april 9 famous birthdays
Even Carnegie Hall considers it one of the best acclaimed concerts in its abreast 120-year history.
Judy Garland, our homegirl from Grand Rapids, Minn., gave the achievement of her activity — generally alleged the greatest night in showbiz history — on this night in 1961.
A recording of “Judy at Carnegie Hall” became a Grammy-winning, acknowledged album. The improvement achievement followed years of affliction (including long-undiagnosed hepatitis), abasement and addiction. The admirers of performers, off for their Sunday-night break, accepted acclamation afterwards encore.
“She’ll be aback in May,” wrote Frank Aston for the New York World-Telegram. “Try to get tickets. Aloof try. This kid is still a killer.”
Actor-comedian John Oliver — best accepted for his role on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” — is 40. These days, he hosts “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” He met his wife in St. Paul at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
Pipestone, Minn.,-born amateur and amateur John Lutz — he portrayed also-ran Lutz of “30 Rock” — is 44. He lived in Minnesota aloof continued abundant to acreage his alarming Germanic name and again confused with his ancestors to the Chicago area, area Second City beckoned. He’s affiliated to his above “30 Rock” castmate, Sue Galloway.
Actor Matthew Underwood of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101” is 27. Not too backward to get braces. Meee-OW!
Actor Jesse Lee Soffer of “Chicago Fire” and now “Chicago P.D.” is 33.
Actor Dev Patel — “Lion,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” (and the “Second Best”) and HBO’s “The Newsroom” — is 27.
Singer Taio Cruz is 32.
Actress Jaime King of “Heart of Dixie” is 38.
Polish model-actress Joanna Krupa is 38.
WWE brilliant and amateur John Cena is 40. You might’ve spotted him in Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck.”
Actor Barry Watson –“Hart of Dixie,” “Gossip Girl” — is 43.
Interpol bassist Carlos D is 43.
Actor Scott Bairstow of “Party of Five” is 47.
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Aaron Dessner of the indie bedrock bandage the National is 41.
Actor Kal Penn is 40. His credits accommodate “House M.D.” and the “Harold and Kumar” flicks. He additionally allotment of the Obama administration, as accessory administrator in the White House Office of Public Engagement and on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Drummer Stan Frazier of Sugar Ray is 49.
Actress Melina Kanakaredes of “CSI: NY” and “Providence” is aces at 50.
Comedian George Lopez is 56.
Actress Valerie Bertinelli is 57 and looks aloof like she did as a boyhood brilliant in the 1970s-’80s ball “One Day at a Time.” These days, the ex-Mrs. Eddie Van Halen is apparent in “Hot in Cleveland.”
Aussie extra Judy Davis — “The Ref,” “Husbands and Wives,” “Barton Fink” and the TV miniseries “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows” — is 62.
Director Michael Moore is 63. Area will he access next?
Actor James Russo — apparent in 2012’s “Django Unchained” — is 64.
Actress Joyce DeWitt of 1970s ball “Three’s Company” is 68.
Actress Blair Brown — “The Canicule and Nights of Molly Dodd,” and added afresh “Fringe” — is 71. The Tony Award-winning extra starred in the Guthrie Theater’s assembly of “The Glass Menagerie” in 2007.
Actor David Birney is 78.
Actor Lee Majors — he was the “Six Million Dollar Man” — is 78.
Rock and Cycle Hall of Famer Roy Orbison was built-in on this day in 1936. He was apparently best accepted for his song “”Pretty Woman.”” Later admirers would additionally apperceive his supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. This photo was taken in 1988, the year he died. We adulation his alarming bedrock ‘n’ cycle shades.
Actress and “Saturday Night Live” alum Jan Hooks was built-in on this day. She died October 9, 2014 at age 57. She’s the articulation of Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon on “The Simpsons.”
Former extra Shirley Temple was built-in on this day in 1928. And she was not aloof a appealing name for a adolescent drink: Temple won an Academy Award (a “Juvenile” one, for “Heidi” and ”Curly Top”), served as a U.S. agent and won Kennedy Center ceremoniousness and SAG’s Activity Achievement Award. She died in 2014.
