1920 Vincenzo Scognamiglio is born in Naples, Italy. Doesn't sound familiar? Try , who appears on the stage in , , and , as well as numerous films.
1924 Passengers on a mysterious shipboard journey turn out to be (spoiler alert) the dead coasting toward the afterlife in 's drama , which opens a 144-performance run at the Ritz Theatre, with , , and .
1935 looms at the Broadhurst Theatre. 's melodrama has a cast that includes Leslie Howard, , and .
1935 and star in the opening night of , ' adaptation of 's novel about two sisters in love with the same man during the Civil War. It wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and runs 305 performances at the Empire Theatre.
1937 makes her New York City debut at the Manhattan Opera House. She plays Miriam in 's , with music by her husband, .
1943 's wartime soldiers-and-dancing-girls musical stars and . It runs 422 performances at the Alvin Theatre. Songs include "Hey, Good Looking" and "By the Mississinewa." It is subsequently made into a film for .
1958 ' Garden District consists of two one-acts: Suddenly, Last Summer and Something Unspoken. They are produced Off-Broadway at the York Theatre for a limited run. The duet is revived, to mixed notices, .
1975 stars in the musical , based on the film of the same name. Opening at the Alvin Theatre, it runs 1,050 performances.
1985 returns to Broadway for the final time in a revival of at the Broadway Theatre. He stars opposite . Brynner receives an honorary Tony Award later the same year, celebrating his 4,525 performances in and 's 1951 classic.
2019 Abby Rosebrock's Blue Ridge makes its world premiere with an opening at Atlantic Theater Company. Tony nominee Marin Ireland plays a high school teacher who, after lashing out at her boss, is sentenced to a church-sponsored halfway house. The cast also includes Kristolyn Lloyd, Kyle Beltran, Peter Mark Kendall, Nicole Lewis, and Chris Stack.
More of Today's Birthdays: (b. 1891). (b. 1907). Jeff Richmond (b. 1961). Robert Petkoff (b. 1963).
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