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Passaic, New Jersey
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Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. Passaic is the tenth most densely populated municipality in the entire United States with 22, located north of Newark on the Passaic River, it was first settled in 1678 by Dutch traders, as Acquackanonk Township. The city and river draw their name from the Lenape word pahsayèk which has variously attributed to mean valley or place where the land splits. The city originated from a Dutch settlement on the Passaic River established in 1679 which was called Acquackanonk, industrial growth began in the 19th century, as Passaic became a textile and metalworking center. Passaic was formed within Acquackanonk Township on March 10,1869, Passaic was chartered as a city on April 2,1873. The 1926 Passaic Textile Strike led by union organizer Albert Weisbord saw 36,000 mill workers leave their jobs to oppose wage cuts demanded by the textile industry, the workers successfully fought to keep their wages unchanged but did not receive recognition of their union by the mill owners. Passaic has been called The Birthplace of Television, in 1931, experimental television station W2XCD began transmitting from DeForest Radio Corporation in Passaic. It has been called the first television station to transmit to the home, Passaic is served by two newspapers, The Record and Herald News. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had an area of 3.244 square miles. Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the city include Davis Bridge, Passaics only land border is with neighboring Clifton, which borders Passaic to the north, south, and west. The Passaic River, which flows to the east of Passaic, provides the city with four additional borders across the water in Bergen County, East Rutherford, Garfield, Rutherford and Wallington. Passaic and Wallington are connected by four bridges, while the city connects with Garfield at two bridges and Rutherford at the Union Avenue Bridge, which is located on New Jersey Route 21, Passaic is located 10 miles from New York City, and 12 miles from Newark Airport. Passaic has several business districts, Main Avenue begins in Passaic Park, broadway runs east–west through the center of the city, ending at Main Avenue in downtown. Main Street has many shops, restaurants and businesses reflecting the citys Latino, the city is home to several architecturally notable churches, including St. Johns Lutheran Church, First Presbyterian of Passaic, and St. Johns Episcopal Church. Southwest Passaic is a residential and institutional center of Orthodox Judaism, with 25-30 minyanim on Shabbos, home to numerous yeshivas, schools and other institutions, there are also many kosher food and shopping establishments. Passaic Park takes its name from Third Ward Park and this area is also noted for its large mansions and homes of various architectural styles, especially Victorian and Tudor. Several condominium and cooperative apartment complexes are located here including, Carlton Tower, Presidential Towers. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Passaic has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps
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Main Avenue in 1911
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Map of Passaic in Passaic County. Inset: Location of Passaic County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
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St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church on Lexington Avenue, built in 1959–1960
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Passaic Station
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Beth Howland
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Elizabeth Beth Howland was an American actress. She worked on stage and television and was best known for playing Vera Gorman in the sitcom Alice, Howland also originated the role of Amy in the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheims Company, in which she introduced the patter song Getting Married Today. Howland was born on May 28,1941, in Boston, at the age of 16, she left home and followed a dancer friend to New York City. After a time of struggling, Howland made her Broadway debut in 1959 as Lady Beth in the Carol Burnett musical Once Upon a Mattress and she went on to have roles in the musicals Bye Bye Birdie, High Spirits, Drat. The Cat. and Darling of the Day, Howland can be seen dancing and singing in the chorus of Lil Abner as Clems wife, alongside future television star Valerie Harper. For her work on Alice, Howland received four Golden Globe nominations and she later took on numerous telefilm roles, including You Cant Take It with You and Agatha Christies, A Caribbean Mystery. She remained on Alice throughout its nine seasons, after the show ended in 1985, Howland went into semi-retirement. She made occasional guest appearances and starred in the ABC Afterschool Special titled Terrible Things My Mother Told Me, from 1961–69, Howland was married to character actor Michael J. Pollard, with whom she had a daughter. She was married to actor Charles Kimbrough, an actor of Broadway and Murphy Brown fame, Kimbrough and Howland had appeared together in Company. Howland died of cancer on December 31,2015, at the age of 74. Per her request, her death was not reported to the media and was not made public until May 24,2016, Beth Howland at the Internet Movie Database Beth Howland at the Internet Broadway Database Beth Howland profile Beth Howland at Find a Grave Beth Howland
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Beth Howland in
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Crime film
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared
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Humphrey Bogart in
The Petrified Forest (1936)
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Bonnie and Clyde (film)
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Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, with Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder, Evans Evans, the screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton. Robert Towne and Beatty provided uncredited contributions to the script, Beatty also produced the film, the soundtrack was composed by Charles Strouse. Bonnie and Clyde is considered a film, and is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era. For some members of the counterculture, the film was considered to be a rallying cry and its success prompted other filmmakers to be more open in presenting sex and violence in their films. The films ending also became iconic as one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history, the film received Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography. It was among the first 100 films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, in the middle of the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnies mothers car. Bonnie, who is bored by her job as a waitress, is intrigued by Clyde and they pull off some holdups, but their amateur efforts, while exciting, are not very lucrative. The duos crime spree shifts into high gear once they hook up with a gas station attendant, C. W. Moss, then with Clydes older brother Buck and his wife, Blanche. Bonnie and Clyde turn from pulling small-time heists to robbing banks and their exploits also become more violent. When C. W. botches a robbery by parallel parking the getaway car. The gang is pursued by law enforcement, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, a raid later catches the outlaws off guard, mortally wounding Buck with a gruesome shot to his head and injuring Blanche. Bonnie, Clyde and C. W. barely escape with their lives, with Blanche sightless and in police custody, Hamer tricks her into revealing C. W. s name, who was up until now still only an unidentified suspect. Hamer locates Bonnie, Clyde and C. W. hiding at the house of C. W. s father Ivan Moss, the elder Moss strikes a bargain with Hamer, in exchange for leniency for the boy, he helps set a trap for the outlaws. When Bonnie and Clyde stop on the side of the road to help Mr. Moss fix a flat tire, Hamer and his posse then come out of hiding, looking pensively at the couples bodies. Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker Michael J. Pollard as C. W and his girlfriend Velma Davis was played by Evans Evans, who was the wife of film director John Frankenheimer. The family gathering scene was filmed in Red Oak, Texas, several local residents gathered to watch the film being shot. When the filmmakers noticed Mabel Cavitt, a school teacher, among the people gathered
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Film poster by
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The film included Gene Wilder's film debut as amiable hostage Eugene Grizzard
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The real
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Montclair Academy
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Montclair Kimberley Academy is a co-educational private school for students in Pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade located in Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. One of New Jerseys largest independent day schools, Montclair Kimberley Academy recently celebrated the 125th anniversary of the establishment of its earliest component school. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 985 students in grades K-12 and 157.3 classroom teachers, the school offers a faculty professional development program, with 79% of the 175 faculty members holding advanced degrees and 11 holding doctorates. Each graduating senior is required to complete May Term, choices for May Term include internships and travel opportunities in Europe and Asia. French and Spanish are offered from Pre-K onwards, Latin and Chinese in 6th grade, there is an interscholastic athletic program, and fields competitive teams in over 25 sports that have won over 100 championships in the past 10 years. Students have access to fine and performing arts opportunities ranging from a tri-campus Strings Program, to mounting a full Shakespeare production in 7th grade, numerous community service opportunities exist at each campus, as well as extensive extracurricular offerings. 100% of students go on to college, with an 87% acceptance rate to one of their first three colleges of choice, the school is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. In 2013, MKA was recognized as an Apple Distinguished School for its use of technology in education, in 2009, Montclair Kimberley Academy was voted Best NJ Private School by parents in Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2010, the school was designated a Johns Hopkins School of Excellence, in 2003, Montclair Kimberley Academy was recognized as a National School of Character by the Character Education Partnership, one of ten schools selected nationwide. Montclair Kimberley Academy has a program for both performing and visual arts. The Fine and Performing Arts department is run by Nicole Hoppe, the school puts on four productions each academic year, including one large-scale musical. On average, up to a quarter of the student body participates in the musical in some capacity, the school additionally puts on an arts showcase in September, and one to two plays each year, in the fall and in the spring. Every other year in the spring, the play is replaced by a made by students with the help of a professional film crew. The department oversees the production of a newsletter, The Informer. The Informer covers topics from current productions, to artist spotlights, each year, students are recognized for their work on stage and in the fine arts. Montclair Kimberley Academy students are frequent recipients of Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, in recent years, two students have won Rising Star Awards from the Paper Mill Playhouse. MKAs longtime rival is Newark Academy, there is also a rivalry with Montclair High School, softball won eight Non Public B State Championships over the span of a decade, winning in 1999-2000,2002, 2004–07, and 2009. They also won ten straight Colonial Hills Conference Championships 1999-2008, the team won the North B state title in 2007 and 2009
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Knowledge, Vision, Integrity
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MKA's elementary school
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Brookside campus
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Lee Strasberg
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Lee Strasberg was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. He was born in a part of Galicia, Austrian Poland and he co founded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as Americas first true theatrical collective. The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute has its own sets of entrance criteria required for admission into their program. Former student Elia Kazan directed James Dean in East of Eden, as a student, Dean wrote that Actors Studio was the greatest school of the theater the best thing that can happen to an actor. Playwright Tennessee Williams, writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, said of Strasbergs actors and they communicate emotions they really feel. They give you a sense of life, directors such as Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors skilled in Strasbergs method. Kazan, in his autobiography, wrote, He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a doctor, a psychoanalyst. Was the force held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together. Today, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights and he also appeared in. And Justice for All. Strasbergs personal papers, including photos, are archived at the Library of Congress, Lee Strasberg was born Israel Strassberg in Budzanów in Austrian Poland, to Jewish parents, Baruch Meyer Strassberg and his wife, Ida, née Diner, and was the youngest of three sons. His father emigrated to New York while his family remained in their village with an uncle. His father, who worked as a presser in the garment industry, sent first for his eldest son, finally, enough money was saved to bring over his wife and his two remaining sons. In 1909, the family was reunited on Manhattans Lower East Side, a relative introduced him to the theater by giving him a small part in a Yiddish-language production being performed by the Progressive Drama Club. He later joined the Chrystie Street Settlement Houses drama club, when he was 23 years old, he enrolled in the Clare Tree Major School of the Theater. He became a naturalized United States citizen on January 16,1939, had his life-shaping revelation when Stanislavski brought his Moscow Art Theatre to the United States in 1923. He had seen good acting before, of course, but never an ensemble like this with actors completely surrendering their egos to the work. E observed, first of all, that all the actors, whether they were playing leads or small parts, worked with the same commitment, no actors idled about posing and preening. More important, every actor seemed to some sort of unspoken, yet palpable
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Strasberg in 1976
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Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio
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Strasberg acting with
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Strasberg in 1978
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Lee Grant
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Lee Grant is an American actress and film director. In her debut film in 1951, she played the role of a shoplifter in Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas. It gave her an Oscar nomination along with the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952, because she refused to testify against her husband at the HUAC hearings, she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years and she was then only able to find occasional work on the stage or as a teacher during that period. It also contributed to her divorce, in 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. During her career, she was nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 and 1993, winning twice. Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in Manhattan, the child of Witia, an actress and teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal. Her father was born in New York City, to Polish Jewish immigrants, the family resided at 706 Riverside Drive in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Her date of birth is October 31, but different sources cite dates between 1925 and 1928 and she debuted in LOracolo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931 at age four, and later joined the American Ballet as an adolescent. She attended Art Students League of New York, Juilliard School of Music, The High School of Music & Art, Grant graduated from high school and won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and studied under Sanford Meisner. She subsequently enrolled in Actors Studio in New York, Grant had her first stage ballet performance in 1933 at the Metropolitan Opera House. In 1938, in her teens, she was made a member of the American Ballet. As an actress, Grant had her stage debut as understudy in Oklahoma in 1944. In 1948, she had her Broadway acting debut in Joy to the World, Grant established herself as a dramatic method actress on and off Broadway, earning praise for her role as a shoplifter in Detective Story in 1949. She said she enjoyed working under director William Wyler, who helped guide her, after her eulogy was published, she was summoned by the same committee to testify against her husband, playwright Arnold Manoff, but refused. As a result, for the dozen years, her prime years, as she put it, she was blacklisted. She was so good that she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her very first film role, but because Eddie Dmytryk named her husband, Lee Grant was blacklisted before her film career even had a chance to begin. Of course, she refused to testify about the man to whom she was married, Grant appeared in a limited number of stage and television shows during these years
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Grant in 1975
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Grant in 1961
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Grant at the premiere of F.I.S.T. (April 1978)
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Actors Studio
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The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5,1947, by Elia Kazan, [[Cheryl Crawford, lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17,1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, the Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. The approach was developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Konstantin Stanislavski. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in an environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles. After an initial meeting held on October 5,1947, at the Labor Stage, before settling in its current location in 1955, the Studio moved regularly over an eight-year period, In January 1948, it was a dance studio on East 59th Street. In April of that year, a move to the CBS Building at 1697 Broadway, near 53rd Street, established some semblance of stability and this it did at the Malin Studios at 1545 Broadway, room 610. This arrangement would persist throughout the 1954-1955 theatrical season, even as the Studio was acquiring and renovating its current venue, in 1955 it moved to its current location in the former Seventh Associate Presbyterian Church, built in 1859. From September 1994 through May 2005, the Studio collaborated with The New School in the education of masters-level theatre students at the Actors Studio Drama School, after ending its contact with the New School, the Actors Studio established The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in 2006. ISBN 0-02-542650-8 Foster Hirsch, A Method to their Madness, The History of the Actors Studio, New York, WW Norton & Co Inc,1984. ISBN 0-393-01783-4 Shelly Frome, The Actors Studio, a History, david Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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The Actors Studio building on West 44th Street in Manhattan, a converted church
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted and executive produced by Alfred Hitchcock, which aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965. It featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries, by the time it premiered on October 2,1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades. Time magazine named it one of The 100 Best TV Shows of all time, the Writers Guild of America ranked it #79 on their list of the 101 Best-Written TV Series tying it with Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Star Trek, The Next Generation and Upstairs, Downstairs. A series of anthologies with the running title Alfred Hitchcock Presents were issued to capitalize on the success of the television series. Alfred Hitchcock Presents is well known for its title sequence, the camera fades in on a simple line-drawing caricature of Hitchcocks rotund profile. He then almost always says Good evening, the caricature drawing, which Hitchcock created, and the use of Gounods Funeral March of a Marionette as theme music have become indelibly associated with Hitchcock in popular culture. At least two versions of the opening were shot for every episode, a version intended for the American audience would often spoof a recent popular commercial or poke fun at the sponsor, leading into the commercial. An alternative version for European audiences would instead include jokes at the expense of Americans in general, for later seasons, opening remarks were also filmed with Hitchcock speaking in French and German for the shows international presentations. Hitchcock closed the show in much the way as it opened. He told TV Guide that his reassurances that the criminal had been apprehended were a necessary gesture to morality, Alfred Hitchcock Presents finished at #6 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1956–57 season, and at #12 in 1957–58, #24 in 1958–59 and #25 in 1959–60. Originally 25 minutes per episode, the series was expanded to 50 minutes in 1962, Hitchcock directed 17 of the 267 filmed episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and one of the 50-minute episodes, I Saw the Whole Thing with John Forsythe. The last new episode aired on June 26,1965, in 1985, NBC aired a new TV movie pilot based upon the series, combining four newly filmed stories with colorized footage of Hitchcock from the original series to introduce each segment. The movie was a ratings success. Alfred Hitchcock Presents revival series debuted in the fall of 1985 and retained the format as the pilot. The new series lasted one season before NBC cancelled it. Other notable directors included Robert Altman, Ida Lupino, Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Stevenson, David Swift and William Friedkin, who ended up directing what would be the last episode. Alfred Hitchcock Presents,25 minutes long, aired weekly at 9,30 on CBS on Sunday nights from 1955 to 1960, and then at 8,30 on NBC on Tuesday nights from 1960 to 1962. It was followed by The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, which lasted for three seasons, September 1962 to June 1965, adding another 93 episodes to the 268 already produced for Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Cover of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People (Golden Records, 1962)
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William Saroyan
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William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, an Armenian American, Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California. Many of his stories and plays are set in his native Fresno, some of his best-known works are The Time of Your Life, My Name Is Aram and My Hearts in the Highlands. Fry suggests that he takes his place naturally alongside Hemingway, Steinbeck, William Saroyan was born on August 31,1908 in Fresno, California, to Armenak and Taguhi Saroyan, Armenian immigrants from Bitlis, Ottoman Empire. His father came to New York in 1905 and started preaching in Armenian Apostolic churches, at the age of three, after his fathers death, Saroyan, along with his brother and sister, was placed in an orphanage in Oakland, California. He later went on to describe his experience in the orphanage in his writings, five years later, the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother, Takoohi, had already secured work at a cannery. He continued his education on his own, supporting himself with jobs, Saroyan decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some of his fathers writings. A few of his short articles were published in Overland Monthly. His first stories appeared in the 1930s, among these was The Broken Wheel, written under the name Sirak Goryan and published in the Armenian journal Hairenik in 1933. Many of Saroyans stories were based on his experiences among the Armenian-American fruit growers of the San Joaquin Valley or dealt with the rootlessness of the immigrant. The short story collection My Name is Aram, a bestseller, was about a young boy. It has been translated into many languages, as a writer, Saroyan made his breakthrough in Story magazine with The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, the title taken from the nineteenth century song of the same title. The protagonist is a young, starving writer who tries to survive in a Depression-ridden society, through the air on the flying trapeze, his mind hummed. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, a trapeze to some sort of eternity. This character resembles the penniless writer in Knut Hamsuns 1890 novel Hunger, Saroyan served in the US Army during World War II. He was stationed in Astoria, Queens, spending much of his time at the Lombardy Hotel in Manhattan, in 1942, he was posted to London as part of a film unit. He narrowly avoided a court martial when his novel, The Adventures of Wesley Jackson, was seen as advocating pacifism, Saroyan worked rapidly, hardly editing his text, and drinking and gambling away much of his earnings. From 1958 on, he resided in a Paris apartment
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William Saroyan in the 1970s
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Saroyan as a youth
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Saroyan in 1940
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Autographed portrait of Saroyan
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The Human Comedy (novel)
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The Human Comedy is a novel by William Saroyan. The story of The Human Comedy, and the characters Homer and Ulysses in particular, is based on Saroyans life, living fatherless with his siblings, Ithaca, California is based on the real town of Fresno, Saroyans home-town. The book also has references to Homers Odyssey. Homer is both the name of the author of the Odyssey and the character in this novel. Homers young brothers name, Ulysses, is the Roman form of the name Odysseus, the theme of both of the books is going home. Ithaca is both Homers and Ulysses home-town in the novel and Odysseus home-island in the Odyssey, Helen Eliot, referring to Helen of Troy, is used as the girl that Homer is in love with. It takes place during World War II, the original film was released in 1943. A second version, entitled Ithaca, was directed by Meg Ryan, filming began in Richmond, Virginia and Petersburg, Virginia in July 2014. The book was adapted by S. Lee Pogostin for television in 1959 with narration by Burgess Meredith, the television adaption starred Michael J. Pollard. Dell paperbacks released an edition of the novel in 1966. The revised edition is credited to William Saroyan, with several substantial edits that reduce the story to 192 pages
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First edition cover
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Burgess Meredith
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Oliver Burgess Meredith was an American actor, director, producer, and writer in theater, film, and television. Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called a virtuosic actor and one of the most accomplished actors of the century. A life member of the Actors Studio by invitation, he won several Emmys, was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards. He established himself as a man in Hollywood with critically acclaimed performances as George Milton in Of Mice and Men. Joe, and the narrator of A Walk in the Sun, Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ida Beth and Dr. William George Meredith, a Canadian-born physician, of English descent. Meredith graduated from Hoosac School in 1926 and then attended Amherst College and he later served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, reaching the rank of captain. He was discharged in 1944 to work on the movie The Story of G. I, Joe, in which he played the war correspondent Ernie Pyle. In 1929, he became a member of Eva Le Galliennes Civic Repertory Theatre company in New York City, although best known to the larger world audience for his film and television work, Meredith was an influential actor and director for the stage. He made his Broadway debut as Peter in Le Galliennes production of Romeo and Juliet and became a star in Maxwell Andersons Winterset and his early life and theatre work were the subject of a New Yorker profile. He garnered critical acclaim in the 1935 Broadway revival of The Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Katharine Cornell and she subsequently cast him in several of her later productions. Other Broadway roles included Van van Dorn in High Tor, Liliom in Liliom, Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World and he created the role of Erie Smith in the English-language premiere of Eugene ONeills Hughie at the Theater Royal in Bath, England in 1963. He played Hamlet in avant garde theatrical and radio productions of the play, a distinguished theatre director, he won a Tony Award nomination for his 1974 Broadway staging of Ulysses in Nighttown, a theatrical adaptation of the Nighttown section of James Joyces Ulysses. Meredith also shared a Special Tony Award with James Thurber for their collaboration on A Thurber Carnival. I and he was featured in many 1940s films, including three — Second Chorus, Diary of a Chambermaid, and On Our Merry Way — co-starring then-wife Paulette Goddard. He was in Stay Away Joe, appearing as the father of Elvis Presleys character. In 1975, he received acclaim for his performance as Harry Greene in The Day of the Locust and received nominations for the BAFTA, Golden Globe. Meredith then played Rocky Balboas trainer, Mickey Goldmill, in the first three Rocky films, though his character died in the third Rocky film, he returned briefly in a flashback in the fifth film, Rocky V. His portrayal in the first film earned him his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Meredith played an old Korean War veteran Captain J. G, williams in The Last Chase with Lee Majors
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in February 1938
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In The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1951)
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Meredith in Second Chorus
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Meredith as Henry Bemis in
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Time Enough at Last "
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David Hedison
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Albert David Hedison, Jr. is an American film, television, and stage actor. He was billed as Al Hedison in his film work. In 1959, when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the espionage television series Five Fingers. He proposed that he use his name and he has been billed as David Hedison ever since. He is known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in Irwin Allens TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Hedison decided he wanted to be an actor after he saw Tyrone Power in the film Blood and Sand. Hedison enlisted in the United States Navy in 1945, but the war ended before he completed basic training and he served 18 months, then mustered out. His work on the New York stage includes the production of A Month in the Country, directed by Michael Redgrave. Hedison toured with Barbara Anderson and Anita Gillette in Neil Simons Chapter Two in 1979 and 1980 and he toured with Elizabeth Ashley in Come into My Parlour in 1988, and was in the world premiere run of Bernard Slades Return Engagements that same year. He appeared at the Cape Playhouse in 1998 in Alone Together with Anita Gillette and he also starred in the New York City premiere of First Love with Lois Nettleton in 1999. He returned to the Cape Playhouse to appear in Tale of the Allergists Wife, in 2006, he acted in The Scent of Jasmine at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles on November 13. In 2008 David performed Uncle Vanya at the Actors Studio West and he also participated in performances of The Cherry Orchard and I Never Sang for my Father in Los Angeles in 2009. David most recently appeared in The Marriage Play by Edward Albee, after his role in A Month in the Country, Hedison signed a film contract with 20th Century-Fox. His first movie with them was the war film The Enemy Below. He followed that up with the 1958 horror classic The Fly, other films in which he appeared include The Son of Robin Hood, The Lost World, Marines, Lets Go. The Greatest Story Ever Told, North Sea Hijack, and The Naked Face and he later appeared in Fugitive Mind in 1999, the 2001 movie Mach 2, Megiddo, The Omega Code 2 also in 2001 and the 2004 film Spectres. His most recent role was in 2005s The Reality Trap, Hedison was the first actor to play James Bonds ally Felix Leiter in more than one film, Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill. He then wrote an introduction to the James Bond comic The Paradise Plot that was released in the United States on July 8, David attended a screening of Licence to Kill at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA on April 2,2013. David was interviewed by George Pappy, Jr. for the documentary, The Green Girl, David attended a preview screening of this documentary in Santa Monica, March 15,2014
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Hedison at the
Big Apple Convention in
Manhattan, October 17, 2009.
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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
NBC
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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
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National Broadcasting Company
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
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Espionage
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Espionage is the obtaining of information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage can be committed by an individual or a spy ring, in the service of a government or a company, the practice is inherently clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law. Espionage is a subset of intelligence gathering, which includes espionage as well as information gathering from public sources, Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern. However, the term is associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies primarily for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage, one of the most effective ways to gather data and information about the enemy is by infiltrating the enemys ranks. This is the job of the spy, Spies can bring back all sorts of information concerning the size and strength of enemy forces. They can also find dissidents within the forces and influence them to defect. In times of crisis, spies can also be used to steal technology, counterintelligence operatives can feed false information to enemy spies, protecting important domestic secrets, and preventing attempts at subversion. Nearly every country has strict laws concerning espionage, and the penalty for being caught is often severe. However, the benefits that can be gained through espionage are generally great enough that most governments, events involving espionage are well documented throughout history. The Old Testament of the Christian Bible, which is based primarily on the Hebrew Bible, speaks about Joshua and Caleb, the ancient writings of Chinese and Indian military strategists such as Sun-Tzu and Chanakya contain information on deception and subversion. Chanakyas student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire in India, made use of assassinations, spies and secret agents, the ancient Egyptians had a thoroughly developed system for the acquisition of intelligence, and the Hebrews used spies as well, as in the story of Rahab. Spies were also prevalent in the Greek and Roman empires, during the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongols relied heavily on espionage in their conquests in Asia and Europe. Feudal Japan often used ninjas to gather intelligence, aztecs used Pochtecas, people in charge of commerce, as spies and diplomats, and had diplomatic immunity. Many modern espionage methods were established by Francis Walsingham in Elizabethan England, in 1585, Mary, Queen of Scots was placed in the custody of Sir Amias Paulet, who was instructed to open and read all of Marys clandestine correspondence. In a successful attempt to expose her, Walsingham arranged a single exception, Mary was misled into thinking these secret letters were secure, while in reality they were deciphered and read by Walsinghams agents. He succeeded in intercepting letters that indicated a conspiracy to displace Elizabeth I with Mary, in foreign intelligence, Walsinghams extensive network of intelligencers, who passed on general news as well as secrets, spanned Europe and the Mediterranean. While foreign intelligence was a part of the principal secretarys activities, Walsingham brought to it flair and ambition
Espionage
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A bamboo version of
The Art of War, written by
Sun-Tzu and containing advice on espionage tactics.
Espionage
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Political cartoon depicting the Afghan
Emir Sher Ali with his "friends" the
Russian Bear and
British Lion (1878). The
Great Game saw the rise of systematic espionage and surveillance throughout the region by both powers.
Espionage
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Seal of the
Evidenzbureau, military intelligence service of the
Austrian Empire.
Espionage
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William Melville helped establish the first independent intelligence agency, the
British Secret Service, and was appointed as its first chief.
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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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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.
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Wholesome
Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth
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When
Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.
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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29,1959, to June 5,1963. Shulman also wrote a film adaptation of his Dobie Gillis stories for MGM in 1953. Dobie Gillis is significant as the first American television program produced for a network to feature teenagers as leading characters. In other series, such as Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, an even earlier 1954 series, Meet Corliss Archer, featured teenagers in leading roles and aired in syndication. Dobie Gillis broke ground by depicting elements of the counterculture, particularly the Beat Generation, Series star Dwayne Hickman would later say that Dobie represented “the end of innocence of the 1950s before the oncoming 1960s revolution”. He did not have any of these qualities in abundance, also constantly in question, by Dobie and others, was Dobies future, as the boy proved to be a poor student and an aimless drifter. His partner-in-crime was American televisions first beatnik, Maynard G. Krebs, an enthusiastic fan of jazz music, Maynard plays the bongos, collects tinfoil and petrified frogs, and steers clear of romance, authority figures, and work. Always speaking with the vernacular and slang of the beatniks and jazz musicians he admired, Dobie Gillis is set in Central City, a fictitious city in the Midwestern United States. Dobies often apoplectic father, Herbert T. Gillis, whom no one called Herb, Dobies mother, Winifred, was a usually calm and serene woman who protected Dobie to the best of her ability. As a high-school student, Dobie lived at home with his parents in the early years. Winnie Gillis once made an equivalent comment about Zelda, who was being difficult, the Gillis family also originally included an older son, Davey Gillis, who made three appearances during the first season while home on break from college before being written out of the show. Dobies two main antagonists were rich kids Milton Armitage, who appeared in five episodes, and, after Beattys departure, Chatsworth Osborne, both characters represented the wealth and popularity to which Dobie aspired, but also served as romantic and competitive rivals for Dobie. Beattys Milton was taller, better looking, and more athletic than Chatsworth, doris Packer played Clarissa Osborne, Chatsworths overbearing and snobbish mother. Dobie was hopelessly attracted to the beautiful, but unfailingly avaricious and acquisitive. Weld returned as a slightly chastened Thalia for a guest appearance in a later season, Zelda Gilroy was a brilliant and eager young girl, hopelessly in love with Dobie, much to his annoyance. Zelda did not find Dobie particularly attractive, but fell in love him because she found him helpless and needing of her care. Despite his protests, Dobie was clearly fond of Zelda, and Zelda claimed Dobie loved her but just had not realized it yet. To prove this, she would wrinkle her nose at Dobie, Dobie and Zelda would later appear as a middle-aged married couple in the two spin-off Dobie Gillis reunion projects of the 1970s/1980s
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman, left),
Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver, right) and one of Dobie's "many loves", Yvette LeBlanc (
Danielle De Metz), in a still from the Dobie Gillis episode "Parlez-Vous English", originally aired December 27, 1960
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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First season title card
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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Maynard was not prepared to give up his beard after entering the army.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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Auguste Rodin 's statue of
The Thinker
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Maynard G. Krebs
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Maynard G. Krebs is the beatnik sidekick of the title character in the U. S. television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The Krebs character, portrayed by actor Bob Denver, begins the series as a beatnik, with a goatee, hip language. His abhorrence of conventional forms is signified by comical reactions to three words, work, marriage, and police. For example, whenever the work is mentioned, even in passing, he yelps Work. He serves as a foil to the well-groomed, well-dressed, straight-laced Dobie, in one episode, he invites Dobie to accompany him to a double-feature of the film and its sequel, Son of the Monster that Devoured Cleveland. Maynard may be described as the prototype of the late-1960s hippie, Many of the later episodes center around Maynard, with Dobie more of an observer, but always as narrator. The series lasted four years, but its popularity extended into the 1990s and 2000s as channels like Nick at Nite, maynards middle name is Walter, named for his aunt. The G is silent, he would explain, in 1999, TV Guide ranked Maynard G. Krebs number 22 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. Maynard G. Krebs became a figure in American popular culture. Later became Lurchs paging catchphrase on The Addams Family as well as its 1990s revival series. Krebs was also referenced in an episode of Family Guy, Tales Of A Third Grade Nothing, as an insult by an out-of-touch Frank Sinatra, Jr. towards a young DJ at a nightclub. The series inspired the creators of Scooby-Doo, whose four human characters were modeled from characters on the series, Krebs appeared in the novel Gilligans Wake, where Gilligan believed himself to be Krebs. Krebs is mentioned in a song called Cobwebs by the American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, in the song, Krebs is blamed for starting the vogue of using the word like
Maynard G. Krebs
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Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver, right), Dobie Gillis (
Dwayne Hickman, left), and one of Dobie's "many loves", Yvette LeBlanc (
Danielle De Metz), in a still from the
Dobie Gillis episode "Parlez-Vous English", originally aired December 27, 1960.
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Bob Denver
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Robert Osbourne Bob Denver was an American comedic actor. He is known for having portrayed Gilligan on the television series Gilligans Island, Denver was born January 9,1935, in New Rochelle, New York, and raised in Brownwood, Texas. He graduated from Loyola University in Los Angeles, California, with a degree in political science, while at Loyola, he acted in college productions and met fellow student Dwayne Hickman, with whom he later co-starred in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. After graduation, Denver coached physical education and taught mathematics and history at Corpus Christi School and he also worked as a mailman. Most of Denvers acting career was spent working in television, although he appeared in several films. Denver made his debut in 1957, playing a bit part in one episode of The Silent Service. He got the part, and left teaching the year to become a regular on the series. From 1959 to 1963, he appeared on the series as Maynard G. Krebs, Denver later reprised his Maynard G. Krebs role in the television sequels Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis. and Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis. During his time on Dobie Gillis, Denver appeared on the NBC interview program, between the end of Dobie Gillis and the start of Gilligans Island, Denver appeared in an episode of The Farmers Daughter and in the final episode of The Danny Thomas Show. He also had a one-episode role replacing the actor who played Dudley A. Dud Wash and this was done by the network to promote Denvers face and make him more familiar to the viewing audience, since Gilligans Island was about to go on air. Following the cancellation of Dobie Gillis, Denver landed the role on the sitcom Gilligans Island. His role as the well-meaning but bumbling first mate among a group of shipwrecked castaways became the one for which he is most remembered. He also lent his voice to the animated series The New Adventures of Gilligan and its sequel Gilligans Planet. During the 1980s, he re-created the character of Gilligan for numerous appearances, including episodes of ALF, Meego and Baywatch. After Gilligans Island, Denver went on to star in other TV comedy series, including The Good Guys, Dustys Trail, four episodes of Dustys Trail were later combined to create a feature film, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West. Denvers other TV roles included guest appearances on episodes of Love, American Style, The Love Boat. In 1983, he starred in the television pilot The Invisible Woman as the mad scientist uncle of the title character. Denvers first feature film appearance was in the farce, A Privates Affair
Bob Denver
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Bob Denver on set of Gilligan's Island
Bob Denver
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Denver in 1977
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United States Army
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, the United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775. As a uniformed service, the Army is part of the Department of the Army. As a branch of the forces, the mission of the U. S. The branch participates in conflicts worldwide and is the major ground-based offensive and defensive force of the United States, the United States Army serves as the land-based branch of the U. S. Section 3062 of Title 10, U. S, the army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military heritage with them. As the Revolutionary War progressed, French aid, resources, a number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught Prussian Army tactics and organizational skills. The army fought numerous pitched battles and in the South in 1780–81 sometimes used the Fabian strategy and hit-and-run tactics, hitting where the British were weakest, to wear down their forces. Washington led victories against the British at Trenton and Princeton, but lost a series of battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776, with a decisive victory at Yorktown, and the help of the French, the Continental Army prevailed against the British. After the war, though, the Continental Army was quickly given land certificates, State militias became the new nations sole ground army, with the exception of a regiment to guard the Western Frontier and one battery of artillery guarding West Points arsenal. However, because of continuing conflict with Native Americans, it was realized that it was necessary to field a trained standing army. The War of 1812, the second and last war between the United States and Great Britain, had mixed results. After taking control of Lake Erie in 1813, the U. S. Army seized parts of western Upper Canada, burned York and defeated Tecumseh, which caused his Western Confederacy to collapse. Following U. S. victories in the Canadian province of Upper Canada, British troops, were able to capture and burn Washington, which was defended by militia, in 1814. Two weeks after a treaty was signed, Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans and Siege of Fort St. Philip, U. S. troops and sailors captured HMS Cyane, Levant, and Penguin in the final engagements of the war. Per the treaty, both sides, the United States and Great Britain, returned to the status quo. Both navies kept the warships they had seized during the conflict, the armys major campaign against the Indians was fought in Florida against Seminoles. It took long wars to defeat the Seminoles and move them to Oklahoma
United States Army
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Storming of Redoubt #10 in the
Siege of Yorktown during the
American Revolutionary War prompted the British government to begin negotiations, resulting in the
Treaty of Paris and British recognition of the United States of America.
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Emblem of the United States Department of the Army
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General
Andrew Jackson stands on the parapet of his makeshift defenses as his troops repulse attacking
Highlanders during the
defense of New Orleans, the final major battle of the War of 1812
United States Army
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The
Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the American Civil War
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Selective Service System
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The Selective Service System is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription. A2010 GAO report estimated the rate at 92% with the names and addresses of over 16.2 million men on file. The Selective Service System provides the names of all registrants to the Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies program for inclusion in the JAMRS Consolidated Recruitment Database, the names are distributed to the Services for recruiting purposes on a quarterly basis. Regulations are codified at 32 C. F. R, owing to very slow enlistment following the U. S. The Act gave the President the power to men for military service. All men aged 21 to 30 were required to register for service for a service period of 12 months. As of mid-November 1917, all registrants were placed in one of five new classifications, Men in Class I were the first to be drafted, and men in lower classifications were deferred. Dependency deferments for registrants who were fathers or husbands were especially widespread, the age limit was later raised in August 1918 to a maximum age of 45. The military draft was discontinued in 1920, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the 76th United States Congress on September 16,1940, establishing the first peacetime conscription in United States history. It required all men between the ages of 18 to 64 to register with Selective Service and it originally conscripted all men aged 21 to 35 for a service period of 12 months. In 1941 the military service period was extended to 18 months, the Selective Service System created by the 1940 Act was terminated by the Act of March 31,1947. The Selective Service Act of 1948, enacted in June of that year, created a new and separate system, all men 18 years and older had to register with Selective Service. All men between the ages of 19 to 26 were eligible to be drafted for a requirement of 21 months. Conscripts could volunteer for service in the Regular Army for a term of four years or the Organized Reserves for a term of six years. Due to deep postwar budget cuts, only 100,000 conscripts were chosen in 1948, in 1950, the number of conscripts was greatly increased to meet the demands of the Korean War. The outbreak of the Korean War fostered the creation of the Universal Military Training and this lowered the draft age from 19 to 18 1⁄2, increased active-duty service time from 21 to 24 months, and set the statutory term of military service at a minimum of eight years. Students attending a college or training program full-time could request an exemption, a Universal Military Training clause was inserted that would have made all men obligated to perform 12 months of military service and training if the Act was amended by later legislation. Despite successive attempts over the several years, however, such legislation was never passed
Selective Service System
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Selective Service System
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Broadway (theatre)
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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The Lion King at the
New Amsterdam Theatre in 2003, in the background is
Madame Tussauds New York
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Interior of the
Park Theatre, built in 1798
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1868 programme for Ixion
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The Black Crook (1866), considered by some historians to be the first musical. Poster for the 1873 revival by
The Kiralfy Brothers.
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Bye Bye Birdie (musical)
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Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Originally titled Lets Go Steady, Bye Bye Birdie is set in 1958, the story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957. The rock star characters name, Conrad Birdie, is play on the name of Conway Twitty. Twitty is best remembered today for his career as a country music star. The original 1960–1961 Broadway production was a Tony Award–winning success and it spawned a London production and several major revivals, a sequel, a 1963 film, and a 1995 television production. The show also became a choice for high school and college productions. The producer Edward Padula had the idea for a musical initially titled Lets Go Steady, Padula contracted with two writers, and Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wrote seven songs for their libretto. Padula, Strouse and Adams sought Gower Champion as director/choreographer, who until that time had choreographed only a few musicals, however, Champion did not like the book and the writers were fired, with Michael Stewart then hired. Stewart wrote a version titled Love and Kisses, which focused on a couple thinking of divorce. The something more had been there in the newspaper. After brainstorming, Stewart and Adams came up with the idea of a rock-and-roll singer going off to the army, agent and songwriter Albert Peterson finds himself in trouble when hip-thrusting rock and roll superstar Conrad Birdie is drafted into the Army. Alberts secretary and sweetheart, Rose Rosie Alvarez, comes up with a publicity stunt to have Conrad Birdie record. She makes Albert promise to give up the business and to start teaching English at schools. They plan to have Birdie sing Alberts new song One Last Kiss, the lucky girl chosen randomly from Conrads fan club is fifteen-year-old Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio. All the teenagers in Sweet Apple are catching up on the latest gossip about Kim MacAfee, Kim, excited to have a boyfriend, reflects on how happy she is with her maturity. She quits the Conrad Birdie fan club over the phone because of the new milestone happening in her life, meanwhile, Conrad, Albert, and Rose set off to Sweet Apple to prepare for the event. Albert advises her to be optimistic, soon, reporters arrive with questions for Conrad, but Rosie, Albert, and the girls answer for him, pushing away tabloids. Conrad receives a heros welcome in Sweet Apple, and Hugo worries that Kim likes Conrad more than she likes him, Conrad shocks the towns parents and drives the teenage girls crazy with his performance of Honestly Sincere, which causes all of the girls to faint
Bye Bye Birdie (musical)
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Original Broadway cast album
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Robert Young (actor)
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Born in Chicago, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father, Thomas E. Young, and an American mother, Margaret Fife. When Young was young, the moved to different locations within the U. S. Seattle, followed by Los Angeles. After graduation, he studied and performed at the Pasadena Playhouse while working at odd jobs, while touring with a stock company producing The Ship, Young was discovered by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout with whom he subsequently signed a contract. Young made his film debut for MGM in the 1931 Charlie Chan film. Young appeared in over 100 films between 1931 and 1952, yet, most of his assignments consisted of B movies, also known as programmers, which required two to three weeks of shooting. Actors who were relegated to such a hectic schedule appeared, as Young did, in 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont British for two films, the first was directed by Alfred Hitchcock with the other co-starring Jessie Matthews. While there he surmised that his employers intended to terminate his contract and he unexpectedly received one of his most rewarding roles late in his MGM career, in H. M. Pulham, Esq. featuring one of Hedy Lamarrs most effective performances. He once remarked that he was assigned only those roles which Robert Montgomery, after his contract ended at MGM, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as 20th Century Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures. From 1943, Young assayed more challenging roles in films like Claudia, The Enchanted Cottage, They Wont Believe Me, The Second Woman and his portrayal of unsympathetic characters in several of these later films—which was seldom the case in his MGM pictures—was applauded by numerous reviewers. Youngs career began an incremental and imperceptible decline, despite a propitious beginning as an actor without the nurturing of a major studio. Today, Young is most remembered as the affable insurance salesman in Father Knows Best, for which he, elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin played the Anderson children in the television version. Young then created, produced, and starred with Ford Rainey and Constance Moore in the nostalgic CBS comedy series Window on Main Street, youngs final television series was Marcus Welby, M. D. co-starring a young James Brolin. This show earned Young an Emmy for best leading actor in a drama series, until the late 1980s, he also made numerous television commercials in which he persuaded edgy people to drink Sanka coffee. Young was married to Betty Henderson from 1933 until her death in 1994 and they had four daughters, Carol Proffitt, Barbara Beebe, Kathy Young, and Betty Lou Gleason. They also had six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, later, he spoke candidly about his personal problems in an effort to encourage others to seek help. Young died of respiratory failure at his Westlake Village, California home on July 21,1998 and he has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the stars are in the categories of film, television, and radio. Muscatine, IA, Films of the Golden Age, the Great Movie Stars, The Golden Years. Robert Young at the Internet Movie Database Robert Young at the TCM Movie Database Robert Young at The New York Times Robert Young at Find a Grave Literature on Robert Young
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from
Journey for Margaret (1942)
25.
Comedy
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In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece, in the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a Society of Youth and a Society of the Old, a revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, a comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms. The adjective comic, which means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage. Of this, the word came into usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the comedy to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average, however, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others, the mask, for instance, in the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings. It is in this sense that Dante used the term in the title of his poem, as time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter. During the Middle Ages, the comedy became synonymous with satire. They disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms and they viewed comedy as simply the art of reprehension, and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the satyr plays
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Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask - detail of “Muses Sarcophagus”, the
nine Muses and their attributes; marble, early second century AD, Via Ostiense - Louvre
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Charlie Chaplin
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The
Monty Python comedy group
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Tragic Comic Masks of
Ancient Greek Theatre represented in the
Hadrian's Villa mosaic.
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Barney Fife
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Bernard Barney P. Milton Oliver Fife is a fictional character in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, portrayed by comic actor Don Knotts. Barney Fife is a deputy sheriff in the slow paced, sleepy community of Mayberry. He appeared in the first five seasons as a main character and he also appeared in the first episode of the spin-off series Mayberry R. F. D. and in the 1986 reunion telemovie Return to Mayberry. Additionally, Barney appeared in the Joey Bishop Show episode, Joeys Hideaway Cabin, in 1999, TV Guide ranked him Ninth on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. Don Knotts had previously co-starred on The Steve Allen Show, along with Tom Poston, Pat Harrington Jr. and Louis Nye, there and he created Deputy Barney Fife in the same fashion, as a hyperkinetic but comically inept counterpart to Mayberrys practical and composed Sheriff Andy Taylor. According to Andy Griffith, the character of Barney Fife was suggested by Don Knotts himself, at the same time that The Steve Allen Show was ending, Knotts was looking for work. When he saw the episode of The Danny Thomas Show featuring Andy Taylor, Griffith liked the idea and suggested for him to call Executive Producer Sheldon Leonard. Griffith later recalled that Don Knotts contribution was the saving grace because he was uncomfortable with the original concept to have Andy Taylor being the comic lead. Fife appeared on The Andy Griffith Show from the beginning in 1960 until 1965. It is explained that Fife had left Mayberry to take a job as a detective in Raleigh, Knotts reprised the character in guest appearances each season until The Andy Griffith Show left the air in 1968. Barney also appeared in the inaugural Mayberry R. F. D, episode, in which Andy and Helen Crump marry. Nearly two decades would pass before the character was again reprised in the reunion film Return to Mayberry in 1986, by then, Fife had moved back and become the towns acting sheriff. Sometimes considered a blowhard with delusions of grandeur, he himself an expert on firearms, women, singing. Conversely, Andy knows that Barneys false bravado is a smokescreen for his insecurities, in one episode, Barney brags that he knows about the Emancipation Proclamation. Barney is often overly analytical and alarmist about benign situations, such as the modest Mayberry crime scene and he takes a minor infraction, blows it out of proportion, and then concocts an elaborate solution to resolve it. In one early episode, where Andy was briefly summoned away, acting sheriff Barney proceeds to book, despite his shortcomings, Barney is zealous about law enforcement, regularly spouting off penal codes and ordinances to thugs and jaywalkers alike. An emotional powderkeg, Barney often overreacts with panic, despair or bug-eyed fear, Barney is smug and self-confident, and is known for engaging in gossip and revealing both personal and police secrets, often with dire consequences. Outwardly a man of the world, Barney is truly naïve, though constantly warned by Andy, Barney falls for countless scams
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Barney (left) and
Gomer Pyle (right).
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Andy returns from business in Raleigh to find Barney has locked most of Mayberry's citizens in the town jail.
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Barney panics when he and Andy need to deal with a goat who has eaten dynamite.
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Andy comes to the rescue when Barney gets his gun stuck on his finger.
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The Andy Griffith Show
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It stars Andy Griffith, who portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, Aunt Bee, an aunt and housekeeper, and Opie. Eccentric townspeople and temperamental girlfriends complete the cast and it was, when we were doing it, of a time gone by. The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings, on separate occasions, it has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best and 13th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its run, co-stars Knotts. The series spawned its own spinoff, Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C, a sequel series, Mayberry R. F. D. and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. Reruns of the show are aired on TV Land, MeTV. The show has also made available on streaming video services such as Netflix. An annual festival celebrating the show, Mayberry Days, is each year in Griffiths hometown of Mount Airy. After conferences between Leonard and Griffith in New York, Griffith flew to Los Angeles and filmed the episode, on February 15,1960, The Danny Thomas Show episode Danny Meets Andy Griffith aired. In the episode Griffith played fictional Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina, future players in The Andy Griffith Show, Frances Bavier and Ron Howard, appeared in the episode as townspeople Henrietta Perkins and Opie Taylor. General Foods, sponsor of The Danny Thomas Show, had first access to the spin-off, on October 3,1960 at 9,30 pm, The Andy Griffith Show made its debut. The shows production team included producers Aaron Ruben and Bob Ross, during season six, Greenbaum and Fritzell left the show and Ruben departed for Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C. A show which he owned in part, writer Harvey Bullock left after season six. Bob Sweeney directed the first three seasons save the premiere, the show was filmed at Desilu Studios, with exteriors filmed at Forty Acres in Culver City, California. Woodsy locales were filmed north of Beverly Hills at Franklin Canyon, Knotts auditioned for the shows creator and executive producer, Sheldon Leonard, and was offered a five-year contract playing Barney Fife. Whistling in the sequence, as well as the closing credits sequence, was performed by Earle Hagen. One of the tunes, The Mayberry March, was reworked a number of times in different tempo, styles
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From left: Deputy
Barney Fife (
Don Knotts),
Opie Taylor (
Ron Howard),
Sheriff Andy Taylor (
Andy Griffith), and
Aunt Bee (
Frances Bavier)
The Andy Griffith Show
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Knotts and Griffith as their characters in a still taken from the October 7, 1965 one-hour variety special The Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, and Jim Nabors Show
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Sam Jones (
Ken Berry) and his son Mike (
Buddy Foster) were recurring characters in the final season of The Andy Griffith Show, setting up the sequel series
Mayberry R.F.D..
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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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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
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American Broadcasting Company
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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Henry Jones (actor)
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Henry Burk Jones was an American character actor of stage, film and television. Jones was born in New Jersey, and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he was the son of Helen and John Francis Xavier Jones. He was the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative Henry Burk, a Prussian immigrant, Jones attended the Jesuit Saint Josephs Preparatory School. Jones is remembered for his role as handyman Leroy Jessup in the movie The Bad Seed, Jones appeared in more than 180 films and television shows. His screen credits included The Girl Cant Help It,3,10 to Yuma, vertigo, Cash McCall, The Bramble Bush, Rascal, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Dingus Magee, Support Your Local Gunfighter,9 to 5 and Arachnophobia. On television, Jones best remembered role was as the title characters father-in-law in the 1970s CBS sitcom Phyllis, in the story line, the California McCoys return to West Virginia for Grandmother McCoys 100th birthday. He had a role on the ABC drama Channing, with Jason Evers. Jones also appeared on Appointment with Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Eleventh Hour, Bewitched, Night Gallery and he played Dr. Smiths cousin in a 1966 episode of CBSs Lost In Space, Curse Of Cousin Smith, and alongside R. J. Hoferkamp in the 1968 made-for-television western movie Something for a Lonely Man, in 1967 he guest starred in the episode A Time to Die of the Sci-Fi TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Seas 4th season. Starting in 1974, he guest starred three times on The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Jeffrey/Chester Dolenz and this character was a brilliant scientist who built lifelike robots, but although every plot was foiled he still managed to escape to fight another day. In 1978, he appeared in the Barney Miller episode, The Prisoner, Jones died in Los Angeles, California, at age 86, from complications from injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Santa Monica. His daughter is actress Jocelyn Jones,1964 Bonanza Episode, A Knight to Remember Henry Jones at Find a Grave Henry Jones at the Internet Broadway Database Henry Jones at the Internet Movie Database Henry Jones at the TCM Movie Database
Henry Jones (actor)
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Jones in
The Lady Says No (1952)
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Summer Magic
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Summer Magic is a 1963 Walt Disney Productions film starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, and Dorothy McGuire in a story about a Boston widow and her children taking up residence in a small town in Maine. The film was based on the novel Mother Careys Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin and was directed by James Neilson and this was the fourth of six film Mills did for Disney, and the young actress received a Golden Globe nomination for her work here. Financial problems force young Boston widow Margaret Carey and her 3 children to out of their home. Nancy, the dramatic and kind-hearted eldest, remembers a large house that the Careys had admired when they visited the small town of Beulah, Maine. Upon the sale of the familys treasured piano, Nancy reveals that the house is vacant, when the Careys arrive in Beulah they realize theyre slightly out-of-place although the town welcomes them. Overall, the Careys find that moving to the country was the best decision for them and theyre content in their new home. He also steers young Peter in the direction, trading him a pair of overalls for his Buster Brown suit in which he now feels too citified. They reluctantly agree, and while they get ready for her, Gilly and Nancy entertain Peter with jokes about her appearance and snobby, when Julia arrives, shes even worse than her cousins remembered. Part of her seems to include being jumped on by Peters large dog Sam in the middle of the night. Aghast at Beulahs primitive ways, she forces Oshs daughter Lally Joy to help her bathe in the rather than lug kettles of hot water up the stairs. While Nancy and Lally Joy cope with Julia, Peter enjoys working on the house with Osh, who entertains him with stories of bugs the like of which Peter hadnt dealt with in the city. When Margaret informs Osh of their finances, Osh, hoping to keep them in town, makes up a request from the houses owner, Tom Hamilton. He pretends that Mr. Hamilton has answered in the affirmative, only requesting that on Halloween the Careys must have a ceremony for his dead mother, the Careys accept and Osh chooses a fake picture for the ceremony. But Oshs wife Mariah, who has been on to his lies from the beginning, before she can spill the news, Osh fakes a fall from the second story, claims an injured leg, and insist that his wife help him get home. After church the next Sunday, Nancy and Julia spot a man, Charles Bryant. They invite him to a party at the yellow house. Julia wins, leaving Nancy too jealous to enjoy the evening after the party. In their bedroom, her jealousy and anger drive her to reveal that Julias adoptive parents dumped her on the Careys after gambling away their money
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Theatrical release poster
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Going My Way (TV series)
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Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series starring dancer and actor Gene Kelly. Based on the 1944 film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, the program was Kellys first and only attempt at a weekly television series. The series was canceled after one season of thirty episodes, Kelly stars as Father Chuck OMalley, a Roman Catholic priest who is sent to St. Dominics Parish located in a lower-class section of New York City. Leo G. Carroll co-starred as the pastor, Father Fitzgibbons. Dick York, later of Bewitched, portrayed Chucks boyhood friend, Tom Colwell, nydia Westman played Mrs. Featherstone, the housekeeper of the rectory. Episodes focus on Father OMalleys attempts to connect with the congregation, the failure of the series to enter a second season is usually attributed to its competition, particularly The Beverly Hillbillies. Going My Way was also scheduled opposite the final season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis on CBS, aired at 8,30 p. m. Eastern time on Wednesdays, Going My Way followed the western series Wagon Train on the ABC schedule. The program itself was followed on ABC by the sitcom, Our Man Higgins, starring Stanley Holloway, Frank Maxwell, on December 6,2011, Timeless Media Group released Going My Way, The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. Going My Way at the Internet Movie Database Going My Way at TV. com
Going My Way (TV series)
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Fred Clark and
Gene Kelly in the episode "A Matter of Principle" (1962)
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Gene Kelly
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Eugene Curran Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his looks. Best known today for his performances in such as An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh. He starred in musical films throughout the 1940s, including For Me and My Gal, Du Barry Was a Lady, Thousands Cheer, The Three Musketeers. In his later career, he starred in two films outside the genre, Inherit the Wind and What a Way to Go. Throughout his career, he directed films, most notably the 1969 film Hello. His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences, Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors, in 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema list. Kelly was born in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh and he was the third son of James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and his wife Harriet Catherine Curran. His father was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, to an Irish-Canadian family and his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry, Ireland, and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry. When he was eight, Kellys mother enrolled him and his brother James in dance classes and they both rebelled, as recalled by Kelly, We didnt like it much and were continually involved in fistfights with the neighborhood boys who called us sissies. I didnt dance again until I was fifteen, at one time his childhood dream was to play shortstop for the hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. By the time he decided to dance, he was an accomplished sportsman and he attended St. Raphael Elementary School in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and graduated from Peabody High School at age sixteen. He entered Pennsylvania State College as a major, but the 1929 crash forced him to work to help his family. He created dance routines with his younger brother Fred to earn money in local talent contests. They also performed in local nightclubs, in 1931, Kelly enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh to study economics, joining the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. He became involved in the universitys Cap and Gown Club, which staged original musical productions, after graduating in 1933, he continued to be active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as the director from 1934 to 1938. Kelly was admitted to the University of Pittsburgh Law School and his family opened a dance studio in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh
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Kelly in 1943
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Kelly's senior picture from the 1933 yearbook of the
University of Pittsburgh
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An American in Paris (1951)
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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Roman Catholic
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The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or the Universal Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.28 billion members worldwide. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history, headed by the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, the churchs doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed. Its central administration is located in Vatican City, enclaved within Rome, the Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments. It teaches that it is the one church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christs apostles. The Catholic Church maintains that the doctrine on faith and morals that it declares as definitive is infallible. The Latin Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as such as mendicant orders and enclosed monastic orders. Among the sacraments, the one is the Eucharist, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. The church teaches that through consecration by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body, the Catholic Church practises closed communion, with only baptised members in a state of grace ordinarily permitted to receive the Eucharist. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Catholic Church as Queen of Heaven and is honoured in numerous Marian devotions. The Catholic Church has influenced Western philosophy, science, art and culture, Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and medical services in the world, from the late 20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticised for its doctrines on sexuality, its refusal to ordain women and its handling of sexual abuse cases. Catholic was first used to describe the church in the early 2nd century, the first known use of the phrase the catholic church occurred in the letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans, written about 110 AD. In the Catechetical Discourses of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, the name Catholic Church was used to distinguish it from other groups that call themselves the church. The use of the adjective Roman to describe the Church as governed especially by the Bishop of Rome became more widespread after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages. Catholic Church is the name used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church follows an episcopal polity, led by bishops who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders who are given formal jurisdictions of governance within the church. Ultimately leading the entire Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome, commonly called the pope, in parallel to the diocesan structure are a variety of religious institutes that function autonomously, often subject only to the authority of the pope, though sometimes subject to the local bishop. Most religious institutes only have male or female members but some have both, additionally, lay members aid many liturgical functions during worship services
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Saint Peter's Basilica,
Vatican City
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St. Peter's Basilica,
Vatican City
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Pope Francis, elected in the
papal conclave, 2013
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Traditional graphic representation of the Trinity: The earliest attested version of the diagram, from a manuscript of
Peter of Poitiers ' writings, c. 1210
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Gunsmoke
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, the central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the series was initially titled Gun Law. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961, John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, at the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote, Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte. It was ever the stuff of legend, robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created a script called Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts. Two auditions were created in 1949, CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed. A complication arose, though, Culvers contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series, the project was shelved for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own. Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism, the radio series first aired on CBS on April 26,1952 with the episode Billy the Kid, written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18,1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. Conrad was one of the last actors to audition for the role of Marshal Dillon, with a resonantly powerful and distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radios busiest actors. Though Meston championed him, Macdonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed, during his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Dillon as portrayed by Conrad was a lonely, isolated man, Macdonnell later claimed, Much of Matt Dillons character grew out of Bill Conrad. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Many episodes were based on mans cruelty to man and woman, inasmuch as the womans life
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James Arness as
Matt Dillon in the television version of Gunsmoke (1956)
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William Conrad in 1952, when Matt Dillon was created on radio.
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Gunsmoke title card
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Ken Curtis as
Festus and Arness as Dillon, 1968
36.
The Lucy Show
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The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Balls follow-up to I Love Lucy, a significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras, aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star, Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68. In 1962, two years after Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had divorced and the episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour aired. After a two-year run, the comedy series Pete and Gladys, starring Harry Morgan, the red-headed Williams had been promoted as the next Lucille Ball. At that time, Desilu was left only one hit series. Arnaz, as President of Desilu, offered Ball an opportunity to return to television in a weekly sitcom. At that time, CBS executives were somewhat dubious as to whether Ball could carry a show without Arnaz and it was never intended for this program to go beyond a single season. It was a strategy that Ball herself would use in the future to take control of The Lucy Shows renewal from CBS. With Arnazs encouragement and persuasion, Ball agreed to do the show, provided it be shown on Monday nights, CBS agreed to a full season of episodes and The Lucy Show premiered on Monday night, October 1,1962, at 8,30 p. m. In order to get Vance to commit to the series, Arnaz acquiesced to her demands for an increase in salary, co-star billing, a more attractive wardrobe and, finally, that her characters name be Vivian. After doing I Love Lucy, she was still being called Ethel by people on the street, the consensus was that fans would be offended with a Lucy who was divorced, despite the fact that this was a new character and Ball herself was divorced. The character of Vivian Bagley became televisions first divorced woman on primetime television, in the shows original format, Lucy had been left with a substantial trust fund by her late husband, which was managed during the first season by local banker Mr. Barnsdahl. Comedian Dick Martin, working solo from his longtime partner Dan Rowan, was cast in ten episodes as Lucys next-door neighbor, Harry Connors, the first season of The Lucy Show fully utilized the talents of Bob Carroll, Jr. At the end of its first season, The Lucy Show received rave reviews from the critics, Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Actress in a Series, but lost to Shirley Booth for the NBC comedy hit Hazel. Bolstered by great ratings, the series was renewed for a second year, at the beginning of the 1963–1964 season, Desi Arnaz resigned as head of Desilu and as the executive producer of The Lucy Show. Ball took over as President of the studio and Elliott Lewis replaced Arnaz as executive producer of Balls series, Dick Martin, Don Briggs, Tom Lowell, and Charles Lane left the show. The characters of Harry Connors and Alan Harper were never mentioned again, Briggs would make one more appearance as Eddie Collins in the episode Lucy Goes Duck Hunting
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Cast of the show during its first three seasons: Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Candy Moore (Chris Carmichael), Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), and Ralph Hart (Sherman Bagley).
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Stage 21 at the
Desilu Studios (now Paramount) where The Lucy Show was filmed
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Lucy gets into the soup with
Danny Kaye while trying to meet him, 1964.
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Clint Walker is a construction worker who takes Lucy atop a skyscraper under construction, where they both learn she is afraid of heights.
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Crime drama
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared
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Humphrey Bogart in
The Petrified Forest (1936)
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Honey West (TV series)
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Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965–1966 television season. Based upon a series of novels that had launched in 1957, only 30 half-hour episodes were produced. The entire series is available on DVD, the Honey West character was created by Gloria and Forrest E. “Skip” Fickling under the pseudonym “G. G, the G. G. represented the initials of his wife, Gloria Gautraud whom he married in 1949 with initials being used so the sex of the author would remain vague. Though Gloria said that most of the writing was done by Forrest, Forrest said Gloria’s ideas were used to make a female character with Gloria also providing Honey’s dress sense. Forrest told the Los Angeles Times, “I first thought of Marilyn Monroe and we thought the most used name for someone you really like is Honey. And she lives in the West, so there was her name. ”West was one of the first female “private eyes” to ever appear on television. Francis first played West in the season episode of Burke’s Law, entitled “Who Killed the Jackpot. ”, broadcast on April 21,1965. West drove a Jaguar convertible in the Burkes Law episode and was referred to as the private eyeful. She carried a gun and was trained in martial arts, Honey West was intended to be the American equivalent of the popular characters Emma Peel and Cathy Gale in the British series The Avengers. Producer Aaron Spellings first choice for the role of Honey was Honor Blackman, Anne Francis’ fashions in the Honey role were by Nolan Miller, and her action scenes choreographed by Gene LeBell. The series was developed for television by Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov, as in the Burkes Law episode introducing her, West has a partner and man-Friday, Sam Bolt, who communicates with Honey via a radio hidden in her lipstick case. In the television series, she keeps a pet ocelot named Bruce. Honey’s alluring feline qualities were reflected in her animal-print wardrobe and apartment decor, for sneaking around at night and engaging in energetic fight scenes, she wears a black fabric bodystocking reminiscent of Emma Peel’s leather jumpsuit. Like Peel’s Lotus Elan sports car, Honey’s similar-looking AC Cobra convertible emphasized her independence, although the racy content of the novels was excised for television, West often went on solo undercover missions that required a provocative or revealing outfit. She uses a number of James Bond-like gimmicks, a surveillance van, an exploding compact, a garter-belt gas mask. West is a black-belt in Judo, as is Sam, who is an ex-Marine. Some episodes of series, including the final one, were scripted by Richard Levinson and William Link
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Francis as Honey West with Bruce.
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Honey West complete series DVD cover (UK version)
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Anne Francis
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She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the series. Some sources erroneously claim she was born Ann Marvak in Ossining, New York, however, according to her parents marriage registration and census records from 1925 and 1930, her parents were Philip Ward Francis and Edith Francis. She entered show business at an age, working as a model at age five to help her family during the Great Depression. She made her Broadway debut at the age of 11, Francis made her film debut in This Time for Keeps. She played supporting roles in the films Susan Slept Here, So Young, So Bad and her best-known film role is that of Altaira in Forbidden Planet, an Oscar-nominated science-fiction classic. Francis was the star of a provocative 1960 movie about a call girl, Girl of the Night. In 1965, she had a role in the William Conrad film noir Brainstorm. In 1968, she played the role of Georgia James in the feature film Funny Girl and in the year, played Nancy Ingersoll in the comedy Hook, Line. She also co-starred in Impasse, a film starring Burt Reynolds. Her distinctive physical features were her blonde hair, striking blue eyes, the mole was even written into the script of one of her films. Francis found success in television and was a frequent guest star in 1960s, 1970s and she guest-starred on The Untouchables as the title character in The Doreen Maney Story, and appeared twice in The Twilight Zone. She also appeared in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and three episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Francis also appeared in two episodes of the Western series The Virginian and in the episode Incident of the Shambling Man on the CBS western, Rawhide. She was cast in an episode of Gene Kellys drama series, Going My Way, based on the 1944 film of the same name. During 1964, she guest-starred in two episodes, Hideout and Rachels Mother, of The Reporter, and made two appearances in The Man From U. N. C. L. E. She made a guest appearance in a 1967 episode of The Fugitive and she appeared in the 1967 episode, The Saucer, in The Invaders. She guest-starred in a 1973 episode, Murder In The Dolls House and she appeared twice as a guest star in Columbo, once as a casual lover of the murderer, and once as the actual murder victim. In 1974, she appeared as Ida, the madame of a house on the series Kung Fu in the episode Night of the Owls. In 1976, she appeared as Lola Flynn in an episode of Wonder Woman, in 1977, she appeared as Lieutenant Commander Gladys Hope, the head nurse in two episodes of the World War II series Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Studio publicity photo from the 1950s
Anne Francis
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With
Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet (1956)
40.
I Spy (1965 TV series)
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I Spy is an American television secret-agent buddy adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed US intelligence agents Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scotty Scott, Robinson poses as an amateur with Scott as his trainer, playing against wealthy opponents in return for food and lodging. Their work involved chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women, the creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Triple F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Productions where the show was produced, Fine and Friedkin were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in acting and appeared in two episodes in the first season, actor-producer Sheldon Leonard, known for playing gangster roles in the 1940s and 1950s, was the executive producer. He also played a role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series, I Spy broke ground in that it was the first American television drama to feature a black actor in a lead role. Originally an older actor was slated to play a fatherly mentor to Culps character, after seeing Cosby performing stand-up comedy on a talk-show, Sheldon Leonard decided to take a chance on hiring him to play opposite Culp. The concept was changed from a relationship to same-age partners who were equals. It was also notable that Cosbys race was never an issue in any of the stories, nor was his character in any way subservient to Culps, with the exception that Culps Kelly Robinson was a more experienced agent. As a strait-laced Rhodes Scholar fluent in languages, Cosbys Scotty was really the brains of the team. His partner was the athlete and playboy who lived by his wits, I Spy was a trailblazer in its use of exotic international locations in an attempt to emulate the James Bond film series. This was unique for a show, especially since the series actually filmed its lead actors at locations ranging from Spain to Japan. Each season the producers would select four or five scenic locations around the world, episodes were filmed in Athens, Rome, Florence, Madrid, Venice, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Acapulco, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Morocco. The success of the show is attributed to the chemistry between Culp and Cosby, fans tuned in more for their hip banter than for the espionage stories, making I Spy a leader in the buddy genre. The two actors developed a close friendship that mirrored their on-screen characters, a friendship that would last until Culps death in 2010. The show also coined unique phrases that, briefly, became catchphrases, wonderfulness was used as the title of one of Cosbys albums of stand-up comedy released concurrently with the series. Cosby also occasionally slipped in bits of his comic routines during his improvised badinage with Culp, many details of Cosbys life were also written into his character
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Culp as Kelly Robinson with
Jeanette Nolan, 1966
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I Spy
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Cosby as Alexander Scott
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Bill Cosby and
Robert Culp on the cover of this 1960s paperback based upon the series
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Bill Cosby
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William Henry Bill Cosby, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and singer. Cosbys start in comedy began at the hungry i in San Francisco and was followed by his landing a starring role in the 1960s television show I Spy. He was also a regular on the television series The Electric Company during the shows first two seasons. Throughout the 1970s, Cosby starred in a number of films, after attending Temple University in the 1960s, he received his bachelors degree there in 1971. In 1973, he received a degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a tool in elementary schools. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family, Cosby has been the subject of publicized sexual assault allegations since about 2000. He surrendered to authorities on December 30,2015, and was released on $1 million bail, Cosby is scheduled to go on trial on or before June 5,2017. Cosby was born on July 12,1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he is one of four sons of Anna Pearl, a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr. who served as a mess steward in the U. S. Navy. During much of Cosbys early childhood, his father was away in the U. S. armed forces, as a student, he described himself as a class clown. Cosby was the captain of both the team and the track and field team at Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia. Early on, though, teachers noted his propensity for clowning around rather than studying, at FitzSimons Junior High School, Cosby began acting in plays as well as continuing his devotion to playing sports. Cosby went on to Philadelphias Central High School, a magnet and academically rigorous university prep school where he played football, basketball, baseball, and ran track. In addition, Cosby was working before and after school, selling produce, shining shoes and he transferred to Germantown High School, but failed the tenth grade. Instead of repeating, he got a job as an apprentice at a repair shop, which he liked. In 1956, Cosby enlisted in the Navy, serving at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. During his four years in the Navy, Cosby served as a Hospital Corpsman working in therapy with Navy. He finished his equivalency diploma via correspondence courses and was awarded a track, there, he studied physical education while running track and playing fullback on the universitys football team
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Cosby before receiving the
U.S. Navy Lone Sailor Award at the
National Building Museum,
Washington, D.C. in 2010
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Cosby in 1957
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Cosby in 1969
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Cosby, a production assistant, and
Ginna Marston of
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids review the script for a 1990 public service spot at Cosby's studio in
Astoria, Queens.
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Robert Culp
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Robert Martin Culp was an American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director, widely known for his work in television. Culp earned a reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy. Prior to that, he starred in the CBS/Four Star Western series, the 1980s brought him back to television. He starred as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell on The Greatest American Hero and had a role as Warren Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond. Culp gave hundreds of performances in a career spanning more than 50 years, Culp was born, an only child, on August 16,1930 in Oakland, California, to Crozier Cordell Culp, an attorney, and his wife, Bethel Martin Culp. He graduated from Berkeley High School, where he was a pole vaulter, Culp attended the College of the Pacific, Washington University in St. Louis, San Francisco State College, and the University of Washington School of Drama, but never completed an academic degree. Culp later appeared in two episodes of Zane Grey Theater, Morning Incident and Calico Bait playing different roles. Trackdown then had a CBS spin-off of its own, Wanted, Dead or Alive, in the summer of 1960, he guest-starred on David McLeans NBC Western series, Tate. He played Clay Horne in the finale, Cave-In, of the CBS Western Johnny Ringo. In 1961, Culp played the part of Craig Kern, a morphine-addicted soldier, about this time, Culp was cast on the NBC anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show and in the NBC Civil War drama, The Americans. Culp was cast as Captain Shark in a episode of NBCs The Man from U. N. C. L. E. Some of his memorable performances were in three episodes of the science-fiction anthology series on The Outer Limits, including the classic Demon with a Glass Hand. In the 1961 season, he guest-starred on the NBCs Western Bonanza, in the 1961–62 season, he guest-starred on ABCs crime drama Target, The Corruptors. In the 1962–1963 season, he guest-starred in NBCs modern Western series Empire starring Richard Egan, in 1965, he was cast as Frank Melo in The Tender Twigs of James Franciscuss NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak. Culp then played secret agent Kelly Robinson, who operated undercover as a tennis professional. Culp wrote the scripts for seven episodes, one of which he also directed, for all three years of the series, he was also nominated for an acting Emmy, but lost each time to Cosby. In 1964, Culp played Charlie Orwell, an alcoholic veterinarian and that same year, he appeared in yet another Western, Gunsmoke. In the series episode Hung High, he portrays an outlaw named Joe Costa, in 1968, Culp also made an uncredited cameo appearance as an inebriated Turkish waiter on Get Smart, the spy-spoof comedy series, in an I Spy parody episode titled Die Spy
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Robert Culp in a publicity photo in 1965.
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Trackdown
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Culp with
Kamala Devi in I Spy, 1966.
43.
Cicely Tyson
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Cicely Tyson is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder, for this role she also won the NSFC Best Actress and NBR Best Actress Awards. She starred in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, for which she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award, during her career she has been nominated for twelve Primetime Emmy Awards, winning three. In 2011, she appeared in the film The Help, for which she received awards for her work as Constantine from the BFCA and SAG Awards. She starred on Broadway in The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts, for which she won the Tony Award, Outer Critics Award and she previously received a Drama Desk Award in 1962 for her Off-Broadway performance in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. On November 16,2016, it was announced that Tyson would be one of 21 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor. Tyson was born and raised in Harlem, the daughter of Frederica Tyson, a domestic, and William Augustine Tyson, who worked as a carpenter, painter and her parents were immigrants from Nevis in the West Indies. Her father arrived in New York City at age 21 and was processed at Ellis Island on August 4,1919, Tyson was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine and became a popular fashion model. Her first acting role was on the NBC series Frontiers of Faith in 1951, in 1961, Tyson appeared in the original cast of French playwright Jean Genets The Blacks, the longest running off-Broadway non-musical of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. On March 25,1963, Tyson appeared on the game show To Tell The Truth as a contestant for Shirley Abicair. She appeared with Sammy Davis, Jr. in the film A Man Called Adam, Tyson had a featured role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and appeared in a segment of Roots. In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the critically acclaimed Sounder, in 1974, she won two Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. In 1988 she received a Candace Award for Distinguished Service from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, in 1991 she appeared in Fried Green Tomatoes as Sipsey. C. Civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, in 2005, Tyson co-starred in Because of Winn-Dixie and Diary of a Mad Black Woman. In 2011, Tyson appeared in her first music video in Willow Smiths 21st Century Girl and that same year she played Constantine Jefferson in the critically-acclaimed period drama The Help. At the 67th Tony Awards on June 9,2013, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Miss Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful. She also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, in 2013, Tyson had a supporting role in the horror film The Haunting in Connecticut 2, Ghosts of Georgia. Tyson has been married once, to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis on November 26,1981
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Tyson in 2012
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Tyson in 1973
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Davis and Tyson in 1982
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Tyson as Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
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Raymond St. Jacques
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Raymond St. Jacques was an American actor, director and producer. He was the first African American actor to appear in a role on a western series. St. Jacques was born James Arthur Johnson in Hartford, Connecticut and he had a sister, Barbara Ann. Shortly after his birth, his parents divorced and he and his mother and sister moved to New Haven, St. Jacques mother Vivienne later worked as a medical technician at Yale University. After graduating from Hillhouse High School, St. Jacques attended Yale where he studied drama, upon graduation, St. Jacques worked as an assistant director, actor and fencing instructor for the American Shakespearean Festival in New Haven. St. Jacques staged all of the scenes and duels while at the company. After moving to New York City, he continued to pursue acting, to support himself, St. Jacques worked as a model, dishwasher and a busboy. His first professional acting role was in the off-Broadway play High Name Today, after appearing in bit parts on television in the early 1960s, St. Jacques made his film debut in the 1964 film Black Like Me. He followed with a role in The Pawnbroker later that year, in 1968, he appeared in a supporting role in The Green Berets. His best known roles were that of Coffin Ed in the blaxploitation classics Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back. In the early 1970s, St. Jacques began teaching fencing and acting at Mafundi Institute in Watts, in 1973, he produced, directed and starred in the crime film Book of Numbers. During the 1960s, St. Jacques also guest starred on television shows including East Side/West Side, Daktari, The Virginian. In 1965, he was cast as Simon Blake in the Western series Rawhide, St Jacques was the first African American actor to ever be cast as a regular on a prime time Western series. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, St. Jacques continued with roles on stage, film and he became known as The Man of a Thousand Faces due to the varied parts he played throughout his career. In 1976, St. Jacques starred as Othello in the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre production of the play of the same name. He remained active in stage work throughout his career, touring in productions of Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, A Raisin in the Sun, and the stage adaptation of The Man with the Golden Arm. From 1988 to 1989, St. Jacques had a stint as Judge Clayton C. Thomas on the syndicated TV show Superior Court. In 1989, he played abolitionist Frederick Douglass in Edward Zwicks Glory and his final film role was in the 1991 sci fi film Timebomb released after his death
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St. Jacques as Simon Blake in 1965.
Raymond St. Jacques
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St. Jacques (right) as Simon Blake with
John Ireland, 1965
45.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is a 1966 DeLuxe Color American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison in Panavision. It is based on the Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders, and was adapted for the screen by William Rose, the film depicts the chaos following the grounding of the Soviet submarine Спрут off a small New England island during the Cold War. The film stars Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin in his first major role, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel, Jonathan Winters. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker, a playwright from New York City. Whittaker is eager to get his wife Elspeth and two children, obnoxious but precocious nine and half-year-old Pete and three-year-old Annie, off the island now that summer is over. Pete tells his dad that Russians with machine guns dressed in black uniforms are near the house, but Walt is met by the men who identify themselves as Norwegian fishermen. Walt buys this, and to teach Pete a lesson about judging others, asks if they are Russians with machine guns, Rozanov promises no harm to the Whittakers if they hand over their station wagon and provide information on the military and police forces of their island. Although Walt and Elspeth provides the keys, the sailors are perplexed as to why there are no military personnel on the island, before the Russians depart, Rozanov orders one of the sailors, Alexei Kolchin, to prevent the Whittakers from fleeing. An attractive 18-year-old neighbor, Alison Palmer, who works as a babysitter for Annie, expected to work that day, the Whittakers station wagon quickly runs out of gasoline, forcing the Russians to walk. They steal an old sedan from Muriel Everett, the postmistress, she calls Alice Foss, the telephone switchboard operator. During the commotion Kolchin flees, but when Walt and Elspeth leave to help, he reappears to the house. Alexei says that although he does not want any fighting, he must obey his superiors in guarding the residence and he promises he will not harm anyone and offers to surrender his submachine gun as proof. Alison tells him that she trusts him and does not need to hand over his firearm, trying to find the Russians on his own, Walt is re-captured by them in the telephone central office. Back at the Whittaker house, Kolchin is by now falling in love with Alison, at the phone exchange, Walt manages to free himself. He and Elspeth return to the house and almost shoot Rozanov, with the misunderstandings cleared up, the Whittakers, Rozanov, and Kolchin decide to head into town together to explain to everyone just what is going on. As the tide rises, the sub floats up off the sandbar, now, we aint going to take any more of that, see. We may be scared, but maybe we aint so scared as you think we are, now you say youre going to blow up the town, huh. You start shooting, and see what happens, as the Captain and Chief Mattocks glare at each other, two small boys go up in the church steeple to see better
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
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theatrical
film poster by
Jack Davis
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Aerial view of Noyo Harbor in California where part of the film was shot
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84th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-101B Voodoo
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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
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Arthur Penn
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Arthur Hiller Penn was an American director and producer of film, television and theater. Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as the drama The Chase, the crime film Bonnie and Clyde. He also got attention for his revisionist Western Little Big Man, by the mid-1970s his films were received with much less enthusiasm. In the 1990s he returned to stage and television direction and production, Penn was born to a Russian Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Sonia, a nurse, and Harry Penn, a watchmaker. He was the brother of Irving Penn, the successful fashion photographer. During the 1920s, he moved in with his mother after she divorced Penns father, some time after, he came back to his sickly father, leading him to run his fathers watch repair shop. At 19 he was drafted into the army, stationed in Britain, he became interested in theater. He started to direct and take part in shows being put on for the soldiers around England at the time, as Penn grew up, he became increasingly interested in film, especially after seeing the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. He later attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and was a commentator in the documentary Fully Awake about the college. After making a name for himself as a director of quality television dramas, Penn made his debut with a western. A retelling of the Billy the Kid legend, it was distinguished by Paul Newmans sharp portrayal of the outlaw as a troubled youth. The production was completed in only 23 days, but Warner Brothers reedited the film against his wishes with a new ending he disapproved of, the film subsequently failed upon release in North America, but was well received in Europe. Penns second film was The Miracle Worker, the story of Anne Sullivans struggle to teach the blind and it garnered two Academy Awards for its leads Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. In 1965 Penn directed Mickey One, heavily influenced by the French New Wave, it was the dreamlike story of a standup comedian on the run from sinister, ambiguous forces. In 2010, Penn commented, You know, you could not have gone through the Second World War with all that nonsense with Russia being an ally, the McCarthy period was ridiculous and humiliating, deeply humiliating. When I finally did Mickey One, it was in repudiation of the kind of fear that free people to the point where they were telling on each other. It just astonished me, really astonished me, I mean, I was a vet, so it was nothing like what we thought we were fighting for. Penns next film was The Chase a thriller following events in a small corrupt Southern town on the day an escaped convict, played by Robert Redford, returns
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Arthur Penn
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Warren Beatty
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Henry Warren Beatty, better known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor and filmmaker. In 1999, he was awarded the Academys highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award, Beatty has been nominated for eighteen Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he was honored with in 2007, among his Golden Globe-nominated films are Splendor in the Grass, his screen debut, and Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy, Bugsy, Bulworth and Rules Dont Apply, all of which he also produced. Arthur Penn, who directed Bonnie and Clyde, described Beatty as the producer, adding. Warren stays with a picture editing, mixing and scoring. He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen, Henry Warren Beaty was born in Richmond, Virginia. His mother, Kathlyn Corinne, was Canadian and a teacher from Nova Scotia and his father, Ira Owens Beaty, had a PhD in educational psychology and worked as a public school administrator, in addition to dealing in real estate. In 1945, the family moved from Richmond to Arlington, Virginia, during the 1950s, the family resided in the Dominion Hills section of Arlington. Beattys elder sister is the actress, dancer and writer Shirley MacLaine and his uncle, by marriage, was Canadian politician A. A. MacLeod. Beatty became interested in movies before his teens, when he accompanied his sister to theaters. One film that had an important early influence on him was The Philadelphia Story and he noticed a strong resemblance between its star, Katharine Hepburn, and his mother, in both appearance and personality, saying that they symbolized perpetual integrity. Another film that had an impact on him was Love Affair and he found it deeply moving, and recalls that This is a movie I always wanted to make. He did remake Love Affair in 1994, in which he starred alongside Annette Bening, among his favorite TV shows in the 1950s was the Texaco Star Theatre, and he began to mimic one if its regular host comedians, Milton Berle. Beatty learned to do an imitation of Berle and his routine, said a friend. His sister saw Beatty close off emotionally from his father, among her lasting memories of her brother during this period was seeing him withdrawn and spending time alone reading books by Eugene ONeill or singing along to Al Jolson records. In Rules Dont Apply, Beatty plays Howard Hughes, who is talking about. He has to have control over everything, and I used to say that I supposed I did. Beatty was a football player at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington
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Beatty in
Shampoo (1975)
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Beatty in
Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
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Beatty with
Diane Keaton and first lady
Nancy Reagan in 1981.
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Beatty on the set of
Dick Tracy (1990).
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Faye Dunaway
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Dorothy Faye Dunaway is an American actress. In 2011, the government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts, dunaway’s career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. Other notable films in which she has appeared include the drama Barfly, the surrealist comedy-drama Arizona Dream, the biopic Gia, protective of her private life, she rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April, a housewife and she is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent. She spent her childhood traveling throughout the United States and Europe, Dunaway took dance classes, tap, piano and singing, and then studied at Florida State University and University of Florida, and graduated from the Boston University with a degree in theatre. In 1962, at the age of 21, she took acting classes at the American National Theater, shortly after graduating from Boston University, Dunaway was already appearing on Broadway as a replacement in Robert Bolts drama A Man for All Seasons. She subsequently appeared in Arthur Millers After the Fall and the award-winning Hogans Goat by Harvard professor William Alfred, with the exception of my mother, my brother, and my beloved son, Bill Alfred has been without question the most important single figure in my lifetime. A teacher, a mentor, and I suppose the father I never had and he has taught me so much about the virtue of a simple life, about spirituality, about the purity of real beauty, and how to go at this messy business of life. Dunaways first screen role was the crime film The Happening. Her performance earned her good notices from critics, with Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times saying that she exhibits a real neat trick of resting her cheek on the back of her hand. That same year, she had a role in Otto Premingers drama Hurry Sundown. Filming proved to be difficult for Dunaway as she clashed with Preminger and she later described this experience as a psychodrama that left me feeling damaged at the end of each day. Dunaway had signed a deal with Preminger but decided during the filming to get her contract back. Beyond the movies I might have missed, it would have been a kind of Chinese water torture to have stuck in five more terrible movies. Its impossible to assess the damage that might have done to me early on in my career. The film was a critical and commercial failure but earned Dunaway a Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best New Star of the Year. Dunaway had tried to get an interview with director Arthur Penn when he was directing The Chase, but was rebuffed by a casting director who didnt think she had the right face for the movies. When Penn saw her scenes from The Happening before its release, he decided to let her read for the role of the bank robber Bonnie Parker for his film, Bonnie
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in the 1971
PBS broadcast of
Hogan's Goat
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Bonnie Parker was Dunaway's breakthrough role and earned her an Oscar nomination.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). The film was famous for its chess scene, with Dunaway and co-star Steve McQuen playing a game of chess, silently flirting with each other.
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Chinatown (1974). One of Dunaway's most famous films. Her performance as Evelyn Mulwray earned her a second Oscar nomination.
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Gene Hackman
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Eugene Allen Gene Hackman is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career spanning five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in The French Connection and he won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, in which he gained his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His film roles during the 1990s featured, Unforgiven, The Firm, Crimson Tide, Get Shorty, The Birdcage, and Enemy of the State Later roles included, Behind Enemy Lines, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Hackmans final film appearance to date was the romantic comedy Welcome to Mooseport in 2004, Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Eugene Ezra Hackman and Anna Lyda Elizabeth. He has Pennsylvania Dutch, English, and Scottish ancestry, his mother was born in Lambton, according to a plaque in a city park, he worked for a time as a dog catcher for the local animal shelter. His family moved frequently, finally settling in Danville, Illinois, hackmans father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper. As a teenager, Hackman knew Dick Van Dyke, who was friends with his older brother Richard and his parents divorced in 1943 and his father subsequently left the family. Hackman lived briefly in Storm Lake, Iowa and spent his year at Storm Lake High School. However, he left home at age 16 and lied about his age to enlist in the United States Marine Corps and he served four and a half years as a field radio operator. When the Communist Revolution conquered the mainland in 1949, Hackman was assigned to Hawaii, following his discharge, he moved to New York and worked in several jobs. His mother died in 1962 as a result of a fire she accidentally set while smoking, in 1956, he began pursuing an acting career, he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California. It was there that he forged a friendship with another aspiring actor, already seen as outsiders by their classmates, they were later voted The Least Likely To Succeed. Determined to prove them wrong, Hackman moved to New York City, reinforcing The Least Likely To Succeed vote, the man said to him, See, Hackman, I told you you wouldnt amount to anything. From then on, Hackman was determined to become the finest actor he possibly could, the three former roommates have since earned 19 Academy Award nominations for acting, with five wins. Hackman got various bit roles, for example on the TV series Route 66 in 1963, in 1964, he had an offer to co-star in the play Any Wednesday with actress Sandy Dennis. This opened the door to film work and his first role was in Lilith, with Warren Beatty in the leading role. In 1967, he appeared in an episode of the television series The Invaders entitled The Spores, another supporting role, Buck Barrow in 1967s Bonnie and Clyde, earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor
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Gene Hackman at a book signing in June 2008
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Gene Hackman as
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in
The French Connection (1971)
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Estelle Parsons
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Estelle Margaret Parsons is an American actress, singer and stage director. After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting and she worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film and she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, and was also nominated for her work in Rachel, Rachel. She worked extensively in film and theatre during the 1970s and later directed several Broadway productions, more recently her television work included playing Beverly Harris, mother of the eponymous title character, on the sitcom Roseanne. She has been nominated five times for the Tony Award, in 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Parsons was born in Lynn Hospital, Lynn, Massachusetts and her mother, Elinor Ingeborg, was a native of Sweden, and her father, Eben Parsons, was of English descent. She attended Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine, after graduating from Connecticut College in 1949, Parsons initially studied law at Boston University, and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950s. Moving to New York City, Parsons worked as a writer, producer and she made her Broadway debut in 1956 in the ensemble of the Ethel Merman musical Happy Hunting. She began performing Off-Broadway in 1961, and received a Theatre World Award in 1963 for her performance in Whisper into My Good Ear/Mrs. In 1964, Parsons won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in two Off-Broadway plays, Next Time Ill Sing to You and In the Summer House. In 1967, she starred with Stacey Keach in the premiere of Joseph Hellers play We Bombed in New Haven at the Yale Repertory Theater. Parsons has received Tony Award nominations for her work in The Seven Descents of Myrtle, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Miss Margaridas Way, in 1978 she played Lady MacBeth in the Kauai Community Players production. She also played Ruth in Gilbert & Sullivans The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway in 1981, from June 17,2008 through May 17,2009, she played the role of Violet Weston in August, Osage County. She continued playing the role during the national tour beginning July 24,2009. As a director, Parsons has a number of Broadway credits, including a production of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Off-Broadway, she directed Dario Fos Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo. She also served as the Artistic Director of the Actors Studio for five years, in 2016, she starred in Israel Horovitzs new play Out Of The Mouths Of Babes along with Judith Ivey directed by Barnet Kellman at The Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. In 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and her film career includes an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, and a nomination for Rachel, Rachel. She received a BAFTA Award nomination for her role in Watermelon Man, on television, Parsons played the recurring role of Beverly, on Roseanne
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Parsons in a
Love, American Style episode in 1973.
