Today's Birthdays 12/3

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 12/3/07 at 2:41pm

Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857 - 8/3/1924 author, source mat'l - Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness

Connie Boswell 12/3/1907 - 10/11/1976 performer - Boswell Sisters, & solo career

Peter Levin [aka David Levin] 12/03/1932 performer - Come on Strong (Caroll Baker, Van Johnson); A Gift of Time (Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Joseph Campanella, Marian Seldes); orig The Diary of Anne Frank (Joseph Schildkraut, Susan Strasberg, Jack Gilford, Lou Jacobi)

Nicolas Coster 12/03/1934 performer - Ross (John Mills); The Ninety Day Mistress (Tony Lo Bianco, Dyan Cannon); Twigs - Emily [Original, Play, One Act] (Sada Thompson); Getting Married (Walter Bobbie); tv's & film's Law & Order; Matlock; The Facts of Life; Reds; Blood Type

Mary Alice 12/03/1941 performer - No Place to Be Somebody (Ed Van Nuys); Fences; 1994 The Shadow Box; Having Our Say (Gloria Foster); tv's & film's Oz; Sunshine State; I'll Fly Away

Heather Menzies 12/03/1949 performer, wife of Robert Urich (21 November 1975 - 16 April 2002); ovarian cancer survivor (his death) 3 adopted children - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Knight, Doris Rich, Alan Webb); tv's & film's The Sound of Music; Dragnet 1967; Piranha; Vega$; Spencer for Hire

Vince Pesce 12/03/1966 Choreographer, Performer - 2006 The Pajama Game; 2003 Wonderful Town; 2003 Little Shop of Horrors; Beauty & the Beast; Victor / Victoria (Julie Andrews); High Society ; 1999 Kiss Me, Kate; Little Shop of Horrors

Daryl Hannah 12/3/1960 performer - film's Living Neon Dreams; Supercross; Kill Bill 1 & 2; The Fury, Splash, Steel Magnolias, Blade Runner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Roxanne, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Grumpier Old Men, Diplomatic Siege, Dancing at the Blue Iguana; All the Good Ones Are Married

Julianne Moore [Julie Anne Smith] 12/3/1961 performer; appearances off-Broadway in two Caryl Churchill plays, Serious Money and Ice Cream With Hot Fudge and as Ophelia in Hamlet at The Guthrie Theatre - film's The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio; Trust the Man; Savage Grace; Laws of Attraction; The Fugitive, Short Cuts, Nine Months, Lost World: Jurassic Park, Boogie Nights, Cookie’s Fortune, The Ladies Man, Hannibal; Vanya on 42nd Street; I'm Not There

Brendan Fraser 12/3/1968 performer - film's The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, George of the Jungle, Encino Man, The Quiet American, Gods & Monsters; Crash; The Air I Breathe; Journey 3-D; Inkheart

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1925 - The first jazz concerto for piano and orchestra was presented at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Commissioned by Walter Damrosch, American composer George Gershwin presented Concerto In F, and was also the featured soloist playing a flugelhorn in a slow, bluesy style as one of his numbers.

1947 A Streetcar Named Desire makes its historic stop at the Barrymore Theatre. Tennessee Williams' play stars Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden in what will be an 855-performance ride. It will go on to win the Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

1953 Kismet with Richard Kiley, Alfred Drake, Joan Diener, Neile Adams (the 1st Mrs. Steve McQueen),

1960 Richard Burton's reign as King Arthur of Camelot begins tonight. This Lerner and Loewe musical was adapted from T.H. White's "The Once and Future King." Citizens of this enchanted land include Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet and Roddy McDowall.

1964 Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy opens at the Washington Square Theatre. The story involves a group of prisoners detained by Nazis in Vichy, awaiting deportation to concentration camps. The cast includes Hal Holbrook, David Wayne and Paul Mann.

1973 Bette Midler stars in her own one-woman show, which opens tonight at the Palace Theatre. Choreographed by Michael Bennett and André De Shields. Since the show was styled and reviewed as a concert rather than a Broadway show, it is classified as one by the Tony Awards committee. They bestow a special award to Midler for "superior concert entertainment on the Broadway stage." My favorite Bette Midler line to someone rude enuf to talk while she was performing: "Shut your hole honey. Mine's makin' money!"

1974 As You Like It with Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Beint

2003 Jefferson Mays plays some 40 characters in Doug Wright's solo drama, I Am My Own Wife, about a real-life German transvestite, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survives both the Nazis and the Communists. It transfers to Broadway today from Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons and will go on to win the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1949 Philip Barry dies at age 53. Barry's wit was on view in works such as Holiday and The Philadelphia Story. An unfinished comedy Second Threshold, was completed by Robert Sherwood.

1967 The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.

1994 Elizabeth Glaser, who became an AIDS activist after she and her two children were infected with HIV via a blood transfusion, died at age 47.

2001 New York's landmark Drama Book Shop reopens in a roomier new location at 250 W. 40th Street, after a generation on Seventh Avenue and 48th Street.

2002 Thousands of personnel files released under a court order showed that the Archdiocese of Boston went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse, including clergy who allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls aspiring to be nuns.

2003 Also today, Mary Tyler Moore withdraws from the Off-Broadway debut production of Neil Simon's latest play, Rose's Dilemma, after Simon writes a note critical of her performance. She leaves the theatre moments before the matinee performance.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

Milla

[jordangirl]

Posted: 12/4/07 at 6:08am

Julianne was also on Broadway in The Vertical Hour. And year of birth was 1960. :)