David and Bathsheba 1951 (NY) premiere
by germanior | created - 11 Jan 2022 | updated - 11 Jan 2022 | PublicTuesday August 14th, Rivoli Theatre 1620 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
1. Francis X. Bushman
Actor | Sabrina
Francis X. Bushman was born on January 10, 1883 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Sabrina (1954), The Phantom Planet (1961) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). He was married to Iva Millicient Richardson, Norma Emily Atkin, Beverly Bayne and Josephine ...
2. Milton Berle
Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor.
Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948-55), he was the first major American television star and ...
3. Valerie Bettis
Actress | Affair in Trinidad
Valerie Bettis was born on December 20, 1919 in Houston, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Affair in Trinidad (1952), Producers' Showcase (1954) and Playwrights '56 (1955). She was married to Arthur A. Schmidt and Bernardo Segall. She died on September 26, 1982 in New York City, New York, ...
4. Vanessa Brown
Actress | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The attractive daughter of Austrian-Jewish émigrés who fled their homeland to Paris in 1937 before coming to the United States, "B" actress Vanessa Brown grew up exceptionally fluent in German, French, Italian and English. She developed an early interest in acting.
Auditioning for Lillian Hellman at...
5. Abe Burrows
Writer | Just Go with It
Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University. He began his writing career as a script writer for "Duffy's Taven" on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee program. He sang in his own radio shows , in night clubs, and ...
6. Jeff Chandler
Actor | Broken Arrow
Jeff was born in Brooklyn and attended Erasmus High School. After high school, he took a drama course and worked in stock companies for two years. His next role was that of an officer in World War II. After he was discharged from the service, he became busy acting in radio dramas and comedies until...
7. Ilka Chase
Actress | Now, Voyager
The daughter of Vogue's editor-in-chief for 40 years, Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka was named for a Hungarian friend of her mother. She went to school in France and later acted in stock with Rube Miller in New York. Her first appearance on Broadway was as a maid in 'The Red Falcon' in 1924.
After ...
8. Jackie Cooper
Actor | Superman
Jackie Cooper was born John Cooper in Los Angeles, California, to Mabel Leonard, an Italian-American stage pianist, and John Cooper. Through his mother, he was the nephew of actress Julie Leonard, screenwriter Jack Leonard, and (by marriage) director Norman Taurog. Jackie served with the Navy in ...
9. Bette Davis
Actress | All About Eve
Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...
10. Marlene Dietrich
Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution
Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...
11. Madge Evans
Actress | Dinner at Eight
Lovely Madge Evans was the perennial nice girl in films of the 1930s. By then, she had been in front of the camera for many years, starting with Fairy Soap commercials at the age of two (she sat on a bar of soap holding a bunch of violets with the tag line reading "have you a little fairy in your ...
12. Jinx Falkenburg
Actress | Sing for Your Supper
Jinx Falkenburg was born on January 21, 1919 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress, known for Sing for Your Supper (1941), Lucky Legs (1942) and Talk About a Lady (1946). She was married to Tex McCrary. She died on August 27, 2003 in Manhasset, New York, USA.
13. James A. Farley
Self | The Sam Levenson Show
James A. Farley was born on May 30, 1888 in Grassy Point, New York, USA. He died on June 9, 1976 in New York, New York, USA.
14. Pegeen Fitzgerald
Producer | The Animals Film
Pegeen Fitzgerald was born on November 30, 1911 in Norcatur, Kansas, USA. She was a producer, known for The Animals Film (1981), The Sam Levenson Show (1951) and The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957). She died on January 30, 1989 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
15. Martin Gabel
Actor | Marnie
Martin Gabel was born on June 19, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Marnie (1964), The Front Page (1974) and The Lost Moment (1947). He was married to Arlene Francis. He died on May 22, 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.
16. Eva Gabor
Actress | Green Acres
Eva Gabor was born on February 11, 1919 in Budapest, Hungary, to Jolie Gabor (née Janka Tilleman) and Vilmos Gabor (born Farkas Miklós Grün), a soldier. Her older siblings were Magda Gabor, an actress, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, an actress and socialite. Her parents were both from Jewish families. She went...
17. Coleen Gray
Actress | The Killing
Coleen Gray was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska, in 1922. After graduating from high school she studied dramatics at Hamline University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then decided to see America and traveled to California, stopping off at La Jolla where she worked as a waitress. ...
18. Dennis Hoey
Actor | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Dennis Hoey was born on March 30, 1893 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), Terror by Night (1946) and The Spider Woman (1943). He was married to Josephine Marta Ricca and Sarah Pearl Lyons (known as Cissie). He died on July 25, 1960 in Palm Beach, ...
19. George Jessel
Actor | Lucky Boy
George Jessel gained fame in vaudeville, where it was not uncommon for him--and other performers, such as Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor--to perform in blackface, and in fact at age 11 Jessel was Cantor's vaudeville partner. Jessel acted in several movies in the '30s and became a respected film producer. ...
20. Kitty Kallen
Soundtrack | The Devil All the Time
Kitty Kallen was born on May 25, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Devil All the Time (2020), The Second Greatest Sex (1955) and Circle of Friends (1995). She was married to Budd Granoff and Clint Garvin. She died on January 7, 2016 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
21. Sidney Kingsley
Writer | Detective Story
Sidney Kingsley was born on October 22, 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Detective Story (1951), Dead End (1937) and Men in White (1934). He was married to Madge Evans. He died on March 20, 1995 in Oakland, New Jersey, USA.
22. Robert Q. Lewis
Actor | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
Robert Q. Lewis was born on April 5, 1921 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), An Affair to Remember (1957) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967). He died on ...
23. Joyce Mathews
Actress | Sudden Money
Joyce Mathews was born on December 5, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Sudden Money (1939), $1000 a Touchdown (1939) and Mister Universe (1951). She was married to Don Beddoe, Ivor Studebaker Schmidt, Billy Rose, Milton Berle and Gonzalo Gómez. She died on January...
24. Tex McCrary
Actor | Appointment with Baby
Tex McCrary was born on October 13, 1910 in Calvert, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Appointment with Baby (1948), The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) and The Tex and Jinx Show (1957). He was married to Jinx Falkenburg and Sarah Brisbane. He died on July 29, 2003 in New York City, New York, USA.
25. Gary Merrill
Actor | All About Eve
Gary Merrill was born August 2, 1915, in Hartford, Connecticut. He began his career acting in summer stock plays. He married Barbara Leeds, an actress, and then served a brief stint in the army. After the army, he landed in New York, where he was chosen to join the already popular play "Born ...
26. Jayne Meadows
Actress | City Slickers
One of four children (two older brothers, one younger sister) born to American missionaries, Jayne Meadows (née Jane Cotter) was born September 27, 1919, in China. The family returned to the US in the early 1930s wherein Jayne was forced to learn the English language, speaking Chinese and other ...
27. Lady Iris Mountbatten
Actress | Versatile Varieties
Lady Iris Mountbatten was born on January 13, 1920 in Kensington Palace, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Versatile Varieties (1949). She was married to Bill Kemp, Michael Neely Bryan and Captain Hamilton Joseph Keyes-O'Mailley. She died on September 1, 1982 in Toronto, Ontario, ...
28. Arthur Murray
Producer | The Charleston
Arthur Murray was born on April 4, 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Charleston (1926), Cuban Rhythm (1941) and Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947). He was married to Kathryn Murray. He died on March 3, 1991 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
29. Floyd Odlum
Self | Longines Chronoscope
Floyd Odlum was born on March 30, 1892 in Union City, Michigan, USA. He was married to Jacqueline Cochran. He died on June 17, 1976 in Indio, California, USA.
30. William Paley
Self | The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame
William Paley was born on September 27, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Babe Paley and Dorothy Jones Hart . He died on October 26, 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.
31. Sugar Ray Robinson
Actor | Candy
Born Walker Smith, Jr., he borrowed the name of a fighter named Ray Robinson to box as an amateur so his mother wouldn't find out. Undefeated as an amateur boxer, 85-0, with 69 knockouts, 42 of them in the first round. Turned pro in 1940 and won his first 40 fights. Lost his first fight by decision...
32. Fritzi Scheff
Actress | Pretty Mrs. Smith
The daughter of Hortense Scheff Yarger, a prima donna with the Imperial Opera in Vienna, Fritzi Scheff made her debut when eight years old singing Juliet in Charles Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet" with the Frankfurt Opera company. After appearing with several other opera companies in Germany, she spent...
33. Moshe Sharett
Self | See It Now
Moshe Sharett was born on October 15, 1894 in Russia. He died on July 7, 1965 in Jerusalem, Israel.
34. Artie Shaw
Soundtrack | The Rocketeer
Artie Shaw played ukulele at ten and began as an alto saxophonist at the age of twelve. While still in his teens he formed his first band, the Bellevue Ramblers which performed at local gigs. He took up the clarinet in 1926 and spent several years honing his talent playing for various local bands ...
35. Herb Shriner
Actor | Main Street to Broadway
Shriner was a popular humorist and musician that was at the height of his success in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Both Herb and his wife of 26 years, Eileen, were killed when their automobile collided with a tree in Florida. Shriner suffered chest injuries and Eileen suffered a broken neck.
36. Mel Tormé
Soundtrack | Gangster Squad
A professional singer at the age of three, Mel Torme was a genuine musical prodigy. As a teenager, he played the drums in Chico Marx's band and earned the nickname "The Velvet Fog" because of his smooth, mellow tenor voice. In the 1940s, he formed his own group, the Mel-Tones, one of the first ...
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