I know I have featured this strange coincidence before, but when we have two of our Patron Saints sharing a birthday, what can one do but try and make a connection?
There are probably myriad connections, personally and professionally. However there is one notable work that provides the link today between our birthday girls Barbra Streisand (71) and Shirley MacLaine (79) - Thornton Wilder's finest moment, his play The Matchmaker!
For indeed, Miss MacLaine starred in the original 1958 screen adaptation of Mr Wilder's play - as the romantic lead, milliner Irene Molloy:
And of course, in 1969 Miss Streisand took the eponymous "Matchmaker" role in the Ernest Lehman/Gene Kelly adaptation of the Jerry Herman musical based upon that same play, Hello Dolly!:
Happy birthday, ladies!
Mega-Babs
Shirl
and shirley booth was dolly?
ReplyDeleteA much better one than Mega-Babs' version... Jx
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