Today's Birthdays 8/6
Today's Birthdays 8/6
#0Today's Birthdays 8/6
Posted: 8/6/06 at 2:00am
Leo Carrillo 08/06/1881 - Sep 10, 1961 performer, wonderful character actor - MAGNOLIA; film's THE CISCO KID; 1943 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Louella Parsons 08/06/1881 - December 9, 1972 gossip & movie columnist, screenwriter - competed in print & radio w/nemesis Hedda Hopper, source mat'l - tv's & film's Malice in Wonderland [Elizabeth Taylor]; wrote script for The Isle of Forgotten Women; guest starred in Without Reservations (Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore); Susan Slept Here
Billie Burke 8/7/1885 - May 14, 1970 Future stage actress and second wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, Billie Burke is born today in Washington, D.C. Born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton, Burke spent her childhood in England, where her father was a popular clown performer. For this reason, most of Burke's early stage successes were in London, not New York. In fact, Burke only appeared in one American musical, 1924's Annie Dear, produced by her husband. Other New York stage appearances included Jerry, The Intimate Strangers, and Rose Briar. In the 1930s Burke would lend her name as a producer to many editions of her husband's Follies and make some film appearances. Burke is best-preserved on film as Glinda, the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz." Also in TOPPER; DINNER AT 8
Guthrie McClintic 08/06/1893 - Oct 29, 1961 Producer, Writer, Director, Performer, husband of Katharine Cornell (1921 - 1961) his death, Estelle Winwood (divorced) - 1951 THE CONSTANT WIFE and orig DEAR LIAR (both with Katharine Cornell, Brian Aherne).
Franz Allers 08/06/1905 - Jan 26, 1995 Musical Director, Conductor, Musical Staff - origs THE DAY BEFORE SPRING; BRIGADOON; HAPPY AS LARRY (Burges Meredith, Wm. Hogue, Gene Barry); PAINT YOUR WAGON (James Mitchell, Kay Medford); MY DARLIN' AIDA; PLAIN & FANCY (Barbara Cook); MY FAIR LADY; CAMELOT
Lucille Ball 08/06/1911 - Apr 26, 1989 performer, wife of Desi Arnaz (1940 - 1960) divorced, Gary Morton (1961 - 1989) her death, Lucie & Desi Arnaz's mom - WILDCAT (Valarie Harper, Jan Leighton, Keith Andes); tv's I LOVE LUCY; film's YOURS MINE & OURS; MAME
Robert Mitchum 08/06/1917- Jul 1, 1997 performer - tv's & film's The Story of GI Joe; Out of the Past; Rachel & The Stranger; The Red Pony; River of No Return; Not As A Stranger; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Thunder Road; The Sundowners; The Longest Day; Cape Fear; Ryan's Daughter; That Championship Season; THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1 of the scarriest films for me); THE WINDS OF WAR; War and Remembrance; He even hosted Saturday Night Live! Great Actor.
Jackie Kelk 08/06/1923 - 9/5/202 performer - JUBILEE (Montgomery Clift, Robert Lewis, Mary Boland); ME & JULIET (Barbara Carrol [Cabaret & Jazz artist], Shirley MacLaine, Joan McCracken, Ray Walston)
Lois Nettleton 08/06/1929 performer; wife of Jean Shepherd (1961 - 1967) divorced; Miss Chicago 1948; Semi-finalist at the 1948 Miss America Pageant; won two Emmies for her TV work, for the daytime special "The American Woman: Profiles in Courage" (1977), and for "A Gun for Mandy" (1983), an episode of the syndicated religious anthology "Insight." - THE BIGGEST THIEF IN TOWN (by Dalton Trumbo); DARKNESS AT NOON (Claude Raines, Kim Hunter, Maurice Gosfield, Jack Palance); GOD & KATE MURPHY (Larry Hagman, Faye Compton, [Carroll O'Connor, understudy for John McGiver]); SILENT NIGHT, LONELY NIGHT (Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Fonda); THE WAYWARD STORK (Bob Cummings, Art Lund); THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED (Barry Bostwick, Louis Zorich); STRANGERS (Bruce Dern, Ellen Parker); appeared w/Shepherd in his off-Broadway play "Look Charlie" in 1959; tv's & film's Crossing Jordan; General Hospital; Murder, She Wrote; Centennial; Dirty Dingus Magee; 1968 Macbeth (Earle Hyman, Stacy Keach); Mail Order Bride; Route 66
Martin Duberman 08/06/1930 writer - Soon [musical] (Barry Bostwick, Peter Allen, Nell Carter, Richard Gere, Marta Heflin, Vicki Sue Robinson)
Paul Bartel 08/06/1938 - 5/13/2000 writer, source material, director, performer; majored in theater arts at UCLA, received Fulbright scholarship to study film direction in Rome, producing a short that was presented at 1962 Venice Film Festival - EATING RAOUL (1 of my fav. Off-Bway shows w/the wonderful Eddie Korbich, Susan Woods & Adrian Zmed. "Hot Monkey Love" still wafts thru my brain on occasion); film's Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov); Private Parts; Big Bad Mama
Elizabeth Swain 08/06/1941 performer - CROWN MATRIMONIAL (Geo. Grizzard, Paddy, Croft, Enid Rodgers [If she's the same actress Enid Rodgers I know, this feisty lady, who is around 94 & lives on the 5th Fl. of a 5 Fl. walk-up here in town & as far as I know is still doin' fine)
Catherine Hicks 8/6/1951 performer - Tribute (Jack Lemmon); tv's& film's 7th Heaven, Marilyn, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Bad News Bears, Ryan’s Hope, Star Trek 4 & Tucker’s Witch [a short-lived series that I really enjoyed where CH played a witch, who along w/her hubby Tim Matheson, owned & ran a detective agency. BTW Alfre Woodard & Barbara Barrie were in this show]
Rusty Magee 08/06/1955 - Feb 16, 2003 arranger, husband of Alison Fraser (1984 - 2003) his death - orig. Bway prod'n HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES (Danny Aiello, Stockard Channing, Julie Hagerty, Swoozie Kurtz, John Mahoney, Ben Stiller); Thank you to Jamie McGonnigal for the following info on Rusty: "He music directed and arranged for the Irish Rep hit 'The Irish...and how they got that way' as well as wrote 'the Green Heart' and the score for Boston's American Repertory Theatre smash hit, UBU ROCK"
Lisa Li 08/06/1966 performer - A LITTLE HOTEL ON THE SIDE (Rob Lowe, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave)
Jamie McGonnigal 8/6/75 actor, dir - JACK!; 108 Waverly; 2002 Easter Bonnet Competition; TARNISH: A new Rock Musical; 2004 Nightlife Awards
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1981 The Supporting Cast - by Geo. Furth, w/Sandi Dennis, Betty Garrett, Jack Gilford, Hope Lange, Joyce Van Patton, standby - Claiborne Cary [Cloris Leachman's sis & Cabaret Diva]
2001 The two-person memoir show, If You Ever Leave Me...I'm Going With You! starring Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, opens on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. Also on this date, Urinetown begins previews for its Tony-winning Broadway run.
2002 Lyricist Sheldon Harnick, long absent from the stage since his 1960s glory days of Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof and The Rothschilds, returns to the stage with a new musical adaptation of Norton Juster's classic children's book, The Phantom Toolbooth, with music by Arnold Black and a book adapted by Juster himself. The world premiere is hosted by Harwich Junior Theatre in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1926 Warner Brothers premiered its "Vitaphone" sound-on-disc movie system in New York
1947 Today's Variety announces John Garfield will star in the premiere production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennesee Williams. But contractual demands rule him out, only to be replaced by a little-known newcomer, Marlon Brando. The rest is history.
1986 - Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named “Bond ... James Bond.” Dalton, 38, and his studio, United Artists, ended months of speculation as to who would star as Agent 007 in the 15th James Bond film. The character of Bond was created by writer Ian Fleming. Other stars to play the role of the suave, debonair and deadly double agent include: Roger Moore, Sean Connery and George Lazenby, with Pierce Brosnan as the James Bond for the 1990s.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
