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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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The program featured American televisions first never-married, independent career woman as the central character. It is one of the most acclaimed television programs in US television history and it received high praise from critics during its run, including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series three years in a row, and continued to be honored long after the final episode aired. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked The Mary Tyler Moore Show No.6 in its list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time. Mary Richards is a woman who, at age 30. She applies for a job at television station WJM. She is instead offered the position of associate producer of the stations Six OClock News and she befriends her tough but lovable boss Lou Grant, newswriter Murray Slaughter, and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter. Mary later becomes producer of the show, Mary rents a third-floor studio apartment in a 19th-century house from acquaintance and downstairs landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, and she and upstairs neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern become best friends. Characters introduced later in the series are acerbic, man-hungry TV hostess Sue Ann Nivens, at the beginning of season 6, after both Rhoda and Phyllis have moved away, Mary relocates to a one-bedroom high-rise apartment. In the third season, issues such as pay for women, pre-marital sex. In the fourth season, such subjects as marital infidelity and divorce are explored with Phyllis and Lou, in the fifth season, Mary refuses to reveal a news source and is jailed for contempt of court. While in jail, she befriends a prostitute who seeks Marys help in a subsequent episode, Mary dates several men on and off over the years, two seriously, but remains single throughout the series. In 1995, Entertainment Weekly said that TVs most famous bachelorette pad was Marys apartment, the fictitious address was 119 North Weatherly, but the exterior establishing shots were of a real house in Minneapolis at 2104 Kenwood Parkway. In the real house, an unfinished attic occupied the space behind the window recreated on the studio set of Marys apartment. Once fans of the series discovered where exterior shots had been taken, according to Moore, the woman who lived in the house was overwhelmed by the people showing up and asking if Mary was around. To discourage crews from filming footage of the house, the owners placed an Impeach Nixon sign beneath the window where Mary supposedly lived. The house continued to attract 30 tour buses a day more than a decade after production ended, at the time of Mary Tyler Moores death, on January 25,2017, the Kenwood Parkway house was for sale at $1.7 million. Mary Richards, a single native Minnesotan, moves to Minneapolis in 1970 at age 30 and her sincere, kind demeanor often acts as a foil for the personalities of her co-workers and friends. Lou Grant is the Producer of the news and his tough and grumpy demeanor initially hides his kind-hearted nature which is gradually revealed as the series progresses
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Mount Kisco, New York
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Mount Kisco is a village and town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village, the population was 10,877 at the 2010 census. The spelling Mount Kisko was used by the postmaster when a post office was opened in the village sometime after 1850. The current spelling of the name was adopted in 1875, with the incorporation as a village. The town shares its name with the Kisco River, which traverses the town, as a village, Mount Kisco originally was half in the Town of Bedford and half in the Town of New Castle. Mount Kisco became a town in its own right in 1978, the Mount Kisco Municipal Complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Marks Cemetery, and the United Methodist Church and Parsonage are also listed, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.1 square miles, all of it land. Mount Kisco lies within the continental climate zone, experiencing four distinct seasons. Winter is cold, summer is warm and humid, and spring, as of the 2013 United States Census there were 11,067 people,4,128 households, and 2,447 families residing in the village. The population density was 3,194.0 people per square mile, there were 4,103 housing units at an average density of 1,312.7 per square mile. The large number of businesses, retail stores, and financial and medical offices swells the daytime population to more than 20,000. The racial makeup of the village was 77. 79% White,5. 99% African American,0. 28% Native American,4. 24% Asian,9. 03% from other races,24. 54% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 31. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.09. In the village, the population was out with 22. 1% under the age of 18,7. 3% from 18 to 24,37. 0% from 25 to 44,21. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 98.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.7 males, the median income for a household in the village was $62,699, and the median income for a family was $68,219. Males had an income of $45,428 versus $40,040 for females. The per capita income for the village was $32,424, about 7. 4% of families and 10. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11. 0% of those under age 18 and 13. 8% of those age 65 or over
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Ithaca College
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Ithaca College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational liberal arts college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York, United States. The college was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the City of Ithaca, Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and gorges. The college is best known for its large list of alumni who have played roles in the media. The college has a liberal arts core, and offers several pre-professional programs. Ithaca College has been ranked among the Top 10 Masters Universities in the Northern United States by U. S. News & World Report every year since 1996, and was ranked 6th in 2016. Ithaca College was founded as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1892 when a violin teacher, William Grant Egbert, rented four rooms. In 1931 the conservatory was chartered as a private college, the college was originally housed in the Boardman House, that later became the Ithaca College Museum of Art, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. By 1960, some 2,000 students were in attendance, a modern campus was built on South Hill in the sixties, and students were shuttled between the old and new during the construction. The hillside campus continued to grow in the ensuing 30 years to more than 6,000 students. As the campus expanded, the college began to expand its curriculum. By the 1990s, some 2,000 courses in more than 100 programs of study were available in the five schools. The school attracts a multicultural student body representatives from almost every state. Ithaca Colleges current campus was built in the 1960s on South Hill, the Colleges final academic department moved from downtown to the South Hill campus in 1968, making the move complete. Besides its Ithaca campus, Ithaca College has also operated satellite campuses in other cities, the Ithaca College London Center has been in existence since 1972. Ithaca runs the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program at the James B, additionally, there is an Ithaca College Washington Semester Program, and a recently launched Ithaca College New York City Center. Former programs include the Ithaca College Antigua Program and the Ithaca College Walkabout Down Under Program in Australia, the college offers a curriculum with more than 100 degree programs in its five schools. As of the 2014-2015 academic year, Television-Radio and Business Administration were the two most popular majors, while the School of Humanities & Sciences had the most students overall. The Ithacan and its staff have won over 200 major collegiate journalism awards and is recognized as one of the top student-run newspapers in the country
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Anthony Franciosa
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Anthony Franciosa, usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career, was an American film, TV and stage actor. He made several films, including A Face in the Crowd. In television, along with minor parts, he played lead roles in five television series. However, he began as a stage actor, gaining a Tony Award nomination for the drug-addiction play A Hatful of Rain. Born Anthony George Papaleo to an Italian-American family, and raised by his mother and aunt, in 1948, Franciosa joined the Cherry Lane Theatre Group off Broadway. In the meantime, he worked a variety of jobs which included being a waiter, dishwasher, day laborer, several years later he garnered rave reviews and a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway performance of the play A Hatful of Rain. When he reprised his role in the version in 1957. He also appeared in a prominent co-starring role in the Frank Sinatra film Assault on a Queen and was later in the 70s film of the Jackie Collins book The World Is Full of Married Men. He guest-starred in the television series The Greatest Show on Earth, Jack Palances circus drama and that same season, he appeared in the ABC medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. Unfortunately for Franciosa, he lost the part, because Darrow had arrived on the set, right on time and he was fired from the series because of his temper. He also played roles in television miniseries, such as Aspen. In the 1980s, he starred in the Aaron Spelling-produced series Finder of Lost Loves, in the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone, he appeared in the third-season episode Crazy As a Soup Sandwich, playing a gangster who is revealed to be the ultimate demon. Franciosas final film was City Hall, a 1996 drama starring Al Pacino and John Cusack, billed as Anthony Franciosa, he won the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the role Sam Lawson in Career, opposite Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. Franciosa was married four times, and had three children and his first wife, Beatrice Bakalyar, was a writer. They were married from 1952 to 1957 and his second wife was Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters, they were married from May 4,1957 until their divorce in 1960, they had no children. Her death preceded his by five days and his third wife, the former Judith Balaban, is the author of the book The Bridesmaids, about her friend Princess Grace of Monaco, in whose wedding she served as a bridesmaid. This marriage produced Franciosas only daughter, Nina and his last wife was Rita Theil, by whom he had two sons, Marco and Christopher. Marco Franciosa is an organic farmer, Rita, his last wife, when asked about Anthonys hair-trigger temper said, He was never taught how to control his temper
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Christopher George
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Christopher John George was an American television and film actor who was perhaps best known for his starring role in the 1966–68 TV series The Rat Patrol. He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1967 as Best TV Star for his performance in the series and he was also the recipient of a New York Film Festival award as the Best Actor in a Television Commercial. George was married to actress Lynda Day George, christopher George was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, on February 25,1931, the son of Greek immigrants John and Vaseleke George. John George was born in Thebes, Greece, and was a veteran of World War I, George could not speak English until he was six years old, because his family only spoke Greek at home. His father was a salesman during his childhood. He accompanied his father on selling trips to such as Akron, New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis. From Michigan, the moved to Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Once he began learning to speak English, his father enrolled him in Greek school in addition to his school so that he would not forget the Greek language. That was where George first became interested in acting, at Greek school they performed Greek plays, when he was 14, he and his family moved to Miami, Florida. As a child, he lived in the Coconut Grove section of Miami and attended Shenandoah Elementary School, in school, he played soccer, football and baseball and ran track. While in Florida, he used to hunt for alligators in the Everglades, after obtaining his drivers license, he worked for his father, driving trucks between Miami and other cities along the Eastern seaboard. He served as a boy at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Miami. George enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on October 13,1948, at Jacksonville, Florida and he lied about his age on his recruitment form by giving his year of birth as 1929, which then stuck with him for most of his adult life. He attributed his enlistment to being inspired by John Wayne, saying, You know, he caused the enlistment of hundreds of kids in the Marines and his first duty station was Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Quantico, Virginia. In April 1950, he transferred to Aircraft Engineering Squadron 12, AES-12 maintained the aircraft for school pilots and also used them as a demonstration squadron for members of the United States Congress, demonstrating new rockets and bombs. While assigned to AES-12, he rose to the rank of sergeant and he had forced landings in airplanes while he was in the Marines, and while stationed at Quantico, was very sick, lying in the hospital with a 110-degree fever. Both pilots worked to get the engines restarted, dipping to an altitude of about 1,000 feet before they succeeded, another time, an aircraft caught fire, he had to bail out, in the first parachute jump of his life. During the Korean War, George skippered a Marine Corps crash boat and he completed a three-year enlistment with the Marines and stayed for an additional year, before requesting an honorable discharge and returning home to Miami
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The Thousand Plane Raid
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The Thousand Plane Raid is a 1969 film directed by Boris Sagal. It stars Christopher George and Laraine Stephens, in spite of the missions extreme difficulty, his plan is finally put into effect against a German aircraft factory. During preparation for the raid, Brandon alienates his men by insisting that normal bombing operations continue and his disdain for cautious Lieutenant Archer and brash RAF Wing Commander Trafton Howard further antagonizes his associates, including his girl friend, WAC Lieutenant Gabrielle Ames. When his bomber crashes the morning of the mission, Brandon boards a bomber manned by Archer, during the effective air raid, he is impressed by Archers courage and Howards judgment. Christopher George as Col Greg Brandon Laraine Stephens as Lt. Gabrielle Ames J. D. Cannon as Gen. Cotton Palmer Gary Marshal as Wing Cmdr, taffy Howard Michael Evans as Group Commander Leslie Hardwicke Gavin MacLeod as Sgt. Kruger Noam Pitlik as Lt. Jacoby Ben Murphy as Lt. Harvey Archer Bo Hopkins as Captain Douglas Tim McIntire as Lt. Quimby The film was shot in a budget-conscious manner. The main sets were in Santa Maria, California, and principal photography took place in winter 1968, the local village and airport realistically portrayed a typical British wartime base. Period-style maintenance shops, a center and a wartime-style control tower were added to re-create the fictional Steeple Bassington base. Additional studio work was completed at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood, aerial sequences included a mix of stock wartime footage, including the Memphis Belle, A Story of a Flying Fortress, some of it colorized to match original footage. The air-boss was legendary Hollywood stunt pilot Frank Tallman, but the most spectacular scene was a low-flying B-17 scene flown by Don Lykins, three Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers from Aircraft Specialties at Mesa, Arizona, were used in the production. Critical reviews commented on the stereotyped adventure yarn aspect of the production noting that the aerial footage was often exciting. This film is available on video and is not often shown on television
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Clint Eastwood
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Clinton Clint Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring icon of masculinity. For his work in the Western film Unforgiven and the sports drama Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. Eastwoods greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel, the war drama biopic American Sniper set box office records for the largest January release ever and was also the largest opening ever for an Eastwood film. Eastwood received considerable praise in France for several films, including some that were not well received in the United States. Eastwood has been awarded two of Frances highest honors, in 1994 he became a recipient of the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in 2000, Eastwood was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own company, Malpaso. Starting in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a non-partisan office, Eastwood was born Clinton Eastwood Jr. May 31,1930, in San Francisco, California, the son of Clinton Eastwood Sr. and he has one younger sister, Jeanne Bernhardt. Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry and he is descended from Mayflower passenger William Bradford, and through this line is the 12th generation of his family born in North America and the 13th generation to live in North America. His family moved often as his father worked at jobs along the West Coast, settled in Piedmont, California, the Eastwoods lived in a very wealthy part of town, had a swimming pool, belonged to the country club, and each parent drove their own car. Clint attended Piedmont Junior High School, shortly before he was to enter Piedmont High School, he rode his bike on the schools sports field and tore up the wet turf, this resulted in his being asked not to enroll. Clint graduated from the airplane shop, I think that was his major, joked classmate Don Kincaid. Another high school friend, Don Loomis, echoed I dont think he was spending much time at school because he was having a pretty good time elsewhere. I think what happened is he just went off and started having a good time, I just dont think he finished high school, explained Fritz Manes, a boyhood friend two years younger than Eastwood, who remained associated with him until their falling out in the mid-1980s. Biographer Patrick McGilligan notes that high school records are a matter of strict legal confidentiality. Eastwood worked at a number of jobs, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, Eastwood has said that he tried to enroll at Seattle University but was then drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War. He always dropped the Korean War reference, hoping everyone would conclude that he was in combat, actually, hed been a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California for his entire stint in the military, commented Eastwoods former longtime companion, Sondra Locke
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Telly Savalas
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Aristotelis Telly Savalas was an American singer and film, television, and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television. He was noted for his deep, gravelly voice and his bald head and he also released the one-hit wonder song, If. which he introduced in the UK in 1975. He had also appeared as a guest on talk and variety shows. Savalass career began in films in 1961 and he then continued achieving success in the television crime drama Kojak, co-starring his real-life brother George Savalas, in which Savalas played the title role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz, one set of grandparents originated from Ierakas, Greece, in the Peloponnese. Savalas and his brother Gus sold newspapers and shined shoes to help support the family and he entered Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York, and graduated in 1940. He initially spoke only Greek when he entered school. He attended Cobbett Junior High School in Lynn, Massachusetts and he won a spelling bee there in 1934, though through an oversight he did not receive his prize until 1991, when the Boston Herald newspaper and local school principal decided to award it to him. After graduation from school he worked as a lifeguard, but on one occasion was unsuccessful at rescuing a man from drowning. When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies Savalas took courses including English language, radio, at that time he fell in love with radio and television, which led to his interest in acting. In 1950, Savalas hosted a show called The Coffeehouse in New York City. Savalas began as a director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became a producer for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports where he gave Howard Cosell his first job in television. Savalas was an actor on television series during 1959 and the 1960s. His first acting role was on And Bring Home a Baby and he appeared on two more episodes of this same series in 1959 and 1960. The Fugitive, Breaking Point, Bonanza, The Man from U. N. C. L. E, the F. B. I. and the The Twilight Zone classic episode Living Doll in which he can be seen with hair. He had a role as Brother Hendricksen on the popular crime drama series,77 Sunset Strip and was a regular on the short-lived NBC television series Acapulco. In 1980, he starred in the TV film Alcatraz, The Whole Shocking Story, while playing Lucky Luciano on the TV series The Witness, he was discovered by actor Burt Lancaster
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Carroll O'Connor
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John Carroll OConnor was an American actor, producer, and director whose television career spanned four decades. A lifelong member of the Actors Studio, OConnor first attracted attention as Major General Colt in the 1970 film Kellys Heroes. The following year, he found fame as the working man Archie Bunker. OConnor later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, at the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You. In 1996, OConnor was ranked number 38 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time, Carroll OConnor, an Irish American, was the eldest of three sons. He was born on August 2,1924, in Manhattan, New York, to Edward Joseph OConnor, a lawyer, both of his brothers became doctors, Hugh, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1961, and Robert, a psychiatrist in New York City. OConnor spent much of his youth in Elmhurst and Forest Hills, Queens, in 1941, Carroll OConnor enrolled at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, but dropped out when the United States entered World War II. During the war, he was rejected by the United States Navy, after leaving that institution, he became a merchant seaman and served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. After the war, OConnor attended the University of Montana-Missoula, where he met Nancy Fields and he also worked at the Montana Kaimin student newspaper as an editor. At the University of Montana, he joined Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, OConnor did not take any drama courses as an undergraduate at the University of Montana. He later left that university to help his younger brother Hugh get into school in Ireland. After OConnors fiancee, Nancy Fields, graduated from the University of Montana in 1951 with degrees in drama and English, she sailed to Ireland to meet Carroll, the couple married in Dublin on July 28,1951. In 1956, OConnor returned to Missoula to earn a degree in speech. OConnor and Meredith remained close, lifelong friends, OConnor made his television acting debut as a character actor on two episodes of Sunday Showcase. N. C. L. E. Dr. Kildare, I Spy, That Girl, Premiere and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, OConnor starred as an Eastern European villain in the first season of Mission Impossible, season one, episode 18 The Trial. Late in his career, he appeared on episodes of Mad About You as the father of Helen Hunts character. He was among the actors considered for the roles of the Skipper on Gilligans Island, after three pilots done between 1968 and 1970, a network change to CBS, and the last name of the character changed to Bunker, the new sitcom was renamed All in the Family. The show was based on the BBCs Till Death Us Do Part, with Bunker based on Alf Garnett, OConnors Queens background and New York accent is said to have influenced Lear to set the show in Queens
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Kelly's Heroes
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Kellys Heroes is a 1970 war comedy film directed by Brian G. Hutton about a group of World War II American soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. The film stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll OConnor, and Donald Sutherland, with roles played by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod. The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin, the film was a US-Yugoslav co-production, filmed mainly in the Croat village of Vižinada on the Istria peninsula. During a thunderstorm in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the French town of Nancy, one of the divisions mechanized reconnaissance platoons is ordered to hold their position when the Germans counterattack. The outnumbered platoon also receives friendly fire from their own mortars, Private Kelly, a former lieutenant scapegoated for a failed infantry assault, captures Colonel Dankhopf of Wehrmacht Intelligence. Interrogating his prisoner, Kelly notices the officers briefcase has several gold bars disguised under lead plating. Curious, he gets the colonel drunk and learns there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars, worth $16,000,000. When their position is overrun and the Americans pull back, a Tiger tank kills Dankhopf, Kelly decides to go after the gold. He visits the opportunistic Supply Sergeant Crapgame to obtain the supplies, a spaced-out tank platoon commander known as Oddball and his three M4 Sherman tanks from the 6th Armored Division invite themselves into the plan. After much argument, Kelly finally persuades cynical Master Sergeant Big Joe to go along, Kelly decides that his infantrymen and Oddballs tanks will proceed separately and meet near Clermont. This forces Oddball to bring a unit in on the caper. An American fighter plane mistakes Kellys group for the enemy, destroying their vehicles and they stray into a minefield, and Private Grace is killed when he steps on a mine. Kellys troops engage an enemy patrol, Private Mitchell and Corporal Job, the two units rendezvous two nights later. They battle their way across the river to Clermont, losing two of the three tanks and leaving the unit behind. Kellys men find that Clermont is defended by three Tiger tanks of the 1st SS Panzer Division with infantry support. The Americans are able to eliminate the German infantry and two of the Tigers, but the final tank parks itself right in front of the bank and Oddballs Sherman breaks down, leaving them stalemated. At Crapgame’s suggestion, Kelly offers the German tank commander and his crew an equal share of the loot. Not long after the freelancers have gone, Captain Maitland enters the bank, to find a Kilroy, the project was announced by MGM in November 1968 under the title of The Warriors
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Ernest Borgnine
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Ernest Borgnine was an American film, television, character and voice actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was noted for his gruff, yet calm voice, Machiavellian eyebrows, a popular performer, he had also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows. He also played the lead in many films, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955 for Marty. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92, for his work on the series ER and he was also known for being the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants, a role he played from 1999 until his death in 2012. Ermes Effron Borgnino was born on January 24,1917, in Hamden and he was the son of Anna, who emigrated from Carpi to the United States, and Camillo Borgnino, who emigrated from Ottiglio. Borgnines parents separated when he was two old, and his mother and he lived in Italy for about 4 1⁄2 years. By 1923, his parents had reconciled, the name was changed from Borgnino to Borgnine. Ernest had a sister, Evelyn Borgnine Velardi, the family settled in New Haven, Connecticut, where he graduated from James Hillhouse High School. Borgnine took to sports while growing up, but showed no interest in acting, Borgnine joined the United States Navy in October 1935, after graduation from high school. He served aboard the destroyer/destroyer minesweeper USS Lamberton and was discharged from the Navy in October 1941. In January 1942, he reenlisted in the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor, during World War II, he patrolled the Atlantic Coast on an antisubmarine warfare ship, the USS Sylph. In September 1945, he was discharged from the Navy. He served a total of almost ten years in the Navy and his military awards include the Navy Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp, American Campaign Medal with 3⁄16 bronze star, and the World War II Victory Medal. In 1997, Borgnine received the United States Navy Memorial, Lone Sailor Award, on December 7,2000, Borgnine was named the Veterans Foundations Veteran of the Year. In October 2004, Borgnine received the title of chief petty officer from Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Terry D. Scott. The ceremony for Borgnines naval advancement was held at the U. S. Navy Memorial in Washington and he received the special honor for his naval service and support of the Navy and navy families worldwide. On February 5,2007, he received the California Commendation Medal, Borgnine returned to his parents house in Connecticut after his Navy discharge without a job to go back to and no direction. In a British Film Institute interview about his life and career, he said, After World War II, I didnt even want to be a Boy Scout
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McHale's Navy
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McHales Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11,1962, to April 12,1966, on the ABC television network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated from a drama entitled Seven Against the Sea. The series is scheduled to be removed as of January 2,2017, the last 2 episodes aired December 30,2016, no return to Antenna TV is known. The ABC series spawned three films, McHales Navy, a sequel McHales Navy Joins the Air Force. It is considered the show for the series. During World War II, Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale is the officer of the U. S. Navy PT boat, PT-73. In the late spring of 1942, the Japanese heavily bomb the island, only 18 of 150 naval aviators and marines on the base survive. With Japanese patrols in the region too heavy for a Navy rescue mission, McHale, assisted by the native tribes whom they befriend, the sailors live a pleasant island existence. After months of life, strait-laced, by-the-book Annapolis graduate Lieutenant Durham parachutes onto the island. His job is to assume duties as McHales executive officer and help him get the base on Taratupa back into action, Durham faces an uphill battle, The men have gone native. One man has started a native laundry service, and McHale operates a still, making moonshine for the men, in addition, McHale is friendly with the native chief and even bathes with him. When Durham informs McHale of his orders, McHale refuses to follow them and it is clear that while McHale is as loyal as any American, following the devastation the Japanese rendered on the island attack, he is reluctant to risk losing more men. His concern now is for their survival until they can be rescued, when they get word that a Marine battalion is pinned on a beach, and an enemy cruiser is planning to attack the beachhead in the morning, McHales attitude changes. McHale is ordered to use all their boats to protect the beachhead and the Marines, however, McHale manages to capture a Japanese PT boat patrolling the island. Surprising the men and Durham, McHale does not plan to use the boat to evacuate his men or the Marine battalion, instead, he will attack and destroy the Japanese cruiser. He estimates that since they are on a Japanese boat, flying a Japanese flag, they can move in and torpedo the cruiser twice, Seven Against the Sea is available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles. However, the series it wanted was significantly different in tone from the pilot. In an interview in Cinema Retro magazine, Ernest Borgnine said the show was meant as a vehicle for Ron Foster, who was to be contracted to Universal Pictures, producer Jennings Lang recalled the film Destination Gobi inspiring a half-hour comedy with the Borgnine characters PT boat
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Murray Slaughter
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Murray L. Slaughter was a fictional character in the situation comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He was played by actor Gavin MacLeod, Murray Slaughter was the news writer at fictional television station WJM-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was assigned to write the stories for the stations nightly news broadcast, presented by pompous. Murray was happily married to Marie and had several daughters, in the shows later years, he and Marie adopted a Vietnamese son. Although he was married, he was forever in love with Mary Richards. To him, she was someone he could mother hen over, Marie thought that he was going to leave her, but Mary explained to her that she thought of Murray as a best friend, and that helped things. In a season three episode, it is revealed that Murray is a compulsive gambler, during an episode where a snowstorm keeps Lou Grant from flying to Vegas, he holds a poker game that Murray reluctantly joins. Murray tried to write a novel, despite failing, he never gave up and he, along with Mary, Lou Grant and another nemesis of his, Sue Ann Nivens were fired from WJM-TV to boost sagging news ratings. Ironically, the one most responsible for the ratings, Ted. With Mary Richards, he is the other character to appear in every episode of the series
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The Love Boat
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The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship which aired on the ABC Television Network from May 5,1977, until May 24,1986, three-hour specials aired in 1986–87 and 1990. The show revolves around the captain and a handful of its crew, with several passengers – played by different guest actors for each episode – having romantic. It was part of ABCs popular Saturday night lineup that included Fantasy Island until that ended in 1984. The original 1976 made-for-TV movie on which the show was based was itself based on the nonfiction book Love Boats by Jeraldine Saunders, two more TV movies would follow before the series began its first season in September 1977. The executive producer for the series was Aaron Spelling, who produced several TV series for ABC from the 1960s into the 1980s. In 1997, the episode with segment titles Hidden Treasure, Picture from the Past, the Love Boat ran for nine seasons plus four specials. A made-for-TV movie, titled The Love Boat, A Valentine Voyage, starring four of the original cast members, aired on February 12,1990. Gavin MacLeod as Captain Merrill Stubing Bernie Kopell as Dr. Fred Grandy was in every episode throughout the run of the series, MacLeod was not the captain in the first two TV movies, however. However, when MacLeods character was introduced, there was mention of him being the new captain, among the series attractions was the casting of well-known actors in guest-starring roles, with many famous film stars of yesteryear making rare television appearances. The show was followed on Saturday nights on ABC by Fantasy Island, which was produced by Aaron Spelling. The one-hour sitcom was set aboard a Princess Cruises cruise liner called Pacific Princess. Other ships used were twin sister Island Princess, Stella Solaris, Pearl of Scandinavia, Royal Viking Sky and Royal Princess, the series was filmed primarily on sets in California—20th Century Fox Studios for seasons one through five and Warner Hollywood Studios for the remainder of the series. Another unique aspect of The Love Boat was its writing format, every episode contained several storylines, each written by a different set of writers working on one group of guest stars. As a result, episodes ended up with titles like Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy. This also led to continuity errors, most notably in Julies outfits during boarding and disembarkation. Even though the cast of Charlies Angels had been on separate episodes of the show, on rare occasions there would be crossovers between the stories. In one episode actors Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, formerly of The Brady Bunch, in one scene, the two pass each other in a corridor, exchange a Do I know you. Double-take, and then continue on their separate ways without talking, in a one-time Fantasy Island crossover episode, the cruise ship makes a detour to deliver a troubled woman to the mysterious island, and her storyline continued on that show
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Reader's Digest
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Readers Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in New York City, the magazine was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Readers Digest was the consumer magazine in the United States, it lost the distinction in 2009 to Better Homes. According to Mediamark Research, Readers Digest reaches more readers with household incomes of $100, 000+ than Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, global editions of Readers Digest reach an additional 40 million people in more than 70 countries, via 49 editions in 21 languages. It is believed that the printing system MEPS was used to achieve this multi language translation, the periodical has a global circulation of 10.5 million, making it the largest paid circulation magazine in the world. It is also published in Braille, digital, audio, the magazine is compact, with its pages roughly half the size of most American magazines. Hence, in the summer of 2005, the U. S. edition adopted the slogan, in January 2008, it was changed to, Life well shared. The magazine was started in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace while he was recovering from wounds received in World War I. Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of favorite articles on subjects from various monthly magazines, sometimes condensing and rewriting them. Since its inception, Readers Digest has maintained a conservative and anti-Communist perspective on political and social issues, the Wallaces initially hoped the journal could provide $5,000 of net income. Mr. Wallace’s continuing correct assessment of what the potential mass-market audience wanted to read led to rapid growth, by 1929, the magazine had 290,000 subscribers and had a gross income of $900,000 a year. The first international edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938 and was sold at 2 shillings and these were all listed in the Table of Contents on the front cover. Each article was prefaced by a small, simple line drawing, in recent years, however, the format has greatly evolved into flashy, colorful eye-catching graphics throughout, and many short bits of data interspersed with full articles. The Table of Contents is now contained inside, from 2003 to 2007, the back cover featured Our America, paintings of Rockwell-style whimsical situations by artist C. F. Payne. The first Word Power column of the magazine was published in the January 1945 edition, in December 1952 the magazine published Cancer by the Carton, a series of articles that linked smoking with lung cancer. This first brought the dangers of smoking to public attention which, from 2002 through 2006, Readers Digest conducted a vocabulary competition in schools throughout the United States called Readers Digest National Word Power Challenge. In 2006, the magazine published three more editions in Slovenia, Croatia and Romania. In October 2007, the Digest expanded in Serbia, the magazines licensee in Italy stopped publishing in December 2007
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Ojibwe
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The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, or Chippewa are an Anishinaabeg group of indigenous peoples in North America. They live in Canada and the United States and are one of the largest Indigenous ethnic groups north of the Rio Grande, in Canada, they are the second-largest First Nations population, surpassed only by the Cree. In the United States, they have the fourth-largest population among Native American tribes, surpassed only by the Navajo, Cherokee, the Ojibwe people traditionally have spoken the Ojibwe language, a branch of the Algonquian language family. They are part of the Council of Three Fires and the Anishinaabeg, which include the Algonquin, Nipissing, Oji-Cree, Odawa, the majority of the Ojibwe people live in Canada. There are 77,940 mainline Ojibwe,76,760 Saulteaux and 8,770 Mississaugas, organized in 125 bands, as of 2010, Ojibwe in the US census population is 170,742. Ojibwe are known for their bark canoes, birch bark scrolls, mining and trade in copper. Their Midewiwin Society is well respected as the keeper of detailed and complex scrolls of events, oral history, songs, maps, memories, stories, geometry, and mathematics. The Ojibwe people set the agenda with European-Canadian leaders by signing detailed treaties before they allowed many European settlers into their western areas, in 1745, they adopted guns from the British to defeat the Dakota people in the Lake Superior area, pushing them to the south and west. The exonym for this Anishinaabeg group is Ojibwe and this name is commonly anglicized as Ojibwa or Ojibway. The name Chippewa is an alternative anglicization, although many variations exist in literature, Chippewa is more common in the United States, and Ojibway predominates in Canada, but both terms are used in each country. In many Ojibwe communities throughout Canada and the U. S. since the late 20th century, some 19th-century sources say this name described a method of ritual torture that the Ojibwe applied to enemies. Because many Ojibwe were formerly located around the outlet of Lake Superior, marie for its rapids, the early Canadian settlers referred to the Ojibwe as Saulteurs. Ojibwe who subsequently moved to the provinces of Canada have retained the name Saulteaux. This is disputed since some scholars believe that only the name migrated west, Ojibwe who were originally located along the Mississagi River and made their way to southern Ontario are known as the Mississaugas. The Ojibwe language is known as Anishinaabemowin or Ojibwemowin, and is widely spoken. Today, most of the languages fluent speakers are elders, since the early 21st century, there is a growing movement to revitalize the language, and restore its strength as a central part of Ojibwe culture. The language belongs to the Algonquian linguistic group, and is descended from Proto-Algonquian and its sister languages include Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Fox, Menominee, Potawatomi, and Shawnee among the northern Plains tribes. Anishinaabemowin is frequently referred to as a Central Algonquian language, however, Ojibwemowin is the fourth-most spoken Native language in North America after Navajo, Cree, and Inuktitut
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Pleasantville, New York
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Pleasantville is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York. The village population was 7,019 at the 2010 census, Pleasantville is home to a campus of Pace University and to the Jacob Burns Film Center. It was the home of Readers Digest, which still uses a Pleasantville postal address. Most of Pleasantville is served by the Pleasantville Union Free School District, the village is also home to Pleasantville High School. The settlement of Pleasantville dates back to an Iroquois tribe, who raised corn there, french Huguenot Isaac See settled here as an agent for Dutch landowner Frederick Philipse in 1695, beginning the modern history of Pleasantville. By the time of the American Revolution, the population of the settlement comprised English, Dutch. During the Revolution, this area was part of the Neutral Ground, British spy Major John André passed through present-Pleasantville carrying information from Benedict Arnold at Fort Clinton to the British in New York City. André lost his bearings near the corner of Bedford Road. The capture of André is often cited as a key factor in the victory of the American forces. As the areas population grew in the early 19th century, the settlement was called Clark’s Corners, referring to property owned by Henry Clark at the intersection of Broadway and this area was the village’s original commercial center. In the 1820s, the appointed postmaster, Henry Romer, was directed by the Postmaster Generals office in Washington. Romers proposed name, Clarksville, was rejected because another New York post office already had the name and his second choice, Pleasantville, was accepted, and the Pleasantville Post Office opened on February 29,1828. A significant change in the development of Pleasantville came with the arrival of the New York Central Railroad and New York and Harlem Railroad in 1846. In the following year, a station was built near the present corner of Bedford Road and Wheeler Avenue. The older business district at Bedford Road and Broadway is today called the Old Village, the present-day train station, which currently houses a restaurant, was built in 1905 and was moved to its present location in the 1950s to accommodate the lowering of the tracks below grade. According to several sources, Pleasantville was a stop on the Underground Railroad, the latter half of the 19th century was a time of rapid growth in Pleasantville. By the 1870s, there were four shoemaking businesses, a business. The first newspaper to serve the village, The Pleasantville Pioneer, was launched at about 1886, the villages numerous small farms and orchards began to be subdivided for a wave of solid foursquare and Victorian houses built for a growing middle class
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United States Air Force
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The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a branch of the military on 18 September 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U. S. military to be formed, the U. S. Air Force is a military service organized within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The Air Force is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force, who reports to the Secretary of Defense, the U. S. Air Force provides air support for surface forces and aids in the recovery of troops in the field. As of 2015, the service more than 5,137 military aircraft,406 ICBMs and 63 military satellites. It has a $161 billion budget with 313,242 active duty personnel,141,197 civilian employees,69,200 Air Force Reserve personnel, and 105,500 Air National Guard personnel. According to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the USAF and it shall be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained offensive and defensive air operations. The stated mission of the USAF today is to fly, fight, and win in air, space and we will provide compelling air, space, and cyber capabilities for use by the combatant commanders. We will excel as stewards of all Air Force resources in service to the American people, while providing precise and reliable Global Vigilance, Reach and it should be emphasized that the core functions, by themselves, are not doctrinal constructs. The purpose of Nuclear Deterrence Operations is to operate, maintain, in the event deterrence fails, the US should be able to appropriately respond with nuclear options. Dissuading others from acquiring or proliferating WMD, and the means to deliver them, moreover, different deterrence strategies are required to deter various adversaries, whether they are a nation state, or non-state/transnational actor. Nuclear strike is the ability of forces to rapidly and accurately strike targets which the enemy holds dear in a devastating manner. Should deterrence fail, the President may authorize a precise, tailored response to terminate the conflict at the lowest possible level, post-conflict, regeneration of a credible nuclear deterrent capability will deter further aggression. Finally, the Air Force regularly exercises and evaluates all aspects of operations to ensure high levels of performance. Nuclear surety ensures the safety, security and effectiveness of nuclear operations, the Air Force, in conjunction with other entities within the Departments of Defense or Energy, achieves a high standard of protection through a stringent nuclear surety program. The Air Force continues to pursue safe, secure and effective nuclear weapons consistent with operational requirements, adversaries, allies, and the American people must be highly confident of the Air Forces ability to secure nuclear weapons from accidents, theft, loss, and accidental or unauthorized use. This day-to-day commitment to precise and reliable nuclear operations is the cornerstone of the credibility of the NDO mission, positive nuclear command, control, communications, effective nuclear weapons security, and robust combat support are essential to the overall NDO function. OCA is the method of countering air and missile threats, since it attempts to defeat the enemy closer to its source
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Radio City Music Hall
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Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city and its interior was declared a city landmark in 1978. It is notable as being the headquarters for the dance company. The 12-acre complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center was developed between 1929 and 1940 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on land leased from Columbia University. The Radio City Music Hall was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and its originally planned name was International Music Hall. The names Radio City and Radio City Music Hall derive from one of the complexs first tenants, Radio City Music Hall was a project of Rockefeller, Samuel Roxy Rothafel, who previously opened the Roxy Theatre in 1927, and RCA chairman David Sarnoff. The Music Hall opened to the public on December 27,1932 with a stage show featuring Ray Bolger, Doc Rockwell. The opening was meant to be a return to high-class variety entertainment, the new format was not a success. The program was long, and individual acts were lost in the cavernous hall. On January 11,1933, the Music Hall converted to the format of a feature film. The film-plus-stage-spectacle format continued at the Music Hall until 1979, with four complete performances presented every day, plans for alternate uses for the structure included converting the theater into tennis courts, a shopping mall or the American Stock Exchange. Joining forces with the media and political allies, including New York Lt. Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak, they challenged the Rockefeller establishment, against all odds, to save The Showplace of the Nation. On March 28,1978 New York Citys Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the interior of Radio City Music Hall a landmark guaranteeing that the building would remain a theatre, on May 12,1978, Radio City Music Hall was placed on The National Register of Historic Places. Regular film showings at Radio City ended in 1979 and in 1980, after a renovation, Radio City Music Hall is currently leased to and managed by The Madison Square Garden Company. Movie premieres and feature runs have occasionally taken place such as the Harry Potter film series. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular continues to be an important annual event, starting in 2013, however, the Tony Awards will be the only major televised awards ceremony at Radio City, as the Video Music Awards relocated permanently to the Barclays Center that year. Radio City has 5,933 seats for spectators, and additional seating can be placed on the pit elevator during events that do not require that space bringing the capacity to over 6,000. Designed by Edward Durell Stone, the interior of the theater with its austere Art Deco lines represented a break with the ornate rococo ornament associated with movie palaces at the time
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I Want to Live!
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It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore Bikel. The movie was adapted from letters written by Graham and newspaper articles written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Montgomery and it presents a somewhat fictionalized version of the case showing a possibility of innocence concerning Graham. Today, the charge would be known as felony murder, the film earned six Oscar nominations, with Hayward winning a Best Actress Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards. The film tells the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham, Graham is the product of a broken home, and works luring men into fixed card games. At one point, she attempts to go straight but marries the wrong man and he is a drug addict and she ends their relationship. When her life falls apart, she returns to her former professions, the police arrest them, and her companions accuse her of the murder to reduce their own chances of going to the gas chamber. She claims her innocence, but is convicted and executed, a prologue and epilogue contributed to the film by Montgomery characterize the films content — which largely portrays Graham as innocent of the murder — as factual. But there was evidence of Grahams complicity in the crime which included her taped confession to an undercover officer. Hollywood writer Robert Osborne, who became the host of Turner Classic Movies, interviewed Hayward. The film earned a net profit of $2,455,570 and she had no hesitation about indulging in any form of crime or vice that promised excitement on her own, rather mean, terms. Hayward brings off this complex characterization, Simon Oakland, as Montgomery, who first crucified Barbara Graham in print and then attempted to undo what he had done, underplays his role with assurance. From a loose and wise-cracking B-girl she moves onto levels of disdain and then plunges down to depths of terror. Except that the role does not present us a precisely pretty character, gene Blake, the reporter who covered the actual murder trial for the Los Angeles Daily Mirror, called the movie a dramatic and eloquent piece of propaganda for the abolition of the death penalty. In 2009, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that out of eleven reviews of the film were positive. Wins New York Film Critics Circle Awards, NYFCC Award, Best Actress, Academy Awards, Oscar, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Susan Hayward,1958. Golden Globes, Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama, Susan Hayward,1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival, Best Actress, nominations Directors Guild of America, DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Robert Wise,1959. Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz,1958, Golden Globes, Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Motion Picture Director, Robert Wise,1959. Grammy Awards, Grammy, Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast, writers Guild of America, WGA Award, Best Written American Drama, Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz,1959
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Susan Hayward
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Susan Hayward was an American actress. After working as a model, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937. She secured a contract and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. Her career continued successfully through the 1950s and she received subsequent nominations for My Foolish Heart, With a Song in My Heart and she finally won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of death-row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live. After Haywards second marriage and subsequent move to Georgia, her appearances became infrequent, although she continued acting in film. She died in 1975 of brain cancer, Hayward was born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, the youngest of three children born to Ellen and Walter Marrenner. Her paternal grandmother was an actress, Kate Harrigan, from County Cork and her mother was of Swedish descent. She had a sister, Florence, and an older brother, Walter, Jr. Hayward was educated at Public School 181. During her high school years, she acted in school plays and was named Most Dramatic by her class. Hayward began her career as a model, going to Hollywood in 1937. Although she did not win the role, Hayward found employment playing bit parts until she was cast in Beau Geste opposite Gary Cooper. During the war years, she acted with John Wayne twice, as a lead in Reap the Wild Wind. She also starred in the version of The Hairy Ape. After the war, Haywards career took off when she was contracted by producer Walter Wanger for a contract at $100,000 a year. With her first film being Canyon Passage, in 1947, she received the first of five Academy Award nominations for her role as an alcoholic nightclub singer in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, her second film for Wanger. She continued as one of Hollywoods most popular leading ladies in films such as Tap Roots, My Foolish Heart, David and Bathsheba, Haywards portrayal of Graham won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1959, she played the lead, Mary Sharron, in Woman Obsessed, in 1956, she was cast by Howard Hughes to play Bortai in the historical epic The Conqueror, as John Waynes leading lady. Though Hayward never truly known as a singer because she hated her own singing
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Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television. His best-known films include Breakfast at Tiffanys, Days of Wine and Roses,10, Victor/Victoria, often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he transitioned to writing, producing, in 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing, and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he was the son of Donald and his father reportedly left the family before he was born. His mother married again, to Jack McEdwards, who became his stepfather, McEdwards was the son of J. Gordon Edwards, a director of silent movies, and in 1925, he moved the family to Los Angeles and became a film production manager. In an interview with the Village Voice in 1971, Blake Edwards said that he had felt alienated, estranged from my own father. After attending grammar and high school in Los Angeles, Blake began taking jobs as an actor during World War II, Edwards describes this period, I worked with the best directors – Ford, Wyler, Preminger – and learned a lot from them. But I wasnt a very cooperative actor, I was a spunky, smart-assed kid. Maybe even then I was indicating that I wanted to give, not take, Edwards served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, where he suffered a severe back injury, which left him in pain for years afterwards. Edwards debut as a director came in 1952 on the television program Four Star Playhouse, Edwardss hard-boiled private detective scripts for Richard Diamond, Private Detective became NBCs answer to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, reflecting Edwardss unique humor. Edwards also created, wrote, and directed the 1959 TV series Peter Gunn, in the same year, Edwards produced, with Mancinis musical theme, Mr. Lucky, an adventure series on CBS starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin. Mancinis association with Edwards continued in his work, significantly contributing to their success. Operation Petticoat Operation Petticoat was Edwardss first big-budget movie as a director, the film, which starred Tony Curtis and Cary Grant, became the greatest box-office success of the decade for Universal, and made Edwards a recognized director. Breakfast at Tiffanys Breakfast at Tiffanys, based on the novel by Truman Capote, is credited with establishing him as a figure with many critics. Andrew Sarris called it the surprise of 1961, and it became a romantic touchstone for college students in the early 1960s. Days of Wine and Roses Days of Wine And Roses, a psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon. It has been described as perhaps the most unsparing tract against drink that Hollywood has yet produced, the film gave another major boost to Edwardss reputation as an important director
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Peter Gunn
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Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The series was created by Blake Edwards, episodes were also directed by Boris Sagal, Robert Gist, Jack Arnold, Lamont Johnson, Robert Altman and several others. A total of 114 thirty-minute episodes were produced by Spartan Productions, Season one was filmed at Universal Studios, while seasons two and three were filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Philip H. Lathrop and William W. Spencer were cinematographers on many episodes, Craig Stevens wardrobe was tailored by Don Richards and Lola Albrights fashions by Jax. The series was No.17 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1958–1959 TV season, the title character, played by Craig Stevens, is a well-dressed private investigator whose hair is always in place and who loves cool jazz. Where other gumshoes might be coarse, Peter Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes and he operates in a nameless, fictional riverfront city and can usually be found at Mothers, a smoky wharfside jazz club that he uses as his office, often meeting clients there. He has a reputation of being one of the best investigators and he sometimes works cases out of the state and on at least one occasion out of country, with one case occurring in Mexico and another involving a tour of Western Europe. Gunn drives a 1958 two-tone DeSoto two door hardtop in the first few episodes of the first season, then a 1959 Plymouth Fury convertible with a white top, in the third season Gunn drives a 1961 white Plymouth Fury convertible with a car phone. Gunns girlfriend, Edie Hart, is a sultry singer employed at Mothers and his pet name for Edie is Silly. Herschel Bernardi costarred as Lieutenant Charles Chuck Jacoby, a police detective. Occasionally he refers people to Gunn as clients, Bernardi received his only Emmy nomination for the role. Hope Emerson appeared as Mother, who had been a singer and she received an Emmy nomination for the role. For the second season, Mother was played by Minerva Urecal, associate producer Byron Kane portrayed Barney, the bartender, Kane was never credited for playing this role. Bill Chadney appeared as Emmett, the player at Mothers. Both Billy Barty as pool hustler Babby and Herbert Ellis as Beat bistro owner, painter, Capri Candela played Wilburs girlfriend Capri. Frequent director Robert Gist appeared as an actor in different roles in three episodes, Edie opened her own night club Edies with James Lanphier as Leslie the maitre d in Season 3. Peter Gunn ran for three seasons starting in late 1958, a total of 114 episodes were produced during the three season run. Peter Gunn premiered on September 22,1958 with the episode The Kill, the first season ran from September 1958 through June 1959 and contained 38 episodes
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Mr. Lucky (TV series)
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Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from 1959 to 1960 with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, in the 1960–1961 television season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. John Vivyan played Lucky, not Dante, Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included the text, Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards. Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes, Henry Mancinis smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LPs based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin, john Vivyan played the title character Mr. Lucky. Pippa Scott had a role as Maggie Shank-Rutherford, Luckys girlfriend. Tom Brown also had a role, as Lieutenant Rovacs of the city police. Mr. Lucky is an honest professional gambler with extraordinary luck and he carries a pocket watch whose chimes play the first five notes of the Mr. Lucky theme music. He and Andamo operate a floating casino aboard a yacht anchored outside an American port city. Their business brings them into contact with numerous criminals and people hiding from criminals and this continues even after Lucky changes their business to a floating restaurant. The website TV Obscurities indicates that Mr. Luckys actual name was never identified in the series. The episode Aces Back to Back reveals that Lucky is a veteran of the United States Navy, the end credits state that Mr. Lucky was Based on an Original Story, Bundles for Freedom by Milton Holmes. This story was also the basis of the 1943 motion picture Mr. Lucky, the film and the television series had little in common beside the title and the suave nature of the lead characters. The first episode of the series, The Magnificent Bribe, begins with Lucky and Andamo running a casino in Andamos homeland. To stay in business, they must pay a bribe of $1000 to the countrys corrupt president. The episode ends with Lucky and Andamo escaping in a boat with nothing. In the second episode, They Shall Not Pass, Lucky, Lucky wins enough money in a crap game to buy another yacht and a truck full of gambling equipment. He renames the yacht Fortuna II, and anchors her outside the limit to operate as a floating casino
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Yeoman
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A yeoman /ˈjoʊmən/ was a member of a social class in late medieval to early modern England. A specialized meaning in naval terminology, petty officer in charge of supplies, the term is first recorded c. It may be a contraction of Old English iunge man, meaning young man, the Canons Yeomans Prologue and Tale appears in Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400. During the late 14th to 18th centuries, yeomen were farmers who owned land and their wealth and the size of their landholding varied. Often it was hard to distinguish minor landed gentry from the wealthier yeomen, the Concise Oxford Dictionary states that a yeoman was a person qualified by possessing free land of 40/- annual value, and who can serve on juries and vote for a Knight of the Shire. He is sometimes described as a landowner, a farmer of the middle classes. The term had a sense as in the Yeomanry Cavalry of the late 18th century. The yeoman archer was unique to England and Wales, though Kentish Weald and Cheshire archers were noted for their skills, it appears that the bulk of the yeomanry was from the English and Welsh Marches. The original Yeomen of the Guard chartered in 1485 were most likely of Brittonic descent, including Welshmen and they were established by King Henry VII, himself a Briton who was exiled in Brittany during the Wars of the Roses. He recruited his forces mostly from Wales and the West Midlands of England on his journey to victory at Bosworth Field, Yeomen were often constables of their parish, and sometimes chief constables of the district, shire or hundred. Many yeomen held the positions of bailiffs for the High Sheriff or for the shire or hundred, other civic duties would include churchwarden, bridge warden, and other warden duties. It was also common for a yeoman to be an overseer for his parish, Yeomen, whether working for a lord, king, shire, knight, district or parish served in localised or municipal police forces raised by or led by the landed gentry. Some of these roles, in particular those of constable and bailiff were carried down through families, Yeomen often filled ranging, roaming, surveying, and policing roles. In Chaucers Friars Tale, a yeoman who is a bailiff of the forest who tricks the Summoner turns out to be the devil ready to grant wishes already made, the earlier class of franklins were similar to yeomen, wealthy peasant landowners, freeholders or village officials. They were typically village leaders, constables or mayors, Franklin militias were similar to later yeomanries. Yeomen took over roles in the 14th century as many of them became leaders, constables, sheriffs, justices of the peace, mayors. It was too much, for even ‘valets’ known as ‘yeoman archers’ were forbidden to be returned to parliament, the yeoman also comprised a military class or status. In the United States, yeomen were identified in the 18th and 19th centuries as non-slaveholding, small landowning, in Southern areas where land was poor, like East Tennessee, the landowning yeomen were typically subsistence farmers, but some managed to grow some crops for market
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Operation Petticoat
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The film tells in flashback the misadventures of the fictional U. S. Navy submarine, USS Sea Tiger, during the opening days of the United States involvement in World War II. Some elements of the screenplay were taken from actual incidents that happened with some of the Pacific Fleets submarines during the war, paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing for their work on Operation Petticoat. The film was the basis for a series in 1977 starring John Astin in Grants role. In 1959 U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Matt Sherman, ComSubPac, boards the obsolete submarine USS Sea Tiger, Sherman, once her first commanding officer, begins reading his wartime personal logbook, recalling earlier events. On 10 December 1941, a Japanese air raid sinks Sea Tiger while docked at the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, Lieutenant Commander Sherman and his crew begin repairs, hoping to sail for Darwin, Australia before the Japanese overrun the port. Lieutenant Nick Holden, an aide, is reassigned to Sea Tiger despite lacking any submarine training or experience. Holden demonstrates great skill as a scrounger after Sherman makes him the supply officer and he teams up with Marine Sergeant Ramon Gallardo, an escaped prisoner, to obtain materials desperately needed for repairs, persuading the captain to sign on Ramon as the ships cook. What Holden and his men cannot acquire from base warehouses, they midnight requisition from various military, refloated and restored to barely seaworthy condition, with only two of her four diesel engines operable, Sea Tiger puts to sea. She reaches Marinduque, where Sherman reluctantly agrees to evacuate five stranded female Army nurses, Holden is attracted to Second Lieutenant Barbara Duran, while Sherman has a series of embarrassing encounters with the well-endowed and clumsy Second Lieutenant Dolores Crandall. Later, when Sherman prepares to attack an enemy oiler moored to a pier, the torpedo misses its target and instead sinks a truck ashore. Sherman tries to put the nurses ashore at Cebu, but the Army refuses to accept them, chief Torpedoman Molumphry has been asking for paint. Holden manages to get some red and white lead primer paint, the two are mixed together, resulting in a pale pink primer that the chief reluctantly has applied. A Japanese air raid forces a hasty departure before the crew can apply the top coat of navy gray, Tokyo Rose mocks the mysterious pink submarine, while the U. S. Navy believes it to be a Japanese deception, ordering that it be sunk on sight. An American destroyer spots Sea Tiger and opens fire, then launches depth charges when the submarine crash dives, Sherman tries an oil slick and then launches blankets, pillows, and life jackets, but the deception fails. At Holdens suggestion, Sherman ejects the nurses lingerie, crandalls bra convinces the destroyers captain that the Japanese have nothing like this, and he ceases fire. Sea Tiger, still pink, arrives at Darwin, battered, shermans reminiscence ends with the arrival of Commander Nick Holden, his wife, and their sons. Sherman promises Holden command of a new nuclear-powered submarine, named Sea Tiger, shermans wife arrives late with their daughters and rear-ends her husbands staff car, causing it to lock bumpers with a Navy bus. When it drives away, dragging his car with it, Sherman reassures his wife that it will be stopped at the main gate
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Cary Grant
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Cary Grant was a British-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywoods definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his accent, debonair demeanor. He became an American citizen in 1942, Born in Horfield, Bristol, Grant became attracted to theatre at a young age, and began performing with a troupe known as The Penders from the age of six. After attending Bishop Road Primary School and Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol, he toured the country as a stage performer and he established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s. Along with the later Arsenic and Old Lace and I Was a Male War Bride, having established himself as a major Hollywood star, he was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart. In the 1940s and 1950s, Grant forged a relationship with the director Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in films such as Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief. Hitchcock admired Grant and considered him to have been the actor that he had ever loved working with. His comic timing and delivery made Grant what Premiere magazine considers to have quite simply. Grant was married five times, three of his marriages were elopements with actresses—Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon and he has one daughter with Cannon, Jennifer Grant. After his retirement from acting in 1966, Grant pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé. He was presented with an Honorary Oscar by his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970, in 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema, after Humphrey Bogart. Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18,1904 at 15 Hughenden Road in the northern Bristol suburb of Horfield and he was the second child of Elias James Leach and Elsie Maria Leach. Elias, the son of a potter, worked as a tailors presser at a factory, while Elsie. Grants elder brother, John William Elias Leach, died of tuberculous meningitis, Grant considered himself to have been partly Jewish. He had an upbringing, his father was an alcoholic. Wanting the best for her son, Elsie taught Grant song and dance when he was four and she would occasionally take him to the cinema where he enjoyed the performances of Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling, Mack Swain and Broncho Billy Anderson. Grant entered education when he was four-and-a-half and was sent to the Bishop Road Primary School, Bristol, another biographer, Geoffrey Wansell, notes that Elsie blamed herself bitterly for the death of Grants older brother John, and never recovered from it. Grant later acknowledged that his experiences with his fiercely independent mother affected his relationships with women later in life
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Tony Curtis
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Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades but who was mostly popular in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a range of genres. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances, although his early film roles were partly the result of his good looks, by the latter half of the 1950s he became a notable and strong screen presence. He began proving himself to be a dramatic actor, having the range to act in numerous dramatic. In his earliest parts he acted in a string of films, including swashbucklers, westerns, light comedies, sports films. However, by the time he starred in Houdini with his wife Janet Leigh, his first clear success, notes critic David Thomson and he achieved his first serious recognition as a dramatic actor in Sweet Smell of Success with co-star Burt Lancaster. The following year he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in The Defiant Ones, Curtis then gave what could arguably be called his best performance, three interrelated roles in the comedy Some Like It Hot. Thomson called it a film, and a survey carried out by the American Film Institute voted it the funniest American film ever made. The film co-starred Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and was directed by Billy Wilder and that was followed by Blake Edwards’s Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant. They were both frantic comedies, and displayed his comic timing. He often collaborated with Edwards on later films, in 1960, Curtis played a supporting role in Spartacus, which became another major hit for him. His stardom and film career declined considerably after 1960 and his most significant dramatic part came in 1968 when he starred in the true-life drama The Boston Strangler, which some consider his last major film role. The part reinforced his reputation as an actor with his chilling portrayal of serial killer Albert DeSalvo. Curtis was the father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis by his first wife, Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on June 3,1925, in the Bronx, New York, to Helen and Emanuel Schwartz. His parents were Slovak and Hungarian Jewish immigrants, his father was born in Ópályi, near Mátészalka and he did not learn English until he was five or six, delaying his schooling. His father was a tailor and the lived in the back of the shop—his parents in one corner and Curtis and his brothers Julius. His mother once made an appearance as a participant on the television show You Bet Your Life, Curtis said, When I was a child, Mom beat me up and was very aggressive and antagonistic. His mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia
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High Time (film)
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High Time is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld, and Nicole Maurey. The film is told from the perspective of a man who enters the world of a new generation of postwar youth. Wealthy restaurateur Harvey Howard, a man, widower and owner of Harvey Howard Smokehouses, decides to go back to college at the age of 51. He faces opposition from his grown children, as well as a generation gap between himself and his much-younger fellow students. The first day in school he finds that just convincing older students, faculty and he enrolls and receives freshman rooming, and is up front about his determination to be just another freshman. Being assigned a quad rooming arrangement, this sets the standard for the upcoming years, dealing with the student press, the dorm adviser and making that first toast with sauerkraut juice to seal their bond to complete their four years together. The Presidents welcoming speech sets the tone for the effort facing the freshman class, another frosh challenge is the bonfire that must exceed the height of the prior years. Harvey meets the French professor, Helen Gauthier when removing a supporting wooden chair from her porch, the bonfires total height comes up a foot short, Harvey climbs to the summit and deposits his three-foot chair, a very brave and daunting achievement. Having two brilliant roommates and jock Gil Sparrow, the academic rigors are always fuel for comedy, sophomore year again has Harvey being berated by his children, the schools beat reporter is there to welcome him and puts up with the snobby kids. Harvey is off to meet his last years roommates and the requisite toast to success, the elderly southern gentleman is suffering a gout attack and his social climbing children are attending the same event. While dancing with his son, he so discombobulates him that his dress is torn in half, the rest of the year is full of great football by Gil, academic pressure and more antics by Prof. Thayer. Junior year starts with Harvey arriving in a red Mercedes convertible, and meeting the group at a Harvey Howard Smokehouse for a toast of goat milk, the Smokehouse maitre D at Harvey Howards, super-snob Burdick doesnt like one bit of this. His first task is to challenge the group to order their meals which is fine with Harvey who orders Harvey Burgers with special sauce for the lot. Burdick sneers back that its too early for the sauce, Navy Brat. The burgers arrive and are dry, carbonized and inedible, Harvey, who stands behind all burgers served in his Smokehouses, calls Burdick over to take them back, Burdick challenges Harvey to do better, which he does. Burdick watching Harvey jump to it at the grill catches Harvey Howards full name, Burdick completes eating a burger prepared by Harvey and becomes a transformed Harvey employee, hilarious. The students protest and the President delays any action until the next Spring, Senior Year, Harvey shows up in a taxi, the group gathers and toast their final year, both Harvey and Gil are still hitting the books hard, with some success. Hay rides with phone booth body jams and a procession towards graduation
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Bing Crosby
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Harry Lillis Bing Crosby, Jr. was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, from 1931 to 1954 Crosby was a leader in sales, radio ratings. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone and this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music, in 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of only 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. In addition to his work with early tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, Crosby died at the age of 74 on October 14,1977, from a sudden heart attack in Alcobendas, Spain. Crosby was born on May 2,1903 in Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, Crosbys family moved to Spokane, and in 1913, Crosbys father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. The house now sits on the campus of Crosbys alma mater Gonzaga University and he was the fourth of seven children, brothers Larry, Everett, Ted, and Bob, and two sisters, Catherine and Mary Rose. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby, Sr. a bookkeeper, Crosbys mother was a second generation Irish-American. In 1910, seven-year-old Harry Crosby Jr. was forever renamed, the Sunday edition of the Spokesman-Review published a feature called The Bingville Bugle. Written by humorist Newton Newkirk, The Bingville Bugle was a parody of a hillbilly newsletter filled with gossipy tidbits, minstrel quips, creative spelling, and mock ads. A neighbor, 15-year-old Valentine Hobart, shared Crosbys enthusiasm for The Bugle, and noting Crosbys laugh, took a liking to him, eventually, the last vowel was dropped and the nickname stuck. Crosby later described Jolsons delivery as electric, Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University. He attended Gonzaga for three years, but did not earn a bachelors degree, as a freshman, he played on the universitys baseball team. The university granted him a doctorate in 1937. In 1923, Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of school students a few years younger than himself. Al Rinker, Miles Rinker, James Heaton, Claire Pritchard and Robert Pritchard, along with drummer Crosby, formed the Musicaladers, the group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years
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The Party (1968 film)
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The Party is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The film has a loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of setpieces for Sellerss improvisational comedy talents. The Party is considered a classic cult film. W. Griffiths style came to dominate the American cinema, film historian Saul Austerlitz wrote, Despite the offensiveness of Sellerss brownface routine, The Party is one of his very best films. Taking a page from Tati, this is neorealist comedy, purposefully lacking a directors guiding eye, look here, the screen is crammed full of activity, and the audiences eyes are left to wander where they may. A film crew is making a Gunga Din-style costume epic, unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi plays a bugler, but continues to play even after being shot and after the director yells cut. Bakshi later accidentally blows up a fort set rigged with explosives. The director fires Bakshi immediately and calls the head, General Fred R. Clutterbuck. Clutterbuck writes down Bakshis name to blacklist him, but he inadvertently writes Bakshis name on the guest list of his wifes upcoming dinner party, Bakshi then receives his invitation and drives to the party. Upon arrival at Clutterbucks home, Bakshi tries to rinse mud off his shoe in a pool that flows through the house. After many failures, he is reunited with his shoe, Bakshi has awkward interactions with everyone at the party, including Clutterbucks dog Cookie. He meets famous Western movie actor Wyoming Bill Kelso, who gives Bakshi an autograph, Bakshi later accidentally shoots Kelso with a toy gun, but Kelso does not see who did it. Bakshi feeds a caged macaw bird food from a container marked Birdie Num Num, Bakshi at various times during the film activates a panel of electronics that control the intercom, a fountain replica of the Manneken Pis, and a retractable bar. After Kelso hurts Bakshis hand while shaking it, Bakshi sticks his hand into a bowl of crushed ice containing caviar, while waiting to wash his hand in the bathroom, he meets aspiring actress Michèle Monet, who came with producer C. S. Divot. Bakshi shakes Divots hand, and Divot then shakes hands with other guests, passing around the fishy odor, at dinner, Bakshis place setting right by the kitchen door has a very low chair that puts his chin near the table. An increasingly drunk waiter named Levinson tries to serve dinner and fights with the other staff, during the main course, Bakshis roast Cornish game hen accidentally catapults off his fork and becomes impaled on a guests tiara. Bakshi asks Levinson to retrieve his meal, but the womans wig comes off along with her tiara, Levinson ends up brawling with other waiting staff, and dinner is disrupted. Bakshi apologizes to his hosts, then needs to go to the bathroom and he wanders through the house, opening doors and barging in on various servants and guests in embarrassing situations
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Peter Sellers
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Peter Sellers, CBE was an English film actor, comedian and singer. Born in Portsmouth, Sellers made his debut at the Kings Theatre, Southsea. He began accompanying his parents in a variety act that toured the provincial theatres and he first worked as a drummer and toured around England as a member of the Entertainments National Service Association. He developed his mimicry and improvisational skills during a spell in Ralph Readers wartime Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured Britain, after the war, Sellers made his radio debut in ShowTime, and eventually became a regular performer on various BBC radio shows. During the early 1950s, Sellers, along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, took part in the radio series The Goon Show. Sellers began his career during the 1950s. Although the bulk of his work was comedic, often parodying characters of authority such as officers or policemen. Films demonstrating his artistic range include Im All Right Jack, Stanley Kubricks Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, Whats New, Casino Royale, The Party, Being There and the five films of the Pink Panther series. Satire and black humour were major features of many of his films and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role twice, for Im All Right Jack and for the original Pink Panther film, The Pink Panther and was nominated as Best Actor three times. In 1980 he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in Being There, turner Classic Movies calls Sellers one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century. In his personal life, Sellers struggled with depression and insecurities, an enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played. Sellers was married four times, and had three children from his first two marriages and he died as a result of a heart attack in 1980, aged 54. English filmmakers the Boulting brothers described Sellers as the greatest comic genius this country has produced since Charles Chaplin, Sellers was born on 8 September 1925, in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. His parents were Yorkshire-born William Bill Sellers and Agnes Doreen Peg, both were variety entertainers, Peg was in the Ray Sisters troupe. Although christened Richard Henry, his parents called him Peter, after his elder stillborn brother, Peg Sellers was related to the pugilist Daniel Mendoza, whom Sellers greatly revered, and whose engraving later hung in his office. At one time Sellers planned to use Mendozas image for his companys logo. The family constantly toured, causing much upheaval and unhappiness in the young Sellerss life, Sellers maintained a very close relationship with his mother, which his friend Spike Milligan later considered unhealthy for a grown man. As an only child though, he spent much time alone, in 1935 the Sellers family moved to North London and settled in Muswell Hill
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The Dick Van Dyke Show
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The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3,1961 to June 1,1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning over five seasons. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews and it centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The show was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, the music for the shows theme song was written by Earle Hagen. The series won 15 Emmy Awards, in 1997, the episodes Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth and It May Look Like a Walnut were ranked at 8 and 15 respectively on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, it was ranked at 13 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time and in 2013, the two main settings show the work and home life of Rob Petrie, the head writer of a comedy/variety show produced in Manhattan. Viewers are given a look at how a television show was written. Many scenes deal with Rob and his co-writers, Buddy Sorrell, Mel Cooley, a balding straight man and recipient of numerous insulting one-liners from Buddy, was the shows producer and the brother-in-law of the shows star, Alan Brady. As Rob, Buddy, and Sally write for a comedy show, Other scenes focus on the home life of Rob, his wife Laura, and son Richie, who live at 148 Bonnie Meadow Road in suburban New Rochelle, New York. Also often seen are their neighbors and best friends, Jerry Helper, a dentist. In the pilot, Carl Reiner, who created the show based on his own experiences as a TV writer, played Robbie Petrie, with a long first e, the pilot was unsuccessful, which led Reiner to rework the show with Dick Van Dyke playing the central character. The pilot was subsequently the basis of the series episode Father of the Week. Reiner considered moving the production of the series to full color as early as three, only to drop the idea when he was informed that it would add about $7,000 to the cost of each episode. On December 11,2016, two episodes from the series were presented on CBS-TV colorized, the Last Chapter was the last episode that aired, The Gunslinger was the last episode filmed. Main, Robert Simpson Rob Petrie – head writer for The Alan Brady Show, the role of Rob Petrie was almost given to Johnny Carson, but Sheldon Leonard, the shows executive producer, suggested Van Dyke. As a 17-year-old dancer in the United Service Organizations, she met, then, she became a stay-at-home mom. About 60 actresses auditioned for the part before Moore was signed, Moore later wrote that she almost skipped the audition. Maurice Buddy Sorrell – an energetic and at times sarcastic human joke machine, one of the comedy writers, Amsterdam was recommended for the role by Rose Marie as soon as she had signed on to the series. Buddy is constantly making fun of Mel Cooley, the producer, for being bald
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Perry Mason
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Perry Mason is a fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason is featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, typically, Mason establishes his clients innocence by implicating another character, who then confesses. The character of Perry Mason was adapted for motion pictures and a radio series. These were followed by its adaptation, the CBS television series Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr. The Perry Mason series ranks third in the top ten best selling book series, in 2015 the American Bar Associations publishing imprint, Ankerwycke, began reissuing Gardners Perry Mason books, which had been out of print in the United States. The name Perry Mason dates to creator Gardners childhood, as a child, Gardner was a reader of the magazine Youths Companion. The magazine was published in Boston, Massachusetts, by the Perry Mason Company, when Gardner created his fictional attorney, he borrowed the name of the company which published his favorite childhood magazine. Gardner provided more information about Masons character in the novels, knowledge of his character is largely taken for granted in the later works. In the first novel, Mason describes himself, Youll find that Im a lawyer who has specialized in trial work, and in a lot of criminal work. Im a specialist on getting people out of trouble. They come to me when theyre in all sorts of trouble, If you look me up through some chap in the District Attorneys office, hell tell you that Im a dangerous antagonist but he doesnt know very much about me. Gardner depicts Mason as a lawyer who fights hard on behalf of his clients and he frequently accepts clients on a whim based on his curiosity about their problem, for a minimal retainer, and finances the investigation of their cases himself if necessary. In The Case of the Caretakers Cat, his principal antagonist, District Attorney Hamilton Burger, says, when you turn your mind to the solution of a crime, you ferret out the truth. The Court feels you are capable of looking after your own as well as your clients interests. Another frequent antagonist, Lieutenant Arthur Tragg of the squad, has a discussion with Mason about his approach to the law. Mason is recovering from having been poisoned, and Tragg is investigating and he says, How does it feel to be the victim for once. … Youve been sticking up for criminals and now you can see the side of the picture. Not sticking up for criminals, protested indignantly, I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the administration of an impartial justice … Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly
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Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
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Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980. At the airing of its very last episode, it was the longest running cop show in history at that time. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, the head of a state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular, many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to Book em, Danno. sometimes specifying a charge such as murder one. The CBS television network produced Hawaii Five-O, which aired from September 20,1968, the program continues to be broadcast in syndication worldwide. Hawaii Five-O was named in honor of Hawaiis being the 50th state, although the shows name has always ended with the numeral 0, the soundtrack album, released in the late 1960s, used the letter O instead of the numeral zero. The letter O is sometimes used to differentiate the series and the remake which premiered in 2010. The show centers on a state police force led by former US naval officer Steve McGarrett, a detective captain. In the show, McGarrett oversees state police officers – the young Danny Williams, veteran Chin Ho Kelly, Honolulu Police Department Officer Duke Lukela joined the team as a regular, as did Ben Kokua, who replaced Kono beginning with season five. Occasionally, McGarretts Five-O team is assisted by officers as needed, medical examiner Doc Bergman, forensic specialist Che Fong. The first secretary was May, then Jenny, and later Malia, Lani, for 12 seasons, McGarrett and his team hounded international secret agents, criminals, and organized crime syndicates plaguing the Hawaiian Islands. With the aid of District Attorney and later Hawaiis Attorney General John Manicote, One such crime syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon, a character introduced in the fifth season. Most episodes of Hawaii Five-O ended with the arrest of criminals and McGarrett snapping, the offense occasionally was added after this phrase, for example, Book em, murder one. In many episodes, this was directed to Danny Williams and became McGarretts catchphrase, Book em, other criminals and organized crime bosses on the islands were played by actors such as Ricardo Montalbán, Gavin MacLeod, and Ross Martin as Tony Alika. By the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show, New characters Jim Kimo Carew, Lori Wilson, and Truck were introduced in season 12 alongside returning regular character Duke Lukela. The Five-O team consists of three to five members, and is portrayed as occupying a suite of offices in the Iolani Palace, Five-O lacks its own radio network, necessitating frequent requests by McGarrett to the Honolulu Police Department dispatchers. McGarretts tousled yet immaculate hairstyle, as well as his proclivity for wearing a suit and tie on all possible occasions
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The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. The book was made into a film in 1987 by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet. A powerful, dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a crime series. This squad was nicknamed The Untouchables, because of their courage and honesty, Eliot Ness himself had died suddenly in May 1957, shortly before his memoir and the subsequent TV adaptation were to bring him fame beyond any he experienced in his lifetime. The pilot for the series was an episode entitled The Untouchables originally aired on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27,1959. CBS, which had broadcast most of Desilus television output since 1951 beginning with I Love Lucy, was offered the new series following the success of the pilot film, chairman William S. Paley rejected it on the advice of network vice president Hubbell Robinson. ABC agreed to air the series, and The Untouchables premiered on October 15,1959, in the pilot movie, the mobsters generally spoke with unrealistic pseudo-Italian accents, but this idiosyncratic pronunciation was dropped when the series debuted. The weekly series first followed the premise of a struggle to establish a new boss in Capones absence. The show drew criticism from some Italian-Americans, including Frank Sinatra. The Capone family unsuccessfully sued CBS, Desilu Productions, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation for their depiction of the Capone family. In the first episode of the first season, the character of Agent Rossi and they expressed displeasure with the program, which to them vilified Italian-Americans, stereotyping them as the singular criminal element. The boycott and the attendant firestorm of publicity had the effect Anastasio, there will be more stress on the law-enforcement role of Rico Rossi, Nesss right-hand man on the show. The second episode of the series, for example, depicted Ness and his crew involved in the capture of the Ma Barker gang, the producers agreed to insert a spoken disclaimer on future broadcasts of the episode stating that the FBI had primary responsibility for the Barker case. The series had 118 episodes which ran 50 minutes each, the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set mostly in the early 1930s. The gripping theme music was by Nelson Riddle, quinn Martin produced the shows first season, which contained elements that could be found in future TV series produced by Martin. ** The character of Untouchable William Youngfellow, portrayed by Abel Fernandez, has been referred to by Saturday Night Live actor Dan Aykroyd as Youngblood. The Untouchables was notable for the number of past and future motion picture and television stars, and cult actors. Johnsons wife and manager rejected the deal, and demanded double the salary offer, Arnaz refused and signed Stack, instead
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Dr. Kildare
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Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor character, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand. Shortly after the characters first appearance in a story, Paramount Pictures used the story. He first introduced the character in a fiction short story, Internes Cant Take Money. Although Cosmopolitan itself wasnt a pulp, a second Kildare story, Whiskey Sour, was published in Cosmopolitan in April 1938. The first Kildare film, Internes Cant Take Money, based on the story of the same title and made by Paramount. In 1938, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contracted with Faust to acquire the rights to the Kildare character along with Fausts services as a story writer. Leonard Gillespie, de-emphasizing the criminal elements, and restarting the story from Kildares first arrival at the city hospital. Faust collaborated with MGM on its Kildare film series starting with the first MGM series release, Young Dr. Kildare, during this time, Faust wrote several original Kildare stories which were first published in magazines, later republished in novel form, and made into films by MGM. The stories were written prior to the films being made, and were not published as movie tie-ins, after The People vs. Dr. Kildare, Faust and MGM parted ways. Fausts last two Kildare stories, Dr. Kildares Hardest Case and the unfinished story Dr. Kildares Dilemma, were not made into films, in 1944, Faust was killed in Italy while working as a war correspondent. The following table lists the Max Brand-authored Kildare stories in order of first publication. Aside from the Kildare stories, Faust wrote only one other story, My People. My People featured a character, Dr. Maynard, who was similar to Dr. Kildare, MGM acquired the rights to My People as a possible concept for a Kildare film, but it was never developed. The popularity of the 1960s Dr. Kildare TV series and its star, Richard Chamberlain, several were released in mass-market paperback form by Lancer Books, while titles aimed at preteen and young teen readers were published by Whitman. The covers featured photographs of Chamberlain as Kildare, or artwork using his likeness, the plot focused on Dr. Kildares attempt to help a young female ex-convict locate her child. Paramount did not plan any further Kildare films, probably because box office returns did not meet expectations. In 1938, MGM entered into a deal with author Frederick Schiller Faust to acquire the rights to Dr. Kildare and have Faust work with MGM on developing stories for a film series. Seven Dr. Kildare films were made by MGM based on stories originally written by Faust
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Rawhide (TV series)
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Rawhide is an American Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren, set in the 1860s, Rawhide portrays the challenges faced by the drovers of a cattle drive. Most episodes are introduced with a monologue by Gil Favor, the trail boss, in a typical Rawhide story, the drovers come upon people on the trail and are drawn into solving whatever problem they present or confront. Sometimes, one or more of the venture into a nearby town. Rowdy Yates was young and at times impetuous in the earliest episodes, Favor was a savvy and strong leader who always played square with his fellow men - a tough customer who could handle the challenges and get the job done. Favor had to fight at times and usually won, some of the stories were obviously easier in production terms, but the peak form of the show was convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal. Its situations could range from parched plains to anthrax, ghostly riders to wolves, cattle raiding, bandits, murderers, and so forth. A problem on such drives was the constant need for water, in some ways, the show was similar to the TV series Wagon Train, which had debuted on NBC on September 18,1957. The series was not afraid to face tough issues, robert Culp played an ex-soldier on the drive who had become dangerously addicted to morphine. Mexican drover Jesús faced racism at times, trail boss Favor had been a Confederate captain in the war. Some American Indians demanded cattle as payment for going through their land, rough characters were in the shows, and in one episode Gil Favor was tortured by having his face held near a fire. In another episode, one titled Incident of the Town in Terror, people thought a sick Rowdy Yates had the plague, also, cattle rustlers were around, including Commancheros. The show could on occasions be eerily atmospheric, in episode 67, Incident Near the Promised Land, the cattle drive finally reached Sedalia. Unusually, episode 68 continues on from that, where the cattle have been sold, instead of the usual ending, wherein Gil Favor gives the command Head em up. And the cattle move off, this episode had the end titles over a view of a Sedalia street, episode 69 has Gil Favor visiting his two daughters, Gillian and Maggie, who live with their aunt Eleanor Bradley in Philadelphia. In episode 70, a number of the men are together and heading back to San Antonio about 650 miles away. These five episodes made up one storyline instead of the usual single-episode stories which could have been set anywhere in the West. Favor had many bad moments in the series, but none worse than the Lost Herd episode wherein, close to drives finish, he wants to beat another herd to town to get the best prices
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
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For the movie character, see Leonard Lawrence. Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C. is an American situation comedy originally aired on CBS from September 25,1964. The series was a spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show, the show ran for a total of 150 half-hour episodes spanning over five seasons, first in black-and-white, and then in color. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD, the final season was released in November 2008. Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C. was a hit, never placing lower than tenth in the Nielsen ratings and it has enjoyed continued popularity through reruns and DVD releases. The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who produced the show with Sheldon Leonard. Frank Sutton plays Gomers high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carters rival, Staff Sergeant Charley Hacker. Everett Greenbaum and Jim Fritzell, writers for The Andy Griffith Show, are credited with creating the character of Gomer Pyle, the character was based on an incompetent gas station attendant whom Greenbaum met and named after Gomer Cool and Denver Pyle. Jim Nabors was cast to play Gomer, he had been performing for a Santa Monica nightclub, The Horn, when Andy Griffith discovered him. Though originally intended to only in one episode, Gomer proved popular. The pilot episode of Gomer Pyle was filmed in 1963 as part of The Andy Griffith Show, the 1960s had a return to the more mundane sensibilities of comedy, due to viewers wishes for television programming to be a cultural antidepressant. Thus, fantasy and rural-oriented comedies gained popularity and dominated the Nielsen ratings, like other comedies at the time, Gomer Pyle was a deep escapist show, it avoided political commentary and offered viewers a distraction from the social changes of the 1960s. Despite being a show and airing during the peak of the Vietnam War. Instead, the focused on Gomers innocent simplicity Sergeant Carters frustration. This, compounded with the popularity of rural comedies in the 1960s, Frank Sutton, who played Carter, also ascribed the shows popularity to its concentration on its two main characters, and the plots being built around their respective personalities. The program remained in the top 10 of the ratings throughout its run—in the top three for all but its third season when CBS moved it from Fridays to Wednesdays. Nabors quit because he desired to move to something else, reach for another rung on the ladder, either up or down, after Gomer Pyle left the air, Jim Nabors hosted his own variety show, The Jim Nabors Hour, from 1969 to 1971. As well as showcasing Nabors singing and rich voice, the show included comedy sketches that featured Naborss Gomer Pyle co-stars Frank Sutton
