Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain
von Trapp, the original Broadway production of The Sound
of Music premiered at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November
16, 1959, where it won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical
and Best Leading Actress. It later moved to the Mark Hellinger,
where it would end its lauded run on June 15, 1963 after 1,443
performances.
Original Release: September 18, 1964 – April 8, 1966 on ABC
In the 1960s television series, “Thing”—strictly speaking, a disembodied forearm, since it occasionally emerged from
its box at near-elbow length—was usually played by Ted
Cassidy (below), who also played the lugubrious butler
Lurch.
He also narrated The Incredible Hulk TV series and voiced
The Hulk in the show’s first 2 seasons.
Theodore Crawford Cassidy
(July 31, 1932 – January 16, 1979)
Mannix is a detective television series that ran from 1967 to 1975
on CBS. It was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, and
developed by executive producer Bruce Geller. The title character,
Joe Mannix, is a private investigator played by actor Mike Connors.
Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian)
(August 15, 1925 – January 26, 2017)
Connors died in Tarzana, California, at the
age of 91 on January 26, 2017, a week after
being diagnosed with leukemia.
Mannix and Peggy Fair (Gail Fisher)
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury
(16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022)
Angela Lansbury, three-time Oscar nominee and five-time Tony
Award winner who solved 12 seasons’ worth of crimes as the novelist/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ Murder, She
Wrote, has died.
Her family announced she died in her sleep Tuesday morning at
her home in Los Angeles…five days short of her birthday.
Lansbury, who received an Emmy nomination for best actress
in a drama series for each and every season of Murder, She
Wrote — yet never won.
Venetia Stevenson (born Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson)
(10 March 1938 – 26 September 2022)
Venetia Stevenson, an English-American model, actress and
daughter of Hollywood luminaries who appeared in films including Darby’s Rangers, Island of Lost Women and Horror
Hotel after being labeled “the most photogenic girl in the world”,
has died. She was 84.
According to her brother, actor and photographer Jeffrey Byron,
Stevenson died Monday at a health care facility in Atlanta, Ga.
(The Hollywood Reporter)
