Today's Birthdays 10/17
Today's Birthdays 10/17
#0Today's Birthdays 10/17
Posted: 10/16/05 at 9:11pm
Spring Byington 10/17/1886 - Sep 7, 1971 performer; delightful actress - Beggar on Horseback (Osgood Perkins); 1928 The Merchant of Venice (George Arliss, Peggy Wood); tv's & film's Ah Wilderness; Werewolf of London; Dodsworth; Theodora Goes Wild; Every Saturday Night (The Jones Family Series); You Can't Take It With You; 1933 Little Women; The Enchanted Cottage; The Good Old Summertime; December Bride; Batman
Jean Arthur 10/17/1900 - Jun 19, 1991 1950 performer; 1 of my fav stars - Foreign Affairs; The Man Who Reclaimed His Head; Twenty-five Dollars an Hour (Geo. Metaxa); The Bride of Torozko (Van Heflin, Sam Jaffe); PETER PAN (Boris Karloff); film's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON; THE MORE THE MERRIER; SHANE
Irene Ryan 10/17/1902 - Apr 26, 1973 performer - COMES A DAY (Judith Anderson, Brandon de Wilde, Larry Hagman, George C. Scott; PIPPIN; tv's THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
Arthur Miller 10/17/1915 - Feb 10, 2005 writer, brother of Joan Copeland, husband of Inge Morath (1962 - 2002) her death, husband of Mary Jane Slattery (1940 - 1956) divorced, husband of Marilyn Monroe (1956 - 1950) divorced - THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK; ALL MY SONS; THE CRUCIBLE; DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Marsha Hunt 10/17/1917 performer - THE DEVIL'S DESCIPLE (Victor Jory)
Rita Hayworth 10/17/1918 - May 14, 1987 performer, daughter of Eduardo & Volga Cansino,Niece of Elsa Cansino, niece of Vinton Hayworth, niece of Angel Cansino - film's Pal Joey; Miss Sadie Thompson; The Lady From Shanghai; Gilda; Cover Girl; You Were Never Lovier; The Strawberry Blonde; Only Angels Have Wings; Meet Nero Wolfe; Charlie Chan in Egypt
Montgomery Clift 10/17/1920 - Jul 23, 1966 performer - FLY AWAY HOME (Sheldon Leonard); film's THE LIFT; A PLACE IN THE SUN; SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER; JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Tom Poston 10/17/1921 performer, husband of Suzanne Pleshette (2001 - present) - WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER
Gretchen Cryer 10/17/1935 Writer, lyricist, performer - mother of Jon Cryer, wife of David Cryer (1954 - 196
divorced - LITTLE ME (Sid Cesar, Margery Beddow); 110 IN THE SHADE; SHELTER
Cameron Mackintosh 10/17/1946 producer - CATS; OLIVER; SONG & DANCE; LES MIZ; PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Michael McKean 10/17/1947 performer - Accomplice; Hairspray [replacement]; tv's & film's Sat. Night Live; A Mighty Wind; Life's Too Short; Spinal Tap: The Final Tour; Coneheads; Man Trouble; Laverne & Shirley
Patti Cohenour 10/17/1952 performer - The Light in the Piazza; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; orig Big River; orig musical A Doll's Life (George Hearn, Betsy Joslyn, Peter Gallagher)
Susan Stroman 10/17/1954 Writer, Choreographer, Director, Performer, wife of Mike Ockrent (1996 - December 2, 1999) his death - The Frogs; Oklahoma!; CRAZY FOR YOU; BIG; CONTACT; THE MUSIC MAN; THOU SHALT NOT
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1960 Tenderloin with Maurice Evans, Lee Becker and Ron Stratton
1965 Barbara Harris and John Cullum star in the reincarnation musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Also in the cast, my dear friend Ken Richards.
1967 - “Gimme a head with hair. Long, beautiful hair...” The rock musical HAIR opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater for a limited run. After much trial and error, involving several openings and closings, HAIR eventually opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater on April 29, 1968. It closed on July 1, 1972 after 1,742 performances.
1982 A revival of Sam Shepard's True West is at the Cherry Lane Theatre tonight. Gary Sinise (Steppenwolf's A Streetcar Named Desire and the film "Forrest Gump") directs and stars in this show, which runs 762 performances. Co-stars are John Malkovich, Sam Schacht and Margaret Thomson. Although the original production at the Public Theater in 1980 was repudiated by its author, he appreciated this new version, as did critics and theatregoers, who have since regarded the mounting as a landmark. True West finally reached Broadway in 2000, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternating roles at Circle in the Square
1983 - Actor Anthony Quinn lit up the Great White Way in the revival of the 1968 musical, Zorba, that reunited Quinn with Lila Kedrova, who played Madame Hortense. They both had appeared in the film portrayal, Zorba the Greek, which won Quinn a nomination for Best Actor, and an Oscar for Kedrova as Best Supporting Actress. This was one of the few films that came before the Broadway show, rather than the reverse.
2002 Flower Drum Song with Lea Salonga, Sandra Allen, Jose Llana and Hoon Lee
ON THIS DAY IN:
1919 The Radio Corporation of America was created.
1951 Today is Walter Kerr's first day as "guest critic" at the Herald-Tribune. He will end up staying for 15 years, leaving only because of the demise of the paper. In his first review, he classifies the show A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry as "vigorous, dignified and overly intellectualized." Kerr is best known for his work at the New York Times, whose staff he joined in 1966. The Ritz Theatre was renamed in his honor in 1990.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
