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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec
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Michigan
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Michigan /ˈmɪʃᵻɡən/ is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit, Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is noted to be shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, the two peninsulas are connected by the Mackinac Bridge. The state has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, as a result, it is one of the leading U. S. states for recreational boating. Michigan also has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds, a person in the state is never more than six miles from a natural water source or more than 85 miles from a Great Lakes shoreline. What is now the state of Michigan was first settled by Native American tribes before being colonized by French explorers in the 17th century, the area was organized as part of the larger Northwest Territory until 1800, when western Michigan became part of the Indiana Territory. Eventually, in 1805, the Michigan Territory was formed, which lasted until it was admitted into the Union on January 26,1837, the state of Michigan soon became an important center of industry and trade in the Great Lakes region and a popular immigrant destination. Though Michigan has come to develop an economy, it is widely known as the center of the U. S. automotive industry. When the first European explorers arrived, the most populous tribes were Algonquian peoples, which include the Anishinaabe groups of Ojibwe, Odaawaa/Odawa, the three nations co-existed peacefully as part of a loose confederation called the Council of Three Fires. The Ojibwe, whose numbers are estimated to have been between 25,000 and 35,000, were the largest, French voyageurs and coureurs des bois explored and settled in Michigan in the 17th century. The first Europeans to reach what became Michigan were those of Étienne Brûlés expedition in 1622, the first permanent European settlement was founded in 1668 on the site where Père Jacques Marquette established Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as a base for Catholic missions, missionaries in 1671–75 founded outlying stations at Saint Ignace and Marquette. Jesuit missionaries were received by the areas Indian populations, with relatively few difficulties or hostilities. In 1679, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle built Fort Miami at present-day St. Joseph, in 1691, the French established a trading post and Fort St. Joseph along the St. Joseph River at the present day city of Niles. The hundred soldiers and workers who accompanied Cadillac built a fort enclosing one arpent, cadillacs wife, Marie Thérèse Guyon, soon moved to Detroit, becoming one of the first European women to settle in the Michigan wilderness. The town quickly became a major fur-trading and shipping post, the Église de Saint-Anne was founded the same year
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Carlsbad, California
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Carlsbad is an affluent seaside resort city occupying a 7-mile stretch of Pacific coastline in northern San Diego County, California. The city is 87 miles south of Los Angeles and 35 miles north of downtown San Diego and is part of the San Diego-Carlsbad and it is bordered by Oceanside to the north, Vista and San Marcos to the east and Encinitas to the south. Referred to as The Village by the Sea by locals, Carlsbad is a tourist destination, the citys estimated 2014 population was 112,299. Nearly every reliable fresh water creek had at least one native village, the site is located just south of todays Agua Hedionda Lagoon. The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolà expedition of 1769, during the Mexican period, in 1842, the southern portion of Carlsbad, was granted as Rancho Agua Hedionda to Juan María Marrón. In the 1880s a former sailor named John Frazier dug a well in the area and he began offering his water at the train station and soon the whistle-stop became known as Fraziers Station. The naming of the town followed soon after, along with a marketing campaign to attract visitors. The area experienced a period of growth, with homes and businesses sprouting up in the 1880s, agricultural development of citrus fruits, avocados and olives soon changed the landscape. By the end of 1887, land prices fell throughout San Diego County, however, the community survived on the back of its fertile agricultural lands. The site of John Fraziers original well can still be found at Alt Karlsbad, in 1952, Carlsbad was incorporated to avoid annexation by its neighbor, Oceanside. The single-runway Palomar Airport opened in 1959 after County of San Diego officials decided to replace the Del Mar Airport, the airport was annexed to the City of Carlsbad in 1978 and renamed McClellan-Palomar Airport in 1982 after a local civic leader, Gerald McClellan. The first modern skateboard park, Carlsbad Skatepark, was built in March 1976 and it was located on the grounds of Carlsbad Raceway and was designed and built by inventors Jack Graham and John OMalley. The site of the original Carlsbad Skatepark and Carlsbad Raceway was demolished in 2005 and is now an Industrial Park, however, two skateparks have since been developed. In March 1999, Legoland California was opened and it was the first Legoland theme park outside of Europe and is currently operated by Merlin Entertainments. Merlin Entertainments owns 70 percent of the shares, and the remaining 30 percent is owned by the LEGO group, Carlsbad is home to the nations largest desalination plant. Construction of the $1 billion Carlsbad Desalination Plant at the Encina Power Plant was completed in December 2015, the northern area of the city is part of a tri-city area consisting of northern Carlsbad, southern Oceanside and western Vista. Carlsbad has a semi-arid Mediterranean climate and averages 263 sunny days per year, winters are mild with periodic rain. Frost is rare along the coast, but sometimes occurs in valleys in December
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North Hollywood High School
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North Hollywood High School is a public high school in Valley Village in Los Angeles, California. NHHS is located in the San Fernando Valley and enrolls approximately 3,000 students each year and it is located in District 2 of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Several neighborhoods, including most of North Hollywood, Valley Village, Studio City and Sun Valley, NHHS is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and was awarded the maximum 6-year accreditation term which runs through 2016. As of 2017, the principal is Mr. Ricardo Rosales. Built in 1927, Lankershim High School was named for the town of Lankershim and it opened with only a main building, auditorium, gymnaisum, and a shop & mechanics building, with 800 students, graduating its first class in 1928. The Board of Education was asked to employ teachers who were residents of North Hollywood, creating jobs. Lankershim High School was renamed North Hollywood High School in 1929, in 1937, a girls gymnasium and a second major classroom building, now named Frasher Hall, were built. In 1950, the major classroom building, now named Randolph Hall, was built. In the 1950s, many construction projects took place, including the agricultural classrooms, the boys gymnasium, the home-side bleachers. In 1965, the hall was named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hall after the slain President. In 1966, the cafeteria, student store, and two buildings were built. In 1973, the Amelia Earhart Continuation High School was built on the campus Northeast corner, in the late 1990s, thirteen modular buildings were installed to support an increase in the number of students. In 1996, the LAUSD board voted to move NHHS to a schedule, but after more classroom space was found. Several NHHS parents and community members did not want a year-round schedule since they feared it would impact the Highly Gifted Magnet. According to the 1996 scheduling magnet students were supposed to get July–May, the zoo magnet students were to get the September–June schedule. Cortines, the LAUSD superintendent, stated that the overcrowding at NHHS was more severe than originally anticipated and this was despite parents and students protesting against the move for several months. From 2000 to 2007, NHHS was a school with three tracks. In 2006, East Valley High School opened, relieving overcrowding at NHHS, in 2007, the traditional calendar was re-adopted and the students were divided into many Small Learning Communities
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California State University, Northridge
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California State University, Northridge is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, in the San Fernando Valley. As of Fall 2014, the school had 2,096 faculty and it was founded first as the Valley satellite campus of Cal State Los Angeles. It then became an independent college in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College, with major campus master planning, the University adopted its current name of California State University, Northridge in 1972. CSUN enrolls more than 40,000 students and ranks 10 in the U. S. in bachelors degrees awarded to underrepresented minority students, the university has over 200,000 alumni. CSUN is home to the National Center on Deafness, and the university hosts the International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, the establishment of CSUN began in 1952 with the proposal of a new satellite campus for Los Angeles State College. A Baldwin Hills location was planned in 1955, but San Fernando Valley advocates persuaded state officials to change the location to Northridge. In July 1958, the campus separated from Los Angeles State College and was renamed San Fernando Valley State College, with enrollment reaching 2,525, in 1959, it became the first State College to have its own computer. In 1964, the computer lab was moved into quarters in the newly completed Sierra Hall building complex. The campuss quiet, moderately conservative and overwhelmingly white suburban setting did not shield it from a share of the noise, strife, as on many college campuses, there were increasingly large antiwar demonstrations and occasional draft card burnings. In 1966–67, there were only 23 Black and 7 Latino students, responding to complaints about low minority representation, the administration made some attempt to boost enrollment of Latinos and Blacks in 1967. By the fall of 1968 the tally stood at about 150 Black and 75 Latino students, nobody was hurt and, under duress, the president agreed to their demands. The administration largely kept its part of the bargain, but despite an included assurance of amnesty,28 of the students involved were charged with kidnapping. The last such demonstration was in May 1971, on the first anniversary of the Kent State shootings, the college officially renamed itself California State University, Northridge in June 1972. In 1975, the construction of the CSUN sculpture began at the southeast corner of campus, by 1977, enrollment at the university was 28,023, with tuition at $95. In 1981, the officially established a foreign exchange student program with Japan, China, Ukraine, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil. In 1988, the campus had an enrollment of 31,575, the 1994 Northridge earthquake struck on January 17 and caused $400 million in damage to the campus, the heaviest damage ever sustained by an American college campus. The epicenter was less than two miles away on a previously undiscovered blind thrust fault, later the same month, Vice President Al Gore visited with a promise of funds to help with the reconstruction. Due to inadequate earthquake engineering, the structure next to the Matadome was completely destroyed
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University of Southern California
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The University of Southern California is a private research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in Los Angeles, California. As Californias oldest private university, USC has historically educated a large number of the regions business leaders. In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia, an engine for economic activity, USC contributes $8 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California. For the 2014–15 academic year, there were 18,740 students enrolled in undergraduate programs. USC also has 23,729 graduate and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, engineering, social work, and medicine. The university is one of the top fundraising institutions in the world, consistently ranking among the top 3 in external contributions, multiple academic rankings list the University of Southern California as being among the top 25 universities in the United States. With an acceptance rate of 16 percent, USC is also among the most selective academic institutions in the nation. USC maintains a tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship, with alumni having founded companies such as Lucasfilm, Myspace, Salesforce. com, Intuit, Qualcomm, Box, Tinder. As of 2014, the university has produced the fourth largest number of billionaire alumni out of all institutions in the world. USC is home to the world’s most powerful computer, which is presently housed in a super-cooled. The only other commercially available quantum computing system is operated jointly by NASA, USC was also one of the earliest nodes on ARPANET and is the birthplace of the Domain Name System. Other technologies invented at USC include DNA computing, dynamic programming, image compression, VoIP, USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Members of the teams, the Trojans, have won 102 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation. Trojan athletes have won 288 medals at the Olympic games, more than any university in the United States. If USC were a country, its athletes would have received the 12th-most Olympic gold medals in history. In 1969, it joined the Association of American Universities, the University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Hellman. The three donated 308 lots of land to establish the campus and provided the seed money for the construction of the first buildings. Originally operated in affiliation with the Methodist Church, the school mandated from the start that no student would be denied admission because of race, the university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952
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Route 66 (TV series)
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Route 66 is an American television drama that premiered on CBS on October 7,1960, and ran until March 20,1964, for a total of 116 episodes. The series was created by Herbert B, Leonard and Stirling Silliphant, who were also responsible for the ABC drama Naked City, from which Route 66 was indirectly spun off. Route 66 followed two young men traversing the United States in a Chevrolet Corvette convertible, and the events, Martin Milner starred as Tod Stiles, a recent college graduate with no future prospects due to circumstances beyond his control. He was originally joined on his travels by Buz Murdock, a friend and former employee of his father, with the character leaving midway through the third season after contracting echovirus. Route 66 was a hybrid between episodic television drama, which has continuing characters and situations, and the format, in which each weeks show has a completely different cast. It was inspired by On the Road, written by Jack Kerouac, in this narrative format, dubbed semi-anthology by the trade paper Variety, the drama usually centers on the guest stars rather than the regular cast. Series creator Stirling Silliphants concurrently running drama, Naked City, also followed this semianthology format, both shows were recognized for their literate scripts and rich characterizations. The open-ended format, featuring two roaming observers/facilitators, gave Silliphant and the writers an almost unlimited landscape for presenting a wide variety of dramatic story lines. Virtually any tale could be adapted to the series, the two regulars merely had to be worked in and the setting tailored to fit the location. Like Richard Kimble from The Fugitive, the wanderers moved from place to place and got caught up in the struggles of the people there. Unlike Kimble, nothing was forcing them to stay on the move except their own sense of adventure, thus making it closer to Run for Your Life, Maverick, Movin On. George Maharis was signed to a contract by Leonard before the Route 66 concept had even been fully developed, an actor named Bob Morris was set to be the other lead. At that point, the Route 66 title was not yet decided upon, the Naked City episode that served as the Searchers pilot was called Four Sweet Corners, and in it, Maharis played Johnny Gary, while Morris was Link Ridgeway. Johnny and Link ended the episode by leaving Johnnys familys apartment building, setting out for parts unknown, the half-hour pilot and the chemistry between the leads was judged to be good by the producers, although Herbert B. Leonard could not interest a network or a sponsor in the spin-off show, Morris died in 1960 of a cerebral hemorrhage. The title of the series became Route 66, the leads became Tod and Buz, Maharis was given the role of Buz, while Martin Milner beat out several actors for the role of Tod. Leonard personally financed the shooting of a new pilot episode. Tod and Buz symbolized restless youth searching for meaning in the early 1960s, the lead characters are not always the focus of any given episode, and their backstories are revealed only in occasional references across widely spaced episodes
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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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Adam-12
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The show originally ran from September 21,1968, through May 20,1975, and helped introduce police procedures and jargon to the general public in the United States. Adam-12 featured the year-old LAPD Rampart Division station at 2710 West Temple Street as the setting for the series, however, according to the radio call sign of the unit 1-Adam-12, the patrol area was within the Central Division, which serves Downtown Los Angeles, rather than Rampart. The designation 1-Adam-12 is a combination of three elements, the first element indicates the units LAPD division. The second element indicates the type of unit, the third element identifies the patrol cars number. The one in 1-Adam-12 means the car operates in Division 1. LAPD assigns two-person units the letter A, in the LAPD phonetic alphabet, the letter A is spoken as Adam. The third element is the last two numbers of the cars full unit number. In the program, 1-Adam-12 typically operated in the Rampart Division, Division 2, not the Central Division, Division 1, there was never an actual patrol car with the call sign of 1-Adam-12. In the series first episode, Reed is less than a week out of the prestigious Los Angeles Police Academy, and is eager to begin his career. Three weeks before, Malloys patrol partner had been killed in an attempt to apprehend an armed suspect, Malloy is deeply saddened. On what is to be Malloys last shift, the watch commander Lieutenant Moore assigns Malloy to take the young, raw, Moore was Malloys first training officer seven years earlier. His comment to Reed at the end of their first watch together was, I couldnt turn you loose on the citizens of Los Angeles, reeds probationary period is played out during the first and second seasons, after which he is promoted to a full officer. Reed and Malloy remain beat partners, Malloy displays a Distinguished Expert shooting medal, Reed displays a Sharpshooter medal. Malloy and Reed reported to Shift Supervisor William Mac MacDonald, who took a black-and-white command cruiser with the call sign 1-L-20 into the field. Reed once questioned why Malloy had not taken the sergeants exam, Malloy related he preferred working patrol on the street to supervision. Malloy later showed he could supervise when Mac was ill, several of their fellow officers were recurring characters, the most frequent were Jerry Woods, Ed Wells, Detective Sgt Jerry Miller, and Officer Brinkman. Shaaron Claridge, a real-life LAPD dispatcher, was the dispatcher, over the course of the series, Sergeant Mac MacDonald was promoted to Sergeant 2. Lt Moore was promoted to Captain, and served as the officer of the division
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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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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Life with Father (film)
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Life with Father is a 1947 Technicolor American comedy film. The story draws largely on the insistence by his wife that Clarence be baptized and Clarences stubborn, in keeping with the autobiography, all the children in the family are redheads. The film and its audio entered the domain in 1975. Stockbroker Clarence Day, is a benevolent despot of his 1890s New York City household, striving to make it function as efficiently as his Wall Street office and his wife Vinnie is the real head of the household. The movie was adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart from the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and it was directed by Michael Curtiz. Employment agent, Sir, before I can let any girl go from this establishment, mr. Day, Madam, I am the character of my home. Clarence Day, Jr. outside green is the best color, I never thought of it that way. But when you do think of it - its quite a thought, upon leaving Clarence Day, Jr. and Mary Skinner alone in the parlor, Mrs. Day turns and says, Remember, its Sunday. Mary Skinner announces through tears after sitting on Clarence Day, Jrs lap -, Now you just think I am some bold, mr. Day states I am not a guide to Chinatown and The Bowery. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color, Best Cinematography, Color and Best Music, the film earned $5.9 million in rentals in North America. Through a clerical error, the film was not renewed for copyright and has fallen into the public domain, there is a digitally remastered version in the Archive Movie Collection through Digicom. tv with a copyright date of 2009
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William Powell
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William Horatio Powell was an American actor. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell Hammett. Powell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey, and Life with Father, an only child, Powell was born in Pittsburgh to Nettie Manila and Horatio Warren Powell, on July 29,1892. His father was born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, to William S. in 1907, he moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, where he graduated from Central High School in 1910. After high school, he left home for New York and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of 18, in 1912, Powell graduated from the AADA, and worked in some vaudeville and stock companies. Powells most famous role was that of Nick Charles in six Thin Man films, beginning with The Thin Man in 1934, Myrna Loy played his wife, Nora, in each of the Thin Man films. Their on-screen partnership, beginning alongside Clark Gable in 1934 with Manhattan Melodrama, was one of Hollywoods most prolific, Loy and Powell starred in the Best Picture of 1936, The Great Ziegfeld, with Powell in the title role and Loy as Ziegfelds wife Billie Burke. That same year, he received his second Academy Award nomination. In 1935, he starred with Harlow in Reckless, a serious romance developed between them, and in 1936, they were reunited on screen and with Loy and Spencer Tracy in the screwball comedy Libeled Lady. Harlow died from uremia at the age of 26 in June 1937 before they could marry and his distress over her death, as well as a cancer diagnosis, caused him to accept fewer acting roles. Powells career slowed considerably in the 1940s, although he received his third Academy Award nomination in 1947 for his role as the cantankerous Clarence Day and his last film was 1955s Mister Roberts. In 1915, he married Eileen Wilson who was born Julia Tierney, with whom he had his child, William David Powell. Powells son became a writer and producer before a period of ill health led to his suicide in 1968. On June 26,1931, Powell married actress Carole Lombard, the marriage lasted just over two years. They were divorced in 1933, though they, too, remained on good terms, Powell was devastated when he learned of her death in 1942. In 1937, Powell was diagnosed with cancer and he underwent surgery and experimental radium treatment which put the disease in full remission within two years. Given his own health and sorrow over Jean Harlows death, Powell did not undertake any film roles for over a year during this period, three weeks after they met, on January 6,1940, Powell married actress Diana Lewis, whom he called Mousie. Powell died in Palm Springs, California, on March 5,1984, at the age of 91 and he is buried at the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, near his son William David Powell and wife Diana Lewis
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Sands of Iwo Jima
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Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. The film also features John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker, was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant, the picture was a Republic Pictures production. Sands of Iwo Jima was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Recording and Best Writing, note, the story is told from the viewpoint of Cpl. Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements and he is especially despised by PFC. Peter Pete Conway, the arrogant, college-educated son of an officer, Colonel Sam Conway under whom Stryker served and admired, al Thomas, who blames him for his demotion. When Stryker leads his squad in the invasion of Tarawa, the men begin to appreciate his methods, within the first couple of minutes of the battle, the platoon leader, Lt. Baker, is killed only seconds after he lands on the beach, PFC. Farmer Soames is wounded in the leg, and PFC, the marines are aggressively pinned down by a pillbox. Able Company commander Captain Joyce takes charge and he begins to send out marines to silence the pillbox. As a result of three attempts to reach the pillbox, two demolition marines and a flamethrower operator are killed and PFC. Shipley is left mortally wounded in the line of fire. Stryker takes action and demolishes the pillbox, Shipley would eventually die of his wounds in front of his best friend Regazzi. Later on, Thomas becomes distracted from his mission, and goofs off when he goes to get ammunition for two comrades, stopping to savor a cup of coffee. On their first night, the squad is ordered to dig in, Bass lies wounded from a distance and begs for help. Conway considers Stryker brutal and unfeeling when he decides to apparently abandon Bass to the enemy, after the battle, Stryker discovers the truth he forces Thomas into a fistfight. Subsequently, ravaged by his conscience over the fate of his fellow Marines, Thomas breaks down, the squad receives three new recruits, Stein, Fowler, and McHugh. Stryker reveals a side of his character while on leave in Honolulu. He picks up a bargirl and returns with her to her apartment and he becomes suspicious when he hears somebody in the next room, but upon investigation, finds only a hungry baby boy that his intended paramour is supporting the best way she can. Stryker gives the woman, whose father was gone, some money. The woman had earlier noted that there were ways to make a living than fighting a war
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John Wayne
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Marion Mitchell Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, born in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne grew up in Southern California. He found work at film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he appeared mostly in bit parts. His first leading role came in Raoul Walshs The Big Trail, Waynes career took off in 1939, with John Fords Stagecoach making him an instant star. He went on to star in 142 pictures, biographer Ronald Davis said, John Wayne personified for millions the nations frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them he played cowboys, cavalrymen and he is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo, and The Longest Day. In his final performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist. He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26,1907 at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local paper, Winterset Madisonian, reported on page 4 of the edition of May 30,1907 that Wayne weighed 13 pounds at birth and his middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents decided to name their next son Robert. Waynes father, Clyde Leonard Morrison, was the son of American Civil War veteran Marion Mitchell Morrison, Waynes mother, the former Mary Molly Alberta Brown, was from Lancaster County, Nebraska. Waynes ancestry included English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish, Waynes family moved to Palmdale, California, and then in 1916 to Glendale, California, where his father worked as a pharmacist. A local fireman at the station on his route to school in Glendale started calling him Little Duke because he never went anywhere without his huge Airedale Terrier and he preferred Duke to Marion, and the nickname stuck. Wayne attended Wilson Middle School in Glendale, as a teen, he worked in an ice cream shop for a man who shod horses for Hollywood studios. He was also active as a member of the Order of DeMolay and he played football for the 1924 league champion Glendale High School team. Wayne applied to the U. S. Naval Academy, and he instead attended the University of Southern California, majoring in pre-law. He was a member of the Trojan Knights and Sigma Chi fraternities, Wayne also played on the USC football team under coach Howard Jones. A broken collarbone injury curtailed his career, Wayne later noted that he was too terrified of Jones reaction to reveal the actual cause of his injury
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The Lone Ranger (TV series)
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The Lone Ranger is an American western drama television series that aired on the ABC Television network from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role. Jay Silverheels, a member of the Mohawk Aboriginal people in Canada, John Hart replaced Moore in the title role from 1952 to 1954 due to a contract dispute. Fred Foy, who had been both narrator and announcer of the series from 1948 until its ending, was the announcer. Gerald Mohr was originally employed as the narrator for the television series, the Lone Ranger was the highest-rated television program on ABC in the early 1950s and its first true hit. The series finished #7 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1950-1951 season, #18 for 1951-1952, the fictional story line maintains that a patrol of six Texas Rangers is massacred, with only one member surviving. The lone survivor thereafter disguises himself with a mask and travels with Tonto throughout Texas. A silver mine supplies The Lone Ranger with the name of his horse as well as the required to finance his wandering life-style. George W. Trendle retained the title of producer, although he recognized that his experience in radio was not adequate for producing the television series, for this, he hired veteran MGM film producer Jack Chertok. Chertok served as the producer for the first 182 episodes as well as for a rarely seen 1955 color special retelling the origin, the first 78 episodes were produced and broadcast for 78 consecutive weeks without any breaks or reruns. Then the entire 78 episodes were shown again before any new episodes were produced, all were shot in Kanab, Utah and California. The rock seen next to Silver is known as Lone Ranger Rock, when it came time to produce another batch of 52 episodes, there was a wage dispute with Clayton Moore, and John Hart was hired to play the role of the Lone Ranger. Once again, the 52 new episodes were aired in sequence followed by 52 weeks rerunning them, despite expectations that the mask would make the switch workable, Hart was not accepted in the role, and his episodes were not seen again until the 1980s. At the end of the year of the television series, Trendle sold the Lone Ranger rights to Jack Wrather. Wrather immediately rehired Clayton Moore to play the Lone Ranger, once again, they were broadcast as a full year of new episodes followed by a full year of reruns. The final season saw a number of changes, including a count of 39. Wrather invested money from his own pocket to film in color, although ABC telecast only in black, Wrather also went outdoors for action footage. Otherwise, the series was filmed on a studio sound stage. Another big change, not readily detectable by the viewers, was replacing Jack Chertok with producer Sherman A. Harris, by this time, Chertok had established his own television production company and was busy producing other programs
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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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Operation Pacific
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Operation Pacific is a 1951 World War II submarine film starring John Wayne and Patricia Neal, featuring Ward Bond and Philip Carey and directed by George Waggner. The technical advisor for this film was Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, during World War II, an American submarine, the Thunderfish, under the command of Cmdr. Pop Perry, takes on a group of children and nuns to transport them to Pearl Harbor, including a newborn infant nicknamed Butch. The sub sights a Japanese aircraft carrier and attacks, but its torpedoes malfunction, pursued by the carriers escorts, the sub manages to escape. While in Pearl Harbor, the ships Executive Officer, Lt Cmdr, Duke E. Gifford goes to visit Butch at the base hospital, and runs into his ex-wife, Mary Stuart, a Navy nurse, and they kiss passionately. Unfortunately, Mary is now involved with Navy pilot Lt. Bob Perry. Duke pursues Mary anyway, but is sent to sea again before anything is settled, as the sub returns from the patrol, they spot a Japanese freighter, but, again, their torpedoes fail to explode. The enemy ship raises the flag, and the Thunderfish surfaces and approaches it. The freighter turns out to be a Q-ship that opens fire on the American sub, mortally wounded, Captain Perry orders the boat to dive, knowing that he will not be able to get below before she does. With the sub now under Dukes command, the freighter is rammed, the Thunderfish, with her bow damaged as a result of ramming the Q-ship, limps home to Pearl Harbor. Back at Pearl, Bob Perry believes that the order Duke gave to dive the boat killed his brother, Mary tries to comfort Duke, but he rejects her attempts. Working with the bases torpedo specialists, Duke and the crew of the Thunderfish undertake an investigation to find out why their torpedoes are not exploding, steele overhears the conversation and castigates Mary for throwing away her chance for happiness with Duke. Once again, the Thunderfish heads out to sea, and finds a Japanese fleet heading for Leyte, even though it will reveal their position to the enemy, the sub broadcasts the fleets position. Once Pearl Harbor acknowledges receipt of the message, Duke salvoes all his torpedoes and runs for it, though she has been knocked about by Japanese depth charges, the sub manages to sink a damaged Japanese aircraft carrier. In the next phase of the battle American carrier planes arrive to attack the Japanese fleet, the Thunderfish, now assigned to lifeguard duty, helps to rescue shot down American flyers, and does so while under attack from Japanese planes. While rescuing Lt. Bob Perry, the Chief of the Boat and Junior, when the Thunderfish returns to Pearl Harbor after this patrol, Mary is waiting for Duke. The two, reconciled, head to the hospital, intending to adopt Butch, John Wayne and Patricia Neal did not get along during filming. Nearly fourteen years later, however, they worked together on In Harms Way where she noted that he had mellowed a lot, possibly because he was seriously ill with lung cancer at the time
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Mister Roberts (1955 film)
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Based on the 1946 novel and 1948 Broadway play, the film was nominated for the Best Picture and Best Sound, Recording Oscars, Jack Lemmon received the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant, the executive officer/cargo chief, Lieutenant Junior Grade Douglas A. Doug Roberts, tries to shield the dispirited crew from the harsh and unpopular captain, Lieutenant Commander Morton. Eager to join the fighting, Roberts repeatedly requests a transfer, Morton is forced by regulation to forward his requests, but refuses to endorse them, which means they are always rejected. Roberts shares quarters with Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver, Pulver spends most of his time idling in his bunk and avoids the captain at all costs, so much so, that Morton is actually unaware Pulver is part of the crew. Roberts surreptitiously requests, and is granted crew liberty from one of Morton’s superiors, the liberty is supposed to be at their next resupply stop, but when the ship reaches an idyllic South Pacific island, Morton denies the crew their much-needed shore leave. Ashore, the crew lets loose after months of pent-up frustration, many crewmen are arrested and hauled back to the ship by the military police and the shore patrol. The next morning, Morton is reprimanded by the port captain, Morton is almost speechless with rage at the black mark on his sterling record. Meanwhile, the crewmen are mystified by Robertss new strictness, Morton deceives them into thinking that Roberts is trying to get a promotion. When a crew member informs Roberts of a new Navy policy which might assist him in getting a transfer despite the captains opposition, news of the Allied victory in Europe depresses Roberts further, knowing the war may end soon without his ever seeing combat. Inspired by a radio speech celebrating VE Day, Roberts throws Mortons prized palm tree overboard. The captain demands the identity of the culprit, but no one steps forward and he eventually realizes that Roberts is the only person aboard with the nerve to do it. Morton summons him to his quarters and accuses him of the deed, an open microphone reveals to the crew what changed Roberts. Weeks later, Roberts receives an unexpected transfer, Doc, the ships doctor and Roberts friend, confides to him that the crew risked court-martial by submitting a transfer request with Mortons forged imprimatur. Before he leaves, the crew presents Roberts with a handmade medal, several weeks later, Pulver, who has been appointed cargo officer, receives a couple of letters. The first is from Roberts, who speaks enthusiastically about his new assignment aboard the destroyer USS Livingston during the Battle of Okinawa and he goes on to say that he would rather have the Order of the Palm than the Medal of Honor. Incensed, Pulver throws the captain’s replacement palm tree overboard and he then marches into Mortons cabin, openly bragging about it and brazenly demanding to know why Morton has cancelled the showing of a film that night. Morton slowly shakes his head, realizing that his problems have not gone away, Fonda was not the original choice to star in the film version, Warner Bros. was considering William Holden or Marlon Brando for the lead role. The studio thought Fonda had been on stage and off the screen so long that he was no longer a movie box office draw, in addition, when filming began he was 49, much older than the average lieutenant junior grade
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Henry Fonda
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Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning more than five decades. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and he also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him Hank, in 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Fondas ancestors from Genoa, Italy, migrated to the Netherlands in the 15th century, in 1642, a branch of the Fonda family immigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland on the East Coast of North America. They were among the first Dutch population to settle in what is now upstate New York, establishing the town of Fonda, by 1888, many of their descendants had relocated to Nebraska. Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, to advertising-printing jobber William Brace Fonda, Fonda was brought up as a Christian Scientist, though he was baptized an Episcopalian at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Grand Island. He said, My whole damn family was nice and they were a close family and highly supportive, especially in health matters, as they avoided doctors due to their religion. Despite having a background, he later became an agnostic. Fonda was a bashful, short boy who tended to avoid girls, except his sisters, and was a skater, swimmer. He worked part-time in his fathers print plant and imagined a career as a journalist. Later, he worked after school for the phone company, Fonda was active in the Boy Scouts of America, Teichmann reports that he reached the rank of Eagle Scout. When he was about 14, his father took him to observe the lynching of a black man accused of rape. This enraged the young Fonda and he kept a keen awareness of prejudice for the rest of his life, by his senior year in high school, Fonda had grown to more than six feet tall, but remained shy. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he majored in journalism and he took a job with the Retail Credit Company. He was fascinated by the stage, learning everything from set construction to stage production, Fonda decided to quit his job and go East in 1928 to seek his fortune. He arrived on Cape Cod and played a role at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis. A friend took him to Falmouth, MA where he joined and quickly became a member of the University Players
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James Cagney
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James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film, though he had his greatest impact in film. Known for his energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim. He is best remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in movies such as The Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, and White Heat, and was typecast or limited by this view earlier in his career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Orson Welles said of Cagney, maybe the greatest actor who appeared in front of a camera. In his first professional acting performance, Cagney danced costumed as a woman in the line of the revue Every Sailor. He spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian and he secured several other roles, receiving good notices, before landing the lead in the 1929 play Penny Arcade. After rave reviews, Warner Bros. signed him for an initial $500-a-week, three-week contract to reprise his role, Cagneys seventh film, The Public Enemy, became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period. Notable for a scene in which Cagney pushes a grapefruit against Mae Clarkes face. He became one of Hollywoods biggest stars and one of Warner Bros. biggest contracts, in 1938, he received his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, for Angels with Dirty Faces, for his subtle portrayal of the tough guy/man-child Rocky Sullivan. In 1942, Cagney won the Oscar for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He was nominated a third time in 1955 for Love Me or Leave Me, Cagney retired from acting and dancing in 1961 to spend time on his farm with his family. He exited retirement,20 years later, for a part in the movie Ragtime, Cagney walked out on Warner Bros. several times over the course of his career, each time returning on much improved personal and artistic terms. In 1935, he sued Warner for breach of contract and won and this was one of the first times an actor prevailed over a studio on a contract issue. In reference to Cagneys refusal to be pushed around, Jack L, Warner called him the Professional Againster. Cagney also made numerous morale-boosting troop tours before and during World War II and was president of the Screen Actors Guild for two years, Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His biographers disagree as to the location, either on the corner of Avenue D. His father, James Francis Cagney, Sr. was of Irish descent, at the time of his sons birth, he was a bartender and amateur boxer, though on Cagneys birth certificate, he is listed as a telegraphist
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Jack Lemmon
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John Uhler Jack Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins, Lemmon was born on February 8,1925, in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the child of Mildred Burgess LaRue and John Uhler Lemmon. His paternal grandmother was from an Irish immigrant family, Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. During his acceptance of his lifetime achievement award, he stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight, after graduation in 1947, Lemmon took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under coach Uta Hagen and he was enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, guitar, organ, and he was close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau and Kevin Spacey. He made two films with Curtis, and eleven with Matthau, early in Lemmons career he met comedian Ernie Kovacs while co-starring with him in Operation Mad Ball. Lemmon and Kovacs became close friends and appeared together in two subsequent films, Bell, Book and Candle and It Happened to Jane, in 1977, PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series. Lemmon discussed his friendship with Kovacs in the documentary Ernie Kovacs and he was a favorite of director Billy Wilder, starring in the films Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti. The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy, the biography quotes Lemmon as saying, I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play. If my character was having a breakdown, I started to have one. Bell, Book and Candle and It Happened to Jane and How to Murder Your Wife, quine also directed Lemmons screen test when the actor was signed by Columbia. Lemmons singing voice was first heard on two film soundtracks in 1955, Three for the Show with Betty Grable and My Sister Eileen and he also performed songs in the 1956 film You Cant Run Away from It with Stubby Kaye and June Allyson. His first solo album A Twist of Lemmon was released in 1958 on Epic Records, while filming Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe in 1959, Lemmon released a second album, Some Like It Hot. Both featured Lemmons singing and piano solos, the two Epic albums were later released as A Twist of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot, a single cd on Collectors Choice Music, in 2001. Two singles, Daphne/Sleepy Lagoon and Im Forever Blowing Bubbles/I Cover the Waterfront did not appear on either album, Epic released a third single in 1960, Lemmons piano solo of the theme to the film The Apartment, backed with his own composition Lemmon Blues. In 1963, Lemmon released an album, this time on Capitol Records
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Halls of Montezuma (film)
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Halls of Montezuma is a 1951 World War II war film starring Richard Widmark, Richard Boone, Jack Palance and Karl Malden. The film, which is about U. S, Marines fighting on a Japanese-held island, was directed by Academy Award-winner Lewis Milestone. It also starred Robert Wagner in his first credited screen role, real color combat footage from the war in the Pacific was incorporated into the films cinematography. Filmed on location at Camp Pendleton, California, with the cooperation of the USMC. Its title is a reference to the line from the Marines Hymn. During World War II, a Marine battalion prepares to land on a large Japanese-held island in the Pacific. Lieutenant Colonel Gilfillan warns the men that it will be a mission. Below deck, veteran Lieutenant Carl A. Anderson, a teacher in civilian life, questions his former student, Corporal Stuart Conroy. Anderson assures him that he has shown courage before and can do so again, in the landing boat heading to shore, Navy corpsman C. E. Doc Jones is worried because Anderson has been suffering from psychological migraines for months, Anderson and his platoon have been fighting since Guadalcanal, and now only seven men remain of the original platoon. Although Doc urged Anderson to seek treatment in the United States, the men hit the beach and successfully dig in, despite an initial burst of resistance. One day, the men try to take a ridge of hills, but are back by Japanese rockets. When Coffman is killed, Anderson is forced to some more of Docs pills. Anderson meets with other officers at headquarters, where Gilfillan recounts the troubles they are having capturing prisoners. Sergeant Randolph Johnson, a Japanese-speaking linguist who uses psychology in interrogating prisoners, the men capture the remaining Japanese, including a wounded officer, three laborers and a shell-shocked, elderly civilian. Anderson finds a map on the wounded officer, on the return trip, a sniper shoots at Pretty Boy, who kills him during hand-to-hand combat. The confrontation further unbalances him and he attempts to murder the prisoners, lane then accidentally shoots and kills Pretty Boy while attempting to stop him. Doc also dies from a wound in the shoulder, but not before giving Dickerman a message for Anderson, Anderson takes his prisoners to headquarters, where the wounded officer commits hara-kiri with a knife he had stolen from Johnson
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Jack Webb
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John Randolph Jack Webb, also known by the pen name John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe Friday in the Dragnet franchise and he was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited. Webb was born in Santa Monica, California on Good Friday 1920, son of Samuel Chester Webb and he grew up in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. His father left home before Webb was born, and Webb never knew him and he was raised a Roman Catholic by his Irish and Native American mother. One of the tenants in his mothers boarding house was an ex-jazzman and began Webbs lifelong interest in jazz by giving him a recording of Bix Beiderbeckes At the Jazz Band Ball. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Webb lived in the parish of Our Lady of Loretto Church and attended Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School in Echo Park, where he served as an altar boy. He then attended Belmont High School, near downtown Los Angeles and later, St. Johns University, Minnesota, in Belmont High, Webb was a student body president. He wrote to the student body in the 1938 edition of its yearbook, Campanile, You who showed me the magnificent warmth of friendship which I know, during World War II, Webb enlisted in the United States Army Air Force, but he washed out of flight training. He later received a discharge, since he was the primary financial support for both his mother and grandmother. Following his discharge, he moved to San Francisco, where a shortage of announcers led to a temporary appointment to his own radio show on ABCs KGO Radio. The Jack Webb Show was a comedy that had a limited run on ABC radio in 1946. Prior to that, he had a program, One Out of Seven. By 1949, he had abandoned comedy for drama, and starred in Pat Novak for Hire, a radio show originating from KFRC about a man who worked as an unlicensed private detective. Pat Novak was notable for writing that imitated the style of such writers as Raymond Chandler, with lines such as. Her voice was hot and sticky--like a furnace full of marshmallows, Webbs radio shows included Johnny Madero, Pier 23, Jeff Regan, Investigator, Murder and Mr. Malone, Pete Kellys Blues, and One Out of Seven. Webb provided all of the voices on One Out of Seven, often vigorously attacking racial prejudice, Webbs most famous motion-picture role was as the combat-hardened Marine Corps drill instructor at Parris Island in the 1957 film The D. I. with Don Dubbins as a callow Marine private. Webbs hard-nosed approach to this role, that of Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant James Moore, but The D. I. was a box-office failure. Webb had a role as a crime lab technician in the 1948 film He Walked by Night
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Dragnet (franchise)
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Dragnet was an American radio, television and motion picture series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history, the series gave audience members a feel for the danger and heroism of police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers, Actor and producer Jack Webbs aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting, he achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media. Another Dragnet trademark is the opening narration, Ladies and gentlemen. Only the names have changed to protect the innocent. This underwent minor revisions over time, the only and ladies and gentlemen were dropped at some point, and for the television version hear was changed to see. Variations on this narration have been featured in subsequent crime dramas, Webb relaunched Dragnet in 1966, with NBC once again chosen to air the series. He tried to persuade Ben Alexander to rejoin him as Frank Smith, Alexander was then committed to an ABC police series, Felony Squad, and the producers would not release him. Webb reluctantly came up with a new character to take the role of Joe Fridays partner, Morgan had previously portrayed rooming house proprietor Luther Gage in the 1949 radio series episode James Vickers. George Fenneman returned as the primary announcer with John Stephenson replacing Hal Gibney in the role of announcing the trial dates. Fenneman replaced Stephenson in that role during the fourth season, unlike the previous Dragnet series, the revival was produced and aired in color. Webb produced a TV movie pilot for the new version of the show for Universal Television, NBC bought the show on the strength of the movie and it debuted as a midseason replacement for the sitcom The Hero on Thursday nights in January 1967. To distinguish it from the original, the year was included in the title of the show, although Friday had been promoted to lieutenant in the final episode of the 1950s production, Webb chose to have Friday revert to sergeant with his familiar badge,714. Cooke was technical advisor to the KNBC documentary Police Unit 2A-26, the show had good ratings on NBCs schedule for four seasons, although its popularity did not exceed that of the 1950s version. Much as was done 11 years earlier, Webb decided voluntarily to discontinue Dragnet after its season to focus on producing and directing his other projects through Mark VII Limited. The first of these projects was a spinoff of Dragnet titled Adam-12, a 30-minute police procedural like its parent series, the series premiered in the fall of 1968 and ran for seven seasons, coming to an end in 1975. Adam-12, in turn, spawned its own spinoff in early 1972 called Emergency, running as a weekly series until 1977 and as a series of made-for-television movies for two years after that, Emergency
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United States Army
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The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, from the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force and it played an important role in the American Civil War, where leading generals on both sides were picked from members of the United States military. Not until the outbreak of World War II did a standing army become officially established. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold Wars onset, the U. S. military is one of the largest militaries in terms of number of personnel. It draws its personnel from a pool of paid volunteers. As of 2016, the United States spends about $580.3 billion annually to fund its military forces, put together, the United States constitutes roughly 40 percent of the worlds military expenditures. For the period 2010–14, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found that the United States was the worlds largest exporter of major arms, the United States was also the worlds eighth largest importer of major weapons for the same period. The history of the U. S. military dates to 1775 and these forces demobilized in 1784 after the Treaty of Paris ended the War for Independence. All three services trace their origins to the founding of the Continental Army, the Continental Navy, the United States President is the U. S. militarys commander-in-chief. Rising tensions at various times with Britain and France and the ensuing Quasi-War and War of 1812 quickened the development of the U. S. Navy, the reserve branches formed a military strategic reserve during the Cold War, to be called into service in case of war. Time magazines Mark Thompson has suggested that with the War on Terror, Command over the armed forces is established in the United States Constitution. The sole power of command is vested in the President by Article II as Commander-in-Chief, the Constitution also allows for the creation of executive Departments headed principal officers whose opinion the President can require. This allowance in the Constitution formed the basis for creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 by the National Security Act, the Defense Department is headed by the Secretary of Defense, who is a civilian and member of the Cabinet. The Defense Secretary is second in the chain of command, just below the President. Together, the President and the Secretary of Defense comprise the National Command Authority, to coordinate military strategy with political affairs, the President has a National Security Council headed by the National Security Advisor. The collective body has only power to the President
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Fort Ord
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Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay of the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994. Most of the land now makes up the Fort Ord National Monument. Before construction and official designation as a fort in 1940, the land was used as a maneuver area, Fort Ord was considered one of the most attractive locations of any U. S. Army post, because of its proximity to the beach and California weather. The 7th Infantry Division was its main garrison for many years, when Fort Ord was converted to civilian use, space was set aside for the first nature reserve in the United States created for conservation of an insect, the endangered Smiths blue butterfly. Additional endangered species are found on Fort Ord including Contra Costa goldfields, while much of the old military buildings and infrastructure remain abandoned, many structures have been torn down for anticipated development. On April 20,2012, President Barack Obama signed a proclamation designating a 14, the area was known as the Gigling Reservation, U. S. Field Artillery Area, Presidio of Monterey and Gigling Field Artillery Range. Although military development and construction was just beginning, the War only lasted for another year, despite a great demobilization of the U. S. Armed Forces during the years of the 1920s and 1930s, by 1933. Primarily, horse cavalry units trained on the camp until the military began to mechanize and train mobile combat units such as tanks, armored personnel carrier and movable artillery. By 1940, the 23-year-old Camp Ord was expanded to 2,000 acres, in August 1940, it was re-designated Fort Ord and the 7th Infantry Division was reactivated, becoming the first major unit to occupy the post. In 1941, Camp Ord became Fort Ord, in 1947, Fort Ord became the home of the 4th Replacement Training Center. During the 1950s and 1960s, Fort Ord was an area for units departing for war in the Korean War and later peace-time/occupation/ duty in Japan, South Korea. Then, when Southeast Asia became a war zone with Vietnam, the 194th Armored Brigade was activated there under Combat Development Command in 1957, but departed for Fort Knox in Kentucky in 1960. In 1988, the Base Realignment and Closure legislation considering the post-Cold War era was passed by the Congress, on July 14,1989, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed placement of Fort Ord on the National Priorities List. NPL status was finalized on February 21,1990, the final basic training classes were held in 1990. In 1991, the decision to close Fort Ord was made, in 1994, Fort Ord was officially closed. The Fort was the largest U. S. military base to be closed at the time, the BRAC Commission of 1991 recommended closing the post and moving the units stationed at Fort Ord to Fort Lewis, Washington. On May 2,1992, Army elements from Fort Ord along with Marines from Camp Pendleton participated in quelling the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, in 1994, Fort Ord was finally closed
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Monterey Bay
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Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U. S. state of California. The bay is south of the cities of San Francisco. The county-seat city of Santa Cruz is located at the end of the bay. The city of Monterey is on the Monterey Peninsula at the south end, the Monterey Bay Area is a local colloquialism sometimes used to describe the whole of the Central Coast communities of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. The first European to discover Monterey Bay was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo on November 16,1542 while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition. He named the bay Bahía de los Pinos, probably because of the forest of pine trees first encountered while rounding the peninsula at the end of the bay. Cabrillos name for the bay was lost, but the westernmost point of the peninsula is known as Point Pinos. On December 10,1595, Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño crossed the bay, the present name for the bay was documented in 1602 by Sebastián Vizcaíno, who had been tasked by the Spanish government to complete a detailed chart of the coast. He anchored in what is now the Monterey harbor on December 16, Monterrey is an alternate spelling of Monterrei, a municipality in the Galicia region of Spain from which the viceroy and his father originated. All other place names in the vicinity containing Monterey were so named because of their proximity to the bay and this includes the Presidio of Monterey, City of Monterey, County of Monterey and Monterey Canyon. The Monterey Canyon, one of the largest underwater canyons in the world, begins off the coast of Moss Landing, killer whales are also found along the coast, especially when Gray whales migrate, as they hunt the whales during their migration north. Many species of fish, sharks, mollusks such as abalone and squid, birds, several varieties of kelp grow in the bay, some becoming as tall as trees, forming what is known as a kelp forest. Ricketts State Marine Conservation Area and Asilomar State Marine Reserve are marine protected areas in Monterey Bay, like underwater parks, these marine protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems. Clockwise around the bay, generally north to south
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Training film
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A training film is a form of educational film – a short subject documentary movie, that provides an introduction to a topic. Both narrative documentary and dramatisation styles may be used, sometimes both in the same production, while most educational films were made to be used in schools, training films were made and used by the military, and civilian industry. Training films have been replaced by training and educational videos, which continue to be produced, multiple examples of language training films
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David Janssen
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David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive. Janssen also had the roles in three other series, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Harry O, and OHara, U. S. Treasury. In 1996 TV Guide ranked him number 36 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list, Janssen was born in 1931 as David Harold Meyer in Naponee, a village in Franklin County in southern Nebraska, to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker and Berniece Graf. Janssen was of Irish and Jewish descent, following his parents divorce in 1935, his mother moved with five-year-old David to Los Angeles, California, and later married Eugene Janssen in 1940 in Los Angeles. Young David used his stepfathers name after he entered business as a child. He attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, where he excelled on the court setting a school scoring record that lasted over 20 years. His first film part was at the age of thirteen, and by the age of twenty-five he had appeared in twenty films, during his Army days, Janssen became friends with fellow enlistees Martin Milner and Clint Eastwood while posted at Fort Ord, California. Janssen appeared in television series before he landed programs of his own. In 1956, he and Peter Breck appeared in John Bromfields syndicated series Sheriff of Cochise in the episode The Turkey Farmers. Later, he guest starred on NBCs medical drama The Eleventh Hour in the role of Hal Kincaid in the 1962 episode Make Me a Place, with series co-stars Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. He joined friend Martin Milner in a 1962 episode of Route 66 as the character Kamo in the episode One Tiger to a Hill, the Fugitive, the hit Quinn Martin-produced series, about a Midwest doctor falsely convicted of murdering his wife, OHara, U. S. At the time, the episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale. He starred as a Los Angeles police detective trying to clear himself in the killing of an innocent doctor in the 1968 film Warning Shot. Janssens impressively husky voice was used to good effect as the narrator for the TV mini-series Centennial, he also appeared in the final episode. Though Janssens scenes were cut from the release, he also appeared as a journalist in the film Inchon. At the time of his death, Janssen had just begun filming a movie playing the part of Father Damien. The part was eventually reassigned to actor Ken Howard of the CBS series The White Shadow, in 1996 TV Guide ranked him number 36 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. His first marriage was to model and interior decorator Ellie Graham, in 1975, he married actress and model Dani Crayne Greco
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Clint Eastwood
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Clinton Clint Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring icon of masculinity. For his work in the Western film Unforgiven and the sports drama Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. Eastwoods greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel, the war drama biopic American Sniper set box office records for the largest January release ever and was also the largest opening ever for an Eastwood film. Eastwood received considerable praise in France for several films, including some that were not well received in the United States. Eastwood has been awarded two of Frances highest honors, in 1994 he became a recipient of the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in 2000, Eastwood was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own company, Malpaso. Starting in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a non-partisan office, Eastwood was born Clinton Eastwood Jr. May 31,1930, in San Francisco, California, the son of Clinton Eastwood Sr. and he has one younger sister, Jeanne Bernhardt. Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry and he is descended from Mayflower passenger William Bradford, and through this line is the 12th generation of his family born in North America and the 13th generation to live in North America. His family moved often as his father worked at jobs along the West Coast, settled in Piedmont, California, the Eastwoods lived in a very wealthy part of town, had a swimming pool, belonged to the country club, and each parent drove their own car. Clint attended Piedmont Junior High School, shortly before he was to enter Piedmont High School, he rode his bike on the schools sports field and tore up the wet turf, this resulted in his being asked not to enroll. Clint graduated from the airplane shop, I think that was his major, joked classmate Don Kincaid. Another high school friend, Don Loomis, echoed I dont think he was spending much time at school because he was having a pretty good time elsewhere. I think what happened is he just went off and started having a good time, I just dont think he finished high school, explained Fritz Manes, a boyhood friend two years younger than Eastwood, who remained associated with him until their falling out in the mid-1980s. Biographer Patrick McGilligan notes that high school records are a matter of strict legal confidentiality. Eastwood worked at a number of jobs, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, Eastwood has said that he tried to enroll at Seattle University but was then drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War. He always dropped the Korean War reference, hoping everyone would conclude that he was in combat, actually, hed been a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California for his entire stint in the military, commented Eastwoods former longtime companion, Sondra Locke
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Richard Long (actor)
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Richard Long was an American actor best known for his leading roles in three ABC television series, including The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor, and Bourbon Street Beat. He was also a regular on ABCs 77 Sunset Strip from 1960 to 1962. Long was the fifth of six born in Chicago, Illinois, to Sherman D. Long, a commercial artist who operated his own studio. The family settled in Evanston, where Long attended grammar school and he attended Waller High School in Chicago and Evanston Township High School. The family relocated again in 1944, to Hollywood, California, Long said that as a teenager he had no intention of becoming an actor. I took senior drama class because it was a snap course, at Hollywood High School, Long caught the eye of a talent scout from Universal-International by accident. Casting director Jack Murton gave a ride to a couple of students, the boys told Murton about the excellent male lead actor, Richard Long. In 1946, Long was cast in his first film, Tomorrow Is Forever as Drew, the role had been unfilled for months, and producers selected Long who most closely matched the credentials required. Early in his career, Long appeared in films as a juvenile lead, including the first four of the nine Ma. He was cast as Tom Kettle, the eldest son of the characters played by Percy Kilbride and his second film was the Orson Welles film The Stranger as Noah Longstreet, the brother of Loretta Youngs character. He also played Jeff Taylor in The Life of Riley and played Frank James in the 1950 movie Kansas Raiders, in 1956, Long played a leading role in the western Fury at Gunsight Pass. He moved into leading man status in horror movies such as Cult of the Cobra, in 1963, Long was cast in the MGM romantic musical Follow the Boys, along with co-stars Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Roger Perry. Long achieved considerable success on television, including the Warner Brothers detective series set in New Orleans, Bourbon Street Beat, with Andrew Duggan, Van Williams and he appeared on episodes of Hey, Jeannie. The Twilight Zone,77 Sunset Strip, and The Tenderfoot for Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color and his character appeared only with Jack Kelly, never with other cast members James Garner and Roger Moore. Raymond faces court martial for desertion at a western fort prior to a deadly Indian attack, fledgling lawyer Sugarfoot defends Raymond, who refuses to explain the incident in question, which also involves Isabel Starkey, the wife of the fort commander, Colonel Starkey. Philip Ober is cast as General Humphrey, who is determined to find the truth of the matter. In 1963, Long guest starred in the episode Hear No Evil of ABCs Going My Way and that same year, he was cast as Eddie Breech in the episode Blood Bargain of CBSs The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The series was set in the 1870s, Long also directed several episodes of The Big Valley
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The Life of Riley
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Irving Brecher created the radio series for friend Groucho Marx. Originally titled The Flotsam Family, the sponsor balked at what would have essentially a straight head-of-household role for Groucho. Creator and producer Brecher saw William Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in Hal Roachs The McGuerins from Brooklyn, Brecher stated, He was a Brooklyn guy and there was something about him. I thought, This guy could play it, hed made a few films, like Lifeboat, but he was not a name. So I took The Flotsam Family script, revised it, made it a Brooklyn Family, took out the flippancies and made it more meat-and-potatoes, Bendixs delivery and the spin he put on his lines made it work. The reworked script cast Bendix as blundering Chester A. Riley and his frequent exclamation of indignation—What a revoltin development this is. —became one of the most famous catchphrases of the 1940s. It was later reused by Benjamin J. Grimm of the Fantastic Four, the radio series also benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby Digger ODell, the friendly undertaker. Brecher told Brown, I want a very sepulchral voice, quavering, morbid and these coins, called OReillys and Reillys, became synonymous with a monied person, and a gentleman freely spending was therefore living on his Reillys. An unrelated radio show with the name Life of Riley was a replacement show heard on CBS from April 12,1941. The CBS program starred Lionel Stander as J. Riley Farnsworth and had no connection with the more famous series that followed a few years later. The radio program starring William Bendix as Riley initially aired on the Blue Network, later known as ABC, from January 16,1944, then it moved to NBC, where it was broadcast from September 8,1945, to June 29,1951. Alan Reed was a regular on the show as multiple characters, including Rileys boss and Pegs father, Shirley Mitchell played Honeybee Gillis, and Hans Conried was Uncle Baxter. Whereas Gillis gave Riley bad information that got him into trouble, Digger gave him information that helped him out of a hole. Browns lines as the undertaker were often repetitive, including puns based on his profession, but thanks to Browns delivery, the program was broadcast live with a studio audience, most of whom were not aware Brown played both characters. As a result, when Digger delivered his first line, it was greeted with howls of laughter. The series was co-developed by the nonperforming Marx Brother turned agent Gummo, the American Meat Institute, Procter & Gamble, and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer took turns as the radio programs sponsor. William Bendix starred in the 1949 film version of The Life of Riley and this prevented him from starring in the TV series that began in 1949. He took over the role in the TV series second run
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The Bigelow Theatre
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The Bigelow Theatre is an American anthology series originally broadcast on CBS Television and on the DuMont Television Network. This series is not to be confused with the similarly named The Bigelow Show, the series aired on CBS on Sunday nights at 6pm EST from December 10,1950 to June 3,1951. There were no regularly featured actors on The Bigelow Theatre, but guest stars included James Dean, scott, Raymond Burr, Cesar Romero, Lloyd Bridges, Martin Milner, Gig Young, Ann Dvorak, Ruth Warrick, Gale Storm, and Chico Marx. After the series ended on CBS, the show was retitled The Bigelow-Sanford Theatre, there were 27 episodes on CBS, and 15 on DuMont, however, some of the DuMont episodes were reruns of the CBS series. Seventeen filmed episodes of the program were leased and run after having been originally on The Silver Theatre. Nine episodes are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, one CBS episode from February 11,1951, Agent From Scotland Yard, is held by the Library of Congress in the J. Fred MacDonald collection
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The Great Gildersleeve
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The Great Gildersleeve was a radio situation comedy broadcast in the USA from August 31,1941, to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast historys earliest spin-off programs, the series was built around the character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular element of the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly. The character was introduced in the October 3,1939 episode of that series, actor Harold Peary had played a similarly named character, Dr. Gildersleeve on earlier episodes. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s, Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in four feature films released at the height of the shows popularity. In Fibber McGee and Molly, Pearys Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag, youre a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee. became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character went by several aliases on Fibber McGee and Molly, gildy grew so popular that Kraft Foods—promoting its Parkay margarine—sponsored a new series featuring Pearys somewhat mellowed and always befuddled Gildersleeve as the head of his own family. The Great Gildersleeve premiered on NBC on August 31,1941, the household also includes a cook named Birdie. While Gildersleeve had occasionally mentioned his wife in some Fibber episodes, at the outset of the series, Gildersleeve administers a girdle manufacturing company, later and during the remainder of the show he serves as Summerfields water commissioner. A key figure in the Gildersleeve home was cook and housekeeper Birdie Lee Coggins, Marjorie matured to a young woman through the 1940s. During the ninth season she met and married Walter Bronco Thompson, Look devoted five pages in its May 23,1950, issue to the wedding. After living in the household for a few years, the newlyweds moved next door. Leroy, who remained age 10–11 during most of the 1940s, began to grow up in the spring of 1949 and he developed interests in driving, playing the drums and dreaming of a musical career. Outside the home, Gildersleeves closest association was with the executor of his brother-in-laws estate, Judge Horace Hooker, after a change in scriptwriters in January 1943, the confrontations slowly subsided and the two men became friends. During the second season, pharmacist Richard Q, peavey and barber Floyd Munson joined Gildersleeves circle of acquaintances. Several women passed through Gildersleeves life during the series, including three he almost married before settling into a pattern of casual dating, in 1950, Harold Peary was convinced to move The Great Gildersleeve to CBS, but sponsor Kraft refused to sanction the move. Peary, now contracted to CBS, was unable to appear on NBC as a star performer. This prompted the hiring of Willard Waterman as Pearys replacement, Peary, meanwhile, began a new series on CBS which attempted to reproduce the Gildersleeve show with the names changed. The Harold Peary Show, lasting one season, included a radio show within the show
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Science Fiction Theatre
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Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that was syndicated and broadcast from 1955 to 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv, typically, the stories related to the life or work of scientists, engineers, inventors, and explorers. The program concentrated on such concepts as space flight, robots, telepathy, flying saucers, time travel, broadcasting a total of 78 25–26 minute episodes, the series was also known as Beyond The Limits for repeat syndication during the 1960s and alternatively as Science Fiction Theater. Opposite to what happened during the 1950s, the first season was filmed in color, the producers had originally thought that color television broadcasting would progress faster than it actually did. The series is known best to modern audiences for having been referenced in the film Back to the Future as George McFlys favorite television program. Each episode was introduced by a brass, string, and woodwind fanfare. Then Truman Bradley showed a simple scientific experiment which was related to the topic of that weeks show, mr. Bradleys demonstrations were often staged, but yielded results consistent with the outcome of true experiments. First lines of each episode, Host, How do you do, ladies, last lines of each episode, Host, I hope you enjoyed our story. Well be back one week from today with another exciting adventure from the world of fiction, until then, this is your host, Truman Bradley, saying, see you next week. The original series was broadcast on Saturday nights, timeless Media Group released the complete series on Region 1 DVD on May 12,2015. Science Fiction Theatre at the Internet Movie Database Science Fiction Theatre at TV. com Science Fiction Theatre at epguides. com TVscifi Episode guide Science Fiction Theatre with episode list at CVTA
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960, two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables. Between 1951 and 1957, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball starred in, Westinghouse paid a then-record $12 million to sponsor the show, which resulted in the cancellation of the prestigious anthology series Studio One, also sponsored by Westinghouse. The show debuted on Monday nights in the 10, 00–11,00 pm time slot on October 6,1958, hosted by Desi Arnaz, the first show was Lucy Goes to Mexico, a Lucy-Desi Hour with guest star Maurice Chevalier. The dramatic Bernadette, starring Pier Angeli, premiered in week two, later shows included comedies, dramas and musicals, and various one-off comedies and dramas starring Lucille Ball in non-Lucy character performances. In October 1959, the moved to Friday nights from 9. The show lasted one more year, due to an inability to attract big guest stars, the growing popularity of westerns and police shows. This last hour-long installment of the I Love Lucy format and characters was broadcast on April 1,1960, the final telecast of The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Murder is a Private Affair, aired on June 10,1960. In the fall of 1958, The Time Element, starring William Bendix, aired to positive reviews. In April 1959, Desilu Playhouse aired a drama called The Untouchables. Paul Monash adapted the 1947 memoirs of treasury agent Eliot Ness, after CBS passed on the idea to produce a weekly version, The Untouchables became a hit series on ABC and ran for four seasons. Music for the show was composed by John Waldo Johnny Green, the show opened with Westinghouse Logo and closed with Desilu Playhouse Closing Theme during the end credits. Several notable people contributed to one or more episodes of the show, including, Westinghouse bought CBS in 1995, hollywood TV, The Studio System in the Fifties. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press,1994, ISBN 0-385-19033-6 Sanders, Coyness Steven, and Tom Gilbert. Desilu, The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
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NBC Matinee Theater
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Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was usually broadcast live and it was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round and this series aired live at 3 p. m. Eastern time and 12 noon Pacific, in order to promote color TV. The programs target audience was the American housewife she labored over her ironing and he hired five directors and five art directors. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think, I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course. It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and it took a bit of ingenuity. The series ended in 1958 due to its budget, much higher than any other daytime program in television. A few of the episodes were preserved on color film for later rerun syndication under different titles. One noteworthy episode is Dracula, which first aired on 6 January 1956 and this was based on Bram Stokers book, similar to the 1931 movie Dracula. It was adapted by Robert Esson and directed by Lamont Johnson, shown in color, the episode had John Carradine as Dracula and Lisa Daniels as Lucy Weston. This was the first time Dracula had been presented on television, Matinee Theatre at the Internet Movie Database Matinee Theatre at TV. com Matinee Theatre at CVTA with episode list
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction, fantasy, psychological-supernatural horror anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Each story typically features a moral and a surprise ending, the series is notable for featuring both established stars and younger actors who would become more famous later on. Serling served as producer and head writer, he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the shows 156 episodes. He was also the shows host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning, Serlings opening and closing narrations usually summarize the episodes events encapsulating how and why the main character had entered the Twilight Zone. In 2016, it was ranked No.8 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest shows of all time, in 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked No.26 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the third best-written TV series ever, by the late 1950s, Rod Serling was a regular name in television. His successful teleplays included Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight, but constant changes and edits made by the networks, in Requiem for a Heavyweight, the line Got a match. But according to comments in his 1957 anthology Patterns, Serling had been trying to delve into more controversial than his works of the early 1950s. Despite bad reviews, activists sent numerous letters and wires protesting the production, the script, however, was rejected and shelved for a year until Bert Granet discovered and produced it as an episode of Desilu Playhouse in 1958. The show was a success and enabled Serling to finally begin production on his anthology series. There is a dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity and it is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of mans fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination and it is an area which we call The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone premiered the night of October 2,1959 and its the one series that I will let interfere with other plans, said Terry Turner for the Chicago Daily News. Even as the show proved popular to televisions critics, it struggled to find an audience of television viewers. CBS was banking on a rating of at least 21 or 22, the series future was jeopardized when its third episode, Mr. Denton on Doomsday earned a 16.3 rating. With one exception, the first season featured scripts written only by Rod Serling and these three were responsible for 127 of the 156 episodes in the series. Additionally, with one exception, Serling never appeared on camera during any first-season episode, Serling did appear on screen in Twilight Zone promotional spots plugging the following weeks episode – just not in the episodes themselves
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Rawhide (TV series)
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Rawhide is an American Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren, set in the 1860s, Rawhide portrays the challenges faced by the drovers of a cattle drive. Most episodes are introduced with a monologue by Gil Favor, the trail boss, in a typical Rawhide story, the drovers come upon people on the trail and are drawn into solving whatever problem they present or confront. Sometimes, one or more of the venture into a nearby town. Rowdy Yates was young and at times impetuous in the earliest episodes, Favor was a savvy and strong leader who always played square with his fellow men - a tough customer who could handle the challenges and get the job done. Favor had to fight at times and usually won, some of the stories were obviously easier in production terms, but the peak form of the show was convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal. Its situations could range from parched plains to anthrax, ghostly riders to wolves, cattle raiding, bandits, murderers, and so forth. A problem on such drives was the constant need for water, in some ways, the show was similar to the TV series Wagon Train, which had debuted on NBC on September 18,1957. The series was not afraid to face tough issues, robert Culp played an ex-soldier on the drive who had become dangerously addicted to morphine. Mexican drover Jesús faced racism at times, trail boss Favor had been a Confederate captain in the war. Some American Indians demanded cattle as payment for going through their land, rough characters were in the shows, and in one episode Gil Favor was tortured by having his face held near a fire. In another episode, one titled Incident of the Town in Terror, people thought a sick Rowdy Yates had the plague, also, cattle rustlers were around, including Commancheros. The show could on occasions be eerily atmospheric, in episode 67, Incident Near the Promised Land, the cattle drive finally reached Sedalia. Unusually, episode 68 continues on from that, where the cattle have been sold, instead of the usual ending, wherein Gil Favor gives the command Head em up. And the cattle move off, this episode had the end titles over a view of a Sedalia street, episode 69 has Gil Favor visiting his two daughters, Gillian and Maggie, who live with their aunt Eleanor Bradley in Philadelphia. In episode 70, a number of the men are together and heading back to San Antonio about 650 miles away. These five episodes made up one storyline instead of the usual single-episode stories which could have been set anywhere in the West. Favor had many bad moments in the series, but none worse than the Lost Herd episode wherein, close to drives finish, he wants to beat another herd to town to get the best prices
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Burt Lancaster
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Burton Stephen Burt Lancaster was an American film actor. Initially known for playing tough guys, Lancaster went on to success with more complex. He was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960 and he also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz and Atlantic City. During the 1950s his production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster was highly successful, making such as Marty, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, Run Silent, Run Deep. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema, Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza. Lancaster was the son of Elizabeth and James Henry Lancaster, who was a mailman, both of his parents were Protestants of working class origin. All of Lancasters grandparents were Ulster immigrants to the United States, the family believed themselves to be related to Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts. Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage, Lancaster was accepted by New York University with an athletic scholarship, but subsequently dropped out. At the age of 19, Lancaster met Nick Cravat, with whom he developed a lifelong partnership, together they learned to act in local theatre productions and circus arts at Union Settlement, one of the citys oldest settlement houses. They formed the acrobat duo Lang and Cravat in the 1930s, however, in 1939, an injury forced Lancaster to give up the profession, with great regret. He then found work, first as a salesman for Marshall Fields. He served with General Mark Clarks Fifth Army in Italy from 1943–45, although initially unenthusiastic about acting, after returning to New York from his Army service, Lancaster auditioned for a Broadway play and was offered a role. Wallis, who signed him to an eight-movie contract, Lancasters first filmed movie was Desert Fury. Fortunately for Lancaster, producer Mark Hellinger approached him to star in The Killers, in 1946, the tall, muscular actor won significant acclaim and appeared in two more films the following year. Subsequently, he played in a variety of films, especially in dramas, thrillers, and military and adventure films. In two, The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate, a friend from his circus years, Nick Cravat, played a key supporting role, in 1953, Lancaster played one of his best-remembered roles with Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from film in which Deborah Kerr. The organization named it one of AFIs top 100 Most Romantic Films of all time, Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry
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The Long Gray Line
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The Long Gray Line is a 1955 American Technicolor drama film in CinemaScope directed by John Ford based on the life of Marty Maher. Tyrone Power stars as the scrappy Irish immigrant whose 50-year career at West Point took him from a dishwasher to a non-commissioned officer, Maher was buried there in January 1961. Maureen OHara, one of Fords favorite leading ladies, plays Mahers wife and fellow immigrant, the film costars Ward Bond as Herman Koehler, the Master of the Sword and Armys head football coach, who first befriends Maher. Milburn Stone appears as John J. Pershing, who in 1898 swears Maher into the Army, harry Carey, Jr. makes a brief appearance as the young cadet Dwight D. Eisenhower. Philip Carey plays Army football player and future general Chuck Dotson, the phrase The Long Gray Line is used to describe, as a continuum, all graduates and cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Many of the scenes in the film were shot on location at West Point, the film was the last one in which actor Robert Francis appeared before his death at age 25 in an air crash. His rising stardom had reached third billing behind Power and OHara at the time of his death, the movie is framed as the reminiscences of Master Sergeant Martin Maher, who first came to West Point in 1898 as a civilian employee. Arriving from County Tipperary, Ireland, Marty begins as a waiter, when he realizes that enlisted men receive better treatment than do hired laborers, he immediately signs up. Capt. Koehler, impressed with his skills, wants him as an assistant in athletics instruction. Marty meets Mrs. Koehlers cook, Mary ODonnell, also arrived from Ireland. They marry and settle into a house on campus, Marty becomes a corporal, and Mary saves enough money to bring his father and brother to America. Mary becomes pregnant, but the baby dies only hours after birth, the cadets become the children they will never have. Over time, Marty continues to earn the love and respect of such as Omar Bradley, James Van Fleet, George Patton. The Mahers grow close to the family of Red Sundstrom, a West Point cadet killed in World War I. Years later, Marty is still at West Point, and James Red Sundstrom, at the outbreak of World War II Sundstorm confess to Marty that he has illegally married his girlfriend which could disqualify him from graduating. Although his marriage is annulled, Sundstorm resigns from West Point to join the regular U. S. Army, later, Mary attempts to view one of the parades she so loves but her poor health forces her to watch from her porch. She quietly dies while Marty is fetching her shawl, on Christmas Eve, Marty prepares for quiet evening but is joined by a group of cadets. Kitty arrives with Red, Jr. who has earned his captains bars in Europe, after Marty is faced with retirement, he heads to Washington to see the President about the matter
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)
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Gunfight at the O. K. Corral is a 1957 American western film starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, based on a real event which took place on October 26,1881. The picture was directed by John Sturges from a written by novelist Leon Uris. The shootout was couched in the movie as a firefight that took place at medium range. The historical event itself lasted only about 30 seconds, and was fought at close range with only a few firearms, in Fort Griffin, Texas, Ed Bailey comes looking to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of gunslinger John H. Seeing him in a bar, Hollidays girl, Kate Fisher, returns to Hollidays room, Holliday refuses to help the lawman, holding a grudge against Wyatts brother, Morgan. Holliday kills Bailey with a knife-throw when Bailey attempts to him in the back. Holliday is arrested for murder, though Wyatt and Kate allow him to escape from a lynch mob, in Dodge City, Kansas, Wyatt finds out that Holliday and Kate are in town. Holliday tells him he has no money, so Wyatt allows him to stay if he promises to not fight while he is in town, meanwhile, gorgeous gambler Laura Denbow is arrested for playing cards since women are not allowed to gamble. She is released and allowed to play in the rooms of the saloon. Wyatt is forced to deputize Holliday because a bank robber kills a cashier, the bank robbers attempt to ambush Wyatt outside of town, but are instead killed by Wyatt and Holliday. Back in Dodge City, Holliday learns Kate has left him for Ringo, Holliday steadfastly refuses to fight him. Shanghai Pierce and his henchmen ride into town, wound deputy Charlie Bassett and attack a dancehall, as Ringo attempts to intervene, Holliday shoots him in the arm. Holliday returns to his room and Kate is waiting for him and she swears she will see him dead. By now, Wyatt and Laura have fallen in love, but when he receives a letter from his brother, Virgil, asking him to clean up Tombstone, Arizona. Holliday catches up to Wyatt on the trail and both head to Tombstone, in Tombstone, Wyatt finds out that Ike Clanton is trying to herd thousands of head of Mexican cattle but cannot as long as the Earps control Tombstones railway station. Morgan Earp criticizes his brothers association with Holliday, but Wyatt insists the gunslinger is welcome in Tombstone as long as he out of trouble. Cotton, the county sheriff from Fort Griffin, offers Wyatt a $20,000 bribe if he allows the stolen cattle to be shipped. He rides out to the Clanton ranch, returning young Billy Clanton to his mother after finding Billy drunk, Wyatt informs Ike that he has been made a U. S
