September 30 Dateline

Birthdays

1921 - Deborah Kerr, CBE, (born Deborah Jane Trimmer), Scottish actress of film, theatre and television. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956) and a Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy (a role she originated on Broadway). She was also a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and holds the record for an actress nominated in the lead actress category without winning. In 1994, however, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". (Videos from YouTube: Biography and one capturing her in pure emotions from some of her famous films. D. Kerr Documentary, uploaded by Marmar. Accessed April 30, 2018. Deborah Kerr - Top 10 Best Performances. YouTube, uploaded by The Classic Film Lover's Guide. Accessed September 30, 2022.)

1924 - Truman Capote (born Truman Garcia Capote), American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood, which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." His childhood best friend was Harper Lee, widely known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee and Truman were neighbors in Monroeville and met when they were only about five years old.  At first glance, Harper Lee’s friendship with Truman Capote looks unlikely. Lee shied away from publicity while Capote courted it. Lee sought out a quiet life with her sister at home in Alabama, while Capote lived a hard partying, jet-setting existence among celebrities. Capote wrote prolifically, publishing novels, short stories, magazines articles and TV scrips. Lee published one novel in 1960, the Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird, and only released her second, Go Set a Watchman, July 14, 2015. Yet these opposites were childhood companions whose bond helped them become two of the most revered American writers of all time.(Truman Capote Reads from his Breakfast at Tiffany's. Uploaded by 92nd Street Y. Accessed September 30, 2019.)

1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. (Remembering Nobel Laureate and Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel. PBS NewsHour. Accessed September 30, 2015.)

1931 - Angie Dickinson (Angeline Dickinson née Brown), American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. She starred in several TV movies and miniseries, also playing supporting roles in films.

1950 - Victoria Tennant - English film and TV actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela Tudsbury. After a number of roles in British and other European films, she emigrated to the United States. Aside from TV mini-series, she appeared in films such as The Handmaid's Tale and Best Seller. She starred in two films with Steve Martin, her future husband: All of Me and L.A. Story. In 2014, she published a memoir about her mother titled Irina Baronova and The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo.

1952 - Jack Wild, English actor and singer, best known for his debut role as the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver!, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as well as Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. His performance in Oliver was brilliant and this along with his other work as a child outshone his adult career. (Oliver! - 'What you starin' at?' with Oliver (Mark Lester) and Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and  Oliver! - "Reviewing the Situation 2" with Fagin (Ron Moody). Accessed September 30, 2015.)

1957 - Fran Drescher (Born Francine Joy Drescher), American actress, comedian, writer, and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series The Nanny (1993–99), and for her nasal voice and thick New York accent.

1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters in both European and Hollywood productions, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award, a Lumières Award and two César Awards. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010, and was promoted to Officer in 2016. She has served as a spokeswoman for Greenpeace since 2001. In particular, for her portrayal of French singer Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007), Cotillard won her second César Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Lumières Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first and (as of 2023) only actor to win an Academy Award for a French-language performance, and also the second actress to have won this award for a non-English language performance. Cotillard was also the face of the Lady Dior handbag for nine years. Since 2020, she is the face of Chanel's fragrance Chanel No. 5.
 

1980 - Martina Hingis (born Martina Hingisová), Swiss former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. 1, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. She won 5 Grand Slam singles titles, 13 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and 7 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of 25 major titles. She also won the season-ending WTA Finals two times in singles and three times in doubles, an Olympic silver medal, and a record 17 Tier I singles titles.


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More birthdays and historical events, September 30 - On This Day

 

Historical Events

1791 - Austrian wunderkind composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premieres his opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), in Vienna. It is just two months before his death. He doesn't live to see its immense success.

1846 - The use of ether as an anesthetic is recorded for the first time by Boston dentist William Morton, who painlessly removes a tooth.

1868 - The first volume of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is published.

1927 - American baseballer Baby Ruth, famous of the New York Yankees, becomes the first player to hit 60 home runs in a season, a record that stands for 34 years.

1938 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is applauded for bringing peace to Europe, after signing a non-aggression deal, the Munich Pact, with Adolf Hitler, who promises Germany will never go to war with Britain again. Eleven months later, Hitler invades Poland, and says the agreement was "just a scrap of paper."

1955 - Actor James Dean dies in a car crash in California a month before his acclaimed film Rebel Without a Cause is released.



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