Monty Woolley Born August 16th

Edgar Montillion Woolley was born August 16th, 1888 in New York City. Before beginning an acting carreer on Broadway, Woolly was a professor and lecturer at Yale University. Woolley changed careers in 1936 and he was nearly a life long friend of Cole Porter, with whom he shared adventures - the kind you don't mention to your mother.

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Sergei Diaghilev Born March 19th

Painting by Leon Bakst

Sergei Diaghilev was born on March 19th, 1872 in Novrogorod, Russia, born to a family whose money came from vodka distilleries, though the family was bankrupt in 1890. While studying law at Saint Petersburg University, Diaghilev took classes at the Convservatory of Music. His dreams of writing music were ended by a professor's blunt assessment, Diaghilev had formed associations in influential art circles. This association would indirectly set him on the path to founding the Ballets Russes, whose dancers included Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinksy, who Diaghilev took as his lover till Nijinsky married.

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Edward Everett Horton Born March 18th

Edward Everett Horton was born March 18th, 1886 in Brooklyn. Horton began his stage career in vaudeville and Broaday with small singing and dancing parts. Horton moved to Los Angeles in 1919. His first starring role came in 1922 and he became a well known character actor, often with gay sub text and the narrator of Fractured Fairy Tales that was feature of the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon.

Read more about Horton at the actor's Wikipedia entry.