FIRST BROADWAY PRODUCTION ON TV ~ THIS DATE IN 1955

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NBC-TV presented Peter Pan live as part of Producers’ Showcase,with
the show’s original cast, as the first full-length Broadway production on 
color TV. The show attracted a record audience of 65-million viewers 
viewers. Mary Martin ( above) and Cyril Ritchard (below) had already  
won Tony Awards for their stage performances, and Martin won an  
Emmy Award for the television production.

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Cyril Ritchard

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CATHERINE O’HARA IS 57 TODAY

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Catherine O’Hara is an  actress and comedienne, well known for her work
on SCTV, and her roles in the films Beetlejuice (1988), and Home Alone
(1990). Most recently,Catherine she has appeared in the 2010 film Killers
and the HBO movie Temple Grandin, for which she was nominated for an
Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award.

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Catherine O’Hara with Jeffrey Jones in Beetlejuice

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Catherine O’Hara in Home Alone

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A BIRTHDAY FOR TYNE DALY ~ 65 TODAY

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Actress Tyne Daly is most widely known for her work as Detective Lacey in 
the CBS television series Cagney & Lacey (1982 – 1988). She has won six 
Emmy Awards for her television work.

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Tyne Daly, left, with Sharon Gless in Cagney & Lacy

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Daly was in Clint Eastwood’s 1976 film The Enforcer

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JUSTINE BATEMAN HAS TURNED 45

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Justine Tanya Bateman is an actress, writer, and producer. Her television
career included a regular role as Mallory Keaton on the CBS sitcom Family
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from 1982 until 1989. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a
Golden Globe Award. Bateman currently runs a digital media production and 
consulting company called Section 5. 

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PORTLAND’S MATT GROENING IS 57 TODAY

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Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening, cartoonist, screenwriter and producer was
born in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. He attended Ainsworth
Elementary School and Lincoln High School. From 1972 to 1977, Groening
attended Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington. Groening is the
creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television
series, The Simpsons and Futurama. Groening has won 11 Primetime
Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and one for Futurama.

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