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Budapest
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Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary, one of the largest cities in the European Union and sometimes described as the primate city of Hungary. It has an area of 525 square kilometres and a population of about 1.8 million within the limits in 2016. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the Danube river with the unification of Buda and Óbuda on the west bank, the history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia. Hungarians arrived in the territory in the 9th century and their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–1242. The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century, following the Battle of Mohács and nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, the region entered a new age of prosperity, and Budapest became a global city after its unification in 1873. It also became the co-capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a power that dissolved in 1918. Budapest was the point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Hungarian Republic of Councils in 1919, the Battle of Budapest in 1945. Budapest is an Alpha- global city, with strengths in arts, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, services, research, and tourism. Its business district hosts the Budapest Stock Exchange and the headquarters of the largest national and international banks and it is the highest ranked Central and Eastern European city on Innovation Cities Top 100 index. Budapest attracts 4.4 million international tourists per year, making it the 25th most popular city in the world, further famous landmarks include Andrássy Avenue, St. It has around 80 geothermal springs, the worlds largest thermal water system, second largest synagogue. Budapest is home to the headquarters of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the European Police College, over 40 colleges and universities are located in Budapest, including the Eötvös Loránd University, Central European University and Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Budapest is the combination of the city names Buda and Pest, One of the first documented occurrences of the combined name Buda-Pest was in 1831 in the book Világ, written by Count István Széchenyi. The origins of the names Buda and Pest are obscure, according to chronicles from the Middle Ages, the name Buda comes from the name of its founder, Bleda, brother of the Hunnic ruler Attila. The theory that Buda was named after a person is also supported by modern scholars, an alternative explanation suggests that Buda derives from the Slavic word вода, voda, a translation of the Latin name Aquincum, which was the main Roman settlement in the region. There are also theories about the origin of the name Pest. One of the states that the word Pest comes from the Roman times. According to another theory, Pest originates from the Slavic word for cave, or oven, the first settlement on the territory of Budapest was built by Celts before 1 AD
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First Hungarian Republic
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The First Hungarian Republic or by its contemporary name Hungarian Peoples Republic was a short-lived peoples republic that existed, apart from a 133-day interruption, from late 1918 until mid-1919. It was established in the wake of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I, the Hungarian Peoples Republic replaced the Kingdom of Hungary and was in turn replaced by another short-lived state. Hungarian Peoples Republic was adopted as the name of the country on 16 November 1918. Following the collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, the Gyula Peidl government restored the pre-communist name of the state on 2 August 1919, the Hungarian Peoples Republic was created by the Aster Revolution, which started in Budapest on 31 October 1918. That day, King Charles IV appointed the leader, Mihály Károlyi. Almost his first act was to terminate the personal union between Austria and Hungary. On 13 November, Charles issued a proclamation withdrawing from Hungarian politics, a few days later the provisional government proclaimed Hungary a peoples republic, with Károlyi as both prime minister and interim president. This event ended 400 years of rule by the House of Habsburg, the Entente considered Hungary a partner in the defeated Dual Monarchy, and dashed the Hungarians hopes with the delivery of successive diplomatic notes. Each demanded the surrender of land to other ethnic groups. On 20 March 1919, the French head of the Entente mission in Budapest gave Károlyi a note delineating the final postwar boundaries, Károlyi and Prime Minister Dénes Berinkey were now in an impossible position. They knew accepting the French note would endanger the countrys territorial integrity, Károlyi turned power over to a coalition of Social Democrats and Communists, the latter promised that Soviet Russia would help Hungary to restore its original borders. After the fall of the Soviet Republic on 1 August 1919, a decree was issued on 2 August restoring the form of government and the official state name back to Peoples Republic. During its brief existence, the Peidl government began to abrogate the edicts passed by the communist regime, on 6 August István Friedrich, leader of the White House Comrades Association, seized power in a bloodless coup with the backing of the Royal Romanian Army. The next day, Joseph August declared himself regent of Hungary, the state was formally dissolved by the new government on 8 August 1919. Hungarian Soviet Republic History of Hungary Revolutions and interventions in Hungary Richard Overy, History of the 20th Century, The Times, Mapping History. London,2003 Peter Rokai, Zoltan Đere, Tibor Pal, Revolution in Hungary and the Dissolution of the Multinational State
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Jolie Gabor
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Jolie Gabor, Countess de Szigethy was a Hungarian-born American socialite known as the mother of actresses and socialites Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor. Jolie Gabor was born Janka Tilleman on September 30,1896, in Budapest and her parents were Jona Hersch Tilleman and Chawe Feige Tilleman, both born of Jewish ancestry in Galicia, then part of the Austrian Empire, near present-day Poland and Ukraine. The Tillemans were jewelers who owned a shop known as The Diamond House. The couple changed their forenames to Josef and Franceska, the Tilleman familys Jewish descent was also cited by a surgeon, Dr. Lazslo Tauber, also Jewish, and a family friend and neighbor of the Gabors in Budapest. Following the death of Josef Tilleman, his widow, Franceska, married a doctor and general physician. Addressing her birthname, usually reserved for Hungarian males, Gabor stated, My parents were so eager to have a son they named me Jancsi and her birth certificate, however, indicates her birth name was Janka. The third of five surviving children, Gabors siblings consisted of three sisters and one brother, Dora, Eugénia, Rozália, and Sebestyén, while there is little information available on Jolies sisters, this extract indicates they survived the war. Her sister, Rozália, emigrated to Australia with her husband in 1956, Jolie Gabor was the aunt of Annette Tilleman, daughter of Jolies brother Sebastian Tilleman and wife of Hungarian-American U. S. Sebastian and his mother, Franceska, were killed during a raid on Budapest during World War II. Although born in 1896, Gabor claimed to have born in 1900. Her obituary in The New York Times gave a birth year of 1900, on a ships passenger manifest dated December 30,1945, Gabor gave her age as 45 years and two months, which would make her year of birth 1900. Her birth certificate, however, confirms her birth year to be 1896, author Dominick Dunne stated, in 1995, that Gabor was believed to be 109, which would mean a birth year of approximately 1886. The 1987 edition of Biographical Dictionary, however, cites Jolie Gabors complete birthdate to be September 29,1896, eventually there were five such shops in the Budapest area. The firms jewels also incorporated semiprecious stones and were admired for their old-fashioned settings, just like Bulgari is known in Rome, thats how well-known I was in Budapest, Jolie once stated. Jolies did so well that at time they were standing outside in line waiting until somebody goes out from the inside. The rise of Nazism in Germany forced her to curtail her retail business, Gabor recalled, Everybody told, Jolie is crazy to go now to Berlin and Leipzig for jewelry. She was forced to close the stores when Hungary was occupied by the Germans, at which time she, an article in Vanity Fair stated in 2001 that it was under Sampaios guidance that the family. Had been spirited out of the country and her brother, Sebestyén, also a jeweler, spent part of the war in labor camps, beginning in 1942, until he and their mother, Franceska, were killed in a Budapest bombing raid during World War II
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Magda Gabor
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Magdolna Magda Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor. The eldest daughter of a jeweler, Jolie, and a soldier, Vilmos Gábor and her parents were both from Jewish families. She is listed in Hungary, Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives, under her first married name and she stood 56 tall with red hair and gray eyes. After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, Gabor arrived in the United States in February 1946, from Natal, Brazil. Within a year of her arrival she married an American citizen, William Rankin and she was widowed twice, divorced three times, and one marriage was annulled. Her husbands, in order, were, Jan Bychowsky. William M. Rankin an American playwright and screenwriter, they divorced in Los Angeles in 1947 and he was born on March 31,1900 and died in March 1966. They married in Riverhead, Long Island, New York in 1949, arthur Tony Gallucci, president of Samuel Gallucci & Son, one of the oldest building contracting concerns in the United States. They wed in Franklin, New Jersey and he died of cancer in 1967. George Sanders a British actor, who had previously married to her sister Zsa Zsa. They married in Riverside, California Tibor R. Heltai an economic consultant who became a real-estate broker and they married in Southampton, New York in 1972, separated in June 1973 and divorced two years later in 1975
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Zsa Zsa Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Her sisters were actresses Eva and Magda Gabor, Gabor began her stage career in Vienna and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1941, becoming a sought-after actress with European flair and style, she was considered to have a personality that exuded charm and grace. Her first film role was a role in Lovely to Look At. She later acted in Were Not Married, and played one of her few leading roles in the John Huston-directed film, Moulin Rouge. Huston would later describe her as a creditable actress, outside her acting career, Gabor was known for her extravagant Hollywood lifestyle, her glamorous personality, and her many marriages. In total, Gabor had nine husbands, including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and she once stated, Men have always liked me and I have always liked men. But I like a man, a man who knows how to talk to. Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sári Gábor on February 6,1917 in Budapest, Hungary, the middle of three daughters, her parents were Vilmos, a soldier, and Jolie Gabor. Her parents were both of Jewish ancestry, while her mother escaped Hungary during the same time period of the Nazi occupation of Budapest, Gabor left the country in 1941, three years prior to the takeover. Gabors elder sister, Magda, eventually became an American socialite and her sister, Eva, became an American actress. The Gabor sisters were first cousins of Annette Lantos, wife of California Congressman Tom Lantos, according to Gabor, she was discovered by operatic tenor Richard Tauber on a trip to Vienna in 1934, following her time as a student at a Swiss boarding school. Tauber invited Gabor to sing the role in his new operetta, Der singende Traum. This would mark her first stage appearance, in 1936, she was crowned Miss Hungary. In 1944, she co-wrote a novel with writer Victoria Wolf titled, according to Gabor, the fictional story was derived, in a small part, from Gabors life experiences. The book was bought by an American magazine. In 1949, Gabor declined an offer to play the role in a film version of the classic book Lady Chatterleys Lover. According to an article written the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1949 and her more serious film acting credits include Moulin Rouge, Lovely to Look At and Were Not Married
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Hungary
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Hungary is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken language in Europe. Hungarys capital and largest metropolis is Budapest, a significant economic hub, major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr. His great-grandson Stephen I ascended to the throne in 1000, converting the country to a Christian kingdom, by the 12th century, Hungary became a middle power within the Western world, reaching a golden age by the 15th century. Hungarys current borders were established in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon after World War I, when the country lost 71% of its territory, 58% of its population, following the interwar period, Hungary joined the Axis Powers in World War II, suffering significant damage and casualties. Hungary became a state of the Soviet Union, which contributed to the establishment of a four-decade-long communist dictatorship. On 23 October 1989, Hungary became again a democratic parliamentary republic, in the 21st century, Hungary is a middle power and has the worlds 57th largest economy by nominal GDP, as well as the 58th largest by PPP, out of 188 countries measured by the IMF. As a substantial actor in several industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds 36th largest exporter and importer of goods, Hungary is a high-income economy with a very high standard of living. It keeps up a security and universal health care system. Hungary joined the European Union in 2004 and part of the Schengen Area since 2007, Hungary is a member of the United Nations, NATO, WTO, World Bank, the AIIB, the Council of Europe and Visegrád Group. Well known for its cultural history, Hungary has been contributed significantly to arts, music, literature, sports and science. Hungary is the 11th most popular country as a tourist destination in Europe and it is home to the largest thermal water cave system, the second largest thermal lake in the world, the largest lake in Central Europe, and the largest natural grasslands in Europe. The H in the name of Hungary is most likely due to historical associations with the Huns. The rest of the word comes from the Latinized form of Medieval Greek Oungroi, according to an explanation the Greek name was borrowed from Proto-Slavic Ǫgǔri, in turn borrowed from Oghur-Turkic Onogur. Onogur was the name for the tribes who later joined the Bulgar tribal confederacy that ruled the eastern parts of Hungary after the Avars. The Hungarians likely belonged to the Onogur tribal alliance and it is possible they became its ethnic majority. The Hungarian endonym is Magyarország, composed of magyar and ország, the word magyar is taken from the name of one of the seven major semi-nomadic Hungarian tribes, magyeri
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Sitcom
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A situation comedy, or sitcom, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. This form can also include mockumentaries, a situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the programs production format. The effect of a studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. The terms situational comedy or sitcom werent commonly used until the 1950s, there were prior examples on radio, but the first television sitcom is said to be Pinwrights Progress, ten episodes being broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom between 1946 and 1947. There have been few long-running Australian-made sitcoms, but many U. S. UK sitcoms are a staple of government broadcaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in the 1970s and 1980s many UK sitcoms also screened on the Seven Network. By 1986, UK comedies Bless This House and Are You Being Served, had been repeated by ABC Television several times, and were then acquired and screened by the Seven Network, in prime time. In 1981, Daily at Dawn was the first Australian comedy series to feature a gay character. In 1987, Mother and Son was winner of the Television Drama Award presented by the Australian Human Rights Commission, in 2013, Please Like Me was praised by the critics, receiving an invitation to screen at the Series Mania Television Festival in Paris. And has garnered three awards and numerous nominations, nominated to the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards for Best Television Comedy Series. Conversely, however, Canadian television has had greater success with sketch comedy and dramedy series. The popular show King of Kensington, aired from 1975 to 1980, corner Gas, which ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009, became an instant hit, averaging a million viewers per episode. It has been the recipient of six Gemini Awards, and has been nominated almost 70 times for various awards, other noteworthy recent sitcoms have included Call Me Fitz and Schitts Creek, Letterkenny and Kims Convenience. Sitcoms started appearing on Indian television in the 1980s, with serials like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, since it ceased production in 1992, the show has earned an estimated billion in syndication fees alone for Televisa. Gliding On, a popular sit-com in New Zealand in the early 1980s, won awards over the course of its run, including Best Comedy, Best Drama. The first Russian sitcom series was Strawberry, which was aired in 1996-1997 on the RTR channel, however, the boom of Russian sitcoms began only in the 2000s - when in 2004 the STS started very successful sitcom My Fair Nanny. Since that time sitcoms in Russia were produced by the two largest entertainment channels of the country - STS and TNT, in 2007 the STS released the first original domestic sitcom - Daddys Daughters, and in 2010 TNT released Interns - the first sitcom, filmed as a comedy. Most American sitcoms generally include episodes of 20 to 30 minutes in length, some popular British shows have been successfully adapted for the U. S
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Green Acres
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Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm. Produced by Filmways as a show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15,1965. Receiving solid ratings during its run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the rural purge by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD, in 1997 the two-part episode A Star Named Arnold is Born was ranked #59 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. Following the success of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, CBS offered producer Paul Henning another half-hour on the schedule—with no pilot required, Henning encouraged colleague Jay Sommers to create a series for the time slot. Sommers created the show based on his 1950 radio series, Granbys Green Acres, the radio series, which lasted 13 episodes, had starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as a big-city family who moved to the country. In pre-production, proposed titles were Country Cousins and The Eddie Albert Show, the theme tune, as with those of the shows rural cousins, explains the basic premise of the show. At the end of the sequence, Albert and Gabor strike a pose in parody of Grant Woods 1930 painting American Gothic. The debut episode is a mockumentary about their decision to move to a rural area, after the first episodes, the series developed an absurdist world. Though many episodes were still standard 1960s sitcom fare, the show notable for its surrealism. Characters frequently broke the wall to address the audience. The show appealed to children through its slapstick, silliness and shtick, the show is set in the same universe as Hennings other rural television comedy, Petticoat Junction, featuring such picturesque towns as Hooterville, Pixley, Crabwell Corners and Stankwell Falls. At times it shares some of the characters from Petticoat Junction, including Joe Carson, Fred and Doris Ziffel, Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley. Much of the humor derives from the Quixotic yet short-fused Oliver, there seems to be a dual perspective of reality, Oliver versus everyone else. The latter encompasses the Hootervillians, Olivers high-maintenance wife Lisa and his affluent mother, the contrast of Oliver versus the townsfolk is further emphasized by the brand-new Lincoln Continental convertible that he drives, in contrast to the ancient, derelict truck driven by Mr. Haney. Lisas skewed world view and domestic ignorance provides fertile ground for recurring gags, much of her early life was lived in Hungary, where she grew up pampered in a wealthy family, which explains her lack of education and her ignorance of normal household chores and everyday living. Oliver and she are both veterans of WWII, Oliver as a USAAF flier and Lisa as a member of the Hungarian underground and her waterless coffee oozes from the pot in a thick, tar-like sludge. Her hotcakes are inedible, so tough that Oliver makes head gaskets for his truck, in one episode, hotcake batter is used as fireplace mortar, in another, hotcakes are used to reshingle a roof
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Eddie Albert
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Edward Albert Heimberger, known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma. And the sadistic prison warden in 1974s The Longest Yard and he starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest. Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22,1906, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a realtor and his year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were not married when Albert was born, and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage, when he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward secured his first job as a boy when he was only six. During World War I, his German name led to taunts as the enemy by his classmates and he studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. His schoolmate Harriet Lake graduated in the same class, finishing high school in 1926, he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business. When he graduated, he embarked on a business career, however, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a performer, an insurance salesman. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as Hamburger and he moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the shows end, he was offered a contract by Warner Bros. In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat and he had lead roles in Room Service and The Boys from Syracuse. Performing regularly on television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest. Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. In 1938, he made his debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart
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Oliver Wendell Douglas
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Oliver Wendell Douglas was the major character in the 1960s CBS situation comedy Green Acres. The characters name was inspired by famed Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife, Lisa, a glamorous Hungarian immigrant, had absolutely no desire to leave sophisticated New York City for a backward, rural area. His idea also met with stringent resistance from his own mother, Eunice, however, once they actually arrived at their newly purchased farm, it was Lisa, not Oliver, who immediately fit into Hooterville and its weird collection of zany characters. Or Mrs. though the Hootervillians referred to other by first names. Oliver also was either too blinded by pride or too stubborn to admit that he was a totally incompetent failure as a farmer, Haney, from whom he had bought the farm in the first place. He also hired the young Eb Dawson, who referred to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas as his parents, a later episode shows Oliver was a Captain in USAF Reserves when the Hooterville townsfolk try to have him fly a broken down Curtiss JN-4 from World War I. Olivers denial led him to labor on in vain, year after year and his wife Lisa, a very reluctant rural dweller initially, fits right into her new surroundings and is almost immediately accepted and befriended by nearly everyone. One running gag shows how Oliver usually loses one way or another to the Hooterville yokels, in one episode Mr Haney, Lisa, and Hank Kimball think theyve discovered a Milk-making Machine. Oliver has to them that not only are the chemicals so expensive that milk prices would soar-. One episode shows Oliver as a lawyer when he manages to convince the US Army not to draft Arnold Ziffel the Pig. At the end of the episode Oliver has a new client to keep from being drafted-Ralph Monroe and this once caused the other residents to believe that Oliver was making and selling alcohol, and that he was involved with the mob
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The Aristocats
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The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated musical adventure-romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. The film features the voices of Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Phil Harris, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy Maude-Roxby. Following two years of re-writes, Walt Disney suggested the project would be suitable for an animated film. The Aristocats was released on December 11,1970, to positive reception, in Paris in 1910, mother cat Duchess and her three kittens, Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse, live with retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, and her English butler, Edgar. One day while preparing her will with lawyer Georges Hautecourt, Madame declares her fortune to be left to her cats until their deaths, Edgar hears this through a speaking tube, and plots to eliminate the cats. Therefore, he sedates the cats by putting sleeping pills in a milk mixture intended for them, in the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas OMalley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to Paris. The group briefly hitchhikes in a truck before being chased off by the driver. Edgar returns to the country to retrieve his possessions from Napoleon and Lafayette, travelling across the rooftops of the city, the cats meet OMalleys friend Scat Cat and his musicians, who perform the song Evrybody Wants to Be a Cat. After the band has departed, OMalley and Duchess converse on a rooftop while the kittens listen at a windowsill. Here, Duchesss loyalty to Madame prompts her to decline OMalleys proposal of marriage, Duchess and the kittens return to Madames mansion, but Edgar places them in a sack and prepares to ship them to Timbuktu, whereupon they direct Roquefort to retrieve OMalley. He does so, and OMalley returns to the mansion, instructing Roquefort to locate Scat Cat and this done, the alley cats and Frou-Frou fight Edgar, while Roquefort frees Duchess and the kittens. At the end of the fight, Edgar is locked in his own packing-case, Madame Adelaides will is rewritten to exclude Edgar, with Madame remaining ignorant of the reason for Edgar’s departure. After adopting O’Malley into the family, Madame establishes a charity foundation housing Pariss stray cats. Eva Gabor as Duchess - Madame Adelaides cat and mother of three kittens, but forced to choose between loyalty to Madame and her own attachment to Thomas OMalley, until the end of the film, Robie Lester provided the singing voice for Duchess. Phil Harris as Thomas OMalley – A feral cat who befriends Duchess and her kittens, becoming a figure to the kittens. Gary Dubin as Toulouse - the oldest kitten, who idolizes all alley-cats and he is also a talented painter. Liz English as Marie - Second-eldest kitten, often imperious or snobbish to her brothers, Dean Clark as Berlioz - the youngest kitten. He is somewhat timid and shy, but a talented pianist, Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar Balthazar - Madame Adelaides butler who tries to get rid of the cats in order to inherit her fortune
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The Walt Disney Company
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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue. Disney was founded on October 16,1923 – by brothers Walt Disney, the company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its operations and also started divisions focused upon theater, radio, music, publishing. In addition, Disney has since created corporate divisions in order to more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands. The company is best known for the products of its studio, Walt Disney Studios. Disneys other three divisions are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Media Networks, and Disney Consumer Products. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6,1991, Mickey Mouse, an early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, is a primary symbol and mascot for Disney. In early 1923, Kansas City, Missouri, animator Walt Disney created a film entitled Alices Wonderland. After the bankruptcy in 1923 of his previous firm, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, Disney moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Walt and Roy Disney formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice, in January 1926, with the completion of the Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studios name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars, Disney completed 26 Oswald shorts before losing the contract in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winklers husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disneys primary animators to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse and starred in several Disney produced films, ub Iwerks refined Disneys initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disneys first sound film Steamboat Willie, a cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 18,1928 through Pat Powers distribution company and it was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho. Disney used Pat Powers Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forests Phonofilm system, Steamboat Willie premiered at B. S. Mosss Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre. Disneys Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho were then retrofitted with synchronized sound tracks, Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and other characters, and began the Silly Symphonies series with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1929
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The Rescuers
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The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22,1977, by Buena Vista Distribution. The film is based on a series of books by Margery Sharp, most notably The Rescuers, due to the films success, a sequel entitled The Rescuers Down Under was released in 1990, which made this film the first Disney animated film to have a sequel. In an abandoned boat in Devils Bayou, a young orphan named Penny drops a message in a bottle containing a plea for help into the river. The bottle washes up in New York City, where it is recovered by the Rescue Aid Society, the Hungarian representative, Miss Bianca, volunteers to accept the case and chooses Bernard, a stammering janitor, as her co-agent. The two visit Morningside Orphanage, where Penny lived, and meet an old cat named Rufus and he tells them about a woman named Madame Medusa who once tried to lure Penny into her car and may have succeeded in abducting Penny this time. The mice travel to Medusas pawn shop, where they discover that she and her partner, Mr. Snoops, are on a quest to find the worlds largest diamond, the Devils Eye. They also discover that Medusa and Mr. Snoops are at the Devils Bayou with Penny, whom they have indeed kidnapped, with the help of an albatross named Orville, and a dragonfly named Evinrude, the mice follow Medusa to the bayou. There, they learn that Penny was captured to enter a hole that leads down into the cave where the Devils Eye is located. The following morning, Medusa and Mr. Snoops send Penny down into a cave to find the gem, with Miss Bianca. The three soon find the Devils Eye within a skull, as Penny pries the mouth open with a sword, the mice push it out from within. Miss Bianca, Penny, and Bernard barely manage to retrieve the diamond, Medusa plans to keep the diamond for herself, hiding it in Pennys teddy bear while holding Penny and Snoops at gunpoint. When she trips over a set as a trap by Bernard and Bianca, Medusa loses the bear to Penny. The local animals arrive at the riverboat and aid Bernard and Bianca by trapping Brutus and Nero, meanwhile, Penny and the mice commandeer Medusas swamp-mobile, a makeshift airboat. Medusa unsuccessfully pursues them, using Brutus and Nero as water-skis, back in New York, the Rescue Aid Society watch a news report of how Penny found the Devil’s Eye, which has been given to the Smithsonian Institution, and how she has been adopted. The meeting is interrupted when Evinrude arrives with a call for help, sending Bernard, Bob Newhart as Bernard, Rescue Aid Societys timid janitor, who reluctantly tags along with Miss Bianca. He is highly superstitious about the number 13 and dislikes flying, Eva Gabor as Miss Bianca, the Hungarian representative of the Rescue Aid Society. Her Hungarian nationality was derived from that of her voice actress, geraldine Page as Madame Medusa, a greedy, redheaded, wicked pawnshop owner. Michelle Stacy as Penny, a lonely orphan girl, residing at Morningside Orphanage in New York City
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The Rescuers Down Under
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The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 16,1990. The 29th Disney animated feature film, the film is the sequel to the 1977 animated film The Rescuers, which was based on the novels of Margery Sharp. Set in the Australian Outback, the film centers on Bernard, featuring the voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, and George C. Scott, The Rescuers Down Under was the first animated film sequel produced by Disney. In the Australian Outback, a boy named Cody rescues and befriends a rare golden eagle called Marahuté. Later on, the boy falls in a trap set by Percival C. McLeach, a local poacher wanted by the Australian Rangers, a mouse, the bait in the trap, runs off to a secret outpost. They go to find Orville the albatross who aided them previously, Bernard and Bianca convince Wilbur to fly them to Australia to save Cody. In Australia, they meet Jake, a mouse who is the RAS local regional operative. Jake becomes infatuated with Bianca and starts flirting with her, much to Bernards chagrin and he serves as their tour guide and protector in search of the boy. At the same time, Wilbur is immobilized when his column is bent out of its natural shape. As Wilbur refuses to undergo surgery and flees, his back is unintentionally straightened by the efforts of the medical staff to prevent him from escaping through a window. Cured, Wilbur departs in search of his friends, at McLeachs ranch, Cody has been thrown into a cage with several of McLeachs captured animals after refusing to give up Marahutes whereabouts. Cody tries to himself and the animals, but is thwarted by Joanna. Realizing that Marahutes eggs are Codys weak spot, McLeach tricks Cody into thinking that someone else has shot Marahute, Bernard, Bianca and Jake, knowing that Cody is in great danger, jump onto McLeachs Halftrack to follow him. At Marahutés nest, the three try to warn Cody that he has been followed, just as they do, McLeach arrives and captures Marahute, along with Cody, Jake. On McLeachs orders, Joanna tries to eat Marahutés eggs, only to discover that they are just egg-shaped stones, fearing that McLeach might be angry with her, Joanna drops the stones over the cliff. When she leaves, Bernard crawls out of the nest with the hidden eggs, Wilbur arrives at the nest, whereupon Bernard convinces him to sit on the eagles eggs, so that Bernard can go after McLeach
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Jeweler
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Jewellery or jewelry consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes, for many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used. It is one of the oldest type of archaeological artefact – with 100, historically, the most widespread influence on jewellery in terms of design and style have come from Asia. Jewellery may be made from a range of materials. Gemstones and similar such as amber and coral, precious metals, beads, and shells have been widely used. In most cultures jewellery can be understood as a symbol, for its material properties, its patterns. Jewellery has been made to nearly every body part, from hairpins to toe rings. The word jewellery itself is derived from the jewel, which was anglicised from the Old French jouel. In British English, Indian English, New Zealand English, Hiberno-English, Australian English, both are used in Canadian English, though jewelry prevails by a two to one margin. Numerous cultures store wedding dowries in the form of jewellery or make jewellery as a means to store or display coins, alternatively, jewellery has been used as a currency or trade good, an example being the use of slave beads. Many items of jewellery, such as brooches and buckles, originated as functional items. Jewellery can also symbolise group membership or status, wearing of amulets and devotional medals to provide protection or ward off evil is common in some cultures. These may take the form of symbols, stones, plants, animals, body parts, in creating jewellery, gemstones, coins, or other precious items are often used, and they are typically set into precious metals. Alloys of nearly every metal known have been encountered in jewellery, bronze, for example, was common in Roman times. Modern fine jewellery usually includes gold, white gold, platinum, palladium, titanium, most contemporary gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity, many whimsical fashions were introduced in the extravagant eighteenth century. Cameos that were used in connection with jewellery were the attractive trinkets along with many of the objects such as brooches, ear-rings. Some of the necklets were made of pieces joined with the gold chains were in and bracelets were also made sometimes to match the necklet
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
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For the 1942 book, see Elliot Paul. The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 romantic drama made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and it is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds short story Babylon Revisited. It was directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings and filmed on locations in Paris, the screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks. The films title song, by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, was already a classic when the movie was made and inspired the movies title. Though the song had won an Oscar after its film debut in 1941s Lady Be Good. It can be heard in scenes, either being sung by Odette or being played as an instrumental. Thus, the normal 28-year copyright term ended just 18-years after the film was released, the film entered the public domain in the United States in 1972. As World War II ends in Europe, Stars and Stripes journalist Charles Wills is on the streets of Paris and he is suddenly grabbed by a beautiful woman, who kisses him and disappears. Charles follows the crowd to Café Dhingo and meets another pretty woman named Marion Ellswirth, the mutual attraction is instant and she invites him to join her fathers celebration of the end of the war in Europe. Charles, Marion and her persistent French suitor Claude Matine arrive at the Ellswirth household and their father, James Ellswirth, had survived World War I and promptly joined the Lost Generation. Unlike most drifters, he never grew out of it, raising his two daughters to desire such a lifestyle, Helen takes after her father and uses her beauty to sustain a life of luxury even though they are flat broke. Marion goes the way and looks for serious-minded and conventional young men such as Claude, an aspiring prosecutor, and Charles. Charles and Helen fall in love and start dating, after Helen recovers from a near-death case of pneumonia, they get married and settle in Paris. James good-naturedly joins the family of Charles, with Helen eventually having a daughter Vickie. Marion, having lost Charles to Helen, agrees to marry Claude, Charles struggles to make ends meet with his meagre salary, unsuccessfully works on his novels and looks after Vickie. At about this time, the oil fields in Texas James had bought years before finally begin to produce. Charles, to whom James had given the oil fields as a dowry, quits his job, sudden wealth changes Helen, who becomes more responsible, while Charles parties his wealth away after quitting his newspaper job and having all his novels rejected by publishers. After the race Charles returns to Paris, only to find Helen sitting in Café Dhingo with Paul, a fight breaks out between Paul and Charles, and an angry Charles goes home first and puts the chain on the door, preventing it from being opened all the way
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began as an actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well known figure for the rest of her life. The American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend in 1999, Born in London to wealthy, socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939, and she soon was given a film contract by Universal Pictures. Her screen debut was in a role in Theres One Born Every Minute. Taylor was then signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and had her breakthrough role in National Velvet, becoming one of the studios most popular teenaged stars. She made the transition to adult roles in the early 1950s, despite being one of MGMs most bankable stars, Taylor wished to end her career in the early 1950s, as she resented the studios control and disliked many of the films to which she was assigned. She began receiving roles in the mid-1950s, beginning with the epic drama Giant. These included two film adaptations of plays by Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer, although she disliked her role in BUtterfield 8, her last film for MGM, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. She was next paid a record-breaking $1 million to play the role in the historical epic Cleopatra. During the filming, Taylor and co-star Richard Burton began having an affair which caused a scandal. Despite public disapproval, Burton and she continued their relationship and were married the first time in 1964. Dubbed Liz and Dick by the media, they starred in 11 films together, including The V. I. P. s, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Taylor received the best reviews of her career for Woolf, winning her second Academy Award, in the 1980s, she acted in her first substantial stage roles and in several television films and series, and became the first celebrity to launch a perfume brand. Taylor was also one of the first celebrities to take part in HIV/AIDS activism and she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985 and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. From the early 1990s until her death, she dedicated her time to philanthropy and she received several accolades for it, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. Taylors personal life was subject to constant media attention throughout her life and she was married eight times to seven men, endured serious illnesses, and led a jet set lifestyle, including amassing one of the most expensive private collections of jewelry. After many years of ill health, Taylor died from heart failure at the age of 79 in 2011
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Artists and Models
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Artists and Models is a 1955 Paramount musical comedy in VistaVision and marked Martin and Lewiss fourteenth feature together as a team. The film co-stars Shirley MacLaine and Dorothy Malone, also featuring Eva Gabor, Rick Todd is a struggling painter and smooth-talking ladies man. His goofy young roommate Eugene Fullstack is a childrens author who has a passion for comic books, especially those of the mysterious. Each night, Eugene has horrific screaming nightmares inspired by those ultra-violent comics, a neighbor in their apartment building, Abigail Parker, is a professional artist who works for a New York comic book company called Murdock Publishing and is the creator of the Bat Lady. Her energetic horoscope-obsessed roommate is Bessie Sparrowbush, who is secretary to her publisher Mr. Murdock, Bessie develops a crush on Eugene, who is unaware that she is his beloved Bat Lady in the flesh. Abigail becomes frustrated at work at the increasingly lurid and bloodthirsty stories the money-hungry Murdock demands, Rick attains success at his new job, but after falling for Abigail he keeps his work a secret from both her and Eugene. Unbeknownst to all, Eugenes dreams also contain the real top-secret rocket formula X34 minus 5R1 plus 6-X36 that Rick publishes in his stories, with spies all around them, they manage to entertain at the annual Artists and Models Ball and capture the enemy, preserving national security. The film was released on November 7,1955 by Paramount Pictures, the film was shot in VistaVision and Eastmancolor, with prints by Technicolor, and stereophonic sound by Perspecta. Costumes were by Paramount wardrobe designer Edith Head, Artists and Models marked the first time Lewis worked with former Looney Tunes director Frank Tashlin, whom he admired greatly. Martin and Lewis would reunite with him on their last film, Hollywood Or Bust, wallis chose Tashlin for Artists and Models on the basis of his background as a cartoonist, and the film contains many gags influenced by the directors animation work. When MacLaine kisses Lewis in front of a cooler, the water steams up, in another scene. Artists and Models is considered a milestone in movie satire for its mockery of mid-1950s pop culture, one scene satirizes the Kefauver hearings on violent comic books, and other targets in the film include the Cold War, the space race and the publishing business. Some of his most suggestive ideas were disallowed by the Production Code, in Tashlins original script, Lewiss character was named Fullstick, but the censors ordered the removal of this phallic joke. The censors also asked Paramount to cut a scene where Dorothy Malone is seen wearing only a strategically placed towel, the finished film contains many jokes that push the boundaries of what was acceptable in the mid-50s, including many about womens breasts and a number of double entendres. Longtime Martin and Lewis writer Herbert Baker worked on the script, which had the original title Rock-A-Bye Baby, the title later being used for a 1958 Jerry Lewis film. Songs featured were by music legends Harry Warren and Jack Brooks, and included When You Pretend, You Look So Familiar, Innamorata, The Lucky Song, and Artists and Models. A sixth number, sung by Shirley MacLaine during the party, according to a 1955 column by Sheilah Graham, the part of Abby was originally offered to Lizabeth Scott, who had played opposite the team in Scared Stiff. When she turned the part down, Martin asked for Dorothy Malone, the cast is filled with cameos by many Martin and Lewis regulars
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Dean Martin
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Dean Martin was an Italian-American singer, actor, comedian, and film producer. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the century, Martin was nicknamed the King of Cool for his seemingly effortless charisma. He and Jerry Lewis were partners in the popular comedy team Martin. He was a member of the Rat Pack and a star in concert stages, nightclubs, recordings, motion pictures and he was the host of the television variety program The Dean Martin Show and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Martin was born on June 7,1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, to an Italian father, Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti, and an Italian-American mother, Angela Crocetti. His father, who was a barber, was originally from Montesilvano, in Abruzzo, Martin had an older brother named William Alfonso Crocetti. Martins first language was an Abruzzese dialect of Italian, and he did not speak English until he started school at the age of five and he attended Grant Elementary School in Steubenville where he was bullied for his broken English. He later took up the drums as a hobby as a teenager, Martin then dropped out of Steubenville High School in the 10th grade because he thought he was smarter than his teachers. He bootlegged liquor, served as a croupier, was a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill. At 15 he was a boxer who billed himself as Kid Crochet and his prizefighting earned him a broken nose, a scarred lip, many broken knuckles, and a bruised body. Of his 12 bouts, he said, I won all but 11, for a time, he roomed with Sonny King, who, like Martin, was starting in show business and had little money. It is said that Martin and King held bare-knuckle matches in their apartment, fighting until one was knocked out, Martin knocked out King in the first round of an amateur boxing match. Martin gave up boxing to work as a roulette stickman and croupier in an illegal casino behind a tobacco shop, at the same time he sang with local bands, calling himself Dino Martini. He got his break working for the Ernie McKay Orchestra and he sang in a crooning style influenced by Harry Mills, among others. In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, in October 1941 Martin married Elizabeth Betty Anne McDonald. They had four children before the marriage ended in 1949, Martin worked for various bands throughout the early 1940s, mostly on looks and personality until he developed his own singing style. Martin flopped at the Riobamba, a nightclub in New York, when he followed Frank Sinatra in 1943, Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, serving a year in Akron, Ohio. He was reclassified as 4-F and discharged, possibly because of a double hernia, by 1946, Martin was doing well, but he was little more than an East Coast nightclub singer with a common style, similar to that of Bing Crosby
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Jerry Lewis
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Jerry Lewis AM is an American actor, comedian, singer, film producer, film director, screenwriter and humanitarian. He is known for his humor in film, television, stage. He and Dean Martin were partners as the hit popular comedy duo of Martin, following that success, he was a solo star in motion pictures, nightclubs, television shows, concerts, album recordings, and musicals. Lewis served as chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and hosted the live Labor Day broadcast of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon for 44 years. Lewis was born on March 16,1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Russian Jewish parents and his father, Daniel Levitch, was a master of ceremonies and vaudeville entertainer who used the professional name Danny Lewis. His mother, Rachel Levitch, was a player for a radio station. Lewis started performing at age five and would perform alongside his parents in the Catskill Mountains in New York State. By 15, he had developed his Record Act in which he exaggeratedly mimed the lyrics to songs on a phonograph and he used the professional name Joey Lewis but soon changed it to Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E. Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis. Lewis then dropped out of Irvington High School in the tenth grade and he was a character even in his teenage years pulling pranks in his neighborhood including sneaking into kitchens to steal fried chicken and pies. During World War II, he was rejected for service because of a heart murmur. Lewis initially gained attention as part of an act with singer Dean Martin. The performers were different from most other acts of the time because they relied on their interaction instead of planned skits. They quickly rose to prominence, first with their popular nightclub act. The two men made many appearances on live television, their first on the June 20,1948. This was followed on October 3,1948, by an appearance on the NBC series Welcome Aboard, the duo began their Paramount film careers as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name. This was followed by a sequel My Friend Irma Goes West, All sixteen movies were produced by Hal B. Attesting the comedy teams popularity, DC Comics published the best-selling The Adventures of Dean Martin, in 1954, the boys appeared on episode 191 of Whats My Line. as mystery guests. As Martins roles in their films became less important over time the partnership came under strain, Martins participation became an embarrassment in 1954 when Look magazine used a publicity photo of the team for the magazine cover but cropped Martin out of the photo
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Justice (1954 TV series)
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Justice is an NBC half-hour drama television series about attorneys of the Legal Aid Society of New York, which aired from April 8,1954 to March 25,1956. In the 1954-1955 season, Justice starred Dane Clark as Richard Adams, in the 1955-1956 season, William Prince replaced Clark in the role of Richard Adams. Westbrook Van Voorhis was the series narrator, in the April 15,1954, episode entitled Keiths Case with Richard Kiley, Phyllis Kirk, and Warren Stevens, a war veteran believed dead reappears to find his wife has remarried. Another early Justice episode, Run from Honor, is the story of Ed Simmons, Simmons, however, fears that being in the limelight from accepting his award will unveil his hidden past. His son goes to the Legal Aid Society for help, in The Quiet Life on May 6,1954, an immigrant laborer played by J. Carrol Naish keeps quiet about inferior-grade cement being used on a new building by his dishonest boss played by Ed Begley. In the May 13,1954, episode Hit and Run with the teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr. Harry Larner, played by E. G. Marshall, after a moment of indecision, Larner drives off from the scene of the accident. He tells no one about the tragedy, but the crime haunts him at every turn, Ed Begley also appears in this episode. In The Deep Night on May 27,1954, a woman stands trial on charges that she stabbed her husband. Two witnesses appear, one of whom withholds information that would incriminate the real killer, Rod Steiger guest stars. On June 3,1954, in the episode The Eight Alien Boys, the hallowed ground, however, is endangered by the pending construction of a road. Series director Daniel Petrie stepped in to play the role after James Barton lost his voice. In Call Me Guilty on July 1,1954, Ernest Truex, later on The Ann Sothern Show, with a desire to be noticed, the man begins confessing to unsolved crimes which he did not commit. Royal Dano also appears in this episode, in The Scandal That Rocked the Town on July 8,1954, 23-year-old John Kerr, in his acting debut, plays a basketball player who claims that gamblers are causing him grief on the court. Harry Townes, Jack Klugman, and June Walker, the mother of John Kerr, in Murder at Red Oaks on July 15,1954, a man is falsely accuses of murder because of his past record and pending circumstantial evidence. In The Deadly Silence on September 16,1954, an eyewitness to a crime fears giving information to police, as a result, dennis OKeefe guest stars as a Legal Aid lawyer. In Guilty Secret on March 17,1955, Peter Mark Richman portrays a parolee who is threatened by hoodlums who threaten to harm his wife, in Fearful Hour, Mary Astor plays a forgotten film star facing financial reverses. The actress cashes a large check for which she has no funds, rather than face disgrace, she attempts suicide. Gary Merrill in the role of Jason Tyler intervenes to save her life, pat OMalley, Jason Robards, Robert F. Simon, Maureen Stapleton, Rod Steiger, Jack Warden, and Dick York
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What's My Line?
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Whats My Line. is a panel game show which originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U. S. revivals. It is the longest-running U. S. primetime network television game-show, after its cancellation by CBS in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily production, moderated originally by Wally Bruner and later by Larry Blyden, which ran from 1968 to 1975. There have been international versions, radio versions, and a live stage version. In 2013, TV Guide ranked it #9 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever, produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS Television, the show was initially called Occupation Unknown before deciding on the name Whats My Line. The original series, which was usually broadcast live, debuted on Thursday, February 2,1950 and this was then state-of-the-art technology, and Daly praised it upon his return from Moscow. In such instances, there would often be two shows a day, the one, followed immediately by the live one. The cast and crew began taking Summer breaks from the show in July 1961, the host, then called the moderator, was veteran radio and television newsman John Charles Daly. Clifton Fadiman, Eamonn Andrews, and Random House co-founding publisher, the show featured a panel of four celebrities who questioned the contestants. On the initial program of February 2,1950, the panel was former New Jersey governor Harold Hoffman, columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, poet Louis Untermeyer, and psychiatrist Richard Hoffmann. At various times, a regular panelist might take a vacation or be absent from an episode to due outside commitments, on these occasions, the most frequent guest panelist was Arlene Franciss husband Martin Gabel, who appeared 112 times over the years. Publisher Bennett Cerf replaced Untermeyer as a regular panelist in 1951, Allen left in 1954 to launch The Tonight Show, and he was replaced by comedian Fred Allen, who remained on the panel until his death in 1956. Following Fred Allens death, he was not replaced on a permanent basis, for the majority of the shows network run, between 1956 and 1965, the panel therefore consisted of Kilgallen, Cerf, Francis and a fourth guest panelist. After Kilgallens death in 1965, she was not replaced with a permanent panelist. For the shows final two years, the panel consisted of Cerf, Francis and two guests, Whats My Line. was a guessing game in which the four panelists attempted to determine the occupation of a guest. In the case of the mystery guest each week, the panel sought to determine the identity of the contestant. Panelists were required to probe by asking only yes-no questions, a typical episode featured two standard rounds plus one mystery guest round. On the occasions on which there were two guests, the first would usually appear as the first contestant. For the first few seasons, the contestant would first meet the panel up close, for an inspection
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My Man Godfrey (1957 film)
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My Man Godfrey is a 1957 American CinemaScope Eastmancolor comedy film starring June Allyson and David Niven. It was adapted by Peter Berneis, William Bowers and Everett Freeman, the film is a color remake of Gregory La Cavas 1936 screwball comedy of the same name. Allyson played the role created by Carole Lombard in the original version, Niven had played the role of Tommy Gray, Godfreys former classmate, in a 1938 radio version. The plot begins as a zany heiress uses and then takes pity on a man whom she believes to be homeless, the familys new butler, however, harbors a secret, he is actually as wealthy and, in fact, more well-born than are they. June Allyson as Irene David Niven as Godfrey Jessie Royce Landis as Angelica Robert Keith as Mr. W, fischer, but he was fired two weeks into production and was sued by Universal. My Man Godfrey at the Internet Movie Database
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Gigi (1958 film)
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Gigi is a 1958 American musical-romance film directed by Vincente Minnelli processed using MGMs Metrocolor. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the name by Colette. The film features songs with lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, in 1991, Gigi was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. The American Film Institute ranked it #35 in AFIs 100 Years.100 Passions, set in turn-of-the-20th century Paris, the film opens with Honoré Lachaille who is surrounded by members of high society in the Bois de Boulogne. Being a charming old roué, he remarks that in Paris, marriage is not the option for wealthy young bon vivants like his nephew Gaston. The one thing Gaston truly enjoys is spending time with Madame Alvarez, whom he calls Mamita, and especially her granddaughter, following the family tradition, Madame Alvarez sends Gigi to her Great Aunt Alicia, to be groomed as a courtesan to learn etiquette and charm. To Alicia, love is an art, and a necessary accomplishment for Gigis social, but Gigi shows disdain for such trivial love that a man and his mistress usually have. Remaining true to her girlish, yet charming personality, she finds herself having the most fun when she is with Gaston, like his uncle, Gaston is known as a wealthy womanizer. The whole of Paris watches his every move, and Parisian high society shows unrestrained judgment towards him, Gastons latest mistress attempts to run off with her ice skating instructor. As a response, he humiliates her, resulting in her attempted suicide. After this ordeal, Gaston wishes to retreat to the country, Gigi makes a wager during a card match with Gaston, suggesting that if he loses, he has to take her and her grandmother to the sea with him when he goes on vacation. Gaston agrees, and they all travel to the country, while Gaston and Gigi spend countless hours having fun together, Honoré and Madame Alvarez reveal their once-passionate relationship. Once Gigi and her return to Paris, Gaston goes to Monte Carlo for some time. During this time, Gigis aunt and grandmother discuss the possibility of Gigi becoming Gastons mistress, Madame Alvarez, though dubious at first, agrees to let Gigi train around the clock to prepare for Gastons return. Gigi accepts this as a necessary evil, when Gaston returns, he is surprised and discomfited when Gigi appears in her new, adult dress. Gaston stammers out that she looks like a giraffe and that he misses her old outfits and he storms out, realises his folly, and rushes back to apologize. He tells her that she looks lovely, and says that he prove it to her by taking her to tea at the Reservoir. Gigis grandmother refuses and tells Gaston that this may ruin her reputation to be seen unchaperoned with Gaston before her reputation has even begun, Gaston, angered, storms out once again
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It Started with a Kiss (film)
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It Started with a Kiss is a 1959 Metrocolor film in CinemaScope starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds. It was directed by George Marshall, after a whirlwind courtship, an Air Force staff sergeant who is a Korean War veteran, Joe Fitzpatrick, and his wife Maggie, a dancer, try to make their marriage work. Joe is posted to Spain, back in New York, his wife learns that he has won a raffle making them the owners of the custom-built 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car, the car is delivered to Spain, where it attracts attention from many people including a famous matador. The car also comes to the attention of Joes commanding officer, in the end, Joe sells the car to the matador and he and Maggie are reconciled. The car used in the film – of which there was only one – was later customized by George Barris and served as the Batmobile for the 1960s TV series Batman. According to MGM records the film earned $2,750,000 in the US and Canada and $1.9 million elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $582,000
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Petticoat Junction
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Petticoat Junction is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970. The series takes place at the Shady Rest Hotel, which is run by Kate Bradley, her Uncle Joe Carson, the series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters produced by Paul Henning. Petticoat Junction was created upon the success of Hennings previous rural/urban-themed sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, the success of Petticoat Junction led to a spin-off, Green Acres. Petticoat Junction was produced by Wayfilms, the show follows the goings-on at the rural Shady Rest Hotel. Widow Kate Bradley is the proprietor, Uncle Joe frequently comes up with half-baked get-rich-quick schemes and ill-conceived hotel promotions. Much of the show focuses on the Hooterville Cannonball, an 1890s steam-driven train run more like a taxi service by engineer Charley Pratt. It was not uncommon for the Cannonball to make a stop for passengers to go fishing, or to pick fruit for Kate Bradleys apple butter. The Hooterville spur line had been cut off from the rest of the railroad 20 years before the start of the show by the failure of a trestle, charlie and Floyd are retired employees of the railroad receiving pensions. Many plots involve railroad executive Homer Bedloes futile attempts to shut down, occasionally, youngest daughter Betty Jo can be found with her hand on the Cannonballs throttle, as running the train is one of her favorite pastimes. The series pilot introduced a feminist element whereby Betty Jo turned out to be skilled at driving the train, train engineer was traditionally a mans job, & F. W. Railroads headquarters are shocked when they learn of this. Trips on the Cannonball usually include a stop in Hooterville at Druckers Store, Druckers is the local hub, where menfolk come to play checkers and chat. Sam Drucker is the postmaster, and his telephone is a lifeline for the Bradleys, Uncle Joe, the Shady Rest Hotel is located at a water stop along an isolated branch line of the C. & F. W. Railroad, halfway between the farm community of Hooterville and the small town of Pixley, each about 25 miles away. Kate Bradley says her grandfather built the hotel there because that was where the fell off the train. The town of Pixley, at one end of the Cannonballs route, was named for Pixley, a number of location shots were filmed in the real Pixley. The exact location of Hooterville is never mentioned on Petticoat Junction or Green Acres and it is likely in the Ozark Mountains, one of the proposed titles for the show was Ozark Widow. The Shady Rest is an hotel, accessible only by train. Kate Bradley cooks sumptuous meals on a stove, and her specialty is chicken n dumplings
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS for nine seasons, from September 26,1962, to March 23,1971. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by writer Paul Henning and it was followed by two other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS, Petticoat Junction, and its spin-off Green Acres, which reversed the rags-to-riches model of The Beverly Hillbillies. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run, the series remains in syndication on MeTV, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox. In 1997, the season 3 episode Hedda Hoppers Hollywood was ranked number 62 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time, the Beverly Hillbillies is the first in the fish out of water genre of television shows. The series starts as Jed Clampett, a mountaineer, is living alongside an oil-rich swamp with his daughter. A surveyor for the OK Oil Company realizes the size of the oil field, patriarch Jeds cousin Pearl prods him to move to California after being told his modest property could yield $25 million. His family moves into a mansion in wealthy Beverly Hills, California and they bring a moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle to the swanky, sometimes self-obsessed and superficial community. Double entendres and cultural misconceptions are the core of the sitcoms humor, plots often involve the outlandish efforts Drysdale makes to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills and their money in his bank. The familys periodic attempts to return to the mountains are often prompted by Grannys perceiving a slight from one of the city folk, the state in which Ozarks, the location from which the Clampetts move to California, is located is never revealed. Jed is the son of Luke Clampett and his wife, and has a sister called Myrtle, a principal character of the show, Jed is a good-natured man, he is the apparent head of the family. Jeds wife died, but is referred to in the episode Duke Steals A Wife as Rose Ellen, Jed is shown to be an expert marksman and is extremely loyal to his family and kinfolk. The huge oil pool in the swamp he owned was the beginning of his rags-to-riches journey to Beverly Hills, although he longs for the old ways back in the hills, he makes the best of being in Beverly Hills. Whenever he has anything on his mind, he sits on the curbstone of his mansion, Jed was one of the three characters to appear in all 274 episodes of the series. Daisy May Moses, called Granny by all is Jeds shotgun-toting mother-in-law, Granny can be aggressive, but is often overruled by Jed. She is a Confederate to the core, defending President Jefferson Davis, the Stars and Bars, short-fused and easily angered, Granny fancies herself a dunked Christian with forgiveness in her heart. She abhors revenuers and blue-coat Yankees, a self-styled M. D. — mountain doctor — she claims to have an edge over expensive know-nothing city physicians. In lieu of anesthesia, Granny uses her white lightning brew before commencing on painful treatments such as bleeding and yanking teeth with pliers. Short and scrappy, Granny often wields a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun and she fires it once at the front lawn when Jed is witching for water and several times on the skeet-shooting range
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Sanrio
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Sanrio Co. Ltd. is a Japanese company that designs, licenses and produces products focusing on the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture. Their products include stationery, school supplies, gifts and accessories that are sold worldwide, Sanrios best-known character is Hello Kitty, a little anthropomorphic cat girl. With her red bow and no visible mouth except in most of the animations, besides selling character goods, Sanrio takes part in movie production and publishing. They own the rights to both the Peanuts and Mr. Men characters in Japan and their animatronics branch, called Kokoro Company, Ltd. is best known for the Actroid android. They participate in the fast food industry, running a franchise of KFC in Saitama, Sanrio was founded by Shintaro Tsuji as the Yamanashi Silk Company in 1960, using 1 million yen in capital. In 1962, Tsuji expanded his enterprise from silk to rubber sandals with flowers painted on them, Tsuji noted the profits gained by simply adding a cute design to the sandals and hired cartoonists to design cute characters for his merchandise in response. In 1973 the company was established under the name Sanrio. The companys European website says the name comes from the Spanish words san, according to this book, Tsuji, Sanrios founder, said that Yamanashi, part of the companys former name, has an alternative onyomi reading of sanri. The remaining o was added from the ou sound people make when they are excited, the company produced a line of character merchandise around gift-giving occasions. Hello Kitty was added to the lineup of early Sanrio characters in 1974, the popular feline whose mouth is usually invisible has had both peaks and drops in sales over the years, but always has been the highest contributor to Sanrios sales. Other notably popular characters through the years have been The Little Twin Stars, My Melody, Keroppi, Tuxedo Sam, Badtz-Maru, Chococat, Cinnamoroll, Sugarbunnies, Jewelpet, Sanrio constantly adds new characters to its lineup. Specific characters are rotated in and out of active production, in late 2003, Sanrio won the Top Brand with a Conscience award from the Medinge Group of Sweden for its communication principles. The company has partnered with UNICEF since 1984, in 2006, Sanrio launched Sanrio Digital together with Typhoon Games to expand to the Internet, online games and mobile services. In conjuncture with this, Build-A-Bear Workshop released limited edition stuffed toys of several Sanrio characters, including Hello Kitty, Chococat, My Melody, Hello Kitty is alleged to be drawn in a similar style to the rabbit Miffy. On November 2,2010, a Dutch court ruled against Sanrio and ordered the company to stop marketing Cathy products in Belgium, Luxembourg, instead of continuing the court battle, the two companies will donate the legal fees to help the earthquake victims. In December 2011, Sanrio Global acquired the rights to the Mr. Men, in June 2016, it was announced that Sanrio has partnered with Loot Crate, Inc on a bi-monthly box. Sanrio hosts two theme parks in Japan, Sanrio Puroland in Tama, Tokyo, and Harmonyland in Hiji, Ōita, Sanrio Inc. is Sanrios American subsidiary. Sanrio Inc. has offices in South San Francisco, California and Torrance, Sanrios first Western Hemisphere store opened in San Joses Eastridge Mall
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Nutcracker Fantasy
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Nutcracker Fantasy is a Japanese stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio, very loosely based on Tchaikovskys ballet The Nutcracker and E. T. A. Hoffmans story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and it is directed by Takeo Nakamura and written by Shintaro Tsuji, Eugene A. Fournier and Thomas Joachim. It is officially released in Japan on March 3,1979, Nutcracker Fantasy marks as the first stop-motion project by Sanrio, followed by Hello Kittys Stump Village 37 years later. The films overall animation style is reminiscent of the early Rankin-Bass Film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Clara is excited about her friend Fritz coming to visit the next day and refuses to go to sleep. Her Aunt Gerda tries to frighten her with stories about the Ragman, Uncle Drosselmeyer startles them with his arrival. He gives Clara a nutcracker doll, which she adores and she promises to go to bed immediately if she can keep it. Clara awakens in the middle of the night to find her nutcracker gone and she sees a group of mice carrying it down the stairs and follows them into the living room. As she takes back the doll, shes confronted by the leader of the mice, the queen orders Clara to hand over the nutcracker, but she refuses. Clara is knocked out just as the springs to life to defend her against the mice. The next morning, Clara finds herself back in her bedroom and she tells her aunt about the mice and her doll being missing, but Gerda insists talking nonsense and is ill with a fever. In her delirious state, Clara goes down to the living room, thinking she sees Uncle Drosselmeyer inside, she climbs in, only to be scared by the Ragman. She wanders, looking for Drosselmeyer, until she herself in a palace. There she sees a portrait of girl identical to herself and a coffin containing a sleeping mouse. A king and a group of mourners appear, believing Clara to be their Princess Mary returned, after Clara corrects their mistake, King Goodwin explains that shes in the Doll Kingdom. They were at war with the mice, led by the two-headed queen Morphia, when defeat seemed inevitable, the dolls surrendered. However, the King refused to agree to Morphias final term, Princess Mary must marry her son, as punishment for refusing, Morphia cursed the princess to look like a hideous mouse and lie in sleep until King Goodwin agrees to the marriage. King Goodwin gathers all the wise men in hopes they can find a way to break the curse, but all their ideas are far fetched and illogical. Despairing that no one knows how to help, Clara leaves the castle, a street singer points her in the direction of The Queen of Time, who is known for having the answer to everything
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Gene Rayburn
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Gene Rayburn was an American radio and television personality. He is best known as the host of various editions of the popular American television game show Match Game for over two decades, born Eugene Jelyevich in Christopher, Illinois, he was the only child of Croatian immigrants. Rayburns father died when he was an infant and his moved to Chicago. After she married Rubessa, Rayburn took the name Eugene Rubessa /ruːˈbeɪʃə/, Rayburn graduated from Lindblom Technical High School and later from Knox College. While a student at Lindblom, he was class president and acted in the plays Robert of Sicily. Rayburn enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Force, Gene chose the stage name Rayburn by randomly sticking his finger in the phone book. Before appearing in television, Rayburn was a successful actor. He had a morning drive time radio show in New York City, first with Jack Lescoulie. Radio history pegs Rayburns pairings with Lescoulie and Finch as helping to popularize the now-familiar morning drive radio format, when Rayburn left WNEW, Dee Finch continued the format with Gene Klavan. Rayburn later landed the lead in the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie when Dick Van Dyke left the production to star in his eponymous classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, at one point in his stage career, Rayburns stand-in was future Match Game panelist Charles Nelson Reilly. Breaking into television as the announcer on Steve Allens Tonight, Rayburn began a long association with game-show producers Mark Goodson. He first appeared on Robert Q, lewiss The Names the Same, Rayburn frequently sat in for regular panelist Carl Reiner, lending a comic touch to the panel. In 1955, he took over as host of the replacement game show Make the Connection from original host Jim McKay. From there he hosted shows such as Choose Up Sides, Dough Re Mi, on radio, Rayburn became one of the many hosts of the NBC program Monitor in 1961 and remained with the show until 1973. In an uncredited role, Rayburn played a TV interviewer in the 1959 movie It Happened to Jane starring Doris Day. Rayburn was also a frequent panelist in the 1960s and 1970s on Whats My Line. and To Tell the Truth, from 1962 to 1969, Rayburn hosted Match Game. In the original version, which aired from New York on NBC, the questions in the original game were ordinary, like Name a kind of muffin, or John loves his ____________. Rayburn usually played it straight, though he would make jokes as the situation warranted, because it was a live show, very few episodes were recorded for posterity, only four are known to exist
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Match Game
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Match Game is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and was revived several times over the course of the next few decades. The game featured contestants trying to come up with answers to fill-in-the-blank questions, the Match Game in its original version ran on NBCs daytime lineup from 1962 until 1969. The show returned with a changed format in 1973 on CBS and became a major success, with an expanded panel, larger cash payouts. Concurrently with the run, from 1975 to 1981, a five-night-a-week fringe time version. It returned to ABC in a prime time edition on June 26,2016. All of these used the 1970s format as their basis. The series was a production of Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Productions, along with its successor companies, in 2013, TV Guide ranked the 1973–79 version CBS version of Match Game as No.4 on its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever. The Match Game premiered on December 31,1962, Gene Rayburn was host and Johnny Olson served as announcer, for the series premiere, Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson were the two celebrity panelists. The show was taped in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, NBCs largest New York studio, a team scored 25 points if two teammates matched answers or 50 points if all three contestants matched. The first team to score 100 points won $100 and played the Audience Match, each contestant who agreed with the most popular answer to a question earned the team $50, for a possible total of $450. The questions used in the game were commonplace, Name a kind of muffin, Write down one of the words to ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ other than ‘Row, the humor in the original series came largely from the panelists reactions to the other answers. In 1963, NBC cancelled the series with six weeks left to be recorded, question writer Dick DeBartolo came up with a funnier set of questions, like Mary likes to pour gravy all over Johns _____, and submitted it to Mark Goodson. NBC also occasionally used special episodes of the series as a program in prime time if one of its movies had an irregular time slot. The Match Game continued through September 26,1969 on NBC for 1,760 episodes, airing at 4,00 pm Eastern, running 25 minutes due to a five-minute newscast. Since Olson split time between New York and Miami to announce The Jackie Gleason Show, one of the networks New York staff announcers filled-in for Olson when he could not attend a broadcast. A successful match won a jackpot, which started at $500, very few episodes of the 1960s The Match Game survive. In the early 1970s, CBS vice president Fred Silverman began overhauling the networks programming as part of what has become known as the rural purge. As part of overhaul, the network reintroduced game shows beginning in 1972
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Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour
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The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour is an American television game show that combined two game shows of the 1960s and 1970s – Match Game and Hollywood Squares – into an hour-long format. The series ran from October 31,1983 to July 27,1984 on NBC, Gene Rayburn hosted the Match Game and Super Match segments, while Jon Bowzer Bauman hosted the Hollywood Squares segment. Gene Wood was the regular announcer with Johnny Olson, Rich Jeffries. The series was a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions and Orion Television, the show began with two new contestants playing a round of 1970s-style Match Game with a panel of six celebrities, including Bauman in the bottom left seat. After three rounds, the contestant with the score won the game. In case of a tie, a version of the Match Game PM tiebreaker was used. As before, a Super Match-like question was played, the difference was that instead of writing their answers on a card, the contestants were secretly shown four possible answer choices. Once both contestants had chosen an answer, Rayburn read the question to the panel and polled them, the first contestant to match his/her answer against any panel member won the game. The Hollywood Squares half of the show pitted the Match Game winner against the returning champion, for Squares, three more celebrities joined the panel along with Rayburn, who took Baumans seat at bottom left. A third tier of the panel set swung into place to accommodate the new panelists, as on the original Squares, contestants attempted to claim squares by correctly agreeing or disagreeing with the responses that the celebrities gave to Baumans questions. The first contestant to get three of his/her own symbol in a row won the game, there were several differences in game play compared to the original Squares. Each individual square earned was worth $25, with a win worth $100 for the first game. No Secret Square was played in this version, additionally, most questions asked were of the true/false or multiple choice variety. Perhaps the most significant rule change involved winning a game and this version of Squares eliminated that rule, thus enabling a contestant to win a game on an opponents error. The contestants played as many games as time allowed, when the final bell rang, the contestant in the lead became the days champion and joined Rayburn on stage to play the Super Match bonus round. Both contestants kept any money earned in this segment. The round began with the Audience Match, in which the contestant tried to match one of the three most popular responses given by a studio audience to a short item such as Trading ______. The contestant was allowed to call on any three celebrities for help, $1,000 was awarded for matching the most popular response, with $500 and $250 for the second and third, respectively
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You Can't Take It with You (play)
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You Cant Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play premiered on Broadway in 1936, the play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was adapted for the screen as You Cant Take It with You, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. The story takes place entirely in the house of a slightly batty New York City family. Various characters in the lives of the Vanderhof-Sycamore-Carmichael clan are introduced in the first act, the patriarch of the family, Grandpa Vanderhof, an eccentric old man who keeps snakes and has never paid his income tax. One of Paul and Pennys two daughters is Essie Sycamore Carmichael, a childish candymaker who dreams of being a ballerina, Essie is married to Ed Carmichael, a xylophone player who lives with them and helps distribute Essies candies. Ed is a printer who prints any phrase that sounds catchy. Paul and Pennys other daughter Alice Sycamore is quite obviously the only family member. She has a job and is sometimes embarrassed by the eccentricities of her family, yet deep down. In addition, the Vanderhof-Sycamore-Carmichael clan employs a maid Rheba, who is dating Donald, Essie tells Grandpa Vanderhof that some letters have arrived for him from the United States Government, but that she misplaced them. Shortly afterwards, Alice comes home and announces that she has fallen in love with a man with whom she works, Tony Kirby. Before going upstairs to change, Alice tells her family that he will be coming over shortly to take her on a date, the entire family is still joyfully discussing her boyfriend when the doorbell rings. Henderson, and he is investigating Grandpa for his evasion of income tax. When Henderson asks Grandpa why he owed twenty-four years of income tax, Grandpa states he never believed in it. Henderson becomes infuriated by Grandpas answers to his questions, Henderson spots Grandpas snakes, and runs out of the house in fear, but not before promising Grandpa that he will hear, one way or another, from the United States government. The real Tony Kirby arrives, and Alice is nervous that her family will scare him away. As they attempt to leave, Mr. Boris Kolenkhov, Essies extremely eccentric Russian ballet instructor, arrives and makes chitchat with the family, during this discussion, Alice and Tony make their escape. Then the rest of the sit down for dinner. Later that night, Alice and Tony come back late from their date and have a glass of wine
