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Jane Wyatt
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Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award-winner, jane Waddington Wyatt was born on August 12,1910, in Mahwah, New Jersey, but raised in Manhattan. Her father, Christopher Billopp Wyatt, Jr. was a Wall Street investment banker, and her mother, both of her parents were Roman Catholic converts. Wyatt had two sisters and a brother, One of her ancestors, Rufus King, was a signatory to the United States Constitution, a U. S. Senator and ambassador, and the Federalist candidate in the 1816 United States presidential election, while in New York City, Wyatt attended Miss Chapins School, where she had roles as Joan of Arc and as Shylock She later attended two years of Barnard College. After leaving Barnard, she joined the school of the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. One of her first jobs on Broadway was as understudy to Rose Hobart in a production of Trade Winds–a career move that cost her her listing in the New York Social Register. Receiving favorable notices on Broadway and celebrated for her understated beauty and she made her film debut in 1934 in One More River. In arguably her most famous role, she co-starred as Ronald Colmans characters love interest in Frank Capras Columbia Pictures film Lost Horizon. All that was cut because they were trying to inspire those G. I. s to get out there, which sort of ruined the film. Other film appearances included Gentlemans Agreement with Gregory Peck, None but the Lonely Heart with Cary Grant, Boomerang with Dana Andrews, Wyatt co-starred in the crime dramas Pitfall and House by the River, and also with Randolph Scott in a western, Canadian Pacific. She played the wife of Gary Cooper in the war story Task Force, Wyatt returned to her roots on the New York stage for a time and appeared in such plays as Lillian Hellmans The Autumn Garden, opposite Fredric March. For many people, Wyatt is best remembered as Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best and she played opposite Robert Young as the devoted wife and mother of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield. This role won Wyatt three Emmy Awards in 1958-1960 for best actress in a comedy series, after Father Knows Best, Wyatt guest starred in several other series. On June 13,1962, she was cast in the lead in The Heather Mahoney Story on NBCs Wagon Train. In 1963, she portrayed Kitty McMullen in Dont Forget to Say Goodbye on the ABC drama, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll, a series about the Catholic priesthood in New York City. In 1965, Wyatt was cast as Anne White in The Monkeys Paw – A Retelling on CBSs The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Wyatt portrayed Amanda Grayson, Spocks mother and Ambassador Sareks wife, in the 1967 episode Journey to Babel of the original NBC series, Star Trek, Wyatt was once quoted as saying her fan mail for these two appearances in this role exceeded that of Lost Horizon
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Wyatt from the trailer for
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
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Saint Joseph, Missouri
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St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. It is the city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew. As of the 2010 census, St. Joseph had a population of 76,780, making it the eighth largest city in the state. The metropolitan area had a population of 127,329 in 2010, St. Joseph, named after the biblical Saint Joseph, is located on the Missouri River. It is perhaps best known as the point of the Pony Express and the death place of Jesse James. St. Joseph is also home to Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph was founded on the Missouri River by Joseph Robidoux, a local fur trader, and officially incorporated in 1843. In its early days, it was a bustling outpost and rough frontier town, serving as a last supply point and it was the westernmost point in the United States accessible by rail until after the American Civil War. The main east-west downtown streets were named for Robidouxs eight children, Faraon, Jules, Francois, Felix, Edmond, Charles, Sylvanie, the street between Sylvanie and Messanie was named for his second wife, Angelique. St. Joseph, or St. Joe, as it was called by many, was a Jumping-Off Point for those headed to the Oregon Territory in the mid-1800s. These cities, including Independence, and St. Joseph, were where pioneers would stay, the town was a very bustling place, and was the second city in the USA to have electric streetcars. The pony riders carried additionally, along with the mail, a small personal bible, today the Pony Express Museum hosts visitors in the old stables. In 1882, on April 3, the outlaw Jesse James was killed at his home, originally located at 1318 Lafayette, now sited next to The Patee House. In the post-Civil War years, when the economy was down, James was living under the alias of Mr. Howard. An excerpt from a poem of the time is. that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard has laid poor Jesse in his grave. The Heaton-Bowman-Smith Funeral Home maintains a museum about Jesse James. The museum is open to the public and his home, is now known as Jesse James Home Museum. It has been relocated at least three times, and features the bullet hole from that fateful shot, St. Joseph is identified by the slogan, Where the Pony Express started and Jesse James ended. St. Josephs population peaked in 1900, with a population of 102,979
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Downtown St. Joseph in 2006
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The intersection of Francis and North 4th Streets in downtown St. Joseph
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The
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Rancho Mirage, California
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Rancho Mirage is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, located between Cathedral City and Palm Desert, it is one of the nine cities of the Coachella Valley. Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the Cove communities, although the first modern settlements date back to the 1920s and 1930s, Rancho Mirage got its claim to fame after World War II. Several United States Presidents have vacationed at the Annenberg estate, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Ford later bought a house in Rancho Mirage and was living there at the time of his death in 2006. The Betty Ford Center, a world-renowned addiction rehabilitation center, is located in Rancho Mirage at the Eisenhower Medical Center, President Barack Obama has also used Sunnylands for summit meetings with world leaders during his administration. Rancho Mirage has twelve golf courses, also known as clubs or golf resorts. The citys first resort was the Thunderbird Guest Ranch, opened in 1946 for entertainers, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs runs the Agua Caliente Casino on the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Ramon Road off Interstate 10, opened in 2002. The casino is a destination for locals, tourists. In 2008 the tribal board completed the expansion of the Agua Caliente resort, a theater for top name entertainers opened in 2009. The First Family is heading west, according to the New York Post, the Obamas have reportedly purchased a house in Rancho Mirage, California. The climate of the Coachella Valley is influenced by the surrounding geography, high mountain ranges on three sides and a south-sloping valley floor all contribute to its unique and year-round warm climate, with the warmest winters in the western United States. Winters are warm with highs between 73–84 °F. Under 5 inches of precipitation are average, with over 348 days of sunshine per year. The 2010 United States Census reported that Rancho Mirage had a population of 17,218, the population density was 693.3 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Rancho Mirage was 15,267 White,256 African American,94 Native American,651 Asian,14 Pacific Islander,598 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,964 persons. The Census reported that 17,154 people lived in households,16 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 316 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 454 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 3,055 households were made up of individuals and 1,961 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 1.94. There were 4,825 families, the family size was 2.46
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Cathedral City, California
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Cathedral City is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. Colloquially known as Cat City, the population was 51,200 at the 2010 census, located between Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, it is one of the nine cities of the Coachella Valley in Southern California. Cathedral City has the second largest population in the Coachella Valley, the citys name derives from Cathedral Canyon to the south of the town, so named in 1850 by Colonel Henry Washington because of its rock formations that are reminiscent of a cathedral. The city started as a subdivision in 1925, but was not incorporated until 1981. Cathedral City had a revitalization program started in the late 1990s. A new city hall was built as was the IMAX/Mary Pickford movie theater complex, in 1931 Al and Lou Wertheimer of the reputed Detroit Purple Gang opened the Dunes Club just outside Palm Springs city limits. This was followed in 1939 by Earl T. Saussers 139 Club and the Cove Club in 1941, built by Jake Katelman and Frank Portnoy. According to the United States Census Bureau, Cathedral City has an area of 21.8 square miles. The 2010 United States Census reported that Cathedral City had a population of 51,200, the population density was 2,353.3 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Cathedral City was 32,537 White,1,344 African American,540 Native American,2,562 Asian,55 Pacific Islander,12,008 from other races, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 30,085 persons. The Census reported that 50,905 people lived in households,263 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 1,054 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 779 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 4,292 households were made up of individuals and 2,259 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.99. There were 11,056 families, the family size was 3.67. The median age was 36.0 years, for every 100 females there were 105.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.2 males, there were 20,995 housing units at an average density of 965.0 per square mile, of which 10,769 were owner-occupied, and 6,278 were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 4. 2%, the vacancy rate was 11. 0%. 30,236 people lived in owner-occupied housing units and 20,669 people lived in housing units. During 2009–2013, Cathedral City had a household income of $44,406
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Cathedral City Hall
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition, nevertheless, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers
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Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U.S. President (1861–1865).
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Theodore Roosevelt,
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Dwight Eisenhower,
34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
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Richard Nixon,
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Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. Raised in a family in small towns of northern Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932. After moving to Hollywood in 1937, he became an actor, Reagan was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s, he moved into television and was a speaker at General Electric factories. Having been a lifelong Democrat, his views changed and he became a conservative and in 1962 switched to the Republican Party. In 1964, Reagans speech, A Time for Choosing, in support of Barry Goldwaters foundering presidential campaign, Building a network of supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political, in his first term he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, and fought public sector labor. During his re-election bid, Reagan campaigned on the notion that it was Morning in America, foreign affairs dominated his second term, including ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the Iran–Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an empire, and during his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate. Jack, a salesman and storyteller, was the grandson of Irish Catholic immigrants from County Tipperary, Reagan had one older brother, John Neil Reagan, who became an advertising executive. As a boy, Reagans father nicknamed his son Dutch, due to his fat little Dutchman-like appearance and Dutchboy haircut, Reagans family briefly lived in several towns and cities in Illinois, including Monmouth, Galesburg, and Chicago. In 1919, they returned to Tampico and lived above the H. C, Pitney Variety Store until finally settling in Dixon. After his election as president, residing in the upstairs White House private quarters, for the time, Reagan was unusual in his opposition to racial discrimination, and recalled a time in Dixon when the local inn would not allow black people to stay there. Reagan brought them back to his house, where his mother invited them to stay the night and have breakfast the next morning, after the closure of the Pitney Store in late 1920 and the familys move to Dixon, the midwestern small universe had a lasting impression on Reagan. Reagan attended Dixon High School, where he developed interests in acting, sports and his first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River in Lowell Park in 1927. Over a six-year period, Reagan reportedly performed 77 rescues as a lifeguard and he attended Eureka College, a Disciples-oriented liberal arts school, where he became a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, and studied economics and sociology. While involved, the Miller Center of Public Affairs described him as an indifferent student and he majored in economics and sociology, and graduated with a C grade
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Ronald Reagan (with "Dutch" haircut), his elder brother Neil, and their parents Jack and Nelle Reagan. Photograph circa 1916–17.
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Ronald Reagan as a teenager in
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With wife
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Maureen Reagan
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Maureen Elizabeth Reagan was the first child of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman. Her brother was Michael Reagan and notable siblings were Patti Davis and Ron Reagan, Reagan was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Marymount Secondary School, Tarrytown, NY in 1958 and her parents also had another daughter, Christine, who died shortly after birth. Reagan pursued a career in acting in her youth, appearing in such as Kissin Cousins with Elvis Presley. Reagan was the first daughter of a president to run for political office and she ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from California in 1982 – Pete Wilson was the eventual winner – and in 1992 for Californias 36th congressional district. Although they maintained a united front, Maureen Reagan differed from her father on several key issues, although reared Roman Catholic following her mothers conversion, she was pro-choice on abortion. She also held the belief that Oliver North should have been court-martialed, after her father announced his diagnosis of Alzheimers disease in 1994, Maureen Reagan became a member of the Alzheimers Association board of directors and served as the groups spokeswoman. During her hospitalization for melanoma cancer, Maureen was only away from her father. She was married three times, John Filippone, a policeman, they were married in 1961 and divorced the following year, David G. Sills, a lawyer and Marine Corps officer, they married on February 28,1964, the couple divorced in 1967. Revell, CEO of Revell Communications, whom she married on April 25,1981 and she and Revell had one daughter, Margaret Rita Mirembe Revell, who was born in Uganda. The Revells became Ritas guardians in 1994, Reagan died in Granite Bay, California, on August 8,2001, aged 60, from melanoma. She was survived by her parents, Reagan is interred at Calvary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum in Sacramento, California. Reagan volunteered with actor David Hyde Pierce, of TVs Frasier, when she was given lemons, she did not make lemonade. She took the lemons, threw them back and said, Oh, Maureen Reagan at Find a Grave Maureen Reagan at the Internet Movie Database Upstairs at the White House Appearances on C-SPAN Maureen Reagan at Find a Grave
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Maureen Reagan (center) with
Robert Urich (left) and
Jack Hogan in a publicity photo for the television show Vector, 1974
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Maureen Reagan with her mother,
Jane Wyman (1944)
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Michael Reagan
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Michael Edward Reagan is an American political commentator, former radio talk show host, and author. He is the son of former U. S. President Ronald Reagan and his first wife. He is the oldest living child of the late U. S. President and he was adopted by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman shortly after his birth. He was expelled from Loyola High School after a period of time at the school and in 1964, he graduated from the Judson School. He attended Arizona State University for less than one semester and Los Angeles Valley College, sometime prior to September 1970, Reagan was working as a salesman for the clothing company Hart, Schaffner & Marx. He then became a director of events catering at Michaelson Food Service Company in Los Angeles. Reagan has had roles in movies and television shows since 1985, including Falcon Crest which starred his mother. His work in radio started in the Southern California local market as a guest host for radio commentator Michael Jacksons talk radio show slot on KABC in Los Angeles. After this beginning, he landed a talk show spot on KSDO radio in San Diego, Reagan also hosted The Michael Reagan Show nationwide for most of the 2000s. The show was syndicated on Premiere Networks and Radio America. Since then he has focused on speaking about his father. In 1988, he wrote, with Joe Hyams, an autobiographical book Michael Reagan, in 2005, he wrote Twice Adopted about his feelings of rejection being adopted, parents divorcing and becoming a born-again Christian. In April 2013, in a column, Reagan accused American churches of not fighting hard enough to block same-sex marriage. He wrote that, in regards to arguments supporting gay marriage, similar arguments could be used to support polygamy, bestiality, as he wrote, There is also a very slippery slope leading to other alternative relationships and the unconstitutionality of any law based on morality. Think about polygamy, bestiality, and perhaps even murder, after Reagan wrote the piece, the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center disinvited him as the keynote speaker for a fundraising luncheon. Reacting to the Mark Foley scandal in 2006, Reagan said, Any member of Congress who was aware of the sexual emails, I was sexually abused by a day-camp counselor at age eight and also made to be part of child pornography. Operation Inform the Soldiers, as Dice has called it, prompted Reagan to comment that Dice should be killed for treason. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media criticism organization
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President of the United States
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The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The president is considered to be one of the worlds most powerful political figures, the role includes being the commander-in-chief of the worlds most expensive military with the second largest nuclear arsenal and leading the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP. The office of President holds significant hard and soft power both in the United States and abroad, Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The president is empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves. The president is responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of the party to which the president is a member. The president also directs the foreign and domestic policy of the United States, since the office of President was established in 1789, its power has grown substantially, as has the power of the federal government as a whole. However, nine vice presidents have assumed the presidency without having elected to the office. The Twenty-second Amendment prohibits anyone from being elected president for a third term, in all,44 individuals have served 45 presidencies spanning 57 full four-year terms. On January 20,2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th, in 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution. The new states, though independent of each other as nation states, desiring to avoid anything that remotely resembled a monarchy, Congress negotiated the Articles of Confederation to establish a weak alliance between the states. Out from under any monarchy, the states assigned some formerly royal prerogatives to Congress, only after all the states agreed to a resolution settling competing western land claims did the Articles take effect on March 1,1781, when Maryland became the final state to ratify them. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris secured independence for each of the former colonies, with peace at hand, the states each turned toward their own internal affairs. Prospects for the convention appeared bleak until James Madison and Edmund Randolph succeeded in securing George Washingtons attendance to Philadelphia as a delegate for Virginia. It was through the negotiations at Philadelphia that the presidency framed in the U. S. The first power the Constitution confers upon the president is the veto, the Presentment Clause requires any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it can become law. Once the legislation has been presented, the president has three options, Sign the legislation, the bill becomes law. Veto the legislation and return it to Congress, expressing any objections, in this instance, the president neither signs nor vetoes the legislation
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Incumbent
Barack Obama since January 20, 2009 (2009-01-20)
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Presidential Seal
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Obama signing legislation at the
Resolute desk
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, successfully preserved the
Union during the
American Civil War
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Lobby card from Open Your Eyes (1919)
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Lobby card from
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
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William Hopper
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William DeWolf Hopper, Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor. The only child of actress and Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, he appeared in minor roles in more than 80 feature films in the 1930s and 40s. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he left acting and he became best known for his work in television, as private detective Paul Drake in the long-running CBS series, Perry Mason. William DeWolf Hopper, Jr. was born January 26,1915 and he was the only child of noted actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer DeWolf Hopper and his fifth wife, actress Hedda Hopper. He had one older half-brother, John A. Hopper, from his fathers marriage in the 1880s. Hopper made his debut as a baby in his fathers 1916 silent movie Sunshine Dad. His mother divorced his father in 1922 and moved to Hollywood with their son, Hedda Hopper became one of Americas best-known gossip columnists, with nearly 30 million readers in newspapers nationwide. Hopper began his career as a teenager. He made his first stage appearance at the Pasadena Community Playhouse and he worked in summer stock in Ogunquit, Maine. He appeared on Broadway in the short-lived comedy Order Please and as a member of the ensemble in Katharine Cornells production of Romeo, in March 1936, Hopper — then working under the name Wolfe Hopper — won a contract at Paramount Pictures. Early in his career, Hopper appeared in numerous movies, uncredited. In 1936, he played a role as a soldier in the Columbia Pictures film The King Steps Out starring Grace Moore. In 1937, he portrayed the man in two films, Public Wedding with Jane Wyman and Over the Goal with June Travis. He also enjoyed significant roles alongside Ann Sheridan in The Footloose Heiress, Hopper became an actor because his mother expected it of him. When I worked at Warner Bros, Hopper said, I was so scared I stuttered all the time. Hopper served with the United States Navy during World War II, as a volunteer with the Office of Strategic Services and he received a Bronze Star and several other medals during operations in the Pacific. For eight years after the war, Hopper became involved in business and he combined car sales and acting when opportunities came up during the advent of television. I didnt even think about acting much until a friend, director Bill Wellman, asked me to do a part in The High and the Mighty, Hopper recalled
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William Hopper in 1934 Photograph by
Carl Van Vechten
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Paramount Pictures contract players Wolfe Hopper and
Gail Patrick in July 1936; 20 years later William Hopper was Paul Drake and Gail Patrick Jackson was executive producer of the CBS-TV series,
Perry Mason
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William Hopper,
Barbara Hale and
Frank Sully in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason (1958)
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Hopper and
Raymond Burr in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma" (1959)
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Public Wedding
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Public Wedding is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Roy Chanslor and Houston Branch. The film stars Jane Wyman, William Hopper, Dick Purcell, Marie Wilson, Berton Churchill, the film was released by Warner Bros. on July 10,1937. Pop Lane, his daughter Flip, con men Nick and The Deacon and they scheme to stage a scam public wedding, with Flip as the bride, Nick as the groom, and The Deacon as the judge, but the con men abscond with the gate receipts. Confronted with an audience eager for their moneys worth, Pop enlists starving artist Tony Burke as a stand-in. The wedding is a success but to the surprise of all, the judge performing the ceremony is a real justice of the peace. Flip angrily walks out on Pop, impressing Tony, who takes her to his studio above a stable, the penniless Pop and Joe track them down and Tony agrees to put them up for a night. The next morning Pop and Joe try to hock Flips wedding dress, the wedding dress gives Joe the idea to promote Tessie as stripper Lillith Love by having her pretend to be an amnesiac bride who attempted suicide after being left at the altar. In the meantime, Flip tries to peddle Tonys paintings without success because he has no reputation, the publicity about Joes stunt prompts Flip to get people talking about Tony by foisting him off as the groom who placed Art before Love. Society matrons clamor for portraits but nothing is happening for Pop, Joe, because Flip took advantage of their set-up, they demand that she cut them in on the profits. When Tony learns about Flips manipulations, he is furious, but realizing that they love each other, however, he agrees to try the marriage if Flip will let him be the boss. Tony plans to clean his financial success of its larcenous taint by endowing a fellowship to send deserving young artists to Europe to learn their craft without financial struggle and he offers Pop and the others a check for $1,000 to get out of town. Pop uses the check as a prop to pretend to raise donations as treasurer of the Anthony Burke Traveling Fellowship, Flip discovers the racket just after fake fellowship has withdrawn all its funds from the bank in cash. Tony is arrested for obtaining money on false pretenses, and Flip pursues Pop, Joe and she discovers that the serial numbers of the cash are consecutive. She convinces them the money is hot and to give it to her since they will be arrested if they are caught with it, before they can leave the airport, though, they are nabbed by the victim of one of their earlier schemes. Flip redeposits the money in an irrevocable trust to be used for its real purpose, Tessie visits Pop in jail with the wonderful romantic news that Flip and Tony have sailed to Europe for their honeymoon. As Reporter Horace McMahon as Reporter John Harron as Reporter Jack Mower as Reporter Lyle Moraine as Reporter Public Wedding at the Internet Movie Database
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Theatrical release poster
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Eddie Albert
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Edward Albert Heimberger, known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma. And the sadistic prison warden in 1974s The Longest Yard and he starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest. Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22,1906, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a realtor and his year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were not married when Albert was born, and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage, when he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward secured his first job as a boy when he was only six. During World War I, his German name led to taunts as the enemy by his classmates and he studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. His schoolmate Harriet Lake graduated in the same class, finishing high school in 1926, he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business. When he graduated, he embarked on a business career, however, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a performer, an insurance salesman. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as Hamburger and he moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the shows end, he was offered a contract by Warner Bros. In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat and he had lead roles in Room Service and The Boys from Syracuse. Performing regularly on television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest. Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. In 1938, he made his debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart
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Albert and Grace Bradt applying makeup for their first TV appearance, November 1936.
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Eddie Albert in
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
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Eddie Albert's grave
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Brother Rat
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Albert and supporting actor William Tracy reprised their roles in the stage productions. Brother Rat was Alberts film debut, and during filming Reagan met Wyman, the title refers to the term used for cadets in their first year at the Institute. Scenes of the film were shot on site in Lexington on the Institutes historic Parade Ground, none of the factors that made the play a success has been lost. Albert gives a performance, reported Variety. Film Daily wrote that Keighley gave the film warm, sympathetic direction and has injected many human touches, harrisons Reports declared it A delightful comedy with excellent performances. John Mosher of The New Yorker called it a serviceable time-filler and this film was followed by a sequel in 1940, Brother Rat and a Baby, which also featured Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Ronald Reagan, Eddie Albert, and Jane Wyman. Ronald Reagan films Brother Rat at the Internet Movie Database Brother Rat at the TCM Movie Database Review of Brother Rat at TVGuide. com Brother Rat and a Baby at Internet Movie Database
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Dennis Morgan
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For other people of the same name, see, Dennis Morgan Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer. Born as Earl Stanley Morner, he used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame. Morgan was born Earl Stanley Morner in the village of Prentice in Price County in northern Wisconsin and he was of Swedish descent on his fathers side. He enrolled at Carroll College, now known as Carroll University, in Waukesha and he was awarded the Carroll College Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1983. Morgan was a top leading man at Warner Brothers in the 1940s, starring with best friend Jack Carson in many movies and his peak years were 1943 to 1949. He was cast as Dennis OFinn in the 1958 episode Bull in a China Shop on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, in 1959, Morgan appeared as a regular, Dennis Chase, in eleven episodes of the crime drama,21 Beacon Street, with Joanna Barnes and Brian Kelly. In 1963, he portrayed Dr. Clay Maitland in The Old Man and his final screen performance was on March 1,1980, as Steve Brian in the episode Another Time, Another Place/Doctor Who/Gophers Engagement of ABCs The Love Boat. Jane Wyman and Audrey Meadows appeared in the same episode, in 1983, Dennis Morgan, along with his film pal, Jack Carson, who had died in 1963, was inducted into the Wisconsin Performing Artists Hall of Fame. Morgan died in 1994 of respiratory failure, Dennis Morgan dedicated Two Strike Park on July 4,1959, named for his belief that a kid with no place to play already has two strikes against him. In 1950, the Board of Supervisors responded with an additional 3.54 acres of parkland, in 1958, Morgan spearheaded the drive to establish a new public park in La Crescenta in Los Angeles County. He raised funds for the park, located on Rosemont Avenue, by organizing exhibition games featuring celebrity friends
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in the trailer for the film
The Hard Way (1943)
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Jean Willes and Morgan (1955)
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Morgan (billed as "Stanley Morner") appeared as the singing bridegroom in the famous "Wedding Cake" musical number in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), but the voice singing "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" was that of M-G-M contract player
Allan Jones.
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Morgan was billed under his given name "Stanley Morner" early in his career, such as in Mama Steps Out (1937)
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Marlene Dietrich
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Marie Magdalene Marlene Dietrich was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her unusually long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, in the 1920s in Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel brought her international fame, Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco, Shanghai Express, and Desire. She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she still made occasional films after the war, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer. Dietrich was noted for her efforts during the war, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support. For her work on improving morale on the front lines during the war, she received honors from the United States, France, Belgium. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema, Dietrich was born on 27 December 1901 on Leberstraße 65 in the neighborhood of Rote Insel in Schöneberg, now a district of Berlin. She was the younger of two daughters of Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine and Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who married in December 1898, Dietrichs mother was from an affluent Berlin family who owned a jewelry and clock making firm. Her father was a lieutenant who died in 1907. Von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich girls, so Dietrichs surname was never von Losch, Dietrichs family nicknamed her Lena and Lene. Around age 11, she contracted her two first names to form the name Marlene, Dietrich attended the Auguste-Viktoria Girls School from 1907 to 1917 and graduated from the Victoria-Luise-Schule in 1918. She studied the violin and became interested in theater and poetry as a teenager. Her dreams of becoming a concert violinist were curtailed by a wrist injury and she was fired after only four weeks. Her earliest professional stage appearances were as a girl on tour with Guido Thielschers Girl-Kabarett vaudeville-style entertainments. She did not attract any attention at first. She made her film debut playing a bit part in the film The Little Napoleon and she met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of Tragödie der Liebe in 1923. Dietrich and Sieber were married in a ceremony in Berlin on 17 May 1923
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Dietrich in her breakthrough role, Lola-Lola in
Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)
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Dietrich in 1951
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Marlene Dietrich signing a soldier's cast in
Belgium, 1944.
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Dietrich often performed parts of her show in
top hat and tails. Caricature by Hans Georg Pfannmüller showing Dietrich during a cabaret performance in 1954.
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Stage Fright (1950 film)
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Stage Fright is a 1950 British thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. Others in the cast include Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcocks daughter Pat Hitchcock in her movie debut and Joyce Grenfell in a humorous vignette. The story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook, Ranald MacDougall and Alma Reville, with dialogue by James Bridie. Much of the plot has a theatrical setting, there is a female protagonist, and early on, the film features an account, by an unreliable narrator, which the audience sees as a flashback. The plot is also punctuated by numerous humorous scenes, Eve Gill is an aspiring actress at RADA. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend, actor Jonathan Cooper, via a flashback he says Charlotte visited him after killing her husband, she was wearing a bloodstained dress. Jonathan claims he went back to her house for another dress and he escaped the police and needs help. Eve takes him to her fathers house on the coast to hide, Commodore Gill notices that the blood on Charlottes dress has been smeared on deliberately, he and Eve think that Jonathan was framed by Charlotte. Jonathan angrily destroys the dress and thus the most useful piece of evidence and she hears Charlottes dresser Nellie Goode boasting about the notoriety in a bar. While she is there, Eve meets Detective Inspector Wilfred O. Smith, Eve then poses as a reporter, she bribes Nellie to tell Charlotte she is ill, and to introduce her cousin, Doris Tinsdale, as a replacement. Using her acting skills, Eve becomes Doris and starts working for Charlotte, Eve discovers Charlotte is having an affair with her manager Freddie Williams. Eve and Ordinary Smith become more friendly, when Smith visits Charlotte, Eve has to disguise the fact that she is also Doris the maid. Smith makes a visit to Eve and her mother at home. Despite her widowed status, Charlotte continues to perform her West End musical show, Jonathan comes to her dressing room asking her to accompany him abroad. She casually tells him no, but he says he still has the bloodstained dress, the police search for Jonathan, and Eve again helps him escape. He hides out at the Gills London residence and he is grateful to Eve, but she is starting to fall in love with Detective Smith. Smith and Eve kiss in a taxi on the way to the RADA garden party, Eve does not have enough, so Eves father comes to give Nellie more cash. Freddie Williams spots Eve and orders her to help Charlotte, who is to sing on stage in a tent, during the performance, Commodore Gill gets a small boy to carry a doll wearing a bloodstained dress up onto the stage as Charlotte sings La Vie en Rose
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Theatrical release poster
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Sterling Hayden
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Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle. Later on he noted for appearing in supporting roles such as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying. He also played the Irish American policeman Captain McCluskey in Francis Ford Coppolas The Godfather in 1972 and he played the role of Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertoluccis 1900 in 1976. At 6 feet 5 inches, he towered over most other actors, Hayden was born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, to George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. After his father died, he was adopted at age 9 by James Hayden, as a child he lived in coastal towns of New England, and in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C. and Maine. He attended Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine, Hayden dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and took a job as mate on a schooner. His first voyage was to Newport Beach, California, from New London, later, he was a fisherman on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, ran a charter yacht, and served as a fireman on 11 trips to Cuba aboard a steamer. He skippered a trading schooner in the Caribbean after earning his masters license, Hayden spoke of his nautical experiences before the monthly meeting of the Adventurers Club of New York on March 21,1940. Hayden became a print model and later signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and his first film, Virginia, directed by Edward H. Griffith and starred Madeleine Carroll, with whom he fell in love and married. He, Griffith and Carroll were reunited in Bahama Passage, after two film roles, he left Hollywood and joined the United States Marine Corps as a private, under the name John Hamilton, a nom de guerre he never used otherwise. While at Parris Island, he was recommended for Officer Candidate School, after graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and was transferred to service as an undercover agent with William J. Wild Bill Donovans Office of the Coordinator of Information. He remained there after it became the Office of Strategic Services, as OSS agent John Hamilton, his World War II service included sailing with supplies from Italy to Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into fascist Croatia. He received the Silver Star, a Bronze Arrowhead device for parachuting behind enemy lines, and he left active duty on December 24,1945. Hayden returned to Paramount, to one of several brothers in an aviation film. His great admiration for the bravery of the Communist partisans led to a membership in the Communist Party. He was apparently active in supporting an effort by the Communist-controlled motion picture painters union to other film industry unions. As the Red Scare deepened in U. S. he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties and naming names
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In
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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So Big (1953 film)
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So Big is a 1953 American drama film that stars Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden and Steve Forrest, directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by John Twist was based on the 1924 novel by Edna Ferber and it was the third adaptation of the book, following a 1924 silent film with Colleen Moore and So Big. with Barbara Stanwyck, released in 1932. In the late 1890s, boarding school student Selina Peake learns of the death of her father, august Hempel, the father of her best friend Julie, secures her a teaching position in New Holland, a small Dutch farming community outside Chicago. There she rents a room in the home of Klaas Pool, after discovering the boy has an ear for music, Selina gives Roelf piano lessons and encourages his artistic talents, leading him away from juvenile delinquency. She meets Pervus DeJong and eventually accepts his proposal of marriage, the two have a son they christen Dirk, but as he grows older he is nicknamed So Big. Dirk, like Roelf, exhibits signs of artistic abilities and his mother encourages him, despite her husbands disapproval. When the boy is eight years old, Pervus dies and Selina struggles to run the farm alone and she and Dirk travel to the Chicago Haymarket to sell their produce, but no one there will deal with a woman. Facing financial difficulties, Selina reunites with Julie, now the mother of two. Her father offers to invest in Selinas plan to grow exotic vegetables and her asparagus is a huge success and she is able to send Dirk to college to study architecture. Dirk accepts a job in sales, disappointing his mother so much, Dirk falls in love with artist Dallas OMara and proposes marriage. Although she likes him, she declines his offer, telling him she wants a man whose hands have been roughened by physical labor, Roelf, now a famous composer, arrives in Chicago and reunites with Dallas, whom he had met in Paris. He, Dallas, and Dirk visit Selina, and the two become friends. Roelf and Dallas leave together, and Dirk bemoans the path his life has taken and his mother tells him it is not too late to pursue his creative dreams. Taking him in her arms, she calls him So Big once again, for the better part of the picture, we are largely indebted to Jane Wyman. Remarkably strong and effective in every little bit she does. She is humble, restrained and sure, where the picture falls down is in those phases in which the grown-up son goes to Chicago and gets himself infected with false notions of a successful career. Here John Twists adaptation and Mr. Wises direction are unsure, as a consequence of its downward tangent toward the end, the whole picture loses force. The poignance of the disappointment in her dearly loved son goes awry
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Theatrical release poster
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Sterling Hayden and Jane Wyman in So Big
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Rock Hudson
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Rock Hudson was an American actor. Hudson is generally known for his turns as a man in the 1950s and 1960s and is viewed as a prominent actor. Hudson was voted Star of the Year, Favorite Leading Man and he completed nearly 70 films and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1956, Hudson died from AIDS-related complications in 1985, becoming the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness. Hudson was born in Winnetka, Illinois, the child of telephone operator Katherine Wood and auto mechanic Roy Harold Scherer. His mother remarried and his stepfather, Wallace Wally Fitzgerald, adopted him and changed his surname to Fitzgerald. Hudsons years at New Trier High School were unremarkable, although he sang in the glee club and was remembered as a shy boy who delivered newspapers, ran errands. Although he tried out for roles in many of his plays, Hudson failed to win any because he could not remember his lines. Working as an usher in his years, he developed an interest in film. He worked as a driver for some time, longing to be an actor. After he sent talent scout Henry Willson a picture of himself in 1947, Willson took Hudson on as a client and changed his name to Rock Hudson, Hudsons name was coined by combining the Rock of Gibraltar and the Hudson River. Hudson made his debut with a small part in the 1948 Warner Bros. film Fighter Squadron. In 1953 he appeared in a Camel commercial which showed him on the set of Seminole, director Douglas Sirk gave Hudson his first leading role, in the 1954 film Magnificent Obsession, co-starring Jane Wyman. The film received positive reviews, with Modern Screen Magazine citing Hudson as the most popular actor of the year and his popularity soared with George Stevens film Giant. Hudson and his co-star James Dean were both nominated for Oscars in the Best Actor category, in the 1950s, Hudson made nine films with acclaimed director and father-figure Douglas Sirk, with Sirks own favorite being The Tarnished Angels. Following Richard Brooks acclaimed film Something of Value was a performance in Charles Vidors box office failure A Farewell to Arms. In order to make A Farewell to Arms, Hudson reportedly turned down Marlon Brandos role in Sayonara, William Holdens role in The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Charlton Hestons role in Ben-Hur. A Farewell to Arms received negative reviews, failed at the box office, Hudson sailed through the 1960s on a wave of romantic comedies
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Hudson in c. 1955
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Hudson, pictured with
Elizabeth Taylor in
Giant (1956), the film that led to his first
Academy Award nomination
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Hudson and
Julie Andrews in
Darling Lili, one of the many romantic comedies he filmed in the 1960s
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Magnificent Obsession (1954 film)
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Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 Technicolor drama romantic film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. The screenplay was written by Robert Blees and Wells Root, after the 1929 book Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film was produced by Ross Hunter. Sirk sometimes claimed that the story was based distantly on the Greek legend of Alcestis, in 1935 Universal Studios introduced Magnificent Obsession starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor, based on Lloyd C. Douglas book. Spoiled playboy Bob Merricks reckless behavior causes him to control of his speed boat. Rescuers send for the nearest resuscitator, located in Dr. Phillipss house across the lake, while the resuscitator is being used to save Merrick, Dr. Phillips suffers a heart attack and dies. Merrick ends up a patient at Dr. Phillipss clinic, where most of the doctors and nurses resent the fact that Merrick inadvertently caused Dr. Phillipss death. Helen Phillips, Dr. Phillipss young widow, receives a flood of calls, many claimed he refused by saying it was already used up. Edward Randolph, a famous artist and Dr. Phillipss close friend and this helps her to understand why her husband left little money, even though he had a very successful practice. Merrick discovers why everyone dislikes him and he runs from the clinic but collapses in front of Helens car and ends up back at the hospital, where she learns his true identity. After his discharge, Merrick leaves a party, drunk, after running off the road, Merrick ends up at the home of Edward Randolph, who recognizes him. Randolph explains the belief that powered his own art and Dr. Phillipss success. Merrick decides to try out this new philosophy and his first attempt causes Helen to step into the path of a car while trying to run away from Merricks advances. She is blinded by this accident, Merrick soberly commits to becoming a doctor, trying to fulfill Dr. Phillipss legacy. He also has fallen in love with Helen and secretly helps her adjust to her blindness under the guise of being simply a medical student. Merrick secretly arranges for Helen to travel to Europe and consult the best eye surgeons in the world, after extensive tests, these surgeons tell Helen there is no hope for recovery. Right after this, Robby shows up at her hotel to provide emotional support, Merrick asks Helen to marry him. Later that night, Helen realizes she will be a burden to him, many years pass and Merrick is now a dedicated and successful brain surgeon who secretly continues his philanthropic acts, and searches for Helen. One evening, Randolph arrives with news that Helen is very sick, possibly dying and they leave immediately for this clinic
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Theatrical release poster
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All That Heaven Allows
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All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 Technicolor drama romance film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love. The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L. Lee, the film was directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter. In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Cary Scott is an affluent widow in suburban New England, whose social life involves her country club peers, college-age children, and a few men vying for her affection. She becomes interested in Ron Kirby, her gardener, an intelligent, down-to-earth, Ron is content with his simple life outside the materialistic society and the two fall in love. Ron introduces her to people who seem to have no need for wealth and status, Cary accepts his proposal of marriage, but becomes distressed when her friends and college-age children are angry. They look down upon Ron and his friends and reject their mother for this socially unacceptable arrangement, eventually, bowing to this pressure, she breaks off the engagement. Cary and Ron continue their lives, both with many regrets, but Carys children soon announce they are moving out. Having destroyed her chance at happiness, her son buys her a set to keep her company. Before doing so, however, her daughter apologizes to her mother for her prior impulsive and foolish reaction to Ron, Carys doctor points out that Cary is now lonelier than she was before meeting Ron. As he recovers, Cary is by his telling him that she has come home. Sirk found the screenplay for All That Heaven Allows rather impossible but was able to restructure it and use the big budget to film, the music which often plays throughout the film is Consolation No.3 in D-flat major by Franz Liszt. Some exteriors for the film were shot on “Colonial Street, ” a studio built by Paramount Pictures on the property of Universal Studios four years earlier for the movie Desperate Hours. The set was designed to mimic an upper-middle class, New England town, the set was featured on the television show Leave it to Beaver. Sirk considered having Hudson’s character die at the end of the film, Wyman was only 38 when she played the films older woman who scandalizes society and her grown-up children by becoming engaged to a younger man. Hudson, the man, was 30 at the time. Screenwriter Peg Fenwick wrote the screenplay for All That Heaven Allows based on the 394-page novel of the name by Harry. Notations made on various pages of a copy of the original screenplay owned by the New York Public Library indicate that the script was written in August of 1954, the film contains only one visible crane shot in which the camera scan over the fictional town of Stoningham. Tracking and dollying shots are used to frequently in interior shots, All That Heaven Allows received positive reviews from critics
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Theatrical release poster
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Academy Award for Best Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, one actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category, elizabeth I of England, Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born. Six women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting, they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars, meryl Streep, who has a total of 20 Oscar nominations, has been nominated in this category on 16 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2017 ceremony, Emma Stone is the most recent winner in category for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Janet Gaynor was the first winner in this category for her roles in
7th Heaven (1927),
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and
Street Angel (1928).
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Norma Shearer won in 1930 for her performance in
The Divorcee.
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Katharine Hepburn has the most wins in this category for her roles in
Morning Glory (1933),
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967),
The Lion in Winter (1968), and
On Golden Pond (1981).
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Bette Davis won two awards from ten nominations for her roles in
Dangerous (1935) and
Jezebel (1938).
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Johnny Belinda (1948 film)
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Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit of the same name, by Elmer Blaney Harris. The play was adapted for the screen by writers Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, the story is based on an actual incident that happened near Harriss summer residence in Fortune Bridge, Bay Fortune, Prince Edward Island. The title character is based on the real-life Lydia Dingwell, of Dingwells Mills, the film dramatizes the consequences of spreading lies and rumors, and the horror of rape. The latter subject had previously prohibited by the Motion Picture Production Code. Johnny Belinda is widely considered to be the first Hollywood film for which the restriction was relaxed, the film stars Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally, and Jan Sterling. Wymans performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress and it was filmed on location in Fort Bragg, California. Also, live versions aired on the US network NBC on October 13,1958 as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series and on Australian television in 1959 as part of the Shell Presents series. The film is the story of a young woman, Belinda MacDonald, who is befriended by the new doctor, Dr. Robert Richardson. The doctor realizes that, although she cannot hear or speak and she lives on a farm with her father, Black Mac Donald, and her aunt, Aggie MacDonald, wears plain work clothes, rarely goes into town, and only once to church. The family sells farm goods to the town, mainly flour. Her father and aunt called Belinda Dummy and resent her because her mother died giving birth to her, Dr. Richardson teaches Belinda sign language and the signs for many common things and ideas. Over time, his affection for her grows and he buys her a pretty dress and encourages her father to take her to town and church. Dr. Richardsons secretary, Stella, is attracted to him and tries to get his attention, after Stella figures out that he is becoming attracted to Belinda, she starts to resent both of them. One of the customers, Locky McCormick, gets drunk at a dance, leaves the dance. This results in her pregnancy, which is diagnosed by doctor to whom Dr. Richardson had brought her for audiology testing. Belinda gives birth at home to a baby boy, whom she names Johnny. The people in town began to shun the Mac Donald family and Dr. Richardson, Dr. Richardson tells Black that he is willing to marry Belinda in order to quiet town gossip. Black rejects this idea, as he knows that Dr. Richardson does not truly love Belinda, Locky goes to the MacDonald farm under the pretense of purchasing ground barley, but really wants to get a look at baby Johnny
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Theatrical release poster
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Jane Wyman as Belinda McDonald
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Lew Ayres as Dr. Robert Richardson
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Charles Bickford as Black McDonald
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Golden Globe
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Soap opera
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A soap opera, soap, or soapie, is a serial drama on television or radio that examines the lives of many characters, usually focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama. The term soap opera originated from such dramas being typically sponsored by soap manufacturers in the past, the first serial considered to be a soap opera was Painted Dreams, which debuted on October 20,1930 on Chicago radio station WGN. The first nationally broadcast radio soap opera was Clara, Lu, and Em, a crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the features that makes a television program a soap opera. While Spanish language telenovelas are sometimes called soap operas, telenovelas have conflicts that get resolved, but with soap operas each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode. You spend more time even with the characters, the apparent villains grow less apparently villainous. Soap opera storylines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further developments, each episode may feature some of the shows current storylines, but not always all of them. Soap operas rarely bring all the current storylines to a conclusion at the same time, when one storyline ends, there are several other story threads at differing stages of development. Soap opera episodes typically end on some sort of cliffhanger, evening soap operas and those that air at a rate of one episode per week are more likely to feature the entire cast in each episode, and to represent all current storylines in each episode. Evening soap operas and serials that run for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end-of-season cliffhanger, the article explained that at that time, many prime time series lost money, while daytime serials earned profits several times more than their production costs. Fitting in with these characteristics, most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place, the storylines follow the day-to-day activities and personal relationships of these characters. These elements may be found across the gamut of soap operas, Due to the prominence of English-language television, most soap-operas are completely English. In many soap operas, in particular daytime serials in the US, Soap operas from the United Kingdom and Australia tend to focus on more everyday characters and situations, and are frequently set in working class environments. Many of the soaps produced in two countries explore social realist storylines such as family discord, marriage breakdown or financial problems. This diverges from US soap operas where such comedy is rare, UK soap operas frequently make a claim to presenting reality or purport to have a realistic style. Romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs, and genuine hate have been the basis for many soap opera storylines, in US daytime serials, the most popular soap opera characters, and the most popular storylines, often involved a romance of the sort presented in paperback romance novels. Crimes such as kidnapping, rape, and even murder may go unpunished if the perpetrator is to be retained in the ongoing story, Australian and UK soap operas also feature a significant proportion of romance storylines. In Russia, most popular serials explore the romantic quality of criminal and/or oligarch life, in soap opera storylines, previously unknown children, siblings and twins of established characters often emerge to upset and reinvigorate the set of relationships examined by the series
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Publicity photo of
Rosemary Prinz as
Penny Hughes from
As the World Turns.
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A scene from EastEnders on Christmas Day 1986, watched by 30.15 million viewers. The story, in which
Den Watts served his wife
Angie with
divorce papers, was the highest-rated soap episode in British history, and the highest-rated program in the UK during the 1980s.
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Leah Thys, actress in the Belgian soap
Thuis. At the back Peter Rouffaer is visible.
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Falcon Crest
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Falcon Crest is an American prime time television soap opera that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4,1981 to May 17,1990. The series revolved around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry, Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angelas nephew who returns after the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco, the show was created by Earl Hamner, Jr. who had previously created The Waltons, which had just finished its final season in 1981. Hamner wanted to create a drama involving the wine industry entitled The Vintage Years. An unaired pilot episode was produced, but CBS requested that Hamner make the show more along the lines of Dallas, the script was rewritten and several cast members changed for what became Falcon Crest. The series first aired in December 1981, when CBS scheduled Falcon Crest at 10 pm on Friday nights, the Dallas-Falcon Crest one-two punch proved lucrative for the network and Falcon Crest was a top-20 show in the Nielsen Ratings for several years. Both shows were produced for CBS by the company, Lorimar Productions. At the center of the action is Angela Channing, a corrupt, when her brother Jason Gioberti dies from a fall in the winery, his son Chase Gioberti arrives to claim his inherited portion of Falcon Crest. The rivalry between Angela and Chase — whom Angela sees as an interloper — sets the tone for much of the series, surrounding Angela are her daughters, Julia and Emma, and her lazy playboy grandson, Lance Cumson, who aids her in her battles against Chase. Julia is chief winemaker, though often feels oppressed by her domineering mother, kind-natured Emma does not work in the family business, but is emotionally troubled. Julias son Lance loves money and yearns for power, but lacks Angelas discipline and her ever-tightening grip on him eventually sends him to work for his grandfathers newspaper, The San Francisco Globe. Aiding Angela in her quest for power is her crooked lawyer, Phillip Erikson. Chases wife Maggie is a writer who later works at The New Globe newspaper, their grown son Cole works at the winery with Chase. Scheming Melissa becomes embroiled in a triangle with Lance and Cole. In the second season, a rival for Angela arrives in the form of conniving Richard Channing. Richard crosses them at every turn and makes attempts to wrest control of Falcon Crest. The distinctive location filming in the Napa Valley and the dry, the rivalry between Angela, Chase, and Richard stayed at the core of the show for several years, as more romantic entanglements spun around them. Lance and Cole found themselves not only caught up in their family battles for control of Falcon Crest, like Dallas and Dynasty, Falcon Crest employed memorable end-of-season cliffhangers to boost ratings
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Main title screen (Season 8)
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Original cast
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St Joseph, Missouri
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St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. It is the city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew. As of the 2010 census, St. Joseph had a population of 76,780, making it the eighth largest city in the state. The metropolitan area had a population of 127,329 in 2010, St. Joseph, named after the biblical Saint Joseph, is located on the Missouri River. It is perhaps best known as the point of the Pony Express and the death place of Jesse James. St. Joseph is also home to Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph was founded on the Missouri River by Joseph Robidoux, a local fur trader, and officially incorporated in 1843. In its early days, it was a bustling outpost and rough frontier town, serving as a last supply point and it was the westernmost point in the United States accessible by rail until after the American Civil War. The main east-west downtown streets were named for Robidouxs eight children, Faraon, Jules, Francois, Felix, Edmond, Charles, Sylvanie, the street between Sylvanie and Messanie was named for his second wife, Angelique. St. Joseph, or St. Joe, as it was called by many, was a Jumping-Off Point for those headed to the Oregon Territory in the mid-1800s. These cities, including Independence, and St. Joseph, were where pioneers would stay, the town was a very bustling place, and was the second city in the USA to have electric streetcars. The pony riders carried additionally, along with the mail, a small personal bible, today the Pony Express Museum hosts visitors in the old stables. In 1882, on April 3, the outlaw Jesse James was killed at his home, originally located at 1318 Lafayette, now sited next to The Patee House. In the post-Civil War years, when the economy was down, James was living under the alias of Mr. Howard. An excerpt from a poem of the time is. that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard has laid poor Jesse in his grave. The Heaton-Bowman-Smith Funeral Home maintains a museum about Jesse James. The museum is open to the public and his home, is now known as Jesse James Home Museum. It has been relocated at least three times, and features the bullet hole from that fateful shot, St. Joseph is identified by the slogan, Where the Pony Express started and Jesse James ended. St. Josephs population peaked in 1900, with a population of 102,979
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Downtown St. Joseph in 2006
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The intersection of Francis and North 4th Streets in downtown St. Joseph
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The
Missouri River in St. Joseph
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