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Columbus Grove, Ohio
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Columbus Grove is a village in Putnam County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,137 at the 2010 census, Columbus Grove was founded in 1842. A large share of the settlers being natives of Columbus. A post office called Columbus Grove has been in operation since 1862, the village was incorporated in 1864. Columbus Grove is located at 40°55′10″N 84°3′36″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.08 square miles, all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 2,137 people,858 households, the population density was 1,978.7 inhabitants per square mile. There were 916 housing units at a density of 848.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 94. 2% White,0. 6% Native American,0. 2% Asian,1. 8% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 8% of the population. 27. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.03. The median age in the village was 37.1 years. 27. 7% of residents were under the age of 18,8. 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24,23. 8% were from 25 to 44,23. 8% were from 45 to 64, and 15. 8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 48. 6% male and 51. 4% female, at the 2000 census, there were 2,200 people,880 households and 616 families residing in the village. The population density was 2,144.9 per square mile, there were 927 housing units at an average density of 903.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 50% White,0. 50% Native American,0. 05% Asian,1. 36% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 73% of the population. 27. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or younger, the average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.05. 27. 1% of the population were under the age of 18,9. 7% from 18 to 24,27. 4% from 25 to 44,20. 9% from 45 to 64, the median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 90.8 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.4 males. The median household income was $42,409 and the family income was $48,750
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Buildings in downtown Columbus Grove
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Santa Monica, California
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Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736, due in part to an agreeable climate, Santa Monica became a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its core, significant job growth. The Santa Monica Pier remains a popular and iconic destination, Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language, the first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present-day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3,1769. Named after the Christian saint Monica, there are two different accounts of how the name came to be. One says it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica, another version says it was named by Juan Crespí on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs, that were reminiscent of the tears Saint Monica shed over her sons early impiety. In Los Angeles, several battles were fought by the Californios, following the Mexican–American War, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave Mexicans and Californios living in state certain unalienable rights. US government sovereignty in California began on February 2,1848, in the 1870s the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connected Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a wharf out into the bay. The first town hall was a modest 1873 brick building, later a beer hall and it is Santa Monicas oldest extant structure. By 1885, the towns first hotel was the Santa Monica Hotel, around the start of the 20th century, a growing population of Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village was near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in Santa Monica, the two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community. Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field for the Douglas Aircraft Company, in 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes returned after covering 27,553 miles in 175 days, the Douglas Company kept facilities in the city until the 1960s. The Great Depression hit Santa Monica deeply, one report gives citywide employment in 1933 of just 1,000. Hotels and office building owners went bankrupt, in the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica. The federal Works Project Administration helped build several buildings, most notably City Hall, the main Post Office and Barnum Hall were also among other WPA projects
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Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue at Sunset
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An 1840 Santa Monica adobe home (photographed in 1890).
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A busy day on the beach, 1880
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Exterior view of the Bank Building at the corner of Third Street and Broadway, Santa Monica, ca.1900
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Hughson, California
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Hughson is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. It is part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 6,640 at the 2010 census, up from 3,980 at the 2000 census. Hughson is surrounded by orchards and has been a farming community. Initially, it was known for its enormous production of peaches, peaches are no longer the primary crop in the area, and have been replaced for the most part by almond trees. Almond production in the area is one of the largest in the world, the crops grown in Hughson include almonds, peaches, walnuts, nectarines, cherries, apples, and the occasional vineyard. In recent years, many orchards have been torn down due to development, Hughson is located at 37°36′11″N 120°52′1″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.8 square miles. The 2010 United States Census reported that Hughson had a population of 6,640, the population density was 3,658.0 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Hughson was 5,125 White,55 African American,74 Native American,97 Asian,13 Pacific Islander,982 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2,871 persons. The Census reported that 6,621 people lived in households,17 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 103 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 20 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 367 households were made up of individuals and 219 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.20. There were 1,628 families, the family size was 3.64. The median age was 32.8 years, for every 100 females there were 93.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.9 males, there were 2,234 housing units at an average density of 1,230.7 per square mile, of which 1,388 were owner-occupied, and 681 were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1. 5%, the vacancy rate was 13. 1%. 4,558 people lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,063 people lived in housing units. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,980 people,1,223 households, the population density was 3,554.3 people per square mile. There were 1,252 housing units at a density of 1,118.1 per square mile
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An
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Location in
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Henry King (director)
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Henry King was an American film director. Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres and he directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 30s. He was twice nominated for the Best Director Oscar, in 1944, he was awarded the first Golden Globe Award for Best Director for his film The Song of Bernadette. He worked most often with Tyrone Power and Gregory Peck and for 20th Century Fox, henry King was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards excellence of cinematic achievements every year, and was the last surviving founder. He directed over 100 films in his career, in 1955, King was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. During World War II, King served as the deputy commander of the Civil Air Patrol coastal patrol base in Brownsville, TX, in his final years, he was the oldest licensed private pilot in the United States, having obtained his license in 1918
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Henry King
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Lima, Ohio
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Lima is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwestern Ohio along Interstate 75 approximately 72 miles north of Dayton and 78 miles south-southwest of Toledo, as of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,771. It is the city of and is included in the Lima, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Lima Army Tank Plant, built in 1941, is the producer of the M1 Abrams. In the years after the American Revolution, the Shawnee were the most prominent residents of west central Ohio, growing in numbers and permanency after the 1794 Treaty of Greenville. By 1817, the United States had created the Hog Creek Reservation for the local Shawnee, covering portions of what would become Allen and Auglaize counties, and including part of present-day Lima. The creation of the Shawnee reservation freed other lands in the area for settlement, and in February 1820, in 1831 the Shawnee were forced to surrender all their land in the area to the United States and relocated to Kansas, opening all of Allen County to settlement. The Ohio legislature mandated that a county seat be established and Lima was the result, since 1831, Lima has been the center of government for Allen County, the first of its three courthouses erected in the citys first year. The foundations of city life followed in quick order, the first school appeared in 1832. Limas first surgeon, Doctor William McHenry arrived in 1834,1836 brought the first newspaper to Lima. Lima was officially organized as a city in 1842, henry DeVilliers Williams was its first mayor. The first public school opened in 1850, in 1854, the first train appeared in Lima, a harbinger of later economic success. Also in 1854, an outbreak in Delphos spread throughout west central Ohio. Countywide problems caused by the water supply were not solved until 1886 when Lima started a municipal water system. Limas role as a center for industry began early. The Lima Agricultural Works began operations in 1869, the company changed names and types of manufacturing through the years. In 1882, under the name Lima Machine Works, the built the first Shay-geared locomotive. Stimulated by the boom in nearby Findlay, in 1885 Lima businessman Benjamin C
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Public Square in downtown Lima
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historical marker outlining Lima's oil history with Faurot.
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St. Rita's Medical Center
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Wabash College
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Wabash College is a small, private, liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, Wabash is one of the countrys three remaining male-only liberal arts colleges. The college was initially named The Wabash Teachers Seminary and Manual Labor College, many of the founders were Presbyterian ministers, yet nevertheless believed that Wabash should be independent and non-sectarian. Among these ministers was Caleb Mills, who became Wabash Colleges first faculty member, dedicated to education in the then-primitive Mississippi Valley area, he would come to be known as the father of the Indiana public education system. Elihu Baldwin, the first president of the college, served from 1835 until 1840 and he came from a church in New York City and accepted the presidency even though he knew that Wabash was at that time threatened with bankruptcy. After his death, he was succeeded by Charles White, a graduate of Dartmouth College and the brother-in-law of Edmund O. Hovey, a professor at the college. Joseph F. Tuttle, who became president of Wabash College in 1862 and served for 30 years, Gronert described him an eloquent preacher, a sound administrator and an astute handler of public relations. He is the namesake of Tuttle Grade School in Crawfordsville and Tuttle Junior High School, gregory D. Hess became the 16th President of Wabash College July 1,2013. Prior to coming to Wabash, Dr. Hess had been Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Claremont McKenna College at Claremont, California. During World War II, Wabash College was one of 131 colleges and universities offered students a path to a Navy commission as part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program. In the early 1900s, the College closed its Preparatory School, in 1996, Wabash became the first college in America to stage Tony Kushners Angels in America. Wabash Colleges curriculum is divided into three, Division I, Division II, and Division III representing the sciences, humanities and arts. Wabash offers 24 major programs and several additional minors, seniors at Wabash College take a comprehensive exam in their major subject. Over three days, there are two days of exams and one day of oral exams. The two days of written exams differ by major, but the exams are relatively uniform. A senior meets with three professors, one from his major, another from his minor and a professor who represents the rest of his academic career. Over the course of an hour a senior answers questions from the professors which can relate to anything during his studies at Wabash, a senior must pass the examinations in order to be eligible for a degree. Rhyneship was an orientation program that took first semester freshmen, rhynes
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President Hess
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Lambda Chi Alpha
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Lambda Chi Alpha is a college fraternity in North America, which was founded in 1909. It is one of the largest mens fraternities, having initiated more than 280,000 members with active chapters, Lambda Chi Alpha was founded by Warren A. Cole, while he was a student at Boston University. The youngest of the fifteen largest social fraternities, Lambda Chi Alpha has initiated the third highest number of men ever, Lambda Chis International Headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Its members are referred to as Lambda Chis, LCAs, and it was a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference until October,2015. Lambda Chi Alpha was formed on November 2,1909 when Warren A. Cole, morse, and Clyde K. Nichols formed a new fraternity by reorganization of the Cosmopolitan Law Club, a society of law students of Boston University, into a Greek letter society. The Greek letter name was not used in the Alpha Zeta minutes until April 27,1910, Cole approached many local groups at colleges and universities throughout the Northeast in hopes of finding others willing to join his new fraternity. Before the acquisition of Lambda Chi Alphas first functioning chapter, Cole had corresponded with or visited 117 institutions, Lambda Chi Alphas first established chapter was at Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1912. Additional chapters followed, and in 1927 Lambda Chi Alpha became a fraternity with the founding of Epsilon-Epsilon Zeta at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. The Theta Kappa Nu fraternity was formed by 11 local fraternities on June 9,1924 in Springfield, during the Great Depression both Theta Kappa Nu and Lambda Chi Alpha saw membership decrease and chapters shut down. In 1939 The two fraternities merged, the merger ceremony was held at the Howard College chapter of Theta Kappa Nu in Birmingham, Alabama. The merger increased the number of chapters from 77 to 105, at the time, this was the largest merger in fraternity history. All Theta Kappa Nu chapters became Lambda Chi Alpha chapters and were given chapter designations that began with either Theta, at schools where chapters of both fraternities previously existed, the two merged and retained Lambda Chis Zeta recognition. The fraternity was a member of the North American Interfraternity Conference since its founding in 1909, in October 2015 the fraternity left the NIC, citing in-fighting and dysfunctional governance. The fraternitys exit coincides with NIC lobbying for the Safe Campus Act, beginning in August 1969, the concept of fraternity education replaced pledge education. The fraternity education program was designed to integrate all new members into the chapter equally, in 1972, Lambda Chi Alpha officially abolished the pledge process and replaced it with Associate Membership. This status as an Associate Member allows new members to enter the fraternity with respect, Lambda Chi Alpha was the first fraternal organization to abolish pledging. Pledge implies a second-class membership, indentured servitude, hazing, class officers, the fraternitys constitution defines hazing as any action taken or situation created intentionally to produce physical discomfort or mental discomfort by embarrassment, harassment, or ridicule. The fraternity first condemned hazing at a 1928 North-American Interfraternity Conference meeting by Bruce McIntosh, in 1988, James Callahan, an associate at Rutgers University died of an alcohol overdose participating in a drinking hazing ritual
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Lambda Chi Alpha
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Spencer Tracy
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Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility. One of the stars of Hollywoods Golden Age, Tracy was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor. Tracy first discovered his talent for acting while attending Ripon College and he spent seven years in the theatre, working in a succession of stock companies and intermittently on Broadway. Tracys breakthrough came in 1930, when his performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood. After a successful debut in Up the River, Tracy was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation. His five years with Fox were unremarkable, and he remained unknown to audiences after 25 films. In 1935 Tracy joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at the time Hollywoods most prestigious studio and his career flourished with a series of hit films, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town. By the 1940s, Tracy was one of the top stars. In 1942 he appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, Tracy left MGM in 1955 and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a struggle against alcoholism. Tracy became estranged from his wife in the 1930s, but never divorced, towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer. It was for Kramer that he made his last film, Guess Whos Coming to Dinner in 1967, during his career, Tracy appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screens greatest actors. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema, Tracy was born on April 5,1900, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the son of Caroline and John Edward Tracy. His mother was a Presbyterian from a wealthy Midwestern family, and his one brother, Carroll, was four years older. Spencer was a difficult and hyperactive child with poor school attendance, raised as a Catholic, at nine years old he was placed in the care of Dominican nuns in the hope of transforming his behavior. Later in life he remarked, I never would have back to school if there had been any other way of learning to read the subtitles in the movies. He became fascinated with motion pictures, watching the same ones repeatedly and then re-enacting scenes to his friends, Tracy attended several Jesuit academies in his teenage years, which he claimed took the badness out of him and helped him improve his grades
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Promotional image for
State of the Union (1948)
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Northwestern Military and Naval Academy, 1919
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George M. Cohan, who called Tracy "the best goddamned actor I've ever seen" when they began working together in the 1920s.
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With
Dickie Moore in
Disorderly Conduct (1932), Tracy's seventh film
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Vaudeville
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Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, a typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a vaudevillian, Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary American burlesque. Called the heart of American show business, vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades, the origin of this term is obscure, but is often explained as being derived from the French expression voix de ville. A second speculation is that it comes from the songs on satire by poet Olivier Basselin. Some, however, preferred the term variety to what manager Tony Pastor called its sissy. Thus, vaudeville was marketed as variety well into the 20th century, with its first subtle appearances within the early 1860s, vaudeville was not initially a common form of entertainment. The form gradually evolved from the saloon and variety hall into its mature form throughout the 1870s and 1880s. This more gentle form was known as Polite Vaudeville, in the years before the American Civil War, entertainment existed on a different scale. Certainly, variety theatre existed before 1860 in Europe and elsewhere, in the US, as early as the first decades of the 19th century, theatregoers could enjoy a performance consisting of Shakespeare plays, acrobatics, singing, dancing, and comedy. As the years progressed, people seeking diversified amusement found a number of ways to be entertained. Vaudeville was characterized by traveling companies touring through cities and towns, a significant influence also came from Dutch minstrels and comedians. Vaudeville incorporated these various itinerant amusements into a stable, institutionalized form centered in Americas growing urban hubs, pastors experiment proved successful, and other managers soon followed suit. B. F. Keith took the step, starting in Boston. Later, E. F. Albee, adoptive grandfather of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, circuits such as those managed by Keith-Albee provided vaudevilles greatest economic innovation and the principal source of its industrial strength. They enabled a chain of allied vaudeville houses that remedied the chaos of the booking system by contracting acts for regional and national tours. These could easily be lengthened from a few weeks to two years, Albee also gave national prominence to vaudevilles trumpeting polite entertainment, a commitment to entertainment equally inoffensive to men, women and children. Acts that violated this ethos were admonished and threatened with expulsion from the remaining performances or were canceled altogether
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A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists and costumed dogs
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Typical provincial venue on the circuit: "The Opera" in
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This 1913 how-to booklet for would-be vaudevillians was recently republished.
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As the genre declined, most performers left the theatre; here the kid
hoofer Ray Wollbrinck (cousin of
Louis Wollbrinck), once called "the cleverest buckdancer on the vaudeville stage"; he later became a bandleader and ended his days as a
bank teller.
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George M. Cohan
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George Michael Cohan, known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer. Cohan began his career as a child, performing with his parents, beginning with Little Johnny Jones in 1904, he wrote, composed, produced, and appeared in more than three dozen Broadway musicals. Cohan published more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including the standards Over There, Give My Regards to Broadway, The Yankee Doodle Boy, as a composer, he was one of the early members of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He displayed remarkable theatrical longevity, appearing in films until the 1930s, known in the decade before World War I as the man who owned Broadway, he is considered the father of American musical comedy. His life and music were depicted in the Academy Award-winning film Yankee Doodle Dandy, a statue of Cohan in Times Square in New York City commemorates his contributions to American musical theatre. Cohan was born in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Irish Catholic parents. A baptismal certificate from St. Josephs Roman Catholic Church indicated that he was born on July 3, but Cohan and his family always insisted that George had been born on the Fourth of July. Georges parents were traveling vaudeville performers, and he joined them on stage while still an infant, first as a prop, learning to dance, Cohan started as a child performer at age 8, first on the violin and then as a dancer. He was the member of the family vaudeville act called The Four Cohans. In 1890, he toured as the star of a show called Pecks Bad Boy and then joined the family act and he and his sister made their Broadway debut in 1893 in a sketch called The Lively Bootblack. Temperamental in his years, Cohan later learned to control his frustrations. During these years, Cohan originated his famous speech, My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you. The family generally gave a performance at the hall there each summer. Cohans memories of those happy summers inspired his 1907 musical 50 Miles from Boston, as Cohan matured through his teens, he used the quiet summers there to write. When he returned to the town in the cast of Ah, in 1934, he told a reporter, Ive knocked around everywhere, but theres no place like North Brookfield. Cohan began writing original skits and songs for the act in both vaudeville and minstrel shows while in his teens. Soon he was writing professionally, selling his first songs to a publisher in 1893. In 1901 he wrote, directed and produced his first Broadway musical, The Governors Son and his first big Broadway hit in 1904 was the show Little Johnny Jones, which introduced his tunes Give My Regards to Broadway and The Yankee Doodle Boy
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Cohan in 1908
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Cohan and his sister Josie in the 1890s
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"Over There" sheet music cover
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Cohan's mausoleum in
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Tobacco Road (play)
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Tobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell. The play ran on Broadway for a total of 3,182 performances, as of 2014, it was still the 18th longest-running Broadway show in history, as well as being the second-longest running non-musical ever on Broadway. It was banned in the United Kingdom for many years, finally being licensed for performance in 1949. The La Jolla Playhouse production ran from September 30 through October 26,2008, the American Blues Theater production ran from May 21 through June 20,2010. In desolate farm country in Georgia, the tobacco crop has given way to cotton plantations. The Lester family were once sharecroppers, but are now poverty-stricken, Jeeter Lester, the patriarch, lives in squalor with his wife Ada, their two children, 16-year-old Dude and 18-year-old Ellie May, and his mother. Ada is suffering from pellagra and Ellie May has a harelip, Jeeter and Dude are thin and emaciated, sister Bessie Rice, a stout preacher of about forty, decides to marry Dude, who agrees when she promises to buy him a car. When Capt. Tim Harmon tells the family that the house and property are owned by the bank, Jeeter is given a chance to earn money so that they may keep living there, but he refuses. The youngest daughter Pearl tries to escape from her older husband Lov Bensey. As Ada lies dying, Pearl escapes and runs away, Jeeter sends Ellie May to Lov instead, Jeeter Lester – Henry Hull Ellie May Lester – Ruth Hunter Dude Lester – Sam Byrd Ada Lester – Margaret Wycherly Capt.30 to $1.10. The show also toured, becoming phenomenal on the road, playing repeat engagements, as Jeeter Lester, Henry Hull gives the performance of his career. Plays as clumsy and rudderless as Tobacco Road seldom include so many scattered items that leave such a vivid impression, the play was banned in major cities such as Chicago and Detroit for being sensational and immoral. The May 4,1941 episode of the Texaco Star Theater radio show started with comedian Fred Allen doing a sketch about the closing of Tobacco Road on Broadway and he asked various characters how they felt about the closing. Tobacco Road at the Internet Broadway Database Tobacco Road at the Internet Broadway Database New Georgia Encyclopedia article on Tobacco Road Theatre History synopsis
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First UK edition (1949)
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"Tobacco Road" staged in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1937
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The Woman from Hell
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The Woman from Hell is a lost 1929 silent film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor. This film had a Movietone sound track of music and effects, first film of actor Dean Jagger. Mary Astor - Dee Renaud Robert Armstrong - Alf Dean Jagger - Jim Coakley Roy DArcy - Slick Glicks May Boley - Mother Price James Bradbury Sr. - Pat Billy Gilbert The Woman from Hell at the Internet Movie Database The Woman from Hell synopsis at AllMovie THE WOMAN FROM HELL, lobby poster
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Film poster
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Mary Astor
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Mary Astor was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role as Brigid OShaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. At first her voice was considered too masculine and she was off the screen for a year and she appeared in a play with friend Florence Eldridge, and the film offers came in, so she was able to resume her career in talking films. Four years later her career was destroyed due to scandal. In 1936 Astor was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband, Astor was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to work in film, television and on stage until her retirement in 1964. Astor was the author of five novels and her autobiography was a bestseller, as was her later book, A Life on Film, which was about her career. Astor was born in Quincy, Illinois, the child of Otto Ludwig Langhanke. Both of her parents were teachers and they married on August 3,1904 in Lyons, Kansas. Astors father taught German at Quincy High School until the U. S. entered World War I, later on, he took up light farming. Astors mother, who had wanted to be an actress, taught drama. Astor was home-schooled in academics and was taught to play the piano by her father and her piano talents came in handy when she played piano in her films The Great Lie and Meet Me in St. Louis. In 1919, Astor sent a photograph of herself to a beauty contest in Motion Picture Magazine, when Astor was 15, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois, with her father teaching German in public schools. Astor took drama lessons and appeared in amateur stage productions. The following year, she sent another photograph to Motion Picture Magazine and her father then moved the family to New York City, in order for his daughter to act in motion pictures. He managed her affairs from September 1920 to June 1930, a Manhattan photographer, Charles Albin, saw her photograph and asked the young girl with haunting eyes and long auburn hair, whose nickname was Rusty, to pose for him. The Albin photographs were seen by Harry Durant of Famous Players-Lasky and her name was changed to Mary Astor during a conference between Paramount Pictures chief Jesse Lasky, film producer Walter Wanger, and gossip columnist Louella Parsons. Astors first screen test was directed by Lillian Gish, who was so impressed with her recitation of Shakespeare that she shot a thousand feet of her. She made her debut at age 14 in the 1921 film Sentimental Tommy and she then appeared in some movie shorts with sequences based on famous paintings
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In Convention City, 1933
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A 1924 publicity photo of Astor from Stars of the Photoplay
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A 1931 publicity photo of Astor for Argentinean Magazine
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With
Clark Gable in
Red Dust (1932)
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Brigham Young
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Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877 and he founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah, Young was dubbed by his followers the Lion of the Lord for his bold personality and was also commonly called Brother Brigham by Latter-day Saints. Young was a polygamist and was involved in controversies regarding black people and the Priesthood, the Utah War, and the Mountain Meadows massacre. Young was born to John Young and Abigail Nabby Howe, a family in Whitingham, Vermont. Young was first married in 1824 to Miriam Angeline Works, though he had converted to the Methodist faith in 1823, Young was drawn to Mormonism after reading the Book of Mormon shortly after its publication in 1830. He officially joined the new church in 1832 and traveled to Upper Canada as a missionary, after his wife died in 1832, Young joined many Mormons in establishing a community in Kirtland, Ohio. In 1844, while in jail awaiting trial for treason charges, Joseph Smith, several claimants to the role of church president emerged during the succession crisis that ensued. Young opposed this reasoning and motion, the majority in attendance were persuaded that the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was to lead the church with Young as the Quorums president. Many of Youngs followers would later reminisce that while Young spoke to the congregation, he looked or sounded exactly like Smith, Young was ordained President of the Church in December 1847, three and a half years after Smiths death. Rigdon became the president of a church organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Repeated conflict led Young to relocate his group of Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley, Young organized the journey that would take the Mormon pioneers to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, then to the Salt Lake Valley. By the time Young arrived at the destination, it had come under American control as a result of war with Mexico. Young arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24,1847, Youngs expedition was one of the largest and one of the best organized westward treks. On August 22,29 days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, after three years of leading the church as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Young reorganized a new First Presidency and was declared president of the church on December 27,1847. As colonizer and founder of Salt Lake City, Young was appointed the territorys first governor, during his time as prophet, Young directed the establishment of settlements throughout present-day Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, California and parts of southern Colorado and northern Mexico. Young was also one of the first to subscribe to Union Pacific stock, Young organized the first legislature and established Fillmore as the territorys first capital. Young organized a Board of Regents to establish a university in the Salt Lake Valley and it was established on February 28,1850, as the University of Deseret, its name was eventually changed to the University of Utah
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Brigham Young
c. 1870
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The five sons of John and Nabby Young From left to right: Lorenzo Dow, Brigham,
Phineas H.,
Joseph, and John.
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For other uses, see
Brigham Young (disambiguation).
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A Mormon polygamist family in 1888.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations, according to the church, it has over 70,000 missionaries and a membership of over 15 million. It is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth-largest Christian denomination in the United States and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement founded by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening. Adherents, often referred to as Latter-day Saints, or, less formally, Mormons, view faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement as fundamental principles of their religion. The church has a canon which includes four scriptural texts, the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants. The current president is Thomas S. Monson, individual members of the church believe that they can also receive personal revelation from God in conducting their lives. The president heads a hierarchical structure with various levels reaching down to local congregations, Bishops, drawn from the laity, lead local congregations. Male members, after reaching age 12, may be ordained to the priesthood, Women do not hold positions within the priesthood, but do occupy leadership roles in some church auxiliary organizations. Both men and women may serve as missionaries, and the church maintains a large missionary program which proselytizes, faithful members adhere to church laws of sexual purity, health, fasting, and Sabbath observance, and contribute ten percent of their income to the church in tithing. The LDS Church was formally organized by Joseph Smith on April 6,1830, Smith intended to establish the New Jerusalem in North America, called Zion. In 1831, the moved to Kirtland, Ohio, and began establishing an outpost in Jackson County, Missouri. However, in 1833, Missouri settlers brutally expelled the Latter Day Saints from Jackson County, the Kirtland era ended in 1838, after a financial scandal rocked the church and caused widespread defections. Smith regrouped with the church in Far West, Missouri. Believing the Saints to be in insurrection, the Missouri governor ordered that the Saints be exterminated or driven from the State, in 1839, the Saints converted a swampland on the banks of the Mississippi River into Nauvoo, Illinois, which became the churchs new headquarters. Nauvoo grew rapidly as missionaries sent to Europe and elsewhere gained new converts who then flooded into Nauvoo, meanwhile, Smith introduced polygamy to his closest associates. He also established ceremonies, which he stated the Lord had revealed to him, to allow people to become gods in the afterlife. He also introduced the church to an accounting of his First Vision. This vision would come to be regarded by the LDS Church as the most important event in history since the resurrection of Jesus
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Church members believe that
Joseph Smith was called to be a modern-day prophet through, among other events, a
visitation from
God the Father and
Jesus Christ.
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Brigham Young led the LDS Church from 1844 until his death in 1877.
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The
Salt Lake Temple, which took 40 years to build, is one of the most iconic images of the church.
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World War I
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World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history and it was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. The war drew in all the worlds great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances, the Allies versus the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war, Italy, Japan, the trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This set off a crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia. Within weeks, the powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. On 25 July Russia began mobilisation and on 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia, Germany presented an ultimatum to Russia to demobilise, and when this was refused, declared war on Russia on 1 August. Germany then invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, after the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that changed little until 1917. On the Eastern Front, the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, in November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. In 1915, Italy joined the Allies and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers, Romania joined the Allies in 1916, after a stunning German offensive along the Western Front in the spring of 1918, the Allies rallied and drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives. By the end of the war or soon after, the German Empire, Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, national borders were redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created, and Germanys colonies were parceled out among the victors. During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the Big Four imposed their terms in a series of treaties, the League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such a conflict. This effort failed, and economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, and feelings of humiliation eventually contributed to World War II. From the time of its start until the approach of World War II, at the time, it was also sometimes called the war to end war or the war to end all wars due to its then-unparalleled scale and devastation. In Canada, Macleans magazine in October 1914 wrote, Some wars name themselves, during the interwar period, the war was most often called the World War and the Great War in English-speaking countries. Will become the first world war in the sense of the word. These began in 1815, with the Holy Alliance between Prussia, Russia, and Austria, when Germany was united in 1871, Prussia became part of the new German nation. Soon after, in October 1873, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck negotiated the League of the Three Emperors between the monarchs of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany
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Clockwise from the top: The aftermath of shelling during the
Battle of the Somme,
Mark V tanks cross the
Hindenburg Line,
HMS Irresistible sinks after hitting a
mine in the
Dardanelles, a British
Vickers machine gun crew wears
gas masks during the Battle of the Somme,
Albatros D.III fighters of
Jagdstaffel 11
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Sarajevo citizens reading a poster with the proclamation of the
Austrian annexation in 1908.
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This picture is usually associated with the arrest of
Gavrilo Princip, although some believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a bystander.
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Serbian Army
Blériot XI "Oluj", 1915.
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Gregory Peck
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Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor who was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck continued to major film roles until the late 1980s. His performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor and he had also been nominated for an Oscar for the same category for The Keys of the Kingdom, The Yearling, Gentlemans Agreement and Twelve OClock High. Other notable films he appeared in include Spellbound, Roman Holiday, Moby Dick, The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, How the West Was Won, The Omen, President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema and he was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983. His father was of English and Irish heritage and his mother of English and she converted to her husbands religion, Roman Catholicism, when she married his father, and Peck was raised as a Catholic. Pecks parents divorced when he was five and he was brought up by his maternal grandmother, at the age of 10 he was sent to a Catholic military school, St. Johns Military Academy in Los Angeles. While he was a student there, his grandmother died, at 14, he moved back to San Diego to live with his father, attended San Diego High School, and after graduating enrolled for one year at San Diego State Teachers College. While there he joined the team, took his first theatre and public-speaking courses. Peck however had ambitions to be a doctor and the following year gained admission to the University of California, Berkeley, as an English major, standing 6 ft 3 in, he rowed on the university crew. Although his tuition fee was only $26 per year, Peck still struggled to pay, at Berkeley, encouraged by the acting coach, who saw in him perfect material for university theatre, Peck became more and more interested in acting. He was recruited by Edwin Duerr, director of the universitys Little Theater, Peck would later say about Berkeley that, it was a very special experience for me and three of the greatest years of my life. It woke me up and made me a human being, in 1997, Peck donated $25,000 to the Berkeley rowing crew in honor of his coach, the renowned Ky Ebright. He was often broke and sometimes slept in Central Park and he worked at the 1939 Worlds Fair and as a tour guide for NBCs television broadcasting. In 1940, Peck learned more of the craft, working in exchange for food, at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, appearing in five plays including Family Portrait. His stage career began in 1941 when he played the secretary in a Katharine Cornell production of George Bernard Shaws play The Doctors Dilemma, unfortunately, the play opened in San Francisco just one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He made his Broadway debut as the lead in Emlyn Williams The Morning Star in 1942 and his second Broadway performance that year was in The Willow and I with Edward Pawley. Twentieth Century Fox claimed he had injured his back while rowing at university, ive been trying to straighten out that story for years
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Publicity photo of Peck, 1948
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Gregory Peck in the
Designing Woman trailer
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Gregory Peck in
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952
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Peck in 1973, by
Allan Warren
19.
The Robe (film)
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The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. The film was released by 20th Century Fox and is notable for being the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope, like other early CinemaScope films, The Robe was shot with Henri Chrétiens original Hypergonar anamorphic lenses. The picture was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Frank Ross, the screenplay was adapted by Gina Kaus, Albert Maltz, and Philip Dunne from Lloyd C. Douglas eponymous 1942 novel. The music score was composed by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography was by Leon Shamroy. This first widescreen movie in more than two decades stars Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, and Michael Rennie, with Dean Jagger, Jay Robinson, Richard Boone, the Robe had one sequel, Demetrius and the Gladiators. The action takes place in Ancient Rome, Judaea, Capri, Marcellus Gallio, son of an important Roman senator and himself a military tribune, begins the film in a prologue that introduces the viewer to the might and scope of the Roman empire. He is notoriously known as a man but is captivated by the reappearance of a childhood sweetheart, Diana. Diana is unofficially pledged in marriage to Tiberius regent, Caligula, in a slave market, Marcellus bids against Caligula for a defiant Greek slave Demetrius and wins. Angrily, Caligula issues orders for Marcellus to receive a transfer to Jerusalem. Marcellus has Demetrius released and orders him to go on his own to the Gallio home, Marcellus is surprised to find Demetrius waiting for him when he gets home. Unofficially, Marcellus had freed Demetrius, but Demetrius feels honor bound to compensate Marcellus by being his servant. Demetrius accompanies Marcellus to Palestine, but before the sails, Diana comes to see Marcellus, pledging her love for him. Marcellus declares his love for Diana and asks her to make the promise not to give her in marriage to Caligula. Marcellus rides into Jerusalem with the centurion Paulus on the day as Jesus triumphal entry on Palm Sunday. Demetrius locks gazes with Jesus and feels compelled to follow him, Jesus is arrested and condemned by Pontius Pilate, the procurator. Marcellus reports to Pilate, who informs him that the emperor has sent for him, before Marcellus departs, he is ordered to take charge of the detail of Roman soldiers assigned to crucify Jesus. Marcellus wins the robe worn by Jesus in a game and is told it will be a reminder of Marcellus first crucifixion. Demetrius has had enough, he curses Marcellus and the Roman Empire and runs away, Marcellus now behaves like a madman haunted by nightmares of the crucifixion
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Original CinemaScope poster
20.
Bing Crosby
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Harry Lillis Bing Crosby, Jr. was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, from 1931 to 1954 Crosby was a leader in sales, radio ratings. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone and this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music, in 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of only 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. In addition to his work with early tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, Crosby died at the age of 74 on October 14,1977, from a sudden heart attack in Alcobendas, Spain. Crosby was born on May 2,1903 in Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, Crosbys family moved to Spokane, and in 1913, Crosbys father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. The house now sits on the campus of Crosbys alma mater Gonzaga University and he was the fourth of seven children, brothers Larry, Everett, Ted, and Bob, and two sisters, Catherine and Mary Rose. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby, Sr. a bookkeeper, Crosbys mother was a second generation Irish-American. In 1910, seven-year-old Harry Crosby Jr. was forever renamed, the Sunday edition of the Spokesman-Review published a feature called The Bingville Bugle. Written by humorist Newton Newkirk, The Bingville Bugle was a parody of a hillbilly newsletter filled with gossipy tidbits, minstrel quips, creative spelling, and mock ads. A neighbor, 15-year-old Valentine Hobart, shared Crosbys enthusiasm for The Bugle, and noting Crosbys laugh, took a liking to him, eventually, the last vowel was dropped and the nickname stuck. Crosby later described Jolsons delivery as electric, Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University. He attended Gonzaga for three years, but did not earn a bachelors degree, as a freshman, he played on the universitys baseball team. The university granted him a doctorate in 1937. In 1923, Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of school students a few years younger than himself. Al Rinker, Miles Rinker, James Heaton, Claire Pritchard and Robert Pritchard, along with drummer Crosby, formed the Musicaladers, the group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years
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Bing Crosby, c. 1930s
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Holiday Inn (1942)
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Crosby with Bob Hope in Road to Bali (1952)
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Crosby in Road to Singapore
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Danny Kaye
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David Daniel Kaminsky, better known by his screen name Danny Kaye, was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, and musician. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs, Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably Wonder Man, The Kid from Brooklyn, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Inspector General, Hans Christian Andersen, White Christmas, and The Court Jester. His films were popular, especially his performances of songs and favorites such as Inchworm. He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honour in 1986 for his years of work with the organization, david Daniel Kaminsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn on January 18,1911. Kaye was the youngest of three born to Jacob and Clara Nemerovsky Kaminsky. Jacob and Clara and their two sons, Larry and Mac, left Dnipropetrovsk two years before his birth, he was the son born in the United States. His mother died when he was in his early teens, not long after his mothers death, Kaye and his friend Louis ran away to Florida. Kaye sang while Louis played the guitar, the pair eked out a living for a while, when Kaye returned to New York, his father did not pressure him to return to school or work, giving his son the chance to mature and discover his own abilities. Kaye said that as a boy he had wanted to be a surgeon. He held a succession of jobs after leaving school, as a jerk, insurance investigator. Most ended with his being fired and he lost the insurance job when he made an error that cost the insurance company $40,000. The dentist who hired him to look after his office at lunch hour did the same when he found Kaye using his drill on the office woodwork and he learned his trade in his teenage years in the Catskills as a tummler in the Borscht Belt. Kayes first break came in 1933 when he joined the Three Terpsichoreans and they opened in Utica, New York, where he used the name Danny Kaye for the first time. The act toured the United States, then performed in Asia with the show La Vie Paree, the troupe left for a six-month tour of the Far East on February 8,1934. While they were in Osaka, Japan, a hit the city. The hotel where Kaye and his colleagues stayed suffered heavy damage, the strong wind hurled a piece of the hotels cornice into Kayes room, had he been hit, he might well have been killed. By performance time that evening, the city was in the grip of the storm, there was no power, and the audience was restless and nervous. To calm them, Kaye went on stage, holding a flashlight to illuminate his face, the experience of trying to entertain audiences who did not speak English inspired him to the pantomime, gestures, songs, and facial expressions that eventually made his reputation
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Danny Kaye
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Film poster 1952
Danny Kaye
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White Christmas trailer
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Danny Kaye on USO tour at Sasebo, Japan, October 25, 1945. Kaye and his friend, Dodgers manager Leo Durocher, made the trip.
22.
White Christmas (film)
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White Christmas is a 1954 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the song, White Christmas. But, word has come down that their commanding officer. He arrives for the end of the show and delivers an emotional farewell, the men give him a rousing send-off. After the war, Bob and Phil make it big in nightclubs, radio and they mount their newest hit musical titled Playing Around. The same day they receive a letter from Freckle-Faced Haynes, the boy, their mess sergeant from the war. When they go to the club to watch the act, Phil notices that Bob is smitten with Betty, Phil has eyes for her sister, Judy. Betty and Judy join Bob and Phil at their table, and Phil dances with Judy, so that Bob, Phil and Judy hit it off. Bob and Betty do not, getting into an argument about how Bob thinks that everyone has an angle in show business. Judy and Betty are headed for the Columbia Inn in Pine Tree, Vermont, due to a disagreement with their landlord, the girls have to leave immediately, so Phil gives the sisters his and Bobs sleeping-room accommodations aboard the train. Bob and Phil board later and Bob is extremely upset that they have to stay up all night in the car on their way to NYC. They are joined by Betty and Judy, who thank them profusely for the tickets, when the train arrives in Pine Tree, theres not a snowflake in sight, and chances of it falling appear dim. Bob and Phil discover that the inn is run by their commanding officer. Waverly has invested all of his savings into the lodge, which is in danger of failing because theres no snow, to bring business to the inn, Bob and Phil bring the entire cast and crew of their musical Playing Around, and add in Betty and Judy. Bob and Bettys relationship blooms and they spend a good deal of time together, meanwhile, Bob discovers the Generals request to rejoin the army has been rejected. He decides to prove to the General that he isnt forgotten, unbeknownst to Bob, nosy housekeeper Emma Allen was eavesdropping, but she only heard the part about free advertising, not Bobs rejection of the idea. Mistakenly believing that her boss will be portrayed as a pitiable figure in a nationwide broadcast. The misunderstanding causes Betty to grow suddenly cold towards a baffled Bob, while this is happening, Judy becomes convinced that Betty will never take on a serious relationship until Judy is engaged or married
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Theatrical release poster
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Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye
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Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen
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Bad Day at Black Rock
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Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 Eastman Color in CinemaScope thriller directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan that combines elements of the western with that of film noir. The supporting cast includes Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, the film tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man. The film was adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the short story Bad Time at Honda by Howard Breslin, the original story had appeared in The American Magazine in January 1947, with full-color illustrations by Robert Fawcett. In late 1945, one-armed John J. Macreedy gets off a train at the isolated desert hamlet of Black Rock. It is the first time in four years that the train has stopped there, Macreedy is looking for a man named Komoko, but the few residents are inexplicably hostile. The young hotel desk clerk, Pete Wirth, claims he has no vacant rooms, Macreedy is threatened by Hector David. Later, Reno Smith informs Macreedy that Komoko, a Japanese-American, was interned during World War II, certain that something is wrong, Macreedy sees the local sheriff, Tim Horn, but the alcoholic lawman is clearly afraid of Smith and is impotent to help. The veterinarian and undertaker, Doc Velie, advises Macreedy to leave town immediately, petes sister, Liz, rents Macreedy a Jeep. He drives to nearby Adobe Flat, where he finds a homestead burned to the ground, on the way back, Coley Trimble tries to run him off the road. When Smith asks, Macreedy reveals he lost his left arm fighting in Italy, Macreedy says the wildflowers at the Komoko place lead him to suspect that a body is buried there. Smith reveals that he is virulently anti-Japanese, he tried to enlist in the Marines the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Macreedy tries to telephone the state police, but Pete refuses to put the call through. Doc Velie admits that something terrible happened four years ago and that Smith has everyone too terrified to speak up, Velie offers Macreedy his hearse to leave town. Hector rips out the cap and spark plug wires. Macreedy goes to Hastings telegraph office and writes a telegram addressed to the state police, at the town diner, Trimble picks a fight with Macreedy, but Macreedy uses martial arts to beat him up. When Macreedy goes to the lobby, Smith and his henchmen are already there, as are Doc Velie. Hastings arrives and tries to give Smith a piece of paper, Macreedy and Doc Velie demand that Sheriff Horn do something. When Horn tries, Smith just takes away his sheriffs badge, Hector tears up the telegram form. After Smith and Hector leave, Macreedy reveals that the loss of his arm had left him wallowing in self-pity, Macreedy finally reveals why he is there, Komokos son died in combat while saving Macreedys life
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Theatrical release poster
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
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Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film
Jailhouse Rock
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Presley's birthplace in
Tupelo, Mississippi
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Presley in a
Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954
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The "iconic cover" of
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King Creole
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King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. Wallis and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins, Presley later indicated that of all the characters he portrayed throughout his acting career, the role of Danny Fisher in King Creole was his favorite. To make the film, Presley was granted a 60-day deferment from January to March 1958 for beginning his military service, location shooting in New Orleans was delayed several times by crowds of fans attracted by the stars, particularly Presley. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on July 2,1958, the critics were unanimous in their praise of Presleys performance. King Creole peaked at five on the Variety box office earnings charts. Nineteen-year-old high school student Danny Fisher works before and after school to support his surviving family, after Dannys mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist, and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Orleans. At work one morning, Danny rescues Ronnie from her abusive date, after a taxi ride to Dannys high school, Ronnie kisses him. Danny responds to witnessing schoolmates teasing by kissing Ronnie back and then punching one of them in the face when he makes a teasing remark. Dannys reaction summons him to the office, where Miss Pearson, his teacher. Mr. Evans is sympathetic, but powerless to help, so Danny decides to out of school to find work, against the wishes of his father. When Danny leaves the grounds, three young men lure him into an alley. Their leader, Shark, wants revenge for Danny hitting the student at school. Danny defends himself so well that it impresses Shark, so Shark invites Danny to join his gang, Shark then has Danny to help the gang shoplift at a five-and-dime by singing Lover Doll to distract the customers and staff. Only Nellie, who works the bar, notices Dannys complicity in the theft. Later that night, Danny meets Ronnie again at The Blue Shade nightclub, at first, she pretends not to know him, as she is accompanied by her boyfriend and the clubs owner, Maxie Fields, aka The Pig. When Maxie does not believe her, she claims she heard Danny sing once, Maxie insists that Danny prove he can sing. That situation makes it easier for Danny to go against his fathers wishes, Danny does, and when he becomes a hit at the King Creole, Maxie tries to hire him. Danny declines his offer out of loyalty to Charlie, Shark, now working for Maxie, suggests to Danny they beat up Primont to help his father
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Danny protects Ronnie from one of Maxie Field's customers
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Nellie confesses to Danny that she is willing to see him again
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Jean Simmons
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Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE was an English-born American actress and singer. One of J. Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hamlet, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Guys and Dolls. Other notable film appearances included Young Bess, The Robe, Elmer Gantry, Spartacus, and she also won an Emmy Award for the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds. Simmons was born in Lower Holloway, London, to Charles Simmons, jean was the youngest of four children with siblings Lorna, Harold and Edna. She began acting at the age of 14, during the Second World War, the Simmons family was evacuated to Winscombe, Somerset. Returning to London and just enrolled at the Aida Foster School of Dance, Simmons was spotted by the director Val Guest, small roles in several other films followed including the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra, produced by Gabriel Pascal. Pascal saw potential in Simmons and in 1945 he signed her to a seven-year contract, prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in David Leans version of Great Expectations and Ophelia in Laurence Oliviers Hamlet, for which she received her first Oscar nomination. She played an Indian girl in the Powell-Pressburger film Black Narcissus, but I figured Id just go off and get married and have children like my mother. It was working with David Lean that convinced me to go on, in 1949 Simmons starred with Stewart Granger in Adam and Evelyne. In 1950 she was voted the fourth most popular star in Britain, in 1951 Rank sold her contract to Howard Hughes, who then owned the RKO Pictures. In 1950 she married Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in films. She made four films for Hughes, including Angel Face, directed by Otto Preminger, according to David Thomson if she had made only one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of with the awe given to Louise Brooks. A court case freed her from the contract with Hughes in 1952, in 1953 she starred alongside Spencer Tracy in The Actress, a film that was one of her personal favourites. In the opinion of film critic Philip French, Home Before Dark saw her give perhaps her finest performance as a housewife driven into a breakdown in Mervyn LeRoys psychodrama, by the 1970s Simmons turned her focus to stage and television acting. She toured the United States in Stephen Sondheims A Little Night Music, then took the show to London, and thus originated the role of Desirée Armfeldt in the West End. Performing in the show for three years, she said she never tired of Sondheims music, No matter how tired or off you felt, the music would just pick you up. She portrayed Fiona Fee Cleary, the Cleary family matriarch, in the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds, in 1985-86 she appeared in North and South, again playing the role of the family matriarch as Clarissa Main. She made a late appearance in the Star Trek, The Next Generation episode The Drumhead as a retired Starfleet admiral
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Jean Simmons in a 1955 studio publicity shot
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with
Victor Mature in
Androcles and the Lion (1952)
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Elmer Gantry (film)
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Elmer Gantry is a 1960 drama film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the name by Sinclair Lewis and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy. Elmer Gantry was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1961, including Best Picture and it won Best Actor for Lancaster, Best Supporting Actress for Jones, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Elmer Gantry is a hard-drinking, fast-talking traveling salesman with a personality who infuses biblical passages and fervor into his pitches as a way to ease. He is drawn to the roadshow of Sister Sharon Falconer and is attracted to the saintly revivalist. As the troupe leaves town for Kansas, Gantry sweet talks her naive assistant, Sister Rachel and he uses that information to con his way into Sister Sharons good graces and joins the troupe preaching Christ in commerce and how he is a saved salesman. Because of Gantrys fire and brimstone sermons, the comes to the attention of the church council in Zenith, Winnemac. Though Morgan does not think Falconer is ready to preach outside of the smaller venues and they meet with the church leaders, most of whom are wary of turning religion into a spectacle as Gantry does, but he convinces them that the churches must earn money to stay open. Travelling along with Falconer is the big-city reporter, Jim Lefferts, Lefferts is torn between his disgust for religious hucksterism and his genuine admiration for Gantrys charm and cunning. As Gantrys sermons bring Falconers group to venues, Lefferts writes a series of articles labeling the revival a sham. Falconer eventually admits to Gantry that her name is Katie Jones. Falconer also becomes Gantrys lover and loses her virginity to him, Gantry, acting as a moralist, unwittingly invades the brothel where Lulu works, but sends the prostitutes out of town when he sees Lulu. When he meets Lulu privately after she phones him, Lulu wants revenge against Gantry for running out on her in Kansas, however, her love for Gantry returns when confronting him and they embrace. A hidden photographer planted by Lulu records their embrace but Gantrys love for Falconer prevents him from consummating with Lulu, Lulu proceeds to frame Gantry out of jealousy for his love for Falconer. Lulu blackmails him, and Falconer is asked to bring $25,000. in exchange for the negatives of incriminating pictures, Falconer brings the money, but Lulu refuses to accept, the pictures are then printed in the front page of the towns newspaper. Lulu had at first offered Lefferts the exclusive story of Gantrys supposed sexual indiscretion, as she watches the mob curse Gantry and smear him with eggs and other produce, she is emotionally shaken and flees the scene. Lulu returns to the brothel, which is now in a state from Gantrys publicity stunt. Her pimp is there to collect the $25,000, but when Lulu tells him she did not take Falconers money and he disposes of the pimp and apologizes to Lulu, who then publicly confesses to having framed Gantry
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Elmer Gantry
28.
X the Unknown
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X the Unknown is a British science fiction horror film made by the Hammer Film Productions company and released in 1956. It stars Dean Jagger and Edward Chapman and was written by Jimmy Sangster, the film was directed by Leslie Norman. The film takes place in the Lochmouth region of Scotland, near Glasgow, members of a group of soldiers are taking turns using a Geiger counter to find a small and harmless hidden source of radioactivity in a wide pit area. Private Lansing finds another mysterious source of radiation where ground water starts to boil, as the other soldiers begin to run, there is an explosion. Lansing, who was closest to the explosion, dies of radiation burns while another soldier has bad radiation burns to his back, at the site of the explosion, there is a Y-shaped crack in the ground with no apparent bottom. Dr. Royston, from a nearby Atomic Energy Laboratory at Lochmouth, is called in to investigate, along with Mr. Mac McGill, who runs security at the UK Atomic Energy Commission. That night, a boy, on a dare from his friend, goes to a tower on the marshes. He refuses to tell his friend what has happened but continues running, Royston investigates the tower and finds an old man inside who had a canister of a formerly radioactive material, now drained of radioactivity. The boy dies next day from radiation burns, two soldiers have been left to guard the pit. One goes to investigate a mysterious glow in the pit, the other one hears his screams and goes to investigate. He shoots at something off-camera, but is killed, the next day, Roystons colleague Elliott volunteers to be lowered into the crack, and on his way down sees the remains of one of the soldiers. Farther down, he sees the monster, still off-camera, the army uses flamethrowers and explosives in an attempt to kill the creature, then seals the crack with concrete. Royston points out that the monster broke through miles of earth to get to the surface, meanwhile, he continues with his pet experiment, looking for a way to neutralize radiation using radio waves tuned to a certain frequency. The monster comes out again that night, it is shown to be a glowing mass. Some distance away, a car with four people in it is badly burned, the thing travels to Lochmouth Atomic Energy Laboratory to get the cobalt being used there. The Lochmouth inhabitants hide in a chapel as the monster approaches them, the creature raids the nuclear facility before the authorities can remove the radioactive cobalt to a safe distance. As a result, the creature grows even larger, as it returns through the village of Lochmouth, it narrowly misses the chapel and a little girl who has accidentally been left outside. Royston and McGill hypothesize that the creature will move through the centre of the city of Inverness
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Joseph Losey
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Joseph Walton Losey III was an American theatre and film director, born in Wisconsin. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, in the 1950s Losey was blacklisted in the United States and moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Among the most critically and commercially successful were three films with screenplays by Harold Pinter, The Servant, Accident and The Go-Between, Joseph Walton Losey III was born on January 14,1909 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he and Nicholas Ray were high-school classmates. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, beginning as a student of medicine, Losey became a major figure in New York political theatre, first directing the controversial failure Little Old Boy in 1933. He declined to direct a version of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis. Losey directed the show, which had a brief run, bosley Crowther in The New York Times noted that The play, being increasingly wordy, presents staging problems that Joe Loseys direction does not always solve. It is hard to tell who is responsible for the parts in the story. In 1935 he visited the Soviet Union for several months to study the Russian stage, in Moscow he participated in a seminar on film taught by Sergei Eisenstein. He also met Bertolt Brecht and the composer Hanns Eisler who were visiting Moscow at the time, in 1936 he directed Triple-A Plowed Under on Broadway, a production of the WPAs Federal Theatre Project. He then directed the second Living Newspaper presentation, Injunction Granted, the play premiered on July 30,1947, at the Coronet Theatre in Beverly Hills. On October 30,1947 Losey accompanied Brecht to Washington DC for Brechts appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Brecht left the US the following day. Losey went on to stage Galileo, again with Laughton in the title role, more than 25 years later Losey, in exile in England, would direct a film version of Brechts play Galileo. Seymour Nebenzal, the producer of Fritz Langs classic M, hired Losey to direct a remake set in Los Angeles rather than Berlin, in the new version, released in 1951, the killers name was changed from Hans Beckert to Martin W. Harrow. Nebenzals son Harold was associate producer of this version, the HUACs longstanding interest in Losey was based on extensive - and error riddled - FBI files. In the 1930s and 40s he had had contacts with people on the political left, including radicals. He had collaborated with Brecht and had an association with Hanns Eisler. Losey had written to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in support of a visa for the composer. They had collaborated on a political cabaret from 1937 to 1939, Losey had invited Eisler to compose music for a short public relations film he had been commissioned to produce for presentation at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair, Pete Roleum and His Cousins
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Losey in 1965
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Hollywood blacklist
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Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy with the Communist Party USA or refusal to assist investigations into the partys activities. On June 22,1950, a pamphlet entitled Red Channels was published, focused on the field of broadcasting, it identified 151 entertainment industry professionals in the context of Red Fascists and their sympathizers. Soon, most of those named, along with a host of artists, were barred from employment in most of the entertainment field. A number of those blacklisted, however, were barred from work in their professions for years afterward. The Hollywood blacklist was rooted in events of the 1930s and the early 1940s, encompassing the height of the Great Depression, two major film industry strikes during the 1930s increased tensions between the Hollywood producers and the unions, particularly the Screen Writers Guild. The American Communist Party lost substantial support after the Moscow show trials of 1936–38, the U. S. government began turning its attention to the possible links between Hollywood and the party during this period. Under then chairman Martin Dies, Jr. the House Un-American Activities Committee released a report in 1938 claiming that communism was pervasive in Hollywood. Two years later, Dies privately took testimony from a former Communist Party member, John L. Leech, Dies said he would clear all those who cooperated by meeting with him in what he called executive session. Within two weeks of the grand jury leak, all those on the list except for actress Jean Muir had met with the HUAC chairman, Dies cleared everyone except actor Lionel Stander, who was fired by the movie studio, Republic Pictures, where he was contracted. In 1941, producer Walt Disney took out an ad in Variety, according to historians Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, In actuality, the strike had resulted from Disneys overbearing paternalism, high-handedness, and insensitivity. Inspired by Disney, California State Senator Jack Tenney, chairman of the state legislatures Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, the probe fell flat, and was mocked in several Variety headlines. The subsequent wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union brought the American Communist Party newfound credibility, during the war, membership in the party reached a peak of 50,000. As World War II drew to a close, perceptions changed again, with communism increasingly becoming a focus of American fears and hatred. In 1945, Gerald L. K. Smith, founder of the neofascist America First Party, the greatest hotbed of subversive activities in the United States. Rankin promised, Were on the trail of the tarantula now, reports of Soviet repression in Eastern and Central Europe in the wars aftermath added more fuel to what became known as the Second Red Scare. Its counsel revolved around a list of ideological prohibitions, such as Dont smear the free-enterprise system, on July 29,1946, William R. Wilkerson, publisher and founder of The Hollywood Reporter, published a TradeView column entitled A Vote For Joe Stalin. In August and September 1946, Wilkerson published other columns containing names of numerous purported Communists and they became known as Billys List and Billys Blacklist. It had declared its intention to investigate whether Communist agents and sympathizers had been planting propaganda in U. S. films, the hearings opened with appearances by Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild
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The May 7, 1948, issue of the Counterattack newsletter warned readers about a radio talk show that had recently expanded its audience by moving from the
Mutual network to
ABC: " Communist Party members and fellow-travelers have often been guests on [Arthur] Gaeth's program."
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Members of the
Hollywood Ten and their families in 1950, protesting the impending incarceration of the ten
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The first Hollywood movie to overtly take on
McCarthyism,
Storm Center appeared in 1956.
Bette Davis "plays a small-town librarian who refuses, on principle, to remove a book called 'The Communist Dream' from the shelves when the local council deems it subversive."
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The Hollywood Ten in November 1947 waiting to be fingerprinted in the
U.S. Marshal 's office after being cited for
contempt of Congress. Front row (from left):
Herbert Biberman, attorneys Martin Popper and
Robert W. Kenny,
Albert Maltz,
Lester Cole. Middle row:
Dalton Trumbo,
John Howard Lawson,
Alvah Bessie,
Samuel Ornitz. Back row:
Ring Lardner Jr.,
Edward Dmytryk,
Adrian Scott.
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James Franciscus
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James Grover Franciscus was an American actor, known for his roles in feature films and in four television series, Mr. Novak, The Naked City, The Investigators, and Longstreet. Franciscus was born in Clayton, Missouri, to Lorraine and John Allen Franciscus, in 1957, Franciscus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and theatre arts from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He was a classmate of Dick Cavett and Bill Hinnant and his first major role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the half-hour version of ABCs The Naked City television series. Franciscus guest starred on the CBS military sitcom/drama Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper, CBS soon cast him in the lead in the 13-week series The Investigators, which aired from October 5 to December 28,1961. He played the insurance investigator Russ Andrews, with James Philbrook as a co-star, Franciscus was also cast in the role of Tom Grover in the 1961 episode The Empty Heart of the CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Franciscus may be best-remembered for his roles in NBCs Mr. Novak and ABCs Longstreet. Along with Lloyd Bridges, he served as host as the syndicated adventure series Waterworld. In 1977, he starred in his television series, the short-lived Hunter. Over the years, Franciscus found film work with Italian cinema, in 1971, he accepted the lead role in Dario Argentos second film, The Cat o Nine Tails. In 1979, he appeared in Antonio Margheritis Killer Fish, and he continued appearing in roles on the screen and television. When less important roles were offered, Franciscus turned to writing screenplays, in 1991, the year of his death, he worked as an associate producer and screenwriter on the movie 29th Street starring Anthony LaPaglia and Danny Aiello, it was his final project. They had four children — Jamie, Kellie, Korie, after his divorce from Kathleen, he married the former Carla Ankney in 1980. They were still married at the time of Franciscus death in 1991 from emphysema in North Hollywood, California, James Franciscus at the Internet Movie Database Entry at NNDB James Franciscus at Find a Grave James Franciscus 1964 interview at tv. com
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James Franciscus in 1977.
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Mr. Novak
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Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965. The series won a Peabody Award in 1963, the series follows John Novak, an idealistic first-year English teacher at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles who often got involved in the lives of his students and fellow teachers. Principal Albert Vane was played by Dean Jagger, the school seen in Mr. Novak duplicated Los Angeles John Marshall High School complete to walks, shrubs, and parking. After using the school itself for the pilot, the duplicate was built at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, the complete set filled an acre at the studio. Other construction on the MGM sound stages included duplicates of corridors, sol Moss Terri Garr, as Lisa in How Does Your Garden Grow. In its first season, Mr. Novaks principal competition was the ABC series Combat. in the second season, the competition was still Combat. on ABC, and the documentary series World War One on CBS. Skelton was moved a half-hour later in December 1964, Mr. Novak at the Internet Movie Database Mr. Novak at TV. com
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James Franciscus as Mr. Novak and Dean Jagger as Principal Albert Vane.
33.
Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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TV producer
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Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
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Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera
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Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
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The Partridge Family
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The Partridge Family is an American musical-sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25,1970, until March 23,1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, the family was loosely based on the real-life musical family The Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through the efforts of precocious 10-year-old Danny they find a manager, Reuben Kincaid, after more persuading, Shirley agrees that the family can go on tour. They acquire an old bus, a 1957 Chevrolet Series 6800 Superior, for touring, paint it with Mondrian-inspired patterns. Subsequent episodes usually feature the band performing in various venues or in their garage, the shows often contrast suburban life with the adventures of a show-business family on the road. After the first season, more of the action takes place in their hometown than on tour. Created for television by Bernard Slade, the executive producer was Bob Claver. The show was inspired by and loosely based on The Cowsills, Shirley Jones had already been signed as mother Shirley Partridge and star of the show. The pilot was filmed in December 1969 and this unaired pilot differs from the pilot broadcast in 1970. In the unaired pilot, Shirleys name is Connie and she has a boyfriend played by Jones real-life husband at the time, Jack Cassidy, Laurie mentions her late father once getting drunk at a Christmas party, and the family has a different address and live in Ohio. The unaired pilot is unavailable on home video, the show proved popular, but the fame had its toll on several, if not most, of the starring cast. In the midst of his rise to fame, David Cassidy soon felt stifled by the show, in May 1972, he appeared nude on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in a cropped Annie Leibovitz photo. He used the article to get away from his clean image. Among other things, the article mentions Cassidy was riding around New York in the back of a car stoned, shortly after the series ended, scriptwriter Roberta Tatum launched a lawsuit against Screen Gems concerning the creation of the show. Tatum claimed that she had submitted a similar premise to Screen Gems prior to 1970 called Bakers Half-Dozen, the matter was resolved out of court, with Tatum receiving a reported $150,000 from Screen Gems. Arte Johnson, Harvey Lembeck, Harry Morgan, Slim Pickens, Richard Pryor, Barbara Rhoades, William Schallert, Nita Talbot, Larry Wilcox, Dick Wilson, and William Windom. Others would later become famous in other roles, such as Meredith Baxter, Richard Bull, Bert Convy, Farrah Fawcett, Norman Fell, Anthony Geary, country singer Johnny Cash made a cameo appearance in the pilot episode
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The Twilight Zone
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The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to common science fiction, the original series, shot entirely in black and white, ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964. The success of the led to a feature film, a radio series, a comic book, a magazine. The first revival ran on CBS and in syndication in the 1980s, TV Guide ranked the original TV series #5 in their 2013 list of the 60 greatest dramas of all time. As a boy, Rod Serling was a fan of pulp fiction stories, as an adult, he sought topics with themes such as racism, government, war, society, and human nature in general. Serling decided to combine these two interests as a way to broach these subjects on television at a time such issues were not commonly addressed. Throughout the 1950s, Serling established himself as one of the most popular names in television and he was as famous for writing televised drama as he was for criticizing the mediums limitations. His most vocal complaints concerned censorship, which was practiced by sponsors. I was not permitted to have my senators discuss any current or pressing problem, he said of his 1957 production The Arena, to talk of tariff was to align oneself with the Republicans, to talk of labor was to suggest control by the Democrats. To say a single thing germane to the current political scene was absolutely prohibited, CBS purchased a teleplay in 1958 that writer Rod Serling hoped to produce as the pilot of a weekly anthology series. The Time Element marked Serlings first entry in the field of science fiction, several years after the end of World War II, a man named Peter Jenson visits a psychoanalyst, Dr. Gillespie. Jenson tells him about a dream in which he tries to warn people about the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor before it happens. Jenson believes the events of the dream are real, and each night he travels back to 1941, Dr. Gillespie insists that time travel is impossible given the nature of temporal paradoxes. While on the couch, Jenson falls asleep again and dreams that the Japanese planes shoot. In Dr. Gillespies office, the couch Jenson was lying on is now empty, Dr. Gillespie goes to a bar where he finds Jensons picture on the wall. The bartender tells him that Jenson had tended there, but he was killed during the Pearl Harbor attack, the Time Element was purchased immediately, but shelved indefinitely. The Time Element debuted on November 24,1958, to an overwhelmingly delighted audience of television viewers, the humor and sincerity of Mr. Serlings dialogue made The Time Element consistently entertaining, offered Jack Gould of The New York Times. Over 6000 letters of praise flooded Granets offices, convinced that a series based on such stories could succeed, CBS again began talks with Serling about the possibilities of producing The Twilight Zone
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William Bendix and
Martin Balsam in "The Time Element"
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Rod Serling working on his script with a dictating machine, 1959
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Static (The Twilight Zone)
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Static is episode 56 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on March 10,1961 on CBS and he retrieves from the basement an old radio which, in his younger and happier days, he enjoyed as a source of relaxation and entertainment. Installing it in his room, he is pleased to hear the radio receiving 1930s/1940s music and programs, including performances by Edward Bowes, Fred Allen and Tommy Dorsey. He tells the others about the broadcasts but, when they come into his room, whats more, when he tries to contact the station broadcasting those programs, he discovers the station went off the air 13 years earlier. Ed has a confrontation with Vinnie Broun, who has lived in the boarding house with him for two decades. In an earlier era, they had intended to marry, but he kept letting other things interfere, and too much time passed. She tells him that the past cannot be recovered and he should let it go, Ed is furious and he throws Vinnie out of his room. His obsession with his radio continues to grow, worried about Eds mental state, Vinnie and the other residents have the radio hauled away by a junk dealer. After Ed notices the missing and demands an explanation, he rushes out. Ed takes the back to his room and, to his great relief. He loses himself in an old Tommy Dorsey love song, the one he would share with Vinnie, the door to his room swings open, and Vinnie enters. Both Ed and Vinnie are young again—or rather, Ed has retreated 20 years into his past, sure, says the kid, but Ive never seen one like that before. The camera then moves to show Rod Serling standing at the top of the basement steps, no one ever saw one quite like that, because thats a very special sort of radio. In its day, circa 1935, its type was one of the most elegant consoles on the market, now with its fabric-covered speakers, its peculiar yellow dials, its serrated knobs, it looks quaint and a little strange. Mr. Ed Lindsay is going to find out how strange very soon when he tunes into the Twilight Zone, Rod Serlings closing narration, Around and around she goes, and where she stops nobody knows. All Ed Lindsay knows is that he wanted a second chance and he finally got it, through a strange and wonderful time machine called a radio. As The Twilight Zones second season began, the production was informed by CBS that at about $65,000 per episode, by November 1960,16 episodes, more than half of the projected 29, were already filmed, and five of those had been broadcast. Eventual savings amounted to only about $30,000 for all six entries, the shows wound up looking little better than set-bound soap operas and as a result the experiment was deemed a failure and never tried again
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Paranormal radio as seen in "Static"
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Kung Fu (TV series)
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Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine. The series aired on ABC from October 1972 to April 1975 for a total of 63 episodes, Kung Fu was preceded by a full-length feature television pilot, an ABC Movie of the Week, which was broadcast on February 22,1972. The series became one of the most popular programs of the early 1970s, receiving widespread critical acclaim. Kung Fu was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series. Many of the used in the series are adapted from or derived directly from the Tao Te Ching. Keye Luke and Philip Ahn were also members of the regular cast, David Chow, who was also a guest star in the series, acted as the technical and kung fu advisor, a role later undertaken by Kam Yuen. Kwai Chang Caine is the son of an American man, Thomas Henry Caine. After his maternal grandfathers death he is accepted for training at a Shaolin Monastery, in the pilot episode Caines beloved mentor and elder, Master Po, is murdered by the Emperors nephew, outraged, Caine retaliates by killing the nephew. With a price on his head, Caine flees China to the western United States, although it is his intention to avoid notice, Caines training and sense of social responsibility repeatedly force him out into the open, to fight for justice or protect the underdog. After each such encounter he must move on, both to capture and prevent harm from coming to those he has helped. Searching for his family, he meets a preacher and his mute sidekick Sonny Jim, flashbacks are often used to recall specific lessons from Caines childhood training in the monastery from his teachers, the blind Master Po and Master Chen Ming Kan. Part of the appeal of the series was undoubtedly the emphasis laid, via the flashbacks, the Shaolin Monastery which appeared in flashbacks was originally a set used for the 1967 film Camelot. It was inexpensively and effectively converted for the setting in China, in her memoirs, Bruce Lees widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, asserts that Lee created the concept for the series, which was then stolen by Warner Bros. There is circumstantial evidence for this in a December 8,1971 television interview that Bruce Lee gave on The Pierre Berton Show. In the interview, Pierre Berton comments, Theres a pretty good chance youll get a TV series in the States called The Warrior, in it, where you use what. Lee responds, That was the original idea. both of them, I think, they want me to be in a type of a thing. Whereas I want to do the Western, because, you see, how else can you justify all of the punching and kicking and violence, except in the period of the West. Later in the interview, Berton asks Lee about the problems that you face as a Chinese hero in an American series, have people come up in the industry and said well, we dont know how the audience are going to take a non-American
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David Carradine and guest star
Sondra Locke, 1974
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Carradine as Caine
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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
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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
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Joanne Woodward 's star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.
39.
Whoopee! (film)
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Whoopee. is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film photographed in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the closely followed the 1928 stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. The film was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and Samuel Goldwyn, whoopee made a movie star of Eddie Cantor, already one of the leading stars of Broadway revues and musical comedies, as well as being a popular recording artist in the United States. George Olsen and his Music, already well-known Victor recording artists, other stars in the film were Eleanor Hunt, Ethel Shutta, and Paul Gregory. Future stars Betty Grable, Paulette Goddard, Ann Sothern, Virginia Bruce, the film also launched the Hollywood career of Busby Berkeley. It was Alfred Newmans first composing job in Hollywood, richard Day did the set designs and behind the camera was Gregg Toland, who later found fame with Orson Welles
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Scene from the film
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Behold My Wife! (1934 film)
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Behold My Wife. is a 1934 drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It stars Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond, based on a novel by Sir Gilbert Parker, The Translation of a Savage, the story had been filmed before in the silent era in 1920 as Behold My Wife. starring Mabel Julienne Scott and Milton Sills. Sylvia Sidney as Tonita Storm Cloud Gene Raymond as Michael Carter Laura Hope Crews as Mrs. Hubert Carter H. B, Mary White cant believe it, but at his home nobody lets her talk to him. Diana offers her a cheque and a ticket to California. But when she walks out, triumphant about her victory, she hears a scream, when returning home she tries to make up a strategy for Michael, this one notices that they have strange behavior, unless they tell him what happened. In his despair about the loss of Mary White and his own thinking about being disgraced by him, he takes the car. At one bar he meets an Apache Man, very tall and very drunk and he invites him to drink from his bottle as the barman knowing him, a little Woman comes into the bar and tries to tear away the Indian. But Mr. Carter still wants to have him on his side drinking, the indian girl Tonita, tells Carter he is no good and other things, meantime the drunken indian pulls out his pistol and starts shooting at bottles and things. Carter wants to shoot as well and tries to take away the pistol from the indian, in the fight he is shot in the shoulder. Tonita operates him from the bullet, to save her indian friend, at the station the family is awaiting him with a lot of reporters and newspaper men. All the town knows about Michael and Tonita, the family at first desperate is again guided by Carters sister Diana. She proposes her parents to give a big reception ball for the newly weds, the evening of the ball she sneaks in Tonitas room and convinces her to wear a beautiful night dress, whereas Michael wanted to dress her in her indian clothes to make a scandal. Tonita descends the stairs, beautiful and everybody is allured by her presence and she even answers to impertinent people, and finally wins them all. Michael is furious because he feels his family triumphs always over him and she is introduced to Mr. Prentice, the secret lover of Diana. When Tonita finds Michael, he tells her about his rage against his family and she realizes that he married her only because of his fight against his family and leaves him going away with Prentice. Diana follows them in his apartment and tells Prentice she left her husband to stay with him and he doesnt want her back, as he says she is no good. Diana finds a revolver and shoots him, Tonita proposes to take the blame as she hasnt any reason to live any more. And while she goes to the station to give herself up. He finds the body of Prentice, and while the officers arrive to see if the girl told the truth
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Wings in the Dark
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Wings in the Dark is a 1935 motion picture starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant and focusing on a daring woman aviator and an inventor thrust into a desperate situation. Wings in the Dark was directed by James Flood and produced by Arthur Hornblow, the film was the first that Loy and Grant made together, although Loys biographer Emily Leider says that Wings in the Dark wastes their talents and prompts an unintentional laugh fest. The film remains notable as a rare depiction of a blind protagonist during the 1930s. Skywriter and stunt pilot Sheila Mason who has to work as a barnstormer because women were not allowed to be active in other fields, is attracted to ace pilot Ken Gordon. Ken is trying to perfect instrument flying, with his own design of an autopilot and he has devoted four years to perfecting the system and even mortgaged his aircraft to get funds to finance his experiments. Before being able to prove his invention works, while Sheila Mason helps him prepare for the flight, cooking him coffee. He tries to help her, but the gas around inflames right in his eyes and he is blinded at least temporarily, but the doctors cant say how long. When Ken retreats from the world, Mac, his friend and partner, brings him Lightning and he first resists any efforts to help him but with his dog, he learns to navigate his household and soon keeps busy by writing aviation articles. Sheila, who has fallen in love with Ken, does not tell him that the articles are all being rejected and she gives him money to survive by taking on dangerous stunts arranged by her manager, Nick Williams. Ken finally regains his confidence and continues to work on his autopilot when the Rockwell Aviation Company based at Roosevelt Field, near New York, distraught, Ken accuses Sheila of falling for him out of pity and sends her away. She plans a solo flight from Moscow to New York to win a $25,000 prize so she and her last stage from Boston to New York finds Sheila nearly out of fuel and running into bad weather. Her only navigating system was to look down from the aircraft to see where she was, but over Roosevelt Field, with help from Mac, Ken sneaks into his old aircraft and takes off, using his autopilot to help Sheila land. While in the air Ken talks with Sheila about his desperation of being blind and his intention is to bring her to the ground and then fly until he has no fuel and crashes. Sheila tries to him, but he is determined. The two pilots make it down, but Sheila deliberately crashes into Kens aircraft to make sure that he not fly it to kill himself. A huge crowd has gathered at the airport, as the two greet the public and the press, Ken sees flashes of light from the exploding flash bulbs of the photographers. Ken and Sheila embrace as their car continues through the throng of well-wishers, principal photography for Wings in the Dark began on October 22,1934. Captain Earl H. Robinson was the advisor on the film
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42.
Thirteen Hours by Air
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13 Hours by Air is a 1936 drama film made by Paramount Pictures and directed by Mitchell Leisen. The film stars Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett, the screenplay was written by Kenyon Nicholson and Bogart Rogers, based on story Wild Wings by Bogart Rogers and Frank Mitchell Dazey. Airline pilot Jack Gordon on a flight from New York to San Francisco, is attracted to beautiful passenger Felice Rollins. Known as a man, he bets stewardess Vi Johnson that he will take Felice out to dinner that evening. A jewel robbery is in the news and a beautiful blonde is implicated, on a stop over in Chicago, Jack learns instead that his passenger is a wealthy socialite at odds with another passenger, Count Stephani. Jack worries that he may have a crisis involving the Count when he finds Stephani has a gun aboard, other passengers include Dr. Evarts and Curtis Palmer (Alan Baxter, both of whom seem to be harboring a secret. Felice is trying to get to San Francisco in order to prevent her sister from marrying the Counts brother, Jack and Freddie Scott, his co-pilot are persuaded to fly on but are eventually forced to make an emergency landing. Dr. Evarts tells Jack he is a federal agent pursuing Palmer, a notorious criminal, Jack manages to overcome Palmer, and with the help of Felice, is able to take off and fly to San Francisco. When the flight lands, he is able to have his dinner with Felice, collecting his bet, filmed at the Alhambra Airport, California, in Cleveland, Ohio, and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, using United Air Lines Boeing 247 airliners. Second unit filming involved a flight from Newark to Los Angeles to obtain actual footage to be used in the film, an aircraft assigned to the production was also involved in a minor accident. The pairing of MacMurray and Bennett brought together two dependable leads who worked as Paramount Studios contract players and they were sometimes loaned out to other concerns, but steadily climbed up from films such as 13 Hours by Air to more prestigious fare. Film reviewer Frank S. Nugent, in his review for The New York Times, there is no disputing the liveliness of the melodrama. 13 Hours by Air is one of over 700 Paramount Productions, the Paramount catalogue was destined for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. 13 Hours by Air at the Internet Movie Database 13 Hours by Air at the TCM Movie Database 13 Hours by Air at AllMovie
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A Boeing 267 airliner was prominently featured in 13 Hours by Air.
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Revolt of the Zombies
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Revolt of the Zombies is a 1936 American horror film directed and produced by the Halperin Brothers which stars Dean Jagger and Dorothy Stone. It is one of the earliest zombie films, although he is not credited in the film, Bela Lugosis eyes appear in Revolt of the Zombies whenever zombifying-powers are used, it is the same image of Lugosis eyes used in the film White Zombie. Revolt of the Zombies is in the domain, and can be copied or distributed without regard to copyright law. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula, gen. Mazovia kills the priest and takes the partially burned parchment. After the war, an expedition of representatives from the Allied countries with colonial interests are sent to Cambodia to find, the group includes Colonel Mazovia, a student of dead languages, Armand Louque, Englishman Clifford Grayson, General Duval, and his daughter Claire. Armand falls in love with Claire, who accepts his proposal of marriage to spite Clifford, later, when Claire runs to Cliff for comfort following an accident, Armand breaks the engagement, leaving her free to marry Cliff. Further accidents caused by Mazovia result in the natives refusing to work, Armand finds a clue which he had overlooked before and returns to Angkor against orders. After viewing an ancient ceremony at a temple, Armand follows one of the servants of a high priest out of the temple, through a swamp, when the servant leaves, Armand goes through the door to a room paneled in bronze, with an idol holding a gong. He accidentally strikes the gong, and a panel in the wall opens and he translates the inscription and realizes that it is the secret for which they have all been looking. He alone now has the power to make out of people. A camera crew was sent to Angkor, Indochina to film background shots for the film, production on Revolt of the Zombies was behind schedule in January with no script complete while the Halperins planned on filming in February. The film only began production on March 9,1936 with the shoot being finished later in the month, in May 1936, however, the Halperins encountered legal troubles in the form of a suit from Amusement Securities Corporation, a company that had helped finance White Zombie. Amusement Securities alleged that its contract for the film gave it the exclusive right to use the world zombie in motion picture titles. Amusement Securities sent letters to theaters who planned to showcase Revolt of the Zombies, writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle called it an uninvolving follow-up to White Zombie that could not have been saved by Bela Lugosi. Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies, The Ultimate Guide, said, Theres no experimentation here, only dull composition, White Zombie, Anatomy of a Horror Film. Revolt of the Zombies at the Internet Movie Database Revolt of the Zombies at AllMovie Revolt of the Zombies is available for download at the Internet Archive
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Dangerous Number
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Dangerous Number is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Carey Wilson. The film stars Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen and Cora Witherspoon, the film was released on January 22,1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A clothing manufacturer, Hank returns from a year in Japan, learning about a new formula for synthetic silk, Hank persuades her to jilt the new man at the altar. After he and Eleanor get married, Hank comes to dislike the show-business friends of his wife, and a man named Dillman turns up who claims that Eleanor is actually his legal wife, not Hanks. In August 1936, it was reported that Madge Evans was taking the role, but it went to Ann Sothern. Dangerous Number at the Internet Movie Database Dangerous Number at the TCM Movie Database Dangerous Number at AllMovie
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Escape by Night (1937 film)
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Escape by Night is a 1937 American film directed by Hamilton MacFadden. The bunch of people part of the Capper-Gang find through the dog Bill a house with a father and a beautiful daughter. It is summer and the agreement to sublet them room in the house brings unexpected activity, but then one day one of the Capper-Gang appears with the order they have to go back to town
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Lobby card
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Having Wonderful Time
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Having Wonderful Time is a 1938 romantic comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures. Bored New York office girl Teddy, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains called Camp Kare Free, for rest and to get away from the noisy, busy, city life and she meets and at first does not like waiter Chick. She also meets friend Faye, her roommate Miriam, and Buzzy, Miriam has eyes for Buzzy, who seems to have eyes for everyone. Within her two-week stay, Teddy and Chick fall in love, one night Teddy becomes angry with Chick and leaves him to go to a party where she meets up with Buzzy. A storm rolls in and Buzzy invites her to his cabin, initially refusing and wanting to be with friends, Teddy sees Chick at the party and asks Buzzy to go to his cabin. At the cabin she tells Buzzy she isnt interested but loves to play backgammon, Chick rushes in to save Teddy but becomes embarrassed when he sees the innocent board game. He returns to the party and waits there to talk with Teddy when she returns home, Teddy accidentally falls asleep at Buzzys cabin and stays overnight. While trying to out the next morning Teddy is spotted leaving by Miriam. Emil shows up to drive Teddy back to the city and the two sit down to eat, with Chick as their waiter, all three of them overhear Miriam yelling at Buzzy for having Teddy stay overnight. Chick goes on a spree and chases after Teddy out of the restaurant. The two reconcile and plan their married life, produced by Marc Connelly, it had its original Broadway run at the Lyceum Theatre from 20 February 1937 to 8 January 1938. In the play the characters are Jewish and have names to reflect their heritage, the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 is widely accepted in legal-historical circles as an example of the blatant attempts to stem the large amount of Jewish immigration that began around 1880. This action, taken to have the appeal to a wider general audience still failed, apparently. The film recorded a loss of $267,000, the film was released on VHS by Nostalgia Home Video and re-released on Region 1 DVD in 2005. Both releases are out of print. In July 2009, the film available on DVD-R by the Warner Archive. Having Wonderful Time at the Internet Movie Database Having Wonderful Time at AllMovie Having Wonderful Time at the TCM Movie Database Having Wonderful Time at the American Film Institute Catalog
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