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| Today's Birthdays 9/9 | |
| Posted by: | do_re_milla 07:51 pm EDT 09/09/08 |
| 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 - 1938 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) Arthur Lithgow 09/09/1915 - Mar 23, 2004 performer; The McCarter Theatre Company (Arthur Lithgow, Executive Director); father of John Lithgow - Lorelei; Cure For Matrimony; Steel (Don DeFore) 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 performer, 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 film series Sylvia Miles 09/09/1932 performer; wife of Gerald Price (1952 - 195 divorced, Ted Brown (divorced), William Miles (divorced); Infamous for dumping a plate of pasta on the head of dyspeptic theater critic John Simon of New York magazine in The Ginger Man, a New York City restaurant, after he gave her a nasty, scathing review in a 1973 play. - THE RIOT ACT (Linda Lavin, Mark Dawson); THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (Richard Chamberlin, Dorothy McGuire); film's Midnight Cowboy; Crossing Delancey; The Boys Behind the Desk Topol 09/09/1935 performer, producer; In the late 1980s he toured the US is a stage revival of "Fiddler on the Roof." Unlike when he made the movie in 1971, he was Tevye's age by this time. The part of wife Golde was played by Rosalind Harris, who had played daughter Tzeitel in the movie; Topol quote: "Anyone who ever plays Tevye should be thankful to Zero [Mostel]. He gave us all room and I know I wouldn't have done the movie without the advantage of a year's rehearsal on stage." - 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; Herbie Fully Loaded; Cars; The Company Tom Wopat 09/09/1951 performer; Beat out Dennis Quaid and Gerald McRaney for the role of Luke Duke on The Dukes of Hazard (1979). - A Catered Affair; 2005 Glengary, Glen Ross; 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; The Hive 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; Son of Geoffrey Hibbert - The Drowsy Chaperone; 1982 ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Kate Burton, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Wilson); MARLENE (Sian Phillips); tv's Fantasy Island; The Muppets' Wizard of Oz; Starved; 2005 Once Upon A Mattress; Curtains 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; Music & Lyrics 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; NYU BFA; He also writes and produces many of his own films, and has composed songs for several of them, including The Wedding Singer (1998); Performed at the RNC (Republican national conference) in 2004. - 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; I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and my sister Lana! Happy Birthday Sweetheart! SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE: 1889 Shenandoah 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) Milla | |
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