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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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A forest of redwood trees in
Redwood National Park
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Mount Shasta
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Aerial view of the
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Love Story (1970 film)
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Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling novel of the same name. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan ONeal, alongside John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut in a minor role. A tragedy, the film is considered one of the most romantic by the American Film Institute and is #37 in the list of highest-grossing films in Canada and it was followed by a sequel, Olivers Story, starring ONeal with Candice Bergen. Oliver Barrett IV comes from an American upper-class East Coast family and is heir to the Barrett fortune and he attends Harvard University, where he is very active in ice hockey. At the library, Oliver meets Jennifer Jenny Cavalleri, a quick-witted and she mocks him, calling him preppy and jock. Oliver finds charm and truth in her comments and they quickly fall in love, despite their differences. Jenny reveals her plans for the future, which include studying in Paris, Oliver is upset that he does not figure in those plans. He wants to marry Jenny and proposes, after she accepts, she is driven to the Barrett mansion to meet the old guard parents. Oliver reassures her that their class differences wont matter, however, his parents are clearly not impressed and are judgmental. Later, at the Harvard club Olivers father tells him that he cut him off financially if he marries Jenny. Oliver storms out of the dining hall, upon graduation from college, the two students decide to marry against the wishes of Olivers father, who severs ties with his son. The wedding is modern and contains no religious denomination, Jennys widowed father attends, although he also has concerns about their social differences. Without his fathers support, the couple struggle to pay Olivers way through Harvard Law School. Jenny gets work as a private-school teacher and they rent the top floor of a triple decker near the Law School. Oliver graduates third in his class, winning $500, and takes a position at a respectable New York law firm and they eventually move into a doorman building, which contrasts greatly with their Cambridge digs. The 24-year-olds are ready to start a family, but when they fail to conceive they consult a medical specialist, after many tests, Oliver is informed that Jenny is terminally ill. Her exact condition is never stated explicitly, but she appears to have leukemia, as instructed by his doctor, Oliver attempts to live a normal life without telling Jenny of her condition, but she finds out after confronting her doctor about her recent illness. Oliver buys tickets to Paris but she declines, wanting only time with him, soon after she begins costly cancer therapy, Oliver is desperate enough over the mounting expenses to seek financial relief from his father
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Theatrical release poster
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The Godfather
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The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzos best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family, the story, spanning 1945 to 1955, chronicles the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone, focusing on the transformation of Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for the price of $80,000, Studio executives had trouble finding a director, as their first few candidates turned down the position. They and Coppola disagreed over who would play characters, in particular Vito. Filming was done on location and completed earlier than scheduled, the musical score was composed primarily by Nino Rota with additional pieces by Carmine Coppola. The film was the film of 1972 and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay and its seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III, the Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U. S, in 1945, at his daughter Connies wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vitos youngest son, Michael, who was a Marine during World War II, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, Woltz refuses until he wakes up in bed with the severed head of his prized stallion. Wary of involvement in a new trade that risks alienating political insiders. Suspicious, Vito sends his enforcer, Luca Brasi, to spy on them, however, a Tattaglia button man garrotes Brasi during Brasis first meeting with Bruno Tattaglia and Sollozzo. Later Sollozzo has Vito gunned down in the street, then kidnaps Hagen, with Corleone first-born Sonny in command, Hagen is pressured to persuade Sonny to accept Sollozzos deal, then released. The family receives fish wrapped in Brasis bullet-proof vest, indicating that Luca sleeps with the fishes, Vito survives, and at the hospital Michael thwarts another attempt on his father, Michaels jaw is broken by NYPD Captain Marc McCluskey, Sollozzos bodyguard. Sonny retaliates with a hit on Tattaglias son, Michael plots to murder Sollozzo and McCluskey, on the pretext of settling the dispute, Michael agrees to meet them in a Bronx restaurant. There, retrieving a planted handgun, he kills both men, despite a clampdown by the authorities, the Five Families erupt in open warfare and Vitos sons fear for their safety. Michael takes refuge in Sicily, and his brother, Fredo, is sheltered by the Corleones Las Vegas casino partner, Sonny attacks his brother-in-law Carlo on the street for abusing his sister and threatens to kill him if it happens again. When it does, Sonny speeds to their home, but is ambushed at a toll booth
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Theatrical release poster
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Al Pacino (left) as
Michael Corleone,
Vito Corleone portrayed by
Marlon Brando.
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Paramount executive
Peter Bart wanted
Francis Ford Coppola (pictured) to direct the film because he would accept a low salary and work with a low budget.
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Al Pacino (pictured in 1971 during Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel) was chosen to play
Michael Corleone.
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John Cassavetes
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John Nicholas Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He also acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemarys Baby and he studied acting with Don Richardson, using an acting technique based on muscle memory. His income from acting made it possible for him to direct his own films independently and his children Nick Cassavetes, Zoe Cassavetes, and Xan Cassavetes are also filmmakers. His early years were spent with his family in Greece, when he returned at age seven and he was reared on Long Island, New York. He attended Port Washington High School from 1945 to 1947 and participated in Port Weekly, Red Domino, football, next to his photo on page 55 of his 1947 yearbook is written, Cassy is always ready with a wisecrack, but he does have a serious side. Cassavetes attended Blair Academy in New Jersey and spent a semester at Champlain College before being expelled due to his failing grades and he graduated in 1950 and met his future wife Gena Rowlands at her audition into the Academy in 1953 and they were married four months later in 1954. He continued acting in the theater, took parts in films and began working on television in anthology series. By 1956, Cassavetes had begun teaching an alternative to method acting in his own workshop in New York City, an improvisation exercise in his workshop inspired the idea for his writing and directorial debut, Shadows. Cassavetes raised the funds for the production from friends and family and his stated purpose was to make a film about little people, different from Hollywood studio productions. Cassavetes was unable to gain American distribution of Shadows, but it won the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, european distributors later released the movie in the United States as an import. Although the box-office of Shadows in the United States was slight, Cassavetes would repeat this performance in the 1956 film version. His first starring role in a film was Edge of the City. He was briefly under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and co-starred with Robert Taylor in the western Saddle the Wind, in the late 1950s, Cassavetes guest-starred in Beverly Garlands groundbreaking crime drama, Decoy, about a New York City woman police undercover detective. Thereafter, he played Johnny Staccato, the character in a television series about a jazz pianist who also worked as a private detective. In total he directed five episodes of the series, which features a guest appearance by his wife Gena Rowlands. It was broadcast on NBC between September 1959 and March 1960 when it was acquired by ABC and although critically acclaimed, Cassavetes would appear on the NBC interview program, Heres Hollywood. Cassavetes directed two movies for Hollywood in the early 1960s – Too Late Blues and A Child Is Waiting, a Child Is Waiting starred Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland. He also starred in the CBS western series Rawhide, in the episode, in the 1963–1964 season, Cassavetes appeared in Jason Everss ABC drama about college life, Channing
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John Cassavetes as Johnny Staccato, 1959
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Cassavetes with his wife
Gena Rowlands
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John Cassavetes's grave
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United States Army
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, the United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775. As a uniformed service, the Army is part of the Department of the Army. As a branch of the forces, the mission of the U. S. The branch participates in conflicts worldwide and is the major ground-based offensive and defensive force of the United States, the United States Army serves as the land-based branch of the U. S. Section 3062 of Title 10, U. S, the army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military heritage with them. As the Revolutionary War progressed, French aid, resources, a number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught Prussian Army tactics and organizational skills. The army fought numerous pitched battles and in the South in 1780–81 sometimes used the Fabian strategy and hit-and-run tactics, hitting where the British were weakest, to wear down their forces. Washington led victories against the British at Trenton and Princeton, but lost a series of battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776, with a decisive victory at Yorktown, and the help of the French, the Continental Army prevailed against the British. After the war, though, the Continental Army was quickly given land certificates, State militias became the new nations sole ground army, with the exception of a regiment to guard the Western Frontier and one battery of artillery guarding West Points arsenal. However, because of continuing conflict with Native Americans, it was realized that it was necessary to field a trained standing army. The War of 1812, the second and last war between the United States and Great Britain, had mixed results. After taking control of Lake Erie in 1813, the U. S. Army seized parts of western Upper Canada, burned York and defeated Tecumseh, which caused his Western Confederacy to collapse. Following U. S. victories in the Canadian province of Upper Canada, British troops, were able to capture and burn Washington, which was defended by militia, in 1814. Two weeks after a treaty was signed, Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans and Siege of Fort St. Philip, U. S. troops and sailors captured HMS Cyane, Levant, and Penguin in the final engagements of the war. Per the treaty, both sides, the United States and Great Britain, returned to the status quo. Both navies kept the warships they had seized during the conflict, the armys major campaign against the Indians was fought in Florida against Seminoles. It took long wars to defeat the Seminoles and move them to Oklahoma
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Storming of Redoubt #10 in the
Siege of Yorktown during the
American Revolutionary War prompted the British government to begin negotiations, resulting in the
Treaty of Paris and British recognition of the United States of America.
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Emblem of the United States Department of the Army
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General
Andrew Jackson stands on the parapet of his makeshift defenses as his troops repulse attacking
Highlanders during the
defense of New Orleans, the final major battle of the War of 1812
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The
Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the American Civil War
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Peter Gunn
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Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The series was created by Blake Edwards, episodes were also directed by Boris Sagal, Robert Gist, Jack Arnold, Lamont Johnson, Robert Altman and several others. A total of 114 thirty-minute episodes were produced by Spartan Productions, Season one was filmed at Universal Studios, while seasons two and three were filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Philip H. Lathrop and William W. Spencer were cinematographers on many episodes, Craig Stevens wardrobe was tailored by Don Richards and Lola Albrights fashions by Jax. The series was No.17 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1958–1959 TV season, the title character, played by Craig Stevens, is a well-dressed private investigator whose hair is always in place and who loves cool jazz. Where other gumshoes might be coarse, Peter Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes and he operates in a nameless, fictional riverfront city and can usually be found at Mothers, a smoky wharfside jazz club that he uses as his office, often meeting clients there. He has a reputation of being one of the best investigators and he sometimes works cases out of the state and on at least one occasion out of country, with one case occurring in Mexico and another involving a tour of Western Europe. Gunn drives a 1958 two-tone DeSoto two door hardtop in the first few episodes of the first season, then a 1959 Plymouth Fury convertible with a white top, in the third season Gunn drives a 1961 white Plymouth Fury convertible with a car phone. Gunns girlfriend, Edie Hart, is a sultry singer employed at Mothers and his pet name for Edie is Silly. Herschel Bernardi costarred as Lieutenant Charles Chuck Jacoby, a police detective. Occasionally he refers people to Gunn as clients, Bernardi received his only Emmy nomination for the role. Hope Emerson appeared as Mother, who had been a singer and she received an Emmy nomination for the role. For the second season, Mother was played by Minerva Urecal, associate producer Byron Kane portrayed Barney, the bartender, Kane was never credited for playing this role. Bill Chadney appeared as Emmett, the player at Mothers. Both Billy Barty as pool hustler Babby and Herbert Ellis as Beat bistro owner, painter, Capri Candela played Wilburs girlfriend Capri. Frequent director Robert Gist appeared as an actor in different roles in three episodes, Edie opened her own night club Edies with James Lanphier as Leslie the maitre d in Season 3. Peter Gunn ran for three seasons starting in late 1958, a total of 114 episodes were produced during the three season run. Peter Gunn premiered on September 22,1958 with the episode The Kill, the first season ran from September 1958 through June 1959 and contained 38 episodes
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Peter Gunn
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Lola Albright and Craig Stevens
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Johnny Staccato
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Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series starring John Cassavetes which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10,1959 through March 24,1960. Titular character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes, is a jazz pianist/private detective, the setting for many episodes is a Greenwich Village jazz club belonging to his friend, Waldo, played by Eduardo Ciannelli. The show featured musicians, such as Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo. Elmer Bernstein composed both of the theme tunes used and Stanley Wilson was music supervisor. After its initial airing on NBC, ABC presented reruns of the series from March 27 to September 25,1960, on October 12,2010, the series was released on Region 1 DVD by Timeless Media Group. Reruns currently air Saturday mornings on GetTV, Johnny Staccato aired at 8,30 p. m. Timeless Media Group released the series on DVD in Region 1 on October 12,2010. The show was parodied on SCTV as Vic Arpeggio, a saxophonist/private investigator whose cases were usually solved by accident. Arpeggio claimed to have been “framed” for drug possession, and that the gig was merely a sideline until he got his solo career back on track. Thomas Pynchon references Johnny Staccato in his 2009 novel Inherent Vice, pynchons main character, private investigator Larry Doc Sportello, praises Staccato as the shamus of shamuses, ranking him with past greats Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. The theme, performed by Elmer Bernstein, received attention in the US. Johnny Staccato at the Internet Movie Database Johnny Staccato at TV. com
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John Cassavetes as Johnny Staccato with guest star and spouse,
Gena Rowlands, 1959.
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Mary Tyler Moore in Johnny Staccato, 1960
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Bourbon Street Beat
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The series was one of several Warner Bros. detective shows which aired on ABC during this era, but Bourbon Street Beat was not as successful as the others. Andrew Duggans character, Cal Calhoun, immediately disappeared from the screen upon the shows cancellation, richard Long went on to play the lead in the western series The Big Valley and the sitcom Nanny and the Professor. Van Williams eventually played The Green Hornet opposite Bruce Lee, jay OHanlon (seven episodesNita Talbot. com Bourbon Street Beat at TV. com
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Logo of Bourbon Street Beat
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Main Cast:
Andrew Duggan,
Arlene Howell,
Van Williams and
Richard Long in Bourbon Street Beat
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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The following is a list of the 93 episodes of the television program The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, which is a continuation of the program Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, like its predecessor, is a series in the thriller genre. NBC renamed the program when they extended its running-time from about 25 minutes to about 50 minutes, both programs were hosted by Alfred Hitchcock, whose directorial work in thriller films is extremely influential. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour premiered on 20 September 1962, three months after the conclusion of the seventh and final season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, in its new incarnation with a 50-minute running time, the show lasted for three seasons. NBC broadcast the episode on 10 May 1965. List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine The Alfred Hitchcock Hour at the Internet Movie Database
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction, fantasy, psychological-supernatural horror anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Each story typically features a moral and a surprise ending, the series is notable for featuring both established stars and younger actors who would become more famous later on. Serling served as producer and head writer, he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the shows 156 episodes. He was also the shows host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning, Serlings opening and closing narrations usually summarize the episodes events encapsulating how and why the main character had entered the Twilight Zone. In 2016, it was ranked No.8 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest shows of all time, in 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked No.26 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the third best-written TV series ever, by the late 1950s, Rod Serling was a regular name in television. His successful teleplays included Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight, but constant changes and edits made by the networks, in Requiem for a Heavyweight, the line Got a match. But according to comments in his 1957 anthology Patterns, Serling had been trying to delve into more controversial than his works of the early 1950s. Despite bad reviews, activists sent numerous letters and wires protesting the production, the script, however, was rejected and shelved for a year until Bert Granet discovered and produced it as an episode of Desilu Playhouse in 1958. The show was a success and enabled Serling to finally begin production on his anthology series. There is a dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity and it is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of mans fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination and it is an area which we call The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone premiered the night of October 2,1959 and its the one series that I will let interfere with other plans, said Terry Turner for the Chicago Daily News. Even as the show proved popular to televisions critics, it struggled to find an audience of television viewers. CBS was banking on a rating of at least 21 or 22, the series future was jeopardized when its third episode, Mr. Denton on Doomsday earned a 16.3 rating. With one exception, the first season featured scripts written only by Rod Serling and these three were responsible for 127 of the 156 episodes in the series. Additionally, with one exception, Serling never appeared on camera during any first-season episode, Serling did appear on screen in Twilight Zone promotional spots plugging the following weeks episode – just not in the episodes themselves
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Serling working on his script with a dictating machine, 1959
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Original 1959 title card
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Rod Serling models an airplane with actress
Inger Stevens, who appeared in "
The Hitch-Hiker " and "
The Lateness of the Hour "
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Julie Newmar and
Albert Salmi in "
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville "
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Gunsmoke
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, the central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the series was initially titled Gun Law. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961, John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, at the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote, Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte. It was ever the stuff of legend, robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created a script called Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts. Two auditions were created in 1949, CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed. A complication arose, though, Culvers contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series, the project was shelved for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own. Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism, the radio series first aired on CBS on April 26,1952 with the episode Billy the Kid, written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18,1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. Conrad was one of the last actors to audition for the role of Marshal Dillon, with a resonantly powerful and distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radios busiest actors. Though Meston championed him, Macdonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed, during his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Dillon as portrayed by Conrad was a lonely, isolated man, Macdonnell later claimed, Much of Matt Dillons character grew out of Bill Conrad. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Many episodes were based on mans cruelty to man and woman, inasmuch as the womans life
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James Arness as
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William Conrad in 1952, when Matt Dillon was created on radio.
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Gunsmoke title card
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Ken Curtis as
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Bonanza
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Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. The show continues to air in syndication, the show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts, the show is known for presenting moral dilemmas. The shows theme song itself, called Bonanza, became a hit song in its own right, only instrumental renditions, absent Ray Evans words, were ever used during the series long run. In 2002, Bonanza was ranked No.43 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 to 1867 during and shortly after the American Civil War. During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 1967–1970 period in time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa. The show chronicles the adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. Via exposition and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry, English, Swedish, the familys cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally, the opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars. The family lived on a 600, 000+ acre ranch called the Ponderosa on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The vast size of the Cartwrights land was quietly revised to half a million acres on Lorne Greenes 1964 song, the ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee, or his deputy Clem Foster. You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family, Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television, most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didnt like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters, explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine. Episodes ranged from high drama, to comedy, and addressed issues such as the environment, substance abuse, domestic violence, anti-war sentiment. The series sought to illustrate the cruelty of bigotry against, Asians, African-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Mormons, originally, the Cartwrights tended to be depicted as put-off by outsiders. Lorne Greene objected to this, pointing out that as the areas largest timber and livestock producer, the producers agreed with this observation and changed the Cartwrights to be more amiable. Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation, the order of billing at the beginning of the broadcast appeared to be shuffled randomly each week, with no relation whatsoever to the current episode featured that week
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The Bonanza title screen
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Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright (1959)
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Original cast: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene and Pernell Roberts (1959)
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Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright
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Cannon (TV series)
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Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from 1971 to 1976. The primary protagonist is the character, private detective Frank Cannon. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on an other than ABC. A revival television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1,1980, in total, there were 124 episodes. Frank Cannon was a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, however he retired after the deaths of his wife and son in a car accident, the series begins at the point where Cannon is just beginning this new career. The cause of death of Cannons wife and child was not clear through the first four seasons of the show, however, the first episode of the fifth and final season revolves around Cannons investigation of the deaths, and he finally finds out the reason they were killed. The noticeably overweight Frank Cannon had expensive tastes, especially in food, Cannons investigations were mostly for clients in the Southern California area, although on occasion he was called in for investigations much farther away. Cannon occasionally would get hurt and knocked unconscious and he carried a gun for self-defense, usually a snub-nosed.38 Special revolver. He was known to subdue suspects with karate chops, judo holds, in the first two seasons Cannon was a pipe smoker. In the third season, the pipe was seen occasionally, it was dropped altogether. Frank Cannon had his first meeting with Barnaby Jones, an aging veteran private investigator who had retired and turned over his agency to his son, with the aid of Cannon and Hals widow, Betty Jones, they hunt down Hals killer. Afterward, Jones decides to out of retirement. William Conrad appeared as Cannon in the guise of a special guest star, there was a second crossover between the series. In an episode of his Thames Television series, British comedian Benny Hill parodied 1970s American detective shows, a female cast member played the role of Pepper Anderson. The comedian Franklyn Ajaye does a routine where he mentions that it takes Frank Cannon so long to get out of his car 2-3 times a show there is hardly time for anything else. In Mystery Science Theater 3000, one of the more absurd inventions displayed by the Mad Scientists was a William Conrad Refrigerator Alert, impressionist Billy Howard included Cannon as one of the detectives parodied in his novelty hit record King of the Cops. In an era before cell phone use, Cannon was using a phone in his car
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Conrad as Frank Cannon.
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McCloud (TV series)
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McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970-77. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of Taos, New Mexico, the first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker, who turned it down. Universal hired the highly experienced Dennis Weaver and this premise of a cowboy in the big city was more or less adapted from the 1968 Don Siegel film, Coogans Bluff, starring Clint Eastwood. Herman Miller was responsible for the story of Coogans Bluff and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner, indeed, Miller is credited as the creator of McCloud. Coogans Bluff reflects Richard Thorpes 1942 film Tarzans New York Adventure, like Coogan, McCloud galloped the length and breadth of Manhattan, and the sight of McCloud on horseback riding down the middle of a busy street became one of the series most famous images. The following fall, the network commissioned a new wheel series, NBC ordered two new series, McMillan & Wife and Columbo, to fill the wheel and all three became part of the new NBC Mystery Movie series, which aired on Wednesday nights. The series became a hit, finishing at number 14 for Nielsen ratings for the 1971–1972 season, NBC then decided to try another competitive move and relocated McCloud, along with McMillan and Columbo, to Sunday nights for the following fall. The Mystery Movie series was a bigger draw on Sundays. Starting in the season in the fall of 1974, the episodes were two hours long, but were dropped again to 90 minutes for the seventh and final season starting in the fall of 1976. The 46th and last episode, McCloud Meets Dracula, was aired on April 17,1977, Weaver received Emmy nominations in 1974 and 1975 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. The executive producer was Glen A. Larson, who wrote for the series, as did Peter Allan Fields, Lou Shaw, Jimmy Sangster. Larson won an Edgar Award for The New Mexican Connection, in 1989, Weaver reprised the role in a made-for-television movie, The Return of Sam McCloud, in which his character was now a United States Senator. It first aired on November 12,1989, Diana Muldaur returned to reprise her role as McClouds love interest, Chris Coughlin. McClouds attire, typically consisting of a coat or Western jacket, bolo tie and cowboy hat. That New Yorkers might mistake him for a naïf because of his appearance occasionally worked to his advantage and he would often allay suspicion of his motives by insisting he was in New York to observe and learn. Under his jacket or coat, he wore a khaki uniform shirt with a brown star-shaped uniform patch with gold trim on left sleeve. There was a circle in the center with the number 33
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The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie program worked on a rotating basis – one per month from each of its shows. Top left:
Dennis Weaver in McCloud. Top right:
Richard Boone in
Hec Ramsey. Bottom left:
Peter Falk in
Columbo. Bottom right:
Rock Hudson in
McMillan & Wife.
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Barnaby Jones
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Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as a father and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was introduced as a replacement on the CBS network. Halfway through the run, Mark Shera was added to the cast as the cousin of Ebsens character. William Conrad guest-starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first Barnaby Jones episode, Requiem for a Son, the series was produced by QM Productions. It had the second longest QM series run following the eight years of The FBI, the series bore the Quinn Martin trademark where commercial breaks divided each episode into 4 Acts concluding with an epilogue. The opening credits were narrated by Hank Simms, after Barnaby Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer and his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones, joined forces with him to solve the case. The two decided that they worked so well together, they would continue to keep the detective agency open, Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. Until the cancellation of Cannon, the characters of both moved back and forth between the two shows. In 1976, the character of J. R. the son of Barnabys cousin and he had come to try to solve the murder of his father, but stayed around to help Barnaby and Betty, while also attending law school. During the first year of the series, a theme would be where Jones would make an astute observation or collect a sample. The show was cancelled in 1980 due to declining ratings, Ebsen had also had enough of playing the role, after the series cancellation, reruns could be seen in syndication. During the mid-1990s, Meriwether and Shera expressed interest in a Barnaby Jones reunion television movie, however, in 1993, Ebsen reprised the role of Barnaby Jones in the big-screen remake of his most famous television series, The Beverly Hillbillies. It would be his final theatrical appearance, among the guest stars who appeared over the years were Conlan Carter and Gary Lockwood, who appeared together in the third episode of the series entitled Sunday, Doomsday on February 25,1973. Marshall Colt, later cast with James Arness on McClains Law, donald May played the role of Curt Phillips in the 1978 episode Blind Jeopardy. Character actress Lurene Tuttle played Emily Carter in the 1980 episode The Killin Cousin, future Trapper John, M. D. stars Pernell Roberts, Gregory Harrison, and Charles Siebert all made guest appearances on one episode. Future WKRP in Cincinnati stars Loni Anderson and Gary Sandy made guest appearances, on February 16,2010, CBS DVD released season one of Barnaby Jones on DVD in Region 1 for the first time. The episodes on the DVD include their broadcast trailers, as of September 2014, this release has been discontinued and is out of print
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Barnaby Jones
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Hawaii Five-O
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Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980. At the airing of its very last episode, it was the longest running cop show in history at that time. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, the head of a state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular, many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to Book em, Danno. sometimes specifying a charge such as murder one. The CBS television network produced Hawaii Five-O, which aired from September 20,1968, the program continues to be broadcast in syndication worldwide. Hawaii Five-O was named in honor of Hawaiis being the 50th state, although the shows name has always ended with the numeral 0, the soundtrack album, released in the late 1960s, used the letter O instead of the numeral zero. The letter O is sometimes used to differentiate the series and the remake which premiered in 2010. The show centers on a state police force led by former US naval officer Steve McGarrett, a detective captain. In the show, McGarrett oversees state police officers – the young Danny Williams, veteran Chin Ho Kelly, Honolulu Police Department Officer Duke Lukela joined the team as a regular, as did Ben Kokua, who replaced Kono beginning with season five. Occasionally, McGarretts Five-O team is assisted by officers as needed, medical examiner Doc Bergman, forensic specialist Che Fong. The first secretary was May, then Jenny, and later Malia, Lani, for 12 seasons, McGarrett and his team hounded international secret agents, criminals, and organized crime syndicates plaguing the Hawaiian Islands. With the aid of District Attorney and later Hawaiis Attorney General John Manicote, One such crime syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon, a character introduced in the fifth season. Most episodes of Hawaii Five-O ended with the arrest of criminals and McGarrett snapping, the offense occasionally was added after this phrase, for example, Book em, murder one. In many episodes, this was directed to Danny Williams and became McGarretts catchphrase, Book em, other criminals and organized crime bosses on the islands were played by actors such as Ricardo Montalbán, Gavin MacLeod, and Ross Martin as Tony Alika. By the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show, New characters Jim Kimo Carew, Lori Wilson, and Truck were introduced in season 12 alongside returning regular character Duke Lukela. The Five-O team consists of three to five members, and is portrayed as occupying a suite of offices in the Iolani Palace, Five-O lacks its own radio network, necessitating frequent requests by McGarrett to the Honolulu Police Department dispatchers. McGarretts tousled yet immaculate hairstyle, as well as his proclivity for wearing a suit and tie on all possible occasions
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Jack Lord played Steve McGarrett.
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Kam Fong Chun played Chin Ho Kelly.
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Oglala Lakota
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The Oglala Lakota or Oglala Sioux are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Nakota and Dakota, make up the Great Sioux Nation. A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Of note, however, some Oglala reject the term Sioux because it was a name give to them by the Chippewa Nation, the term means snake and, as such, is seen as a slur. Oglala elders relate stories about the origin of the name Oglala and their emergence as a distinct group, in the early 1800s, whites passed through Lakota territory in greater and greater numbers. They sought furs, especially beaver fur at first, and later buffalo fur, the trade in fur changed the Oglala economy and way of life. 1868 brought the Fort Laramie Treaty, and in its wake the Oglala became increasingly polarized over this question, some bands turned to the Indian agencies—forerunners to the Indian reservations—where they received beef and other rations from the U. S. government. Other bands held fast to traditional ways of life, many bands moved between these two extremes, coming in to the agencies during the winter and joining their relatives in the north each spring. These challenges further split the various Oglala bands, after being moved several times during the 1870s after the Great Sioux Reservation was broken up into five portions, the Red Cloud Agency was relocated in 1878 and renamed the Pine Ridge Reservation. By 1890, the reservation included 5,537 people, divided into a number of districts that included some 30 distinct communities, without that aim and the constant struggle to attain it, the people would no longer be Dakotas in truth. They would no longer even be human and this strong and enduring connection between related families profoundly influenced Oglala history. Dr. John J. Saville, the U. S. Indian agent at the Red Cloud Agency, each of these bands are subdivided into smaller parties, variously named, usually designated by the name of their chief or leader. As the Oglala were settled on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the late 1870s, their communities probably looked something like this, other members include, Black Elk Wakaŋ Makaicu Oglala Tiyośpaye True Oglala Caŋkahuȟaŋ. Other members include, Short Bull, Amos Bad Heart Bull, hokayuta Huŋkpatila Iteśica Payabya Wagluȟe Kiyaksa Tiyošpaye True Kiyaksa Kuinyan Tapišleca By 1830, the Oglala had around 3,000 members. In the 1820s and 1830s, the Oglala, along with the Brulé, another Lakota band and this Alliance attacked surrounding tribes for territorial and hunting reasons. Historically, women have been critical to the life, making almost everything used by the family. Women have historically controlled the food, resources and movable property, typically, in the Oglala Lakota society, the men are in charge of the politics of the tribe. The men are usually the chiefs for political affairs, war leaders and warriors, traditionally, when a man marries, he goes to live with his wife with her people. In addition to men and feminine women, the Lakota also recognize feminine men
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Kevin Pourier is an Oglala Lakota jeweler and sculptor whose medium is buffalo horn.
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The Wake Singers, band of Oglala Lakota musicians
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Luther Standing Bear was taught to be brave and unafraid to die, and left the reservation to attend Carlisle and do some brave deed to bring honor to his family. In 1902, with his wife Nellie and their children, Standing Bear joined
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and traveled through England for eleven months. Luther was hired as an interpreter and chaperon for seventy-five Indians, and also performed as a skilled horseback rider and dancer.
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American Horse "The Younger"
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
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National Broadcasting Company
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
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Overland Trail (TV series)
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Overland Trail is an American Western series starring William Bendix and Doug McClure which aired on NBC from February 7 to June 6,1960. Bendix portrayed Frederick Thomas Fred Kelly, fictitious superintendent of the Overland Stage Company, McClure appeared as Frank Flip Flippen, Bendixs young associate. Overland Trail aired opposite Lassie and Dennis the Menace on CBS and Walt Disney Presents, Overland Trail left the air on September 11,1960, after summer rebroadcasts. It was replaced by the last season of NBCs Shirley Temples Storybook, notable guest stars included, On February 14,2012, Timeless Media Group will release Overland Trail- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. Overland Trail at the Internet Movie Database Overland Trail at TV. com
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William Bendix, guest star
Lynn Bari and Doug McClure, 1960.
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William Bendix
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William Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters. He is best remembered in films for the role in The Babe Ruth Story. He also memorably portrayed the clumsily-earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and he received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Wake Island. Bendix, named William after his grandfather, was born in Manhattan. His uncle was composer, conductor, and violinist Max Bendix, in the early 1920s, Bendix was a batboy for the New York Yankees and said he saw Babe Ruth hit more than a hundred home runs at Yankee Stadium. However, he was fired after fulfilling Ruths request for an order of hot dogs and soda before a game. In 1927, Bendix married Theresa Stefanotti and he worked as a grocer until the Great Depression. Bendix began his career at age 30 in the New Jersey Federal Theatre Project. He made his debut in 1942. He played in supporting roles in dozens of Hollywood films, usually as a gangster, detective. He began with appearances in film noir, including a performance in The Glass Key and he soon gained attention after appearing in Alfred Hitchcocks Lifeboat as Gus, a wounded and dying American sailor. He played Nick the bartender in the version of William Saroyans The Time of Your Life starring James Cagney. Bendix had appeared in the version, but in the role of Officer Krupp. He was also cast in The Blue Dahlia, starring for the time alongside Ladd. In 1949, Bendix starred in an adaptation of his radio program The Life of Riley. It was Bendixs appearance in The McGuerins of Brooklyn, playing a rugged blue-collar man, the show began as a proposed Groucho Marx radio series, The Flotsam Family, but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for the comedian. Then creator and producer Irving Brecher saw Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in Hal Roachs The McGuerins from Brooklyn, Brecher stated, He was a Brooklyn guy and there was something about him. I thought, This guy could play it, hed made a few films, like Lifeboat, but he was not a name
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Bendix in 1960.
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Bendix as Riley with
Sterling Holloway, 1957.
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Doug McClure
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Douglas Osborne Doug McClure was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the run from 1962 to 1971 of the NBC western television series, The Virginian. McClure was born in Glendale, California and his English mother, Clara Elsie, had moved to the United States from her native United Kingdom in 1915, when her widowed mother married an American, Frank S Artman. Clara Barker was naturalized as an American citizen in 1918, Donald and Clara were parents to Donald Reed McClure, Jr. and then Doug. The widowed Clara would marry Frank Clapp in 1971, McClures acting career included such films as The Enemy Below, The Unforgiven, and Because Theyre Young, before landing the part of Trampas on The Virginian – a part that would make him famous. He appeared as Adam Davis in 1959 in the episode The Court Martial of Trooper Davis of another syndicated series, Mackenzies Raiders, starring Richard Carlson. McClure was in the third episode Mr. Denton on Doomsday, then in 1962, he was cast as Trampas in NBCs The Virginian. After the show ended in 1971, McClure was slated to co-star with Bette Davis in a series about a parolee assisting a judge, played by Davis, by doing detective work. McClure made one attempt at a television series during the 1972-73 season by co-starring in SEARCH as a hi-tech investigator, rotating with Tony Franciosa. He then shifted to low-budget science fiction such as At the Earths Core, The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot. In 1967, he played the Errol Flynn role in a remake of Against All Flags titled The Kings Pirate and he was cast in the lead in three World War II adventures, The Longest Hundred Miles, The Birdmen and State Of Division or Death Race. In the 1970s and 1980s, McClure appeared in commercials for Hamms Beer, McClure also appeared as the blonde slave to Jamie Farrs character in 1984s Cannonball Run II. He also had a role as a poker player in the 1994 movie remake of Maverick. In 1994, McClure was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7065 Hollywood Blvd and it was unveiled in what would be his final public appearance. On February 5,1995, McClure died at the age of 59 from lung cancer in Sherman Oaks and he is interred at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, in Santa Monica, California. McClure was married to his wife at the time of his death, and was also survived by daughter Tané from his first marriage. McClure was divorced four times, including twice while he was performing on The Virginian, the character of Troy McClure on The Simpsons was modeled after McClure and fellow actor Troy Donahue. Mike Reiss, executive producer of The Simpsons, said that Doug McClures daughter informed him that Doug was a big fan of The Simpsons and she said that while watching an episode Doug saw the character Troy McClure on the show and said, Are they making fun of me
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McClure at 26 (1961)
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Doug McClure's Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Doug McClure's grave stone
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William Bendix,
Lynn Bari and McClure in
Overland Trail (1960)
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Denver Pyle
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Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor. He was known for portraying Briscoe Darling, Jr. in several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, and playing Jesse Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979-85. Pyle was born in Bethune, Colorado on May 11,1920 to farmer Ben H. Pyle and his wife Maude, His brother, Willis, was a known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios. After graduating from school, Pyle briefly attended Colorado State University. Pyle was a drummer and band member until the United States entered World War II, after the war, Pyle embarked on his film career. He starred in movies and on television during the 1950s and 1960s. Pyle appeared twice as a bank robber in Duncan Renaldos syndicated western series The Cisco Kid. In 1954, he was cast as a henchman of the outlaw Sam Bass in Stories of the Century, Pyle was twice cast on CBSs The Public Defender in the role of George Hansen, and three times on the religious anthology series, Crossroads on ABC. He acted the part of a detective in the 1956 film noir Please Murder Me. Pyle was cast as Carter in the 1955 episode Joeys Father on Fury, Three years later, he played an arsonist in the episode The Fire Watchers of the same series. In 1956 Pyle appeared as Vance Kiley in the episode called Quicksand in the TV western series Lone Ranger. In 1958, Pyle starred with Judith Evelyn in the episode Man in the Moon of the NBC docudrama about the Cold War Behind Closed Doors, hosted by and he appeared as a Professor in the syndicated Men Into Space series 1959 episode Moonquake. In an episode of Ripcord he played a suicidal parachutist, Pyle appeared twice each on the CBS western series My Friend Flicka and NBCs The Restless Gun with John Payne. He guest starred with Grant Withers in the 1959 episode Tumbleweed Ranger of Tris Coffins syndicated western series 26 Men and he appeared seven times on Richard Boones CBS western Have Gun – Will Travel, his final appearance on the show in 1960 as the character Croft in The Puppeteer. He guest starred in 1960 in several westerns, including Pony Express, The Man from Blackhawk. He guest-starred in the episode Trail of the Dead, the story of five missing western prospectors and he appeared with Sammy Jackson in the episode Resurrection of the syndicated American Civil War drama, The Gray Ghost. He was cast as Big Red in the 1959 episode Woman in the River of the ABC/Warner Bros. detective series Bourbon Street Beat, starring Andrew Duggan and he made several appearances as Briscoe Darling, Jr. on The Andy Griffith Show. Pyle was cast in a number of movies by John Ford, including The Horse Soldiers with William Holden
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Keir Dullea and Pyle (right) in 1962
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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Academy Award
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Academy Awards
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31st Academy Awards Presentations,
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
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81st Academy Awards Presentations,
Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 2009
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Pantages Theatre, 2008
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Hooper (film)
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Hooper is a 1978 American action comedy film directed by Hal Needham and stars Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith, Robert Klein, James Best and Adam West. The film serves as a tribute to stuntmen and stuntwomen in what was at one time an underrecognized profession. Sonny Hooper, known in the film as The Greatest Stuntman Alive, is the stunt coordinator on a film, The Spy Who Laughed at Danger. Hoopers antics and wisecracks are a trial for the director and his officious but cowardly assistant. Years of physical abuse on and off the job are fast catching up with Hooper, Sonny lives with his girlfriend Gwen Doyle whose father Jocko is a retired stuntman. Hooper is dragooned by a friend into performing at a charity show, where he meets Delmore Ski Shidski, Sonny and Ski become friends after a barroom brawl with a pack of rowdy policemen. He invites Ski to work with him on the film and they begin a friendly rivalry in which the spectacle and danger of their stunts escalates. After a freefall from a record 224 feet, Sonny becomes more aware of his own mortality and he secretly consults with his doctor, who warns Sonny that one more bad fall could render him quadriplegic. Unhappy with the ending to the film, Roger decides to add a climactic earthquake as the finale, complete with explosions, fires. Sonny and Ski would race through the carnage to a nearby gorge, rogers concept has the duo rappelling down one side of the gorge and up the other to safety, but Ski proposes they jump a car over the gorge. When someone points out that no car could jump the 335 foot gap, Roger loves the idea, and he ignores warnings that Sonny and Ski might not survive the landing even if the car lands on its wheels. Max Berns, the producer and a longtime friend of Hoopers, warns Roger that the film is already over budget. Roger tells Max he wants his ending, including the car jump. Tony, sent to negotiate a price for the stunt, is taken on a wild ride in a tuned-up stunt car by Hooper. Tony agrees to pay him and Ski the $100,000 due to the involved in jumping a car 325 feet. Jocko suffers a stroke, but he denies the gravity of his condition, seeing the elder stuntman in the hospital motivates Sonny to promise Gwen that he will quit the business after the film wraps. Sonny learns from his friend and assistant, Cully, that Roger is downsizing the crew to pay for the final gag, Cully, unaware that Hooper has kept the rocket car stunt and his health status secret from Gwen, speaks openly about both in front of her. Hooper later tells Roger that he is backing out of the gag, Gwen threatens to leave Sonny if he agrees to do the gag
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the woman to win the award for poetry. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work, the poet Richard Wilbur asserted, She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century. Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, to Cora Lounella Buzelle, a nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay and her middle name derives from St. Vincents Hospital in New York, where her uncles life had been saved just before her birth. The familys house was between the mountains and the sea where baskets of apples and drying herbs on the porch mingled their scents with those of the pine woods. In 1904, Cora officially divorced Millays father for financial irresponsibility, Cora and her three daughters, Edna, Norma Lounella, and Kathleen Kalloch, moved from town to town, living in poverty. Cora travelled with a full of classic literature, including Shakespeare and Milton. The family settled in a house on the property of Coras aunt in Camden, Maine. The three sisters were independent and spoke their minds, which did not always sit well with the authority figures in their lives, Millays grade school principal, offended by her frank attitudes, refused to call her Vincent. Instead, he called her by any name that started with a V. At Camden High School, Millay began developing her talents, starting at the schools literary magazine. While at school, she had relationships with women, including Edith Wynne Matthison. Millay entered Vassar College in 1913 when she was 21 years old and she had relationships with several fellow students during her time there and kept scrapbooks including drafts of plays written during the period. After her graduation from Vassar in 1917, Millay moved to New York City and she lived in a number of places in Greenwich Village, including a house owned by the Cherry Lane Theatre and 75½ Bedford Street, renowned for being the narrowest in New York City. The critic Floyd Dell wrote that the red-haired and beautiful Millay was a young woman, with a brand-new pair of dancing slippers. Millay described her life in New York as very, very poor, while establishing her career as a poet, Millay initially worked with the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street and the Theatre Guild. In 1924 Millay and others founded the Cherry Lane Theater to continue the staging of experimental drama, magazine articles under a pseudonym also helped support her early days in the village. Millay’s fame began in 1912 when she entered her poem Renascence in a poetry contest in The Lyric Year, the poem was widely considered the best submission and when it was ultimately awarded fourth place, it created a scandal which brought Millay publicity
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Edna St. Vincent Millay home 1923–24 at 75½ Bedford St Greenwich Village
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Main house at Steepletop, where Millay spent the last years of her life
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Eduard Franz
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Eduard Franz was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, deMilles The Ten Commandments, and Jehoam in Henry Kosters The Story of Ruth. Franz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he was a leading Broadway actor for nearly 20 years, in such plays as First Stop to Heaven and Embezzled Heaven, before making his film debut opposite John Wayne in Wake of the Red Witch in 1948. He portrayed Chief Broken Hand in White Feather and he played such intellectuals as Dr. Stern in The Thing, a university professor in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, and Justice Louis Brandeis in The Magnificent Yankee. He appeared in a 1957 television adaptation of A. J. Cronins novel, Beyond This Place, in 1956, he guest starred with Joan Fontaine in the episode The De Santre Story of the NBC anthology series, The Joseph Cotten Show. By 1958, he was in the season of Zorro. He guest starred as Jules Silberg in the 1960 episode The Test of CBSs anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson, with June Allyson portraying the role of Ruth Taylor. Also, in same year, Franz guest starred as Gustave Helmer in the ABC legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones with James Whitmore in the title role. About that same time, he appeared on NBCs anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, in 1963, Franz was cast as psychiatric clinic director Dr. Edward Raymer in thirty episodes of the weekly ABC medical drama Breaking Point with co-star Paul Richards. The Waltons - The Collision and The Courtship Eduard Franz at Find a Grave Eduard Franz at the Internet Movie Database Eduard Franz at the Internet Broadway Database
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Kiss of Death (1947 film)
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Kiss of Death is a 1947 film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky. The story revolves around an ex-con played by Victor Mature and his former partner-in-crime, the movie also starred Brian Donlevy and introduced Coleen Gray in her first billed role. The film has received praise since its release, with two Academy Award nominations. Kiss of Death is considered a significant example of film noir, on Christmas Eve, down-on-his-luck ex-convict Nick Bianco and his three cohorts rob a jewelry store located on an upper floor of a New York skyscraper. Before they can exit the building, however, the proprietor sets off his alarm, while attempting to escape, Nick assaults a policeman, but is wounded in the leg and arrested. Assistant District Attorney Louis DAngelo tries to persuade Nick to name his accomplices in exchange for a light sentence. Confident that his lawyer, Earl Howser, and cohorts will look after his wife, three years later, at Sing Sing Prison, Nick learns that his wife has committed suicide, and his daughters have been sent to an orphanage. He later finds her obituary in the newspaper and learns his wife had been worried over financial issues prior to her death, Nick is visited in prison by Nettie Cavallo, a young woman who used to babysit his girls. Nettie reluctantly tells Nick that his wife was raped by Pete Rizzo, DAngelo questions Nick about one of his previous, unsolved robberies, which he pulled off with Rizzo. Nick implies to Howser that Rizzo squealed on him, Howser, who also acts as a go-between to a fence for his clients, tells Tommy Udo, a psychopathic killer who did time with Bianco, that Rizzo squealed. When Udo shows up at Rizzos tenement, only Rizzos mother is present and tells him that her son is out, Udo examines the apartment and determines that Rizzo has probably left town. Udo binds Mrs. Rizzo to her wheelchair with a cord and pushes her down a flight of stairs. Soon after, Nick is freed on parole at DAngelos behest, but in order to remain out on parole, Nick must continue his work with DAngelo, and arranges a chance meeting with Udo, with whom he served time at Sing Sing. Nick reports back to DAngelo, who is satisfied that he has enough to indict Udo for the past murder. When Udo later comes up for trial, Nick, who is now married to Nettie and living in Astoria, Queens, is reluctant to testify against him, despite Nicks testimony and other evidence, however, Udo is acquitted. Certain that Udo will seek revenge, and convinced the police not be able to protect him and his family, Nick sends Nettie. While at home one night, Nick is startled when DAngelo shows up at the front door. He tries persuading Nick to submit to protective custody, but Nick punches DAngelo in the jaw, Nick searches unsuccessfully for Udo at his favorite haunts, but finally finds him at Luigis restaurant in East Harlem
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The Naked City
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The Naked City is a 1948 film noir directed by Jules Dassin. Based on a story by Malvin Wald, the film depicts the investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, the film received two Academy Awards, one for cinematography for William H. Daniels, and another for film editing to Paul Weatherwax. In 2007, The Naked City was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In the late hours of a hot New York summer night, a pair of men subdue and kill Jean Dexter, an ex-model, by knocking her out with chloroform and drowning her in her bathtub. When one of the murderers, conscience-stricken, gets drunk, the other kills him, then lifts his body into the air and throws it into the East River. Homicide Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon and his associate, Jimmy Halloran, are assigned to Jeans case. Muldoon has been a cop for 22 years, Halloran for three months. At the scene, the police interrogate Martha Swenson, Jeans housekeeper, about Jeans friends and they also discover a bottle of sleeping pills and her address book. Halloran questions the doctor who prescribed the pills, Lawrence Stoneman, back at the police station, Muldoon questions Frank Niles, who lies about everything, claiming only a business relationship with Jean and denying knowing Ruth, to whom he is engaged. The police quickly discover the truth behind many of his lies, later, Muldoon deduces from the bruises on Jeans neck that she was killed by at least two men. That evening, Mr. and Mrs. Batory, Jeans estranged parents, arrive in New York to formally identify the body, the next morning, the detectives learn that Frank sold a gold cigarette case stolen from Stoneman, then purchased a one-way airline ticket to Mexico. They also discover that Jeans ring was stolen from the home of a wealthy Mrs. Hylton, at Mrs. Hyltons Park Avenue apartment, the police learn that the ring actually belonged to her daughter, who, to their surprise, turns out to be Ruth. Learning that Ruths engagement ring is stolen property, Muldoon and Halloran take Ruth to Franks apartment. The killer takes a shot at the cops and escapes onto the elevated train. When questioned about the jewelry, Frank claims that they were all presents from Jean. Frank is then arrested for the thefts, but the murder case remains open. Halloran learns that a body recovered from the East River, that of Peter Backalis, Muldoon, although skeptical, lets him pursue the lead and assigns two veteran detectives on the squad to help Halloran with the legwork
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the installment of Universal Pictures Ma and Pa Kettle franchise starring Marjorie Main. At the conclusion of Ma and Pa Kettle, Pa receives a telegram stating that he has won another jingle-writing contest, the prize is an all-expenses paid trip to New York City. Ma tells Pa that they cant go because they have no one to look out for the kids, meanwhile, fleeing bank robber Shotgun Munger has a flat tire and crashes into the old Kettle Farm. Ma and Pa Kettle go to New York City, where their son Tom, the bag Pa agreed to bring to New York, containing $100,000 from the bank robbery, was not with their luggage when they checked into the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. He buys several new bags to give to Louie, but each time the empty new bag is stolen by one of Louies confederates, finally Pa agrees to meet Louie by the monkey cage at the Central Park Zoo with yet another bag. Pa is mistaken by the police for a maniac poisoning monkeys at the zoo, Tom convinces the police of Pas innocence and helps them unravel the mystery of the bags and the identity of Mr. Jones. The missing bag is found in the luggage of an investor who invites the Kettles to his home for a party. The investor makes a deal with Tom to finance his invention. P, sloane (Bill Olan Soule, Willard Waterman, James Westerfield and Chief Yowlachie The film was originally called Ma and Pa Kettle Go to New York. Filming started 8 August 1949 in New York, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town at the Internet Movie Database
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The Mob (film)
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The actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman and was uncredited. After following one blind alley involving a federal agent Thomas Clancy working as a longshoreman, Film Noir, The Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style notes Crawford takes the simple role of Johnny Damico and converts it into a noir characterization of toughness and vulgarity. Film critic Dennis Schwartz liked the acting and wrote, The Mob covers the territory as On the Waterfront. It is adapted from the novel Waterfront by Ferguson Findley and directed with a flair for lively action scenes by Robert Parrish and this ordinary minor film noir holds together until one twist too many turns it into one of those old movie theater chapter serial-like endings. Ernest Borgnine has the look of a shady individual to give his role a sinister force. Neville Brand as an enforcer for Borgnine adds to the violent atmosphere. The film has fistfights, tough talking thugs and cops, the brutality of both the criminals and the police is what gives the film its shock value and special feel. Otherwise its your ordinary violent crime film, to trace the mob car, they use a fluorescent dye that drips on the road, so the police can spot where they are going, yet they have the car wired for sound. The Mob at the Internet Movie Database The Mob at AllMovie The Mob at the TCM Movie Database The Mob at the American Film Institute Catalog The Mob film clip on YouTube
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The Square Jungle
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The Square Jungle is a 1955 film noir drama sport film directed by Jerry Hopper starring Tony Curtis, Pat Crowley and Ernest Borgnine. Former heavyweight champion of the world Joe Louis appears as himself, Pat Quaid, an alcoholic San Francisco widower, ends up in jail. His grocery-clerk son, Eddie, needs $25 to bail him out, when he cant borrow it, Eddie enters an amateur fight contest and wins it. Julie Walsh is in love with Eddie, but her father disapproves of the Quaid family, particularly the boys father, Pat Quaid, once a promising prizefighter, urges his son to give it a try professionally. Eddie agrees on the condition that Pat quit drinking, Eddie decides to adopt his dads old ring name, Packy Glennon. To train him, the Quaids go to Bernie Browne, who also has had a problem with booze, bernies work with Eddie eventually leads to a fight with Al Gorski for the middleweight championship. Julie shows up, but Eddie angrily dismisses her, Pat explains that Julies dad has recently committed suicide. Eddie wins the fight and becomes increasingly arrogant and he trains lazily for the rematch with Gorski and is beaten badly. In a third and final bout, Eddie beats Gorski mercilessly, dillon, the ref, doesnt stop it this time. The crowd jeers Eddie when he leaves the ring as Gorski lies unconscious, a depressed Eddie goes on an alcoholic bender with another woman at a motel. He feels dead inside, but when Julie is able to get him back to an arena, Eddie finds that Gorski. Gorski List of American films of 1955 The Square Jungle at the Internet Movie Database The Square Jungle at the TCM Movie Database
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I Want to Live!
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It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore Bikel. The movie was adapted from letters written by Graham and newspaper articles written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Montgomery and it presents a somewhat fictionalized version of the case showing a possibility of innocence concerning Graham. Today, the charge would be known as felony murder, the film earned six Oscar nominations, with Hayward winning a Best Actress Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards. The film tells the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham, Graham is the product of a broken home, and works luring men into fixed card games. At one point, she attempts to go straight but marries the wrong man and he is a drug addict and she ends their relationship. When her life falls apart, she returns to her former professions, the police arrest them, and her companions accuse her of the murder to reduce their own chances of going to the gas chamber. She claims her innocence, but is convicted and executed, a prologue and epilogue contributed to the film by Montgomery characterize the films content — which largely portrays Graham as innocent of the murder — as factual. But there was evidence of Grahams complicity in the crime which included her taped confession to an undercover officer. Hollywood writer Robert Osborne, who became the host of Turner Classic Movies, interviewed Hayward. The film earned a net profit of $2,455,570 and she had no hesitation about indulging in any form of crime or vice that promised excitement on her own, rather mean, terms. Hayward brings off this complex characterization, Simon Oakland, as Montgomery, who first crucified Barbara Graham in print and then attempted to undo what he had done, underplays his role with assurance. From a loose and wise-cracking B-girl she moves onto levels of disdain and then plunges down to depths of terror. Except that the role does not present us a precisely pretty character, gene Blake, the reporter who covered the actual murder trial for the Los Angeles Daily Mirror, called the movie a dramatic and eloquent piece of propaganda for the abolition of the death penalty. In 2009, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that out of eleven reviews of the film were positive. Wins New York Film Critics Circle Awards, NYFCC Award, Best Actress, Academy Awards, Oscar, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Susan Hayward,1958. Golden Globes, Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama, Susan Hayward,1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival, Best Actress, nominations Directors Guild of America, DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Robert Wise,1959. Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz,1958, Golden Globes, Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Motion Picture Director, Robert Wise,1959. Grammy Awards, Grammy, Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast, writers Guild of America, WGA Award, Best Written American Drama, Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz,1959
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The Wheeler Dealers
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The Wheeler Dealers is a 1963 romantic comedy film from MGM, produced by Martin Ransohoff, directed by Arthur Hiller, that stars James Garner and Lee Remick and features Chill Wills and Jim Backus. The film was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach, based on Goodmans novel, Molly Thatcher is a stockbroker languishing in a company run by sexist Bullard Bear. When the company does poorly, he will have to fire somebody, Molly meets Henry Tyroon, an aggressive wheeler dealer who dresses, talks, and acts like a stereotypical Texas millionaire. Hes more interested in her than in Universal Widgets, but decides to be of help in order to get closer to her. As they spend together, Molly watches Henry make complicated business deals, often in partnership with his Texan cronies, Jay Ray, Ray Jay. One such deal is a venture into dealing modern art, with the aid of Stanislas, Molly and Henry have trouble figuring out Universal Widgets reason for existence, its only factory burned down around the time of the Civil War. It manufactures nothing and provides no service and its just a corporation on paper whose sole asset is a huge block of shares in AT&T, bought long, long ago when the stock was ridiculously cheap. Now it pays hefty, regular dividends to its complacent shareholders, when Henry makes an attempt to take control of the undervalued company by questionable methods, over-enthusiastic government regulator Hector Vanson takes him to court. Further complications arise when Jay Ray, Ray Jay, and J. R. get Molly fired so she can spend time with Henry. The case is dismissed when it is determined that all the shares are in the hands of a few people, not the general public, once the Texas trio confess that they had Molly fired, she and Henry make up. She discovers that he is really an Easterner and an Ivy League university graduate, what might be brightly satiric simply isnt because it lacks wit. Too much double entry and too little double entendre and he did, however, like Garner and Remick. Glenn Erickson characterized it as a trifle that, if I read it right. Nobody on either side of the camera seems to know that the joke is really on them, and us and he thought both stars gave outstanding performances and rated the film Good +. The Wheeler Dealers was released by Warner Home Video on June 27,2011 to DVD via its Warner Archive DVD-on-demand service as a Region 1 widescreen DVD. List of American films of 1963 The Wheeler Dealers at the Internet Movie Database The Wheeler Dealers at the TCM Movie Database The Wheeler Dealers at AllMovie
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America, America
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America America is a 1963 American dramatic film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, adapted from his own book, published in 1962. The dust jacket of the novel has no comma in the title, many listings of the film include a comma. The film begins in the late 1890s, Cappadocian Greek Stavros Topouzoglou, lives in an impoverished village below Mount Argaeus in Ottoman Turkey. Stavros witnesses the Hamidian massacres against Greek and Armenian Christians, the life of the Cappadocian Greeks and Armenians of Kayseri is depicted, including the traditional cliff cave dwellings in which Stavros grandmother lives. His odyssey begins with a voyage on a donkey and on foot through the impoverished towns. Due to his nature and naivete, he dissipates all the money. The older man is disappointed at this turn of events since he was counting on the infusion of funds to rescue his failing enterprise. Nevertheless, he attempts to salvage the situation by proposing that Stavros marry a wealthy merchants young daughter, Stavros realizes that such a marriage would mean the end of his American dream and adamantly refuses, abruptly leaving the angry cousin. Now homeless on the streets of the capital, Stavros survives by eating discarded food and working at backbreaking, after nearly a year of scrimping and self-denial, he has some savings, but an encounter with an enticing beauty leaves him, once again, penniless. Severely injured in the mayhem, the unconscious Stavros is thrown among piles of dead bodies slated for disposal into the sea and he subsequently topples from the cart transporting the bodies and painfully makes his way to the cousins residence. The relative takes pity on the man and allows him to recover at his home. Deprived now of all resistance, Stavros agrees to marry his intended bride, upon being questioned by her regarding his moodiness, however, he admits that he still plans to emigrate to America, using the dowry money to pay for his passage. At this point Stavros becomes reacquainted with Hohannes, a young Armenian, Hohannes informs him that he is being sponsored to America by an employer seeking labor. Stavros manages to secure his own passage with the aid of the middle aged wife of wealthy Armenian-American businessman Artoon Kegabian and he tells his intended bride that he cannot marry her, and subsequently embarks on the voyage on board SS Kaiser Wilhelm. There is, however, another major impediment— Stavros shipboard affair with Mrs. Kegabian is discovered and her enraged husband lodges a criminal complaint against Stavros, and rescinds his offer of a job in America, which will result in deportation back to Turkey. As everything looks bleak, however, the tubercular Hohannes exchanges documents with Stavros and it took a number of years, but one by one, he brought them here. That old man died where he was born and this film was made in Turkey and Greece. It was photographed by Haskell Wexler and it was edited by Dede Allen
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Nightmare in the Sun
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Nightmare in the Sun is a film drama directed by John Derek and Marc Lawrence, and written by George Fass and Fanya Foss, about a murderous affair. Derek starred along with Ursula Andress and Aldo Ray, smaller roles in the film featured Sammy Davis, Jr. and Robert Duvall. Beautiful young Marsha Wilson is married to a wealthy, jealous and she picks up a handsome hitch-hiker one day, brings him back to husband Sam Wilsons ranch and falls for him. Marsha wants to run off with the hitch-hiker, but he, too, is married, Sam returns home in a jealous rage, discovers what happened and kills Marsha with a rifle in a drunken rage. The towns sheriff concocts a scheme to blackmail Sam, promising to frame the hitch-hiker for Marshas murder provided Sam in exchange for a hefty payment, the hitch-hiker is caught and jailed, escapes and then is recaptured. By then, a remorseful Sam has had enough and he kills the sheriff, then confesses to committing both murders. Ursula Andress as Marsha Wilson John Derek as The Hitch-Hiker Aldo Ray as The Sheriff Arthur OConnell as Sam Wilson Sammy Davis Jr
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A Man Called Sledge
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The film was written by Vic Morrow and Frank Kowalski, and directed by Morrow in Techniscope. Luther Sledge, an outlaw, is visiting his prostitute girlfriend, Ria. Sledge kills the murderers, and is recognized by an old man, Sledge waylays the old man, who then relates a tale of a periodic, gold shipment that is heavily guarded by forty riders, but stops at a prison where the old man was incarcerated for years. Sledge assembles his gang, they investigate the story. The local sheriff recognizes the old man from the prison, causing a shootout, the gang begins observing the gold guards and testing their defenses. Seeing how difficult it is to approach, the gang decide to get into the prison, turn the prisoners loose, Sledge is taken to the prison by Ward, who poses as a US Marshal needing to lock up his prisoner for the night. Later, Sledge, Ward, and nearby prisoners overpower the warden, taking his keys, they free the remaining prisoners, who begin to take over the rest of the prison. Sledges gang dynamites the prison gate, creating enough noise to be heard in town, the gold is held in a safe in a cell, but only the warden knew the combination. Sledge locks the old man up in his cell, adjoining the cell with the safe. By sound, the old man guides Bice through opening the safe, the gold guards arrive and encounter armed, rioting prisoners and Sledges gang. Ward is killed in the battle with the gold guards, the sheriff arrives again, and is killed in a running, horseback rifle-fight with Sledge. The gang escapes and later stop to split the gold, with Sledge taking a double share, a musical montage shows a myriad of poker hands in which it appears the old man wins a substantial amount of the other outlaws gold. Playing against Joyce, the old man finds that he has been cheated with sand substituted for gold dust, guthrie objects to this, and angrily leaves after Sledge defends the old mans actions. Sledge then proceeds to win the old mans gold at poker, Sledge leaves with his winnings despite the gangs protestations, and the old man proposes they kidnap Ria. With her, they follow Sledge to a Spanish Mission town, the old man, now leading the gang, attempts negotiating with Sledge, while one of the others tries to ambush him. Sledge is wounded while killing the bushwhacker, Kehoe, but still refuses to bargain, so the old man reveals their kidnapping of Ria, who is then badly hurt by Bice throwing her from a high wall. Hearing her screams, Sledge abandons the gold while fighting his way to Ria, who says they did not need the gold to be happy, and uses her dying breath to warn that Bice is behind him with a rifle. Sledge kills Bice, then Hooker, and wounds the escaping old man, remembering Rias words, Sledge kills the old man and rides away empty-handed as the town refills with locals
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Clay Pigeon (film)
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Clay Pigeon is a 1971 American action film directed by Lane Slate and Tom Stern and written by Ronald Buck, Jack Gross Jr. and Buddy Ruskin. The film stars Tom Stern, Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughn, John Marley, Burgess Meredith, the film was released on August 1971, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A Vietnam War veteran has been using drugs, but eventually decides that he wants to escape that life. But before he can leave it behind, an FBI narcotics agent recruits him to go undercover in Los Angeles to help expose other ex-soldiers who involved in drug dealing, in its particular field—sex and violence—Clay Pigeon just falls short of being very good. Its hero is a Vietnam war veteran turned peaceful Los Angeles hippie whom a diabolical Federal agent picks as a decoy to lure an anonymous mastermind of the trade out into the open. The plan works spectacularly—though there is no indication of why it should work at all—and before it is finished, Mr. Stern and Mr. Slate have previously directed one terrible bike movie, redeemed only by the presence of Conny Van Dyke, a pleasant and unusual actress. In Clay Pigeon they have included three pleasant and unusual actresses — most notably Marilyn Akin, as a topless go-go dancer who is also the heros estranged wife. She is joined by Marlene Clark and Belinda Palmer, and none of them, alas, Clay Pigeon was released in theatres in August 1971. The film was released on DVD on April 27,1999, list of American films of 1971 Clay Pigeon at the Internet Movie Database
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W.C. Fields and Me
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Fields and Me is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine. The screenplay by Bob Merrill is based on a memoir by Carlotta Monti, Fields for the last 14 years of his life. The story begins in 1924 in New York City, where W. C, Fields is a Ziegfeld Follies headliner, and ends with his 1946 death in California at age 66. He quickly becomes a major presence and a notorious drinker. While at a party with his friends John Barrymore, Gene Fowler and restaurant owner Dave Chasen, Fields is introduced to starlet Carlotta Monti, in order to stifle her theatrical aspirations, he arranges a screen test. The studio boss Harry Bannerman decides she has talent. When she learns the truth, Carlotta leaves him and goes to New York, when Barrymore passes away, she returns to Hollywood to comfort Fields. On the set of My Little Chickadee, she learns why her efforts to get him to marry her have routinely been rebuffed, the comic is hospitalized and, after enduring great physical pain, dies on Christmas Day, a holiday he had despised with a passion. Edgar Bergen Karen Black was offered the role of Carlotta, however, she turned it down in order to work with Alfred Hitchcock on his final feature-film Family Plot. In 2001 it was refurbished to operate on a line serving San Pedro. He called the home Villa Ardaree and it was known before that as Dryborough, the movie neednt have been quite as brainless as it is. Has supplied a screenplay that originally may have meant as the outline for a musical. It exhibits a disregard for facts and the compulsion to make a dramatically shapeless life fit into a two-act form. Then theres Arthur Hiller, a director who makes intelligent films when the material is right, and terrible ones when the writers fail. Most prominent in the mess is Rod Steiger, who, reads all of his lines with the monotonous sing-song manner used by third-rate nightclub comics doing Fields imitations. He also speaks most of out of the corner of his mouth as if hed had a stroke. Time Out London calls it a witless biopic leaps through pseudo-history with cretinous inaccuracy, Steiger makes a brave stab at the part, but the reality and genius of Fields never get a look in. However, TV Guide awarded it three out of a four stars with the comment, Though the great comedian would have hated this film
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W.C. Fields and Me Soundtrack
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The Car
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The Car is a 1977 American thriller film directed by Elliot Silverstein and written by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack and Lane Slate. The film stars James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley and Ronny Cox, along with real-life sisters Kim and it tells the story of a mysterious car which goes on a murderous rampage, terrorizing the residents of a small town. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Studios, and was influenced by road movies of the 1970s including Steven Spielbergs thriller Duel. Two bicyclists cycling on a canyon are followed by a matte black car down the road. At the bridge, the car proceeds to crush one cyclist against the wall, a hitchhiker, hoping to get a ride, encounters the car and insults it after it purposefully tries to run him down. In response, the car runs over him several times and leaves and that night, in an apparent bid to kill Amos, the car instead runs over the sheriff, leaving Chief Deputy Wade Parent in charge. During the resulting investigation, an eyewitness to the accident states that there was no driver inside the car, Wade asks his girlfriend, Lauren, who is a teacher at the local school, to cancel the upcoming marching band rehearsals for their safety. Lauren and her friend, who is Wades deputy Luke Johnsons wife, ask him to let them rehearse, the car enters the town and attacks the school marching band as it rehearses at the local show ground. It chases the group of teachers and students into a cemetery, curiously enough, the machine will not enter onto the consecrated ground as Lauren taunts the purported driver that any of the townsfolk have yet to see. Seemingly in anger, the car destroys a brick gate post, the police chase the automobile along highways throughout the desert before it turns on them, destroying several squad cars and killing five of Wades deputies in the process. Wade confronts the vehicle and is surprised to see none of his bullets put a dent on the cars windshield or tires. After trying to open the door, Wade is knocked out and the car escapes. That evening, Lauren, on her way home to pick up her things, is killed when the car jumps driving straight through her house and rams her, right when she is speaking to Wade over the phone. Luke puts forward to a grief-stricken and maddened Wade the theory that it acted in revenge for the insults hurled on it by Lauren, Wade concocts a plan to stop the car by burying it beneath a controlled explosion in the canyons that lie outside of town. After discovering it waiting for him in his own garage, he is forced to carry out his plans post haste and he is pursued by the car into a mountainous canyon area where his remaining deputies have set a trap for the machine. In a final confrontation, Wade and Luke, at the edge of a cliff, bait the car into running straight at them, then jump aside as it goes over the cliff. With the dynamite detonated and the rubble falling on it, a monstrous demonic visage appears in the smoke and fire of the explosion, the final scenes show Wade refusing to believe what the group saw in the flames, despite Lukes insistence about what he saw. The film concludes, in some cuts, with the car prowling the streets of downtown Los Angeles, the evil black car in the film was a customized 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III designed by famed Hollywood car customizer George Barris
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Moses
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Moses is a prophet in Abrahamic religions. Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew, he is the most important prophet in Judaism and he is also an important prophet in Christianity, Islam, the Baháí Faith as well as a number of other Abrahamic religions. Moses Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites. Through the Pharaohs daughter, the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slavemaster, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery. Moses said that he could not speak with assurance or eloquence, so God allowed Aaron, his brother, to become his spokesperson. After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, after 40 years of wandering in the desert, Moses died within sight of the Promised Land on Mount Nebo. According to archaeologist William G. Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE, Jerome gives 1592 BCE, the Biblical account of Moses birth provides him with a folk etymology to explain the ostensible meaning of his name. He is said to have received it from the Pharaohs daughter and she named him Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water. This explanation links it to a verb mashah, meaning to draw out, the princess made a grammatical mistake which is prophetic of his future role in legend, as someone who will draw the people of Israel out of Egypt through the waters of the Red Sea. Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines water or seed and pond, expanse of water, the Hebrew etymology in the Biblical story may reflect an attempt to cancel out traces of Moses Egyptian origins. The Egyptian character of his name was recognized as such by ancient Jewish writers like Philo of Alexandria and Josephus. Philo linked Mōēsēs to the Egyptian word for water, while Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, claimed that the element, -esês. Hizkuni suggested she either converted or took a tip from Jochebed, the Israelites had settled in the Land of Goshen in the time of Joseph and Jacob, but a new pharaoh arose who oppressed the children of Israel. At this time Moses was born to his father Amram, son of Kehath the Levite, who entered Egypt with Jacobs household, his mother was Jochebed, Moses had one older sister, Miriam, and one older brother, Aaron. One day after Moses had reached adulthood he killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew, Moses, in order to escape the Pharaohs death penalty, fled to Midian. There, on Mount Horeb, God revealed to Moses his name YHWH and commanded him to return to Egypt and bring his people out of bondage. Moses returned to carry out Gods command, but God caused the Pharaoh to refuse, from Egypt, Moses led the Israelites to biblical Mount Sinai, where he was given the Ten Commandments from God, written on stone tablets
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Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law by
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Moses and the tablets of law, by
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Moses rescued from the Nile, 1638, by
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Moses before the Pharaoh, a 6th-century miniature from the
Syriac Bible of Paris
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Tribute (1980 film)
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Tribute is a 1980 Canadian comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the play of the same name by Bernard Slade. Both the stage and cinema versions starred Jack Lemmon, Scottie Templeton is a show-business veteran, based in New York and well-known in the theatrical community there. He has many acquaintances, but is divorced from his wife, Scottie learns that he has contracted leukemia and is dying. His ex-wife Maggie, in town for a reunion, comes to visit. Scottie makes an effort to reconnect with his son, Jud, a young actress Scottie once dated, Sally Haines, strikes Scottie as someone who might be a good romantic match for his son. As a testimonial dinner is organized in Scotties honor, he attempts to repair some of his past relationships in the time he has left, Lemmon was also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for his performance. He won the Canadian Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor, Tribute at the Internet Movie Database Tribute at Rotten Tomatoes
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Threshold (1981 film)
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Threshold is a 1981 drama/science fiction film from Canada, directed by Richard Pearce. It starred Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum, the film was nominated for eight Genie Awards in 1983 and won three of them. Sutherland also won best actor at the 1982 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his performance. Filmed on location at the newly constructed Ottawa General Hospital. Respected cardiac surgeon Dr. Thomas Vrain performs an operation to provide a patient with the first artificial heart ever implanted in a human subject. He and his colleague, research scientist Dr. Aldo Gehring, consider the risks and weigh the odds as time runs out for Carol Severance, Severance will die unless the experimental surgery is done quickly and succeeds
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Utilities (film)
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Utilities is a 1983 Canadian comedy film starring Robert Hays and Brooke Adams. It was directed by Harvey Hart, one of Bob Hunts neighbours electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is entirely in pennies. Unfortunately, the company fails to reconnect the power due to a communications snafu. Hunt sets off on a vendetta of revenge, sabotaging assorted support systems. Attempting to evade detection at one site, he flattens himself against the wall with wet paint, with a finger sticking up, the news media find out this detail and the unknown saboteur is nicknamed The Finger. When the phone company is hit, it issues a statement denying that, due to the sabotage to its billing records. Promptly, the movie depicts people making use of long distance. One girl calls overseas and plays a musical composition over the phone, in a long, climactic courtroom hearing, a rate-hike proposal by Kenneth Knight and his utility company, Eastern Gas & Electric, is to be voted on by a public commission. But first a number of protesting citizens are given an opportunity to speak, followed by Hunt, at that point, many others in the courtroom, Spartacus-style, rise to claim they are The Finger. Just as the commission is about to approve E, G & Es rate increase, police officer Marion Edwards bursts in, Hunt expects to be placed in handcuffs, but she reveals that Knight has been destroying his own substations in an effort to achieve public sympathy. The lights of the city go dark as spectators in the courthouse celebrate, Robert Hays as Bob Hunt Brooke Adams as Marion Edwards John Marley as Roy Blue James Blendick as Kenneth Knight Utilities at the Internet Movie Database Utilities at Rotten Tomatoes
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on
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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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The New York Times newsroom, 1942
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Turner Classic Movies
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgias Midtown business district, historically, the channels programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, concerns over Turner Entertainments corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGMs library of films released up to May 9,1986, Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies, Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the form of programming for TCM upon the networks launch. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14,1994, at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the date and time were chosen for their historical significance as the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City. The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, at the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. AMC had broadened its content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002. In the early 90s AMC abandoned its format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies, in March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video. In 2008, TCM won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, in April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Graumans Chinese Theater and the Graumans Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. In 2007, some of the films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCMs website. The networks programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any video release
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Robert Osborne at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards
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Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Find A Grave.com's current headquarters in
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Emil Jannings
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Emil Jannings was a German actor, popular in 1920s Hollywood. He was the first Oscar recipient, honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 1929 ceremony, to date, he is still the only German to have won the Best Actor Oscar. Jannings is best known for his collaborations with F. W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including 1930s The Blue Angel, with Marlene Dietrich. Der blaue Engel was meant as a vehicle for Jannings to score a place for himself in the new medium of sound film, Jannings later starred in a number of Nazi propaganda films, which made him unemployable as an actor after the fall of the Third Reich. He was christened Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of Emil Janenz, an American businessman from St. Louis, and his wife Margarethe, originally from Germany. Jannings held German citizenship, while he was young the family moved to Leipzig in the German Empire. Jannings ran away from school and went to sea, when he returned to Görlitz, his mother finally allowed him to begin a traineeship at the town state theatre, where Jannings started his stage career. From 1901 onwards he worked with theatre companies in Bremen, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Königsberg. Jannings made his breakthrough in 1918 with his role as Judge Adam in Kleists Broken Jug at the Schauspielhaus, Jannings was a theater actor who went into films, though he remained dissatisfied with the limited expressive possibilities in the silent era. Having signed a contract with the UFA production company, he starred in Die Augen der Mumie Ma and Madame DuBarry, both with Pola Negri in the main female part. He also performed in the 1922 film version of Othello and in F. W. Murnaus The Last Laugh, as a proud, Jannings worked with Murnau on two other films, playing the title character in Herr Tartüff, and as Mephistopheles in Faust. His increasing popularity enabled Jannings to sign an agreement with Paramount Pictures and eventually follow his acting colleagues Lubitsch and he started his career in 1927 with The Way of All Flesh directed by Victor Fleming and in the following year performed in Josef von Sternbergs The Last Command. In 1929 Jannings won the first Best Actor Oscar for his work in both films and he and Sternberg also cooperated in Street of Sin, though they actually differed about Jannings acting in front of the camera. His Hollywood career came to an end with the advent of talkies as his thick German accent was difficult to understand and his dialogue was initially dubbed by another actor in the part-talkie The Patriot directed by Ernst Lubitsch, although Jannings own voice was restored after he objected. Returning to Europe, he starred opposite Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, according to Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, The Life and The Legend, Jannings was not actually the winner of the first best actor vote, but the runner-up. While researching her book, Orlean discovered that it was in fact Rin Tin Tin, the German Shepherd dog, one of the biggest movie stars of his time, who won the vote. The Academy, however, worried about not being taken seriously if they gave the first Oscar to a dog, after the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933, Jannings continued his career in the service of Nazism and cinema. He also performed in his role in The Broken Jug directed by Gustav Ucicky
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Oscar winner Jannings back in Berlin, May 1929
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Jannings as Kreon in
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Leslie Howard (actor)
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Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director and producer. Howard also wrote stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker. Howard was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s but is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, Howards Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. Howard was born Leslie Howard Steiner to a British mother, Lilian, Howard was educated at Alleyns School, London. He worked as a clerk before enlisting at the outbreak of the Great War. He served in the British Army as a subaltern in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry but suffered shell shock, Outward Bound and The Green Hat. He became an undisputed Broadway star in Her Cardboard Lover, Howard would return, however, many times—later repeating the Standish role in the 1933 film version of Berkeley Square. The stage, however, continued to be an important part of his career, Howard frequently juggled acting, producing and directing duties in the Broadway productions in which he starred. Howard was also a dramatist and starred in the Broadway production of his play, Murray Hill and he played Matt Denant in John Galsworthys 1927 Broadway production Escape in which he first made his mark as a dramatic actor. His stage triumphs continued with The Animal Kingdom and The Petrified Forest and he later repeated both roles in the film versions. Howards production, his stage role, lasted for only 39 performances before closing. Howard was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, in 1920 Howard suggested forming a film production company, British Comedy Films Ltd. to his friend Adrian Brunel. The two eventually settled on the name Minerva Flims Ltd, the Companys Board of Directors consisted of Howard, Brunel, C. Aubrey Smith, Nigel Playfair and A. A. Milne, one of the Companys investors was H. G. Wells. Early films include four written by A. A. Milne, including The Bump, aubrey Smith, Twice Two, Five Pounds Reward, and Bookworms, the latter two starring Howard. Some of these survive in the archives of the British Film Institute. Following his move to Hollywood, Howard often played stiff upper lipped Englishmen and he appeared in the film version of Outward Bound, though in a different role than the one he portrayed on Broadway. He had second billing under Norma Shearer in A Free Soul and he starred in the film version of Berkeley Square, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor
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Still of Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in
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Bette Davis and Howard in
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Ermete Zacconi
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Ermete Zacconi was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina Bagni and he had lead roles in plays by William Shakespeare, Carlo Goldoni, Alfred de Musset, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg. His most notable roles include Lemigrante, Summer Rain, Processo e morte di Socrate. Ermete Zacconi at the Internet Movie Database
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Fosco Giachetti
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Fosco Giachetti was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco, directed by Augusto Genina, in 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrinis two part Noi Vivi and Addio Kira. Un colpo di pistola by Renato Castellani and Fari nella nebbia by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films, after the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in Nada and in Carne de horca and he had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risis successful comedy Il mattatore. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronins novel, in 2003, the Galleria Fosco Giachetti in Sesto Fiorentino was opened in his honor. Venice Film Festival Best Actor for Bengasi,1942 Fosco Giachetti at the Internet Movie Database
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Ernst Deutsch
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Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian, was an Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclevers Expressionist play The Son in Dresden was praised, Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegeners The Golem, How He Came into the World in 1920. He is known by English-speaking audiences for his role as Baron Kurtz in Carol Reeds 1949 film noir, Deutsch was the son of Prague-based German merchant Ludwig Kraus and his wife, Louise. He married childhood friend Anuschka Fuchsin in 1922, anuschkas cousin, Herbert Fuchs of Robettin, was the brother-in-law of author Franz Werfel. Deutsch grew up in Prague, and attended high school and he was a skilled tennis player, ranking seventh on the Austro-Hungarian tennis list. After high school, Deutsch served in the army and he was a childhood friend of Franz Werfel. In 1914, Deutsch made his debut for Berthold Viertel at the Peoples Theatre in Vienna. After a short season in Prague, Edgar Licho hired him for the Albert Theatre in Dresden, in Dresden, Deutsch played Franz Moor in Schillers The Robbers and Moritz Stiefel in Frank Wedekinds Spring Awakening. His performance in the role of Hasenclevers The Son, which premiered on 8 October 1916, established him as an Expressionist actor. In 1917, Deutsch went to the Volksbühne in Berlin and he appeared until 1933 on a number of stages in the city, gave guest performances in Hamburg, Munich and Vienna, and participated in a tour of South America. Beginning in 1916, Deutsch appeared in 42 silent films, in April 1933, he left Germany due to Nazi antisemitism. Deutsch returned to Vienna and Prague, gave guest performances in Zurich, Brussels, in 1938 he emigrated to New York City and played briefly on Broadway in 1939 before moving to Hollywood, where he became an American citizen. Beginning 1942 he appeared as Ernest Dorian in Hollywood films, primarily as Nazis, after a 1946 stay in Buenos Aires, Deutsch returned to Vienna via Paris the following year. In Vienna, he became a member of the Burgtheater, at the National Theatre Deutsch appeared in The Helpers of God, about Red Cross founder Henri Dunant, in 1948. Three years later he moved back to Berlin, appearing at the Schiller and Schlossparktheater, Deutsch also toured in Germany and abroad. Deutschs film roles included Baron Kurtz in Carol Reeds film noir, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and he received the Volpi Cup as Best Actor at the 9th Venice International Film Festival in 1948 Venice Film Festival for his performance in Der Prozeß. Deutschs performances in the role of Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Nathan the Wise. He played Nathan for more than 2,000 performances, Deutsch died on 22 March 1969 in Berlin, and is buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Berlin highway
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Ernst Deutsch (in his gym, 1931)
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The Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst
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Sam Jaffe
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Sam Jaffe was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer. He may be best remembered for playing the role in Gunga Din. He was born Shalom Jaffe to Heida and Barnett Jaffe, a Russian Jewish family in New York City and his mother, Ada Jaffe, was a Yiddish actress in Odessa, Ukraine, prior to moving to the United States, his father was a jeweler. He was the youngest of four children, his siblings were Abraham, Sophie, as a child, he appeared in Yiddish theater productions with his mother, who after moving to the United States became a prominent actress and vaudeville star. He graduated from Townsend Harris High School and studied engineering at City College of New York and he later attended Columbia University for graduate studies. He also worked for years as a teacher, and then dean, of mathematics at the Bronx Cultural Institute. As a young man, he lived in Greenwich Village in the apartment building as a young John Huston. The two men became friends and remained so for life. Jaffe was later to star in two of Hustons films, The Asphalt Jungle and The Barbarian and the Geisha, jaffes closest friends included Zero Mostel, Edward G. Robinson, Ray Bradbury, and Igor Stravinsky. He began to work in film in 1934, rising to prominence with his very first role as the mad Tsar Peter III in The Scarlet Empress, in 1938, Jaffe was forty-seven years old when he played the title role of water boy Gunga Din. He also made an appearance in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Jaffe was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the 1950s, despite this, he was hired first by Robert Wise for The Day the Earth Stood Still and then by director William Wyler for his role in the 1959 Academy Award-winning version of Ben-Hur. Jaffe co-starred in the ABC television series, Ben Casey as Dr. David Zorba from 1961 to 1965 alongside Vince Edwards and he also made many guest-starring roles on other series, including Batman as Mr. Zoltan Zorba, and the Western Alias Smith and Jones. In 1975, he co-starred as a doctor who is murdered by Janet Leigh in the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady. He also appeared with an all-star cast in the TV pilot film of Rod Serlings Night Gallery, Jaffe was married to American operatic soprano and musical comedy star Lillian Taiz from 1926 until her death from cancer in 1941. In 1956, he married actress Bettye Ackerman, with whom he later co-starred in Ben Casey and she died on November 20,2006. He had no children from either marriage, sam Jaffe died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California 14 days after his 93rd birthday. His interment was in Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, the Law and Mr. Nobody - Alex Zubatuk S. W. A. T
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Film still of the special TV presentation The Sad and Lonely Sundays (1976). Pictured are Jaffe (left) and
Jack Albertson.
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Jean Gabin
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Jean Gabin was a French actor and sometime singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in classic films including Pépé le Moko, La grande illusion, Le Quai des brumes, La bête humaine, Le jour se lève. Gabin was made a member of the Légion dhonneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema, Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son of Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, a cafe entertainer whose stage name was Gabin. He grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, the son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Gabin left school early, and worked as a laborer until the age of 19 when he entered business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères production. He continued performing in a variety of roles before going into the military. He was part of a troupe that toured South America, and his performances started getting noticed, and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928. Two years later Gabin easily made the transition to talkies, in a 1930 Pathé Frères production titled Chacun sa Chance, playing secondary roles, he made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. However, he only gained recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine. He was then cast as a hero in a 1936 war drama titled La Bandera. The following year he teamed up with Duvivier again, this time in the highly successful Pépé le Moko and that same year he starred in the Jean Renoir film La Grande Illusion, an anti-war film that ran at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months. He was divorced from his wife in 1939. In the late 1930s Gabin was flooded with offers from Hollywood, for a time he turned them all down, after the German occupation of France in 1940, he joined Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier in the United States. During his time in Hollywood, Gabin began a romance with actress Marlene Dietrich which lasted until 1948. However, his films in America – Moontide and The Impostor, Gabin was a difficult personality, he did serious damage to his Hollywood career while working for RKO Pictures. Scheduled to star in an RKO film, at the last minute he demanded Dietrich be given the co-starring role, after Gabin remained steadfast in his demand, he was fired, and the film project was shelved. Undaunted, he joined General Charles de Gaulles Free French Forces and earned the Médaille militaire, following D-Day, Gabin was part of the military contingent that entered a liberated Paris. He was hired by Marcel Carné in 1946 to star in the film, Les Portes de la Nuit, but his conduct got him fired again
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Gabin and
Jacques Prévert in 1961.
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The Musée Jean Gabin.
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Anthony Franciosa
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Anthony Franciosa, usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career, was an American film, TV and stage actor. He made several films, including A Face in the Crowd. In television, along with minor parts, he played lead roles in five television series. However, he began as a stage actor, gaining a Tony Award nomination for the drug-addiction play A Hatful of Rain. Born Anthony George Papaleo to an Italian-American family, and raised by his mother and aunt, in 1948, Franciosa joined the Cherry Lane Theatre Group off Broadway. In the meantime, he worked a variety of jobs which included being a waiter, dishwasher, day laborer, several years later he garnered rave reviews and a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway performance of the play A Hatful of Rain. When he reprised his role in the version in 1957. He also appeared in a prominent co-starring role in the Frank Sinatra film Assault on a Queen and was later in the 70s film of the Jackie Collins book The World Is Full of Married Men. He guest-starred in the television series The Greatest Show on Earth, Jack Palances circus drama and that same season, he appeared in the ABC medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. Unfortunately for Franciosa, he lost the part, because Darrow had arrived on the set, right on time and he was fired from the series because of his temper. He also played roles in television miniseries, such as Aspen. In the 1980s, he starred in the Aaron Spelling-produced series Finder of Lost Loves, in the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone, he appeared in the third-season episode Crazy As a Soup Sandwich, playing a gangster who is revealed to be the ultimate demon. Franciosas final film was City Hall, a 1996 drama starring Al Pacino and John Cusack, billed as Anthony Franciosa, he won the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the role Sam Lawson in Career, opposite Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. Franciosa was married four times, and had three children and his first wife, Beatrice Bakalyar, was a writer. They were married from 1952 to 1957 and his second wife was Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters, they were married from May 4,1957 until their divorce in 1960, they had no children. Her death preceded his by five days and his third wife, the former Judith Balaban, is the author of the book The Bridesmaids, about her friend Princess Grace of Monaco, in whose wedding she served as a bridesmaid. This marriage produced Franciosas only daughter, Nina and his last wife was Rita Theil, by whom he had two sons, Marco and Christopher. Marco Franciosa is an organic farmer, Rita, his last wife, when asked about Anthonys hair-trigger temper said, He was never taught how to control his temper
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Publicity photo, 1969
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With
Robert Stack and
Gene Barry in
The Name of the Game (1968)
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With Laraine Stephens in a publicity photo for
Matt Helm in 1975
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Alec Guinness
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Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and he is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucass original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and a Tony Award, in 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980, Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mothers maiden name was Agnes Cuff and she was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinnesss birth certificate, the space for the name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the name says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father is blank, the identity of Guinnesss father has never been officially confirmed. From 1875, under English law, when the birth of a child was registered. Guinness himself believed that his father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes, Geddes occasionally visited Guinness and his mother, posing as an uncle. Guinnesss mother later had a marriage to a British soldier who had survived the Irish War of Independence. His behaviour was erratic or even violent. Guinness first worked writing advertising copy and he appeared at the Albery Theatre in 1936 at the age of 22, playing the role of Osric in John Gielguds successful production of Hamlet. Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, in 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardreys Thunder Rock. An early influence from afar was Stan Laurel, whom Guinness admired, Guinness continued playing Shakespearean roles throughout his career. In 1937, he played Aumerle in Richard II and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice under the direction of John Gielgud and he starred in a 1938 production of Hamlet which won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1939, he adapted Great Expectations for the stage, playing Herbert Pocket, one of its viewers was a young British film editor, David Lean, who would later have Guinness reprise his role in Leans 1946 film adaptation of the play. Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941 and he commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
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Sir Alec Guinness in 1973 by
Allan Warren
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Alec Guinness – 1938
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Guinness with
Rita Tushingham in
Doctor Zhivago
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The graves of Sir Alec Guinness and his wife in Petersfield, Hampshire
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Burt Lancaster
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Burton Stephen Burt Lancaster was an American film actor. Initially known for playing tough guys, Lancaster went on to success with more complex. He was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960 and he also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz and Atlantic City. During the 1950s his production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster was highly successful, making such as Marty, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, Run Silent, Run Deep. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema, Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza. Lancaster was the son of Elizabeth and James Henry Lancaster, who was a mailman, both of his parents were Protestants of working class origin. All of Lancasters grandparents were Ulster immigrants to the United States, the family believed themselves to be related to Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts. Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage, Lancaster was accepted by New York University with an athletic scholarship, but subsequently dropped out. At the age of 19, Lancaster met Nick Cravat, with whom he developed a lifelong partnership, together they learned to act in local theatre productions and circus arts at Union Settlement, one of the citys oldest settlement houses. They formed the acrobat duo Lang and Cravat in the 1930s, however, in 1939, an injury forced Lancaster to give up the profession, with great regret. He then found work, first as a salesman for Marshall Fields. He served with General Mark Clarks Fifth Army in Italy from 1943–45, although initially unenthusiastic about acting, after returning to New York from his Army service, Lancaster auditioned for a Broadway play and was offered a role. Wallis, who signed him to an eight-movie contract, Lancasters first filmed movie was Desert Fury. Fortunately for Lancaster, producer Mark Hellinger approached him to star in The Killers, in 1946, the tall, muscular actor won significant acclaim and appeared in two more films the following year. Subsequently, he played in a variety of films, especially in dramas, thrillers, and military and adventure films. In two, The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate, a friend from his circus years, Nick Cravat, played a key supporting role, in 1953, Lancaster played one of his best-remembered roles with Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from film in which Deborah Kerr. The organization named it one of AFIs top 100 Most Romantic Films of all time, Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry
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in
Desert Fury (1947)
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Lancaster and
Nick Cravat, performing with the
Federal Theatre Project Circus (1935–38)
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Cravat and Lancaster performing on the horizontal bars
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With
Deborah Kerr in
From Here to Eternity (1953)
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Albert Finney
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Albert Finney is an English actor. Beginning in the theatre, Finney was especially successful in plays by William Shakespeare before he switched to films and he achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, his debut being The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, who had directed him in theatre plays various times before. He became a leading Free Cinema figure, and has maintained a career in theatre, film. Finney was born in the Charlestown area of Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England and he was educated at Tootal Drive Primary School, Salford Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In February 1956 John Fernald, principal of RADA, gave Finney his first major role as Shakespeares Troilus in the Vanbrugh Theatres student production of Ian Dallas play The Face of Love. Finney graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus, replacing a sick Laurence Olivier. This led to a series of Angry Young Man roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones. Prior to this, Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Leans production of Lawrence of Arabia after a successful, however, Finney baulked at signing a multi-year contract for producer Sam Spiegel and chose not to accept the role. The success of Tom Jones saw British exhibitors vote Finney the ninth most popular star at the box office in 1963, after Charlie Bubbles, which he also directed, his film appearances became less frequent as he focused more on acting on stage. During this period, one of his film roles was as Agatha Christies Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. Finney became so known for the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent he said and he also sings in Tim Burtons Corpse Bride. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head, Finney also made an appearance at Roger Waters The Wall Concert in Berlin, where he played The Judge during the performance of The Trial. Even with his success on the big screen, Finney never abandoned his stage performances and he continued his association with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in London, where he performed in the mid-1960s in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and Chekovs The Cherry Orchard. He won an Olivier Award for Orphans in 1986 and has won three Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actor, in 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor. He also played the role in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish. The show ran for two series from 2000 until 2003, by his first wife, Jane Wenham, he has a son, Simon, who works in the film industry as a camera operator. From 1970 to 1978, he was married to French actress Anouk Aimée, in May 2011, Finney disclosed that he had been receiving treatment for kidney cancer
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Albert Finney in 1966
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Jacques Perrin
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Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet, Simonet was his fathers name and Perrin his mothers. His father, Alexandre Simonet, was a theatre director, Perrin was trained as an actor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur dArt Dramatique. He was given his first juvenile film roles by Italian director Valerio Zurlini and he also gave over 400 performances of LAnnée du bac on the Paris stage. He played opposite Claudia Cardinale in the romantic comedy La Ragazza con la valigia and played the brother in Family Diary with Marcello Mastroianni. He was also the adult Salvatore in the international hit Cinema Paradiso and he won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1966 for the Italian film Almost a Man and the Spanish film The Search. At 27, he created a studio and produced and acted in Z, directed by Costa Gavras and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Z received an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1969. He collaborated with Costa Gavras again in État de Siège in 1973, both films had political themes, and Perrin continued this trend with a documentary on the Algerian uprising and a film on the Chilean presidency of Salvador Allende. In 1973 Perrin produced - and starred alongside Claude Jade as his love interest - the first film of Benoît Lamy, the film acclaimed 14 international awards. Perrin produced another Oscar-winning film in 1976, La Victoire en chantant by director Jean-Jacques Annaud, in 1977, he embarked on Le Désert des Tartares, again starring Trintignant. The cast included such actors as Max von Sydow, but was not very successful. His recent successes have been the animal films Microcosmos and Le Peuple Migrateur and he also played the role of the old Pierre Morhange, narrator of the very internationally successful film The Chorus, that he also produced. The young Pépinot was played by his younger son Maxence and he was made Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1985, promoted Officer in 1997 and promoted Commander in 2003. He was made Knight of the Légion dhonneur in 1990 and promoted Officer in 2007 and he has three sons, Mathieu, born 1975, Maxence, born 1995, and Lancelot, born 2000. Jacques Perrin at the Internet Movie Database
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Perrin at the
2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Matthew Modine
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Matthew Avery Modine is an American film actor. Modine, the youngest of seven children, was born in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores, a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters. He is a nephew of a stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks, Modine lived in Utah for several years, moving every year or two. The drive-in theaters his father managed were being torn down because the land beneath them exceeded the value of the theaters, the Modines moved to Imperial Beach, California where Matthew attended secondary school. After graduation, Matthew moved to New York City to pursue his interests in art, Modines first film role was in John Sayles film Baby Its You. His performance caught the eye of director Harold Becker, who cast him in Vision Quest, Modine appeared in the sex comedy Private School, co-starring Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell. Modine played Mel Gibsons brother in Mrs. Soffel and starred with Nicolas Cage in Alan Parkers Birdy, the actor also famously turned down the role of LT Pete Maverick Mitchell in Top Gun, because he felt the films pro-military stance went against his politics. Modine may be best known for his role as Private Joker, subsequently, Modine played the dangerous young criminal Treat in Alan Pakulas film adaptation of Lyle Kesslers stageplay Orphans. Modine played the goofy, earnest FBI agent Mike Downey in Jonathan Demmes screwball comedy Married to the Mob opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, in 1990, he led the cast of Memphis Belle, a fictionalized account of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress. Modine has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award, first, for his performance in And the Band Played On, in 1995, he appeared opposite Geena Davis in the romantic action-adventure film Cutthroat Island. Modine made his directorial debut with If. Rabbit, which came after the success of three short films debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, When I Was a Boy, Smoking written by David Sedaris, the dark comedy, I Think I Thought, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tells the story of a Thinker who ends up in Thinkers Anonymous, other short films include To Kill an American, Cowboy, and The Love Film. In 2011, he completed Jesus Was a Commie, an avant garde-dialectical conversation about the world, Modine co-directed the short film with Terence Ziegler, the editor of I Think I Thought. Modines short films have played internationally, in 2003, he guest starred in The West Wing episode, The Long Goodbye. He portrayed the character Marco, who went to school with C. J. Cregg. Modine agreed to take the role because he is a friend of Janneys. That same year, he played Fritz Gerlich in the CBS miniseries Hitler, in 2004, Modine appeared in Funky Monkey as ex-football star turned spy Alec McCall, who teams up with super-chimp Clemens and his friend Michael Dean to take down the villainous Flick
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Modine at a
New York Knicks vs
Miami Heat game in May 2012
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Modine in April 2006
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Joe Mantegna
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Joseph Anthony Joe Mantegna, Jr. is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and voice actor. Mantegna began his career on the stage in 1969 with the musical Hair, expanding to film and television, Mantegna is best known for his roles in box office hits including Three Amigos, The Godfather Part III, Forget Paris and Up Close & Personal. As of the 2015–2016 TV season, he stars in the CBS television series Criminal Minds as FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi. Since the 1991 episode Bart the Murderer, Mantegna has had a role on the animated series The Simpsons as mob boss Fat Tony. Mantegna has starred in the series First Monday and Joan of Arcadia and he earned Emmy Award nominations for his roles in three different miniseries, The Last Don, The Rat Pack, and The Starter Wife. He has also served as producer for various movies and television movies, including Corduroy, Hoods. Parkers fictional detective Spenser in three movies between 1999 and 2001, and has narrated several audiobook readings of the Spenser novels. An avid firearm enthusiast, he is the host of MidwayUSAs Gun Stories on the cable television Outdoor Channel and his daughter Gia Mantegna is also an actor. Mantegna was raised Catholic and attended J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero and he studied acting at the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University from 1967 to 1969. While still a man in Chicago, he played bass in a band called The Apocryphals, which later played with another local group, The Missing Links. Mantegna is still close to the original members of Chicago. Mantegna made his debut in the 1969 stage production of Hair. He co-wrote Bleacher Bums, a play which was first performed at Chicagos Organic Theater Company. In the movie Xanadu, he had a role which was cut, although since his name is in the films credits. Mantegna won a Tony award for his portrayal of Richard Roma in David Mamets play Glengarry Glen Ross and he has had a long and successful association with Mamet, appearing in a number of his works. Mantegna made his film debut in Medusa Challenger. He played womanizing dentist Bruce Fleckstein in Compromising Positions and he starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1985 called Shelter Skelter. His other early roles were supporting performances in The Money Pit, Weeds
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Mantegna at an Evening Parade reception at Marine Barracks Washington, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2014.
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Mantegna in May 2008
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Massimo Troisi
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Massimo Troisi was an Italian actor, film director, and poet. He is best known for his role as Mario Ruoppolo in the 1994 film Il Postino, Troisi was born into a large family in San Giorgio a Cremano, a town near Naples. His father was a train engineer, some of his family experiences were later told in his first movies. After high school, Troisi wrote some inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Troisi started his career as a cabaret showman in 1972, as a member of the comic trio called I Saraceni and, later. His mates were De Caro and Arena and they gained national fame on the radio and increased it consistently from 1977 onwards eventually becoming TV stars with the shows Non Stop, La sberla and Luna Park. Troisi soon gained the status of leader of the trio and he was noted for his use of facial mimicry and of apparently confused speech—in these he drew inspiration from such famous figures of Neapolitan comedy as Totò, and Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. Troisi wrote, directed, and starred in his first film and he achieved wide success and critical praise, establishing himself as one of the most talented new Italian directors of the 1980s. Like his second movie, Ricomincio da tre is centered on the love life of a Neapolitan character, partly inspired by Troisis youth. Scusate il ritardo, similar to the one, was released in 1983. After some small acting roles, in 1987 Troisi directed Le vie del Signore sono finite, the movie won a Silver Ribbon for best screenplay. In the following years, he starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni, in Ettore Scolas Splendor, Che ora è. and his last movie as director was Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse, again centering on the everyday difficulties of love between a man and a woman. Troisi came to fame through the success of Il Postino. Troisi died in 1994 of an attack in his sisters house in Ostia twelve hours after the main filming on Il Postino had finished. It was reported that he postponed surgery to complete the film and he was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role. He is one of seven actors to be posthumously nominated for an acting Academy Award. A good friend of the musician and singer Pino Daniele, he wrote lyrics for his music or adapted his poetry for it. Eduardo De Filippo, father of Neapolitan theatre of the 20th century, said of him that he was an actor of the future
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Massimo Troisi
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and a screenwriter. Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan, after only one season in the juvenile team of Inter, he left his sporting career because of an injury to his left knee and attended the school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He debuted on stage acting in Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, continuing his studies in medicine, he then moved to Rome. With Dario de Luca and in association with Studio Universal he founded the Tipota Movie Company, with the band Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel he has staged the show La guerra vista dalla luna. He has also filmed the short film Típota and has completed a tour performing his own songs, the soundtrack of Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos contains the track The Poet, with Bentivoglios voice
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio in 2011
65.
Wesley Snipes
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Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer and martial artist. His prominent film roles include New Jack City, White Men Cant Jump and he formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate, Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of Maryann, a teachers assistant, and Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up in the Bronx, New York and he attended the High School of Performing Arts of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts but moved back to Florida before he could graduate. After graduating from Jones High School in Orlando, Snipes returned to New York and he also attended Southwest College in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 23, Snipes was discovered by an agent while performing in a competition and he made his film debut in the 1986 Goldie Hawn vehicle Wildcats. Later that year, he appeared on the TV show Miami Vice as a pimp in the episode Streetwise. In 1987, he appeared as Michael Jacksons nemesis in the Martin Scorsese–directed music video Bad and that same year, Snipes was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV series Star Trek, The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to LeVar Burton. Snipes performance in the music video Bad caught the eye of director Spike Lee, Snipes turned down a small role in Lees Do the Right Thing for the larger part of Willie Mays Hayes in Major League, beginning a succession of box-office hits for Snipes. Lee would later cast Snipes as the jazz saxophonist Shadow Henderson in Mo Better Blues and he then played Thomas Flanagan in King of New York opposite Christopher Walken. He played the drug lord Nino Brown in New Jack City and he also played a drug dealer in the 1994 film Sugar Hill. Julie Newmar where he played a drag queen, Snipes has appeared in dramas like The Waterdance and Disappearing Acts. In 1997, he won the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 54th Venice Film Festival for his performance in New Line Cinemas One Night Stand, in 1998, Snipes had his largest commercial success with Blade, which has grossed over $150 million worldwide. The film turned into a series and he also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, SUNY/Purchase. In 2005, Snipes sued New Line Cinema, and David S. Goyer, director of Blade, Trinity, the suit was later settled, but no details were released. He has discussed reprising the role of Blade as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and he later appeared in The Contractor, filmed in Bulgaria and the UK, Gallowwalkers, released in 2012, and Game Of Death. Snipes was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lees 2008 war film Miracle at St. Anna but had to leave the film due to tax problems, his role eventually went to Derek Luke. Snipes made a performance in Brooklyns Finest as Casanova Caz Phillips
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Snipes in September 2009
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Snipes signing autographs at
Comic Con International in 2010
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Snipes with
Ethan Hawke in 2009.
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Snipes with wife Nakyung Park in 2009.
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Stefano Accorsi
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Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italian actor. He graduated from Bolognas Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to cinema, in 1995 he played the lead in Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo, one of his best known films. In 1998 he worked with Daniele Luchetti in I Piccoli Maestri, in the same year he won three prizes for his role in Radiofreccia, directed by rock star Luciano Ligabue, including David di Donatello for Best Actor. He was the lead in the successful film Lultimo bacio and he won the leading role in Maria de Medeiros’ Capitães de Abril, and has worked with director Nanni Moretti in The Sons Room. In 2001, Accorsi also had the role in Ferzan Özpeteks Le fate ignoranti. This film was a big success in Italy and in Turkey, and Accorsi and he also starred in David Blairs Tabloid TV and in Marco Pontis Santa Maradona. Then Accorsi acted in the TV film Il giovane Casanova by Giacomo Battiato and he didnt make any more films for about a year, during which time he went to France. He went to the Venice International Film Festival 2003 as a member of the jury, in 2004 he shot two movies, Ovunque sei, directed by Michele Placido, where he plays the role of an emergency care doctor, and Lamore ritrovato, directed by Carlo Mazzacurati. Accorsi works with Diane Kruger in Les Brigades du Tigre and with Julie Depardieu in La Faute à Fidel and he then acts in Un baiser sil vous plaît in 2007 and its sequel Baciami ancora in 2010. Accorsi was engaged to Corsican supermodel Laetitia Casta and they have one son and one daughter together, Orlando, born on 21 September 2006 and Athena, born on 29 August 2009. Fratelli e sorelle Un Posto Voci notturne Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo La mia generazione Vesna va veloce Naja I piccoli maestri Radiofreccia Più leggero non basta Ormai è fatta
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Stefano Accorsi
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David Strathairn
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David Russell Strathairn is an American actor. Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night and he is also recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen in the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum, a role he reprised in 2012s The Bourne Legacy. He played a prominent role as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series Alphas from 2011 to 2012 and he was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for his role in the TV film Temple Grandin. Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California, the second of three children of Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr. a physician and Mary Frances, a nurse. Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and he studied clowning at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida, and briefly worked as a clown in a traveling circus. Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow in the 2005 biopic Good Night. The film explored Murrows clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy over McCarthys Communist witch-hunt in the 1950s, Strathairn also received Best Actor Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his performance. In 2010, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of Dr. Carlock in the HBO television film Temple Grandin, Strathairn is a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, he has co-starred in Twisted as a psychiatrist, in The River Wild as a husband and he has worked with his Williams College classmate and director John Sayles. He made his debut in Return of the Secaucus 7. Alongside Sayles, he played one of the men in black in the 1983 film The Brother from Another Planet, Strathairn created the role of Edwin Booth with Maryann Plunkett in a workshop production of Booth. A House Divided, by W. Stuart McDowell, at The Players in New York, Strathairn had a recurring role on the hit television drama The Sopranos. Strathairn starred in the episode, Out Where the Buses Dont Run. In 2006 he did an ad for then congressional candidate Kirsten Gillibrand. He reprised his role as Edward R. Murrow in a similar to the one from Good Night, and Good Luck. Strathairn plays the role in the 2007 independent film, Steel Toes. The film is based on Gows stage play Cherry Docs, in which Strathairn starred for its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia and he played a role in the summer 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum and appeared in Paramount Pictures childrens film The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick. Strathairn appeared in the American Experience PBS anthology series documentary, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer and he first played Oppenheimer in the 1989 CBS TV movie Day One
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Strathairn at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
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Ben Affleck
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Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and filmmaker. Born in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he acting as a child. He later appeared in the independent coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused and various Kevin Smith films including Chasing Amy, Affleck gained recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. He then established himself as a man in studio films including the disaster drama Armageddon, the war epic Pearl Harbor. After a career downturn, during which he appeared in Daredevil and Gigli, Afflecks directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, which he also co-wrote, was well received. He then directed, co-wrote, and starred in the crime drama The Town. For the political thriller Argo, which he directed and starred in, Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director, and the Golden Globe, BAFTA and he starred in the psychological thriller Gone Girl. In 2016, Affleck began playing Batman in the DC Extended Universe, Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization. He is also a member of the Democratic Party. His younger brother is actor Casey Affleck, with whom he has worked on films including Good Will Hunting. Following high-profile relationships with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, Affleck and Garner have three children together, and announced their separation in 2015. Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15,1972 in Berkeley and his family moved to Massachusetts when he was two, living in Falmouth, where his brother Casey was born, before settling in Cambridge. His mother, Christopher Anne Chris, was a Radcliffe College- and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, worked sporadically as an auto mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender, and a janitor at Harvard University. In the mid-1960s, he had been an actor and stage manager with the Theater Company of Boston, during Afflecks childhood, his father had a self-described severe, chronic problem with alcoholism and Affleck has recalled him drinking all day, every day. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he and his brother lived with their mother. In the following years, his fathers life hit the skids, when Affleck was 16, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility and, after gaining sobriety, worked as an addiction counselor at the facility for many years. Affleck was raised in an active, liberal household. He and his brother were surrounded by people who worked in the arts, were taken to the theater by their mother
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Affleck at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Affleck visiting the
USS Enterprise (CVN‑65) in
Manama, Bahrain in 2003
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Affleck on the set of
The Town in 2010
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Theo Chocolate, stocked by
Whole Foods, is made with Congolese cocoa beans
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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder
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Pitt at the premiere of
Fury in Washington D.C, October 2014
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Pitt at the 2007
Palm Springs International Film Festival
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Pitt,
George Clooney,
Matt Damon,
Andy García,
Julia Roberts, cast of
Ocean's Eleven and director
Steven Soderbergh in December 2001
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Pitt in 2001
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Silvio Orlando
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Silvio Orlando is an Italian actor. He worked with numerous Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Carlo Mazzacurati, Gabriele Salvatores and he also took part in several TV series. Orlando in 1988 directed two works written by Peppino De Filippo, Don Rafelo o trumbone and Cupido scherza e spazza. In 2008 he was protagonist of Roberto Paci Dalòs play Lassedio delle ceneri
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Silvio Orlando
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Colin Firth
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Colin Andrew Firth, CBE is an English actor. His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide, Firth has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firths most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The Kings Speech and this led to roles in films such as The English Patient, Bridget Joness Diary, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually. In 2009, Firth received widespread acclaim for his leading role in A Single Man, for which Firth gained his first Academy Award nomination. Firth starred in the spy movie Kingsman, The Secret Service in 2014. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Winchester in 2007, and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2012. He has campaigned for the rights of tribal peoples, and is a member of Survival International. Firth has also campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees rights, and he commissioned and is credited as a co-author on a scientific paper on a study into the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations. Firth was born in the village of Grayshott, Hampshire, to parents who were both academics and teachers, Firth is the eldest of three children, he has a sister, Kate, an actress and voice coach, and a brother, Jonathan, an actor. Both of his parents were raised in India, because his grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather. As a child, Firth travelled a lot due to his parents work and he also lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11, which he has described as a difficult time. On returning to England, he attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School and he was still an outsider and was the target of bullying. To counter this, he adopted the working class Hampshire accent. By the time he was 14, Firth had already decided to be a professional actor, until further education, he was not academically inclined, later saying in an interview, I didnt like school. I just thought it was boring and mediocre and nothing they taught me seemed to be of any interest at all, after his sixth form years, Firth moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre. There, he made contacts in the acting world, from which he got a job in the wardrobe department at the National Theatre. From there, he went on to study at Drama Centre London, in 1984, Firth made his film debut in the role of Tommy Judd, Guy Bennetts straight, Marxist school friend in the screen adaptation of the play. This was the start of longstanding public feud between Firth and Everett, which was later resolved and he starred with Sir Laurence Olivier in Lost Empires, a TV adaptation of J. B
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Firth at the 2014
San Diego Comic Con International
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Firth at the
2009 Venice Film Festival
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Firth with
Helena Bonham Carter filming
The King's Speech in December 2009, which became his most critically acclaimed role to date.
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Firth with wife Livia Firth in January 2011
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Vincent Gallo
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Vincent Vito Gallo, Jr. is an American actor, director, model, musician and painter. In the early 2000s, he released solo recordings on Warp Records. Vincent Gallo was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Janet, a hair-dresser, both of his parents emigrated from Sicily, Italy. During Gallos artistic period in the 1980s, when he worked as a musician and painter in New York City and he made the short film If You Feel Froggy, Jump and appeared in the 1981 film Downtown 81 with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1984, Gallo acted in The Way It Is by Eric Mitchell, after starring in the obscure 1989 film Docs Kingdom, he began acting in small parts in more well-known films such as Goodfellas, The House of the Spirits, and The Perez Family. French director Claire Denis hired Gallo to act in films such as the short film Keep It for Yourself. Go Home, and its follow-up feature Nénette et Boni, in 1998, his directorial debut film Buffalo 66 was nominated for, but did not win, an award for Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards. Gallo made this drama for $1.5 M, serving as writer, director, lead actor, the release of Buffalo 66 gained him a solid fan base. In 2003, Gallo starred in and directed the film The Brown Bunny, which chronicles a motorcycle racers cross-country road trip, according to Andrea LeVasseur of Allmovie, The Brown Bunny premiered to much derision at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Film critic Roger Ebert stated that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes, Gallo retorted by calling Ebert a fat pig with the physique of a slave trader and put a hex on Ebert, wishing him colon cancer. Ebert then responded – paraphrasing a statement made by Winston Churchill – that, although I am fat, one day I will be thin, Gallo and Ebert later made up, and Ebert ended up giving a thumbs up to the finished version of The Brown Bunny. In 2010, Gallo won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for his role in Essential Killing, Gallo plays the two largest roles in the film, the English-speaking Sheriff and the Italian speaking assassin. He co-starred with Kōichi Satō and Yoo Ji-tae in Junji Sakamotos 2013 film, at the age of 16, Gallo moved to New York City and was a later member of the band Gray, with visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Gray played at such as Maxs Kansas City, CBGBs, Hurrahs. A few of Grays recordings appear on the soundtrack for the film Downtown 81, Gallo played in a band called Bohack which recorded an album entitled It Took Several Wives. When Bohack disbanded, Gallo turned his attention to acting, directing and he wrote songs for the soundtrack of the 1998 film Buffalo 66. He played in a band with Lukas Haas called Bunny. On August 3,2013 Vincent Gallo headlined the 3rd Annual San Frandelic Summer Fest in San Francisco, Gallo directed music videos for the songs Going Inside by John Frusciante, and Anemone by LArc-en-Ciel
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Gallo in 2004
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer of film and theater. Best known for his supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, bullies. Drawn to theater as a teenager, Hoffman studied acting at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts and he began his screen career in a 1991 episode of Law & Order and started to appear in films in 1992. He began to play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in Capote. The feature Jack Goes Boating marked his debut as a filmmaker, Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced and his performances in three Broadway plays – True West, Long Days Journey into Night, and Death of a Salesman – all led to Tony Award nominations. Hoffman struggled with drug addiction as an adult, and relapsed in 2013 after many years of sobriety. Hoffman was born on July 23,1967, in the Rochester suburb of Fairport and his mother, Marilyn OConnor, came from nearby Waterloo and worked as an elementary school teacher before becoming a lawyer and eventually a family court judge. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, was a native of Geneva, New York, along with one brother, Gordy, Hoffman had two sisters, Jill and Emily. Hoffman was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Mass as a child and his parents divorced when he was nine, leaving the children to be raised primarily by their mother. Hoffmans childhood passion was sports, particularly wrestling and baseball, and he recalled in 2008, I was changed – permanently changed – by that experience. It was like a miracle to me, Hoffman developed a love for the theater, and proceeded to attend regularly with his mother, who was a lifelong enthusiast. He remembered that productions of Quilters and Alms for the Middle Class, at the age of 14, Hoffman suffered a neck injury that ended his sporting activity, and he began to consider acting. Encouraged by his mother, he joined a club. Acting gradually became a passion for Hoffman, I loved the camaraderie of it, the people, and thats when I decided it was what I wanted to do. At the age of 17, he was selected to attend the 1984 New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs, Miller later commented on Hoffmans popularity at the time, We were attracted to the fact that he was genuinely serious about what he was doing. Hoffman applied for several drama degree programs and was accepted to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, between starting on the program and graduating from Fairport High School, he continued his training at the Circle in the Square Theatres summer program. Hoffman had positive memories of his time at NYU, where he supported himself by working as an usher, with friends, he co-founded the Bullstoi Ensemble acting troupe
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Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Paris premiere of
The Ides of March in October 2011
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The village of
Fairport, New York, Hoffman's hometown
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Hoffman opposite
Robert De Niro in
Flawless (1999) as drag queen Rusty Zimmerman.
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Hoffman at
Cannes in 2002 promoting
Punch-Drunk Love
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Joaquín Rafael Phoenix, known formerly as Leaf Phoenix, is a Puerto Rican–born American actor, producer, music video director, musician and activist. For his work as an artist, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, Phoenix started acting in television shows with his brother River Phoenix and sister Summer Phoenix. His first major release was in the comedy-drama film Parenthood. During his period as an actor he was credited as Leaf Phoenix. He received international attention for his portrayal of Commodus in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, to this date, he and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the first and only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. Aside from his career, he has also ventured into directing music videos, as well as producing films. He has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk The Line, Phoenix is a social activist, lending his support to a number of charities and humanitarian organizations. He is also known for his animal rights advocacy. He has been a vegan since the age of three, and actively campaigns for PETA and In Defense of Animals, Phoenix was born Joaquín Rafael Bottom in the Río Piedras district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to parents from the U. S. mainland. He is the third of five children, including River, Rain, Liberty and Summer and he also has a half-sister named Jodean from a previous relationship of his fathers. Phoenixs father, John Lee Bottom, originally from Fontana, California, was a lapsed Catholic, of English, Phoenixs mother, Arlyn, was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents whose families emigrated from Russia and Hungary. Arlyn left her family in 1968 and moved to California, later meeting Phoenixs father while hitchhiking and they married in 1969, then later joined a religious group, the Children of God, and began traveling throughout South America. His parents eventually became disenchanted with the Children of God, they made the decision to leave the group and they changed their last name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning. Around this time, Joaquín began calling himself Leaf, desiring to have a name like his siblings. Leaf became the name he used as a actor, until at age 15. He first used it as a credit in his big comeback film To Die For. In order to provide food and financial support for the family, in Los Angeles, his mother started working as a secretary for NBC, and his father worked as a landscaper. He went on to himself as a child actor before deciding to withdraw from acting for a while and travel to Mexico
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Phoenix at the
New York Film Festival in 2014
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Phoenix in Cannes for
The Yards in May 2000.
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The cast of
Her at the
New York Film Festival in 2013.
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Adam Driver
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Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor. He made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warrens Profession, in 2011, he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar. Driver has appeared in supporting roles in a range of films, including Lincoln, Frances Ha. He starred in While Were Young and won the Volpi Cup for his role in Hungry Hearts, as well as several best actor awards for his performance in Jim Jarmuschs Paterson. Driver gained worldwide attention and acclaim for playing the villain Kylo Ren in Star Wars, The Force Awakens and he is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military, both in the US and abroad. Driver was born in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, on November 19,1983, the son of Nancy Wright, a paralegal and his fathers family is from Arkansas and his mothers family is from Indiana. His stepfather, Rodney G. Wright, is a minister at a Baptist church, when Driver was seven years old, he moved with his mother and older sister April to her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, where he grew up. Driver had an upbringing, and sang in choir at church. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Driver joined the United States Marine Corps and was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion and he served for two years and eight months with no deployments before breaking his sternum while mountain biking. He was medically discharged before his unit deployed to Iraq for the Iraq War, after leaving the Marine Corps, Driver attended the University of Indianapolis for a year, he transferred to the Juilliard School to study drama. Driver said that he was seen as an intimidating and volatile figure to his classmates and he was a member of the Drama Divisions Group 38, along with his future wife Joanne Tucker. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2009, following his graduation from Juilliard, Driver began acting in New York City, appearing in both Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Like many other aspiring actors, he worked as a busboy. Driver appeared in television shows and short films. He made his film debut in Clint Eastwoods J. Edgar. In 2012, Driver was cast in the current HBO hit comedy-drama series Girls, to date, he has received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role. Apart from appearing in the short film Not Waving But Drowning and he played Samuel Beckwith in Steven Spielbergs Lincoln and played Lev Shapiro in Noah Baumbachs Frances Ha. Driver appeared in four films in 2013, Bluebird, The F Word, as musician Al Cody in the Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis, for his role in Hungry Hearts, Driver won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 71st Venice International Film Festival
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Driver at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Driver with wife Joanne Tucker at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival
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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records
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