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Charles Coborn
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Charles Coborn was a British music hall singer and comedian born in Stepney, east London. He was born Colin Whitton McCallum, and adopted his name from Coborn Road. In a long career, Coborn was known largely for two songs, Two Lovely Black Eyes </ref>and The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Fred Gilbert. The latter song was bought for £10, but the rights were sold for £600. The song quickly became a staple of his act, and he performed it on tour in different languages throughout the world, Coborn confirmed that Gilberts inspiration was the gambler and confidence trickster Charles Wells. Wells was reported to have won one-and-a-half million francs at the Monte Carlo casino, when Gilbert first offered the song, Coborn was reluctant to adopt it. In his autobiography he states, ‘ liked the very much, especially the chorus. But when he found that he could not get the out of his head. Coborn later estimated that he had performed the song 250,000 times in the course of his career, described as a literate man of high principles, he was never fully accepted by the music hall establishment, but continued to work until the end of his long life. Tracks that he recorded in his 80s can be found on Chairmans Choice - Music Hall Greats CD, in other songs such as Should husbands work. He took up the music tradition of social comment. He appeared in the film Variety Jubilee, at the age of 91 and he is buried with his wife in Brompton Cemetery, London. His eldest son, Major Duncan McCallum, became MP for Argyll
Charles Coborn
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As The Man Who Broke the Bank in Monte Carlo
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Rhapsody in Blue (film)
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Rhapsody in Blue is a 1945 fictionalized screen biography of the American composer and musician George Gershwin released by Warner Brothers. Starring Robert Alda as Gershwin, the features a few of Gershwins acquaintances playing themselves. Alexis Smith and Joan Leslie play fictional women in Gershwins life, Morris Carnovsky and Rosemary De Camp play Gershwins parents, oscar Levant also recorded most of the piano playing in the movie, and also dubbed Aldas piano playing. Both the Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris are performed nearly completely, debut of 1924 conducted, as it was originally, by Whiteman himself. The film introduces two fictional romances into the story, one with a woman named Julie Adams and the other a near-romance with a society woman played by Alexis Smith. The film notably features performances of Gershwin music by two talented and accomplished African-American musician/singers, Anne Brown and Hazel Scott, both were child prodigies whose training included study at the Juilliard School. Anne Brown, a soprano, created the role of Bess in the production of George Gershwins opera Porgy. In the film, Brown sings the aria Summertime from Porgy, but in the film, the song is completely rearranged, with the first verse sung by chorus only. William Gillespie, an African-American bass-baritone, appeared uncredited as Porgy in the Porgy and Bess sequence, born in Trinidad and Tobago, Hazel Scott was raised in New York City and became known as a jazz and classical pianist and singer. Like Lena Horne, Scott was one of the first African-American women to have a career in Hollywood as well as television, Scott plays herself in the film, performing in a Paris nightclub. Robert Alda as George Gershwin Joan Leslie as Julie Adams Alexis Smith as Christine Gilbert Charles Coburn as Max Dreyfus Julie Bishop as Lee Gershwin Albert Bassermann as Prof. The whole thing unfolds in fleeting episodes, with viewing the genius with anxiety or awe. Throughout, the brilliant music of Mr. Gershwin is spotted abundantly, and that is the best—in fact, variety reported that the film cant miss with such an embarrassment of musical riches, to the point that corny lapses in the script can easily be glossed over. Harrisons Reports wrote that the score was in itself worth the price of admission. Wolcott Gibbs of The New Yorker called the magnificent, but criticized the plot as a monumental collection of nonsense, describing the romance as silly. The film was nominated for the Grand Prize at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, the film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, Music and Best Sound. Rhapsody in Blue at the Internet Movie Database Rhapsody in Blue at AllMovie Rhapsody in Blue at the TCM Movie Database Rhapsody in Blue at the American Film Institute Catalog
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Film poster
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Macon, Georgia
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Macon /ˈmeɪkən/ is a city located in the state of Georgia, United States. Macon lies near the center of the state, approximately 85 miles south of Atlanta. Settled near the line of the Ocmulgee River, Macon is the county seat of Bibb County and had a 2014 estimated population of 153,691. Macon is the city of the Macon metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 231,259 in 2014. In a 2012 referendum, voters approved the consolidation of Macon and Bibb County, the two governments officially merged on January 1,2014. Macon is served by three highways, I-16, I-75, and I-475. The city has several institutions of education, as well as numerous museums. The area is served by the Middle Georgia Regional Airport and the Herbert Smart Downtown Airport, the mayor of Macon is Robert Reichert, a former Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Reichert was elected mayor of the consolidated city of Macon–Bibb. Macon lies on the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the historic Creek Indians lived in the 18th century and their prehistoric predecessors, the Mississippian culture, built a powerful chiefdom based on an agricultural village and constructed earthwork mounds for ceremonial, burial and religious purposes. The areas along the rivers in the Southeast had been inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples for 13,000 years before Europeans arrived. Macon developed at the site of Fort Benjamin Hawkins, built from 1806–1809 at the line of the Ocmulgee River to protect the new frontier. The fort was named in honor of Benjamin Hawkins, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southeast territory south of the Ohio River for more than two decades and he lived among the Creek and had a Creek wife. This was the most inland point of navigation on the river from the Low Country, president Thomas Jefferson forced the Creek to cede their lands east of the Ocmulgee River and ordered the fort built. A gathering point of the Creek and American cultures for trading, it was also a center of state militia, the fort served as a major military distribution point during the War of 1812 against Great Britain and also during the Creek War of 1813. Afterward, the fort was used as a trading post for years and was garrisoned until 1821. It was decommissioned about 1828 and later burned to the ground, a replica of the southeast blockhouse was built in 1938 and stands today on a hill in east Macon. Part of the site is occupied by the Fort Hawkins Grammar School
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Downtown Macon
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Child labor in Macon, 1909. Photo by
Lewis Hine.
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Downtown Macon in the early 1900s
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Downtown Macon seen from the
Ocmulgee National Monument
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Lenox Hill Hospital
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It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. It currently consists of ten buildings and has occupied the present site in Manhattan since 1905, the hospital is located on a city block bounded on the north and south by East 77th and East 76th Streets, and on the west and east by Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. The New York City Subways 77th Street station is on the same block, in 2007, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital was incorporated into Lenox Hill Hospital. The hospitals Executive Director is Dennis Connors, on January 19,1857, the German Dispensary was founded. On May 28,1857, the facility opened to the public at 132 Canal Street, in 1862, the German Dispensary moved to larger quarters at 8 East Third Street to accommodate the 10,000 patients it treated each year. The hospital continued to grow, and in 1884 moved to 137 Second Avenue, at East 8th Street, the new three-story building was a gift of Anna Ottendorfer and Oswald Ottendorfer, who ran the German-language newspaper New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. By 1887, the German Hospital and Dispensary was treating 28,000 patients annually, mostly from the local Little Germany neighborhood around First, the hospital opened its nurses training school in 1887 with four young German-American women forming the first class. Until then, nursing attendants and charge nurses had been brought over from Germany, the site remained mostly unused until a four-story building was constructed there in December 1888 in order to add to the capacity from its downtown location. A five-story training school for nurses was added in February 1894 at East 77th Street, the New York Times noted in an 1899 editorial, to be a graduate nurse of the German Hospital is a distinction and recommendation for good nursing. New York City deeded the square block on to the hospital for $5,000 in 1907, the building on Second Avenue was sold to another medical charity, the German Polyklinik, founded in 1883, which later changed its name to Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital. A movement in 1925 to restore the hospital to its former name and it was said at the time that about 95 percent of the doctors, nurses and other employees of the hospital spoke German. The hospital rejected a merger with Columbia University in February 1919. The pioneering childrens division, founded by Dr. Abraham Jacobi, was housed on the 11th floor, with patient rooms on the fourth through ninth floors. Another two-story building, containing a ward service, lecture hall and swimming pool, was added next to the building on the 76th Street side in 1936. By 1939, the hospital had annually treated 12,115 patients with bed care, adding accident room patients, the hospital treated over 53,000 people in 1939. Because some care was given for free or part-pay, the hospital ran a operating deficit, just as it did in 1939. The hospitals operating loss grew to $284,692 in 1945, the new building, named the Wollman Pavilion, also housed a mental health unit, and an entire floor was allocated for research on speech and hearing disorders, epilepsy and hemophilia. In 1964, the Charles R. Lachman Community Health Center was added on the side of East 77th Street
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East
77th Street entrance to hospital
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Lenox Hill Hospital, 1868
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The entrance to the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Plaza and Gallery at 125 East 76th Street
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The Lenox Hill Hospital sidewalk clock on Lexington Avenue
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
New York City
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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British general
John Burgoyne surrenders at
Saratoga in 1777.
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Flag
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1800 map of New York from
Low's Encyclopaedia
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The
Erie Canal at
Lockport, New York in 1839
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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Flag
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera
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The
Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first
cinema ever, with a short film presented by the
Skladanowsky brothers on 1 November 1895. The image depicts a July 1940
variety show.
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A shot from
Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
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This
16 mm spring-wound
Bolex "H16" Reflex camera is a popular entry level camera used in
film schools.
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Theatre
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The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence, the specific place of the performance is also named by the word theatre as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον, itself from θεάομαι. Modern theatre, broadly defined, includes performances of plays and musical theatre, there are connections between theatre and the art forms of ballet, opera and various other forms. The city-state of Athens is where western theatre originated, participation in the city-states many festivals—and mandatory attendance at the City Dionysia as an audience member in particular—was an important part of citizenship. The Greeks also developed the concepts of dramatic criticism and theatre architecture, Actors were either amateur or at best semi-professional. The theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play, the origins of theatre in ancient Greece, according to Aristotle, the first theoretician of theatre, are to be found in the festivals that honoured Dionysus. The performances were given in semi-circular auditoria cut into hillsides, capable of seating 10, the stage consisted of a dancing floor, dressing room and scene-building area. Since the words were the most important part, good acoustics, the actors wore masks appropriate to the characters they represented, and each might play several parts. Athenian tragedy—the oldest surviving form of tragedy—is a type of dance-drama that formed an important part of the culture of the city-state. Having emerged sometime during the 6th century BCE, it flowered during the 5th century BCE, no tragedies from the 6th century BCE and only 32 of the more than a thousand that were performed in during the 5th century BCE have survived. We have complete texts extant by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the origins of tragedy remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE it was institution alised in competitions held as part of festivities celebrating Dionysus. As contestants in the City Dionysias competition playwrights were required to present a tetralogy of plays, the performance of tragedies at the City Dionysia may have begun as early as 534 BCE, official records begin from 501 BCE, when the satyr play was introduced. More than 130 years later, the philosopher Aristotle analysed 5th-century Athenian tragedy in the oldest surviving work of dramatic theory—his Poetics, Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods, Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy. Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of the surviving plays of Aristophanes. New Comedy is known primarily from the papyrus fragments of Menander. Aristotle defined comedy as a representation of people that involves some kind of blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster. In addition to the categories of comedy and tragedy at the City Dionysia, finding its origins in rural, agricultural rituals dedicated to Dionysus, the satyr play eventually found its way to Athens in its most well-known form. Satyrs themselves were tied to the god Dionysus as his loyal companions, often engaging in drunken revelry
Theatre
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Sarah Bernhardt as
Hamlet, in 1899
Theatre
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A master (right) and his slave (left) in a
Greek phlyax play, circa 350/340 BCE
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Mosaic depicting masked actors in a play: two women consult a "witch"
Theatre
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Performer playing
Sugriva in the
Koodiyattam form of
Sanskrit theatre.
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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The Hero Initiative
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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
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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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).
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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The More the Merrier
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The More the Merrier is a 1943 American comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D. C. The picture stars Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn, the movie was directed by George Stevens. The film was written by Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, and Robert Russell, from Twos a Crowd and this film was remade in 1966 as Walk, Dont Run, with Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton. Retired millionaire Benjamin Dingle arrives in Washington, D. C. as an adviser on the housing shortage and he sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan, into letting him sublet half of her apartment. Then Dingle runs into Sergeant Joe Carter, who has no place to stay while he waits to be shipped overseas, Dingle generously rents him half of his half. When Connie finds out about the new arrangement, she orders them both to leave, but she is forced to relent because she has spent the mens rent. Joe and Connie are attracted to other, though she is engaged to bureaucrat Charles J. Pendergast. Connies mother married for love, not security, and Connie is determined not to repeat her mistake, Dingle happens to meet Pendergast at a business luncheon and does not like what he sees. He decides that Joe would be a match for his landlady. One day, Dingle goes too far, reading aloud to Joe from Connies private diary, when she finds out, she demands they both leave the next day. Dingle takes full blame for the incident, Connie allows Joe to remain in the apartment as he has only a few days before being shipped out to Africa. Joe asks Connie to go out with him and she is reluctant to do so, but decides to go if Pendergast does not call for her by 8. At 8, she and Joe are ready to leave, but her noisy teenage neighbor seeks her advice, Joe spies on the two of them from the window. When the neighbor asks what he is doing, Joe flippantly tells him he is a Japanese spy, Dingle calls Joe to meet him for dinner. Dingle bumps into the couple and pretends he is meeting Connie for the first time, Dingle engages Pendergast in talk about his work, eventually maneuvering him up to his room so that Connie and Joe can be alone together. The two talk about their pasts and even kiss. From their separate rooms, Joe confesses that he loves her and she tells him she feels the same way, but refuses to marry him, as they will soon be forced apart. Their talk is interrupted by the arrival of the FBI, who have called to investigate Joe for spying
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theatrical poster
The More the Merrier
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One of the pivotal scenes in the film had McCrae and Arthur talking about his past romances.
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Road to Singapore
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Road to Singapore is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope. Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore, where they meet a beautiful woman, distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film marked the debut of the long-running and popular Road to. Series of pictures spotlighting the trio, seven in all, the supporting cast features Charles Coburn, Anthony Quinn, and Jerry Colonna. Josh Mallon and Ace Lannigan are best friends and work aboard the same ship. As their ship returns to the US after a voyage, they see all the other sailors being mistreated by their wives and girlfriends. Unfortunately, this vow is tested almost immediately, first, Ace is confronted by the family of a former lover, Cherry, who insist he marry her. Then Josh, who is the son of shipping magnate, has to fend off his fiancee, Gloria. Things get worse when Josh and Ace get caught up fishing, glorias hostile drunken brother starts a fistfight and a news reporter takes photographs that cause a scandal. Josh and Ace flee to Hawaii and then head for Singapore, however, the pair only get as far as the island of Kaigoon before their money runs out. They rescue Mima, a local from her abusive dance-partner, Caesar. Soon Mima is running the two lives, much to their chagrin. The trio try to make money in different ways, including trying to sell a spot remover that is so bad it dissolves clothes. When Joshs father finally locates his son, he and Gloria fly out to bring Josh back to face his responsibilities. The resentful Caesar leads them to where Ace, Josh and Mima are enjoying a local feast, by this point, both Josh and Ace have fallen in love with Mima. She is heartbroken to learn that Gloria is Joshs fiancee, Ace proposes to Mima, but before she can accept, Josh returns. The two friends almost come to blows over Mima, but then decide that she should choose between them, Josh boards an ocean liner with Gloria and his father. Meanwhile, Caesar informs the police that Ace is on the island illegally. Ace is arrested when he cannot produce a passport, but manages to escape and he and Mima flee aboard a ship, but Ace comes to realize that Mima really loves Josh
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Theatrical release poster
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Springfield, Ohio
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Springfield is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River, Buck Creek and Beaver Creek, Springfield is home to Wittenberg University, a liberal arts college. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,608. The Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 138,333 residents, and the Dayton-Springfield-Greenville, OH Combined Statistical Area had 1,072,891 residents. In 1983, Newsweek featured Springfield in its 50th anniversary issue, entitled and it chronicled the impact of the past 50 years on five local families. In 2004, Springfield was chosen as an All-America City, in 2010, Springfield ranked third worst in a national wellbeing survey conducted by The Gallup Organization. In 2011, Springfield was named the unhappiest city in America by another Gallup survey. In 2015, Springfield was founded by James Demint, a former teamster from Kentucky, in 1801. Dayton and Eaton wanted the road to veer south after Springfield, during the mid-and-late 19th century, Springfield was dominated by industrialists including Oliver S. Kelly, Asa S. Bushnell, James Leffel, P. P. Asa S. Bushnell built the Springfield, Ohio Bushnell Building where the patent attorney to the Wright Brothers, Harry Aubrey Toulmin, to promote the products of his agricultural equipment company, P. P. Mast started the Farm and Fireside magazine, mast’s publishing company – Mast, Crowell, and Kirkpatrick – grew to become Crowell-Collier Publishing Company best known for Colliers Weekly. In 1894, The Kelly Springfield Tire Company was founded, at the turn of the 20th century Springfield became known as the Home City. Several lodges including the Masonic Lodge, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows built homes for orphans, Springfield also became known as The Champion City. A reference to the Champion Farm Equipment brand manufactured by the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, International remains in Springfield as Navistar International, a producer of medium to large trucks. In 1902 A. B. Graham, then the superintendent of schools for Springfield Township in Clark County, established a Boys and Girls Agricultural Club. Approximately 85 children from 10 to 15 years of age attended the first meeting on January 15,1902 in Springfield, Ohio and this was the start of what would be called the 4-H Club within a few years, quickly growing to a nationwide organization. The first projects included food preservation, gardening and elementary agriculture, today, the Courthouse still bears a large 4H symbol under the flag pole at the front of the building to commemorate its part in founding the organization. The Clark County Fair is the second largest fair in the state in part to 4H still remaining very popular in the area. On March 7,1904, over a thousand residents formed a mob, stormed the jail and removed prisoner Richard Dixon
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Fountain Square, Arcue Building in background.
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Springfield around 1830
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Clark County Courthouse in downtown Springfield
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Old City Hall, now the
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Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah is the oldest city in the U. S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia, a strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgias fifth-largest city and third-largest metropolitan area, Downtown Savannah largely retains the original town plan prescribed by founder James Oglethorpe. Savannah was the host city for the sailing competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta. On February 12,1733, General James Oglethorpe and settlers from the ship Anne landed at Yamacraw Bluff and were greeted by Tomochichi, the Yamacraws, Mary Musgrove often served as an interpreter. The city of Savannah was founded on that date, along with the colony of Georgia, in 1751, Savannah and the rest of Georgia became a Royal Colony and Savannah was made the colonial capital of Georgia. By the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Savannah had become the southernmost commercial port of the Thirteen Colonies, British troops took the city in 1778, and the following year a combined force of American and French soldiers failed to rout the British at the Siege of Savannah. The British did not leave the city until July 1782, Savannah, a prosperous seaport throughout the nineteenth century, was the Confederacys sixth most populous city and the prime objective of General William T. Shermans March to the Sea. Early on December 21,1864, local authorities negotiated a surrender to save Savannah from destruction. Savannah was named for the Savannah River, which derives from variant names for the Shawnee. The Shawnee destroyed another Native people, the Westo, and occupied their lands at the head of the Savannah Rivers navigation on the fall line and these Shawnee, whose Native name was Ša·wano·ki, were known by several local variants, including Shawano, Savano, Savana and Savannah. Still other theories suggest that the name Savannah originates from Algonquian terms meaning not only southerners, Savannah lies on the Savannah River, approximately 20 mi upriver from the Atlantic Ocean. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 108.7 square miles. Savannah is the port on the Savannah River and the largest port in the state of Georgia. It is also located near the U. S. Intracoastal Waterway, Georgias Ogeechee River flows toward the Atlantic Ocean some 16 miles south of downtown Savannah. Savannahs climate is classified as humid subtropical, in the Deep South, this is characterized by long and almost tropical summers and short, mild winters. Savannah records few days of freezing temperatures each year, due to its proximity to the Atlantic coast, Savannah rarely experiences temperatures as extreme as those in Georgias interior. Nevertheless, the temperatures have officially ranged from 105 °F, on July 20,1986, down to 3 °F
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Ivah Wills Coburn
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Charles Douville Coburn was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943s The More the Merrier, Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scotch-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman and Moses Douville Coburn. Growing up in Savannah, he started out at age 14 doing odd jobs at the local Savannah Theater, handing out programs, ushering, by age 17 or 18, he was the theater manager. He later became an actor, making his debut on Broadway in 1901, Coburn formed an acting company with actress Ivah Wills in 1905. In addition to managing the company, the couple performed frequently on Broadway, after his wifes death in 1937, Coburn relocated to Los Angeles, California and began film work. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a retired millionaire playing Cupid in The More the Merrier in 1943 and he was also nominated for The Devil and Miss Jones in 1941 and The Green Years in 1946. Other notable film credits include Of Human Hearts, The Lady Eve, Kings Row, The Constant Nymph, Heaven Can Wait, Wilson, Impact, The Paradine Case, Everybody Does It, monkey Business, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and John Paul Jones. He usually played comedic parts, but Kings Row and Wilson were dramatic parts, for his contributions to motion pictures, in 1960, Coburn was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Boulevard. Coburn was a member of the White Citizens Councils, a group which opposed racial integration, Coburn married Ivah Wills on January 29,1906 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ivah died on December 3,1937 in New York City of congestive heart failure, Coburn married Winifred Natzka on June 30,1959 in Los Angeles. She was the widow of the New Zealand bass opera singer Oscar Natzka and they had one child, a daughter. Coburn died from an attack on August 30,1961
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from the trailer for
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Irving Leroy Ress (left), Charles Coburn (right), ca 1950.
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Cupid
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In classical mythology, Cupid is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and he is also known in Latin as Amor. Although Eros is generally portrayed as a winged youth in Classical Greek art. During this time, his iconography acquired the bow and arrow that represent his source of power, a person, or even a deity, in myths, Cupid is a minor character who serves mostly to set the plot in motion. He is a character only in the tale of Cupid and Psyche. Although other extended stories are not told him, his tradition is rich in poetic themes and visual scenarios, such as Love conquers all. In art, Cupid often appears in multiples as the Amores, or amorini in the terminology of art history. Cupids are a frequent motif of both Roman art and later Western art of the classical tradition, in the 15th century, the iconography of Cupid starts to become indistinguishable from the putto. Cupid continued to be a figure in the Middle Ages. In the Renaissance, a renewed interest in classical philosophy endowed him with complex allegorical meanings, in contemporary popular culture, Cupid is shown drawing his bow to inspire romantic love, often as an icon of Valentines Day. The Romans reinterpreted myths and concepts pertaining to the Greek Eros for Cupid in their own literature and art, in the Greek tradition, Eros had a dual, contradictory genealogy. He was among the gods who came into existence asexually, after his generation. In Hesiods Theogony, only Chaos and Gaia are older, before the existence of gender dichotomy, Eros functioned by causing entities to separate from themselves that which they already contained. At the same time, the Eros who was pictured as a boy or slim youth was regarded as the child of a divine couple, in Latin literature, Cupid is usually treated as the son of Venus without reference to a father. Seneca says that Vulcan, as the husband of Venus, is the father of Cupid and this last Cupid was the equivalent of Anteros, Counter-Love, one of the Erotes, the gods who embody aspects of love. The multiple Cupids frolicking in art are the manifestation of these proliferating loves and desires. During the English Renaissance, Christopher Marlowe wrote of ten thousand Cupids, in Ben Jonsons wedding masque Hymenaei, in the later classical tradition, Cupid is most often regarded as the son of Venus and Mars, whose love affair represented an allegory of Love and War. The duality between the primordial and the sexually conceived Eros accommodated philosophical concepts of Heavenly and Earthly Love even in the Christian era, Cupid is winged, allegedly, because lovers are flighty and likely to change their minds, and boyish because love is irrational
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Classical statue of Cupid with his bow
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Red-Figure Plate with Eros as a youth making an offering. (c. 340–320 BC)
Walters Art Museum,
Baltimore.
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A blindfolded, armed Cupid (1452/66) by
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Cupid sculpture by
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The Devil and Miss Jones
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 comedy film starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn. Directed by Sam Wood and scripted by Norman Krasna, the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross and their short-lived production company released two films through RKO Radio Pictures. The film was received by critics upon its release and garnered Academy Award nominations for Coburn. He befriends fellow clerk Mary Jones and her recently fired boyfriend Joe OBrien, through his firsthand experiences, he grows more sympathetic to the needs of his workers, while finding unexpected love with sweet-natured clerk Elizabeth Ellis. Sakall as George William Demarest as First Detective Walter Kingsford as Mr, the script was written in ten weeks and then Sam Wood came on board as director. Krasna described the experience of making the film as one of the best in his career, the film made a profit of $117,000. Best Supporting Actor - Charles Coburn Best Original Screenplay - Norman Krasna On November 14,1941, Philip Morris Playhouse presented The Devil and Miss Jones. It was also adapted twice on The Screen Guild Theater, first on June 7,1943 with Laraine Day, Charles Coburn and George Murphy, again on August 12,1946 with Van Johnson and Donna Reed. It was also adapted on the October 23,1946 broadcast of Academy Award Theater, starring Charles Coburn and Virginia Mayo
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Theatrical release poster
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The Green Years (film)
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The Green Years is a 1946 American drama film featuring Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler and Hume Cronyn. It was adapted by Robert Ardrey from A. J. Cronins novel of the same name and it tells the story of the coming-of-age of an Irish orphan in Scotland and was directed by Victor Saville. Robert Shannon, an orphan, is sent to live with his Scottish grandparents. His great-grandfather becomes the lads mentor/father figure, helping him overcome the challenges of youth, the young Robert suffers lifes trials, and the kind, old great-grandfather, despite given to drink and tall tales, is always there to help him rebound. In time, the intelligent Robert grows into a teenager, and he proceeds to attend medical college, and attains a career before marrying his sweetheart. The film was popular at the box office. According to MGM records it made $4,222,000 in the US and Canada and $2,432,000 elsewhere and it was one of the most popular films of the year. It was preceded by 1943s Shadow of a Doubt and followed by 1945s A Letter for Evie, one of Broadways and Hollywoods finest, Hume Cronyn, is our man of the night. Next, we have Hume Cronyn in a movie called The Green Years from MGM in 1946 and its one of those movies that you probably never heard of and maybe dont recognize the names from the cast, but the movie itself is really good and certainly worth watching. Its a story about an orphan Irish lad taken in by Scottish relatives where the boy begins a long and loving relationship with his rather crusty, the film was based on a novel by the famed writer A. J. The leading role is split between two actors — Dean Stockwell, at the age of ten, playing the young lad, Robert, Tom Drake youll recognize from the movie Meet Me in St. Louis. He was the boy next door that Judy Garland falls in love with, in our movie theres also Charles Coburn giving a rip-roaring performance which earned him a Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination as Roberts gruff but very loving great-grandad. And youll see Hume Cronyn, this time appearing with his real-life wife and she was also very pregnant at the time this movie was made. Well, when the director, Victor Saville, actually found out she was pregnant, he was gonna replace Jessica, but do notice that shes often bundled up in very bulky clothes or strategically placed behind furniture to cover her expanding torso. Here, from nineteen forty six, a wonderful movie. Dean Stockwells had an interesting career — three or four careers, really. Theres Dean Stockwell, child star, in films like the one we just showed… and also Anchors Aweigh and The Boy with Green Hair, then theres Dean Stockwell that played the thrill killer in Compulsion, as well as the stoned-out hippie in Psych-Out. Then theres a grown-up Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet and Paris, Texas, Oscar-nominated for Married to the Mob, quite a career… and quite an actor
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Theatrical release poster
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Of Human Hearts
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Of Human Hearts is a 1938 American drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. Stewart plays a proud and ungrateful son who rebels against his preacher father, Bondi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Young Jason Wilkins has a stern but loving father, Rev. Ethan Wilkins. Jason is highly intelligent and outgoing, but also proud and stubborn and his father must often beat him with a leather strap for his impertinence, pride, and rudeness. As a young man, Jason falls in love with beautiful Annie, when Jasons father takes him circuit riding, Jason rebels at the bad food and awful living conditions, and has a fistfight with his father. Jason goes to school, and becomes a doctor. He is increasingly neglectful of his parents, and when his father dies he arrives too late to speak with him one last time. Despite his mothers poverty, Jason repeatedly asks her for money, forcing her to sell her silver spoons, the American Civil War breaks out, and she must sell Jasons beloved horse Pilgrim to pay for his fancy $70.00 officers uniform. When Jason fails to write to her for 2 years, Mrs. Wilkins assumes that he is dead, Lincoln issues an order requiring the young captain to appear before him without delay. Jason arrogantly assumes that he is about to be commended for his actions as a battlefield surgeon, instead, with the two of them alone in his office, the President accuses him of possessing the worst human quality of all, ingratitude. The title of the picture, Of Human Hearts, was selected by MGM after a nationwide contest was advertised on the radio program, Good News of 1938. The prize, $5,000, was awarded to Greenville, South Carolina, in addition to the prize money, Harris was also a specially invited guest at the films world premiere, which was held in his hometown. Portions of the film were shot on location at the Agoura Ranch in Agoura, California, a Life magazine article noted that the films battle scene, which was not based on a specific battle, cost $50,000, and required 2,000 men to film. Life also noted that the picture was one of a new cycle of interest in the Civil War aroused by the novel Gone With the Wind, robert McWade, who portrayed Dr. Lupus Crumm in the picture, died after completing his role. According to news items in the Hollywood Citizen-News and Motion Picture Daily, director Clarence Brown had told McWade, Well, Bob and you might as well go home, just before McWade died of heart failure. Of Human Hearts at the Internet Movie Database Of Human Hearts at AllMovie Of Human Hearts at the TCM Movie Database Of Human Hearts at the American Film Institute Catalog
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1938 theatrical poster
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The Lady Eve
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The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges which stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a couple who meet on board an ocean liner. In 1994, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, Jean Harrington is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, Colonel Harrington and his partner Gerald, she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike, Pike is a woman-shy snake expert Ophidiologist, just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jeans hands, but even the best laid plans can go astray. First, Jean falls hard for Pike and shields him from her card sharp father, then, when Pikes suspicious minder/valet Muggsy discovers the truth about her and her father, Pike dumps her. Furious at being scorned, she re-enters his life masquerading as the posh Lady Eve Sidwich, niece of Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith, Jean is determined to torment Pike mercilessly, as she explains, Ive got some unfinished business with him—I need him like the axe needs the turkey. When Pike meets Eve, he is so bewildered he constantly trips, after a brief courtship, they marry, and on the train to their honeymoon, Eve begins to confess her past, dropping name after name after name of old boyfriends and lovers. Pike finally gets fed up and jumps off the train, now separated, Jeans con team urges her to close the deal, saying shes got him over a barrel and can make a killing in a settlement. While Charles father and lawyers are on the phone with her pleading to settle quickly, Jean says she doesnt want any money at all, Pike refuses, and through his father Jean learns that hes departing on another ocean voyage. She arranges her own passage, and bumps into Pike, just as they met before, hopsie is overjoyed to see Jean again, and they instantly dash to her cabin where they mutually affirm their love for each other. Charles confesses that he is married, and Jean replies tenderly, So am I, Sturges was assigned to write a script based on Hoffes story in 1938, with Claudette Colbert expected to be the star. Sturges objected, and eventually Lewin gave in, writing, Follow your witty nose, my boy, it will lead you and me, a later, revised, script was approved. The casting of the roles for The Lady Eve went through some changes. In September, Darryl Zanuck lent Henry Fonda to co-star with Paulette Goddard, the Lady Eve was in production from October 21 to December 5,1940. The reason for the outfits, he told visitors, was that they facilitated crew members finding him amid the crowds of actors, technicians. Stanwyck compared Sturges set to a carnival, to get into mood for Barbaras bedroom scene, Sturges wore a bathrobe. Location shooting for the jungle scene took place at Lake Baldwin of the Los Angeles County Arboretum
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Theatrical release poster
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Charles Coburn,
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Henry Fonda from a trailer for The Lady Eve
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Barbara Stanwyck from a trailer for The Lady Eve
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Kings Row
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Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century. The picture was directed by Sam Wood, the film, which was Reagans most notable role during his early acting career at Warner Brothers, was adapted by Casey Robinson from a best-selling 1940 novel of the same name by Henry Bellamann. The movie also features Betty Field, Charles Coburn, and Claude Rains, the musical score was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the cinematographer was James Wong Howe. In the film, Reagans character, Drake McHugh, has both legs amputated by a surgeon, played by Coburn. When he comes to, following the operation, he gasps in shock, disbelief, Reagan used that line as the title of his 1965 autobiography. Reagan and most film critics considered Kings Row his best movie, Reagan called the film a slightly sordid but moving yarn that made me a star. The film commences in 1890 in the midwestern town of Kings Row. Parris is attracted to Cassandra, whom the other children avoid because her family is strange, her mother is confined to the house and never seen. Dr. Tower takes Cassie out of school, she is confined at home and Parris does not see her again years later. Parris best friend, Drake, intends to marry Louise despite the disapproval of her father, Louise, however, refuses to defy her parents and will not marry him. Parris and Cassie begin a romance, seeing each other at Drakes house. At about this time, Parris grandmother becomes ill from terminal cancer, Parris, who decides to study psychiatry, proposes marriage to Cassie. She initially resists, running away, but later comes begging him to take her with him to Vienna and she then runs away again, back home. The next day, Parris learns that Dr. Tower has poisoned Cassie and shot himself, while Parris is in Vienna, Drakes trust fund is stolen by a dishonest bank official. Drake is forced to work locally for the railroad, and his legs are injured in a boxcar accident, Dr. Gordon amputates both of his legs. Drake, who had been courting Randy before the accident, marries her but is now embittered by the loss of his legs, nonetheless they commence a business, begun with Parris financial help, building houses for working families. Parris returns from Vienna to Kings Row and decides to remain there, Louise reveals that her father amputated Drakes legs unnecessarily, because he hated Drake and thought it was his duty to punish wickedness. Parris at first wishes to withhold the truth from Drake, fearing it will destroy his fragile recovery and he considers confining Louise to a mental institution, even though she is not insane, to prevent the truth from being revealed to Drake and other victims of her father
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Movie poster
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Drake McHugh (
Ronald Reagan) with two lady friends in Kings Row.
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Dedicated young doctor Parris Mitchell (
Robert Cummings) is secretly in love with his mentor's daughter.
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Parris (
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Betty Field); their illicit romance disturbed the
Hays Office.
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The Constant Nymph (1943 film)
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The Constant Nymph is a 1943 romantic drama film starring Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall, Charles Coburn, May Whitty, and Peter Lorre. It was adapted by Kathryn Scola from the Margaret Kennedy novel and play by Kennedy and Basil Dean, Lewis Dodd is a composer whose symphony flops in London. Seeking new inspiration, and to escape his critics, he travels to Switzerland to stay at the home of older friend Albert Sanger, Sangers four young daughters—Kate, Toni, Tessa and Paula —have been raised in relative isolation, and swiftly develop crushes on Lewis. The elderly Sanger dies, and per his instructions, Lewis sends to England for Charles Creighton, Sangers wealthy friend, Lewis is inspired by the girls to write some of the first heart-felt music hes composed in years. Kate leaves for school, Toni marries, and Lewis falls in love with Florence, Lewis then quickly asks Florence to marry him, breaking the heart of Tessa, who has been secretly in love with him for a long time. Tessa and Paula are sent to boarding school, while Lewis and Florence marry and move to London, Tessa and Paula run away from school to the Dodd house. Lewis is inspired by Tessa to write music again. Lewis inspired symphony is performed to acclaim, and during the performance Lewis rushes home. Tessa refuses, as hes already married, returning to the theater, Florence tells Lewis she will divorce him, as it is clear that Tessa is not only his great muse but also his true love. Lewis rushes home to tell Tessa, but finds her dead—the conflict with Florence having been too much for her, Fontaine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to Jennifer Joness performance in The Song of Bernadette. The will of Margaret Kennedy stated that the film could be only at universities. As a result, the film was unavailable for exhibition for nearly seventy years, the film received its first authorized public screening in decades as part of the 2011 Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival. Edmund Gouldings biographer Matthew Kennedy wrote that Joan Fontaine spoke rapturously of The Constant Nymph and she was nominated for a best actress Oscar for it, he stated, and it remains a personal favorite of hers. The film was released on DVD under the Warner Archive Collection label on 22 November 2011, the Constant Nymph was presented on Hollywood Players December 17,1946. Fontaine reprised her role from the film
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Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)
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Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete, the music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager. The film tells the story of a man who has to prove he belongs in Hell by telling his life story and it stars Gene Tierney, Don Ameche and Charles Coburn. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, Signe Hasso, Louis Calhern, Tod Andrews, an aged Henry Van Cleve enters the opulent reception area of Hell, to be personally greeted by His Excellency. Henry petitions to be admitted, but there is doubt as to his qualifications. To prove his worthiness, he begins to tell the story of his dissolute life, born in Manhattan on October 25,1872, Henry is the spoiled only child of stuffy, clueless, wealthy parents Randolph and Bertha. His paternal grandmother is also doting and naive, although his down-to-earth grandfather Hugo Van Cleve, Henry grows up an idle young man, with a taste for attractive showgirls. One day, Henry overhears a woman lying to her mother on a public telephone. Intrigued, he follows her into a Brentanos and pretends to be an employee to get to know her better, despite learning that she is engaged, he begins making advances, finally confessing he does not work there, whereupon she hastily departs. Later, obnoxious cousin Albert introduces the family to his fiancée, Martha, and her feuding parents, Henry is shocked to find that his mystery woman and Martha are one and the same. It turns out that Albert was the first suitor of whom both her parents approved, fearful of spending the rest of her life as a spinster in Kansas City, Martha agreed to marry him. Henry convinces her to elope with him instead, though everyone is scandalized, eventually they are received back into the family. Henry and Martha enjoy a happy marriage and become the parents of a boy. On the eve of their anniversary, however, Martha finds out about Henrys continuing dalliances with other women. Henry and Grandpa follow her there, sneaking into the Strabel house, Henry begs her forgiveness and talks her into eloping a second time, much to Grandpas delight. Fifteen years later, Henry meets a chorus girl Peggy Nash in her room shortly before her performance. What begins as a courtship is soon revealed as an attempt by Henry to turn her away from his son, when Peggy reveals her knowledge of his true identity, Henry buys her off instead for $25,000. Martha passes away shortly after their twenty-fifth anniversary, Henry resumes an active social life much to the amusement of his son
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theatrical poster
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Impact (film)
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Impact is a 1949 American film noir drama film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines. Filmed entirely in California, the film included scenes filmed in Sausalito, Impact was based on a story by film noir writer Jay Dratler. The supporting cast features Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, the San Francisco, California-based millionaire industrialist Walter Williams has a younger wife, Irene, who is trying to kill him with the help of her young lover, Jim Torrance. The plan falls apart when Williams survives a hit on the head from the would-be killer, attempting to flee the scene in Williams Packard Clipper convertible, Torrance dies in a fiery head-on collision with a gasoline tanker truck. The body of Torrance is mistakenly identified as Williams, in the meantime, Irene has made reservations at a hotel in Oakland for her and her boyfriend to meet afterward, under the assumed names of Mr. & Mrs. Jack Burns. The wounded, dazed Williams falls asleep in the back of a van and ends up in the small town of Larkspur. Using the name Bill Walker, he gets a job as a service station mechanic and falls in love with Marsha Peters, meanwhile, the police arrest Williams wife for his murder. After Marsha eventually persuades Walter to go back to clear his wife, Marsha enlists the help of kindly police detective Quincy to prove Walters innocence. The Bayview Apartments - the site of the Williams Nob Hill penthouse - in actuality is Weeks, the actual town of Larkspur, California was used for filming the fictional town of Larkspur, Idaho. This was Anna May Wongs first screen appearance since 1942, character actor Tom Greenway made his first appearance on screen as an unnamed moving van driver. Gossip reporter Sheilah Graham appears as herself, reading a news item about the case on the radio, in the 1940s, it was still uncommon for brand name products to be seen in movies, but this was a notable exception. A Bekins moving van is prominent in several scenes, the movie trade paper Harrisons Reports typically called attention to cases in which such products appeared on screen, and always took a stand against that practice. In addition, Laykin et Cie is featured in the opening credits, Laykin et Cie was a leading West Coast jeweler during the period with an important salon in San Francisco during the time the movie was shot in 1948. In the opening scenes, Donlevys character Walter Williams presents his wife with a custom Laykin et Cie intertwined diamond double heart brooch with the initials IW which was produced for the film, throughout the film, Irene Williams continues to wear various Laykin et Cie jewels of the period. For it seems obvious that the authors have geared their intellects to the suppositional level of that phony lexicon. And everything which happens in the picture is as cheaply opportunist and you either swallow it whole—or you dont. More recently, critic Gary W. Tooze praised Impact as the quintessential B film, As far as modest film noirs go, a simple plot idea is twisted to the max for late 1940s audiences
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Theatrical release poster
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The Paradine Case
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The Paradine Case is a 1947 American film noir courtroom drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville, the film stars Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore and Louis Jourdan. It tells of an English barrister who falls in love with a woman who is accused of murder and it is not clear whether she is a grateful and devoted wife who has been falsely accused, or whether she is instead a calculating and ruthless femme fatale. Mrs. Paradines solicitor Sir Simon Flaquer hires Anthony Keane, a brilliant and successful barrister, although Keane has been happily married for 11 years, he instantly becomes deeply infatuated with this exotic, mysterious, and fascinating client. Keanes kind-hearted wife Gay sees his infatuation, and although her husband offers to get off the case and she knows that a guilty verdict, followed by Paradines hanging, will mean that she will lose her husband emotionally forever. The only way that she can regain her husbands love and devotion is if he is able to obtain a not guilty verdict for Mrs. Paradine, meanwhile, Keane himself starts to focus his legal efforts on Colonel Paradines mysterious servant, André Latour. Consciously or unconsciously, Keane sees Latour as a suitable scapegoat on whom he can pin the crime of murder, after Keane has pressured Latour in court, triggering an angry outburst, word comes that Latour has killed himself. Anna Paradine is coldly furious that Keane has destroyed Latour, who was in fact her lover, on the witness stand she tells Keane she hates him, and that he has murdered the only person she loved. She goes so far as to say that she poisoned her husband in order to be with Latour, Keane is overwhelmed, physically, intellectually and emotionally. Attempting to sum up, he improvises a brief and faltering speech, admitting how poorly he has handled the case, but cannot continue speaking and he stays overnight at Sir Simons office, feeling that his career is in ruins. His wife finds him there, she offers reconciliation, and hope for the future, Gregory Peck as Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defence Ann Todd as Gay Keane Alida Valli as Mrs. The Paradine Case was also the American film debut of Louis Jourdan as André Latour, Garbo did consider doing the film, but ultimately turned it down, as she decided to retire from acting. Howard Estabrook was assigned to write the script at that time and they also objected to the judge being portrayed as a sadist who enjoyed sending people to their deaths. A new draft of the script was submitted, but not for years, in 1942. In 1946, another version was sent in, and this was approved after the suicide was removed from the story. Hitchcock was also interested in Ronald Colman for the part, as well as Garbo or Ingrid Bergman for Mrs. Paradine. The Paradine Case was the last film made under Hitchcocks seven-year contract with Selznick, Gregory Peck said of the director, He seemed really bored with the whole thing. The film was in production from December 19,1946 to May 7,1947, unusually, the set had ceilings to allow for low camera angles
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Theatrical release poster
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Alfred Hitchcock and Gregory Peck in discussion on the set of The Paradine Case
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Everybody Does It
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Everybody Does It is a 1949 comedy film starring Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell and Celeste Holm. In the film, a businessmans wife tries to become an opera star, when it turns out that her totally untrained husband is found to have a marvelous singing voice and goes on tour under an assumed name, his wife is livid. Darnell sings long stretches of an opera, LAmore di Fatima. The music for it was written by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, in a little tongue-in-cheek detail, the poster for the opera lists Tedesco – who wrote real operas — as the composer. To add to the illusion of the authenticity, Douglas also sings some known songs, including a musical setting of the Rudyard Kipling poem Mandalay. The operatic scenes were staged by Vladimir Rosing, the film is a word-for-word remake of 1939s Wife, Husband and Friend, which starred Warner Baxter as Borland, Loretta Young as his wife, and Binnie Barnes as Cecil Carver. Leonard Borland lives and works in New York City as a wrecking contractor, even though – according to her husband – she has no singing talent, Doris considers herself an aspiring opera singer and regularly pressures Leonard to accompany her to operas. Already dismayed by his father-in-law Major Blairs insistence that Doris takes some singing lessons, despite financing her recital and arranging an important critic to watch her performance, Doris shows no gratitude. Cecil is not altogether impressed with the talent and invites Leonard to her apartment to share her opinion. The two quickly hit it off and share a passionate kiss, then, she finds out that Leonard, unlike his wife, has a powerful voice, and immediately assigns him to her production under the name Logan Bennett. Doris is too busy training with her mother and vocal coach to note what her husband is being up to, while on tour, Cecil attempts to seduce him, but Leonard, still much in love with Doris, rejects her. Back in New York, Leonard learns that Doris is now under care for shock treatment. Even though she decides to terminate her music career, she agrees to guest a cocktail party for celebrities, noticing Leonards uncomfortable reaction to Cecils presence at the party, Doris realizes that she might be her husbands mistress. Cecil is disappointed that Leonard pretends not to know her, and assures Doris that she is not attracted to him whatsoever, the audience, dumbfounded by the revelation that Leonard is an opera singer, demand for him to perform at the party. Humiliated by his betrayal, Doris orders Leonard to leave her, a few days later, Leonard resides penniless in a hotel and finds out that Doris currently lives in Palm Beach. Pressured due to troubles, Leonard accepts a steady opera job. At his debut, attended by Doris and her parents, he is surprised by sudden stage fright, an irritated Cecil and her assistant give him some pills and a potion, causing him to feel sick, and fall from the stage for the entire audience to witness. Much to the amusement, he misses his cue and screws up the entire production
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Theatrical release poster
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Monkey Business (1952 film)
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Monkey Business is a 1952 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Ben Hecht, which stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, and Marilyn Monroe. To avoid confusion with the famous 1931 Marx Brothers film of the same name, Dr. Barnaby Fulton, an absent-minded research chemist for the Oxly chemical company, is trying to develop an elixir of youth. He is urged on by his commercially minded boss, Oliver Oxly, one of Dr. Fultons chimpanzees, Esther, gets loose in the laboratory, mixes a beaker of chemicals, and pours the mix into the water cooler. The chemicals have the rejuvenating effect Fulton is seeking, unaware of Esthers antics, Fulton tests his latest experimental concoction on himself and washes it down with water from the cooler. He soon begins to act like a 20-year-old and spends the day out on the town with his bosss secretary, when Fultons wife, Edwina, learns that the elixir works, she drinks some along with water from the cooler and turns into a prank-pulling schoolgirl. Edwina makes a phone call to her old flame, the family lawyer. Her mother, who knows nothing of the elixir, believes that Edwina is truly unhappy in her marriage, Barnaby takes more elixir and befriends a group of kids playing as make-believe Indians. Meanwhile, Edwina lies down to sleep off the formula, when she awakens, a naked baby is next to her and Barnabys clothes are nearby. She presumes he has too much formula and regressed to a baby. She takes the child to Oxly to resolve the problem, meanwhile, more and more scientists at the laboratory are drinking the water and reverting to a second childhood. The formula is lost with the last of the water poured away, the parting adage is youre old only when you forget youre young. Monkey Business is reminiscent of Bringing Up Baby, which also starred Cary Grant and was directed by Howard Hawks, Hawks said he did not think the films premise was believable, and as a result thought the film was not as funny as it could have been. Peter Bogdanovich has noted that the scenes with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe work especially well, however, Gregory Lamb of The Christian Science Monitor described Rogers as a comedienne par excellence in the film. Hawks voice is heard telling Grant Not yet, Cary during the opening credits, potentially the only time Hawks spoke in one of his own pictures. net
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Promotional movie poster for the film
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Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, and Marilyn Monroe in Monkey Business
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)
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The screenplay by Charles Lederer was based on the 1949 Broadway musical of the same name, directed by John C. Wilson, with Carol Channing as Lorelei Lee, which was written by Anita Loos, the stage musical was based on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady, a 1925 novel by Anita Loos. It was adapted for the stage in 1926, and then a 1928 silent film, starring Ruth Taylor, Alice White, Ford Sterling and Mack Swain, which is now lost. While Russells down-to-earth, sharp wit has been noted by most critics, the movie is filled with comedic gags and musical numbers, choreographed by Jack Cole, while the music was written by songwriting teams Hoagy Carmichael & Harold Adamson and Jule Styne & Leo Robin. The songs by Styne and Robin are from the Broadway show, while the songs by Carmichael, Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are American showgirls and best friends. Lorelei has a passion for diamonds, believing that attracting a rich husband is one of the few ways a woman can succeed economically and she is engaged to Gus Esmond, a naïve nerd willing to do or buy anything for her. However, Gus is under the control of his wealthy, upper-class father, Dorothy, on the other hand, is looking for a different kind of love, attracted only to men who are good-looking and fit. Lorelei plans to wed Gus in France, but Esmond, Sr. stops his son from sailing, believing that Lorelei is bad for him. During the Atlantic crossing, Malone immediately falls in love with Dorothy, Lorelei invites Piggy to the cabin she shares with Dorothy, whereupon he recounts his travels to Africa. She tells Lorelei, who fears for her reputation and they come up with a scheme to intoxicate Malone and then search him to recover the incriminating film while he is unconscious. They find the film in his pants, and Lorelei promptly prints, revealing her success to Piggy, she persuades him to give her Lady Beekmans tiara as a thank you gift. However, Malone reveals he had planted a recording device in Loreleis cabin, and has heard her discussion with Piggy about the pictures, Malone implies that Lorelei is a golddigger and, when Dorothy scolds him for his actions, admits that he himself is a liar. However, Dorothy reveals to Lorelei she is falling for Malone, the ship arrives in France, and Lorelei and Dorothy spend time shopping. Dorothy persuades Lorelei to return the tiara, but the pair discover it is missing from her jewelry box, Piggy tries to weasel out of his part in the affair when Malone catches him at the airport. Dorothy stalls for time in court by pretending to be Lorelei, disguised in a wig and mimicking her friends breathy voice. Malone withdraws his comments, but then reveals Piggy has the tiara, the film closes with a double wedding for Lorelei and Dorothy, who marry Esmond and Malone, respectively. The film received reviews from critics. Monroe and Russell were both praised for their performances as Lorelei and Dorothy, as a result, the characters have become popular in pop culture
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Theatrical Poster
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Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee
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John Paul Jones (film)
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John Paul Jones is a Technicolor 1959 biographical epic film about John Paul Jones. The film, shot in Spain, was made by Samuel Bronston Productions and it was directed by John Farrow and produced by Samuel Bronston from a screenplay by John Farrow, Ben Hecht, and Jesse Lasky Jr. from the story Norwester by Clements Ripley. The music score was by Max Steiner, the cinematography by Michel Kelber and it was the final film directed by Farrow. Bette Davis made an appearance as Empress Catherine the Great. The film begins with a United States Navy officer telling sailors the story of John Paul Jones, by age 17, John Paul, a native of Scotland, is an experienced ships navigator. Jones hires his attorney, Patrick Henry, to assist in business matters and he also takes a romantic interest in Henrys sweetheart, Dorothea Danders. After serving as second-in-command of a man-of-war in the Bahamas, his adopted countrymen sign the American Declaration of Independence, Jones receives his first command, sets sail towards Newfoundland and seizes eighteen enemy ships, sending their supplies to American general George Washington. Washington sends the officer to France, where he is appreciated for heroic feats at sea. Benjamin Franklin then urges Jones to take a frigate and invade the British Isles, a new vessel is built for him at the suggestion of Marie Antoinette, and the only condition of his majesty King Louis XVI is that Jones ship sail under an American flag. Jones successes ultimately lead him to Russia in 1790 at the behest of the empress, a dying Jones, begins to dictate to Aimee the type of man required and training to be given a future United States Navy officer. The final scenes show the present day Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, admiral John Paul Jones gains acclaim as one of the bravest and most daring naval figures of his time and in the United States Navy of all time. John Paul Jones remains are located beneath in the Naval Academy Chapel rotunda in Annapolis, musician John Paul Jones, best known as the bassist of English rock band Led Zeppelin, took his stage name at the suggestion of Andrew Loog Oldham, who had seen the films poster. Dell Four Color #1007 Pencak, William, please please me, sixties British pop, inside out. John Paul Jones, a restless spirit, John Paul Jones at the Internet Movie Database John Paul Jones at AllMovie John Paul Jones at the TCM Movie Database John Paul Jones at the American Film Institute Catalog
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Original theatrical poster
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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6801 Hollywood Boulevard near
Dolby Theatre
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A typical Walk of Fame star in the phonograph record category. The charcoal terrazzo contrasts with the pink terrazzo star and brass surround, emblem and lettering.
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The Walk of Fame at the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard, looking eastward. The Dolby Theatre is in the foreground at left. In the upper left quadrant is the famous intersection of
Hollywood and Highland.
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Joanne Woodward 's star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.
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Irving Leroy Ress
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Irving Leroy Ress was a prominent Beverly Hills physician and obstetrician. Irving Ress, born in New York City, was the son of Henry Mitchell Ress, a Russian immigrant jewelry manufacturer, and Anna Ress. Ress graduated from Cornell University, where he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi, in 1925 and from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Ress interned at Michael Reese Hospital. He was licensed in California in 1931 and was on the staff of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. In 1943, Ress successfully treated Oscar-winning actress Katina Paxinou for peritonitis, in 1951, Ress successfully treated My Friend Irma actress Marie Wilson for a blood infection acquired after a vitamin injection. Wilson was in a coma with a temperature of 105° when brought to the hospital, Ress was obstetrician for the wives of Pat OBrien and Eddie Cantor. He was physician to the actress Betty Bryant, Ress died in Los Angeles, California
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Irving Leroy Ress
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Irving Ress (left),
Charles Coburn (right), ca 1950.
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Irving Ress (left) and
Red Skelton (right), ca 1950.
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Guy Kibbee (left), Irving Ress (center), ca 1950.
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the
Hollywood Boulevard –
La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of
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Cold War
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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine was announced, and 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed. The term cold is used there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, supported by the two sides. The Cold War split the temporary alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the Soviet Union. The USSR was a Marxist–Leninist state ruled by its Communist Party and secret police, the Party controlled the press, the military, the economy and all organizations. In opposition stood the West, dominantly democratic and capitalist with a free press, a small neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement, it sought good relations with both sides. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat, but they were armed in preparation for a possible all-out nuclear world war. The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Berlin Blockade was the first major crisis of the Cold War. With the victory of the communist side in the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War, the USSR and USA competed for influence in Latin America, and the decolonizing states of Africa and Asia. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was stopped by the Soviets, the expansion and escalation sparked more crises, such as the Suez Crisis, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The USSR crushed the 1968 Prague Spring liberalization program in Czechoslovakia, détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the beginning of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979. The early 1980s were another period of elevated tension, with the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time when the communist state was already suffering from economic stagnation. In the mid-1980s, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the reforms of perestroika and glasnost. Pressures for national independence grew stronger in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, Gorbachev meanwhile refused to use Soviet troops to bolster the faltering Warsaw Pact regimes as had occurred in the past. The result in 1989 was a wave of revolutions that peacefully overthrew all of the communist regimes of Central, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union itself lost control and was banned following an abortive coup attempt in August 1991. This in turn led to the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. The United States remained as the only superpower. The Cold War and its events have left a significant legacy and it is often referred to in popular culture, especially in media featuring themes of espionage and the threat of nuclear warfare
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Photograph of the
Berlin Wall taken from the West side. The Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing and to stop an economically disastrous drain of workers. It was a symbol of the Cold War and its fall in 1989 marked the approaching end of the war.
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Allied troops in
Vladivostok, August 1918, during the
Allied intervention in the
Russian Civil War.
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The "
Big Three " at the Yalta Conference:
Winston Churchill,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Joseph Stalin, 1945.
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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From top to bottom left to right: Atlanta skyline seen from
Buckhead, the
Fox Theatre, the
Georgia State Capitol,
Centennial Olympic Park,
Millennium Gate, the
Canopy Walk, the
Georgia Aquarium,
The Phoenix statue, and the
Midtown skyline
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Marietta Street, 1864
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Atlanta in ruins during the Civil War, 1864
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In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles.
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Vivacious Lady
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Vivacious Lady is a 1938 American black-and-white romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, produced and directed by George Stevens, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by P. J. Wolfson and Ernest Pagano, the music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Robert De Grasse. The film features supporting performances by James Ellison, Frances Mercer, Beulah Bondi, Franklin Pangborn, Vivacious Lady is a story of love at first sight between a young botany professor named Peter Morgan Jr. and a nightclub singer named Francey. The film also has comedic elements, including repeatedly frustrated attempts by the couple to find a moment alone with each other. The story begins when Peter is sent to Manhattan to retrieve his playboy cousin Keith and immediately falls in love with Francey. After a whirlwind courtship, Peter and Francey get married, and they and Keith return to the Morgan familys home. Mr. Morgan is known for being a proud, overbearing man, when they arrive, Mr. Morgan and Peters high-society fiancée Helen initially take Francey for another of Keiths girlfriends. While Peter decides how to approach his father with the news, Francey stays at a women-only hotel, for his third attempt, Peter decides to announce the marriage to his parents at the universitys student-faculty prom. This prevents Mrs. Morgan from learning who Francey is, Francey agrees to leave, but the incident releases thirty years of marital frustration in Mrs. Morgan, who also decides to leave her husband. Francey tells Peter she will leave him unless he can change his fathers mind before her train departs, Peters solution is to threaten the family with disgrace by getting drunk and otherwise misbehaving until his father relents, even if it costs him his job. Both marriages are saved, and Peter and Francey finally have their honeymoon on the train, although neither actor collaborated on any prior work, the two were dating at the time. After four days of shooting in April 1937, Stewart became ill, RKO considered replacing Stewart, but shelved the production until December 1937. Actors Donald Crisp and Fay Bainter, who were cast in the production, were replaced by Charles Coburn. The film made a profit of $75,000, in the early 1960s Steve McQueen announced that he wanted to appear in a remake but this did not eventuate. Vivacious Lady was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, Recording, George Stevens won a Special Recommendation Award at the 1938 Venice Film Festival. It was also presented on Philip Morris Playhouse February 13,1942, Vivacious Lady at the Internet Movie Database Vivacious Lady at AllMovie Vivacious Lady at the TCM Movie Database
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Yellow Jack
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The yellow jack, Carangoides bartholomaei, is a species of marine fish in the jack family, Carangidae. The yellow jack can be distinguished from related species the length of the jaw. It is a large fish, growing to a recorded maximum length of 1 metre. Yellow jack inhabit reefs, moving either individually or in schools and are predatory fish which primarily take other small fish, studies in the Caribbean suggest the species reaches sexual maturity between 23 and 32 centimetres, and spawns in offshore waters from February to October. Yellow jack are of economic importance, taken by both hook and net methods, and are considered to be fair table fish. They are often caught by anglers, although are overlooked for their larger relatives. The yellow jack is classified within the genus Carangoides, a group of fish commonly called jacks, Carangoides falls into the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae, itself part the order Perciformes, in the suborder Percoidei. The species was first scientifically described by the famed French taxonomist Georges Cuvier in 1833, Cuvier named this new species Caranx bartholomaei after the island from which the holotype was taken. This article follows the Fishbase and ITIS classification of Carangoides bartholomaei, the species predominant common name, yellow jack, comes from the colour the species turns as it gets older, with other common names including coolihoo and incorrectly, green jack. The yellow jack shows the typical profile of the genus Carangoides, having a moderately deep, compressed elongate shape. It is a fish, growing to a known maximum length of 1 metre, although more common seen below 45 centimetres. The dorsal profile of the head is curved from the snout to the nape. One of the diagnostic features is that the upper jaw does not reach to the interior margin of the eye. Both jaws contain bands of villiform teeth, with these bands becoming wider anteriorly. The dorsal fin is in two parts, the first containing 7 spines and the second of 1 spine followed by 25 to 28 soft rays. The anal fin is similar to the dorsal fin, consisting of two anteriorly detached spines followed by 1 spine and 21 to 24 soft rays. The lobes of the dorsal and anal fins are pronounced. The lateral line has a slight, extended anterior curve, with this section being longer than the posterior straight section
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A Yellow Jack caught by a recreational fisherman
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Made for Each Other (1939 film)
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Made for Each Other is a 1939 American drama film directed by John Cromwell, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard, James Stewart, and Charles Coburn. Lombard and Stewart portray a couple who get married after knowing each other for one day. John Mason is a young, somewhat timid attorney in New York City and he has been doing his job well, and he has a chance of being made a partner in his law firm, especially if he marries Eunice, the daughter of his employer, Judge Doolittle. However, John meets Jane during a trip, and they fall in love. Eunice eventually marries another lawyer in the firm, Carter, Johns mother is disappointed with his choice, and an important court trial forces him to cancel the honeymoon. He wins the case, but by that time Judge Doolittle has chosen Johns kowtowing coworker Carter as the new partner, Jane encourages John to demand a raise and a promotion, but with finances tightened by the Depression, Doolittle requires that all employees accept pay cuts. After Jane has a baby, John becomes discouraged by his unpaid bills, on New Years Eve, 1938–39, the baby is rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. The baby will die within hours unless a serum is delivered by plane from Salt Lake City, Doolittle agrees to provide funding to deliver the serum, but with a storm raging, and with a wife and children to consider, the pilot refuses to fly. John pleads over the telephone, and the pilots unmarried friend takes the job, the new pilot almost crashes in the mountains, and the planes engine catches fire a short distance from New York. The pilot is also injured and knocked unconscious after jumping from the plane and parachuting to safety, the farmer sees the box containing the serum and telephones the hospital, and the baby is saved. A few years later, John is made partner at the law firm and his son has just spoken his first words
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell is a somewhat fictionalized 1939 biographical film of the famous inventor. It was filmed in black-and-white and released by Twentieth Century-Fox, the film stars Don Ameche as Bell and Loretta Young as Mabel, his wife, who contracted scarlet fever at an early age and became deaf. The first half of the film concentrates on the romantic, financial. Most scenes are set in Boston and vicinity, a few scenes are in London. Henry Fonda is notable in a role as the “Mr. Watson” who hears the first words ever spoken over the telephone. In a pivotal scene, Bell, while working on the telephone, accidentally spills acid onto his lap and shouts in pain, “Mr. Watson, come here. Watson, barely able to contain his own excitement, rushes into the room, Bell has Watson repeat his own words to him to confirm it, and the two men begin hopping around the room, with Watson yelling out a war whoop. The last part depicts the struggle against Western Union over patent priority in the invention of the telephone. The final scene has the hero contemplating manned flight, under his wifes adoring gaze, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists,2006, AFIs 100 Years
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Bachelor Mother
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Bachelor Mother is an American comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on an Academy Award nominated story by Felix Jackson written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother, with a plot full of mistaken identities, Bachelor Mother is a light-hearted treatment of the otherwise serious issues of child abandonment. It was remade in 1956 as Bundle of Joy, starring Debbie Reynolds and this movie also inspired some Bollywood movies like Kunwara Baap. Polly Parrish is a salesgirl at the department store John B, Merlin and Son in New York City. Hired as temporary help for the Christmas season, she receives her dismissal notice as the comes to a close. During her lunch break, she sees a stranger leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage, fearing the baby will roll down the steps, Polly picks it up. An attendant opens the door and mistakenly believes that Polly is the babys mother, David Merlin, the playboy son of the stores owner J. B. Merlin, is sympathetic to the unwed mother and arranges for her to get her job back. Mrs. Weiss, Pollys landlady, offers to care of the boy when Polly is at work. Unable to convince anyone that she is not the mother, and threatened by David with loss of her job if she doesnt assume that role, Polly gives up and starts raising the child. Davids involvement with Polly gradually turns into love, but he keeps the relationship a secret from his father, when he finds that New Years Eve has arrived and he has no date, David turns to Polly. He orders clothes to be sent from the store and takes her to a party, although David is falling for Polly, he does not relish the idea of a ready-made family. When J. B. learns about the child, he assumes that David is the father and his suspicions are reinforced when, in a bit of bad timing, Polly and David each produce a different man whom they claim is the father. To his sons surprise, J. B. is delighted, in the end, David decides that he is in love with Polly and baby John. He tells his father that he is the father of the child and plans to marry Polly, the film was a big hit and earned RKO a profit of $827,000. Bushman and David Niven, the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn and it was also adapted as an hour-long play on Lux Radio Theater with Ginger Rogers and Fredric March and on Screen Directors Playhouse with Lucille Ball and Robert Cummings. Bachelor Mother at the Internet Movie Database Bachelor Mother at AllMovie Bachelor Mother at the TCM Movie Database
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In Name Only
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In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis, directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer, the fictional town it is based in, Bridgefield, Connecticut, is based on the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. Alec Walker puts up with a marriage to Maida until he meets widow Julie Eden. They fall in love and he asks his wife for a divorce and she refuses, as she goes on to tell him, she married him solely for his social position and wealth and wont give them up. She is such a liar that she has Alecs parents convinced that Julie is out to destroy the marriage. Julie breaks up with Alec since she cannot see any future with him, on Christmas Eve, a distraught Alec gets drunk, falls asleep in front of an open window, and becomes deathly ill. At the hospital, Dr. Muller tells Julie and Alecs father that the patient is likely to if he has the will to live. Julie lies to Alec, telling him that Maida will let him go, when Maida shows up and tries to see Alec, Julie blocks her. With no one else in the room, Maida freely admits she gave up the man she loved for Alecs position. However, Alecs parents enter behind her and overhear her cold-blooded admission, maidas plotting exposed, the path to Alec and Julies happiness is now clear. However, the reception of Bringing Up Baby led to Hepburn being considered box office poison. Cary Grant and Carole Lombard emerge highly impressive, soap opera par excellence, wrote The New York Times Frank Nugent, blessed with a peerless cast. Despite both Grant and Lombard playing against type, the film was popular and earned a profit of $155,000. In Name Only at the Internet Movie Database In Name Only at Kay Francis Films In Name Only at AllMovie In Name Only at the TCM Movie Database In Name Only at the American Film Institute Catalog
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Stanley and Livingstone
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Spencer Tracy plays Stanley, while Cedric Hardwicke portrays Livingstone. Other cast members include Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Henry Stanley is a fearless newspaper reporter ready to do whatever it takes to get a story, regardless of any danger to his life. When Stanley returns to New York City, his employer, New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett, the London Globe has announced that an expedition headed by Gareth Tyce, the son of the Globes publisher, Lord Tyce, has verified that world-renowned missionary David Livingstone is dead. Bennett does not believe it, and would relish embarrassing his rival by proving the story wrong and it is a daunting task, searching the mostly unmapped interior of the dark continent for one man, but Stanley accepts the challenge. On the boat trip to Zanzibar, Stanley makes a very unfavorable impression on fellow passenger Lord Tyce, Stanley meets Eve Kingsley and her father, John Kingsley, the temporary head of the British authorities in Zanzibar. Eve warns Stanley about the dangers of Africa, but he is undeterred and he, Slocum and a band of native bearers set out into uncharted territory. Months pass with no sign of hope, and Stanleys resolve begins to waver and he also realizes he is in love with Eve. Finally, however, two hunters tell him of a man they call doctor in a village beside Lake Tanganyika. Though feverish, Stanley gets them to him there. He sees a man waiting to greet him. For several months, Stanley recuperates and follows Livingstone around on his work, the cynical reporter is greatly changed by the experience. Finally, though, he returns to England, bearing Livingstones plea for assistance, upon his arrival in London, he is met by Eve, only to discover she is now happily married to Gareth. When Lord Tyce openly suggests that Stanley fabricated everything, Stanley presents Livingstones maps and documents to the British Geographical Society for examination, despite his heartfelt speech, it is clear to Stanley that too few of the members believe him. As he is leaving the hall, a messenger arrives with news that another expedition has recovered Livingstones body, as well as the mans last written message, vindicated, Stanley decides to return to Africa to carry on the great mans work. Darryl F. Zanuck agreed and got Dunne and Julien Josephson to rewrite it, the safari sequences were shot in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The American scenes set in Wyoming were shot in Sun Valley, Stanley and Livingstone at the Internet Movie Database Stanley and Livingstone at the TCM Movie Database Stanley and Livingstone at AllMovie
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Edison, the Man
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Edison, the Man is a 1940 biographical film depicting the life of inventor Thomas Edison, who was played by Spencer Tracy. Hugo Butler and Dore Schary were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, however, much of the films script fictionalizes or exaggerates the real events of Edisons life. The film was the second of a pair of Edison biopics released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1940. Young Tom Edison starring Mickey Rooney was released first and told the story of Edisons youth, in 1869, anxious to be more than a tramp telegraph operator, Edison travels to New York at the prompting of an old friend, Bunt Cavatt. He goes to work for Mr. Els and he tries to persuade financier Mr. Taggart to fund the development of his inventions, but Taggart has no interest in financing “green electrical workers”. However, General Powell, the president of Western Union, does, Edison eventually sells an invention to Taggart and Powell for $40,000, enabling him to get married and open his own “invention factory” at Menlo Park. In the next few years, he perfects the phonograph with his devoted staff, trouble arises when Bunt brags to reporters that Edison has invented the electric light. Since he hasnt yet, he is condemned by the scientific community, Edison “leaves science behind”, and with a Herculean trial-and-error effort, finally succeeds in inventing a practical electric light. His subsequent plans to light New York are again hindered by Taggart, nevertheless, Edison finishes the job just in time. I can’t be told what to do, i’ve got to do the things I want to do. I work with ideas, visionary things, nobody—not even I—knows how useful they’re going to be or how profitable until I had a chance to work them out in my own way. ”“You think you’re nothing but wood and metal and glass. But you’re not, you’re dreams and hard work and heart, “It’s not the money wrapped up in the laboratory, it’s the lives wrapped up in the laboratory. It’s come to mean everything that I ever set out to do and it means a weekly paycheck for all my men. It means home, shelter, clothing, and food for lots of families. ”“He hasn’t got a darn thing, frankly, we think it wiser to regard it in the second light. Variety called the film a picture from Metro that takes its place among the more important biographical contributions by the screen. Harrisons Reports wrote, As in Young Tom Edison, this good entertainment for both young and old, in spite of the fact that the action is not particularly fast-moving. In a way it is better than the first picture, for the older Edison is more interesting. Film Daily called it one of the truly memorable pictures of the year, john Mosher of The New Yorker wrote that even though the story of Edisons career was not really screen material
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Lobby card for Edison, the Man (1940)
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H. M. Pulham, Esq.
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H. M. Pulham, Esq. is a 1941 American drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, and Ruth Hussey. Based on the novel H. M. Pulham, Esq. by John P. Vidor co-wrote the screenplay with his wife, the film features an early uncredited appearance by Ava Gardner. Harry Moulton Pulham Jr. is a conservative, middle-aged Boston businessman and he has a proper wife, Kay, with whom he has settled into a comfortable if passionless relationship. However, it was not always that way, when Harry is saddled with the task of organizing a twenty-five-year college reunion, it triggers a flashback to a time more than twenty years earlier. However, though they love each other, she cannot bring herself to fit into his idea of a wifes role. So they break off their relationship, Harry falls in love with and marries a woman from his own social set with the same attitudes and assumptions, someone approved of by his father and mother. Harry is now profoundly dissatisfied with his dull routine, at breakfast, he begs his wife to go away with him immediately, to rekindle their love. She dismisses the idea as impractical and even silly, Harry calls Marvin and arranges to meet her again after these twenty years. He visits her apartment in the city, there are sparks, and Harry is tempted to have an affair. When she takes a call, we realize she, too, is married. They both realize they cannot recapture the past, on the street after his lunch with Marvin, Harry sees his wife in the car trying to get his attention. It sold over 200,000 copies within the first six months of publication, most reviews singled out the performance of Hedy Lamarr and called it the best of her career. Modern sources include Ava Gardner in the cast, but she was not identifiable in the viewed print, an Hollywood Reporter news item on August 1,1941 noted that Gardner a model, had just been signed by M-G-M. If she did appear as an extra in H. H. Pulham, Esq. it may have been her debut film. H. M. Pulham, Esq. at the Internet Movie Database H. M. Pulham, Esq. at the TCM Movie Database H. M. Pulham, Esq. at AllMovie Review at Classic Film Guide
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In This Our Life
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In This Our Life is a 1942 American drama film, the second to be directed by John Huston. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1941 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the title by Ellen Glasgow. The cast included the established stars Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland as sisters and rivals in romance, Raoul Walsh also worked as director, taking over when Huston was called away for a war assignment after the United States entered World War II, but he was uncredited. This film was the third of six films that de Havilland, completed in 1942, the film was disapproved in 1943 for foreign release by the wartime Office of Censorship, because it dealt truthfully with racial discrimination as part of its plot. In Richmond, Virginia, Asa and Lavinia Timberlake gave their two male names, Roy and Stanley. The movie opens with the women as adults. Asa Timberlake has recently lost his piece of a company to his former partner William Fitzroy. Roy, an interior decorator, is married to Dr. Peter Kingsmill. Stanley is engaged to progressive attorney Craig Fleming, the night before her wedding, Stanley runs off with Roys husband Peter. Fleming becomes and stays depressed, but Roy soon decides to keep a positive attitude, after Roy divorces Peter, he and Stanley marry and move to Baltimore. Roy encounters Fleming again after some time, and she encourages him to move on with his life, Roy refers a young black man, Parry Clay, to Fleming, and he hires him to work in his law office while he attends law school. Clay is the son of the Timberlake parents family maid, Minerva Clay, William Fitzroy, Lavinias brother and Asas former partner in a tobacco business, doted on his niece Stanley and gave her expensive presents and money, but was very upset when she ran off. He says he will throw Fleming some of his legal business if he agrees to stop representing poor clients, when Fleming refuses, Roy Timberlake is impressed and decides to accept him in marriage. In Baltimore, Stanley and Peters marriage suffers from his heavy drinking, shaken, Stanley returns to her home town with Roy. After she recovers, Stanley decides to win back Fleming, while discussing her late husbands life insurance with Fleming at his office, Stanley invites him to join her later for dinner. When he fails to come to the restaurant, she becomes drunk, while driving home, she hits a young mother and her young daughter, severely injuring the woman and killing the child, and, in a panic, Stanley drives away. The police find Stanleys car abandoned with front-end damage and go to question her, Stanley insists she had loaned her car to Parry Clay the night of the accident. Minerva Clay tells Roy that her son was home with her all evening, Stanley refuses to admit her responsibility although Roy arranges for her to see Clay at the jail
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