Born on this day in 1921 actress Simone Signoret.
Born on this day in 1940 designer Bob Mackie.
Born on this day in 1904(!) actress Joan Crawford.
Happy 72nd birthday actress, director and screenwriter Fanny Ardant.
Born on this day in 1942 actress Françoise Dorléac.
Born on this day in 1917 English songstress Dame Vera Lynn.
Happy 86th birthday actress Ursula Andress.
Happy 58th birthday to actress and singer Vanessa Williams.
Born on this day in 1906 actress Brigitte Helm.
On this day in 1914 female impersonator Julian Eltinge opened in The Crinoline Girl at the Knickerbocker Theatre.
Born on this day in 1907 controversial actress and singer Zarah Leander.
Born on this day in 1943 actress, singer and dancer Anita Morris.
Happy 73rd birthday soprano Julia Migenes.
Happy 76th birthday to the one and only Miss Liza Minnelli.
Born on this day in 1903 author, politician, U.S. ambassador and public conservative figure Clare Boothe Luce.
Born on this day in 1918 “hard-boiled” crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
Born on this say in 1922 actress and dancer Cyd Charisse.
Born on this day in 1959 Broadway diva Donna Murphy.
Happy 78th birthday soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.
Born on this day in 1922 actor, director, and screenwriter Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Born on this day in 1934 singer and actress Barbara McNair.
Born on this day in 1911 actress Jean Harlow.
On this day in 1933 the film King Kong premiered simultaneously at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy.
On this day in 1979 Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler‘s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opened at the Uris Theatre.
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