1949], Amy, Marcus Welby, M.D.; Journey for
Margaret; Canterville Ghost
Andrea Martin 01/15/1947 performer;
Sister-in-law of Martin Short – Young Frankenstein; 2004 Fiddler on the Roof; My
Favorite Year; 1997 Candide; 2002 Oklahoma!; Emmy Award-winning writer: The
Energy Ball/Sweeps Week, SCTV Network [1983], actress: Guitarman, Rude
Awakening, Soup for One
Shauna Hicks 01/15/1962 performer- Meet Me in
St. Louis (Geo. Hearn, Betty Garrett, Jason Workman); Blood Brothers
[replacement](can I tell you how much I looooved this show!)
SHOWS THAT
OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1879 U.S. premiere of Gilbert & Sullivan's
H.M.S. Pinafore at the Standard Theatre, creating a sensation, and inspiring a
generation of young writers to try their hands at comic operetta. A key moment
in the development of the Broadway musical.
1923 When the
factory-owner's son decides the workers must take over the ailing company, it
takes a millionaire fresh from an asylum to bail them out of debt. Yep, Give and
Take is a comedy. Aaron Hoffman's farce runs beyond the season. Vivian Tobin,
Louis Mann, and Robert Craig are in the cast at the 49th Street Theatre.
1948 With Sid Caesar in the cast, I'd Make Mine Manhattan too. This
revue with music by Richard Levine and sketches by Arnold Horwitt will run
almost 53 weeks. Hassard Short directs.
1952 The Shrike with José Ferrer
1981 Eva Le Gallienne, at age 82, returns to Broadway to star in To
Grandmother's House We Go, which runs 61 performances at the Biltmore Theatre.
Her co-star is Shepperd Strudwick.
1/15/2009 Soul of Shaolin
ON
THIS DAY IN:
1947 The mutilated remains of 22-year-old aspiring actress
Elizabeth Short, known as the 'Black Dahlia' for her dark outfits, were found in
a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The case has never been solved.
1983
Shepperd Strudwick dies today, two years to the day after his final Broadway
opening, in To Grandmother's House We Go. Other notable productions: Affairs of
State, and Christopher Blake.
1985 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences honored actress Myrna Loy at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The
79-year-old actress never received a nomination by the Academy -- though she
appeared in 120 films.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY,
440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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