Happy birthday, Larry. Milla updated your entry on the theater-notables birthday list, although I think she was a little too fast on the punctuation.
Today's Birthdays 9/19
Posted by: do_re_milla 10:48 pm EDT 09/18/07
Frances Farmer 09/19/1913 - Aug 1, 1970 Wife of Leif Erickson (2/8/36 - 6/12/42) divorced, performer, source material - GOLDEN BOY (Robert Lewis, Elia Kazan); QUIET CITY (music by Aaron Copeland); THUNDER ROCK (Lee J. Cobb); tv's & film's SON OF FURY; Come & Get It; The Party Crashers; Frances Farmer Presents
Rosemary Harris 09/19/1927 performer; mother of Jennifer Ehle, wife of John Ehle (1967 - present), Ellis Rabb (December 4, 1959 - 1967) divorced - THE LION IN WINTER (Robert Walken, Chris Walken); 1966 SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (Helen Hayes); OLD TIMES (Robert Shaw); PACK OF LIES (Patrick McGoohan [debut], Dana Ivy, Tracey Pollan); tv's & film's Spiderman 1, 2 & 3; Being Julia; Heartbreak House; The Chisholms; The Royal Family; Holocaust; Blithe Spirit
William Hickey 09/19/1928 - Jun 29, 1997 performer; Made Broadway debut as walk-in in Bernard Shaw's SAINT JOAN (1951 production, starring Hagen). His most important contribution to the arts, however, remains his teaching career at the HB Studio in Greenwich Village, founded by Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. George Segal, Sandy Dennis, and Barbra Streisand all studied under him. - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE (Kevin McCarthy, Marsha Mason); MORNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Colleen Dewhurst), 1986 ARSENIC & OLD LACE (Tony Roberts, Jean Stapleton, Abe Vigoda); tv's & film's Prizzi's Honor; Baby Talk; The Name of the Rose; Androcles and the Lion
David McCallum 09/19/1933 performer - THE FLIP SIDE; AMADEUS (David Suchet); tv's THE MAN FROM UNCLE; NCIS
‘Mama’ Cass Elliott (Ellen Naomi Cohen) 9/19/1941 - 7/29/1974 performer, singer: group: The Mamas & The Papas: California Dreamin’, Monday, Monday, Creeque Alley; solo: Dream a Little Dream of Me, Make Your Own Kind of Music; group: The Mugwumps; tv's DR. KILDARE, SMOTHERS BROTHERS
Jeremy Irons 09/19/1948 performer, Husband of Sinéad Cusack (1978 - present), son-in-law of Cyril Cusack; began by busking, and then joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School His first break came in the musical Godspell, when he played John the Baptist alongside David Essex. - THE REAL THING (Glenn Close, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon); tv's BRIDESHEAD REVISITED; film's REVERSAL OF FORTUNE; Being Julia; Lolita; Stealing Beauty; The Lion King; The Pallisers; Nijinsky; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Inland Empire
Larry Moore 9/19/1946 - noted orchestrator for theater and recordings - his work includes BRAIN FROM PLANET X, & the following has been heard in the Goodspeed Opera productions of OH, KAY! and THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER, The New York State Theatre Institute's productions of A TALE OF CINDERELLA (also on Videocassette and compact disc) and THE SNOW QUEEN, as well as numerous recordings including the LOST IN BOSTON series, UNSUNG SONDHEIM, SONDHEIM AT THE MOVIES, the UNSUNG MUSICALS series, LIZ CALLAWAY ON AND OFF BROADWAY, and Jason Graae's YOU'RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE.
Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) 09/19/1949 performer, wife of Leigh Lawson - MY 1 & ONLY (Tommy Tune, Roscoe Lee Browne & Roscoe's replacement Judd Jones); tv's & film's The Boy Friend; Twiggy; The Blues Brothers; Madame Sousatzka; Young Charlie Chaplin; Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Ernie Sabella 09/19/1949 performer - Curtains; 2005 Sweet Charity; 2002 Man of La Mancha; 1996 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; 1992 Guys and Dolls; 1982 Little Johnny Jones; 1976 The Robber Bridegroom
Rex Smith 09/19/1956 performer - PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Kevin Kline, Estelle Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, Alix Korey); Grease; tv's & film's Pirates of Penzance; Sooner Or Later (Judd Hirsch, Barbara Feldon, Morey Amsterdam, Vivian Blaine, Lynn Redgrave); As the World Turns; Pope Dreams
Carolyn McCormick 09/19/1959 performer; wife of Byron Jennings - Dinner Party [replacement]; 2002 Private Lives; tv's & film's Law & Order; Judging Amy; Enemy Mine; Homicide Life On The Street
