HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIR ALEC!!

Sir Alec Guiness

Born on this date in 1914, Sir Alec Guiness was one of England's most versatile actors both on stage and screen. I saw him on stage in London in 1977 in "YAHOO" where he played Jonathan Swift, author of "Gulliver's Travels". The entire second act Sir Alec was on his knees portraying a Lilliputian midget. I'll never know how a man of age 63 could do that for almost an hour!! Incredible.

Here's some trivia:

"On Friday, September 23, 1955, Guinness was at the Villa Capri restaurant in Los Angeles, and found no table available. The actor James Dean, then filming Giant, invited Guinness to sit at his table. During lunch, Dean talked about his new car, a Porsche 550 Spyder. On leaving the restaurant, Dean insisted on showing off the car to Guinness, who said "Please never get in it. If you do, you will be dead within a week." Dean died in a crash in the Porsche the following Friday, September 30."

Sir Alec Guiness died in 2000.