Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London, England.
Lansbury is a Golden Globe-winning actress who played Jessica Fletcher
on the Murder, She Wrote series on CBS-TV (1984-1996). She also gained
recognition for her role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966) and provided
the voice of the teapot Mrs. Potts in the 1991 animated film Beauty and the
Beast. Angela Lansbury was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the 1945
film The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville,
Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay
as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.
From October 15, 1955 to September 1956, ABC-TV aired a live, hour-long
television version of the Opry once a month on Saturday nights, sponsored
by Ralston-Purina, pre-empting one hour of the 90-minute Ozark Jubilee.
From "Grand Ole’ Opry" in 1955. It’s the first TV appearance of
Patsy Cline.
Linda Lavin was born in Portland, Maine.
Television fans will remember Lavin as struggling waitress Alice in the CBS
sitcom of the same title (1976-1985). She was born into a musical family and
began performing at age five.
Tim Maguire
The series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957,
on CBS.
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)
Carlata Bradley
Arthur "Art" Garfunkel and Paul Simon.
Paul Frederic Simon is 74 years old today.
Simon met Garfunkel while performing in Alice in Wonderland for their sixth
grade graduation and went on to perform at school dances together.
