Tag: Armstrong Circle Theatre
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ED BEGLEY SR.
March 25, 1901 Ed Begley was born in 1901 in Hartford, Connecticut. His first success was the 1947 Arthur Miller play All My Sons, followed by Inherit the Wind (1955-57), which ran for 806 performances on Broadway and won Begley the 1956 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He made his screen…
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RETA SHAW
September 13, 1912 Reta M. Shaw was born in South Paris, Maine, on September 13, 1912. Her father was an orchestra leader. Shaw’s younger sister was actress Marguerite Shaw. The daughter and granddaughter of women who believed in spiritualism, Shaw reportedly once told a newspaper interviewer that she had been “brought up on a ouija board." She…