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The Big Combo
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The Big Combo is a 1955 film noir crime film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy, as well as Jean Wallace and it also included the final screen appearance of actress Helen Walker. Police Lt. Leonard Diamond is on a crusade to bring down sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. Hes also dangerously obsessed with Browns girlfriend, the suicidal Susan Lowell and his main objective as a detective is to uncover what happened to a woman called Alicia from the crime bosss past. Mr. Brown, his second-in-command McClure and thugs Fante and Mingo kidnap and torture the lieutenant, Diamond eventually learns through one of Browns past accomplices that Alicia was actually Browns wife. The accomplice suspects that Alicia was sent away to Sicily with former mob boss Grazzi, then murdered, tied to the boats anchor, Diamond questions a Swede named Dreyer, who was the skipper of that boat. Dreyer denies involvement, but this doesnt prevent him from being murdered by McClure within seconds after he leaves the shop, Diamond tries to persuade Susan to leave Brown and admits he might be in love with her. He shows her a photo of Brown, Alicia and Grazzi together on the boat, Susan finally confronts Brown about his wife and is told she is still alive in Sicily, Italy, living with Grazzi. Brown next orders a hit on Diamond, however, when his gunmen Fante and Mingo go to Diamonds apartment, they mistakenly shoot and kill the cops burlesque dancer girlfriend Rita instead. Diamond sees a photo of Alicia but realizes it wasnt taken in Sicily. This leads Diamond to suspect Brown didnt kill Alicia but his boss Grazzi instead, Diamond is able to track Alicia to a sanitarium, where she is staying under another name. Browns right-hand man, McClure, wants to take over and he plots with Fante and Mingo to ambush Mr. Brown, but ends up getting killed himself because they are loyal to the boss. At police headquarters, Brown shows up with a writ of habeas corpus, Brown also brings a big stash of money to Fante and Mingo while they are hiding out from the police, but the box turns out to contain a bomb that apparently kills both. Brown shoots the lieutenants partner Sam and kidnaps Susan, planning to fly away to safety, Diamond finds a witness that could finally nail the elusive gangster—Mingo, who survived the blast and confesses, sobbing over the body of his cohort, that Brown was behind it all. Alicia is able to help Diamond figure out where Brown was likely to take Susan, however, the plane doesnt show up and the film climaxes in a foggy airplane hangar shootout. Susan shines a light in Browns eyes and the lieutenant places him under arrest. The last scene shows the figures of Diamond and Susan in the fog. Its not as startlingly inventive as Lewiss best film, Gun Crazy, the staff at Variety magazine liked the films direction, music and photography, despite a rambling, not-too-credible plot
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Bronxville, New York
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Bronxville /ˈbrɒŋksvɪl/ is a suburban village in Westchester County, New York, located about 15 miles north of midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester, the village comprises 1 square mile of land in its entirety, approximately 20% of the town of Eastchester. As of the 2010 U. S. census, Bronxville had a population of 6,323, as of 2014, it was ranked 18th in the state in median income. The area, once known as Underhills Crossing, became Bronxville when the village was formally established, the population grew in the second half of the 19th century when railroads allowed commuters from Westchester County to work in New York City. Lawrences influence can be throughout the community, including the historic Lawrence Park neighborhood, the Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate Corporation. John F Kennedy, the president of the United States, also resided here for a time, the village was home to an arts colony in the early 20th century during which time many noteworthy houses by prominent and casual architects were built. After the Bronx River Parkway was completed in 1925, the Village expanded rapidly with the construction of apartment buildings. As of 1959, they continued to own or manage 97% of the rental market, in both rentals and ownership, the village discouraged and effectively prohibited Jewish residency, earning the name The Holy Square Mile. The Gramatan Hotel on Sunset Hill was a hotel in the late 19th century. Gramatan was the name of the chief of the local Siwanoy Indian tribe that was centered in the Gramatan Rock area above Bronxville Station, chief Gramatan sold the land to the settlers. The hotel was demolished in 1970, and a complex of townhouses was built on the site in 1980, elizabeth Clift Bacon, General George Armstrong Custers widow, lived in Bronxville, and her house still stands to this day. St. Josephs Catholic Church, located in the area, was attended by the Kennedys when they were residents from 1929 to about 1936. In 1958 future-senator Ted Kennedy married Joan Bennett in St. Josephs Church, in 1960, the Village voted 5,1 for Nixon over Kennedy. The US Post Office–Bronxville was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, other sites on the National Register are the Bronxville Womens Club, Lawrence Park Historic District, and Masterton-Dusenberry House. As of the 2000 census, there were 6,543 people,2,312 households and 1,660 families residing in the village, the population density was 6,869.3 per square mile. There were 2,387 housing units at a density of 2,506.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 91. 88% White,1. 15% African American,0. 05% Native American,4. 83% Asian,0. 06% Pacific Islander,0. 73% from other races, and 1. 30% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 93% of the population,24. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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Santa Cruz, California
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Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2013 the U. S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruzs population at 62,864, Santa Cruz is known for its moderate climate, the natural beauty of its coastline, redwood forests, alternative community lifestyles, and socially liberal leanings. The present-day site of Santa Cruz was the location of Spanish settlement beginning in 1791, including Mission Santa Cruz, following the Mexican–American War of 1846–48, California became the 31st state in 1850. The City of Santa Cruz was incorporated in 1866 and chartered in April 1876, important early industries included lumber, gunpowder, lime and agriculture. Late in the 19th century, Santa Cruz established itself as a resort community. Prior to the arrival of Spanish soldiers, missionaries and colonists in the late 18th century, the diverse and numerous tribes of this region were also earlier referred to by the Spanish as Coastanoan. The term Ohlone has been used in place of Costanoan since the 1970s by some descendant groups and by most ethnographers, historians, and writers of popular literature. Awaswa was one of the eight Coastanoan languages and made up a tribe of Native Americas living in Western Santa Cruz County, the Awaswas tribe was made up of no more than one thousand people and their language is now extinct. The only remnants of their language are three local place names, Aptos, Soquel and Zayante, and the name of a native shellfish - abalone. The majority of Ohlone or Coastanoan tribes had no written language, within fifty years of the Spaniards arrival, the Ohlone or Coastanoan culture and way of life had virtually disappeared in the Bay area. The party forded the river and camped nearby on October 17,1769, franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, traveling with the expedition, noted in his diary that, This river was named San Lorenzo. Next morning, the set out again, and Crespi noted that. Santa Cruz was the mission to be founded in California. The creek, however, later lost the name, and is today as Laurel Creek because it parallels Laurel Street. It is the feeder of Neary Lagoon. One of only three towns established in California during the Spanish colonial period, the Villa was located across the San Lorenzo River. Its original main street is now North Branciforte Avenue, Villa de Branciforte later lost its civic status, and in 1905 the area was annexed into the City of Santa Cruz. In the 1820s, newly independent Mexico assumed control of the area, following the secularization of the Mission in 1834, the community that had grown up around the Mission was renamed Pueblo de Figueroa
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Hotchkiss School
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The Hotchkiss School is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut, founded in 1891. The school offers an education with grades 9–12 and a postgraduate option. Hotchkiss has a highly competitive 18% admit rate, and one of the largest private school endowments in the country, in 1891, Maria Harrison Bissell Hotchkiss, with guidance from Yale President Timothy Dwight V, founded the school to prepare young men for Yale University. In 1892, Hotchkiss opened its doors to 50 male boarding students for $600, hotchkisss endowment also precipitated scholarship aid to deserving students. In 1974, the school became coeducational, george Van Santvoord, a headmaster hailed as the Duke with an honorary dorm, claimed there was only one school rule, Be a gentleman. In 1954, TIME recognized in Education, The Duke Steps Down, Maria Hotchkiss was uninterested in establishing “a school for the pampered sons of rich gentlemen. ”The school has enrolled international students since 1896. In 1928, the joined the English-Speaking Union and established the International Schoolboy Exchange. Established by the Class of 1948, the Fund for Global Understanding enables student participation in service projects across the world. In 1953, Hotchkiss alumnus Eugene Van Voorhis incorporated the Ulysses S, the school has a 43% diverse student body, offers a School Year Abroad program, and is a member of the Global Education Benchmark Group, Round Square, and Confucius Institute International Division. In 2010, Hotchkiss partnered with Peking University High School to establish its study abroad, operating on a semester schedule, the Hotchkiss School offers a classical education,224 courses,7 foreign languages, and study abroad programs. The year prior, the Deerfield Scroll featured that many consider the Hotchkiss School to be the leader in environmental awareness among the top schools in the country. The school has a 100% college matriculation rate, and among the Classes of 2011-14,33 enrolled at Yale,19 at Harvard, and 16 at Princeton. In 2007, the Wall Street Journal listed Hotchkiss as among the schools with a success rate in matriculation at Harvard, Princeton. Its colors are Yale Blue and white, with the mascot being the bearcat, in 1933, Samuel Gottscho photographed the Hotchkiss baseball team, which appears in the Library of Congress Gottscho-Schleisner Collection. Similar boarding school include the Andover–Exeter rivalry and Choate-Deerfield rivalry. The school overlooks the Berkshires on a rural,827 acres campus featuring 13 single-sex dorms,2 lakes, and 1 forest. The Main Building serves as the academic and social center, featuring 30 SmartBoard classrooms, the Edsel Ford Memorial Library with 87, 000-volumes occupying 25,000 square feet, the school renovation project earned Robert A. M. Stern Architects the 2010 Palladio Award, with Paul Rudolph and Butler Rogers Basket contributing elements of modern architecture, when completed, farm trails will add an estimated three to five miles to the six or more that already traverse the Hotchkiss Woods
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Yale University
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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony to train Congregationalist ministers, it is the third-oldest institution of education in the United States. The Collegiate School moved to New Haven in 1716, and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from British East India Company governor Elihu Yale. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century the school introduced graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph. D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools, the undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each schools faculty oversees its curriculum, the universitys assets include an endowment valued at $25.4 billion as of June 2016, the second largest of any U. S. educational institution. The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States, Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a social system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I – Ivy League, Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U. S. Presidents,19 U. S. Supreme Court Justices,20 living billionaires, and many heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of Congress,57 Nobel laureates,5 Fields Medalists,247 Rhodes Scholars, and 119 Marshall Scholars have been affiliated with the University. Yale traces its beginnings to An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School, passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9,1701, the Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers, Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, the group, led by James Pierpont, is now known as The Founders. Originally known as the Collegiate School, the institution opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson, the school moved to Saybrook, and then Wethersfield. In 1716 the college moved to New Haven, Connecticut, the feud caused the Mathers to champion the success of the Collegiate School in the hope that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not. Cotton Mather suggested that the school change its name to Yale College, meanwhile, a Harvard graduate working in England convinced some 180 prominent intellectuals that they should donate books to Yale. The 1714 shipment of 500 books represented the best of modern English literature, science, philosophy and it had a profound effect on intellectuals at Yale. Undergraduate Jonathan Edwards discovered John Lockes works and developed his original theology known as the new divinity
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The Yale Record
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The Yale Record is the campus humor magazine of Yale University. Founded in 1872, it became the oldest humor magazine in the world when Punch folded in 2002, the Record is currently published eight times during the academic year and is distributed in Yale residential college dining halls and around the nation through subscriptions. Content from the magazine is available online and entire issues can be downloaded in. pdf form. The Record began as a newspaper, with its first issue appearing on September 11,1872. Almost immediately, it became a home to funny writing, and later, the Record thrived immediately, and by the turn of the century had a wide circulation outside of New Haven—at prep schools, other college towns, and even New York City. As Yale became one of the bellwethers of collegiate taste and fashion, scott Fitzgerald referred to the magazine as one of the harbingers of the new, looser morality of collegians of that time. But it wasnt just laughs The Record was serving up—during the 1920s, comedy first published in the magazine was re-printed in national humor magazines like Puck and Judge. The character Whit in the Sinclair Lewis story Go East, Young Man drew caricatures for the Yale Record, from the 1920s to the 1960s, The Record placed special emphasis on cartooning, which led many of its alumni to work at Esquire magazine and especially The New Yorker. Record cartoonists during this period included Peter Arno, Reginald Marsh, Clarence Day, Julien Dedman. Osborn, James Stevenson, William Hamilton and Garry Trudeau, from 1920 through the 1940s, many Record staffers and alums contributed to College Humor, a popular nationally distributed humor magazine. Additionally, comedy first published in The Record was re-printed in national magazines like Life. By the late 1940s, the ties to The New Yorker were so strong that designers from that magazine consulted on The Records layout. By the 1950s, the Record had established the Cartoonist of the Year award, which people like Walt Kelly. In the early 1960s, cartoons and comic writing from the magazine were regularly re-printed in Harvey Kurtzmans Help, a satirical magazine that helped launch the careers of Monty Pythons Terry Gilliam, R. Crumb, Woody Allen, John Cleese, Gloria Steinem and many others. In the late 1960s, the played a integral role in editor-in-chief Garry Trudeaus creation of his epochal strip Doonesbury. Trudeau published the pre-syndication Doonesbury collection Michael J. through The Yale Record, in addition to editing the Record, Trudeau organized Record events such as a successful Annette Funicello film festival, a Tarzan film festival and a Jefferson Airplane concert featuring Sha Na Na. The 1970s and 1980s are known as the Dark Ages amongst Record staffers, boards were convened and issues were published on an intermittent basis, with issues released in 1971,1972,1973, 1976-1981,1983, and 1987. Then in 1989, Yale students Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz relaunched The Record for good and their more informal, iconoclastic version of The Record proved popular, and a parody of the short-lived sports newspaper The National garnered national media attention
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Groton School
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Groton School is a private Episcopal college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. It enrolls about 370 boys and girls, from the eighth through twelfth grades, tuition, room and board and required fees in 2014-15 amounted to $56,700, 38% of the students receive financial aid. The school is a member of the Independent School League, there are many famous alumni in business, government and the professions, including Franklin D. Roosevelt. Groton School was founded in 1884 by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, a member of a prominent Massachusetts family, backed by affluent figures of the time, such as the Rt. The endowment is over $330,000,000, or approximately $890,000 per student today, Groton School received early support from the Roosevelt family, including future President Theodore Roosevelt, and filled quickly. Peabody served as headmaster of the school for fifty years. Peabody hoped to graduate men who would serve the public good, the schools motto is Cui Servire Est Regnare. Peabody was succeeded at the end of the 1940 school year by the Rev. John Crocker and he himself was a 1918 graduate of Groton School,15 members of his family were alumni. Crockers tenure included the period of the Civil Rights Movement, in September 1951, three years before the Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing segregation in public schools, Groton School accepted its first African-American student. In April 1965 Crocker and his wife, accompanied by 75 Groton School students, after 25 years as headmaster at Groton School, he retired in June 1965. Temba Maqubela became the headmaster in July 2013, Groton School has changed significantly since 1884. Originally, it admitted boys, the school became coeducational in 1975. Although most students in the years were from New England and New York, its students now come from across the country. However, some remain, such as the schools commitment to public service, its small community. The school has used as a setting for several novels including Louis Auchincloss Rector of Justin. Media coverage of the came in the spring of 1999. Currently, Groton is one of three boarding schools in the country to offer free education to qualified students from families with household incomes below $75,000 a year. Grotons 385-acre campus encompasses rolling forests, expansive meadows, a portion of the Nashua river, most of the buildings on campus are situated around the Circle, which is the Schools circular common green with a circumference of 1⁄3-mile
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Mercury Theatre
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The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio programs and motion pictures, the Mercury also released promptbooks and phonographic recordings of four Shakespeare works for use in schools. After a series of acclaimed Broadway productions, the Mercury Theatre progressed into its most popular incarnation as The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The radio series included one of the most notable and infamous radio broadcasts of all time, The War of the Worlds, the Mercury Theatre on the Air produced live radio dramas in 1938–1940 and again briefly in 1946. In addition to Welles, the Mercury players included Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten, George Coulouris, Martin Gabel, Norman Lloyd, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Much of the troupe would later appear in Welless films at RKO, particularly Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. In 1935, John Houseman, director of the Negro Theatre Unit in New York, invited his recent collaborator, 20-year-old Orson Welles and their first production was an adaptation of William Shakespeares Macbeth with an entirely African-American cast. The play opened April 14,1936, at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem and was received rapturously and that production was followed by an adaption of the farce Horse Eats Hat and, in 1937, Marlowes Doctor Faustus and Marc Blitzsteins socialist musical The Cradle Will Rock. The latter received much publicity when on the eve of its preview the theatre was padlocked by the WPA, Welles invited the waiting audience to walk several blocks to a neighboring theatre where the show was performed without sets or costumes. Blitzstein played an upright piano while the cast, barred from taking the stage by their union, sat in the audience and rose from their seats to sing. Welles and Houseman broke with the Federal Theatre Project in August 1937 and founded their own repertory company, the name was inspired by the title of the iconoclastic magazine, The American Mercury. To be sure, this generated a bit of resentment among his collaborators. However, in a profound sense, that credit is, in fact. The concepts that animated each of them originated with him and, Welles and Houseman secured the Comedy Theatre, a 687-seat Broadway theatre at 110 West 41st Street in New York City, and reopened it as the Mercury Theatre. It was the venue for all their productions from November 1937 through November 1938. The Mercury Theatre began with a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed adaption of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and it premiered on Broadway on November 11,1937. The production moved from the Mercury Theatre to the larger National Theatre on January 24,1938 and it ran through May 28,1938, for a total of 157 performances. At the National Theatre, Polly Rowles took the role of Calpurnia, from January 20,1938, a roadshow version of Caesar with a different cast toured the United States. The company included Tom Powers as Brutus, and Edmond OBrien as Marc Antony, the Mercury Theatres second production was a staging of Thomas Dekkers Elizabethan comedy The Shoemakers Holiday, which attracted unanimous raves again
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Caesar (Mercury Theatre)
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Breaking with the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, Orson Welles and John Houseman founded their own repertory company, which they called the Mercury Theatre. The name was inspired by the title of the iconoclastic magazine, the set was completely open with no curtain, and the brick stage walls were painted dark red. Scene changes were achieved by lighting alone, on the stage was a series of risers, squares were cut into one riser at intervals and lights were set beneath it, pointing straight up to evoke the cathedral of light at the Nuremberg Rallies. He staged it like a melodrama that happened the night before, said Norman Lloyd. In a scene that became the fulcrum of the show, Cinna the Poet dies at the hands not of a mob, Lloyd called it an extraordinary scene gripped the audience in a way that the show stopped for about three minutes. The audience stopped it with applause and it showed the audience what fascism was, rather than an intellectual approach, you saw a physical one. In addition to adapting the text, Welles directed the production, music was by Marc Blitzstein, sets and lighting were by Samuel Leve, the production manager was Jean Rosenthal. At the end of October press agent Henry Senber oversaw a ceremony unveiling the new electric sign identifying the theatre as the Mercury, ticket prices ranged from 55 cents, for seats in the top balcony, to $2.20 for front row orchestra seats. The production moved from the Mercury Theatre to the larger National Theatre on January 24,1938 and it ran through May 28,1938, for a total of 157 performances. Caesar was unquestionably Welless highest achievement in the theatre, wrote critic Richard France, Herbert Kehls color photographs in the June 1938 issue of Coronet magazine are from the production after it moved from the Mercury Theatre to the larger National Theatre in January. At the National Theatre, Polly Rowles took the role of Calpurnia, unable to attend on opening night, drama critic John Mason Brown asked to review the matinee preview of Caesar—a troublesome request, wrote producer John Houseman, but one that was granted. At the end of the performance Brown asked to be taken backstage, in his New York Post review, Brown called Caesar by all odds the most exciting, the most imaginative, the most topical, the most awesome and the most absorbing of the seasons new productions. The touch of genius is upon it, heywood Broun called Caesar the most exhilarating play in New York. Greatly conceived and brilliantly executed, it is the most vivid production of Shakespeare seen in New York in this generation, here, splendidly acted and thrillingly produced is what must certainly be the great Julius Caesar of our time. For founding that theatre, with John Houseman, for the vision, the courage, the executive art which accompanied its founding. For establishing a uniformly excellent repertory company, in financial straits from the outset, the Mercury briefly considered exploiting the sensational success of Caesar by continuing a straight run of the play and setting aside its repertory mission. Instead, the company went into rehearsal with two new productions and accepted a proposal for a tour of Caesar. Producer Alex Yokel offered a $5,000 advance and 50 percent of the profits, Tom Powers, a leading actor with the Theatre Guild and a principal in the original production of Strange Interlude, led the company as Brutus
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Orson Welles
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George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941. It reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring, although some contemporary sources claim these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety. His first film was Citizen Kane, which he co-wrote, produced, directed, Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. He has been praised as the ultimate auteur, Welles followed up Citizen Kane with critically acclaimed films including The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 and Touch of Evil in 1958. Although these three are his most acclaimed films, critics have argued other works of his, such as The Lady from Shanghai and Chimes at Midnight, are underappreciated. Known for his voice, Welles was an actor in radio and film, a Shakespearean stage actor. George Orson Welles was born May 6,1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, son of Richard Head Welles and he was named after his paternal great-grandfather, influential Kenosha attorney Orson S. Head, and his brother George Head. Despite his familys affluence, Welles encountered hardship in childhood and his parents separated and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father, who made a fortune as the inventor of a bicycle lamp, became an alcoholic. Beatrice died of hepatitis in a Chicago hospital May 10,1924, the Gordon String Quartet, which had made its first appearance at her home in 1921, played at Beatrices funeral. After his mothers death Welles ceased pursuing music and it was decided that he would spend the summer with the Watson family at a private art colony in Wyoming, New York, established by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward. There he played and became friends with the children of the Aga Khan, Welles briefly attended public school before his alcoholic father left business altogether and took him along on his travels to Jamaica and the Far East. When they returned they settled in a hotel in Grand Detour, Illinois, when the hotel burned down, Welles and his father took to the road again. During the three years that Orson lived with his father, some observers wondered who took care of whom, in some ways, he was never really a young boy, you know, said Roger Hill, who became Welless teacher and lifelong friend. Welles briefly attended school in Madison, Wisconsin, enrolled in the fourth grade. At Todd School, Welles came under the influence of Roger Hill, Hill provided Welles with an ad hoc educational environment that proved invaluable to his creative experience, allowing Welles to concentrate on subjects that interested him. Welles performed and staged theatrical experiments and productions there, Todd provided Welles with many valuable experiences, wrote critic Richard France
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Blackboard Jungle
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In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students interest in education, cast notes This was the debut film for Campos, Morrow, and Farah, and one of Poitiers earliest. Farah later changed his name to Jamie Farr, well known for playing Corporal Klinger in the M*A*S*H TV series. According to MGM records the film earned $5,292,000 in the US and Canada, in 2010, Turner Classic Movies listed the soundtrack of the movie on its list of the Top 15 Most Influential Movie Soundtracks of all time. TCM described the impact and the influence of the movie, MGM brought Hollywood into the era with BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. In search of the kind of music teens like the films potential delinquents were listening to, when he heard Bill Haley and his Comets perform Rock Around the Clock, he found the perfect theme song -- the first rock song ever used in a Hollywood feature. Teens flocked to the film, dancing in theatre aisles as the song played over the opening credits, parents may have been shocked by such uninhibited behavior, but things got worse when screenings also inspired violence and vandalism around the world. Thanks to BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, the hit number one on the Billboard charts, eventually selling 25 million copies. The record had released the previous year, gaining only limited sales. But, popularized by its use in the film, Rock Around the Clock reached number one on the Billboard charts, and remained there for eight weeks. In some theaters, when the film was in first release, despite this, other instances of the song were not cut. The music led to a teenage audience for the film. In this sense, the film has seen as marking the start of a period of visible teenage rebellion in the latter half of the 20th century. The film marked a watershed in the United Kingdom and was refused a cinema certificate before being passed with heavy cuts. When shown at a South London Cinema in Elephant and Castle in 1956 the teenage Teddy Boy audience began to riot, tearing up seats, after that, riots took place around the country wherever the film was shown. In 2007, the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture published an article that analyzed the films connection to crime theories, in 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally significant. The film was released on DVD in North America on May 10,2005 by Warner Home Video, list of American films of 1955 Notes Sources Ford, Peter. Rock Around the Clock and Me Blackboard Jungle at the American Film Institute Catalog Blackboard Jungle at the Internet Movie Database Destgulch. com
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Glenn Ford
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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Glenn Ford was a Canadian actor who held dual Canadian and American citizenship. His career lasted more than 50 years, although he played many different roles, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. He was most prominent during Hollywoods Golden Age, gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born on May 1,1916 in Sainte-Christine-dAuvergne, Quebec, the son of Hannah Wood and Newton Ford, a railway man. Through his father, Ford was a great-nephew of Canadas first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, in 1924, at the age of eight, Ford moved to Santa Monica, California with his family. He became a citizen of the United States in 1939. After Ford graduated from Santa Monica High School, he working in small theatre groups. While in high school, he took odd jobs, including working for Will Rogers, who taught him horsemanship. Ford later commented that his railroad executive father had no objection to his growing interest in acting, be able to take a car apart and put it together. Be able to build a house, every bit of it, Ford heeded the advice and during the 1950s, when he was one of Hollywoods most popular actors, he regularly worked on plumbing, wiring, and air conditioning at home. At times, he worked as a roofer and installer of plate-glass windows, Ford acted in West Coast stage companies before joining Columbia Pictures in 1939. His stage name came from his fathers hometown of Glenford, Alberta and his first major movie part was in the 1939 film, Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence. The starstruck youngster was invited to Roosevelts annual Birthday Ball and he returned to Los Angeles and promptly registered as a Democrat, a fervent FDR supporter. It always held a place of honor in my home. After 35 interviews and glowing reviews for him personally, Glenn Ford had young female fans begging for his autograph and his next picture, Texas, was his first Western, a genre with which he would be associated for the rest of his life. Set after the Civil War, it paired him with young male star under contract, Bill Holden. More routine films followed, none of them memorable, but lucrative enough to allow Ford to buy his mother and he began his training in September,1941, driving three nights a week to his unit in San Pedro and spending most weekends there. Ten months after Fords portrait of a young anti-Nazi exile, the United States entered World War II, after playing a young pilot in his 11th Columbia film, Flight Lieutenant, Ford went on a cross-country 12-city tour to sell war bonds for Army and Navy Relief. In the midst of the many stars also donating their time – from Bob Hope to Cary Grant to Claudette Colbert – he met the popular dancing star, the two soon fell in love, they attended the official opening of the Hollywood USO together in October
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When Worlds Collide (1951 film)
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The film is based on the 1933 science fiction novel of the same name, co-written by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer. Pilot David Randall flies top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr. Cole Hendron in America. Hendron, with the assistance of his daughter Joyce, confirms their worst fears, Randall is inadvertently among those who have foreknowledge of the impending disaster. Hendron warns the United Nations that the end of the world is more than eight months away. He pleads for the construction of spaceships to transport a few to Zyra. Other equally distinguished scientists scoff at his claims, and he is not believed by the United Nations delegates, Hendron receives help from wealthy humanitarians, who arrange a lease on a former proving ground to construct an ark. To finance the construction, Hendron is forced to accept money from the wheelchair-bound industrialist Sidney Stanton, Stanton demands the right to select the passengers, but Hendron insists that he is not qualified to make those choices, all he can buy is a seat aboard the ark. Joyce, attracted to Randall, prods her father into keeping him around, much to the annoyance of her boyfriend, as Bellus nears, former skeptics admit that Hendron was right and governments prepare for the inevitable. Groups in other nations begin to build spaceships, martial law is declared, and residents in coastal regions are moved to inland cities. When Bellus makes its close approach, it causes massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, several people are killed at the arks construction camp, including Dr. Bronson. Afterward, Drake and Randall travel by helicopter to provide what assistance they can, when Randall gets off to rescue a little boy stranded on a roof in a flooded area, Drake abandons him briefly, but then changes his mind. As the day of doom approaches, the spaceship is loaded with food, medicine, microfiche copies of books, equipment, when a young man turns in his winning ticket because his sweetheart was not selected, Hendron arranges for both to go. Randall only pretends to participate in the lottery, believing he has no skills needed for settling on Zyra, for Joyces sake, Drake fabricates a heart condition for Frey, making Randalls inclusion as co-pilot seem necessary. The cynical Stanton, knowing human nature, fears what the desperate lottery losers might do, so as a precaution and his much-abused assistant, Ferris, tries to add himself at gunpoint to the passenger manifest, only to be shot dead by Stanton. During their final night on Earth, the passengers and animals are quietly moved to the launch pad to protect them from more violence. Shortly before blastoff, many of the lottery losers riot, taking up Stantons weapons to try to force their way aboard, Hendron surprises everyone by staying behind at the last moment and forcibly keeping Stanton with him to conserve fuel. With an effort born of ultimate desperation, Stanton stands up, the crew are rendered unconscious by the g-force of acceleration and do not witness on the forward monitor the Earths destruction by Bellus. When Randall comes to and sees Dr. Frey already awake and piloting the ship, as the space ark enters Zyras atmosphere, the fuel runs out, Randall takes control of the spaceship, gliding to a rough but safe landing
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet, and the Bard of Avon and his extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a career in London as an actor, writer. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and it was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as not of an age, but for all time. In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship. His plays remain highly popular and are studied, performed. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden and he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April. This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholars mistake, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and he was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, the consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaways neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage, twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596, after the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the bill of a law case before the Queens Bench court at Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 and 9 October 1589
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California and it is one of the worlds oldest film studios. In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, over the next thirty-nine years, the studio was bought and sold at various points in its history until, on November 3,2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM Resorts International, a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MGM, is not currently affiliated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1966, MGM was sold to Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman Sr. whose son Edgar Jr. would later buy Universal Studios, the studio continued to produce five to six films a year that were released through other studios, mostly United Artists. Kerkorian did, however, commit to increased production and a film library when he bought United Artists in 1981. MGM ramped up production, as well as keeping production going at UA. It also incurred significant amounts of debt to increase production, the studio took on additional debt as a series of owners took charge in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1986, Ted Turner bought MGM, but a few later, sold the company back to Kerkorian to recoup massive debt. The series of deals left MGM even more heavily in debt, MGM was bought by Pathé Communications in 1990, but Parretti lost control of Pathé and defaulted on the loans used to purchase the studio. The French banking conglomerate Crédit Lyonnais, the major creditor. Even more deeply in debt, MGM was purchased by a joint venture between Kerkorian, producer Frank Mancuso, and Australias Seven Network in 1996, the debt load from these and subsequent business deals negatively affected MGMs ability to survive as an independent motion picture studio. In 1924, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem and he had bought Metro Pictures Corporation in 1919 for a steady supply of films for his large Loews Theatres chain. With Loews lackluster assortment of Metro films, Loew purchased Goldwyn Pictures in 1924 to improve the quality, however, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York headquarters to oversee the 150 theaters. Mayer, Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 17,1924, Mayer became head of the renamed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with Irving Thalberg as head of production. MGM produced more than 100 feature films in its first two years, in 1925, MGM released the extravagant and successful Ben-Hur, taking a $4.7 million profit that year, its first full year. Marcus Loew died in 1927, and control of Loews passed to Nicholas Schenck, in 1929, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation bought the Loew familys holdings with Schencks assent. Mayer and Thalberg disagreed with the decision, Mayer was active in the California Republican Party and used his political connections to persuade the Justice Department to delay final approval of the deal on antitrust grounds
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Julius Caesar (1953 film)
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Julius Caesar is a 1953 epic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman. The original music score is by Miklós Rózsa, many of the actors connected with this film had previous experience with the play. Gielgud later played the role in the 1970 film with Charlton Heston, Jason Robards and Richard Johnson. John Houseman, who had produced the famous 1937 Broadway version of the play starring Orson Welles, by this time, however, Welles and Houseman had had a falling out, and Welles had nothing to do with the 1953 film. P. M. Pasinetti, Italian-American writer, scholar, Brandos casting was met with some skepticism when it was announced, as he had acquired the nickname of The Mumbler following his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz even considered Paul Scofield for the role of Mark Antony if Brandos screen test was unsuccessful, Brando asked John Gielgud for advice in declaiming Shakespeare, and adopted all of Gielguds recommendations. In him a major talent has emerged, despite the feuding, production continued with only minimal disruption, thanks to what Gielgud called, Mankiewiczs consummate tact that kept us together as a working unit. The film received favorable reviews. In the second volume of his book The Story of Cinema, the film currently has a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Intrada Records released an album featuring a 1995 re-recording of the films score, the re-recording was performed by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Bruce Broughton. Brandos nomination was the time in three consecutive years that he was nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award. He was nominated in 1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1952 for Viva Zapata and he would win the following year for On the Waterfront. It also won two BAFTA awards for Best British Actor and Best Foreign Actor and it was also nominated in the Best Film category. Brando won the BAFTA Best Actor award in three years for Viva Zapata. Julius Caesar, and On the Waterfront and it won the Best Film and Best Actor Award for James Mason from The National Board of Review. It also won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, Julius Caesar has had regular showings on Turner Classic Movies. One of the things that fascinated moviegoers about Marlon Brando early in his career is you never knew in what guise he was gonna show up. The only thing that seemed consistent about him was the fact that he mumbled a lot and he mumbled in his very first film — Stanley Kramers The Men — he mumbled even more in his second and third films, A Streetcar Named Desire and Viva Zapata
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Androcles
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Androcles or Androclus is the name given by some sources to the main character of a common folktale that is included in the Aarne–Thompson classification system as type 156. The story reappeared in the Middle Ages as The Shepherd and the Lion and was then ascribed to Aesops Fables. It is numbered 563 in the Perry Index and can be compared to Aesops The Lion, the earliest surviving account of the episode is found in Aulus Gelliuss 2nd century Attic Nights. The author relates there a story told by Apion in his lost work Aegyptiacorum, in this version, Androcles is given the Latin name of Androclus, a runaway slave of a former Roman consul administering a part of Africa. He takes shelter in a cave, which turns out to be the den of a wounded lion, in gratitude, the lion becomes tame towards him and henceforward shares his catch with the slave. After three years, Androclus craves a return to civilization but is imprisoned as a fugitive slave. There he is condemned to be devoured by animals in the Circus Maximus in the presence of an emperor who is named in the account as Gaius Caesar. The most imposing of the beasts out to be the same lion. After questioning him, the emperor pardons the slave in recognition of this testimony to the power of friendship, the story was repeated a century later by Claudius Aelianus in his work On the Nature of Animals. Later versions of the story, sometimes attributed to Aesop, began to appear from the century under the title The Shepherd. In Chrétien de Troyes 12th-century romance, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, the lion then becomes his companion and helps him during his adventures. A century later, the story of taking a thorn from a lions paw was related as an act of Saint Jerome in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine, afterwards the lion joins him in the monastery and a different set of stories follows. The later retelling, Of the Remembrance of Benefits, in the Gesta Romanorum of about 1330 in England, has a mediaeval setting and again makes the protagonist a knight. He is later convicted of a crime and taken to Rome to be thrown to the wild beasts, a Latin poem by Vincent Bourne dating from 1716-17 is based on the account of Aulus Gellius. Titled Mutua Benevoletia primaria lex naturae est, it was translated by William Cowper as “Reciprocal kindness, the primary law of nature”. George Bernard Shaws play Androcles and the Lion makes Androcles a tailor, he is also given Christian beliefs for the purposes of the play,1912 was also the date of the first film adaptation of the story in the USA. Afterwards there were several others for both cinema and TV, rob Engleharts The Lion, the Slave and the Rodent was a much later American approach to the fable. A one-act chamber opera for five voices, it combined the story of Androcles with the fable of “The Lion, renaissance prints of the story are based on the Classical accounts
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Elijah
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Elijah or Elias was a prophet and a miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of Ahab, according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Books of Kings Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Canaanite deity Baal, Yahweh also performed many miracles through Elijah, including resurrection, bringing fire down from the sky, and entering Heaven alive by a whirlwind. He is also portrayed as leading a school of prophets known as the sons of the prophets, after his death, Elisha his disciple and most devoted assistant took over his role as leader of this school. References to Elijah appear in Ecclesiasticus, the New Testament, the Mishnah and Talmud, the Quran, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and Baháí writings. In Judaism, Elijahs name is invoked at the weekly Havdalah ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, and Elijah is invoked in other Jewish customs, among them the Passover Seder and the brit milah. He appears in stories and references in the Haggadah and rabbinic literature. The Christian New Testament describes how Elijah was thought, by some, Jesus makes it clear that John the Baptist is the Elijah who was promised to come in Malachi 4,5. Elijah appears with Moses during the Transfiguration of Jesus, Elijah is also a figure in various Christian folk traditions, often identified with earlier pagan thunder or sky gods. In Islam, Elijah appears in the Quran as a prophet and messenger of God, due to his importance to Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians, Elijah has been venerated as the patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1752. However, scholars today are divided as to whether the united Kingdom under Solomon ever existed, omri achieved domestic security with a marriage alliance between his son Ahab and princess Jezebel, a priestess of Baal and the daughter of the king of Sidon in Phoenicia. Under Ahabs kingship, these tensions were exacerbated, Ahab built a temple for Baal, and his wife Jezebel brought a large entourage of priests and prophets of Baal and Asherah into the country. It is in context that Elijah is introduced in 1 Kings 17,1 as Elijah the Tishbite. No background for the person of Elijah is given except for his description as being a Tishbite. His name in Hebrew means My God is Yahweh, and may be a title applied to him because of his challenge to worship of Baal, as told in the Hebrew Bible, Elijahs challenge is bold and direct. Baal was the Canaanite god responsible for rain, thunder, lightning, Elijah not only challenges Baal on behalf of his own God, Yahweh, he challenges Jezebel, her priests, Ahab and the people of Israel. After Elijahs confrontation with Ahab, God tells him to out of Israel, to a hiding place by the brook Chorath, east of the Jordan. When the brook dries up, God sends him to a living in the town of Zarephath in Phoenicia. When Elijah finds her and asks to be fed, she says that she not have sufficient food to keep her and her own son alive
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Sins of Jezebel
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Sins of Jezebel is a 1953 American historical drama film produced by Sigmund Neufeld and directed by Reginald Le Borg. It stars Paulette Goddard as Jezebel, the queen of the northern kingdom of Israel during the 9th century BC. The film was shot in Ansco Color for widescreen projection, in 9th century BC Israel, the prophet Elijah advises king Ahab not to marry Jezebel, an idolatrous princess of Phoenicia. Ahab sends for Jezebel, however, and commands Jehu, his captain, once Jehu meets Jezebel, he immediately becomes attracted to her and she confuses him for Ahab. Jezebel finally arrives at Jezreel and is greeted by Ahab who, stunned by her beauty, on her wedding night, Jezebel evades Ahab and pursues Jehu, whom she seduces. Jezebel establishes the cult of Baal, her idol, in Israel, Jehovah, the God of the Israelites, delivers drought upon Israel because of the idolatry and sends his prophet Elijah to reprimand the people. Elijah prays to Jehovah and the drought ends, margia Dean was cast as Deborah on May 11. The film began shooting on May 13, interior scenes were shot at KTTV Studios and exterior scenes were shot at Corriganville Ranch. Sins of Jezebel received mixed reviews from critics, the News and Eastern Townships Advocate described the film as a spectacular Robert L. Lippert, Jr. production in gorgeous new Ansco Color. The Toledo Blade also praised the color cinematography, but questioned the films low budget by writing, the desire was strong. List of historical drama films Sins of Jezebel at the Internet Movie Database Sins of Jezebel at the TCM Movie Database Sins of Jezebel at AllMovie Sins of Jezebel at Rotten Tomatoes
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American childrens television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959,166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network and it starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West,62 Texas-born actor James E. Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley Rip Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame, the episodes were filmed on a low budget, limiting the film stock to black-and-white. Outdoor action was largely at Corriganville Movie Ranch northwest of Los Angeles in Simi Valley. The eponymous dog, Rin Tin Tin IV, lived about 90 miles away at Duncans ranch in Riverside, California, the show ran for five seasons on ABC on Friday evenings from October 1954 to May 1959. ABC reran the series on late afternoons from September 1959 to September 1961, during its first season, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin finished at #23 in the Nielsen ratings, making it the second-highest rated series on ABC at the time behind Disneyland. Reruns ran on Saturdays on CBS from September 1962 until September 1964, a new package of reruns was shown in 1976, and continued into the mid-1980s. The original black and white prints were tinted light brown with new opening and closing segments filmed in color in Utah, Lee Aaker - Corporal Rusty B-Company James Brown - Lt. Ripley Rip Masters Rin Tin Tin IV/Flame, Jr. - Rin Tin Tin Joe Sawyer - Sgt. Others were Ron Hagerthy and Ewing Mitchell, both later semi-regulars on the Sky King series, and Ed Hinton, John M. Pickard, star of the series Boots and Saddles, appeared three times on Rin Tin Tin. Lee Van Cleef and Harry Dean Stanton were other guest stars, Don Devlin appeared in the episodes The Epidemic and The Ming Vase. Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. was cast as Don Alfonso Garcia in The Bandit Kingdom, nan Leslie was cast in three 1956 episodes, Rin Tin Tin and the Second Chance, Wagon Train, and Fort Adventure, in the last two segments she played Joan Lambert. Robert Fuller, prior to Laramie, appeared as Stan in the 1958 episode The Epidemic, Harry Cheshire, formerly Judge Ben Wiley on Buffalo Bill, Jr. appeared as Silas Mason in The Misfit Marshal. Brad Johnson, known as deputy Lofty Craig on the syndicated Western series Annie Oakley, robert Knapp was cast in the role of Allen in the 1955 episode The Guilty One. William Fawcett played an elderly fearless marshal fighting the outlaw element in four episodes including the 1955 episode, Higgins Rides Again. com Iverson Movie Ranch, History, vintage photos
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Gimme a Break!
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Gimme a Break. is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons from October 29,1981 until May 12,1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a police chief. The sitcom takes place in Glenlawn, a fictional California suburb, Nellie Ruth Nell Harper agrees to be a housekeeper for the Kanisky household as a special favor to her late friend, Margaret Huffman Kanisky, who was the wife of police chief Carl Kanisky. Nell also served as a parent to the Chiefs three daughters, Katie, Julie, and Samantha, a foster son, Joey, was added in Season 3. Over the six-year run, a number of celebrities appeared on the show, including singers Whitney Houston, Andy Gibb, Sammy Davis, Jr. Ray Parker Jr. in some of these episodes, the guest would eventually perform a song with Nell. During the third season, Pat Sajak guest-starred as himself when Nell, other notable guest stars included Milton Berle, Danny Glover, Rue McClanahan, Tony Randall, Helen Hunt, Don Rickles, Gwen Verdon, Dennis Haysbert, Ernie Hudson, Gary Collins, and Elizabeth Berkley. The episode Cat Story was performed and broadcast live on March 2,1985, as a promotional gimmick, an earlier episode, Baby of the Family, ranked No. The location of Glenlawn is never clarified, but Season 3 episode Flashback placed the town an hour away from Fresno. Nell Carter as Nellie Ruth Nell Harper, Nell was a singer from Tuscaloosa County, Alabama who ran away from home when she was 18. She met and became friends with Margaret Kanisky and promised to look after her family after she had died from cancer, in keeping her promise, Nell took on the role of housekeeper and mother to the kids and remained in the series for the entire 6-year run. She later became a mother to Joey Donovan in Season 3. Nell moved to Greenwich Village in New York City in Season 6 with Joey and Addy, Dolph Sweet as Police Chief Carl Chief Kanisky. Police Chief Carl Kanisky, known as The Chief was a widower with three daughters. After Dolph Sweets death on May 8,1985, it was explained in the first episode of Season 5 that the Chief had died, kari Michaelsen as Kathleen Katie Kanisky. The Chiefs eldest daughter, portrayed as a blonde and being promiscuous. She decided not to go to college and opened a boutique called Katies Korner, after her boutique went out of business, she got a job in San Francisco and left the series after Season 5. Her last appearance was the first episode of Season 6, lauri Hendler as Julie Kanisky Maxwell. The Chiefs middle daughter, portrayed as being very intelligent and she married Jonathan Maxwell at the end of Season 4 and became pregnant in Season 5
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The Mickey Rooney Show
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The Mickey Rooney Show is an American sitcom that aired from 1954 to 1955 on NBC. The series stars Mickey Rooney who was remembered for his starring role in numerous Andy Hardy films made between 1937 and 1958, which overlapped with Hey Mulligan. Rooney stars as Mickey Mulligan, an Irish American television studio page at the fictional International Broadcasting Company in Hollywood, Mulligan aspires through his night studies to become a recognized performer. Regis Toomey played Mickeys father, Joe Mulligan, a veteran Los Angeles police officer, claire Carleton was cast as his mother, Nell Mulligan, who in the story line is a former burlesque performer who met her husband when he arrested her. Mulligan lives at home and earns $47.62 per week as a page, Carleton, however, was only seven years older than Rooney. Carla Balenda, formerly acting under her real name Sally Bliss, played Pat Harding, Mickeys girlfriend, comedian Joey Forman played Mickeys friend, Freddy Devlin, a fellow page. John Hubbard played the boss, Mr. Charles Brown, english actor Alan Mowbray played Mr. Swift, Mickeys drama coach. The Mickey Rooney Show was created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine, also a child actor. The pair had previously co-written and directed Rooneys three feature films for Columbia Pictures, Sound Off, All Ashore and Drive a Crooked Road, the title first proposed for the series, For the Love of Mike, was dropped because it had already been registered. Rooneys career had begun to decline when he left full-time employment at MGM in 1948, the situation comedy emerged at a needed time in his career. Although Rooney was thirty-four years old in 1954, his character Mickey Mulligan was only twenty-three, Rooneys then-manager Maurice Duke had flatly predicted that the show would outperform Gleasons because Rooney had greater appeal to younger viewers. Rooney, who ended his business connection with Duke after the series folded, said, All I want to do is put on a nice, funny show that people will like. NBC put great faith in the series because Rooney was not only its star but its executive producer who writes the music, discusses gags with the director, and shakes hands with visitors on the set. Co-producer Maurice Duke hired Van Alexander, then an arranger at Capitol Records to score the show with an orchestra of 12 musicians. Though he had never scored for film or television, Rooney enjoyed the score and hired Alexander to do his next feature film The Atomic Kid that reused Hey Mulligans director, Alexander then scored seven more films for Rooney. In June 2007, Timeless Media group released thirty episodes of the series on Region 1 DVD in the United States, the Mickey Rooney Show at the Internet Movie Database The Mickey Rooney Show at TV. com
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Return to Peyton Place (TV series)
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Return to Peyton Place is an American daytime serial which aired on NBC from April 3,1972 to January 4,1974. The series was a spin-off of the drama series Peyton Place rather than an adaptation of the 1959 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious. The storylines from the show were a continuation of those from the primetime series. Both James Lipton and Gail Kobe worked as writers on the series during its run, Frank Ferguson, Evelyn Scott, and Patricia Morrow reprised their roles from the earlier series. She was a character in the daytime soap. The original main focuses of the show were Betty Anderson, Rodney Harrington, Constance MacKenzie, Elliot Carson, Allison MacKenzie, in the beginning, Michael Rossi was revealed not to be guilty for the murder he was on trial for at the end of Peyton Place. Allison returned to following an absence of three years, during which she has seen life. A mysterious figure, Benny Tate, follows her and they marry, Benny, however, was suffering from a terminal disease and told his brother Jason about this, explaining he could no longer be with Allison. Instead of helping his brother, Jason followed Benny to town, unlike Benny, Jason was very tough and treated Allison very badly. The constant beating led Allison to an addiction, which she eventually kicked. Nevertheless, she has retained her vulnerability and she started working for the town newspaper and was involved in an ecology project. One day, Allison decided she had had enough and tried to run from Jason and he decided to take revenge by kidnapping her, taking Allison to a cabin by the lake. There, Allison took LSD, and during a psychedelic experience, she took Elliots gun, afterwards, she escaped from the cabin and looked for help nearby. Sometime later, she found out the cabin was burned down, Allison admitted she shot Benny and was charged with second degree murder. To avoid Allison being sentenced, Rodney went back to the village where the cabin was situated and he met Benny and Jasons mother Zoe, who knew that Allison had actually been living with Jason, but thought that Allison was aware of this. Benny eventually confessed to the murder of his brother, explaining he found out about Jasons scheme shortly after Allisons arrival at the cabin and he traveled to the cabin to confront his brother, and following a fight, shot Jason to death. Shortly after admitting the truth, Benny died from his disease, by the time Allison was still serving a prison sentence, Elliot wanted to confess to the murder so his daughter would be released from prison. Connie, however, would not let her husband do so, Elliot became very unloving to his wife and he started an affair with D. B
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Gunsmoke
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, the central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the series was initially titled Gun Law. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961, John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, at the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote, Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte. It was ever the stuff of legend, robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created a script called Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts. Two auditions were created in 1949, CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed. A complication arose, though, Culvers contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series, the project was shelved for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own. Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism, the radio series first aired on CBS on April 26,1952 with the episode Billy the Kid, written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18,1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. Conrad was one of the last actors to audition for the role of Marshal Dillon, with a resonantly powerful and distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radios busiest actors. Though Meston championed him, Macdonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed, during his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Dillon as portrayed by Conrad was a lonely, isolated man, Macdonnell later claimed, Much of Matt Dillons character grew out of Bill Conrad. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Many episodes were based on mans cruelty to man and woman, inasmuch as the womans life
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Dodge City, Kansas
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Dodge City is the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States, named after nearby Fort Dodge. The city is famous in American culture for its history as a frontier town of the Old West. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 27,340, Fort Mann was the first settlement of non-indigenous people in the area that became Dodge City, built by civilians in 1847 to provide protection for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. Fort Mann collapsed in 1848 after an Indian attack, in 1850, the U. S. Army arrived to provide protection in the region and constructed Fort Atkinson on the old Fort Mann site. The army abandoned Fort Atkinson in 1853, in April 1865, the Indian Wars in the West began heating up, and the army constructed Fort Dodge to assist Fort Larned in providing protection on the Santa Fe Trail. Fort Dodge remained in operation until 1882, the town of Dodge City can trace its origins to 1871 when rancher Henry J. Others saw the potential of the region with the Santa Fe Railroad rapidly approaching from the east. In 1872, Dodge City was staked out on the 100th Meridian, the town site was platted and George M. Hoover established the first bar in a tent to serve thirsty soldiers from Fort Dodge. The railroad arrived in September to find a ready and waiting for business. The early settlers in Dodge City traded in buffalo bones and hides, however, with the arrival of the railroad, Dodge City soon became involved in the cattle trade. The idea of driving Texas longhorn cattle from Texas to railheads in Kansas originated in the late 1850s but was cut short by the Civil War, in 1866, the first Texas cattle started arriving in Baxter Springs in southeastern Kansas by way of the Shawnee Trail. However, Texas longhorn cattle carried a tick that spread splenic fever, known locally as Texas Fever, alarmed Kansas farmers persuaded the Kansas State Legislature to establish a quarantine line in central Kansas. The quarantine prohibited Texas longhorns from the settled, eastern portion of the state. With the cattle trade forced west, Texas longhorns began moving north along the Chisholm Trail, in 1867, the main cow town was Abilene, Kansas. Profits were high, and other towns quickly joined in the boom, Newton in 1871, Ellsworth in 1872. With no place else to go, Dodge City suddenly became the queen of the cow towns, a new route known as the Great Western Cattle Trail or Western Trail branched off from the Chisholm Trail to lead cattle into Dodge City. Dodge City became a boomtown, with thousands of cattle passing annually through its stockyards, the peak years of the cattle trade in Dodge City were from 1883 to 1884, and during that time the town grew tremendously. In 1880, Dodge City got a new competitor for the trade from the border town of Caldwell
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Perry Mason (TV series)
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Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21,1957, to May 22,1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on stories written by Gardner, Hollywoods first weekly one-hour series filmed for television, Perry Mason is one of TVs longest-running and most successful legal series. During its first season, it received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as Best Dramatic Series, Raymond Burr received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor, and Barbara Hale received an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Masons secretary Della Street. Perry Mason and Burr were honored as Favorite Series and Favorite Male Performer in the first two TV Guide Award readers polls, in 1960, the series received the first Silver Gavel Award presented for television drama by the American Bar Association. Perry Mason has aired in syndication in the United States and internationally ever since its cancellation, a 2014 study found that Netflix users rate Raymond Burr as their favorite actor, with Barbara Hale number seven on the list. The New Perry Mason, a 1973 revival of the series with a different cast, was poorly received and ran a mere 15 episodes. In 1985, the first in a series of 30 Perry Mason television films aired on NBC. Perry Mason is a criminal defense lawyer practicing in Los Angeles. He represents clients, most of whom have been charged with murder, each episode typically follows a formula. The first half of the show introduces a prospective murder victim, the body is found, often through circumstance by Mason and private investigator Paul Drake, or with his secretary Della Street. Clues point to Masons client, who is charged with murder, in the second-half courtroom setting, Mason spars most often with his legal adversary Hamilton Burger, Los Angeles district attorney, and police homicide detective Lt. Arthur Tragg. Mason establishes his clients innocence by dramatically demonstrating the guilt of another character, the murderer often breaks down and confesses to the crime in the courtroom. In the closing scene, the characters together to discuss how the case was solved. In many episodes, the identity of the guilty party is uncovered without a trial being held. During this stage, other malefactors — such as blackmailers, frauds, and forgers — are frequently forced into confessions by Masons relentless and clever questioning, and the killer is exposed. Lieutenant Andy Anderson – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, lieutenant Steve Drumm – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, who appeared in the final season. Dr. Hoxie – autopsy surgeon Sgt and his literary agent was advertising executive Thomas Cornwell Jackson, who had, in 1947, married actress Gail Patrick
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Anthology series
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An anthology series is a radio or television series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode or season/series. Some anthology series, such as Studio One, began on radio, many popular old-time radio programs were anthology series. On some series, such as Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the constant was the host. One of the earliest such programs was The Collier Hour, broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932, as radios first major dramatic anthology, it adapted stories and serials from Colliers Weekly in a calculated move to increase subscriptions and compete with The Saturday Evening Post. Weird The Haunting Hour The Sealed Book Mystery in the Air The Weird Circle Quiet, the stars would own the studio and the program, as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had done successfully with Desilu studio. Powell had intended for the program to feature himself, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea, when Russell and McCrea backed out, David Niven came on board as the third star. The fourth star was initially a guest star, CBS liked the idea, and Four Star Playhouse made its debut in fall of 1952. It ran on alternate weeks only during the first season, alternating with Amos n Andy and it was successful enough to be renewed and became a weekly program from the second season until the end of its run in 1956. Ida Lupino was brought on board as the de facto fourth star, though unlike Powell, Boyer, American television networks would sometimes run summer anthology series which consisted of unsold television pilots. Beginning in 1971, the long-run Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology series brought British productions to American television. k. a. Billy Roses Playbill Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre The Bold Ones Broadway Television Theatre Buick-Electra Playhouse Cameo Theatre Camera Three The Campbell Playhouse, Campbell Soundstage and Campbell Summer Soundstage Cavalcade of America CBS Playhouse CBS Summer Playhouse CBS Television Workshop CBS Workshop, a. k. a. CBS Repertoire Workshop Celanese Theatre Celebrity Playhouse Center Stage Cheer Television Theatre The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre a. k. a, Chevrolet on Broadway Chevron Hall of Stars Chevron Theatre Climax. Gruen Guild Theatre The Gulf Playhouse Hallmark Hall of Fame Hollywood Opening Night Hollywood Premiere Theatre, Hollywood Theatre Time International Playhouse John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You The Joseph Cotten Show, a. k. a. k. a. Max Liebman Presents Medallion Theatre, a. k. a, grimms Fairy Tale Classics Happily Ever After, Fairy Tales for Every Child The Harveytoons Show KaBlam. Late Night, Black and White Legends of Bikini Bottom Liquid Television The Looney Tunes Show Mickey Mouse Works Mickeys Mouse Tracks O Canada Off the Air Oh Yeah. Cartoons The Pink Panther Show The Popeye Show The Porky Pig Show Princes et princesses Random. M. k. a. Terribles House of Horrible The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre El Chapulín Colorado Ripping Yarns George Burns Comedy Week Good Heavens Human Remains Inside No. k. a. k. a. k. a. k. a, orson Welles Great Mysteries Out of the Fog Panic. Way of Life Family Theater Insight Lamp Unto My Feet Look Up, the Fisher Family Alcoa Presents, One Step Beyond Amazing Stories American Horror Story Are You Afraid of the Dark. L. k. a
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Crossroads (1955 TV series)
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Crossroads is an American television anthology series based on the activities of clergy from different denominations. It aired from October 1955 to June 1956 on ABC, the series second season aired from October 1956 to June 1957 in syndication. The episodes, which often had deep spiritual themes, were set in the 1950s. The series featured numerous guest stars, many of whom appeared in several episodes throughout the series run, james Dean appeared in a 1955 episode, Broadway Trust, along with Lloyd Bridges and Mary Treen. The episode aired five weeks after Dean died in a crash in September 1955. Victor Jory was cast in the 1957 episode Lone Star Preacher, other guest stars include, In its first season on ABC, Crossroads followed the long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on the Friday evening schedule. It was scheduled opposite Our Miss Brooks on CBS and The Life of Riley on NBC, ABC canceled the series after one season. The series was picked up for a season where it aired in syndication from October 1956 to June 1957. Sample Episodes, A Bell for ODonnell – A reverend learns a lesson in forgiveness when he is swindled by a con man. Cleanup – A pastor exhorts his parishioners to take back their city from the gangsters, call for Help – A priest works with troubled youths, when a gang fight leads to a fatal shooting. Dig or Die, Brother Hyde – A new preacher on the harsh Dakota frontier is severely tested, gods Healing – Vincent Price plays a priest who heals an old womans embittered heart. The Good Thief – A US Army chaplain is tortured by Red Chinese captors for ministering to his prisoners of war. The Judge – Brian Donlevy does double duty in a town as a preacher. Mother OBrien – A police detective is torn between family and duty when his brother is involved in a petty crime. Crossroads at the Internet Movie Database Crossroads at TV. com Crossroads at CVTA with episode list
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Western (genre)
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Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers, Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a. mythic vision of the plains, specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre, from the early 20th century to the 1960s, Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Fords landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939, Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, the Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–frontier justice–dispensed by gunfights. These honor codes are played out through depictions of feuds or individuals seeking personal revenge or retribution against someone who has wronged them. The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, a showdown or duel at high noon featuring two or more gunfighters is a stereotypical scene in the popular conception of Westerns. In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress, similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many characteristics with the ronin in modern Japanese culture. The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West, it is the place to go for music, women, gambling, drinking, brawling and shooting. The American Film Institute defines western films as those set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, the term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became an art form. Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds, Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era. With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and these smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. Released through United Artists, Stagecoach made John Wayne a mainstream star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns
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Crime film
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. Shortly before his death in 2004, actor/comedian Alan King wrote a pair of stories about the character set in 1948. They were published posthumously in 2016, dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen Asher. Other regular cast members included Ricks friend and former partner on the force, Lt. Walter Levinson, played variously by Ed Begley. Bryan, Ted DeCorsia and Alan Reed, and Wilms Herbert as Walts bumbling sergeant and it began airing on NBC Radio on April 24,1949, picked up Rexall as a sponsor on April 5,1950, and continued until December 6,1950. Many of the shows were written or directed by Edwards. Its theme, Leave It to Love, was whistled by Powell at the beginning of each episode. With Camel cigarettes as a sponsor, it moved to ABC from January 5,1951, to June 29,1951, with Rexall returning for a run from October 5,1951, until June 27,1952. Substituting for Amos n Andy, it aired Sunday evenings on CBS from May 31,1953 until September 20,1953, dick Powells company, Four Star Television, produced the television version of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, which premiered in the summer of 1957 on CBS. It returned to CBS in January 1958 for the season and in February 1959 for the third season. In the fall of 1959, the fourth and final aired on NBC. David Janssen, before The Fugitive, starred as Diamond, a officer of the New York Police Department. Don Taylor played the role in a 1956 television pilot. The first two seasons followed radio’s characterization the most closely. In the noirish opening sequence, clad in hat, suit, and tie, he walks down a dimly lit street toward the camera and lights up a cigarette, the light from which shows his face. ”Following the second season, the setting was switched from New York City to Los Angeles, and the production was entirely redesigned. I. image that often seemed more inspired by Hugh Hefner than by Dashiell Hammett, Diamond no longer occupied a low-rent, cloistered office, but now operated from a modern, beautifully appointed ranch house—complete with pool—in the Hollywood Hills. Following the lead of the Sunset Strip private eyes, he drove a convertible—in this case a 1959 DeSoto Fireflite. The Hefner-like fantasy was enhanced by gadgets, especially Diamond’s car phone, which connected him directly to an answering service overseen by the shapely, enigmatic “Sam. ”Season 3’s modern, more youthful ambience was complemented by a score by composer/arranger Pete Rugolo
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Laramie (TV series)
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Laramie was an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959-63. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy, actress Spring Byington was later added to the cast. The Encore Westerns Channel and Grit networks began airing the series in July 2015, the Sherman parents are buried on the ranch. Not until near the end of the series was it revealed that Matt Sherman had been accused during the American Civil War of having aided the Confederates. The gold dust in question had long ago been scattered by the wind, Hoagy Carmichaels contract was not renewed after the first season, and his character was eliminated with the explanation that he had accompanied Andy to boarding school in St. Louis, Missouri. Andy, however, returned to appear in three episodes in the first half of the second season, Laramie made the transition from black-and-white to color at the beginning of its third season. On January 1,1962, a new version of the NBC peacock living color logo was introduced before the Laramie broadcast that evening and this symbol, the Laramie Peacock, was used before every color program on the network until 1970. Because of declining ratings in its last season, Laramie was canceled, the series premiere Stage Stop, which was filmed in color, explains how Slim Sherman and Jess Harper become partners in the Sherman Ranch and Relay Station. Jess arrives in Wyoming from Texas in search of a friend, Pete Morgan, played by John Mitchum. Morgan is part of the gang of Bud Carlin, the gang captures Judge Thomas J. Wilkens, to keep him from trying Morgan. Though Jess and Slim are at odds with other in their first encounters. Andy even asks Jess to take him away from the ranch and their first housekeeper is Jonesy, the role filled by Carmichael. Slim and Jess must fight together when Carlin shows up at the relay station, in The General Must Die, Brian Keith appears as Whit Malone, an old friend of Slim Shermans from the Union Army. Gilman Rankin makes an appearance as General Sherman. This episode reveals that Slim Sherman entered the Army as a private and advanced to second lieutenant and fought under General Sherman in the March to the Sea in Georgia. In the episode Cactus Lady, it is revealed that Jess Harper had been hanged by mistake in the border city of Laredo, Texas, because of the McCanles gang, played by Arthur Hunnicutt. Jones, Harry Dean Stanton, and Anita Sands, the gang arrives suddenly in Laramie. The German title of Laramie is Am Fuß der blauen Berge, John Smith as Slim Sherman Robert Fuller as Jess Harper Robert Crawford, Jr. Q. Jones portrays John MacLane, who is falsely accused of murdering a doctor
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Riverboat (TV series)
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Riverboat is an American western television series produced by Revue Studios and was broadcast on the NBC television network from 1959 to 1961 It starred Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds. In the series, Captain Grey Holden and his crew navigate the vessel called the Enterprise principally, along the Mississippi, Missouri, some episodes are set in the eastern end of the American West or in the Midwest. Holden and his men encounter interest characters along the way, including U. S. President Zachary Taylor, General Winfield Scott, one episode focuses indirectly on the Texan Revolution of 1836. Unlike most westerns, which are set after the American Civil War, the time frame of precedes the sectional conflict, the 1830s. The series ended on the NBC mid-season schedule in January 1961 by a drama about the sectional conflict, Dan Duryea played Captain Brad Turner in the first two episodes, before Darren McGavin replaced him for forty episodes. Burt Reynolds in his debut role played Ben Frazer in twenty episodes, before reporting disputes with McGavin and being replaced by Noah Beery. Gordon played first mate Joe Travis in thirteen episodes before his characters death, Moore played Lily Belle de Lesseps the next year in Trunk Full of Dreams. Other female guest stars include, Many male guest stars appeared on Riverboat. Ricardo Montalban portrayed United States Army Lt. Andre B, Devereaux in A Night at Trappers Landing. In the story line, the Enterprise is commandeered by the military for an expedition against the Indians after an attack on Devereaux. Ben Frazer, however, tries to convince the Army that the uprising is really the result of a local Indian agent. The episode features Judson Pratt, as Sergeant Ned Bolger, Stacy Harris as Colonel Nicholson, other male guest stars include, Eddie Albert, as Dan Simpson, with Russell Johnson as Darius, and John M. Debra Paget is cast as Lela Russell. Jack Albertson, as Sampson J. Robert Bray, prior to Stagecoach West, as Tom Byson, with Beverly Garland as Dr. The outlaws then demand that Blake pretend to be the son of a old man so that he can compel the man to reveal the location of a large amount of money in his possession. William Fawcett is cast as Pinty Walters, the owner of the cabin where the old man is living, stella Stevens plays Pintys daughter, Lisa. Akins also appeared as Jarret Sutton in Escape to Memphis, Sutton pursues his former sister-in-law Laura Sutton, a passenger on the Enterprise, forrest Lewis appears in this episode as Mr. Chambers. Richard Carlson, as Paul Drake in The Faithless, Drake is a prisoner with medical training being transported on the Enterprise back to jail. Having lost his religious faith, Drake refuses to render assistance to a two-year-old girl stricken with a communicable disease that threatens the entire vessel
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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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
