1902 Actor , who goes on to star in the premieres of The Little Foxes and The Skin of Our Teeth (in addition to Alfred Hitchcock's classic Lifeboat) but is ultimately best-known for her flamboyant personal life, husky voice, and endless bon mots, is born. Valerie Harper earns a Tony Award nomination portraying Bankhead in the 2010 play .
1905 The Woman in the Case is played by . She comes to the aid of her husband who is falsely accused of murder. 's drama runs for 89 performances.
1921 is born in Seattle, Washington. The saucer-eyed actor achieves stardom as Lorelei Lee in , but her greatest role is the original Dolly Gallagher Levi in .
1922 is Catherine the Great. Her story is told through the eyes of her lover Count Czerny. and star. This comedy runs at the Empire Theatre in New York for 136 performances.
1933 English dramatist-novelist dies in Hampstead, England at age 66. His first play The Silver Box was produced in 1906.
1958 begins a one-week run of his play at the Belasco Theatre, starring opposite . The production runs in repertory with Coward's Nude with Violin, which had been running at the same theatre since November 1957. Following the New York runs, the two plays transfer to the West Coast for performances in San Francisco and Hollywood.
1980 is a mysterious woman calling herself in 's drama, opening on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre. The play closes after only 12 performances, but is later more successfully revived in productions starring (West End, 2007) and (Off-Broadway, 2012).
1985 The story of 19th-century acting team and gets the musical treatment in . It gets acclaim as the first musical developed at Goodspeed Opera House's Norma Terris Theatre, but lasts only 4 performances after its transfer to Broadway. stars with .
1993 stars in a revival of 's as part of the season at the Lyceum Theatre. Also featured in the cast are , , , and .
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