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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction, fantasy, psychological-supernatural horror anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Each story typically features a moral and a surprise ending, the series is notable for featuring both established stars and younger actors who would become more famous later on. Serling served as producer and head writer, he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the shows 156 episodes. He was also the shows host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning, Serlings opening and closing narrations usually summarize the episodes events encapsulating how and why the main character had entered the Twilight Zone. In 2016, it was ranked No.8 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest shows of all time, in 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked No.26 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the third best-written TV series ever, by the late 1950s, Rod Serling was a regular name in television. His successful teleplays included Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight, but constant changes and edits made by the networks, in Requiem for a Heavyweight, the line Got a match. But according to comments in his 1957 anthology Patterns, Serling had been trying to delve into more controversial than his works of the early 1950s. Despite bad reviews, activists sent numerous letters and wires protesting the production, the script, however, was rejected and shelved for a year until Bert Granet discovered and produced it as an episode of Desilu Playhouse in 1958. The show was a success and enabled Serling to finally begin production on his anthology series. There is a dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity and it is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of mans fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination and it is an area which we call The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone premiered the night of October 2,1959 and its the one series that I will let interfere with other plans, said Terry Turner for the Chicago Daily News. Even as the show proved popular to televisions critics, it struggled to find an audience of television viewers. CBS was banking on a rating of at least 21 or 22, the series future was jeopardized when its third episode, Mr. Denton on Doomsday earned a 16.3 rating. With one exception, the first season featured scripts written only by Rod Serling and these three were responsible for 127 of the 156 episodes in the series. Additionally, with one exception, Serling never appeared on camera during any first-season episode, Serling did appear on screen in Twilight Zone promotional spots plugging the following weeks episode – just not in the episodes themselves
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Television in the United States
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Television is one of the major mass media of the United States. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, individual broadcast television stations in the U. S. transmit on either VHF channels 2 through 13 or UHF channels 14 through 51. Over-the-air and subscription television networks, however, are not required to file for a license to operate, channels are usually sold in groups, rather than singularly. A la carte subscription services in the U. S, the United States has a decentralized, market-oriented television system, particularly in regard to broadcast television. The nation has a public television service known as the Public Broadcasting Service. Local media markets have their own stations, which may either be affiliated with or owned and operated by a television network. Arrangements in which television stations carried more than one network on its main signal were more common between the 1940s and the 1960s, although some continued as late as 2010. However unlike in other countries, to ensure local presences in television broadcasting, the international programming model is used in the U. S. The five major U. S. broadcast television networks are the National Broadcasting Company, CBS, the American Broadcasting Company, the Fox Broadcasting Company and the CW Television Network. The first and elder three began as radio networks, NBC and CBS respectively began operations in 1924 and 1927, weekday schedules on ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates tend to be similar, with programming choices sorted by dayparts. Network daytime schedules consist of shows and soap operas, although one network – CBS – still carries game shows. Syndicated talk shows are shown in the afternoon, followed by additional local newscasts in the early evening time period. ABC, CBS and NBC offer network news programs each evening, local newscasts or syndicated programs fill the prime access hour or half-hour, and lead into the networks prime time schedules, which are the days most-watched three hours of television. The traditional prime time runs from 8,00 to 11,00 p. m. in the Eastern. Hour and leave that hour for their affiliates to provide programming of their own, later in the evening, drama series of various types air. Sunday is the night on American television, with many of TVs most popular shows airing on that night. At the end of time, another local news program is broadcast. Saturday mornings usually feature network programming aimed at children, while Sunday mornings include a form of public affairs program known as the Sunday morning talk shows, both of these help fulfill stations legal obligations, respectively to provide educational childrens programs and public service programming
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Druid
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A druid was a member of the high-ranking professional class in ancient Celtic cultures. While perhaps best remembered as religious leaders, they were also legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and they are however attested in some detail by their contemporaries from other cultures, such as the Romans. The earliest known references to the date to the fourth century BCE. Later Greco-Roman writers also described the Druids, including Cicero, Tacitus, in about 750 CE the word druid appears in a poem by Blathmac, who wrote about Jesus, saying that he was. Better than a prophet, more knowledgeable than every druid, a king who was a bishop, the druids then also appear in some of the medieval tales from Christianized Ireland like the Táin Bó Cúailnge, where they are largely portrayed as sorcerers who opposed the coming of Christianity. In the wake of the Celtic revival during the 18th and 19th centuries, fraternal and neopagan groups were founded based on ideas about the ancient druids, many popular notions about druids are based on the misconceptions of 18th century scholars. These have been superseded by more recent study. The modern English word druid derives from the Latin druides, which was considered by ancient Roman writers to come from the native Celtic Gaulish word for these figures, other Roman texts also employ the form druidae, while the same term was used by Greek ethnographers as δρυΐδης. Based on all forms, the hypothetical proto-Celtic word may then be reconstructed as *dru-wid-s meaning oak-knower. The two elements go back to the Proto-Indo-European roots *deru- and *weid- to see, the sense of oak-knower is supported by Pliny the Elder, who in his Natural History considered the word to contain the Greek noun drýs, oak-tree and the Greek suffix -idēs. The modern Irish word for Oak is Dair, which occurs in anglicized placenames like Derry – Doire, there are many stories about saints, heroes, and oak trees, and also many local stories and superstitions about trees in general, which still survive in rural Ireland. Both Old Irish druí and Middle Welsh dryw could also refer to the wren, sources by ancient and medieval writers provide an idea of the religious duties and social roles involved in being a druid. One of the few things that both the Greco-Roman and the vernacular Irish sources agree on about the druids is that played an important part in pagan Celtic society. He also claimed that they were exempt from service and from the payment of taxes. Pomponius Mela is the first author who says that the instruction was secret and was carried on in caves. Druidic lore consisted of a number of verses learned by heart. What was taught to Druid novices anywhere is conjecture, of the oral literature, not one certifiably ancient verse is known to have survived. All instruction was communicated orally, but for ordinary purposes, Caesar reports, in this he probably draws on earlier writers, by the time of Caesar, Gaulish inscriptions had moved from the Greek script to the Latin script
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Blue Ridge Mountains
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The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. This province consists of northern and southern regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. The mountain range is located in the eastern United States, starting at its southernmost portion in Georgia, then ending northward in Pennsylvania. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the Appalachians, lies the Great Appalachian Valley, bordered on the west by the Ridge, the Blue Ridge Mountains are noted for having a bluish color when seen from a distance. Trees put the blue in Blue Ridge, from the isoprene released into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to the haze on the mountains. Within the Blue Ridge province are two national parks, the Shenandoah National Park, in the northern section, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Blue Ridge also contains the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469-mile long scenic highway that connects the two parks and is located along the ridge crestlines with the Appalachian Trail, the Blue Ridge extends as far north into Pennsylvania as South Mountain. The Blue Ridge contains the highest mountains in eastern North America south of Baffin Island, about 125 peaks exceed 5,000 feet in elevation. The highest peak in the Blue Ridge is Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet. There are 39 peaks in North Carolina and Tennessee higher than 6,000 feet, by comparison, Southern Sixers is a term used by peak baggers for this group of mountains. The Blue Ridge Parkway runs 469 miles along crests of the Southern Appalachians, in many places along the parkway, there are metamorphic rocks with folded bands of light-and dark-colored minerals, which sometimes look like the folds and swirls in a marble cake. Most of the rocks that form the Blue Ridge Mountains are ancient granitic charnockites, metamorphosed volcanic formations, modern studies have found that the basement geology of the Blue Ridge is made of compositionally unique gneisses and granitoids, including orthopyroxene-bearing charnockites. Analysis of zircon minerals in the completed by John Aleinikoff at the U. S. Geological Survey has provided more detailed emplacement ages. Many of the found in the Blue Ridge and documented by Tollo. The lack of an affinity and zircon ages less than 1,200 Ma suggest that the Blue Ridge is distinct from the Adirondacks, Green Mountains. The petrologic and geochronologic data suggest that the Blue Ridge basement is a composite orogenic crust that was emplaced during several episodes from a magma source. Field relationships further illustrate that rocks emplaced prior to 1, 078-1,064 Ma preserve deformational features and those emplaced post-1,064 Ma generally have a massive texture and missed the main episode of Mesoproterozoic compression. The Blue Ridge Mountains began forming during the Silurian Period over 400 million years ago, approximately 320 Mya, North America and Europe collided, pushing up the Blue Ridge
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Meteoroid
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A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects, objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars and this phenomenon is called a meteor or shooting star. A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. If that object withstands ablation from its passage through the atmosphere as a meteor and impacts with the ground, an estimated 15,000 tonnes of meteoroids, micrometeoroids and different forms of space dust enter Earths atmosphere each year. In 1995, Beech and Steel, writing in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, according to Rubin and Grossman, the minimum size of an asteroid is given by what can be discovered from Earth-bound telescopes, so the distinction between meteoroid and asteroid is fuzzy. Some of the smallest asteroids discovered are 2008 TS26 with H =33.2 and 2011 CQ1 with H =32.1 both with a size of 1 meter. Objects smaller than meteoroids are classified as micrometeoroids and cosmic dust, the Minor Planet Center does not use the term meteoroid. Almost all meteoroids contain extraterrestrial nickel and iron and they have three main classifications, iron, stone, and stony-iron. Some stone meteoroids contain grain-like inclusions known as chondrules and are called chondrites, stoney meteoroids without these features are called achondrites, which are typically formed from extraterrestrial igneous activity, they contain little or no extraterrestrial iron. The composition of meteoroids can be inferred as they pass through Earths atmosphere from their trajectories and their effects on radio signals also give information, especially useful for daytime meteors, which are otherwise very difficult to observe. From these trajectory measurements, meteoroids have been found to have many different orbits, some clustering in streams associated with a parent comet. Debris from meteoroid streams may eventually be scattered into other orbits, the study of meteorites also gives insights into the composition of non-ephemeral meteoroids. Most meteoroids come from the belt, having been perturbed by the gravitational influences of planets. Some meteoroids are pieces of planets or moons, such as Mars or our moon, meteoroids travel around the Sun in a variety of orbits and at various velocities. The fastest ones move at about 42 kilometers per second through space in the vicinity of Earths orbit, Earth travels at about 29.6 kilometers per second. Thus, when meteoroids meet Earths atmosphere head-on, the speed may reach about 71 kilometers per second. Meteoroids moving through Earths orbital space average about 20 km/s, on January 17,2013 at 05,21 PST, a 1 meter-sized comet from the Oort cloud entered Earth atmosphere over a wide area in California and Nevada
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The Waltons
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The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr. based on his book Spencers Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression, the series pilot aired as a television movie entitled The Homecoming, A Christmas Story and was broadcast on December 19,1971. Beginning in September 1972, the originally aired on CBS for nine seasons. After the series was canceled by CBS in 1981, NBC aired three television movie sequels in 1982, with three more in the 1990s on CBS, the Waltons was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. The main story takes place in Waltons Mountain, a town at the foot of a mountain in fictitious Jefferson County. The actual place upon which the stories are based is in Nelson County, Virginia, the time period is from 1933 to 1946, during the Great Depression and World War II, during the presidential administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. The last episode of one, An Easter Story, is set in February–April 1934. The year 1934 takes two seasons to cover, while some years are covered over the course of a few months. The series finale, The Revel, revolves around a party, a span of 13 years is therefore covered in nine seasons. There are some errors, which ostensibly do not hinder the storyline. The series began relating stories that occurred 38 years in the past, the story is about the family of John Walton Jr. his six siblings, his parents John and Olivia Walton, and the elder Johns parents Zebulon Zeb and Esther Walton. John-Boy is the oldest of the children, who becomes a journalist and novelist. Each episode is narrated at the opening and closing by a middle-aged John Jr. John Sr. manages to eke out a living for his family by operating a mill with his sons help as they grow older. The family income is augmented by some small-scale farming, and John occasionally hunts to put meat on the table, the family shares hospitality with relatives and strangers as they are able. Jefferson County sheriff Ep Bridges, who fought alongside John in World War I, keeps law, the entire family attends a Baptist church, of which Olivia and Grandma Esther are the most regular attendees. The church that the Hamners actually attended was Schuyler Baptist Church, the church has helped host several events honoring Earl Hamner, Jr. including one in 2014. In the signature scene that closes almost every episode, the house is enveloped in darkness, save for one. Through voice-overs, two or more characters make some brief comments related to that events, and then bid each other goodnight
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Rod Serling
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Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the young man of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism. Serling was born on December 25,1924, in Syracuse, New York and he was the second of two sons born to Esther and Samuel Lawrence Serling. Serlings father had worked as a secretary and amateur inventor before having children, sam Serling later became a butcher after the Great Depression forced the store to close. Rod had a brother, Robert J. Serling. Serling spent most of his youth 70 miles south of Syracuse in the city of Binghamton after his family moved there in 1926 and his parents encouraged his talents as a performer. Sam Serling built a stage in the basement, where Rod often put on plays. His older brother, writer Robert, recalled that, at the age of six or seven, Rod often talked to people around him without waiting for their answers. On a two-hour-long trip from Binghamton to Syracuse, the rest of the family remained silent to see if Rod would notice their lack of participation and he did not, talking nonstop through the entire car ride. In elementary school, Serling was seen as the class clown, however, his seventh-grade English teacher, Helen Foley, encouraged him to enter the schools public speaking extracurriculars. He joined the team and was a speaker at his high school graduation. He began writing for the newspaper, in which, according to the journalist Gordon Sander. He was also interested in sports and excelled at tennis and table tennis, when he attempted to join the varsity football team, he was told he was too small at 5 feet 4 inches tall. Serling was interested in radio and writing at an early age and he listened to various radio programs, especially thrillers with a fantasy or horror feel. Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin were two of his favorite writers and he also did some staff work at a Binghamton radio station. He was accepted into college during his year of high school. As editor of his school newspaper, Serling encouraged his fellow students to support the war effort. He wanted to leave school before graduation to join the fight, War is a temporary thing, Gus Youngstrom told him
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Time Enough at Last
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Time Enough at Last is the eighth episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode was adapted from a story written by Lynn Venable. The short story appeared in the January 1953 edition of the science fiction magazine If, Time Enough at Last became one of the most famous episodes of the original Twilight Zone and has been frequently parodied since. Henpecked, far sighted bank teller and avid bookworm Henry Bemis works at his window in a bank, while reading David Copperfield, bemiss angry boss, and later his nagging wife, both complain to him that he wastes far too much time reading doggerel. As a cruel joke, his wife asks him to read poetry from one of his books to her, he obliges, only to find that she has inked over the text on every page. Seconds later, she destroys the book by ripping the pages from it much to Henrys dismay, the next day, as usual, Henry takes his lunch break in the banks vault, where his reading will not be disturbed. Moments after he sees a newspaper headline, which reads H-Bomb Capable of Total Destruction, after regaining consciousness and recovering the thick glasses required for him to see, Bemis emerges from the vault to find the bank demolished and everyone in it dead. Leaving the bank, he sees that the city has been destroyed, and realizes that a nuclear war has devastated the Earth. Finding himself totally alone in a world with food to last him a lifetime but no one to share it with. As he prepares to commit suicide using a revolver he has found and his despair gone, Bemis contentedly sorts the books he looks forward to reading for years to come. Just as he bends down to pick up the first book, he stumbles, in shock, he picks up the broken remains of the glasses he is virtually blind without, and says, Thats not fair. There was—was all the time I needed…, and bursts into tears, surrounded by books he now can never read. Time Enough at Last was one of the first episodes written for The Twilight Zone. It introduced Burgess Meredith to the series, he went on to star in three episodes, being introduced as no stranger to The Twilight Zone in promotional spots for season twos The Obsolete Man. He also narrated for the 1983 film Twilight Zone, The Movie, footage of the exterior steps of the library was filmed several months after production had been completed. These steps can also be seen on the exterior of an Eloi public building in MGMs 1960 version of The Time Machine, john Brahm was nominated for a Directors Guild award for his work on the episode. The book that Bemis was reading in the vault and that open when the bomb explodes is A History of the Life. Although the overriding message may seem to be careful what you wish for, paramount among these is the question of solitude versus loneliness, as embodied by Bemis moment of near-suicide
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James Best
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He appeared as a guest on various country music and talk shows. He also starred in the science fiction movie, The Killer Shrews and its sequel. James Best was born as Jewel Franklin Guy on July 26,1926, in Powderly, Kentucky, to Lark and his mother was the sister of Ike Everly, the father of the pop duo The Everly Brothers. After his mother died of tuberculosis in 1929, then three-year-old James was sent to live in an orphanage and he was later adopted by Armen Best and his wife Essa and went to live with them in Corydon, Indiana. As an MP, Best played a role in bringing stability to war-torn Germany immediately after their surrender, while stationed in Germany, Best transferred out of the MP and joined a special services unit of actors for the US Army that travelled around Europe performing plays for the troops. This was the beginning of his acting career. Best began his acting career with an uncredited role in the 1950 film. He was further cast as Private Ridges in the 1958 film adaptation of Norman Mailers The Naked, Best guest-starred more than 280 times in numerous television series. In 1954, he played the outlaw Dave Ridley, opposite Gloria Winters as the female bandit Little Britches in an episode of Stories of the Century, in 1954, Best appeared twice on the syndicated Annie Oakley series, starring Gail Davis and Brad Johnson. He was cast in the anthology series, Crossroads, in the 1956 episode The White Carnation. He was also cast on an episode of Jackie Coopers early NBC sitcom, The Peoples Choice and in the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, in 1960, Best appeared in the episode Love on Credit of CBSs anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. The same year, he guest starred on The Andy Griffith Show as The Guitar Player and he starred in three episodes of The Twilight Zone including The Grave, The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank and Jess-Belle. In 1963, he was cast as the courageous Wisconsin game warden, Ernie Swift, in the episode Open Season of another CBS anthology series, GE True, in the story line, Swift faces the reprisal of organized crime after he tickets gangster Frank MacErlane for illegal fishing. In 1962, he played the part of Art Fuller in the episode Incident of El Toro on CBSs Rawhide and in 1963, Best made two guest appearances on Perry Mason. In 1963 he played title character Martin Potter in The Case of the Surplus Suitor, the Green Hornet, The Mod Squad, I Spy and The Fugitive. Best played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on CBSs The Dukes of Hazzard from the debut of the program in 1979 until the series ended in 1985 and this role was Bests most visible success. He later revealed that the persona of Sheriff Coltrane was developed from a voice that he used when playing with his young children. On set, Best was particularly close to Sorrell Booke, who played the character of Boss Hogg, who was both the boss and the brother-in-law of Rosco
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Virginia Gregg
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Virginia Lee Gregg was an American actress known for her many roles in radio dramas and television series. Born in the Illinois city of Harrisburg, she was the daughter of musician Dewey Alphaleta, when Gregg was 5, she and her family moved to Pasadena. She attended Jefferson High School, Pasadena Junior College and Pacific Academy of Dramatic Art, before going into radio, Gregg played the double bass with the Pasadena Symphony and Pops. She was a member of the Singing Strings group heard initially on KHJ in Los Angeles in 1937 and later on CBS, Gregg was a prolific radio actress, heard on such programs as The Adventures of Sam Spade, Dragnet, Dr. On the radio series Have Gun–Will Travel, Gregg portrayed Miss Wong and she had the role of Betty Barbour on One Mans Family and played Richard Diamonds girlfriend, the wealthy Helen Asher, on the radio series Richard Diamond, Private Detective. She later guest starred in an episode of the version of Richard Diamond. Gregg once said of her work as an actress on television, I work steadily. She added, When casting people have a call for a woman who looks like the wrath of God, Gregg may be best remembered for her many appearances in Dragnet. Jack Webb used her in dozens of roles on both the radio and TV versions of the show, as well as in the 1954 film version of Dragnet, in later years, she appeared on other shows produced by Webbs production company, Mark VII Limited. Gregg supplied the voice of Mrs. Bates in Psycho as did Jeanette Nolan and Paul Jasmin, only Gregg did the voice in the sequels Psycho II and Psycho III. She voiced Tarra on the 1967 animated TV series, The Herculoids and she reprised that role when the series was revived in 1981 as part of the Space Stars animated series. Gregg married producer Jaime del Valle in 1948, and they had three children, Gregg, Jaime, and Ricardo and they were divorced December 22,1959. She was active with the Recording for the Blind Inc. organization, making recordings as a volunteer, Gregg died from lung cancer in Encino, California, September 15,1986, aged 70. She was survived by her three sons, Gregg, Jaime and Ricardo del Valle, official website Virginia Gregg at the Internet Movie Database Virginia Gregg at Find a Grave
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Anne Francis
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She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the series. Some sources erroneously claim she was born Ann Marvak in Ossining, New York, however, according to her parents marriage registration and census records from 1925 and 1930, her parents were Philip Ward Francis and Edith Francis. She entered show business at an age, working as a model at age five to help her family during the Great Depression. She made her Broadway debut at the age of 11, Francis made her film debut in This Time for Keeps. She played supporting roles in the films Susan Slept Here, So Young, So Bad and her best-known film role is that of Altaira in Forbidden Planet, an Oscar-nominated science-fiction classic. Francis was the star of a provocative 1960 movie about a call girl, Girl of the Night. In 1965, she had a role in the William Conrad film noir Brainstorm. In 1968, she played the role of Georgia James in the feature film Funny Girl and in the year, played Nancy Ingersoll in the comedy Hook, Line. She also co-starred in Impasse, a film starring Burt Reynolds. Her distinctive physical features were her blonde hair, striking blue eyes, the mole was even written into the script of one of her films. Francis found success in television and was a frequent guest star in 1960s, 1970s and she guest-starred on The Untouchables as the title character in The Doreen Maney Story, and appeared twice in The Twilight Zone. She also appeared in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and three episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Francis also appeared in two episodes of the Western series The Virginian and in the episode Incident of the Shambling Man on the CBS western, Rawhide. She was cast in an episode of Gene Kellys drama series, Going My Way, based on the 1944 film of the same name. During 1964, she guest-starred in two episodes, Hideout and Rachels Mother, of The Reporter, and made two appearances in The Man From U. N. C. L. E. She made a guest appearance in a 1967 episode of The Fugitive and she appeared in the 1967 episode, The Saucer, in The Invaders. She guest-starred in a 1973 episode, Murder In The Dolls House and she appeared twice as a guest star in Columbo, once as a casual lover of the murderer, and once as the actual murder victim. In 1974, she appeared as Ida, the madame of a house on the series Kung Fu in the episode Night of the Owls. In 1976, she appeared as Lola Flynn in an episode of Wonder Woman, in 1977, she appeared as Lieutenant Commander Gladys Hope, the head nurse in two episodes of the World War II series Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Forbidden Planet
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Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from MGM, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the science fiction films of the 1950s. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeares The Tempest and its plot contains certain story analogues to the play. Forbidden Planet is noted for pioneering several aspects of fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a starship of their own creation. It was also the first to be set entirely on another planet in interstellar space, outside of science fiction, the film was groundbreaking as the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score, courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron. Forbidden Planets effects team was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 29th Academy Awards, in 2013, the picture was entered into the Library of Congress National Film Registry, being deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In the 23rd century, starship C-57D reaches the distant world Altair IV to determine the fate of an Earth expedition sent there 20 years earlier. Dr. Edward Morbius, one of the scientists, unsuccessfully tries to persuade the relief ship not to land. Commander John J. Adams, Lieutenant Jerry Farman, and Lieutenant Doc Ostrow are met by Robby the Robot, who transports them to Morbius residence. Morbius describes how one by one the rest of the expedition was killed by an unknown force that vaporized their starship. Only Morbius, his wife, and their daughter Altaira were somehow immune, Morbius offers to help them prepare for the return journey, but Adams says he must await further instructions from Earth. The next day, Adams finds Farman teaching Altaira how to kiss, furious, he dismisses Farman and berates Altaira for her naivety and she reports the incident to Morbius, who says that she never needs to see Adams again. But Altaira designs a new, more conservative gown to please Adams and that night, an invisible intruder sabotages equipment aboard the starship. Adams and Ostrow confront Morbius the following morning, while waiting for him to exit his study, Adams steps outside to talk to Altaira. Adams apologizes for his behavior and they kiss and they are attacked by a tiger, and Adams disintegrates the animal, which had previously been tame in Altairas presence. Upon Morbius appearance, Adams and Ostrow learn he has been studying the Krell, in a Krell laboratory Morbius shows them a plastic educator, a device capable of measuring and enhancing intellectual capacity. When Morbius first used it, he survived, but his intellect was permanently doubled
