Today's Birthdays 7/19

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Posted: 7/19/08 at 5:54pm

Lizzie Borden 7/19/1860 - 6/1/1927 American alleged murderer of her father and stepmother, source material

James Vincent 07/19/1882 - Jul 12, 1957 performer - THE LETTER (w/Katharine Cornell, by Maugham, the play the Bette Davis movie's based on)

Raymond Bramley 07/19/1891 - Nov 27, 1977 performer - origs: THE HOLMESES OF BAKER ST. (I'm A Holmes addict)(w/Helen Chandler); CRUCIBLE; WAKE UP DARLING (Kay Medford, Barry Nelson, Russell Nype); FIORELLO; TENDERLOIN

Edna Preston 07/19/1892 - ? performer; The Edna Preston Stock Company - origs. MADEMOISELLE COLOMBE (Edna Best, Julie Harris, Eli Wallach); FANNY

Lili Damita 07/19/1901 - 3/21/1994 performer, wife of Errol Flynn (June 1935 - April 1942) divorced; 1 son Sean; Damita del Rojo [Pseudonym], Liliane-Marie-Madeleine Carré [Birthname], Tiger Lil [Pseudonym]; Began film career in 1922. King of Spain called her 'damita' (young girl) in the red bathing dress. - Earl White's Music Hall Varieties 1932; film's This is the Night (Cary Grant's film debut); Frisco Kid (James Cagney, Ricardo Cortez); Friends & Lovers (Adolphe Menjou, Laurence Olivier, Erich von Stroheim); Blazing Arrows (Gary Cooper, Eugene Pallette)

Pat Hingle (Martin Patterson Hingle) 07/19/1924 wonderful character actor - origs CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF; BLUES FOR MR. CHARLIE (by James Baldwin w/Joe Don Baker, Rip Torn); CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON; A LIFE (Dena Delaney (debut), Helen Stenborg, Roy Dotrice); 1997's 1776; tv's & film's Batman, The Grifters, Splendor in the Grass, On the Waterfront, Norma Rae, Of Mice and Men

Helen Gallagher 07/19/1926 performer; How wonderful to see her perform in 2007 Broadway Originals @ Town Hall! She was grrrreat - origs: 7 LIVELY ARTS (Bert Lahr, Bea Lilli, Benny Goodman, Dolores Grey, Alicia Markova, Nan Wynn); BRIGADOON; HIGH BUTTON SHOES; TOUCH & GO (Peggy Cass (debut)); HAZEL FLAGG; SWEET CHARITY; CRY FOR US ALL (Tommy Rall); PAL JOEY; NO NO NANETTE; PORTOFINO; tv's & film's All My Children, Ryan’s Hope, One Life to Live, Neptune’s Rocking Horse

Richard Jordan 07/19/1938 - 8/30/1993 performer; died tooooo young! - Take Her She's Mine (Art Carney, Phyllis Thaxter, Elizabeth Ashley, understudy Karen Black); Bicycle Ride to Nevada (Ron Liebman, Franchot Tone, Lulu Mae Hubbard); Generation (Henry Fonda); A Patriot for Me (Maximilian Schell, Salome Jens, Tom Lee Jones [who made his Bway debut as an Orthodox priest]); tv's & film's Captains and the Kings, The Bunker, The Hunt for Red October, Dune, Logan’s Run, Rooster Cogburn

Dennis Cole 07/19/1940 choreographer, perf; Jaclyn Smith (1978 - 1981) (divorced), Sally Bergeron (1961 - 1965) (divorced) 1 son;(1999) Traveling production of "Victor, Victoria" in the role of King Marshan - MINNIE'S BOYS; All the Girls Came Out to Play

George Dzundza 07/19/1945 performer - Mert & Phil (Estelle Parsons); The Ritz (F. Murray Abraham, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Jack Weston); Legend (Elizabeth Ashley, F. Murray Abraham); tv's & film's DEER HUNTER; LAW & ORDER (Det. Greevey)

Campbell Scott 07/19/1961 son of Geo. C. Scott & Coleen Dewhurst - 1988 LONG DAY'S JOURNEY; 1988 AH, WILDERNESS!; tv's & film's Longtime Companion; The Sheltering Sky; The Kennedys of Mass.; The Spanish Prisoner; Hamlet; Marie & Bruce; The Dying Gaul

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1948 - Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on CBS radio this day in 1948. Arden played the role of Connie Brooks. The program stayed on radio until 1957, running simultaneously on TV from 1952 to 1956.

1950 - The Telephone / The Medium by Gian-Carlo Menotti

1951 - Two on the Aisle - w/Delores Gray, Bert Lahr, Margery Beddow

1990 - BROADWAY JUKEBOX - Got a dime? Off-Broadway's John Houseman Theatre becomes the Broadway Jukebox as Ed Linderman's musical revue opens. [I LOOOOVE this guy! & the Revue] The show is new every night as audience members pick 30 songs to be performed from a collection of 90 Broadway showtunes from relatively obscure musicals. The impromptu players include Robert Michael Baker, Susan Flynn, Beth Leavel, Gerry McIntyre, Amelia Prentice and Sal Viviano.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1553 Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed queen.

1848 A pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y

1938 Stage and film actor Burgess Meredith divorces Margaret Perry today. Perry, an actress, is the daughter of Antoinette Perry, after whom the Tony Awards are named. The union was rather short-lived, as the future star of "Rocky" only married his now-ex-wife little more than two years earlier, in January of 1936.

On July 19, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.

1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test. She passed it with flying colors and was signed to her first contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios. The first of her 29 films was Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!

1966 - Frank Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow this day. Sinatra, 50, married the 20-year-old actress and was photographed after the ceremony by 14 motion-picture cameras and 37 still cameras.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, playbill.com)

Milla